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AMERICAN HISTORY & TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES & TRANSCULTURAL HISTORY AMERICAN Living the California Dream “Jefferson brings the multi-decade campaign African American Leisure Sites during for black access to leisure areas into the long civil rights movement and reminds us that the Jim Crow Era recreation and racial justice propelled black alison rose jefferson Southern California’s desire to enjoy the Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African beaches, lakes, and valleys of the region.” Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of —Quintard Taylor, Scott and Dorothy Bullitt leisure” by creating communities and business Professor of American History (emeritus) at projects in conjunction with their growing the University of Washington, Seattle population in Southern California during the “This is an important book. It brings to life nation’s Jim Crow era. By presenting stories those Southern California places fundamental of five Southern California African Ameri- to the construction of an African American can leisure destinations, Jefferson illustrates California Dream. And it does so by thought- how these places created leisure production, fully considering the lives of those people purposes, and societal encounters. Black whose tough struggles for a piece of the communal practices and economic develop- California sun were marked by inspirational ment around leisure helped define the practice courage.”—William Deverell, director of the and meaning of leisure for the region and Huntington–USC Institute on California and the nation, confronted the emergent power the West politics of recreational space, and set the stage for the sites as places for remembrance of January 2020 • 366 pp. • 6 x 9 • 25 photographs, 8 invention and public contest. illustrations, 2 maps, 1 table, index $55.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0130-0 nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com 1 Looking at the Stars Reclaiming 42 AMERICAN HISTORY & TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES & TRANSCULTURAL HISTORY AMERICAN Black Celebrity Journalism in Public Memory and the Reframing of Jim Crow America Jackie Robinson’s Radical Legacy Carrie Teresa David Naze Looking at the Stars explores the meaning Reclaiming 42 illuminates how the Jackie of “celebrity” as enumerated by black journal- Robinson memory has gone through various ists writing against the backdrop of Jim Crow– changes over the last sixty-plus years. David era segregation and disenfranchisement. Carrie Naze moves his story beyond Robinson the Teresa argues that journalists and editors baseball player to open new interpretations of working for these black-centered publications, an otherwise seemingly convenient narrative to rather than simply mimicking the reporting show how Robinson’s legacy ultimately should conventions of mainstream journalism, instead both challenge and inspire public memory. framed celebrities as collective representations “A must-read for anyone interested in the of the race who were then used to symbolize relationship between sports and politics. It will the cultural value of artistic expression influ- appeal to baseball novices and baseball experts enced by the black diaspora and to promote alike. David Naze’s exploration of Jackie Rob- political activism through entertainment. inson’s vocal critiques of racial inequalities, and “Excellent. Carrie Teresa shows that the modern-day efforts to erase any controversial black press played an integral role in the devel- elements from Robinson’s memory, are espe- opment of celebrity journalism and culture. cially timely.”—Jonathan J. Cavallero, associate That alone makes the work significant. But the professor of rhetoric, film, and screen studies at work also should lead to opening a conversa- Bates College tion and spurring robust and critical discussion “Through a skillful analysis that addresses of historical and contemporary issues of celeb- Robinson’s political activism and his prolific rity, race, gender, and representation in the writings, as well as the ways that he has been media and society.”—Jinx Coleman Broussard, memorialized, Naze invites us to understand Bart R. Swanson Endowed Memorial Profes- that Jackie Robinson speaks not only to the sor and professor of mass communications at ages but to our own time.”—Robert E. Terrill, Louisiana State University professor of rhetoric in the Department of 2019 • 264 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 illustrations, index English at Indiana University, Bloomington $50.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9992-4 2019 • 234 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index $45.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9082-2 2 university of nebraska press AMERICAN HISTORY & TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES & TRANSCULTURAL HISTORY AMERICAN The Allure of Blackness among their understanding of our past—and how it Mixed-Race Americans, has affected the world we live in today.” —Gary B. Nash, author of Forbidden Love: The 1862–1916 Hidden History of Mixed-Race America Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly “A masterful examination. Dineen-Wimberly An examination of generations of mixed-race brings considerable depth, breadth, and nuance African Americans after the Civil War and into to explaining the disproportionate number the Progressive Era, The Allure of Blackness of mixed-race individuals among the ranks among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862–1916, of African American leadership. The riveting overturns the “passing” trope that has domi- first-person testimony of mixed-race individu- nated much Americanist scholarship and social als themselves is an indispensable component thought about the relationship between race of her analysis. Consequently, this book will and social and political transformation in Black be essential reading for scholars and students America. alike.”—G. Reginald Daniel, professor of “Masterful. Admirably researched and writ- sociology at the University of California, ten with éclat, The Allure of Blackness sparkles Santa Barbara with life stories rarely encountered in the his- 2019 • 318 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 photographs, 3 illustrations, tory books from which young Americans derive index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0507-0 BORDERLANDS AND TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES PAUL SPICKARD AND PEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN, SERIES EDITORS A venue for the scholarly study of borderlands—of the encounters, intersections, and collisions between peoples and cultures—the books in this series focus on comparative borderlands, multiple identities (borderlands of race, culture, and identity), race in the American West, human migrations, and colonial encounters. nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com 3 BORDERLANDS AND TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES BORDERLANDS AND TRANSCULTURAL Shape Shifters Intermarriage from Central Journeys across Terrains of Europe to Central Asia Race and Identity Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes Edited by Lily Anne Y. Welty Edited and introduced by Tamai, Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly, Adrienne Edgar and and Paul Spickard Benjamin Frommer Shape Shifters presents a wide-ranging array Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central of essays that examine peoples of mixed racial Asia examines the practice and experience of identity across a broad swath of space and interethnic marriage in a range of countries time to understand the fluid nature of racial and eras, from imperial Germany to pres- identities. ent-day Tajikistan. This interdisciplinary vol- “The essays in this field-shaping work on shape ume draws contributions from anthropologists shifters in world history are breathtaking in and historians who explore the phenomenon their breadth and fresh insights, challenging of intermarriage both from the top down, in readers to think in provocative new ways about the form of state policies and official categories, race, social mobility, and belonging from the and from the bottom up, through an intimate borderlands of the ancient world to our own look at the experience and agency of mixed border-crossing moment.”—Samuel Truett, families in modern states determined to con- associate professor of history at the University trol the lives and identities of their citizens to of New Mexico an unprecedented degree. AMERICAN HISTORY & TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES STUDIES & TRANSCULTURAL HISTORY AMERICAN “Shape Shifters offers a kaleidoscope of fresh “A real eye-opener. Intermarriage from Central vantage points from which to rethink the Europe to Central Asia addresses a crucially enduring riddle of identity. The contributors important topic that demonstrates what is bring to life a diverse array of border-crossers, lost when we neglect the subject of intimacy, tricksters, and chameleons who previously gender, and intermarriage from studies of remained hidden from view but who could European nation-states. This book enlivens and not be more important or more timely to our deepens our understanding of how ethnic and present-day discussions of race and ethnic- civic nationalisms operate to join, divide, and ity.”—Karl Jacoby, author of The Strange differentiate people. It provides a rich com- Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who parative context for scholars