Modern Jewish Mythologies
Contents:  
Introduction: modern Jewish culture as a system of myths / Eli Yassif -- 
Social memory, history, and British Jewish identity / David Cesarani -- 
Myth and identity: the case of Latrun, 1948 / Anita Shapira -- "Community 
with a conscience": myth or reality? / Milton Shain and Sally Frankental 
-- The myth of masculinity reflected in Israeli cinema / Nurith Gertz -- 
"So Sarah laughed to herself" / Dan Urian -- Lest we forget! The Holocaust 
in Jewish historical consciousness and modern Jewish identities / 
Jonathan Webber -- Redemption from the Orient / Tudor Parfitt -- From 
ancient to modern Jewish mythologies / Eli Yassif -- The myth of life's 
supremacy over death: was Judaism always more concerned with life than 
with death? / Sylvie Anne Goldberg -- Franz Kafka: the unsinging singer/ 
Matthew Olshan.


Strangers and Neighbors
Summary:
Explores the relations between Afro-Americans and Jews in the United States. 
Afro-American-Jewish alliances in the 1940s, 1950s and the 1960s; Origin of 
the disagreement within the Jewish community; Ways to alleviate tensions 
between the two groups.

Jewishness After Mount Sinai
Summary:
Discusses the discourse of multiculturalism in the U.S. in relation to African Americans and Jews. Racial classification and categories; Examination of the representation of African American-Jewish relations; Development of a conceptual framework for racial identities and Jewish identities. 
 

Black, Jewish, and Interracial: It's not the Color of . . .
Summary:
How do adult children of interracial parents--one parent Jewish, one Black--think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay's BLACK, JEWISH, AND INTERRACIAL. Motivated by her own experience as the child of a Jewish mother and Jamaican father, Gibel Azoulay blends historical, theoretical, and personal perspectives to explore the possibilities and meanings that arise when Black and Jewish identities merge . 

Blacks,Jews and the Struggle to Integrate . . .
Summary:
Focuses on the civil rights struggle of African and Jewish Americans to integrate a junior high school in New York, New York. Incitement of Anti-Semitism notions among Jews by the event; Illustration of the differences of African and Jewish communities; Role of the American Jewish Congress in the social movement.
 

Black Anti-Semitism and Jewish Racism
Contents:
Introduction, by N. Hentoff.--Negroes are anti-Semitic because they're anti-white, by J. Baldwin.--The black revolution and the Jewish question, by E. Raab.--Thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbor, by J. Kaufman.-- Black anti-Semitism-Jewish racism, by A. W. Miller.--Racism and human rights, by W. H. Booth.--Exploding the myth of black anti-Semitism, by W. Karp and H. R. Shapiro.--My Jewish problem and theirs, by H. Cruse. --Blacks and Jews, by A. Vorspan.--A response, by J. Lester. 

Representations of Motherhood
Contents:
Thinking mothers/conceiving birth / Sara Ruddick -- Fictions of home / Jane Lazarre -- Shifting the center : race, class, and feminist theorizing about motherhood / Patricia Hill Collins -- The mothers of the disappeared : passion and protest in maternal action / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Maternity and rememory : Toni Morrison's Beloved / Marianne Hirsch -- Being a mother and being a psychoanalyst :two impossible professions / Janine Chasseguet- Smirgel -- The omnipotent mother : a psychoanalytic study of fantasy and reality / Jessica Benjamin -- Mothering, hate, and Winnicott / Elsa First -- Maternal subjectivity in the culture of nostalgia : mourning and memory / Donna Bassin -- Rosalind : a family romance / Myra Goldberg -- Images of the maternal : an interview with Barbara Kruger / Therese Lichtenstein -- The power of "positive" diagnosis : medical and maternal discourses on amniocentesis/ Rayna Rapp. The maternal voice in the technological universe / Margaret Honey -- Taking the nature out of mother / Adria Schwartz -- Sex, work, and motherhood : maternal subjectivity in recent visual culture / E. Ann Kaplan -- Playing and motherhood : or, how to get the most out of the avant-garde / Susan Rubin Suleiman. 

Mixed Race Literature
Contents:
The mixed blood writer as interpreter and mythmaker / Patricia Riley -- Was Roxy Black? race as stereotype in Mark Twain, Edward Windsor Kemble, and Paul Laurence Dunbar / Werner Sollors -- Out of the melting pot and into the frontera: race, sex, nation, and home in Velina Hasu Houston's American Dreams / Michele Janette -- "The hybrids and the cosmopolitans": race, gender, and the masochism in Diana Chang's The frontiers of love / Sandra Baringer -- Metisse blanche: Kim Lefevre and transnational space / Isabelle Thuy Pelaud -- Smuggling across the borders of race, gender, and sexuality: Sui Sin Far's Mrs. Spring Fragrance / Martha J. Cutter -- Taking place: African-Native American subjectivity in A yellow raft in blue water / Hertha D. Sweet Wong -- Developing a kin-aesthetic: multiraciality and kinship in Asian and Native North American literature / Wei Ming Dariotis -- Waharoa: M¯aori/P¯akeh¯a writing in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Alice Tepunga Somerville.
 

Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader
Review:
This volume is one of several produced in conjunction with the 14-part PBS Eyes on the Prize television series. It is a collection of over 100 court decisions, speeches, interviews, and other documents on the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1990. Included in the collection are the Brown v. Board of Education decision of the Supreme Court that declared legally segregated schools to be unconstitutional, Martin Luther King's ``Letter from Birmingham City Jail,'' Harold Washington's inaugural speech after being elected mayor of Chicago, and the speech delivered by Nelson Mandela in Atlanta in June 1990. The chapter introductions written by the editors are sometimes too brief to enable readers to fully appreciate the context and importance of the documents. Nonetheless, the volume is rich in primary source material on the civil rights movement. It can be a valuable reference work for public and university libraries.-- Thomas H. Ferrell, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette Appeared in: Library Journal, Oct 15, 1991 (c) Copyright 1991, Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 

Gender Talk: the Struggle for Women's Equality . . .
Review:
Cole, former Spelman College president, and Guy-Sheftall, Spelman professor of women's studies, here offer an impassioned and arguably necessarily harsh critique of gender relations between black men and women. Longtime activists, they are well-credentialed to detail and declaim what they see as the continued oppression of black women in America. No mean-spirited hyperbolic spew, the book is thorough, historically centered and respectful. It concisely renders its polemic, raising essential questions: why do hip-hop lyrics reduce black women to "bitches"? Why do blacks overwhelmingly support black men convicted of crimes against women? Why are the achievements of black women diminished (not a single woman was allowed to speak at the 1963 March on Washington)? Most pertinently, why has the black community virtually ignored violence against black women, while black-on-black crime between men is discussed in depth? Asserting that much intraracial conflict has been laid at the feet of slavery, the authors mostly concur that slavery may have precipitated conflicts between black men and women, but the need for black men to align themselves with (white) patriarchal dominance superseded their loyalty to black women. Thoughtful, provocative, concerned and urgent, this work ignites a much-needed debate over the state of true black community and the role of women within that community.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. Appeared in: Publishers Weekly, Dec 16, 2002 (c) Copyright 2004, Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 

Gender Identities and Young Children [electronic resource]
Summary:
This study of a British inner-city, multi-ethnic primary school and its surrounding community provides an important account of how and why children draw upon race in the development of their gender identities. Paul Connolly highlights the understanding they have of issues of race, gender and sexuality and the active role they play in using and reworking this knowledge to make sense of their experiences. 
 

Racial Identities: Census and the complex . . .
Summary:
Sorting out the matter of racial identification is not the only, or even the most important, task facing the U.S. Bureau of the Census as the decennial census approaches. Correcting the chronic undercounting of certain groups is, in some sense, a larger problem. But the issue of racial categorization may well be the most explosive issue on the table. People have strong feelings about how they are grouped, particularly when it comes to race; and often people's sense of where they belong is very different from the place where others tend to put them." 

Our Parents' Lives: the Americanization of Eastern . . .
Review:
This dramatic collective memoir of East European Jewish immigrants from 1895 to 1915, related in accounts of their daily lives and hardships in Europe and during resettlement in the U.S., is less a sociological study than a tribute to the parents of the husband-and-wife authors. The focus is on the special difficulties in assimilation into a largely secular Christian culture as opposed to the pervasive dictates of their own religion that governed every aspect of these immigrants' lives. The resulting conflict eventually gave way to a new Jewish-American culture, stress the authors. Strongly influenced by American secular schooling for both sexes, they participated with their Gentile contemporaries in the sexual revolution, including birth control, and joined in reforms of medical care and child-rearing. The spirit of enterprise along with disciplines of Yiddishkeit which enabled Jews to survive abroad, according to the authors, largely accounted for their success in America without the loss of their ``Jewishness.'' Neil Cowan is a public-affairs consultant in New York City; Ruth Schwartz Cowan is professor of history at the State University of New York.(c) Copyright 2004, Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 

Narrating Mothers: Theorizing Maternal Subjectivities
Contents:
Mothers tomorrow and mothers yesterday, but never mothers today : woman on the edge of time and The handmaid's tale / Elaine Tuttle Hansen -- Mother right/write revisited : Beloved and Dessa Rose and the construction of motherhood in black women's fiction / Carole Boyce Davies -- Mothering an autistic child : reclaiming the voice of the mother / Jane Taylor McDonnell -- Constructing the mother : contemporary psychoanalytic theorists and women autobiographers / Shirley Nelson Garner -- Her mother's language / Cecilia Konchar Farr -- Facing the gorgon : good and bad mothers in the late novels of Margaret Drabble / Mary Jane Elkins -- The mother's part : incest and maternal deprivation in Woolf and Morrison / Paula Bennett -- The diaries of Jane Somers : Doris Lessing, feminism, and the mother / Gayle Greene -- This is not for you : the sexuality of mothering / Judith Roof -- Adoptive mothers and thrown-away children in the novels of Louise Endrich / Hertha D. Wong. Truth in mothering : Grace Paley's stories / Judith Arcana -- Mary Gordon's mothers / Ruth Perry -- Maternal reading : Lazarre and Walker / Maureen T. Reddy -- Teaching Alice Walker's Meridian : civil rights according to mothers / Brenda O. Daly -- Teaching (m)othering : the feminist classroom as unbounded text / Sheryl O'Donnell.
 

Families in Cultural Context . . .
Summary:
Provides a comparative, in-depth look at eleven ethnic family groups, with each chapter written by a scholar from that particular group. Chapters explore cultural variations in family structure, life cycle, functions, and controls; discuss the impact of history, values, and religion on families; and examine changes and adaptations made by families who have recently immigrated to the US. Includes discussion questions, personal interviews, and a glossary. For undergraduates. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc. 

