Civics and citizenship Books

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 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 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 SynopsisAn inspiring personal story by the most prominent Muslim woman activist and legislator for women's rights in Pakistan.Trade Review"It's impossible not to be impressed by Humaira Awais Shahid...Hearing her speak on issues of inequality—both gender-based and otherwise—she is eloquent and emotive." -- Prospect"Shahid's warm and passionate voice provides remarkable insight into how Islamic values and ethics might yet be a vehicle for progressive change in the developing world." -- The Middle East

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Book SynopsisA contemporary framework without the fluff, updated through the 2018 elections

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Book SynopsisA current perspective from a leading scholar

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Book SynopsisIncludes chapters 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 from the Home Office's Life in the United Kingdom book. This fully updated edition of The British Citizenship Test For Dummies covers all the most up to date information that you need to know to pass the latest UK Government's Life in the UK test - valid for tests taken after April 2007.Trade Review"...covers decisions and legal requirements involved in living in the UK, and includes a full chapter of sample test questions..." (familiesonline.co.uk, Friday 18th January 2008)Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Becoming a British Citizen. Chapter 1: Deciding to Stay in the UK. Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Immigration and Citizenship Players. Chapter 3: Taking Care of Immigration and Citizenship Paperwork. Chapter 4: Taking the Citizenship Test. Chapter 5: Troubleshooting Your Application. Chapter 6: Reaping the Rewards of Citizenship. Chapter 7: Ten Helpful For Dummies Books. Part II: Revision Material. Chapter 8: Revision Material for the Life in the UK Test. Part III: Questions and Answers. Chapter 9: Sample Questions and Answers for the Life in the UK Test. Answers. Index.

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Book SynopsisCovers the author's burgeoning law career and the struggles of the 60s as his professional and private life navigated the turmoil and promise of the civil rights and antiwar movements.

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Book SynopsisArgues that what appears to be public opinion backlash against gay rights is more consistent with elite-led mobilization - a strategy used by anti-gay elites, primarily white evangelicals, seeking to prevent the full incorporation of LGBT Americans in the polity in order to achieve political objectives and increase their political power.Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 Iowa's Irony Chapter 2 Toward a Theory of Elite-Led Mobilization Chapter 3 In Search of Backlash: The Experiments Chapter 4 In Search of Backlash: Observational Evidence Chapter 5 Institutions and Attitudes Chapter 6 The History of Gay Rights: Backlash or Elite-Led Mobilization? Chapter 7 Iowa's Judicial Retention Elections: Backlash or Elite-Led Mobilization? Chapter 8 Organize, Mobilize, Legislate, and Litigate Appendices Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive fieldwork and a variety of original sources, Katharina C. Heyer examines three case studies - Germany, Japan, and the United Nations - to trace the evolution of a disability rights model from its origins in the US through its adaptations in other democracies to its current formulation in international law.

