Civics and citizenship Books

Book SynopsisThis ambitious book examines how the American health care system must be further reformed to bring it closer in line with the ideals of a modern democracy, as well as how the ACA may change in the coming years. It suggests the next, natural step in the realization of health and well being as a fundamental human right.Trade ReviewAlmgren presents an extensively detailed and well-sourced story of the precursors to the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a "principled critique" of the ACA as it currently stands, and a proposal for the path (or paths?) forward. The book is beautifully written and a great read. -- Karla Washington, University of Missouri For the past two decades health scholars have documented the existence and prevalence of health disparities with a recent intentional shift away from additional documentation of health disparities to a focus on possible solutions for achieving health equity. Almgren's book argues that these micro level efforts may be largely in vain if we do not also address the larger systematic design issues. This book can be used to assess the multiple dimensions of equity in the US health care system, and to develop health care reforms to remedy where equity falls short. -- Colleen Grogan, University of Chicago Almgren's book on health reform could not be more timely. In the aftermath of the US presidential campaign, where the concept of a right to health care reemerged (as well as calls for complete abandonment of the Affordable Care Act), we need a principled, historically grounded, thoughtful, and yes, radical rethinking of the American dilemma of health care coverage. This book knits it all together and makes compelling sense of our confusing health care policy world. -- Edward F. Lawlor, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis This clearly written book offers a concise review of the unique history of the U.S. health care and health insurance system, a well-reasoned presentation of the ethical basis of a universal right to health care, a comprehensive examination of the Affordable Care Act in the context of these ethical principals, and a map for the way forward, taking historical trajectory and ethical aspirations into account. What an invaluable resource for the health policy readership! -- Janet M. Bronstein, University of Alabama at Birmingham, author of Preterm Birth in the United States: A Sociocultural ApproachTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Statement of the Problem: American Exceptionalism in Health Care and the Emergence of the Great Unsustainable Compromise 2. The Emergence of the New Era of Reform 3. The Theoretical Foundations for Health Care as a Social Right of Citizenship 4. A Principled Critique of the ACA and the ACA in an Evolutionary Perspective 5. A Principled Approach to Radical Health-Care Finance Reform 6. A Principled Approach to Essential Health-Care Delivery System Reforms 7. Assessing Health- Care System Performance Against the Four Core Aims of Health-Care Policy 8. Special Issues and Considerations Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisJon N. Hale weaves a social history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools from the perspective of former students and teachers. Having turned their training into decades of activism, they speak on their locally organized, widely transmitted curriculum and offer key strategies for integrating the school system and politically engaging today’s youth.Trade ReviewJon N. Hale's work hits the mark! It is accurate and timely in refocusing our attention on the profound power of African American youth and education. The activists and young learners who made the Freedom Schools possible have greatly gone unsung. In the midst of imminent danger, they learned and experienced democracy while illustrating the efficacy of community participation in education. Hale rightly places them at the forefront of the struggle for freedom. His book reminds us of those who saved the nation's soul. -- Stefan M. Bradley, author of Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s Hale's groundbreaking examination of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's tireless efforts to provide free educational opportunities for Mississippi's African American children is an often overlooked yet instrumental component of the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The Freedom Schools offers a greater understanding of the schools' lasting legacy and the profound impact of the Freedom Schools on Mississippi's black students as they later engaged in boycotts and school walkouts, influencing public school desegregation efforts and the civil rights movement. -- Sonya Ramsey, author of Reading, Writing, and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville Hale's impressive study will make a major contribution to civil rights historiography. It provides a very realistic view of Freedom Schools with great detail and precision and astutely illustrates the significant role of education in the civil rights movement. -- Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia The narrative reads smoothly and leaves the reader with a greater sense of the hopes, desires, and goals of the [Mississippi Civil Rights] movement. CounterPunch Hale's well-documented chronicle sharply reminds readers that there are still miles to go in obliterating racism, and that there are still stories to be told. Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Mississippi Freedom Schools 1. "The Pathway from Slavery to Freedom": The Origins of Education and the Ideology of Liberation in Mississippi 2. "There Was Something Happening": The Civil Rights Education and Politicization of the Freedom School Students 3. "The Student as a Force for Social Change": The Politics and Organization of the Mississippi Freedom Schools 4. "We Will Walk in the Light of Freedom": Attending and Teaching in the Freedom Schools 5. "We Do Hereby Declare Independence": Educational Activism and Reconceptualizing Freedom After the Summer Campaign 6. Carrying Forth the Struggle: Freedom Schools and Contemporary Educational Policy Epilogue: Remembering the Freedom Schools Fifty Years Later Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJon N. Hale's work hits the mark! It is accurate and timely in refocusing our attention on the profound power of African American youth and education. The activists and young learners who made the Freedom Schools possible have greatly gone unsung. In the midst of imminent danger, they learned and experienced democracy while illustrating the efficacy of community participation in education. Hale rightly places them at the forefront of the struggle for freedom. His book reminds us of those who saved the nation's soul. -- Stefan M. Bradley, author of Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960sHale's groundbreaking examination of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's tireless efforts to provide free educational opportunities for Mississippi's African American children is an often overlooked yet instrumental component of the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The Freedom Schools offers a greater understanding of the schools' lasting legacy and the profound impact of the Freedom Schools on Mississippi's black students as they later engaged in boycotts and school walkouts, influencing public school desegregation efforts and the civil rights movement. -- Sonya Ramsey, author of Reading, Writing, and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in NashvilleHale's impressive study will make a major contribution to civil rights historiography. It provides a very realistic view of Freedom Schools with great detail and precision and astutely illustrates the significant role of education in the civil rights movement. -- Derrick Alridge, University of VirginiaThe narrative reads smoothly and leaves the reader with a greater sense of the hopes, desires, and goals of the [Mississippi Civil Rights] movement. * CounterPunch *The Freedom Schools adds depth and complexity to our emerging understanding of the civil rights movement. It should appeal especially to those interested in the intersection of education and social change. * American Historical Review *Hale's well-documented chronicle sharply reminds readers that there are still miles to go in obliterating racism, and that there are still stories to be told. Highly recommended. * Choice *Hale’s important study impresses because of its meticulous research, insightful analysis, and cogent argument... His work adds yet another important piece to the complex puzzle of the civil rights movement and will be of value to scholars and educators. -- Simon Wendt, University of Frankfurt * Journal of American History *Present-day teachers and students reading Hale’s book might find themselves invigorated by this history of the Freedom Schools. Perhaps its lessons can inspire renewed questioning about the meaning of citizenship and democracy today. -- Susan Eckelmann Berghel, University of Tennessee–Chattanooga * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *Apart from its subject matter and its analytical contributions, The Freedom Schools exemplifies the power of community studies and oral histories. * History of Education *Make[s] invaluable contributions to our understanding of the relationship between education and the Mississippi freedom struggle, and as such should have broad appeal to scholars focused on education, civil rights, African American history, childhood, and/or Southern history . . . While not flinching away from failures and setbacks, Hale [reminds] us that transformative change is possible, even in the face of overwhelming odds. * Reviews in American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Mississippi Freedom Schools1. "The Pathway from Slavery to Freedom": The Origins of Education and the Ideology of Liberation in Mississippi2. "There Was Something Happening": The Civil Rights Education and Politicization of the Freedom School Students3. "The Student as a Force for Social Change": The Politics and Organization of the Mississippi Freedom Schools4. "We Will Walk in the Light of Freedom": Attending and Teaching in the Freedom Schools5. "We Do Hereby Declare Independence": Educational Activism and Reconceptualizing Freedom After the Summer Campaign6. Carrying Forth the Struggle: Freedom Schools and Contemporary Educational PolicyEpilogue: Remembering the Freedom Schools Fifty Years LaterNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisProjecting Race presents a history of educational documentary filmmaking in the postwar era in light of race relations and the fight for civil rights.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Learning to Look: The Educational Documentary and Post-war Race Relations 1. Documenting from Below: Post-war Documentary, Race, and Everyday Life 2. The Sick Quiet That Follows Violence: Neorealism, Psychotherapy, and Collaboration 3. Charismatic Knowledge: Modernity and Southern African American Midwifery in All My Babies (1952) 4. Full of Fire: Historical Urgency and Utility in The Man in the Middle (1966) 5. Training Days: Liberal Advocacy and Self-Improvement in War on Poverty Films 6. The World Is Quiet Here: War on Poverty, Participatory Filmmaking and The Farmersville Project (1968) 7. An Urban Situation: The Hartford Project (1969) and the North American Challenge Conclusion: Still Burning: Pedagogy, Participation and Documentary Media Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisStruggle on Their Minds shows how the American political tradition have been continually challenged—and strengthened—by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American thought. Alex Zamalin focuses on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse.Trade ReviewFred Moten memorably wrote that the "history of blackness is testament to the fact that objects can and do resist." Alex Zamalin reaffirms this assertion through exquisite examination of narratives of resistance—not merely protest—by David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Huey Newton, and Angela Davis. Zamalin's deft treatise demonstrates how Afro-modern political thought refashions our fundamental understandings of resistance and the attendant ideals of democracy and freedom. -- Neil Roberts, author of Freedom as Marronage, Williams CollegeStruggle on Their Minds places Alex Zamalin at the forefront of scholars concerned with the political thought of African American activists. I can think of no reading more timely than this rich account of the centrality of black resistance to U.S. democracy and democratic citizenship. -- Nick Bromell, University of Massachusetts, AmherstIn intellectually compelling and valuable ways, this book presents significant (but relatively neglected) figures in the canon of African American political theorizing and relates them both to broad idioms of American political thought and to our contemporary political conjuncture. -- George Shulman, Professor of Political Science at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York UniversityOverall, the book offers an alternative view to American consensus theories on history, politics, and race. Excellent for American history, race, and political thought collections. * Choice *Zamalin thoughtfully and concisely illustrates how his chosen writers reveal not only the paradoxes of resistance but also the inherent tensions within American democracy. Struggle on Their Minds will work well in undergraduate classrooms as a systematic deconstruction of the idea that America has arrived at a 'so-called postracial moment.' . . . He shows how Walker, Douglass, Wells, Newton, and Davis have radically explicated the inherent, continual, pervasive and pernicious commitment to white supremacy that runs throughout U.S. history. -- Chernoh M. Sesay Jr. * Journal of American History *Zamalin...make[s] a significant contribution to contemporary political theory by demonstrating the importance of taking black thinkers seriously. -- Justin Rose * Contemporary Political Theory *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Political Thought of African American Resistance1. David Walker, Frederick Douglass, and the Abolitionist Democratic Vision2. Ida B. Wells, the Antilynching Movement, and the Politics of Seeing3. Huey Newton, the Black Panthers, and the Decolonization of America4. Angela Davis, Prison Abolition, and the End of the American Carceral StateConclusion: The Future of ResistanceNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed a Black teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Christopher Hayes examines the causes and consequences of the uprisings, providing a vivid portrait of postwar New York, a new perspective on the civil rights era, and a timely analysis of racial inequality.Trade ReviewAn immersive chronicle of the July 1964 uprising in New York City’s Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods over the police killing of a Black teenager . . . Hayes unpacks the causes and effects of the uprising in scrupulous detail, and makes salient connections to recent events. This scholarly history is a powerful reminder that it takes ‘great force’ to bend the moral arc of the universe toward justice. * Publishers Weekly *The Harlem Uprising offers a powerful narrative of the riots and upheaval in Harlem and other African American neighborhoods in New York City in the summer of 1964. Hayes’s vividly written book provides a stinging portrayal of midcentury New York from the perspective of Black New Yorkers and offers an important new historiography of the carceral state. -- Kim Phillips-Fein, author of Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity PoliticsSuch a needed study of New York's long history of racial inequality in housing, schools, jobs, and policing and the years of frustrated civil rights struggles that laid the ground for the 1964 Harlem uprising. Hayes examines Mayor Lindsay's decision to constitute a majority-civilian CCRB in its wake, the swift and successful police-led backlash that ended it, and the law and order politics that gained ascendancy in the city and the nation. -- Jeanne Theoharis, author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights HistoryThis is an exceptionally important and powerful book about white racism and police brutality in the Jim Crow North, especially New York City. That postwar urban crisis produced the 1964 Harlem and Brooklyn uprisings. This book’s argument is forceful and its grasp of historiography is masterful. -- Komozi Woodard, author of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power PoliticsThe Harlem Uprising is a welcome contribution to the intertwined histories of liberalism, policing, and urban rebellions in New York and, more broadly, the urban North. * Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York History *The Harlem Uprising refines our understanding of protest culture in America and reminds us once again that neither James Powell in 1964 nor George Floyd in 2020 fell victim to individual failure but a failing system. * H-Soz-Kult *In this gripping and detailed account, the book explores how those in power have refused to address structural racism, while also examining the limits of liberalism. * Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) *A highly readable and evocative rendering of the Harlem uprising of 1964, its causes, and its immediate policy aftermath. * History of Education Quarterly *The Harlem Uprising is deserving of a wide readership. Hayes’s clear and engaging prose makes the work accessible, while his historical insight and contributions will be of use and interest to historians of urban America, the civil rights movement, and police brutality. The work also recontextualizes the history of policing, violence, and the Black community in New York and makes important inferences about local practices of injustice that still plague the city and state. * New York History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Living2. Working3. Union Work4. Learning5. The New York City Police Department6. A Death and Protests7. Daybreak: Sunday, July 198. Spreading Anxiety: Monday, July 209. Day Four: Tuesday, July 2110. Day Five: Wednesday, July 2211. Day Six: Thursday, July 2312. After13. Reforming the Civilian Complaint Review Board14. A ReferendumEpilogue: Insufficient FundsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed a Black teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Christopher Hayes examines the causes and consequences of the uprisings, providing a vivid portrait of postwar New York, a new perspective on the civil rights era, and a timely analysis of racial inequality.Trade ReviewAn immersive chronicle of the July 1964 uprising in New York City’s Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods over the police killing of a Black teenager . . . Hayes unpacks the causes and effects of the uprising in scrupulous detail, and makes salient connections to recent events. This scholarly history is a powerful reminder that it takes ‘great force’ to bend the moral arc of the universe toward justice. * Publishers Weekly *The Harlem Uprising offers a powerful narrative of the riots and upheaval in Harlem and other African American neighborhoods in New York City in the summer of 1964. Hayes’s vividly written book provides a stinging portrayal of midcentury New York from the perspective of Black New Yorkers and offers an important new historiography of the carceral state. -- Kim Phillips-Fein, author of Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity PoliticsSuch a needed study of New York's long history of racial inequality in housing, schools, jobs, and policing and the years of frustrated civil rights struggles that laid the ground for the 1964 Harlem uprising. Hayes examines Mayor Lindsay's decision to constitute a majority-civilian CCRB in its wake, the swift and successful police-led backlash that ended it, and the law and order politics that gained ascendancy in the city and the nation. -- Jeanne Theoharis, author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights HistoryThis is an exceptionally important and powerful book about white racism and police brutality in the Jim Crow North, especially New York City. That postwar urban crisis produced the 1964 Harlem and Brooklyn uprisings. This book’s argument is forceful and its grasp of historiography is masterful. -- Komozi Woodard, author of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power PoliticsThe Harlem Uprising is a welcome contribution to the intertwined histories of liberalism, policing, and urban rebellions in New York and, more broadly, the urban North. * Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York History *The Harlem Uprising refines our understanding of protest culture in America and reminds us once again that neither James Powell in 1964 nor George Floyd in 2020 fell victim to individual failure but a failing system. * H-Soz-Kult *In this gripping and detailed account, the book explores how those in power have refused to address structural racism, while also examining the limits of liberalism. * Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) *A highly readable and evocative rendering of the Harlem uprising of 1964, its causes, and its immediate policy aftermath. * History of Education Quarterly *The Harlem Uprising is deserving of a wide readership. Hayes’s clear and engaging prose makes the work accessible, while his historical insight and contributions will be of use and interest to historians of urban America, the civil rights movement, and police brutality. The work also recontextualizes the history of policing, violence, and the Black community in New York and makes important inferences about local practices of injustice that still plague the city and state. * New York History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Living2. Working3. Union Work4. Learning5. The New York City Police Department6. A Death and Protests7. Daybreak: Sunday, July 198. Spreading Anxiety: Monday, July 209. Day Four: Tuesday, July 2110. Day Five: Wednesday, July 2211. Day Six: Thursday, July 2312. After13. Reforming the Civilian Complaint Review Board14. A ReferendumEpilogue: Insufficient FundsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisJonathan Kahn argues that an uncritical embrace of implicit bias, to the exclusion of power relations and structural racism, undermines wider civic responsibility for addressing racial inequality by turning it over to experts. Race on the Brain challenges us to engage more democratically in the difficult task of promoting racial justice.Trade ReviewRace on the Brain offers a provocative examination of contemporary discussions of race, racism, and law. Kahn carefully assesses the scientific framework of implicit bias, highlighting its laudable intent and aspirations while revealing hidden challenges. This is a thoughtful and timely contribution that will surely enrich ongoing conversations on race and human cognition and their socio-legal significance. -- Osagie K. Obasogie, author of Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the BlindTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Rethinking Implicit Bias—the Limits to Science as a Tool of Racial Justice1. Defining and Measuring Implicit Bias2. The Uptake of Implicit Social Cognition by the Legal Academy3. Accepting Conservative Frames: Time, Color Blindness, Diversity, and Intent4. Behavioral Realism in Action5. Deracinating the Legal Subject6. Obscuring Power7. Recreational Antiracism and the Power of Positive Nudging8. Seeking a Technical Fix to Racism9. Biologizing Racism: The Ultimate Technical FixConclusion: Contesting the Common Sense of RacismNotesIndex

