Necessarily Black is an ethnographic account of second-generation Cape Verdean youth identity in the United States and a theoretical attempt to broaden and complicate current discussions about race and racial identity in the twenty-first century. P. Khalil Saucier grapples with the performance; embodiment; and nuances of racialized identities (blackened bodies) in empirical contexts. He looks into the durability and (in)flexibility of race and racial discourse through an imbricated and multidimensional understanding of racial identity and racial positioning. In doing so; Saucier examines how Cape Verdean youth negotiate their identity within the popular fabrication of “multiracial America.†He also explores the ways in which racial blackness has come to be lived by Cape Verdean youth in everyday life and how racialization feeds back into the experience of these youth classified as black through a matrix of social and material settings. Saucier examines how ascriptions of blackness and forms of black popular culture inform subjectivities. The author also examines hip-hop culture to see how it is used as a site where new (and old) identities of being; becoming; and belonging are fashioned and reworked. Necessarily Black explores race and how Cape Verdean youth think and feel their identities into existence; while keeping in mind the dynamics and politics of racialization; mixed-race identities; and anti-blackness.
#897538 in Books Ryan Thomas J 2015-06-19 2015-07-03Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.10 x 1.30 x 6.10l; .0 #File Name: 1611211786482 pagesSpies Scouts and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign How the Critical Role of Intelligence Impacted the Outcome of Lee s Invasion of the North June
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Joseph A. TruglioExcellent telling of little discussed portion of battle. Looking forward to hearing speak on it at our Round Table.3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. If you are looking for heroes or great feats of battleBy Jack LawrencThis is an interesting book focusing on a little appreciated aspect of warfare; in this case intelligence gathering in the Gettysburg campaign.The author spent his career in intelligence gathering; both in the military and later in one of those civilian agencies we are not supposed to know about; making him uniquely eligible to write on the subject. He covers the entire campaign; but his analysis of the immediate approaches of the armies;the battle and the retreat are the main focus; and his work in this area is very well documented. The "Cat and Mouse" analysis of the masking efforts are superb. Most of his work focuses on the reports on the various military reports but he gets into the civilian agencies as well as individual civilians who operated behind the lines. There is little discussion of the intelligence gathered from intelligence gathered from the interrogation of farmers; townsmen or captured free blacks by the leading edges of the armies; but there is an overwhelming wealth of other information. If you are looking for heroes or great feats of battle; this is not your book. If you are looking at the mundane day by day hit or miss activities of armies at war; the anguish of the commanders before and after the battle and what war really is; it is a must read. Wish the maps were better.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Patricia R. GouldI am glad to add this book to my Civil War library.
