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'Freedom Beyond Confinement' examines the cultural history of African American travel and the lasting influence of travel on the imagination particularly of writers of literary fiction and nonfiction. Using the paradox of freedom and confinement to frame the ways travel represented both opportunity and restriction for African Americans, the book details the intimate connection between travel and imagination from post Reconstruction (ca. 1877) to the present.

African Americans --- Travelers' writings, American. --- Segregation in transportation --- Travel in literature. --- Travel --- History. --- Imagination --- African American --- Mobility --- Jim Crow

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"On associe la notion de caste avec l'Inde brahmanique mais, dans le Sud des Etats-Unis entre les années 1890 et 1960, les Noirs, descendants d'esclaves, étaient traités comme une sous-caste, véritables "intouchables" dans le pays berceau de la démocratie. Jim Crow est le nom communément donné au système de domination raciale qui les a tenus sous son emprise féroce et contre lequel le Mouvement des droits civiques de Martin Luther King s'est insurgé. Mais en quoi consistait-il au juste et comment fonctionnait-il ? S'agissait-il seulement de "ségrégation du berceau à la tombe" , de fontaines d'eau et de places de bus réservées aux Blancs, de bagnards noirs trimant les fers aux pieds et de lynchages épisodiques, comme on le croit généralement ? Loïc Wacquant dresse un bilan historique méticuleux visant à construire un modèle sociologique robuste de ce régime. Il montre qu'il se composait de quatre éléments étroitement imbriqués : une infrastructure économique de métayage virant à la servitude pour dettes ; un noyau social fait de bifurcation institutionnelle et d'exigence de déférence des Noirs envers les Blancs ; et une superstructure d'interdiction électorale et judiciaire. Mais les Afro-Américains n'ont jamais acquiescé à ces trois mécanismes d'exploitation, de subordination et d'exclusion. Il a donc fallu les sécuriser au moyen d'un quatrième élément, la violence terroriste, violence protéiforme (intimidation, agression, viol, chasse à l'homme, pogrom, supplice du fouet, lynchage et torture publique, mais aussi arrestations arbitraires, embastillements hâtifs et exécutions sommaires) qui plane sur chaque interaction sociale entre Blancs et Noirs et qui peut frapper à tout moment pour communiquer un message politique strident : l'impériosité de la suprématie blanche. Ce livre lucide et révélateur est une invitation urgente à repenser de fond en comble les rapports historiques mais aussi contemporains entre caste, justice et démocratie en Amérique ainsi que dans les pays qui, redécouvrant leur passé colonial, se débattent aujourd'hui avec la "question raciale" . Il est certain de changer l'idée que le lecteur se fait de la race, du terrorisme et de la démocratie en Amérique."

Lois Jim Crow --- Castes --- Noirs américains --- Discrimination raciale --- Histoire. --- Ségrégation --- African Americans --- Caste --- Race discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Segregation --- Legal status, laws, etc.

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Undoing Plessy: Charles Hamilton Houston, Race, Labor and the Law, 1895-1950 explores the manner in which African Americans countered racialized impediments, attacking their legal underpinnings during the first half of the twentieth century. Specifically, Undoing Plessy explores the professional life of Charles Hamilton Houston, and the way it informs our understanding of change in the pre-Brown era. Houston dedicated his life to the emancipation of oppressed people, and was inspired early-on...

African American civil rights workers --- African Americans --- Jim Crow laws --- Jim Crowism --- Segregation --- Segregation. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Civil rights --- History. --- Social conditions --- Houston, Charles Hamilton, --- Houston, Charles, --- Houston, Charles H. --- African Americans Legal status, laws, etc.

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Marylin, a novel by the Austrian writer Arthur Rundt about a mixed-race woman passing as white, moves from Chicago to New York City and concludes tragically on a Caribbean island. First published in 1928 and now translated into English, it offers a European view of racial attitudes in the US during the era of the Harlem Renaissance and Jim Crow. Rundt's short but powerful novel touches several vital issues in society today, engaging each in a way that prompts further examination and cross-fertilization. First, it sheds historical light on what has become painfully obvious in the Black Lives Matter era (if it wasn't before): the continued injustice experienced by Blacks in America as an effect of structural racism. Second, it confronts issues of migration and hybrid identities. Third, it has relevance for Women's Studies through the title character's interaction with the patriarchy. Through these connections, it responds to a growing current in German Studies concerned with diversity and inclusion and integrating the discipline into the broader humanities. An introduction and an afterword, both of them extensive and scholarly, contextualize the novel in its time and as it relates to ours.

African American women. --- #MeToo. --- Black Lives Matter. --- Caribbean island. --- Chicago. --- German Studies. --- Harlem Renaissance. --- Jim Crow. --- New York City. --- Women's Studies. --- diversity and inclusion. --- hybrid identities. --- migration. --- mixed-race woman. --- passing as white. --- patriarchy. --- racial attitudes. --- structural racism.

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"In Black in White Space, Elijah Anderson chronicles moments in which Black people are jarringly and often violently treated as outsiders-- a birder in Central Park, a jogger in a rural Georgia town, or a college student lounging on an elite university quad. Anderson shows that due to expansions in racial equality over the past fifty years, Black Americans increasingly gain access to elite white spaces. But instances of discrimination and harassment serve to remind us that racial barriers are firmly entrenched-- for the elite, the middle-class, and the poor alike. Anderson also delves into the stratifications and stereotypes that have made black and white spaces so persistently separate and difficult to break through, showing that regardless of the social or economic position of a Black person, the stereotype of the iconic ghetto looms in the white imagination, associating all Black people with crime, drugs, and poverty. From conversations on the street corners of Philadelphia with Black men who can't get work to Anderson's own morning jogs through a Cape Cod vacation town, he gathers a wealth of stories to shed new light on the urgent and dire persistence of racial discrimination in the United States"--

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