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Book Synopsis**WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY****WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)**Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown AwardFinalist, LA Times Book PrizeA landmark biography of one of the twentieth century''s most compelling figures, rewriting much of the known narrative.Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X - including siblings, classmates, friends, cellmates, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become hundreds of hours of interviews into a portrait that would separate fact from fiction.The result is this magisterial work that conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist, whose title is inspired by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his followers stir with purpose to overcome the obstacles of racism. Setting his life not only within the political struggles of his day but also against the larger backdrop of American history, this remarkable masterpiece traces his path from street criminal to devoted moralist and revolutionary.An author who saw Malcolm X speak and could not stand the phrase ''we may never know'', Payne writes cinematically from start to finish and delivers extraordinary revelations - from a hair-raising scene of Malcolm''s clandestine meeting with the KKK, to a minute-by-minute account of his murder in Harlem in 1965, in which he makes the case for the complicity of the American government.Introduced by Payne''s daughter and primary researcher, Tamara Payne, who, following her father''s death, heroically completed the biography, The Dead Are Arising is a penetrating and riveting work that affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle and the story of the twentieth century.Trade ReviewBrilliant and indispensable . . . Using the fruits of decades of interviews, [Payne] brings new information and perspectives on one of the most fascinating, and often misunderstood, figures in American history -- Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeThe result of nearly three decades of investigative reporting, The Dead Are Arising is an essential new biography of one of the most compelling political figures of the twentieth century -- Jill Lepore, author of These TruthsIn a time of breezy, green-room infotainment, Les Payne restores the art of old-fashioned shoe-leather journalism. Malcolm X was one of the most fascinating and charismatic figures of the twentieth century, but like many icons,he was not without flaws. Payne exposes some of the major ones made under the influence of Elijah Muhammad whom Malcolm treated as one would a god. Payne charts Malcolm's disillusionment with his mentor, and the tensions between two egged on by J.Edgar Hoover. Payne's detailed account of Malcolm's negotiations with the Klan alone has mini-series possibilities. The Dead Are Arising is superior to the other Malcolm books, including the autobiography, which Malcolm despised -- Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo JumboMeticulously researched and masterfully reported, this chronicle offers fresh insights and disturbing revelations that, among other things, strengthen the case for government complicity in the murder of Malcolm X. . . . A gripping read . . . [and] a worthy companion to Malcolm's famed autobiography -- Nathan McCall, author of Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in AmericaThe Dead Are Arising. . . will become the definitive biography of Malcolm X -- Ray Winbush, director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan StateLes Payne has written a biography of this African American icon that sets a new standard for investigative journalism -- DeWayne Wickham, founding dean of Morgan State University’s School of Global Journalism & CommunicationPayne's storytelling weave[s] an epic tale of Malcolm's exuberant life, his tragic death, and the Phoenix-like legacy -- Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of Harlem NocturneNo one who wishes to reckon with the life of this man, one of the most important African American figures of the twentieth century can afford to forgo this account -- Howard W. French, Columbia UniversityComprehensive, timely life of the renowned activist and his circuitous rise to prominence. . . . Payne delivers considerable news not just in recounting unknown episodes of Malcolm's early years, but also in reconstructing events during his time as a devotee of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad . . . Payne's accounts of the consequences that rupture and Malcolm's assassination at the hands of a 'goon squad' with ties to the FBI and CIA are eye-opening, and they add a new dimension to our understanding of Malcolm X's last years. . . . A superb biography and an essential addition to the library of African American political engagement -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review'Les Payne was one of the most distinguished journalists of our time. Here, after thirty years of research and collecting and by interviewing Malcolm X's family as well as many others, we have the most lyrical and complete biography of this uniquely brilliant American ever written. This book is a great read, full of original insights about an elusive figure rendered deeply human -- David Blight, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning Frederick DouglassPayne goes into gripping detail... In this highly worthy effort, [he] has produced a well-written and deeply engaging biography of a uniquely American figure whose life offers a matchless window into our continuing national struggle over race -- Robert J Norrell * The American Scholar *Compelling... events are portrayed in cinematic detail... this book captures the uncompromising clarity that speaks to this moment of Black Lives Matter -- Colin Grant * The Observer *The Paynes, fortified by hundreds of interviews with family and associates, have thrown some fresh light on the legend created by the Autobiography -- Trevor Phillips * The Sunday Times *This new biography of Malcolm X paints a much more detailed and intimate picture of the man than previous works have ever been able to do -- Sarah Smith * Today *It's to this biography's credit that it attempts to scrape away some of the mythology... Payne doesn't airbrush the facts -- Clive Davis * The Times *Brimming with detail, insight and feeling... Nobody has written a more poetic account... Malcolm's presence is beautifully rendered within the rhythm of Payne's masterly storytelling -- Michael P. Jeffries * The New York Times *This book will always be timely, because the story it narrates is timeless... Les and Tamara Payne are especially good in detailing Malcolm's early years of delinquency and rebirth. Like Robert Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, The Dead Are Arising delves deeply into the wider context of Malcolm's world -- Andrew Preston * The Spectator *The Dead Are Arising sets out to provide a much fuller picture of the life and death of Malcolm X [than his autobiography]... The recent spate of protests have reminded us that we need the lessons of Malcolm now perhaps more than ever -- Kehinde Andrews * The Guardian *The Dead Are Arising is a meticulously researched, compassionately rendered, and fiercely analytical examination of the radical revolutionary as a human being... Payne's biography forces us to understand Malcolm X as his various communities experienced him-as a brilliant, troubled, selfish, generous, sincere, ugly, and beautiful Black radical... The Dead Are Arising forces us to ask deeper, more complicated questions about the Black people and places from which our heroes come -- Kerri Greenidge * The Atlantic *Fascinating and essential... Payne adds invaluably to our understanding of Malcolm's story -- Mark Whitaker * The Washington Post *This compelling biography of Malcolm X is an appropriately ambitious and forceful book. Delivering an outstanding portrait through lucid prose, it deserves and demands to be widely read * Judges of the HWA Non-Fiction Crown Award *Thirty years in the making and encompassing hundreds of original interviews, this magisterial biography of Malcolm X was completed by Les Payne's daughter after his death in 2018. Its strengths lie in its finely shaded, penetrating portrait of the Black activist and thinker, whose legacy continues to find fresh resonance today * New York Times, Notable Books of 2020 *A monumental biography giving new meaning to our understanding of Malcolm X and his ever-expanding impact on American history... told in riveting prose, The Dead Are Arising is a major accomplishment that could set the bar for how we will define Malcolm X from now on * The Voice *A pensive, lyrical, and finely wrought portrait of young Malcolm Little's evolution into the icon known as Malcolm X... The Dead Are Arising brilliantly crafts a new origin story of the most important working-class Black leader ever produced... Les and Tamara Payne have produced an exceedingly valuable and important biography that adds immeasurably to our understanding of Malcolm X -- Peniel E. Joseph * Los Angeles Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisTHE INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE EVENTS DOCUMENTED IN LAURA POITRAS''S CITIZENFOUR Glenn Greenwald''s No Place to Hide is the story of one of the greatest national security leaks in US history.In June 2013, reporter and political commentator Glenn Greenwald published a series of reports in the Guardian which rocked the world.The reports revealed shocking truths about the extent to which the National Security Agency had been gathering information about US citizens and intercepting communication worldwide, and were based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden to Greenwald.Including new revelations from documents entrusted to Greenwald by Snowden, this essential book tells the story of Snowden and the NSA and examines the far-reaching consequences of the government''s surveillance program, both in the US and abroad.''The first thing I do when I turn on the computer in the morningTrade ReviewA Pulitzer in the bag, Hollywood knocking on the door and a newfound status as one of the world's most celebrated journalists, Greenwald has pursued the [Snowden] story with passion. Gripping: Jason Bourne meets The Social Network * Financial Times *To put it simply, Greenwald has had one hell of a dizzying run, at the white-hot centre of the media universe as the most reliable source for NSA surveillance scoops * GQ *Compelling, powerful, shocking, important * Observer *The inside account. Action-packed, engrossing and polemical * Daily Telegraph *Persuasive, thrilling and necessary * Globe and Mail *Impassioned * The New York Times *Pulse-pounding * Wired *In Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden found a perfect match. If you want to get a handle on what was at stake when Snowden downloaded the government's most precious secrets onto a thumb drive, this book is your primer * Slate *Rings with authority * Chicago Tribune *The story of Edward Snowden is remarkable. Has all the makings of a thriller. Greenwald provides an excellent overview, putting the pieces together in a way that daily journalism cannot * Economist *At times, this account by Greenwald of how he landed one of the biggest scoops of the century feels like it has come straight out of the pages of a Robert Ludlum thriller * Sunday Times *Spectacular. Dedicated, fearless journalism * Spiegel (Germany) *Between a spy thriller and analysis . . . an impassioned book * Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) *Rewarding. Some passages read like a Tom Clancy CIA thriller * General Anzeiger (Germany) *An indispensable book for anyone who cares about the future of privacy, not just in the United States but throughout the world * National Post (Canada) *Gripping. Not only does [No Place to Hide] confirm what many have suspected - that surveillance is happening - but it also makes clear that it's happening on an almost unimaginably vast scale * Guardian *A powerful and persuasive case for the duty to defend our fast-disappearing privacy -- Naomi Klein * Guardian (Books of the Year) *The story of a real conspiracy -- Nicholas Blincoe * Daily Telegraph *An important first-hand account of the Snowden affair -- Rebecca Rose * Financial Times *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose's dazzling collection invites readers to consider the politics of feminist friendships, alliances, and collaborations. The volume explores the powerful ways that we can be transformed by our connections with others, and urges a new attention to feminist friendships as sites of generosity and empathy, alliance and resistance. Chowdhury and Philiopose's volume reminds us that friendship is fraught terrain, that we encounter each other across borders and boundaries of multiple kinds, and that the language of friendship can be co-opted by discourses of neoliberalism and imperialism. Yet their contributors urge us to continue to dream of the promise of connection, consciousness, and transformation that dissident friendships make possible."--Jennifer Nash, author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography "Rejuvenating our expectations of the most commonplace of human relations, Dissident Friendships challenges us to politicize that which is either overlooked or dismissed by more mainstream academic investigations. The intricate, and compassionate, analyses of friendship presented in these pages leave us renewed and provide an energizing vision for Gender Studies scholarship, social transformation and productive solidarities."--Shefali Chandra, author of The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India "Dissident Friendships is a significant transdisciplinary intervention that engages seriously with the meanings and possibilities of transformative feminist praxis in the face of the contradictions and complicities produced by neoliberalism, militarism, imperialism, humanism, and peace-building initiatives. Together, the contributors not only advance critical conversations about the work of affect in transnational solidarities and alliances; they also grapple in rich ways with the theoretical, methodological, and political complexities that are co-constitutive of the labor of dreaming, living, sustaining, and remaking epistemic friendships and communities across borders."--Richa Nagar, author of Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism"A timely collection."--Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual"Vivid, clear, diverse, and creative, the essays in this volume demonstrate the tenacity of emotional relationalities and agnostic attachments, dissident friendships that can help redefine our connections amid the nefarious intricacies of power relations."--Signs