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Book SynopsisThe Fourth Amendment forbids ‘unreasonable searches and seizures’ and is the source of most constitutional constraints on policing. In this book, Michael J.Z. Mannheimer calls for a reimagination of what modern policing could look like based on the original understandings of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Upside-Down Fourth Amendment PART I: THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDINGS Chapter 1: Two Models of the Fourth Amendment Chapter 2: The Local-Control Model of the Fourth Amendment Chapter 3: The Anti-Federalists and the Fourth Amendment Chapter 4: Original Understandings and Fourth Amendment Search Doctrine Chapter 5: The Contingent Common Law of Searches and Arrests PART II: THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT: ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDINGS Chapter 6: The Historical Backdrop of the Fourteenth Amendment Chapter 7: Does the Fourteenth Amendment Incorporate the Fourth? Chapter 8: Applying Constitutional Search-and-Seizure Constraints to the States Through the Fourteenth Amendment PART III: ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDINGS AND MODERN POLICING Chapter 9: The Principles of Nondiscrimination, Legality, and Nondelegation. Chapter 10: Rethinking Constitutional Constraints on Searches and Seizures Chapter 11: Original Understandings and Four Problems of Modern Policing Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn 1967, in response to demonstrations in cities across the US, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders was formed. The Commission employed social scientists to research the root causes of the disturbances. This first publication of the committee’s report reveals that many of the issues it describes are still with us.Trade ReviewIn the summer of 1967 the Kerner Commission hired a team of social scientists to explain the cause of the riots that had engulfed dozens of American cities. Their report, The Harvest Of American Racism, was so controversial that the commission staff ordered it destroyed. Now, Robert Shellow and his team have published Harvest, along with insightful and revealing essays that provide appropriate context and perspective. This is an important book that is as relevant today as it was five decades ago."" - Steven M. Gillon, University of Oklahoma""This seminal study from the 1960s provides a hard-hitting and insightful look at the roots of racial discrimination in the U.S. Jettisoned by the Kerner Commission for something less radical, this eye-opening analysis still speaks volumes in our current age."" - Julian E. Zelizer, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton University; CNN Political Analyst, Co-Host, Politics and Polls""In 1968 the Kerner Commission concluded that cities across the nation had been erupting because blacks were frustrated with the slow pace of racial and economic equality. It turns out that the Commission had been presented with a far more radical analysis of those urban uprisings, in an extraordinary report called The Harvest of American Racism. This report was not only ignored, but actively suppressed. Now black rage is once again rocking our nation's major cities, and it is past time that we take a close look at what policymakers dismissed 50 years ago. As the Harvest report made clear, those who took to the streets in 1968 weren't merely frustrated and filled with despair. They were politically engaged, they believed that racial oppression's root causes must be addressed rather than its surface expressions, and they would never stop erupting until change really happened. The Harvest of American Racism is a must-read, as relevant today as it was 50 years ago."" - Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

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Book SynopsisThe Fourth Amendment forbids ‘unreasonable searches and seizures’ and is the source of most constitutional constraints on policing. In this book, Michael J.Z. Mannheimer calls for a reimagination of what modern policing could look like based on the original understandings of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.Trade Review“A new theory of the Fourth Amendment is born. Michael Mannheimer’s bracingly original understanding of the Fourth Amendment posits that the Framers saw it as necessarily tied to state law. He argues that courts should continue this interpretation. His defense of these propositions is utterly convincing.”—George Thomas, Rutgers Law School“This book provides an historical, ‘originalist’ grounding for the view that the Fourth Amendment, together with the Fourteenth Amendment, requires that police searches and seizures in every state be authorized by law and be applied even-handedly, but that otherwise state law, not federal constitutional law, should govern police investigations. No other author has as masterfully tied together the federalist underpinnings of the Fourth Amendment, the anti-discrimination aspects of the Fourteenth Amendment, and modern scholarship about the role democracy should play in regulating the police. This book will provoke not only new scholarship but innovative legal arguments in an era when the Supreme Court is increasingly interested in originalist interpretations.”—Christopher Slobogin, Milton Underwood Professor of Law, Vanderbilt UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Upside-Down Fourth Amendment PART I: THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDINGS Chapter 1: Two Models of the Fourth Amendment Chapter 2: The Local-Control Model of the Fourth Amendment Chapter 3: The Anti-Federalists and the Fourth Amendment Chapter 4: Original Understandings and Fourth Amendment Search Doctrine Chapter 5: The Contingent Common Law of Searches and Arrests PART II: THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT: ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDINGS Chapter 6: The Historical Backdrop of the Fourteenth Amendment Chapter 7: Does the Fourteenth Amendment Incorporate the Fourth? Chapter 8: Applying Constitutional Search-and-Seizure Constraints to the States Through the Fourteenth Amendment PART III: ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDINGS AND MODERN POLICING Chapter 9: The Principles of Nondiscrimination, Legality, and Nondelegation. Chapter 10: Rethinking Constitutional Constraints on Searches and Seizures Chapter 11: Original Understandings and Four Problems of Modern Policing Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDetails a study of Mexican and Cuban immigrants.