Black Popular Culture
Review:
Based on presentations and panel discussions from a three-day conference held in New York City in 1991, this book offers spirited, if sometimes jargon-heavy, debate among African American artists and cultural critics about issues from essentialism to sexuality. Cornel West deftly deconstructs liberal and conservative analyses of the condition of blacks in America, then proposes that a ``love ethic''--as in Toni Morrison's novel Beloved -- could lead downtrodden blacks to resist nihilism. Addressing black intellectuals who critique black popular culture, bell hooks warns that criticism must not merely ``trash a work.'' Marlon T. Riggs, in an aside-filled presentation that is more performance than lecture, questions the absence from the conference of rappers and others from popular culture. Hazel V. Carby trenchantly concludes that the presence of black writers in the multicultural curriculum ``seems to act as a substitute for the political activity of desegregation.'' Wallace is the author of Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman ; Dent is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. (c) Copyright 2004, Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 

Marriage Beyond Black and White: An Interacial Family Portrait
LC Subject Headings:
Subject term: Interracial marriage--United States--Case studies. Subject term: Racially mixed people--United States--Biography. Subject term: Bahais--United States--Biography. Geographic term: United States--Race relations. 
 

Eyes on the Prize
Contents:
Episode 1. Awakenings (1954-56) -- Episode 2. Fighting back (1957-62) -- Episode 3. Ain't scared of your jails (1960-61) -- Episode 4. No easy walk (1962-66) -- Episode 5. Mississippi: is this America? (1962-64) -- Episode 6. Bridge to freedom (1965) 
Summary:
History of the civil rights movement in America. Uses archival footage and interviews with participants in the movement. 

Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema
Contents:
Celluloid palimpsests : an overview of ethnicity and the American film / Lester D. Friedman -- Ethnicity, role-playing, and American film comedy : from Chinese laundry scene to Whoopee (1894-1930) / Charles Musser -- Stars and ethnicity : Hollywood and the United States, 1932-51 / Ian C. Jarvie -- Ethnicity, class, and gender in film : DeMille's The cheat / Sumiko Higashi -- The cinema of Catholicism : John Ford and Robert Altman / Paul Giles -- Comprehension and crisis : reporter films and the Third World / Claudia Springer -- Black is white/white is black : "passing" as a strategy of racial compatibility in contemporary Hollywood comedy / Mark Winokur -- Ethnicities-in-relation : toward a multicultural reading of American cinema / Ella Shohat -- Bakhtin, polyphony, and ethnic/racial representation / Robert Stam. Ethnicity, the cinema, and cultural studies / Gina Marchetti -- Black bodies/American commodities : gender, race, and the bourgeois ideal in contemporary film / Robyn Wiegman -- Postmodern modes of ethnicity / Vivian Sobchack -- A social-cognitive approach to ethnicity in films / Paul S. Cowen -- The cinematic melting pot : ethnicity, Jews, and psychoanalysis / David Desser -- Are all Latins from Manhattan? : Hollywood, ethnography, and cultural colonialism / Ana M. López.
 

Revisiting Literary Blacks and Jews
Summary:
Focuses on African-American and Jewish-American literature. Information on the 'Literary Blacks and Jews, written by Cynthia Ozick; Views on the relations between African- and Jewish-Americans; Analysis of the novels 'Paradise, New York,' by Jewish-American writer Eileen Pollack and 'White Boy Shuffle,' by African-American writer Paul Beatty; Significance of Jewish characters and Jewishness in the fiction of several African-American writers. 

The Black Male in White America
Contents:
African American males in kindergarten / Oscar Barbarin -- African American males in higher education / William B. Harvey -- African American fatherhood / Bridgitt Mitchell -- Theatre and the re-creation of the Black experience / I. Peter Ukpokodu -- Contributions of African American males to the sciences and medicine / Robert B. Sanders -- The African-American male in American journalism / Jacob U. Gordon -- The precarious poverty situation of Black males in the United States / Susan Williams McElroy and Leon T. Andrews, Jr. -- African-American males in the Clinton administration / Reginald E. Vance -- Transitioning African African men from prison back to the African-American community / Garry A. Mendez, Jr. -- Unfulfilled but urgent needs : HIV prevention and intervention for African American MSM / Dominicus W. So -- The Black male and recent U.S. policy toward Africa / Jake C. Miller -- Foreign-born Black males : the invisible voices / Festus Obiakor -- Toward repairing the breach : the future of the Black male in white America / Jacob U. Gordon. 
 

Ely: Too Black, Too White
LC Subject Headings:
Subject term: African Americans--Social conditions--1964- Subject term: Racially mixed people--United States. 

New Dimensions of Sprirtuality: a Biracial . . .
Summary:
This series of essays on Toni Morrison's first four novels--The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Sula, and Tar Baby is the delightful, intelligent collaboration of a white of Greek descent (Demetrakopoulos) and a black American (Holloway). In addition to the influence of their respective backgrounds, Demetrakopoulos is particularly interested in women's studies and Jungian psychology, and Holloway in black studies and linguistics; these fields inform their individual contributions. . . . The clear writing is free of academic jargon and makes exceptionally good sense. Very highly recommended to academic libraries, especially for women's studies and black literature collections. Choice 

Codes of Conduct [computer file]: Race, Ethics, . . .
Contents:
A Common Sense, a Mother Wit: Reflections on Ethics and Ethnicity Eth(n)icity: A Tracery of Cultural Work Standing Close to Feeling The Body Politic Now We See . . . Face to Face Look at How I Look My Tongue Is in My Friend's Mouth The Long Way Home Language, Thought, and Culture Race Talk Precious Expression Doing Poetic(s) Justice
 

Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
Summary:
Sponsored by The American Jewish Historical Society (Waltham, MA), multidisciplinary specialists have fashioned this contribution to US as well as to Jewish and women's history. B&w photos supplement the encyclopedic text, featuring some 900 entries (the majority being biographies of individual women): from Lina Abarbanell, a 20th century operetta star and Broadway producer, to Miriam Shomer Zunser, pre- World War II journalist, playwright, and artist. Bella Abzug, pictured in her trademark hats, has of course died since her inclusion. The editors address the difficult issue of defining who is a Jew. Includes an annotated bibliography and guide to archival resources. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc. 