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSuperior Achievement Award, Illinois State Historical Society, 2019 "Rocksborough-Smith offers a concise scholarly monograph on Black Chicago public history's tangled relationship with the left and utilizes that conflicting relationship to examine politics in our present and future."--Black Perspectives"Black Public History will appeal to all students of African American history, particularly cultural history, and is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of Chicago's expanding black past." --History: Reviews of New Books "Black Public History in Chicago is a worthwhile read and greatly contributes to the understudied history of African American public activism during the pre-civil rights movement years." --The Journal of American History"Scholars are starting to discuss in more detail how African American activists for Civil Rights were stifled under this side of the 'iron curtain' during the Cold War. However, very few have discussed the innovative ways that Black visionaries turned to public history as a broad canvas for rethinking the boundaries of community belonging and national citizenship in the face of political repression. Ian Rocksborough-Smith sheds light on a powerful core of Chicago-based culture workers who expanded the battlefront for Black freedom from the picket line and street rally to the library, the museum hall, and the classroom, using public displays of the past to imagine a different future. Black Public History in Chicago is an amazing project of both recovery and redemption."--Davarian L. Baldwin, author of Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life"In this remarkable book, Ian Rocksborough-Smith examines the network of librarians, writers, teachers, and others who built an African American usable past that could advance their visions of racial liberation in mid-twentieth-century Chicago. Amid repression of all kinds, these unsung activists and artists set out to make history matter beyond the academy and mainstream museums. They devoted their lives to building independent knowledge-producing institutions through school curriculum, public rituals and commemorations, and ultimately the DuSable Museum. Like his protagonists, Rocksborough-Smith resists sanitized narratives and makes public history accessible, revealing how these cultural workers bridged generations and fused interracial and nationalist ideologies. Readers interested in the Black Chicago Renaissance and the generations of the Black Freedom Struggle, Cold War scholars, and especially public historians of all stripes need to read this book. Then and now, African American public history matters as a key source of knowledge as activism to combat poverty, racism, and xenophobia in the American city."--Erik S. Gellman, author of Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights"Black Public History in Chicago spans decades and is complemented and supported by the detailed efforts of the unseen and often mentioned contributors of each era. . . . Rocksborough-Smith has produced an excellent work that those with interest in African American history of Chicago history will enjoy." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"This book helps to celebrate those who worked to keep alive the memory of an all-too-often buried past." --The Progressive

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Trade Review"Griffith adds more white voices of opposition to the racism and nativism of the 1920s, gives more evidence of the global reach of Christian non-governmental organizations, and extends the work of David Hollinger and William Hutchison on the public presence of Protestant liberalism in the twentieth century. " --Journal of American History"The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights expands our understanding of civil rights by illuminating the contribution of liberal white leadership to Asian American equality."--Jon Thares Davidann, author of Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919–1941"This illuminating study documents how liberal Protestant activists mobilized against racial discrimination and engaged in interracial coalition-building. Recommended." --Choice"YMCA officials with experience as Protestant missionaries in Japan led the defense of Asian Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. Griffith illuminates several decades of anti-racist organizing and writing by a dynamic group of Y leaders, culminating in the group's climactic and courageous defense of Japanese Americans during World War II. This is a substantial research achievement that broadens our understanding of ecumenical Protestantism and of the history of civil rights."--David A. Hollinger, author of After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History"Scholars of religion and Asian American history should have Griffith's book on their shelves, as it provides a necessary intervention into the fields of Christian interethnic and interracial activism." --American Historical Review "Griffith does an excellent job of synthesizing the massive amounts of publications produced by these activists and shows how their approach shifted as they attempted to combat nativists and anti-immigration legislation. . . . Her deep analysis of liberal Protestant rhetoric is the book's greatest strength." --Pacific Historical Review"This is a fascinating book that will challenge everything we think we know about race, empire, missionaries, and race politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Go get this book." --Western Historical Quarterly

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Recommended." --Choice"Rooted in an impressive range of on-the-ground research . . . Wenzel has made an important contribution." --The Arts Fuse"Andrea Wenzel is that rarest of beings, a thorough and skilled academic and an accomplished journalist. This book is a must read for anyone wanting to fully understand the crisis of trust in journalism, how it grows from deep, ingrained roots and flourishes through lack of attention and engagement. Wenzel’s examination of how journalism can better serve communities charts a clear empirical path for the field, but it also tells a compelling story about media, representation and social cohesion at a critical time."--Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School​"This book is an important contribution to academic scholarship but also to the journalism industry and to foundations that support ongoing projects to rebuild trust. It provides much needed documentation at a pivotal and pivoting time, as journalism undertakes new practices in an attempt to survive."--Sue Robinson, author of Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive CommunitiesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The case for shared community storiesChapter 1. Shifting stories with solutions journalismChapter 2. Connecting journalists and community membersChapter 3. Developing an intervention: Building a public sphere in polarized placesChapter 4. The process is portable: Toward a community-driven interventionChapter 5. A new kind of journalist? Competencies for community-centered journalismConclusion: To repair, or to burn it down?Appendix: Methods for a Process ModelNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisGuiding to practice democracy, this book is for members of community and neighbourhood organizations, parent-teacher associations, local government, citizens groups, and other grass-root organizations.Trade Review"Before you give up on democracy, read this book! In an era when public engagement seems ever more contentious and mean-spirited, Michael Briand offers practical, espericne-based wisdom--not naive bromides--about what we can do to make democracy work in our communities. Read this book and gain new insights and new hope."--Frances Moore Lappe, cofounder, Center for Democracy

