... these documents reveals several important concepts through which New Afrikans critiqued the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and organized around their concept of New Afrikan citizenship. Besides the question of citizenship, New Afrikan political identity, Third World solidarity, and the governmental...

... in the United States, covering their importance from the era of racial slavery to the moments when Nation of Islam and Malcolm X, among others, were helping instil Black pride in mid-twentieth century African Americans. Specifically, it examines the ways that individual and group names, identity, cartography...

...This afterword reflects on common themes found throughout the book and the women’s relationship to the landscape of Southern Appalachia. Though each narrative is unique, they share a common identity that draws these women’s experiences together. All the women express such a powerful connection...

...This introduction demonstrates that Drastic Dykes is a book about southern urban identity and queering the southern historical landscape. It explains that identity for southerners and for lesbians is messy. Many women who love women do not self-identify as lesbians, and historians...

... about communication, generational differences, discipline, racial identity and the “New Breed Black,” and problems of leadership. The chapter traces the actions of the US Army and Department of Defense, including those of William Westmoreland, James S. White, Stanley Resor, L. Howard Bennett, Arthur...

... America's engagement with African freedom struggles and independence, we reshape and internationalize our understanding of the freedom struggle in America while gaining insight into the development of racial identity and political consciousness during these critical years of twentieth-century freedom...

...The second half of the book, beginning with the fourth chapter, turns more to mixed-race identity and looks at the self-identification of Mulattoes in the eighteenth-century British colonies. People of mixed ancestry saw themselves largely through their upbringing in Christianity. In freedom...

..., competed, and occasionally cooperated. Shipwrecks were at the heart of three interrelated factors – maritime commerce, enlightened reform, and the search for national identity – that began to turn the new nation’s attention toward its eastern frontier. The federal government and urban humanitarian groups...

...Christian citizenship arguments from the postemancipation Mississippi River Valley reverberated across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The opposite arguments about religious and political identity that Black and white Christians made in the decades after the Civil War would re-emerge...

...Chapter 4, “Alterative Extracts,” demonstrates how a celibate sexual identity allowed the products of Shakers, Catholics and sexual reformers to achieve a “brand-name” recognition in the emerging marketplace. The sexual distinctiveness of these products and their producers made them seem exotic...

... of asexuality as a sexual identity. Battle of Gettysburg Burlando Francis cholera outbreaks Civil War Gettysburg College labor military service nursing professions O’Keefe Camilla St Joseph’s House Sisters Daughters of Charity Union army Daughters of Charity economic consequences of sexual...

..., and argues for the broader utility of the backbeat concept for understanding Black identity and lived experience. Black backside Clarksdale Davis Tyrone “Mom’s Apple Pie” Davis New World Sandiford Mrs Irene Smith Bessie Waters Muddy blues festivals Crossroads myth Johnson Robert Moonies blues...

... the blues, and definitions that celebrate a shared sense of group belonging. Foster considers the role that these definitions—and the feelings they engender—play in process of racial identity and social boundary making. backbeat the blues the blues critique McIntosh Allen “Mac ” telling Black people...

... and the United States––the two societies that form the basis of this book’s comparative approach. The chapter discusses how the fields of anthropology and genetics have contributed significantly to the deconstruction of racial taxonomies, but also, more recently, to attempts to reconstruct ethnic identities...

...This chapter addresses how different publics engage with personalized DNA ancestry reports, and how this genetic information is brought to bear upon existing conceptions of race, ancestry, and identity. Based on interviews with DNA test-takers in Brazil and the United States, the chapter considers...

... these intellectuals, including Antonio S. Pedreira and Tomás Blanco, debated issues related to race and Puerto Rico's cultural identity. The chapter also highlights the revival of Puerto Rican fiction during this period, mainly due to the works of Emilio S. Belaval and Enrique Laguerre, and the “black” poetry of Luis...

... nationhood, national identity, and modernity, citing works by authors on the island and in the United States along the way. The chapter also highlights the continuing political tension between the Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) and the Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), along with critical views...

..., and Ridge recast their identities as their qualifications to speak to and for the nation as American bards. In addition, the book explains how their shift away from the exclusivity of national identity toward various kinds of intranational and supranational allegiances enabled them to present an alternative...

... Internats Novikova Lydia Rachko Marina Pravda Soviet Committee on Children Toys children Cold War Soviet Union United States social identity cultural identity image differentiation The construction of the Cold War child was inextricably bound to the formation of social and cultural identities...

... Reason ʿaql Sacrifice balihari or qurban Social order Soldiers Truth haqq Wine sharab Arabia Ideology Iraq Syria Patriarchy Gender identity Sexual orientation Performing arts `Alid loyalty Charisma Ideology People ask, “When is this day of resurrection?” When sight is dazed when the moon...