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Book SynopsisFeatures an account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America. This work provides an understanding of the role of religion in social movements and demonstrates the nonviolent power of religious groups to address social injustices.Trade Review"Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a compelling account underlining the importance of the religious perspective in recent immigration activism." Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare

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Book SynopsisAmerican Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. This book reveals how the program directed at teens discriminated against black youth and how black teens and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination.Trade Review"Reveals a hidden history of racial segregation on the United States' first television program centered on the teenage population... Provocative." Orange County Register "Well-researched, tightly-written... Impressively bright, clear, and comprehensive." History News Network "Excellent... Offers a valuable understanding of the ... melding of African Americans into the national youth culture." Choice "The study illustrates how ... nostalgic representations of the past ... can work as impediments to progress in the present." Cbq Communication Booknotes Qtly "The Nicest Kids in Town counters the (false) mythology of American Bandstand with valuable descriptions of 'forgotten' cultural productions." -- Gayle Wald, George Washington University Jrnl Of The Society For American Music (Jsam)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Making Philadelphia Safe for "WFIL-adelphia" Television, Housing, and Defensive Localism in Bandstand's Backyard 2. They Shall Be Heard Local Television as a Civil Rights Battleground 3. The de Facto Dilemma Fighting Segregation in Philadelphia Public Schools 4. From Little Rock to Philadelphia Making de Facto School Segregation a Media Issue 5. The Rise of Rock and Roll in Philadelphia Georgie Woods, Mitch Thomas, and Dick Clark 6. "They'll Be Rockin' on Bandstand, in Philadelphia, P.A." Imagining National Youth Culture on American Bandstand 7. Remembering American Bandstand, Forgetting Segregation 8. Still Boppin' on Bandstand American Dreams, Hairspray, and American Bandstand in the 2000s Conclusion Everybody Knows about American Bandstand Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthiessen lived in New York City, while Chavez lived in the Central Valley farm town of Delano, where the grape strike was unfolding. This book is Matthiessen's panoramic yet finely detailed account of the three years he spent working and traveling with Chavez, including to Sal Si Puedes, the San Jose barrio where Chavez began his organizing. Matthiessen provides a candid look into the many sides of this enigmatic and charismatic leader who lived by the laws of nonviolence. Sal Si Puedes is less reportage than living history. In its pages a whole era comes alive: the Chicano, Black Power, and antiwar movements; the browning of the labor movement; Chavez's fasts; the nationwide boycott of California grapes. When Chavez died in 1993, tens of thousands gathered at his funeral. It was a clear sign of how beloved he was and how important his life had been. A new foreword by Marc Grossman considers the significance of Chavez's legacy for our time. As well as serving as an indispensable guide to the 1960s, this book rejuvenates the extraordinary vitality of Chavez's life and spirit, giving his message a renewed and much-needed urgency.Trade Review""Cesar Chavez is gracefully revealed by Peter Matthiessen as a curiously private public figure who is in love with people," * Chicago Tribune *"The spirit and sense of la Huelga”—the California grape pickers' strike”—is conveyed with passionate clarity in this fine study of Cesar Chavez and his United Farm Workers' Organizing Committee. . . . There isn't any fuller or sharper reportage on this subject than is found here." * Kirkus Reviews *"No labor leader has ever been better served in a contemporaneous account than Cesar Chavez is in this book by Peter Matthiessen. . . . journalism at its finest." * Agricultural History *