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Book SynopsisFrom table talk to farmers' markets, analyzing the cultural politics of what and how we eatTrade Review"Provocative. . . . Flammang makes a convincing case for the centrality of food work and shared meals, much along the lines laid down by Carlo Petrini and Alice Waters, but with more historical perspective and theoretical rigor."--Michael Pollan, The New York Review of Books"[Flammang] treats this subject with the high seriousness and scholarly insight it deserves."--Hypatia "An important and provocative book."--Gastronomica"A compelling argument reconnecting domesticity to civil society. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Eating is something we all have in common: it opens up both our senses and our consciences to our place in the world. Janet A. Flammang's The Taste for Civilization shows how the American family meal has been devalued from its role as a daily enactment of shared necessity and ritualized cooperation--and how important it is to restore the daily ritual of the table in our lives."--Alice Waters, founder, Chez Panisse"Deftly bringing together political theory, feminist analysis, and cultural studies, Flammang uses the familiar world of our private lives and everyday practices with food to interrogate the public life of American democracy and civil society. Thoughtful and creative."--Anna Sampaio, coeditor of Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and CulturesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Civility, Civil Society and Democracy; Political Theory: Where's the Household in Civil Society?; Empirical Studies: It's Hard to Measure the Table; The Art of Conversation and Civic Virtues of Thoughtfulness and Generosity; Meals, Conversations and Women; What Changes are Needed?; Part One: Household Foodwork; Chapter 1: The Time Crunch; Farm and City Foodwork; Women's Labor Force Participation and Overworked Americans; Technology and Food Tasks; The Second Shift and the Globalization of Housework; Invisible Foodwork; Solutions to the Time Crunch; Chapter 2: Domesticity: Meals, Obligation and Gratitude; Political and Gendered Domesticity; Deciding on the Menu: Household Variations; Gift, Obligation and the Economy of Gratitude; Psychological Memories and Social Connections; Escape from the Household with Commercial Food; Chapter 3: American Food; American Food as Multi-Ethnic and Regional Corporations Urge Immigrants to Eat American; Racial and Ethnic Pride in Foodways; The Slow Food Movement; American foodways, the Obesity Crisis and Global Warming; Part Two: Table Conversation; Chapter 4: Conversation and Manners; Conversations and Civility; Civil Society: Light Social Conversations and Heavy Political Arguments; The Lost Art of Conversation in the United States; Upper Class and Feminine: Courtesy, Civility, Politeness and Manners; The Universality of Table Manners; Manners and the Middle Class

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Book SynopsisThis innovative comparative study provides nuanced accounts of the personal experiences of young people who care deeply about their communities and are actively engaged in a variety of public issuesTrade Review"Investigating the experience of young activists, their motivations, and the forms of their engagement, this innovative book presents a refreshingly optimistic picture of dedicated and engaged young people."--Anne B. Smith, coeditor of Advocating for Children: International Perspectives on Children's Rights"A much needed and timely contribution that celebrates the commonalities among youth leaders on a hemispheric scale. The book offers a unified voice that rejects the fragmentation of difference, and with thought-provoking youth interviews, convincingly articulates today's concept of youth leadership. These authors help their readers, whether scholars, educators or activists, effectively situate and challenge their own ideas of youth leaders."--Latino Studies

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Book SynopsisOften perceived as unbridgeable, the boundaries that divide humanity from itself--whether national, gender, racial, political, or imperial--are rearticulated through friendship. Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose edit a collection of essays that express the different ways women forge hospitality in deference to or defiance of the structures meant to keep them apart. Emerging out of postcolonial theory, the works discuss instances when the authors have negotiated friendship''s complicated, conflicted, and contradictory terrain; offer fresh perspectives on feminists'' invested, reluctant, and selective uses of the nation; reflect on how the arts contribute to conversations about feminism, dissent, resistance, and solidarity; and unpack the details of transnational dissident friendships. Contributors: Lori E. Amy, Azza Basarudin, Himika Bhattacharya, Kabita Chakma, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Laurie R. Cohen, Esha Niyogi De, Eglantina Gjermeni, Glen Hill, Alka Kurian, Meredith MaddenTrade Review"Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose's dazzling collection invites readers to consider the politics of feminist friendships, alliances, and collaborations. The volume explores the powerful ways that we can be transformed by our connections with others, and urges a new attention to feminist friendships as sites of generosity and empathy, alliance and resistance. Chowdhury and Philiopose's volume reminds us that friendship is fraught terrain, that we encounter each other across borders and boundaries of multiple kinds, and that the language of friendship can be co-opted by discourses of neoliberalism and imperialism. Yet their contributors urge us to continue to dream of the promise of connection, consciousness, and transformation that dissident friendships make possible."--Jennifer Nash, author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography "Rejuvenating our expectations of the most commonplace of human relations, Dissident Friendships challenges us to politicize that which is either overlooked or dismissed by more mainstream academic investigations. The intricate, and compassionate, analyses of friendship presented in these pages leave us renewed and provide an energizing vision for Gender Studies scholarship, social transformation and productive solidarities."--Shefali Chandra, author of The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India "Dissident Friendships is a significant transdisciplinary intervention that engages seriously with the meanings and possibilities of transformative feminist praxis in the face of the contradictions and complicities produced by neoliberalism, militarism, imperialism, humanism, and peace-building initiatives. Together, the contributors not only advance critical conversations about the work of affect in transnational solidarities and alliances; they also grapple in rich ways with the theoretical, methodological, and political complexities that are co-constitutive of the labor of dreaming, living, sustaining, and remaking epistemic friendships and communities across borders."--Richa Nagar, author of Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism"A timely collection."--Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual"Vivid, clear, diverse, and creative, the essays in this volume demonstrate the tenacity of emotional relationalities and agnostic attachments, dissident friendships that can help redefine our connections amid the nefarious intricacies of power relations."--Signs

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Book SynopsisIn civil-rights-era Chicago, a dedicated group of black activists, educators, and organizations employed black public history as more than cultural activism. Their work and vision energized a movement that promoted political progress in the crucial time between World War II and the onset of the Cold War. Ian Rocksborough-Smith’s meticulous research and adept storytelling provide the first in-depth look at how these committed individuals leveraged Chicago’s black public history. Their goal: to engage with the struggle for racial equality. Rocksborough-Smith shows teachers working to advance curriculum reform in public schools, while well-known activists Margaret and Charles Burroughs pushed for greater recognition of black history by founding the DuSable Museum of African American History. Organizations like the Afro-American Heritage Association, meanwhile, used black public history work to connect radical politics and nationalism. Together, these people and their projecTrade ReviewSuperior Achievement Award, Illinois State Historical Society, 2019 "Rocksborough-Smith offers a concise scholarly monograph on Black Chicago public history's tangled relationship with the left and utilizes that conflicting relationship to examine politics in our present and future."--Black Perspectives"Black Public History will appeal to all students of African American history, particularly cultural history, and is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of Chicago's expanding black past." --History: Reviews of New Books "Black Public History in Chicago is a worthwhile read and greatly contributes to the understudied history of African American public activism during the pre-civil rights movement years." --The Journal of American History"Scholars are starting to discuss in more detail how African American activists for Civil Rights were stifled under this side of the 'iron curtain' during the Cold War. However, very few have discussed the innovative ways that Black visionaries turned to public history as a broad canvas for rethinking the boundaries of community belonging and national citizenship in the face of political repression. Ian Rocksborough-Smith sheds light on a powerful core of Chicago-based culture workers who expanded the battlefront for Black freedom from the picket line and street rally to the library, the museum hall, and the classroom, using public displays of the past to imagine a different future. Black Public History in Chicago is an amazing project of both recovery and redemption."--Davarian L. Baldwin, author of Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life"In this remarkable book, Ian Rocksborough-Smith examines the network of librarians, writers, teachers, and others who built an African American usable past that could advance their visions of racial liberation in mid-twentieth-century Chicago. Amid repression of all kinds, these unsung activists and artists set out to make history matter beyond the academy and mainstream museums. They devoted their lives to building independent knowledge-producing institutions through school curriculum, public rituals and commemorations, and ultimately the DuSable Museum. Like his protagonists, Rocksborough-Smith resists sanitized narratives and makes public history accessible, revealing how these cultural workers bridged generations and fused interracial and nationalist ideologies. Readers interested in the Black Chicago Renaissance and the generations of the Black Freedom Struggle, Cold War scholars, and especially public historians of all stripes need to read this book. Then and now, African American public history matters as a key source of knowledge as activism to combat poverty, racism, and xenophobia in the American city."--Erik S. Gellman, author of Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights"Black Public History in Chicago spans decades and is complemented and supported by the detailed efforts of the unseen and often mentioned contributors of each era. . . . Rocksborough-Smith has produced an excellent work that those with interest in African American history of Chicago history will enjoy." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"This book helps to celebrate those who worked to keep alive the memory of an all-too-often buried past." --The Progressive

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Griffith adds more white voices of opposition to the racism and nativism of the 1920s, gives more evidence of the global reach of Christian non-governmental organizations, and extends the work of David Hollinger and William Hutchison on the public presence of Protestant liberalism in the twentieth century. " --Journal of American History"The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights expands our understanding of civil rights by illuminating the contribution of liberal white leadership to Asian American equality."--Jon Thares Davidann, author of Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919–1941"This illuminating study documents how liberal Protestant activists mobilized against racial discrimination and engaged in interracial coalition-building. Recommended." --Choice"YMCA officials with experience as Protestant missionaries in Japan led the defense of Asian Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. Griffith illuminates several decades of anti-racist organizing and writing by a dynamic group of Y leaders, culminating in the group's climactic and courageous defense of Japanese Americans during World War II. This is a substantial research achievement that broadens our understanding of ecumenical Protestantism and of the history of civil rights."--David A. Hollinger, author of After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History"Scholars of religion and Asian American history should have Griffith's book on their shelves, as it provides a necessary intervention into the fields of Christian interethnic and interracial activism." --American Historical Review "Griffith does an excellent job of synthesizing the massive amounts of publications produced by these activists and shows how their approach shifted as they attempted to combat nativists and anti-immigration legislation. . . . Her deep analysis of liberal Protestant rhetoric is the book's greatest strength." --Pacific Historical Review"This is a fascinating book that will challenge everything we think we know about race, empire, missionaries, and race politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Go get this book." --Western Historical Quarterly