Jazz
Contents:
Episode 1. Gumbo (ca. 90 min.) -- episode 2. The gift (ca. 120 min.) -- episode 3. Our language (ca. 120 min.) -- episode 4. The true welcome (ca. 120 min.) -- episode 5. Swing : pure pleasure (ca. 90 min.) -- episode 6. Swing : the velocity of celebration (ca. 105 min.) -- episode 7. Dedicated to chaos (ca. 120 min.) -- episode 8. Risk (ca. 120 min.) -- episode 9. The adventure (ca. 120 min.) -- episode 10. A masterpiece by midnight (ca. 120 min.). 
Summary:
Documentary exploring the history of jazz from its beginnings through the 1990's, including the stories of many of its creators and performers. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.
 

Triple Exposure: Black, Jewish and Red in the 1950's
Summary:
"Triple Exposure" is Jeffries's searing memoir about his experiences growing up in New York City with a black father and a white mother, both of whom were members of the American Communist Party at the height of the McCarthy era. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc. 

Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis
Summary:
If we can believe the six o'clock news, there has been an epidemic of sexual abuse among the clergy, and especially among the Roman Catholic clergy. We have certainly seen many well-publicized cases, with front-page photos of priests led off to jail, and television interviews of parents afraid to let their children associate with clergy. But did the news media get the story right? Is there really an epidemic of clergy sex abuse? And is there, as some charge, something about the institution of the priesthood itself that attracts or creates pedophiles? Neither an expose nor an apology, Pedophiles and Priests takes a close, dispassionate look at the entire history of this mushrooming scandal, from the first rumblings to today's headlines. Philip Jenkins has written a fascinating, exhaustive, and above all even- handed account that not only puts this particular crisis in perspective, but offers an eye-opening look at the way in which an issue takes hold of the popular imagination. Jenkins argues convincingly not only that clergy sex abuse is far less widespread than the headlines suggest, but that there is nothing at all particularly Roman Catholic about the problem. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc. 

Family Violence: a Clinical and Legal Guide
Summary:
Written for mental health, medical, and legal professionals to assist them in their practices with clients who have been victims of child abuse, domestic violence, and elder abuse. The eight chapters were authored by mental health professionals and each includes a legal commentary by Howard Davidson from the American Bar Association. The topics covered include: child physical abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, treatment and prevention, domestic violence, elder abuse and neglect, and suggestions for eliciting information of childhood trauma. Eight resource appendices provide references for clinical protocol, advocacy, referral, and educational resources. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc. 

Childhood Sexual Abuse[computer file]. . .
Contents:
Introduction What Is Child Sexual Abuse? Myths about Sexual Abuse Incest Taboo The Scope of the Problem Who Is Most at Risk? Perpetrators Fathers/Mothers Siblings Other Family Members Nonfamily Members Pedophiles Causes Family-Focused Theories Offender-Focused Theories Integrated Models Effects Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sexual Disorders Eating Disorders Substance Abuse Depression 

Go Down, Moses: the Miscegenation of Time
Summary:
Go Down, Moses is one of William Faulkner's most direct and powerful assessments of race relations in America. In this compelling study, Arthur F. Kinney asserts that it is also his most personal - and perhaps most important - novel. Composed of seven complete stories spanning several generations in Faulkner's fictitious Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, the book's structure is deceptively simple. Indeed, Faulkner's publisher incorrectly printed the first edition with the title Go Down, Moses and Other Stories, until Faulkner insisted that the work be treated as a novel. Together, the stories' multiple viewpoints create a complex mosaic of the McCaslin family, whose white and mulatto branches are the product of several defining instances of miscegenation. The illicit mixing of races creates a repeating pattern of ambiguous and morally compromised relationships in which master and slave can be blood relatives, leaving later generations to struggle against a legacy of exploitation that sears the psyches - and the landscape - of the American South. The book's longest episode, "The Bear", which in altered form has become one of Faulkner's best-known short works, poignantly demonstrates how the dehumanizing effects of ownership also alienate people from nature and ultimately from themselves. A radical departure in form and content from the nostalgic plantation novels once common in southern fiction, Go Down, Moses provides an honest and penetrating appraisal of the slave economy and racial domination from the plantation era to the dawn of the civil rights movement. Kinney presents numerous historical documents and offers concrete details from Faulkner's life that show how Faulkneraccurately re-created his region's history in his fiction. Kinney also reviews evidence suggesting that Faulkner's own ancestors may have provided the model for the McCaslin's miscegenation. A chronology uniting the novel's seven stories into a single sequence of events provides evidence for a central argument in Kinney's highly original interpretation: that the scrambling of time employed in Faulkner's presentation of events masks a key source of meaning that has been overlooked in previous analyses. By jumping backward and forward in time, Faulkner's narrative structure emphasizes thematic parallels between disparate events, enabling him to juxtapose and link the days of slavery with 20th-century America. By reordering Faulkner's "miscegenation of time", Kinney exposes additional meanings that more starkly situate Faulkner's work in the context of the vital issues of his era - issues that retain their urgency to the present day. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

We had a dream: A Tale of the Struggles . . .
Summary:
This masterful, provocative examination of the continuing struggle with issues of race in America focuses on the lives of a handful of Prince George County, Maryland, residents--black and white--showing how they have coped with the challenges of integration decades after the heyday of the civil rights movement. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc. 
 