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Book SynopsisIn the decades after the landmark Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision, busing to achieve school desegregation became one of the nation's most controversial civil rights issues. This book examines the pitched battles over busing on a national scale, focusing on cities such as Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, Michigan.Trade Review"By looking at the antibusing uprisings that were presented in mainstream media, this recommended narrative presents civil rights through the lens of media studies and offers an entirely new way of seeing how recent history was written." Library Journal "Meticulous and insightful... Delmont's critique is tough but fair." The Boston GlobeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 * The Origins of "Antibusing" Politics: From New York Protests to the Civil Rights Act 2 * Surrender in Chicago: Cities' Rights and the Limits of Federal Enforcement of School Desegregation 3 * Boston before the "Busing Crisis": Black Education Activism and Official Resistance in the Cradle of Liberty 4 * Standing against "Busing": Bipartisan and National Political Opposition to School Desegregation 5 * Richard Nixon's "Antibusing" Presidency 6 * "Miserable Women on Television": Irene McCabe, Television News, and Grassroots "Antibusing" Politics 7 * "It's Not the Bus, It's Us": The Complexity of Black Opinions on "Busing" 8 * Television News and the Making of the Boston "Busing Crisis" Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisSocial Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social change from below. Students learn the core components of social movements, the theory and methods used to study them, and the conditions under which they can lead to political and social transformation. This fully class-tested book is the first to be organized along the lines of the major subfields of social movement scholarshipframing, movement emergence, recruitment, and outcomesto provide comprehensive coverage in a single core text. Features include:use of real data collected in the U.S. and around the worldthe emphasis on student learning outcomescase studies that bring social movements to lifeexamples of cultural repertoires used by movements (flyers, pamphlets, event data on activist websites, illustrations by activist musicians) to mobilize a grouptopics such as immigrant rights, transnational movement for climate justice, Women's Marches, Fight for $15, Occupy Wall Street, Gun Violence, Black Lives Matter, and the mobilization of popular movements in the global South on issues of authoritarian rule and neoliberalism With this book, students deepen their understanding of movement dynamics, methods of investigation, and dominant theoretical perspectives, all while being challenged to consider their own place in relation to social movements.Trade Review"Easy to read, this extensive review of social movements will benefit new scholars to the field as well as seasoned scholars interested in the organization of more recent movements." * American Ethnologist *"The book is well written and should be accessible to most readers new to the social movements field; Almeida is adept at explaining the sometimes confusing jargon that pervades the academic literature on movements." * Social Forces *"This book is a welcome addition to the academic resources available in social work education, specifically community-based social work." * Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare *"For scholars of social movements in Latin America, this is a refreshing and valuable new textbook." * Latin American Politics and Society *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Action 2. How to Study Social Movements: Classification and Methods 3. Theories of Social Movement Mobilization 4. Social Movement Emergence: Interests, Resource Infrastructures, and Identities 5. The Framing Process 6. Individual Recruitment and Participation 7. Movement Outcomes 8. Pushing the Limits: Social Movements in the Global South Conclusion: Mounting Crises and the Pathway Forward Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisLet this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice.Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the United States and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and class divides in devastatingly disproportionate ways. What does thismoment of danger mean for the environment and for justice? What can we learn from environmental justice struggles? Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger examines mobilizations and movements, from protests at Standing Rock to activism in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Environmental justice movements fight, survive, love, and create in the face of violence that challenges the conditions of life itself. Exploring dispossession, deregulation, privatization, and inequality, this book is the essential primer on environmental justice, packedwith cautiously hopeful stories for the future. Trade Review“Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger is a rousing primer that illuminates the movement’s core principles. It demonstrates how interconnected disparate social movements are and shows that they can coalesce into more powerful networks.” * Foreword Reviews *"A concise and powerful description of environmental injustices in various settings across the United States and its territories." * World Medical and Health Policy *"A good introductory text for an environmental justice course but can also make for an easy read to provide some basic understanding on environmental justice to an unfamiliar audience." * Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences *"The book will also no doubt become essential reading for everyone—both inside and outside the academy—who wishes to participate in building a more just, equitable, and habitable world, now and into the future." * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *"In this ‘moment of danger’ Sze’s book is a call to recognize how past, present, and future are intertwined." * Western American Literature *Table of ContentsOverview Introduction. Environmental Justice at the Crossroads of Danger and Freedom 1. This Movement of Movements 2. Environmental Justice Encounters 3. Restoring Environmental Justice Conclusion. American Optimism, Skepticism, and Environmental Justice Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisKotlowski offers a surprising study of an administration that redirected the course of civil rights in America. He examines such issues as school desegregation, fair housing, voting rights, and affirmative action, as well as Native American and women's rights, and details Nixon's role, revealing a president who favored deeds over rhetoric.Trade ReviewNixon's Civil Rights is, far and away, the best book written on the topic. It is contemporary history at its absolute finest: exhaustive research, clear prose, trenchant analysis, and shrewd judgments. Anyone interested in the Civil Rights Movement, the 1970s, and the Nixon era will find this book indispensable. A truly landmark study. -- Douglas Brinkley, University of New OrleansThis book surpasses anything previously published on Nixon's civil rights in terms of research, including interviews with participants, and interpretation. The segment dealing with women's civil rights provides more details than any other work to date. Other aspects are equally well researched and controversial, particularly Kotlowski's analysis of Nixon's much publicized 'southern strategy.' He shows how limited in scope and short-lived this strategy actually was. His handling of Nixon's successful desegregation of southern schools, the president's approach to implementing civil rights in general, and his first two unsuccessful Supreme Court appointments is insightful and enlightening. -- Joan Hoff, Ohio UniversityIn this scrupulously researched investigation of his civil rights policies, Kotlowski presents a differing view of Nixon--a complex leader who listened to the advice of his knowledgeable domestic advisers...This excellent book is a worthy successor to Allen Matusow's Nixon's Economy as a skillful appraisal of Nixon's domestic policies. Highly recommended. -- Karl Helicher * Library Journal *Scholars of the Nixon presidency and of the civil rights movement have generally overlooked the Nixon administration's civil rights policies. Kotlowski's book fills this void...The book shows how Nixon moved the civil rights debate from integration to economic opportunity, from rhetoric to action, and expanded the civil rights issue to women and Native Americans, while also helping to establish the Republican Party's "southern strategy". Well-researched and persuasively argued, the book captures the intriguing if frustrating complexity that characterizes Richard Nixon and will appeal equally to Nixon lovers, loathers, and those undecided. Strongly recommended. -- S. C. Matheson * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Contents Prologue: Deeds versus Words 1 Flexible Response: Southern Politics and School Desegregation 2 Open Communities versus Forced Integration: Romney, Nixon, and Fair Housing 3 The Art of Compromise: Extending the Voting Rights Act 4 Jobs Are Nixon's Rights Program: The Philadelphia Plan and Affirmative Action 5 Black Power, Nixon Style: Minority Businesses and Black Colleges 6 A Cold War: Nixon and Civil Rights Leaders 7 Challenges and Opportunities: Native American Policy 8 Stops and Starts: Women's Rights Epilogue: In the Shadow of Nixon Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this exploration of the 20th-century civil rights and black power eras, Martin uses cultural politics as a lens through which to understand the African-American freedom struggle. In freedom songs, in the exuberance of an Aretha Franklin concert, in Faith Ringgold’s exploration of race and sexuality, the personal and social became the political.Trade ReviewWaldo E. Martin, Jr. draws on the development of postwar black aesthetic-cultural forms to read African-American political history. He argues that what developed between the 1940s and 1970s was a ‘distinctive black cultural politics’ where culture and politics overlapped and merged… He keeps the reader focused on his central themes of hope and possibility for black political and cultural struggle between 1940 and 1979 and the drive for freedom, equality, and justice underlying cultural politics and the political culture… No Coward Soldiers constitutes a strong addition to cultural studies and analyses of African-American politics alike. While it doesn’t seek to replace more detailed historical studies of black power and civil rights that already exist, it does provide a new outlook on those histories. It is indeed an important book that ought to be read by academics and students with an interest in either or both disciplines. -- Kalbir Shukra * Ethnic and Racial Studies *No Coward Soldiers…is a fine representation of contemporary efforts in history, ethnic studies, and American studies to examine the cultural dimensions of politics, the politicization of culture, and the interaction between the two arenas… The work is a remarkable synthesis in its analysis of different facets of black culture. Martin’s canvas is rather extensive. Besides examining the artistic and political aspects of blues, spirituals, jazz, soul, rock and roll, funk, and hip-hop, he looks at sports heroes and the works of artists in different media. -- Douglas Henry Daniels * Journal of American History *Through concise and cogent observations grounded in wide-ranging interdisciplinary research, Waldo Martin’s No Coward Soldiers makes a singular contribution to the literature on African-American life since World War II. Devoting special attention to music and other aspects of popular culture, Martin illuminates many of the central concerns that remain unresolved as Americans continue to debate the meaning of race. This insightful book deserves a wide readership. -- Clayborne Carson, editor of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. and author of In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960sWaldo Martin takes up the charge being led by a growing number of scholars who understand the symbiotic connections between the Civil Rights/Black Power movements and black expressive culture in a myriad of forms. Throughout the highs and lows of their freedom struggle, black Americans—in song and dance, poetry and painting, sermon and sculpture—constructed mighty cultural armature on the front lines of a social revolution. With rigor and verve, No Coward Soldiers captures the richness and complexity of that historical moment. -- Deborah E. McDowell, University of Virginia, author of Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin

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Book SynopsisShklar identifies the right to vote and the right to work as the defining social rights and primary sources of public respect. She demonstrates that in recent years, although all Americans profess their devotion to the work ethic, earning remains unavailable to many who feel and are consequently treated as less than full citizens.Trade ReviewShklar has produced a compelling argument that the right to vote and the right to a job, neither of which was written into the Constitution, are nevertheless necessary for full and equal American citizenship. * Washington Monthly *A short but very potent exploration of the actual meaning of citizenship for Americans… A spirited defense of the highly privatized vision of politics which is certainly the norm in America. * International Journal of Comparative Sociology *As always, one learns from reading Shklar… The book provides an excellent interpretation of what American citizenship has meant historically. * Political Science Quarterly *Professor Shklar’s book is powerful and profound. She presents an argument that is, in many respects, original. That is, once you take in what Shklar is saying, you wonder why no one else had said it before: it is right, it is illuminating, it had been waiting to be said, it emphatically needs saying. The book is wonderful and rare. -- George Kateb, Princeton UniversityThe thesis of Judith Shklar’s American Citizenship is strong, freshly original, completely persuasive—good sense raised to a higher power… It is a deceptively modest small work which achieves large things… Shklar’s book will receive an enormous amount of well-deserved attention, for she has a genius for doing what Hegel was so supremely good at: ‘capturing’ the ethos of a nation and an age with utter persuasive precision. -- Patrick Riley, University of Wisconsin–MadisonTable of ContentsIntroduction One Voting Two Earning Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis book reconstructs civic education and citizenship training in secondary schools in the lower Yangzi region during the Republican era. It analyzes how students used the tools of civic education to make themselves into young citizens, and explores the complex social and political effects of educated youths' civic action.