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Resistance Reconsidered / Othon AlexandrakisPart I: Affect as Political Condition1. Being and Doing Politics: Moral Ontologies and Ethical Ways of Knowing at the End of the Cold War / Jessica Greenberg2. The Affective Echoes of an Overwhelming Life: The Demand for Legal Recognition and the Vicious Cycle of Desire, in the Case of Queer Activism in Istanbul, Turkey / Eirine Avramopoulou 3. Emergenc(i)es in the Fields: Affective Composition and Counter-Camps Against the Exploitation of Migrant Farm Labor in Italy / Irene Peano 4. Cosmologicopolitics: Vitalistic Cosmology Meets Biopower / James D. Faubion 5. Surreal Capitalism and the Dialectical Economies of Precarity / Neni PanourgiáPart II: Agency as Ethical Condition6. Intolerants: Politics of the Ordinary in Karachi, Pakistan / Tania Ahmad 7. Negative Space: Unmovement and the Study of Activism When There is No Action / Cymene Howe 8. What Should be Done?: Art and Political Possibility in Russia / Petra Rethmann9. The Multilinearity of Protest: Understanding New Social Movements Through Their Events, Trends, and Routines / John Postill 10. Whose Ethics?: Negotiating Ethics and Responsibility in the Field / Marianne Maeckelbergh 11. Within, Against, Beyond: The Radical Imagination in the Age of the Slow-Motion Apocalypse / Alex KhasnabishConclusion: On an Emergent Politics and Ethics of Resistance / Athená Athanasiou and Othon AlexandrakisList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Resistance Reconsidered / Othon AlexandrakisPart I: Affect as Political Condition1. Being and Doing Politics: Moral Ontologies and Ethical Ways of Knowing at the End of the Cold War / Jessica Greenberg2. The Affective Echoes of an Overwhelming Life: The Demand for Legal Recognition and the Vicious Cycle of Desire, in the Case of Queer Activism in Istanbul, Turkey / Eirine Avramopoulou 3. Emergenc(i)es in the Fields: Affective Composition and Counter-Camps Against the Exploitation of Migrant Farm Labor in Italy / Irene Peano 4. Cosmologicopolitics: Vitalistic Cosmology Meets Biopower / James D. Faubion 5. Surreal Capitalism and the Dialectical Economies of Precarity / Neni PanourgiáPart II: Agency as Ethical Condition6. Intolerants: Politics of the Ordinary in Karachi, Pakistan / Tania Ahmad 7. Negative Space: Unmovement and the Study of Activism When There is No Action / Cymene Howe 8. What Should be Done?: Art and Political Possibility in Russia / Petra Rethmann9. The Multilinearity of Protest: Understanding New Social Movements Through Their Events, Trends, and Routines / John Postill 10. Whose Ethics?: Negotiating Ethics and Responsibility in the Field / Marianne Maeckelbergh 11. Within, Against, Beyond: The Radical Imagination in the Age of the Slow-Motion Apocalypse / Alex KhasnabishConclusion: On an Emergent Politics and Ethics of Resistance / Athená Athanasiou and Othon AlexandrakisList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Historian Maria Bucur and philosopher Mihaela Miroiu beautifully capture the anxieties, ambiguities, and opportunities faced by women in contemporary Romania. The book is an excellent primer on the unique ways that the transition from state socialism to free market democracy has impacted the lives of ordinary women. It is a qualitative gem." * Aspasia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Women from Romania's Past into the Present: A Short Historical Overview2: Men: Working through Gender Norms at Home3. Children: The Most Beautiful Accomplishment of My Life4. Work and Personal Satisfaction.5. Communities: Beyond the Family6. Communism as State Patriarchy7. Facing Capitalism and Building DemocracyConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Historian Maria Bucur and philosopher Mihaela Miroiu beautifully capture the anxieties, ambiguities, and opportunities faced by women in contemporary Romania. The book is an excellent primer on the unique ways that the transition from state socialism to free market democracy has impacted the lives of ordinary women. It is a qualitative gem." * Aspasia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Women from Romania's Past into the Present: A Short Historical Overview2: Men: Working through Gender Norms at Home3. Children: The Most Beautiful Accomplishment of My Life4. Work and Personal Satisfaction.5. Communities: Beyond the Family6. Communism as State Patriarchy7. Facing Capitalism and Building DemocracyConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis-A bipartisan call for the return to ethics within both the US government, and the citizenry. Argues that fairness in participation, and integrity in elections are only methods to improve trust in Government -Written by former US Congresswoman representing Indiana. -Has been endorsed by numerous high-profile Politicians, included John Lewis and Leon Panetta.Trade ReviewThe Character of American Democracy is a timely and essential overview of what ordinary citizens and elected officials alike are called upon to do in a democracy that is fueled by a capitalist economy. * Nuvo *Table of ContentsForeword (Marcy Kaptur)Introduction: Ethics are Fundamental to Democracy Chapter 1: American Character Chapter 2: Decision-Making with Character Chapter 3: The Habit of Leading with Character Chapter 4: Ethics and Democracy Chapter 5: Democracy, Ethics, and Capitalism Chapter 6: The American's Character Conclusion: Strength of Character – Strength of UnionNote

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Book Synopsis-A bipartisan call for the return to ethics within both the US government, and the citizenry. Argues that fairness in participation, and integrity in elections are only methods to improve trust in Government -Written by former US Congresswoman representing Indiana. -Has been endorsed by numerous high-profile Politicians, included John Lewis and Leon Panetta.Trade ReviewThe Character of American Democracy is a timely and essential overview of what ordinary citizens and elected officials alike are called upon to do in a democracy that is fueled by a capitalist economy. * Nuvo *Table of ContentsForeword (Marcy Kaptur)Introduction: Ethics are Fundamental to Democracy Chapter 1: American Character Chapter 2: Decision-Making with Character Chapter 3: The Habit of Leading with Character Chapter 4: Ethics and Democracy Chapter 5: Democracy, Ethics, and Capitalism Chapter 6: The American's Character Conclusion: Strength of Character – Strength of UnionNote

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"To my knowledge, this is the first monograph solely devoted to social media texts in a Sub-Saharan society. Yéku shows us how digital media performances are in constant dialogue with nondigital popular culture in Nigeria. Most compelling is his attention to the political subtexts of Nigerian social media, while reconstructing a micro-history of the digital world. Nigeria's social media users are politicking online; we learn how the forms and aesthetics of politicking change, thus challenging scholars to be constantly alert to digital innovations and their political potential. Cultural Netizenship is an important addition to the growing library in digital humanities."—Katrien Pype, author of The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama. Religion, Media, and Gender in Kinshasa"In Cultural Netizenship, Nigeria's rambunctious, energetic, and impelling digital culture finds its most enthusiastic and intellectually gifted exponent, and the result is a work of rare penetration, analytic verve, and sumptuous literacy. Yékú's expository power conjures images of the finest espresso- richly concentrated, delicately brewed, and revivifying the remotest corners of the palate. This debut work, a distillation of the finest insights across the length and breadth of the social sciences, sets a new standard for scholarship in African and interdisciplinary studies."—Ebenezer Obadare, author of Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria"Through its incisive analysis of digital cultures in Nigeria, Cultural Netizenship offers a groundbreaking model for studying the relationship between digital media and the nation in a range of postcolonial contexts. Scholars and students of new media studies have much to learn from Yékú's innovative, ethnographic approach to social media and popular culture."—Roopika Risam, author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities"James Yékú might as well have erected the entire framework of Cultural Netizenship on Brecht's "In the contradiction lies the hope." Surely, you can hardly miss the manner in which the author navigates neural lines of digital thought and the quotidian reality of our circumspective analogue choices within structures of power and agency in Nigeria's pop street vis-à-vis the virtual nudity of capital's hidden hands. The strength of this work is in its walking of the tensions, the tight rope of the dialogic and the dialectical mechanism of social media, popular culture, and performance in Nigeria."—Sola Olorunyomi, author of AFROBEAT! Fela and the Imagined Continent"It is by now a commonplace that Nigerians have exerted a conspicuous influence on the interactive landscapes of social media. Wherever in the world one is accessing Facebook or Twitter, and for whatever purpose, one is bound to encounter a meme of Nigerian origin. Cultural Netizenship is the first comprehensive investigation of the performative work of Nigerian digital subjects in a period marked not only by a global pandemic, political unrest, and all manner of protest movements, but also by the globalization of Nollywood and other sources of Nigerian popular culture. James Yékú offers a rich and remarkably varied account of the roles of social media in the cultural and political currents of contemporary Nigeria. His insights will be of importance to Africanists and anyone interested in vernacular uses of digital networks. This is a book of considerable scholarly sophistication that also honors what is riotously funny about some of our most cherished memes."—Noah Tsika, author of Nollywood Stars and Cinematic IndependenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cultural Netizenship and Viral Practices1. Afropolitan Anti-heroes and the Performative Politics of Internet Scambaiting2. The Memeification of Nollywood3. Self-Spectatoriality and the Performance of Political Selves4. Visualizing Resistance and Performing with the Visual5. Social Media Humor and Carnivalesque Aesthetics6. Virality and Instagram Comedy in A State of PandemicEpilogue: Cultural Netizenship and the Praxis of RecoveryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisHow does social media activism in Nigeria intersect with online popular formsfrom GIFs to memes to videosand become shaped by the repressive postcolonial state that propels resistance to dominant articulations of power? James Yékú proposes the concept of cultural netizenshipinternet citizenship and its aesthetico-cultural dimensionsas a way of being on the social web and articulating counter-hegemonic self-presentations through viral popular images. Yékú explores the cultural politics of protest selfies, Nollywood-derived memes and GIFs, hashtags, and political cartoons as visual texts for postcolonial studies, and he examines how digital subjects in Nigeria, a nation with one of the most vibrant digital spheres in Africa, deconstruct state power through performed popular culture on social media. As a rubric for the new digital genres of popular and visual expressions on social media, cultural netizenship indexes the digital everyday through the affordances of the participatory web. Trade Review"To my knowledge, this is the first monograph solely devoted to social media texts in a Sub-Saharan society. Yéku shows us how digital media performances are in constant dialogue with nondigital popular culture in Nigeria. Most compelling is his attention to the political subtexts of Nigerian social media, while reconstructing a micro-history of the digital world. Nigeria's social media users are politicking online; we learn how the forms and aesthetics of politicking change, thus challenging scholars to be constantly alert to digital innovations and their political potential. Cultural Netizenship is an important addition to the growing library in digital humanities."—Katrien Pype, author of The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama. Religion, Media, and Gender in Kinshasa"In Cultural Netizenship, Nigeria's rambunctious, energetic, and impelling digital culture finds its most enthusiastic and intellectually gifted exponent, and the result is a work of rare penetration, analytic verve, and sumptuous literacy. Yékú's expository power conjures images of the finest espresso- richly concentrated, delicately brewed, and revivifying the remotest corners of the palate. This debut work, a distillation of the finest insights across the length and breadth of the social sciences, sets a new standard for scholarship in African and interdisciplinary studies."—Ebenezer Obadare, author of Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria"Through its incisive analysis of digital cultures in Nigeria, Cultural Netizenship offers a groundbreaking model for studying the relationship between digital media and the nation in a range of postcolonial contexts. Scholars and students of new media studies have much to learn from Yékú's innovative, ethnographic approach to social media and popular culture."—Roopika Risam, author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities"James Yékú might as well have erected the entire framework of Cultural Netizenship on Brecht's "In the contradiction lies the hope." Surely, you can hardly miss the manner in which the author navigates neural lines of digital thought and the quotidian reality of our circumspective analogue choices within structures of power and agency in Nigeria's pop street vis-à-vis the virtual nudity of capital's hidden hands. The strength of this work is in its walking of the tensions, the tight rope of the dialogic and the dialectical mechanism of social media, popular culture, and performance in Nigeria."—Sola Olorunyomi, author of AFROBEAT! Fela and the Imagined Continent"It is by now a commonplace that Nigerians have exerted a conspicuous influence on the interactive landscapes of social media. Wherever in the world one is accessing Facebook or Twitter, and for whatever purpose, one is bound to encounter a meme of Nigerian origin. Cultural Netizenship is the first comprehensive investigation of the performative work of Nigerian digital subjects in a period marked not only by a global pandemic, political unrest, and all manner of protest movements, but also by the globalization of Nollywood and other sources of Nigerian popular culture. James Yékú offers a rich and remarkably varied account of the roles of social media in the cultural and political currents of contemporary Nigeria. His insights will be of importance to Africanists and anyone interested in vernacular uses of digital networks. This is a book of considerable scholarly sophistication that also honors what is riotously funny about some of our most cherished memes."—Noah Tsika, author of Nollywood Stars and Cinematic IndependenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cultural Netizenship and Viral Practices1. Afropolitan Anti-heroes and the Performative Politics of Internet Scambaiting2. The Memeification of Nollywood3. Self-Spectatoriality and the Performance of Political Selves4. Visualizing Resistance and Performing with the Visual5. Social Media Humor and Carnivalesque Aesthetics6. Virality and Instagram Comedy in A State of PandemicEpilogue: Cultural Netizenship and the Praxis of RecoveryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisAdvocates the teaching of civic engagement at the college level, in various disciplines and courses. Using 'writing across the curriculum' programs as a model, this title proposes a similar approach to civic education. It provides models for incorporating civic learning and evaluating pedagogical effectiveness.Trade ReviewA ground-breaking book, Citizenship Across the Curriculum explores the range of ways different disciplines can illuminate civic questions and help students develop a stronger civic lens. * A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy's Future *Citizenship Across the Curriculum is an important book. Our political climate has become more caustic and less productive. As professors and college-administrators, we need to take responsibility to educate the next generation of citizens. This book can help provide direction in that journey.Vol. 6, No. 2 * MountainRise *[This] new book . . . urges colleges and universities to make civic engagement a key component of their curricula as a way to help students become more active participants in the democratic process.7/31/10 * Ithaca Journal *Citizenship across the Curriculum provides useful ideas about incorporating civic engagement in a diverse set of college courses. October 1, 2010 * Academe *[T]he book itself models an ideal of citizenship: committed, impassioned, intelligent people working respectfully toward some ideal(s) of the common good.Vol. 20, no. 1, December 2010 * National Teaching and Learning Forum *In Citizenship Across the Curriculum, eight post-secondary teachers from diverse institutions . . . break the silence on their own teaching practices and make a valuable contribution to public discourse on teaching and learning. August, 2011 * H-Education *Table of ContentsContentsForeword: Civic Learning: Intersections and Interactions / Mary Taylor Huber and Pat HutchingsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Ending the Solitude of Citizenship Education / Michael B. Smith, Rebecca S. Nowacek, and Jeffrey L. Bernstein1. Citizenship-Oriented Approaches to the American Government Course / Jeffrey L. Bernstein2. De-Stabilizing Culture and Citizenship: Crafting a Critical Intercultural Engagement for University Students in a Diversity Course / Rona Tamiko Halualani3. Fostering Self-Authorship for Citizenship: Telling Metaphors in Dialogue / Carmen Werder4. We Are All Citizens of Auschwitz: Intimate Engagement and the Teaching of the Shoah / Howard Tinberg5. Understanding Citizenship as Vocation in a Multidisciplinary Senior Capstone / Rebecca S. Nowacek6. Educating for Scientific Knowledge, Awakening to a Citizen's Responsibility / Matthew A. Fisher7. Enumeration, Evidence, and Emancipation / Michael C. Burke8. Science, Technology, and Understanding: Teaching the Teachers of Citizens of the Future / David R. Geelan9. Local Environmental History and the Journey to Ecological Citizenship / Michael B. Smith10. Across: The Heterogeneity of Civic Education / David Scobey11. Academic and Civic Engagement / Edward ZlotkowskiList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe story of citizenship as a tale not of liberation, dignity, and nationhood but of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination.The glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a civic narrative that invokes liberation, dignity, and nationhood. In reality, explains Dimitry Kochenov, citizenship is a story of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination, flattering to citizens and demeaning for noncitizens. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kochenov explains the state of citizenship in the modern world. Kochenov offers a critical introduction to a subject most often regarded uncritically, describing what citizenship is, what it entails, how it came about, and how its role in the world has been changing. He examines four key elements of the concept: status, considering how and why the status of citizenship is extended, what function it serves, and who is left behind; rights, particularly the right to live and work in a state; duties,