Unflinching Gaze [computer file]: Morrison and . . .
LC Subject Heading:
Subject term: Literature and society--United States--History--20th century. Subject term: American fiction--20th century--History and criticism. Subject term: African Americans in literature. Subject term: Race relations in literature. Subject term: Sex role in literature. Subject term: Women in literature.
 

From Black to Biracial . . .
Summary:
Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 signaled the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement,a transformation has occured in the racial self- definition of Americans with both an African American and a white parent. This book describes the transformation and explains why it has occured and how it has come about. 

On Being Different: Diversity and . . .
Summary:
On Being Different provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary account of diversity and multiculturalism in the United States and Canada. Kottak and Kozaitis clarify essential issues, themes, and topics in the study of diversity, including ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. The book also presents an original theory of multiculturalism, showing how human agency and culture work to organize and change society. The authors use rich and varied ethnographic examples, from North America and abroad, to help students apply the material to their own lives, and thus gain a better understanding of diversity and multiculturalism.
 

Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
LC Subject Headings:
Subject term: Civil rights workers--United States--Biography. Subject term: African American pacifists--Biography. Subject term: African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century. Subject term: Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century. Subject term: Nonviolence--United States--History--20th century. Subject term: African Americans--Biography. Subject term: Civil rights workers--United States--Biography. Subject term: African American pacifists--United States--Biography. Subject term: Nonviolence--United States--History--20th century. Subject term: African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century. Subject term: Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century. 

Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating . . .
Contents:
1 Examining the Color Line in Schools 2 There Is No Race in the Schoolyard: Color-Blind Ideology at Foresthills 3 Struggling with Dangerous Subjects: Race at West City Elementary 4 Breaking the Silence: Race, Culture, Language, and Power at Metro2 5 Learning and Living Racial Boundaries: Constructing and Negotiating Racial Identity in School 128 6 Schooling and the Social Reproduction of Racial Inequality 7 Schools as Race-Making Institutions Appendix Research Methods: Stories from the Field Notes Bibliography Index 

The Anatomy of Racial Inequality
Summary:
Speaking wisely and provocatively about the political economy of race, Glenn Loury has become one of our most prominent black intellectuals--and, because of his challenges to the orthodoxies of both left and right, one of the most controversial. A major statement of a position developed over the past decade, this book both epitomizes and explains Loury's understanding of the depressed conditions of so much of black society today--and the origins, consequences, and implications for the future of these conditions. Using an economist's approach, Loury describes a vicious cycle of tainted social information that has resulted in a self-replicating pattern of racial stereotypes that rationalize and sustain discrimination. His analysis shows how the restrictions placed on black development by stereotypical and stigmatizing racial thinking deny a whole segment of the population the possibility of self-actualization that American society reveres--something that many contend would be undermined by remedies such as affirmative action. On the contrary, this book persuasively argues that the promise of fairness and individual freedom and dignity will remain unfulfilled without some forms of intervention based on race. Brilliant in its account of how racial classifications are created and perpetuated, and how they resonate through the social, psychological, spiritual, and economic life of the nation, this compelling and passionate book gives us a new way of seeing--and, perhaps, seeing beyond--the damning categorization of race in America
 

Does Church Attendance Really Increase Schooling?
Abstract:
This article shows that religiosity during adolescence has a significant effect on total number of years of schooling attained. It differs from previous research by focusing on church attendance rather than on denomination and by controlling more completely for the effects of omitted-variables bias. Any estimated correlation between church attendance and schooling without such controls may reflect unmeasured family, community, and individual characteristics. The size of the effect for individuals who attended church 52 weeks per year compared to individuals who do not attend at all is equivalent to over three years of parents' schooling. This finding implies that changes in church attendance, either due to exogenous changes in attitudes or as an indirect effect of government or other institutional activity, may have large spill-over effects on socioeconomic variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] 

The Color of Water
Summary:
This "fascinating . . . superbly written" ("Boston Globe") national bestseller tells the story of James McBride and his mother--a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, married a black man, founded a church, and put 12 children through college. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
 

Miracle at St. Anna
Summary:
The author of the classic bestseller The Color of Water tells an unforgettable story about war, the bonds of love, and redemption. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
 

Religions of the United States in Practice
Summary:
Religions of the United States in Practice is a rich anthology of primary sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America. From praying in an early American synagogue to reading anti-Catholic novels to performing Haitian Voudou baptism, these volumes explore faith through action. 

Trends in the Race and Ethnicity of Eminent Americans
Abstract:
During the last several decades, the ethnic and racial composition of the American elite has changed to include some ethnic minorities and women. This study examines changes in the composition of one segment of the American elite: those who have obtained eminence in their occupations. Lieberson and Carter's study of the ethnic composition of eminent Americans, using Who's Who in America , is replicated with data from the 1990s (Lieberson and Carter, 1979, American Sociological Review 44:347–366). In addition, comparisons between blacks listed in Who's Who in America and blacks listed only in Who's Who among Black Americans are made. During the 20 years since Lieberson and Carter's study, Jews have made remarkable gains in eminent membership, while the rate of black representation has increased only moderately. Women are a small percentage of the eminent regardless of ethnicity, although black women are better represented than their counterparts in white ethnic groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] 
 

Jewish and Christian Doctrines [electronic resource] . . .
LC Subject Headings:
Subject term: Judaism--Relations--Christianity. Subject term: Christianity and other religions--Judaism. Subject term: Judaism--Doctrines. Subject term: Theology, Doctrinal. Subject term: Rabbinical literature--History and criticism. 