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Book SynopsisFew other social phenomena are likely to impact the future character of American society as much as the ongoing wave of new immigration. This cross-disciplinary book brings together twelve essays by leading scholars of the most significant aspect of the new immigration: Mexican immigration to the U.S.Trade ReviewThe incorporation of the commentaries works well, rendering the tome less passive than many scholarly texts, and often reinforcing points raised whilst introducing new areas of discussion. Well-judged and evocative photographs by Anna LeVine give an added ‘real’ dimension to a thought-provoking work that illustrates the importance of creating a climate in which diverse ethnic groups can flourish. * British Bulletin of Publications *Crossings is must-reading for anyone interested in the ‘new immigration.’ The thoughtful and carefully researched interdisciplinary essays on economic, social, cultural, psychological, and political aspects of the Mexican immigrant experience make this volume a unique contribution to social science work on an important international topic. -- Susan Eckstein, Boston University, President of the Latin American Studies AssociationAn up-to-date look at the dynamics and effects of Mexican immigration, the longest-running and largest inflow in the history of the nation in this century. Because contributors come from both sides of the border and some of them have experienced the processes that they describe, the contents are richer and more persuasive than books written from a single-country perspective. A significant addition to the research literature on contemporary immigration. -- Alejandro Portes, Princeton University, President of the American Sociological AssociationThe originality of this timely book lies in its bilateral approach and interdisciplinary nature. A challenging work by prestigious scholars, it is a major achievement that will foster academic cooperation on one of the most complex issues in U.S.–Mexico relations. -- Mónico Verea, Founding Director and Researcher, Centro de Investigaciones sobre America del Norte, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Book SynopsisAs US power grew after WWI, officials and nonprofits joined to promote citizen participation in world affairs. David Allen traces the rise and fall of the Foreign Policy Association, a public-education initiative that retreated in the atomic age, scuttling dreams of democratic foreign policy and solidifying the technocratic national security model.Trade ReviewIlluminating…Allen tells an elegiac tale of the attempt to make U.S. diplomacy more democratically accountable. At a time when long-held foreign policy pieties on everything from free trade to military interventions have come unstuck, Allen’s book also serves as a guide—a record of efforts to democratize foreign affairs and their pitfalls. -- Andrew Lanham * New Republic *Every Citizen a Statesman will undoubtedly prove essential reading for historians across a variety of fields…Allen argues persuasively that the eventual creation of foreign policy free of public opinion was contested, not predetermined. -- Madelyn Lugli * Tocqueville 21 *[A] wide-ranging and extraordinary study of the FPA and its struggle to bring policymaking to the masses…Allen’s book is a wonderful contribution that deserves a wide audience. -- Brian S. Mueller * Global Policy Journal *Every Citizen a Statesman demonstrates that perennial questions about democracy and foreign policy are still worth asking, even if the answers remain out of reach. -- Tyler McBrien * Lawfare *Revelatory…Allen’s book might…be best interpreted as a message in a bottle, waiting to be picked up in a generation or two by people who hopefully live in a less undemocratic and unequal world. It will be up to them to begin the process of taking control of the state as they attempt to realize one of democracy’s highest aims: a policy by the people, not merely just for them. -- Daniel Bessner * Boston Review *US leaders often proclaim that a successful foreign policy requires public support. Yet they have been reluctant to cede power to a public with little expertise in the subject. With a firm grasp of the historical materials, a fluid writing style, and a gift for narrative, Allen shows that the United States has never figured out what a truly ‘democratic’ foreign policy might be. This fascinating book is a pleasure to read, and the lessons it draws are both timely and troubling. -- Stephen M. Walt, author of The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. PrimacyAn elegant, insightful, and wonderfully original work of history. Simultaneously a richly detailed case study of the forgotten Foreign Policy Association and a thoughtful meditation on the nature of public opinion, Every Citizen a Statesman forces us to grapple with an essential question: what would it take to democratize American foreign policy? -- Sam Lebovic, author of A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural GlobalizationA compelling and original book. Tracing the rise of the Foreign Policy Association, an organization formed to align democracy and diplomacy in the twentieth century, Allen shows how tragically difficult it can be to close the gap between powerful policymakers and a public that sees foreign affairs as distant from daily life. This insightful work shows that the relationship between the ideals of democracy and the practice of foreign policy remains as complex and relevant as ever. -- Jeremi Suri, author of Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for DemocracyIs an authentically democratic foreign policy—that is, a foreign policy stemming from a deeply engaged public—a noble dream, a potential reality, or a fool’s errand? Allen takes up this question with an evenhanded approach and a real mastery of the source material. Timely and well argued, Every Citizen a Statesman is a major contribution to the study of US foreign relations and political history. A superb, fascinating book. -- Christopher McKnight Nichols, author of Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age