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Book SynopsisGregory Heyworth’s Desiring Bodies considers the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.Trade Review"Desiring Bodies answers the question that might dog Comparative Literature as a discipline, i.e. 'so what?'. In a bravura display of cultural and linguistic range, Heyworth turns his own supple, Ovidian intelligence to Ovidian irruptions from within the civilizing project of romance. Heyworth writes with intense literary inwardness, adroitly turned learning, and pitch-perfect prose.” —James Simpson, Harvard University“Gregory Heyworth's Desiring Bodies is a highly original study. It is also very daring—breathtakingly so, at times—in its deep engagement with major canonical writers and texts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from twelfth-century Latin comedy to Milton's Paradise Lost. His remarkable essay is achieved within a stimulating cultural and artistic exegesis of a single Ovidian line in which Heyworth finds his own large subject—the famous first line of the Metamorphoses, in which the poet announces the intention to tell ‘of forms changed into new bodies.’” —John Fleming, Princeton University"Ambitious in its aims, convincing in its arguments, and frequently surprising in its readings, Desiring Bodies asks us to reconsider how literary works both respond to and adapt the remains of the literary past. By establishing Ovid as the defining figure of formal metamorphoses across literary history, Heyworth opens new possibilities for imagining literary history as a history of literary form." —Jennifer Summit, Stanford University“Heyworth has written a sophisticated study of the importance of Ovidian form in the poetics and politics of medieval and Renaissance romance . . . the author demonstrates one of Ovid’s central attributes: he was an expert historian of culture and the ways in which individuals desired culture to exist. . . . All six chapters are well written, but chapter 3 is a revelation; in it, Heyworth magisterially examines Ovidian notions of the politics of marriage in the Canterbury Tales, particularly “The Knight’s Tale.” —Choice"In nova fert animus mutates dicere formas corpora" ("My mind is bent to tell of forms changed into new bodies"). This famous first line of Ovid's Metamorphoses provides the central motif for Heyworth (English, U. of Mississippi) as he traces tensions between form and body in the cultural history of Medieval and Renaissance Europe. He explores those aspects of European culture that prioritize the body and the individual over form and group both in terms of social and political thought and in terms of genre and literature.” —Reference & Research Book News“There is much to savor in this excellent volume. With laudable elegance and lexical sophistication, Gregory Heyworth’s unique, comparative study soars with ease across the landscape of cultural history in order to bring forth the ‘monolithic’ Ovidian influence on romance form in a selection of noteworthy medieval and Renaissance authors. With exceptional agility, Heyworth’s volume captures the powerful resonance of the Latin Poet’s voice through the ages. . .” —Parergon"Desiring Bodies traces the romance from Marie de France to Milton. . . . Heyworth's framework produces elegant readings that are persuasive in illustrating that Ovid's own political context should be brought to the fore more often in considerations of his influence on later literature, as it can illuminate later political contexts and ironic/satirical content, despite the textual and historical mediation of the Metamorphoses and other works." —Speculum“From critical and theoretical standpoints, this is an important study of the rich reception of Ovid in the premodern period. It not only complements the scholarship on this topic, but expands it precisely by its theoretical sophistications. . . . this book enriches the field of theoretical approaches to early modern Ovidian discourses by demonstrating how theories of social dynamics help formulate approaches to poetic creations within a cultural and political sphere.” —Sixteenth Century Journal“The premise of Gregory Heyworth’s book is simple. He takes his title and his subject from the first line of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, ‘My mind is bent to tell of forms changed into new bodies’ and tells us, in his ‘Polemical Premise’ what his book does not do: it does not contribute to ‘studies of classical influence in the traditional sense’ . . . . it investigates romance literature as a derivation of Ovidian metamorphosis in the sense of the struggle between ‘the love of the body as a material thing and as a synecdoche of the larger body of society’ (p. ix). It is, therefore, not really about literature or about particular texts but about how a particular literary genre is generated by both the unifying illusion of desire and the ultimate dissociation of the self from the other.” —Renaissance and Reformation“The three centerpieces of Heyworth’s accomplishment—which itself defies the paraphrasing rhetoric of the book-review genre—are the intellectual contextualizations of the works he studies, the dramatic and detailed engagement with Ovidian love, bodies, forms, polity, and ‘culture,’ and the old-school, detailed close reading of the poets’ words and stories.” —Studies in the Age of Chaucer

