Ethnic studies

Onoto Watanna (pen name for Winnifred Eaton) was a popular writer of American romance novels. Daughter of a Chinese mother and English father, she used her own mixed heritage to explore diverse social issues and exploited the Orientalist fantasies of her readership to become a best-selling author. Samina Najmi is visiting assistant professor in English at Wheaton College and has written extensively on women and race in Asian American literature.

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Introduction

Ilka Saal and Bertram D. Ashe

1. The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara Walker

Derek Conrad Murray

2. Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave novels from the Year Postracial Definitively Stopped Being a Thing

Derek C. Maus

3. Whispering Racism in a Postracial World: Slavery and Post-Blackness in Paul Beatty's the Sellout

Cameron Leader-Picone

4. Getting Graphic with Kin

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Acknowledgments
Note on Sources
Introduction
1. The Roots of Therapeutic Pluralism in Accra, 1677 to the mid-1800s
2. The Convergence of the Five Healing Traditions in the "Healthy" Capital of the Gold Coast
3. Therapeutic Pluralism during the Cocoa Boom, 1908–1930s
4. Colonial Medical Culture at Korle Bu
5. The Creation of an African "Bloodstream"
6. The Resilience of Therapeutic Pluralism on the Eve of Ghanaian Independence
Epilouge
Bibliograph

Editor Peter Meyler is the co-author of A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint, which tells the story of one of Ontario's first African settlers. He has written numerous articles about Ontario's black history, which have appeared in such publications as The Beaver, the Toronto Star, Share and Families.

Peter operates his own business providing forms management, graphic design and writing services to both the private and public sector. He was born in Fergus, Ontario, along

Die Skythen, so schrieb Herodot im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr., waren allen anderen Völkern in einer bestimmten Kunst überlegen. Diese bestand darin, daß keiner, den sie verfolgten, ihnen entkommen und keiner sie einholen konnte, wenn sie sich nicht einholen lassen wollten. Dem Vater der Geschichtsschreibung schien jenes Volk gar unüberwindlich: Bauten die Skythen doch weder Städte noch Befestigungsanlagen, sondern lebten vielme

Neville Alexander is not a household name, but he should be. As a revolutionary public intellectual, activist and former political prisoner, he is among the most important theorists of racial capitalism to emerge during the struggle against Apartheid.

Alexander's writings engage with some of the important debates in South Africa from the last 50 years, many of which have international resonance today: from the unresolved national question and the relationship between

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Part One. The American Experience

1. Establishing Roots

2. Listening to the Sound of Shoes

3. Incarceration

4. Stone Fever

5. Fields under Snow

Part Two. Wartime Correspondence

6. Censored

7. The Letters

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Appendix

Bibliography

Photo Credits

Index

Sandra M. Chait, who immigrated to the Unites States from South Africa, taught African literature and served as associate director of the University of Washington's Program on Africa. She is an independent scholar in Seattle.

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Acknowledgments

Acronyms

Part I. An Issei-Nisei Family

1. Hotaka to Seattle

2. Growing Up in America

3. "You're Going to College"

Part II. Challenges and Incarceration

4. World War II

5. Arraignment Summons

6. King County Jail

7. King County Jail Mates

8. Jail Visitations

9. World War II Interracial Marriage

10. Prison Meditations 1

11. Pretrial

12. Seattle Fed

Explores how 'Britishness' functions as a tool of violent racial bordering

Christian Meyer is Professor of General and Cultural Sociology at the University of Konstanz.

Christian Meyer ist Professor für Allgemeine Soziologie und Kultursoziologie an der Universität Konstanz.

Judy Yung is professor emerita of American studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. She is co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 and the author of Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco.

"Black Lives in Alaska is a state survey that is being deeply mined for insights into the experiences of iconic and ordinary Black Alaskans and their quests to overcome systemic racism and to ensure that places like Anchorage live up to African American expectations of equality. Included in this commendable effort are the histories of African Americans living on Alaska’s racial frontier and in urban industrial Anchorage. Consequently, this is a must read for audiences interested in wha

Ulrich “Rick” Straus lived a total of twenty-one years in Japan, first as a child between 1933 and 1940 in Tokyo, then as a U.S. Army language officer during the Occupation, when he participated in the trial of Japan’s major war criminals. He was Consul General on Okinawa from 1978 to 1982 and retired from the Foreign Service in 1987.

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Preface: James Baldwin—A Revolutionary For Our Time
1. Baptism by Fire: Childhood and Youth, 1924–42
2. Dissidence, Disillusionment, Resistance: 1942–48
3. Political Exile and Survival: 1948–57
4. Paying His Dues: 1957–63
5. Baldwin and Black Power: 1963–68
6. Morbid Symptoms and Optimism of the Will: 1968–79
7. Final Acts
Postscript: Baldwin’s Queer Legacies
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