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Book SynopsisBen Laurence argues for a political philosophy that unifies theory and practice in pursuit of change. He shows that the task of political philosophy is not complete until the political philosopher asks the question “What is to be done?” and deliberates about the answer with agents of change.Trade ReviewAgents of Change is an engaging and original contribution to contemporary debate in the methodology of political philosophy. -- Saranga Sudarshan * Philosophical Quarterly *Laurence defends the Rawlsian idea that political philosophers should proffer ‘realistically utopian’ theories of justice…A thorough discussion full of distinctive ideas that repay careful consideration. -- David Wiens * Review of Politics *In Agents of Change, Ben Laurence tackles the enduring tension between utopian and practical theories of justice…Drawing from Kantian thought, he highlights the importance of addressing injustice and the rights of resistance in defining just relations among equals. -- B. V. E. Hyde * Contemporary Political Theory *Ben Laurence has written an important, elegant book. Agents of Change cogently and rigorously argues for a type of ‘ideal theory.’ Though it supplies a deep, bold, and illuminating criticism as well as a partial defense of Rawls, it is a quite original, freestanding work of political philosophy that will endure and guide our thought about change for a long time. -- Martha C. Nussbaum, University of ChicagoMust political philosophy aim at practical political action, or may it also pursue the nature and content of social justice, however unrealistic justice might be? If anyone thinks the voluminous debates about ‘ideal theory’ are played out, or thinks some position has proven itself, Ben Laurence’s elegant and searching book shows otherwise. Laurence reminds us that the questions are profound, not merely scholastic, and shows us in new ways how powerful are some of the arguments on all sides. But most important, Agents of Change develops a new, broadly Aristotelian framework that yields at once an incisive, constructive interpretation of the existing debates—it would be essential reading if only for that—and a refreshingly large step forward. -- David Estlund, Brown UniversityThis is an outstanding and timely book. It clarifies and critically assesses the most important contributions to the ongoing debate between utopian and pragmatic approaches in political philosophy. Ben Laurence also advances a novel view—the teleological conception—which captures some of the best insights in the existing competing approaches while avoiding many of their pitfalls. His explanation of the practical standpoint adopted by agents of change pursuing social justice is especially illuminating. This lucid book will appeal widely to scholars and students in philosophy, political science, law, and economics. -- Pablo Gilabert, Concordia University