Diversity in America
Summary:
Is multiculturalism a threat to United States society? Are Americans no longer sufficiently " American" ? Diversity in America addresses a topic that generates more passionate debate than perhaps any other in contemporary American society. Vincent Parrillo, an internationally renowned expert in the field of immigration and multiculturalism, takes a moderate approach to this volatile subject. He uses both history and sociology to dispel misconceptions about the past, misunderstandings of the present and anxieties about the future. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc. 

The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and . . .
Summary:
As musicians, listeners, and scholars have sensed for many years, the story of jazz is more than a history of the music. Burton Peretti presents a fascinating account of how the racial and cultural dynamics of American cities created the music, life, and business that was jazz. From its origins in the jook joints of sharecroppers and the streets and dance halls of 1890s New Orleans, through its later metamorphoses in the cities of the North, Peretti charts the life of jazz culture to the eve of bebop and World War II. In the course of those fifty years, jazz was the story of players who made the transition from childhood spasm bands to Carnegie Hall and worldwide touring and fame. It became the music of the Twenties, a decade of Prohibition, of adolescent discontent, of Harlem pride, and of Americans hoping to preserve cultural traditions in an urban, commercial age. And jazz was where black and white musicians performed together, as uneasy partners, in the big bands of Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman. "Blacks fought back by using jazz", states Peretti, "with its unique cultural and intellectual properties, to prove, assess, and evade the "dynamic of minstrelsy". Drawing on newspaper reports of the times and on the firsthand testimony of more than seventy prominent musicians and singers (among them Benny Carter, Bud Freeman, Kid Ory, and Mary Lou Williams), The Creation of Jazz is the first comprehensive analysis of the role of early jazz in American social history. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc. 

Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity . . .
Review:
Perry (Baruch Coll., CUNY) and Schweitzer (Manhattan Coll.) navigate the history of anti-Semitism with a firm hand, utilizing the latest scholarship and confronting controversial issues without fear. Although the book provides a number of linkages between the Holocaust and earlier anti-Semitic beliefs, the primary purpose is to analyze the origins of anti-Semitic myths and their later manifestations. While the authors assert that these beliefs created the fertile ground for mass murder, they do not claim that it inevitably led to genocide. In addition to detailing anti-Semitic beliefs and the consequent victimization of Jews, the authors provide a primer on how to counter such beliefs using historical facts and methodology. Of particular use for students are the chapters on Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism in the Muslim world, and the writings and speeches of the Nation of Islam, which provide important context for understanding how old myths are continually reinvented for the modern world. Recommended for all libraries.-Frederic Krome, Jacob Rader Marcus Ctr. of the American Jewish Archives Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. Appeared in: Library Journal, Dec 01, 2002 (c) Copyright 2002, Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 

The Identity Question: Black and Jews . . .
Summary:
A diasporic study of the striking similarities between Jewish consciousness in Europe and America Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
 

The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Summary:
Pinn describes themes in the history of the Black Church as well as the major beliefs and forms of worship that define this tradition. He then focuses on the practices of the Black Church, especially as it has engaged in issues of economic development and justice, and struggles with such issues as the full inclusion of women, sexuality, and health. Throughout, Pinn highlights the important and creative tension between "spiritual" and "mundane" concerns to which the Black Church must respond and by which it is shaped. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc. 
 

Unspeakable Acts: Why Men Sexually Abuse Children
Summary:
Explores why men molest children, based on in-depth interviews with 30 men who molested their own children or children of someone they knew. Discusses the men's lives before their offenses, how their initial interest in sex with children began, tactics offenders employed, how they felt about their own behavior, and how and why they stopped molesting. For survivors, clinicians, and others. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc. 

A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American . . .
Summary:
"I used to wonder what made people shout, but now I don't. There is a joy on the inside, and it wells up so strong that we can't keep still. It is fire in the bones." These words of a former slave describing religious services just after Emancipation serve as a metaphor for the "sorrowful joy" that gives African-American Christianity its distinctive character. The words resonated within the Raboteau (religion, Princeton U.), whose nine essays blend scholarship and personal family history to explore black faith and its value for all Americans. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
 

How Long? How Long? . . .
Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 Rethinking Social Movement Theory: Race, Class, Gender, and Culture 2 Exclusion, Empowerment, and Partnership: Race Gender Relations 3 Women and the Escalation of the Civil Rights Movement 4 Sustaining the Momentum of the Movement 5 Sowing the Seeds of Mass Mobilization 6 Bridging Students to the Movement 7 Race, Class, and Culture Matter 8 Bringing the Movement Home to Small Cities and Rural Communities 9 Cooperation and Conflict in the Civil Rights Movement Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc. 