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Book SynopsisExamines, through an analysis of seven high school newspapers, the evolution of civic and political participation among young people in the United States since 1965.Trade Review“Jay Childers's work places itself within the scholarly conversation accurately, repeatedly, and convincingly, and Childers uses primary texts that, to my knowledge, have not been frequently investigated by other scholars.”—Vanessa Beasley,Vanderbilt University“We need to understand how youths experience their own citizenship if we want to reform education and politics. Because The Evolving Citizen draws on the students’ own voices and ideas, interpreted insightfully, it is a valuable and skillful contribution to our understanding of citizenship today. It is a significant book—methodologically innovative, persuasive, and carrying an important message.”—Peter Levine,Tufts University“The Evolving Citizen is an engaging look at the changing ways in which America’s teens write about their political and civic environment. This important inventory of how youths adapt to the realities of their times and alter the meaning of democracy offers reasons for hope and concern. By spanning five decades, Jay Childers’s examination of how young adults have shifted their areas of focus, their levels of engagement, and the issues they find most riveting provides insight into the evolving meaning of citizenship and changing norms of civic engagement. This is a welcome addition to the literature, offering a ground-level look at ordinary democracy.”—Gerard A. Hauser,University of Colorado BoulderTable of Contents ContentsAcknowledgments 1 American Youth: Who They Are and Why They Matter 2 American High School: Teenagers and Scholastic Journalism 3 Dislocated Cosmopolitans 4 Removed Volunteers5 Protective Critics 6 Independent Joiners 7 American Evolution, Democratic Engagement, and Civic Education Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the role of confession in American culture. Argues that the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America’s most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy.Trade Review“Tell’s Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America provides a critical and fascinating account of the always already ‘confessional anxiety’ that animates American public life and political culture.”—Corey D. B. Walker Journal of American History“Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America is a very smart work. It tackles the subject of public confession in a new way. Rather than identifying generic characteristics of apology and then determining that particular rhetorical acts do or do not satisfy these characteristics, Dave Tell treats the components of confession as fluid and as themselves subject to rhetorical evaluation. He examines six case studies in which a text is alleged to be a confession and makes a compelling argument that there are political stakes and consequences in the decision to label a text a confession as well as in the decision to contest that label. Tell's analysis challenges conventional wisdom over and over again. The reader will be amply rewarded with a depth of knowledge and insight about each of these significant historical moments, and he or she will have renewed appreciation for the working of rhetorical texts in history.”—David H. Zarefsky,past president of the National Communication Association and the Rhetoric Society of America“Dave Tell's book is a worthy addition to the scholarly literature on confessional culture. I especially appreciate his clear and forceful prose style and the freedom of the work from scholarly jargon and disciplinary narrowness.”—James Aune,Texas A&M University“Just as any good book should do, Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America pushed me to ask new questions with fresh vocabulary and methods. Tell’s writing is deeply compelling. His work combines the best of archival research, rhetorical criticism, and narrative.”—Jenny Rice Rhetoric Society Quarterly“Those already familiar with Tell’s previous work on the subject of confession will be pleased to find that the author has managed to break significant ground in his recent book by arguing that American public culture has been, and continues to be, fascinated with the practice of confession and what texts can be counted as such. . . . Tell’s book is a welcome addition that surely provides ample material for reflection and debate on issues related to confession and its imbrications with American public culture.”—Daniel R. Mistich Rhetoric and Public Affairs“Dave Tell is an excellent writer and thinker, incorporating provocative archival research and good storytelling, and his Confessional Crises is a welcome addition to any ongoing discussion of genre, confession, and cultural politics.”—Daniel Patrick Overton Southern Communication JournalTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics1 Confession and Sexuality: True Story Versus Anthony Comstock2 Confession and Class: A New True Story 3 Confession and Race: Civil Rights, Segregation, and the Murder of Emmett Till4 Confession and Violence: William Styron’s Nat Turner5 Confession and Religion: Jimmy Swaggart’s Secular Confession6 Confession and Democracy: Clinton, Starr, and the Witch-Hunt Tradition of American Confession Conclusion: James Frey and Twenty-First-Century Confessional CultureNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining the Australian Citizens' Parliament, a project in deliberative democracy held in 2009. Explores its organization, the deliberation, the flow of beliefs and ideas, facilitator and organizer effects, and its impacts from a variety of theoretical, empirical, and practice perspectives.Trade Review“As innovators in democratic process, we know how much we depend on learning from practical trials and real-world experiences. This work captures the experience in detail and provides an important reference point for anyone hoping to bring deliberation and the citizen’s voice back into how we do government.”—Iain Walker,executive director, The newDemocracy Foundation“This study shows that deliberative capacity, personal efficacy, and common political ground can be developed through the careful design of deliberative institutions among ordinary citizens; even so, meaningful political influence over a broader social scale remains as elusive as ever. The editors present valuable and hard-won lessons for citizens, leaders, and academics who hope to realize the practical political and moral benefits of a more truly deliberative and democratic public life. The Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy is full of practical wisdom for anyone who sets out to create a democratic deliberative space for ordinary citizens.”—Mark E. Button,University of Utah“From conception to conclusion, this book narrates and analyzes an ambitious experiment in deliberative democracy: the Australian Citizens’ Parliament. Integrating social science analyses of many kinds of data with reflections by philosophers and civic reform–minded public participation practitioners, the volume offers a rich sense of what occurred in the different phases of the ACP process and provides a nuanced assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of this large-scale deliberative democracy experiment. This wonderful case study is a must-read for everyone interested in deliberative democracy.”—Karen Tracy,University of Colorado, and author of Challenges of Ordinary DemocracyTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionLyn Carson, John Gastil, Janette Hartz-Karp, and Ron LubenskyPart I: Deliberative Design and Innovation1 Origins of the First Citizens’ Parliament Lyn Carson and Luca Belgiorno-Nettis2 Putting Citizens in Charge: Comparing the Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the Australia 2020 SummitJanette Hartz-Karp and Lyn Carson3 Choose Me: The Challenges of National Random SelectionRon Lubensky and Lyn Carson4 Grafting an Online Parliament onto a Face-to-Face ProcessBrian Sullivan and Janette Hartz-KarpPart II: Exploring Deliberation5 Listening Carefully to the Citizens’ Parliament: A Narrative Account Ron Lubensky6 Deliberative Design and Storytelling in the Australian Citizens’ ParliamentLaura W. Black and Ron Lubensky7 What Counts as Deliberation? Comparing Participant and Observer RatingsJohn Gastil8 Hearing All Sides? Soliciting and Managing Different Viewpoints in Deliberation Anna Wiederhold and John Gastil9 Sit Down and Speak Up: Stability and Change in Group Participation Joseph A. Bonito, Renee A. Meyers, John Gastil, and Jennifer ErvinPart III: The Flow of Beliefs and Ideas10 Changing Orientations Toward Australian DemocracySimon Niemeyer, Luisa Batalha, and John S. Dryzek11 Staying Focused: Tracing the Flow of Ideas from the Online Parliament to CanberraJohn Gastil and John Wilkerson12 Evidence of Peer Influence in the Citizens’ Parliament Luc Tucker and John GastilPart IV: Facilitation and Organizer Effects13 The Unsung Heroes of a Deliberative Process: Reflections on the Role of Facilitators at the Citizens’ Parliament Max Hardy and Kath Fisher, with Janette Hartz-Karp14 Are They Doing What They Are Supposed to Do? Assessing the Facilitating Process of the Australian Citizens’ ParliamentLi Li, Fletcher Ziwoya, Laura W. Black, and Janette Hartz-Karp15 Supporting the Citizen Parliamentarians: Mobilizing Perspectives and Informing Discussion Ian Marsh and Lyn Carson16 Investigation of (and Introspection on) Organizer BiasLyn CarsonPart V: Impacts and Reflections17 Participant Accounts of Political TransformationKatie Knobloch and John Gastil18 Becoming Australian: Forging a National IdentityJanette Hartz-Karp, Patrick Anderson, John Gastil, and Andrea Felicetti19 Mediated Meta-deliberation: Making Sense of the Australian Citizens’ ParliamentEike Mark Rinke, Katie Knobloch, John Gastil, and Lyn Carson20 How Not to Introduce Deliberative Democracy: The 2010 Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change ProposalLyn CarsonConclusion: Theoretical and Practical Implications of the Citizens’ Parliament ExperienceJanette Hartz-Karp, Lyn Carson, John Gastil, and Ron LubenskyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the history of national identity in Ecuador from 1857 to 1946. Brings together recent work in rhetoric, visual culture, transnationalism, and Latin American studies to explore the different visions of indigenous people that circulated in speeches, periodicals, and art.Trade Review“Constitutive Visions demonstrates, in rich detail, how visual representations serve as rhetorical acts that constitute nations—acts every bit as important as the constitutions, laws, political speeches, and policies that make up a national rhetorical culture. Christa Olson pushes rhetoric scholars to extend their reach beyond the English world and beyond dominant Western traditions, a trend in contemporary scholarship that she models masterfully. This book will become a benchmark for both experienced scholars and novices seeking to examine how national and visual arguments take on rhetorical power across time and space.”—Jordynn Jack,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill“This engaging book explores the larger rhetorical ecology generated out of a wide range of image-making and discursive practices by which Ecuadorians came to see themselves, others, and the national territory between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Christa Olson shows how national visions—including, centrally, topoi of indigeneity—were forged over time through interactions, dialogues, and engagements among social groups. In doing so she explores the resilience of topoi and their re-creation over time and into the present, illuminating the formation of deeply rooted common sense that has shaped visions of the Ecuadorian nation.”—Kim Clark,University of Western Ontario“[This] book makes a unique interpretation of the frequently debated topic of national identity formation, adding significantly to our understanding of the contradictions and intricacies of this process.”—Michele Greet The Americas“[Olson’s] innovative application of the theoretical language of constitutive rhetoric to the exercise of both national and popular sovereignty challenges our understandings of the creation of national identities. As such, this important new work significantly advances our understanding of theories of citizenship and national formation.”—Marc Becker Hispanic American Historical Review“Analyzing the relationship of the indigenous to the nation-state is a global challenge and one that the author of this new study undertakes with great skill and unquestionable success. . . . This is an excellent work of scholarship and highly recommended for graduate students as well as specialists in the field.”—Roger P. Davis The Historian“Constitutive Visions brings readers a graphic-rich rhetorical history of nationalisms in Ecuador. Christa Olson makes a compelling argument showing how Ecuadorian national identity formations are a particularly valuable example for drawing out broader claims about the visual rhetoricity of nationalism.”—Abigail Selzer King Rhetoric & Public AffairsTable of ContentsContentsPreface: The Precarious Politics of Going ThereAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Scene SettingChapter 1: Constituting CitizenshipChapter 2: Geography Is HistoryChapter 3: Burdens of the NationChapter 4: Dead Weight: The Indian as National OtherChapter 5: Performing Strategic IndigeneityConclusion: ¿De Quién Es la Patria? NotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the deliberations and impact of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Argues that while it failed to realize its idealistic goals, its very failure generated valuable contestation within and beyond the TRC process.Trade Review“Just as the [Truth and Reconciliation Commission]’s ambiguities and complexities opened opportunities for productive debate, so too does From Apartheid to Democracy create openings and invite rhetorical scholars to participate in an ongoing engagement with the TRC and other truth commissions. On the whole, the rhetorical nuance of Mack’s analysis adds much to existing scholarship on the TRC and transitional justice more generally, and her multigenre analysis deftly illustrates the utility of expanding the scope of rhetorical studies on civic deliberation.”—Lindsay Harroff Rhetoric & Public Affairs“From Apartheid to Democracy is, at its core, an insightful and occasionally moving study of rhetorical form. Katherine Mack’s reflective, accessible, and judicious analysis of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission demonstrates how the fundamentally multitextual character of the TRC produced commendable deliberative goods despite its documented shortcomings. Each chapter closely examines the generative interplay between a specific modality of public remembrance and its pragmatic function in the prolonged search for truth and reconciliation. Mack’s analysis thereby shows how multiple forms and forums of rhetorical deliberation may cumulatively assist in the difficult yet necessary work of reconciling long, painful, and often conflicting memories of violent injustice.”—Bradford Vivian,Syracuse University“Issues of memory are perhaps never more contentious than during times of upheaval and transition. Katherine Mack’s careful exploration of the rhetorics surrounding South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission demonstrates the importance of these contests and draws our attention to the ways in which they take place not only in public hearings but also across a variety of texts, including the visual and the poetic. From Apartheid to Democracy offers an important reconceptualization of the work of truth commissions and broader efforts toward transitional justice.”—Kendall Phillips,Syracuse University“Foregrounding the inherent rhetoricity of truth commissions, Katherine Mack's study chronicles the failure of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to give voice to many whose humanity was brutally stolen from them. From Apartheid to Democracy not only opens space for understanding agonistic deliberation and artful dissent as reasonable responses to trauma but also expands the potential archive of public deliberation beyond the limits of phallogocentric ‘civilities.’”—Rosa Eberly,Pennsylvania State University“Katherine Mack’s innovative study of public memory in the wake of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation hearings will change the way we understand rhetorical analysis. Mack scrupulously charts the uneven trajectories of speech, print, testimony, performance, and image as they circulate in the new South Africa, producing spaces between formerly stable categories: history and fiction, speech and silence, victim and perpetrator. From Apartheid to Democracy is a courageous book, one that should be read by anyone interested in what humanities scholarship can contribute to contemporary struggles for justice.”—Susan Jarratt,University of California, Irvine“In From Apartheid to Democracy, Katherine Mack takes a balanced, rhetorically nuanced approach to one of the most remarkable examples of transitional justice in the last century: the public memory activities of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She skillfully examines both the TRC hearings’ rhetorical dynamics and their later representations in photography and literature. Her careful, well-written analysis persuasively demonstrates how the TRC’s goal of nation-building reconciliation enabled and constrained the kinds of rhetorical acts that could be performed during the hearings, while those same contextual forces became the target of criticism and thus of rhetorical agency on the part of participants and respondents. Not only will a wide range of rhetorical critics, political theorists, and cultural historians find this a thoughtfully suggestive book, but so too will anyone interested in what Mack describes as ‘the tight braid of cultural and political projects.’”—Steven Mailloux,President’s Professor of Rhetoric, Loyola Marymount University“An important and original contribution in the field of transitional justice. It is accessible to a broad range of readers but will be of particular interest to practitioners and scholars interested in understanding how truth and reconciliation processes impact democratic transitions.”—Richard Lappin DemocratizationTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Rhetoricity of Truth CommissionsChapter 1: Localizing Transitional Justice in South AfricaChapter 2: Ambivalent Speech, Resonant SilencesChapter 3: Contesting AccountabilityChapter 4: Imagining ReconciliationConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays bringing together the leading scholars, teachers, coaches, and program administrators in the field of speech and debate, reflecting on the role of curricular and co-curricular speech and debate programs in civic education.Trade Review“An outstanding volume. Both wide-ranging and deep, Speech and Debate as Civic Education enlarges our understanding of intercollegiate debate by framing it in a historical context as well as by exploring its philosophical, ethical, and political possibilities. The essays consistently thematize gender, race, and culture, and together they paint a persuasive picture of why debate matters to education, and therefore to democracy. Anyone who cares about the role of rhetoric and argument in a deliberative democracy should own this book.”—William Keith,author of Democracy as Discussion: Civic Education and the American Forum Movement “Presenting an unvarnished assessment of a compelling, proven avenue for enhancing civic involvement and responsibility, Speech and Debate as Civic Education traces the ubiquitous and long-standing value of speech and debate training for local and global audiences, for middle school to college students, for majority and minority participants, and for students educated in religious and secular environments. In short, this is an invaluable resource for educators and institutions alike seeking to find needed responses to our increasingly polarized world.”—Carol Kay Winkler,Georgia State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgements Foreword: Speech and Debate as Civic Education: Challenges and Opportunities - David ZarefskyIntroduction: Speech and Debate as Civic Education - J. Michael Hogan and Jessica A. KurrPart I: History of Speech and Debate as Civic Education1. Warriors and Statesmen: Debate Education among Free African American Men in Antebellum Charleston - Angela G. Ray2. Renewing a “Very Old Means of Education”: Civic Engagement and the Birth of Intercollegiate Debate in the United States - Jamie McKown3. Taking Women Seriously: Debaters, Faculty Allies, and the Feminist Work of Debating in the 1930s and 1940s - Carly S. Woods4. The Intersection of Debate and Democracy: The Shifting Role of Forensics in the History of American Civic Education - Michael D. Bartanen and Robert S. LittlefieldPart II: Debate Education and Public Deliberation5. Public Debate and American Democracy: Guidelines for Pedagogy - Robert C. Rowland6. When Argumentation Backfires: The Motivated Reasoning Predicament in Speech and Debate Pedagogy - Gordon R. Mitchell7. Teaching Religion through Argument, Speech, and Debate: Critiquing Logos and Mythos - David A. FrankPart III: Rethinking Competitive Speech and Debate8. The CEDA-Miller Center War Powers Debates: A Case for Intercollegiate Debate’s Civic Roles - Paul E. Mabrey III9. Beyond Peitho: The Women’s Debate Institute as Civic Education - Catherine H. Palczewski10. Debating Conviction: From Sincere Belief to Affective Atmosphere - Walter Greene and Darrin Hicks11. Debaters as Citizens: Rethinking Debate Frameworks to Address the Policy/Performance Divide - Sarah Stone WattPart IV: Cultivating Civic Skills and Literacy12. Debate Activities and the Promise of Citizenship - Edward A. Hinck13. Deliberation as Civic Education: Incorporating Public Deliberation into the Communication Studies Curriculum - Sara A. Mehltretter Drury, Rebecca A. Kuehl, and Jenn Anderson14. Youth, Networks, and Civic Engagement: Communities of Belonging and Communities of Practice - G. Thomas Goodnight, Minhee Son, Jin Huang, and Ann Crigler15. Pathways to Civic Education: Urban Debate Leagues as Communities of Practice - Melissa Maxcy WadePart V: International Collaboration and Interconnections in Debates16. Comparing Argument and Debate Modes to Invoke Student Civic Engagement: Learning from ‘The Ben’ - Allan D. Louden and Taylor W. Hahn17. The Worlds-Style Debate Format: Performing Global Citizenship - Una Kimokeo-Goes18. Suzhi Jiaoyu, Debate, and Civic Education in China - Laskai, David Weeks and Tim LewisSelect BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisRoberts seeks to show how and why world citizenship and mundialism—the building of global institutions—are essential for the human race to solve the growing problems of the environment, international violence, and other major world challenges.Table of ContentsA General Introduction to Mundialism World Citizenship A Sketch of the History of Mundialism Ideologies and the Principles of World Order Violence, Force and Law Language and Democracy The United Nations Reform of the United Nations Global Challenges Militarism and the Arms-Race Human Rights and World Law World Federal Government Governance Future Unlimited Books on World Citizenship and Mundialism Index