Multiple Realities: A Relational . . .
Abstract:
Notions of a racial identity for persons with one Black and one White parent have assumed the existence of only a singular identity (first Black and later biracial). Emerging empirical research on racial identity formation among members of this group reveals that multiple identity options are possible. In terms of overall health, the level of social invalidation one encounters with respect to racial self-identification is more important than the specific racial identity selected. Here a relational narrative approach to therapy with Black--White mixed-race clients who experience systematic invalidation of their chosen racial identity is presented through a detailed case illustration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] 
 

Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in . . .
Summary:
Telling powerful stories of people who married across the color line, Romano shows how cultural shifts are lived by individuals, and to what extent America has overcome its racist past. 16 halftones. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
 

Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, . . .
Review:
While much attention has been paid to the role of religion in the civil rights movement, most of that has been lavished on ordained clergy and prominent male leaders. Rosetta Ross builds a strong case for women's grassroots importance to the movement in Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights. Ross examines six Christian and one Muslim woman activist, exploring how the history of black women's religious experience in America informed their sense of social responsibility. Ross, an associate professor of ethics at United Theological Seminary in Minnesota, adopts a writing style that is most suited for an academic audience, but the subject matter will have broad appeal. Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information. Appeared in: Publishers Weekly, Jan 13, 2003 (c) Copyright 2004, Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 

Religion and Sexism: Images of Woman . . .
LC Subject Headings:
Subject term: Women in Christianity. Subject term: Women in the Bible. Subject term: Women in rabbinical literature
 

The Civil Rights Movement[electronic resource]
LC Subject Headings:
Subject term: African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Dictionaries. Subject term: Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Dictionaries. Geographic term: United States--Race relations--Dictionaries. 
 

The "Other" Americans
Summary:
An increasingly diverse America no longer fits into the government's four racial categories. In the 1990 census, almost 10 million people created a giant statistical headache by refusing to describe themselves as white, black, Asian, or American Indian. `Other race' Americans are likely to be young, Hispanic, and proud of their mixed background. They are leading a shift in public attitudes toward race.(AMERICAN DEMOGRAPHICS) 
 
 

Explaining Religious Effects on Distress among African Americans
Abstract:
This study applies Smith's (2003a) theory of religious effects to account for the link between religiosity and distress. Using a latent-variable structural equation modeling approach, we analyze survey data from a nationally representative sample of African-American adults and find empirical support for our hypotheses. In terms of anger, depression, and anxiety, religiously committed African Americans exhibit lower levels of distress than their less religious or nonreligious counterparts. Highly religious African Americans report higher levels of sense of control and social support, which consequently reduces distress. We also find that the indirect and salutary effects of religiosity via social support are due to support from family and friends as well as from other religious people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] 
 
 

Cultural Diversity in the United States: a Critical Reader
Contents:
Cultural diversity in the United States / Ida Susser -- Class and historical process in the United States / Thomas C. Patterson -- Biological diversity and cultural diversity : from race to radical bioculturalism / Alan H. goodman -- The peoplings of the Americas : Anglo stereotypes and Native American realities / C. Loring Brace and A. Russell Nelson -- Diversity in the context of health and illness / Cheryl Mwaria -- Health, disease, and social inequality / Merrill Singer -- The color-blind bind / Lee D. Baker -- Racialized identities and the law / Sally Engle Merry -- Diversity and archaeology / Thomas C. Patterson -- The roots of U.S. inequality / Elizabeth M. Scott -- Contemporary Native American struggles / Thomas Biolsi -- The complex diversity of language in the United States / Bonnie Uriciuoli -- Labor struggles : gender, ethnicity, and the new migration / June Nash -- Poverty and homelessness in U.S. cities / Ida Susser -- Ethnic enclaves and cultural diversity / Kenneth J. Guest and Peter Kwong -- Perspectives on U.S. kinship / A. Lynn Bolles -- Ethnicity and psychocultural models / Michael Winkelman -- Aging in the United States : diversity as a late-life concern / Maria D. Vesperi -- Sexual minorities and the new urban poverty / Jeff Maskovsky -- Studying U.S. cultural diversity : some non-essentializing perspectives / Douglas Foley and Kirby Moss -- Diversity in anthropological theory / Karen Brodkin -- Building bridges and empowerment : anthropoligical contributions to diversity and educational practices / Steven F. Arvizu -- Teaching ethnicity and place in the United States / J. Diego Vigil and Curtis C. Roseman -- An archaeological approach to teaching U.S. cultural diversity / Ruben G. Mendoza -- Against cultural essentialism / Judith Goode -- Afterword : understanding U.S. diversity : where do we go from here? / Louise Lamphere. 
 
 

Interracial America: Opposing Viewpoints
Review:
Volatile issues surrounding race,immigration, and affirmative action are explored in this anthology of articles presenting different viewpoints embodied in these current topics. Noted contributors such as bell hooks, Dinesh D'Souza, Eric Foner, and Lilian and Oscar Handlin discuss racism, reverse discrimination, cultural identity, and mixed-race marriage. Students will find the textbook approach extremely useful: chapter divisions, study questions, political cartoons, discussion guide, bibliographies, and a list of organizations. An excellent source for research and an important addition to the national debate on multiculturalism and race relations.--Janet Woodward, Franklin High School, Seattle, WA Appeared in: School Library Journal, Jul 1996 (c) Copyright 1996, Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 
 

Value Orientations: a study of Black College Students
Abstract:
The present investigation describes the manner in which a group of southern black college students structure their value preferences. Based upon prior research, especially among white college students, it was expected that our sampled respondents would embrace values associated with economic and materialistic success. However, results obtained suggest that rather than being preeminently concerned with economic pursuits, religion and family emerged as the joint modal category for the vast majority of both male and female students. Implications of the likely import of these findings are discussed in fight of the historical significance of family and religion for Black America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] 

Multiculturalism[electronic resource]: Roots and Realities
LC Subject Headings:
Subject term: African Americans--Social conditions--19th century. Subject term: African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century. Subject term: African Americans--Race identity. Subject term: Pluralism (Social sciences)--United States--History--19th century. Subject term: African Americans in literature. Subject term: Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature. Subject term: Race relations in literature. Subject term: American literature--African American authors--History and criticism. Subject term: American literature--19th century--History and criticism. Geographic term: United States--Race relations. 
 