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Book SynopsisBraiding intellectual, personal, and political history, Joan Lester tells the story of a writer and activist fighting for love and justice before, during, and after the Supreme Court's 1967 decision striking down bans on interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia.Trade ReviewThis intimate, brave memoir is also one that many women will recognize as their own: a lifetime spent trying to heal others and the world, only to discover one must start with oneself."" - Robin Morgan, editor of Sisterhood Is Powerful ""This book is the real deal, the way it was. A good book for folks to grow on. I love it! Bravo!"" - Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple ""Exceptional. It is a real challenge to write a memoir that is intellectually deep, psychologically sophisticated, and politically principled that is also engaging, accessible, funny, and tender. Loving before Loving certainly is all that. What a remarkable ride."" - Becky Thompson, author of A Promise and a Way of Life ""Vividly written and profoundly moving, Joan Lester's journey-as wife, mother, activist-is politically insightful and prescient. Since her vigorous and heartfelt observations and analyses are generative and healing, this memoir is needed now when our racial conflicts, always profound, continue to intensify."" - Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt

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Book SynopsisThis work traces political struggles over U.S. citizenship laws from the colonial period through to the Progressive era. It shows how and why throughout this time most adults were denied access to full citizenship, including political rights, solely because of their race, ethnicity or gender.

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Book SynopsisA leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme CourtTrade Review"Documents the hostility of the Rehnquist and Roberts courts to the enforcement of citizens’ constitutional rights. . . . Clear, cogent, passionate and persuasive. . . . Awash in examples of disturbing decisions of the Supreme Court."—Glenn C. Altschuler, Huffington Post"Powerful and impassioned . . . anything but dry reading. Its cogent analysis is enhanced by practical steps for enabling federal courts to again truly enforce the U.S. Constitution."—Publishers Weekly"Chemerinsky shows how judicial deference undercuts democracy in significant ways. . . . This book is the strongest argument I have seen in favor of judicial power."—Kent Greenfield, author of The Myth of Choice"Few principles are more basic to constitutional law than the notion that if justice is to have meaning, it must be equally available to all. Yet as Erwin Chemerinsky shows in this compelling and searing indictment, the Supreme Court has erected barrier after barrier to ordinary citizens who seek nothing more than their day in court. This is a must-read for all who wonder why the promise of equal justice under law has been so severely eroded."—David Cole, Georgetown Law, author of Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law "In this book, Erwin Chemerinsky has eloquently and persuasively articulated his insightful vision of the unique role of the federal courts in our political system. All Americans—especially those sitting on the federal bench—should take heed."—Martin Redish, Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law"A masterful exposition of how the federal courts are using abstruse and unfounded procedural doctrines, from abstention to standing, to foul away our rights. Not for lawyers only!"—Susan Herman, President, American Civil Liberties Union

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Book SynopsisWhat do ordinary citizens really want from their governments?Trade Review"This is a deeply original and well-written book. The focus on conversations, combined with personal reflections and engagement with key theory, is valuable, personal and always feels intimate—rare in a book about something so abstract and distant as 'democracy.'"—Mark Deuze, author of Media Life“Papacharissi brings her singular style to understanding today’s reeling democracy. After Democracy provides a blueprint for more engaged and creative communication research and more responsive and responsible governance.”—Adrienne Russell, author of Journalism as Activism: Recoding Media Power“Derived from listening to citizens’ discontent with how they’re governed, Zizi Papacharissi ‘s After Democracy is a wise book on democracy’s unfilled promise, and how that promise can be more fully realized in the technological age.”—Thomas E. Patterson, author of We The People: An Introduction to American Government“At a moment when the future of democracy is in question, After Democracy provides a much needed reflection on what we are truly ‘after,’ and how we might achieve it.”—­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Michael X. Delli Carpini, author of After Broadcast News“A fascinating perspective on our current political, economic and communication crises, featuring citizen interviews from around the world. After Democracy offers insightful conclusions about how we can restore democracy.”—W. Lance Bennett, author of News: The Politics of Illusion

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Book SynopsisSeptember 17, 1862, was America''s bloodiest day. When it ended, 3,654 soldiers lay dead on the land surrounding Antietam Creek in Western Maryland. The battle fought there was as deadly as the stakes were high.For the first time, the Rebels had taken the war into Union territory. A Southern victory would have ended the war and split the nation in two. Instead, the North managed to drive the Confederate army back into Virginia. Emboldened by victory, albeit by the thinnest of margins, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves and investing the war with a new, higher purpose.In this vivid, character-rich narrative, acclaimed author Justin Martin reveals why this battle was the Civil War''s tipping point. The battle featured an unusually rich cast of characters and witnessed important advances in medicine and communications. But the impact of the battle on politics and society was its most important legacy. Had the outcome been different, Martin

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Book SynopsisAn enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms. With telling anecdote and detail, Pulitzer Prize–winner David K. Shipler explores the territory where the Constitution meets everyday America, where legal compromises—before and since 9/11—have undermined the criminal justice system’s fairness, enhanced the executive branch’s power over citizens and immigrants, and impaired some of the freewheeling debate and protest essential in a constitutional democracy. Shipler demonstrates how the violations tamper with America’s safety in unexpected ways. While a free society takes risks to observe rights, denying rights creates other risks. A suspect’s right to silence may deprive police of a confession, but a forced confession is often false. Honoring the right to a jury trial may be cumbersome, but e

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Book SynopsisA provocative, timely assessment of the state of free speech in AmericaWith his best seller The Working Poor, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times veteran David K. Shipler cemented his place among our most trenchant social commentators. Now he turns his incisive reporting to a critical American ideal: freedom of speech. Anchored in personal stories—sometimes shocking, sometimes absurd, sometimes dishearteningly familiar—Shipler’s investigations of the cultural limits on both expression and the willingness to listen build to expose troubling instabilities in the very foundations of our democracy. Focusing on recent free speech controversies across the nation, Shipler maps a rapidly shifting topography of political and cultural norms: parents in Michigan rallying to teachers vilified for their reading lists; conservative ministers risking their churches’ tax-exempt status to preach politics from the pulpit; national

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Book SynopsisExamines cases through the analytical framework of critical race theory. This third edition includes a new chapter on racial bias and the judiciary and a focus on fighting racism in the21st century. There is a separate chapter on torts, contracts, criminal procedure, criminal law and sentencing, property, and civil procedure.

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