Somebody Always Singing You [computer file]
LC Subject Headings:
Subject term: Teton Indians--Mixed descent--Biography. Subject term: African Americans--Biography. Subject term: Racially mixed people--United States--Biography. 

Black, White and Jewish . . .
Review:
The daughter of famed African American writer Alice Walker and liberal Jewish lawyer Mel Leventhal brings a frank, spare style and detail-rich memories the this compelling contribution to the growing subgenre of memoirs by biracial authors about life in a race-obsessed society. Walker examines her early years in Mississippi as the loved, pampered child of parents active in the Civil Rights movement in the bloody heart of the segregated South. Torn apart by the demands of their separate careers, her parents' union eventually lost steam and failed, leaving Walker to shuttle back and forth across country to spend time with them both. Deeply analytical and reflective, she assumes the resonant voices of an inquisitive child, a highly sensitive teen and finally a young woman who is confronted with the harsh color prejudices of her friends, teachers and families-both black and Jewish-and who tires desperately to make sense of rigid cultural boundaries for which she was never fully prepared by her parents. Whether she's commenting on a white ballet teacher who doubts she'll ever be good because her black butt's too big, Jewish relatives who treat her like an alien, or a boyfriend who feels she's not black enough, Walker uses the same elegant, discreet candor she brings to her discussion of her mother and the development of her free-spirited sexuality. Her artfulness in baring her psyche, spirit and sexuality will attract a wealth of deserved praise. Appeared in: Publishers Weekly, Nov 06, 2000 (c) Copyright 2004, Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
 

Jazz: A Hisory of America's Music
Summary:
Continuing in the tradition of "The Civil War" and "Baseball", Burns and Ward look into the heart and soul of America to explore the history of a quintessentially American music--jazz. Through words and photos, readers meet Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, and a host of other jazz greats in this magnificent companion to the 19-hour PBS series airing January 2001. 500+ photos. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc. 

Multiracial and Multiethnic Students
Abstract:
The number of multiracial and multiethnic children in our nation's schools continues to increase. This population is challenging our schools-and our schools' multicultural efforts-to be truly inclusive. This requires schools to examine what historically has been a single-race approach to diversity: curriculum materials, curriculum content, celebrations and holidays, student organizations, and teacher training. Schools, multicultural programs within schools, and teacher preparation courses must find ways to support and celebrate multiracial and multiethnic children, their families, and their histories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
 

Supporting Biracial Children in the School Setting
Abstract:
Discusses the characteristics of biracial children and their families and strategies for enhancing the learning and development of biracial students in school settings. Pressures facing interracial families; Societal myths about interracial families; Identity development of the biracial child; Supporting biracial children in school settings. 
 

Abraham's Family as a Prototype for Interfaith Dialogue
Abstract:
Proposes that Abraham's family as a prototype for interfaith dialogue. Interpretive assumptions; Abraham's family in the Hebrew scriptures; Abraham's family in the New Testament. 

Jews in Black Perspectives: A Dialogue
Contents:
African diaspora and Jewish diaspora / John Gibbs St. Clair Drake -- A Black nineteenth- century response to Jews and Zionism / Hollis R. Lynch -- Jews and the enigma of the Pan- African Congress of 1919 / Robert A. Hill -- Shortcuts to the mainstream / David Levering Lewis -- Parallels in the urban experience / Herbert Gutman -- Jews and blacks / Nathan Glazer -- Blacks and Jews in the civil rights movement / Claybourne Carson, Jr. -- Africa and the Middle East / Richard L. Sklar -- The fallacies of pragmatism / Naomi Chazan -- Reflection on two isolated peoples / Matthew Holden, Jr.
 

Race Relations: Opposing Viewpoints
Partial contents:
What is the state of race relations? -- Does discrimination persist in the American economy? -- Is America's justice system biased? -- How should America's political system respond to minorities' interests? -- What should society do to improve race relations? 
 

The Quiet Hand of God [electronic resource]: Faith-Based Activism . . .
Contents:
The logic of mainline churchliness : historical background since the Reformation / Peter J. Thuesen -- Mainline Protestant Washington offices and the political lives of clergy / Laura R. Olson -- The generous side of Christian faith : the successes and challenges of mainline women's groups / R. Marie Griffith -- Religious variations in public presence : evidence from the national congregations study / Mark Chaves, Helen M. Giesel, and William Tsitsos -- Connecting mainline Protestant churches with public life / Nancy T. Ammerman -- The changing political fortunes of mainline Protestants / Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks -- Furthering the freedom struggle : racial justice activism in the mainline churches since the civil rights era / Bradford Verter -- The hydra and the swords : social welfare and mainline advocacy, 1964-2000 / Brian Steensland -- Caring for creation : environmental advocacy by mainline Protestant organizations / Michael Moody -- Vital conflicts : the mainline denominations debate homosexuality / Wendy Cadge -- For the sake of the children? : family-related discourse and practice in the mainline / W. Bradford Wilcox -- From engagement to retrenchment : an examination of first amendment activism by America's mainline churches, 1980-2000 / Derek H. Davis -- Doing good and doing well : shareholder activism, responsible investment, and mainline Protestantism / Lynn D. Robinson -- Love your enemies? : Protestants and United States foreign policy / Lester Kurtz and Kelly Goran Fulton -- Beyond quiet influence? : possibilities for the Protestant mainline / Robert Wuthnow.