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[Kateb] suggests that the idea of dignity is essential to the idea of human rights. By this he means that human rights are in fact derived from human dignity, which is not some spurious moral precept but an integral part of the human condition. For Kateb, dignity is not, at root, a moral phenomenon but an existential one… It is refreshing to read a work of philosophy that tries to restore some pride to our rather jaded species… Human Dignity…attempts to give human beings their due, not in any spirit of self-congratulation but so that we may build a better life for all. -- Richard King * The Australian *[A] powerful and ambitious book. [Kateb] provides a sterling example of one of the most challenging of genres, the philosophic essay. He writes not just for other scholars but for anyone who loves to think. I won’t mislead you by pretending that Human Dignity is easy and pleasant. It is demanding and pleasant, the pleasures being those of an argument that illuminates an important subject… No brief review could do justice to its bold amplitude, its intriguing twists, its problems and provocations. -- Clifford Orwin * Globe and Mail *In this lucid and highly readable ‘defense of human dignity’ and rights, Kateb explicitly avoids the use of theological insights, preferring the autonomous individual and human reason as his guides… Kateb’s critique of many prominent thinkers, including Peter Singer and J.S. Mill, and his provocative application of a theory of human dignity and rights to contemporary politics, are significant accomplishments. -- H. L. Cheek, Jr. * Choice *Kateb, like J. S. Mill, asks what objects of secular faith may candidly be used to supplant religious belief. Humanity is the answer he suggests—but humanity regarded not as the collective hero of progress or enlightenment, but as the most interesting part of nature for better and for worse: the part that holds up a mirror to the rest, even though the rest cannot recognize itself in the mirror. This is a disturbing, adventurous, and original-minded work. -- David Bromwich, Yale University[Kateb] is the last—that is, the first and only—thoroughgoing Emersonian in American political thought. -- Cornel West, Princeton University

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Book SynopsisChoquette narrates the peopling of French Canada across the 17th and 18th centuries, the lesser known colonial phase of French migration. Drawing on French and Canadian archives, she carefully traces the precise origins of individual immigrants, describing them by gender, class, occupation, region, religion, age, and date of departure.Trade ReviewA solid and original migration study. -- Dale Miquelon * American Historical Review *The historiography of French Canada places the greatest emphasis on those who settled definitively in the colony, especially the 8527 or so who are the ancestors of over six million French-Canadians today. Leslie Choquette redresses the balance in this useful study of the migrants as a while, revealing their origins in the mobile, urban trading centres of the French Atlantic ports… By placing the peopling of French North America in a broader metropolitan context, this study is a welcome addition to the historiography. -- Colin M. Coates * English Historical Studies [UK] *Choquette’s research is impressive; she mined every available source on both sides of the Atlantic. Canadian sources include ecclesiastical records such as marriage contracts, lists of patients at the Hotel-Dieu of Québec, ‘testimonials of freedom at marriage’, intended to avoid bigamy, for example, among soldiers fighting in the Seven Years War, censuses and criminal records and official correspondence. She discusses the sources themselves (and certain problems in using them) with admirable precision… The goal of the study is ‘to situate emigration to Canada within the broad context of social, economic, cultural, and political life under the Ancien Régime’. This she accomplishes well. -- John Merriman * French History [UK] *Choquette’s book fits squarely into a growing body of writing on geographical mobility in early modern history, especially on the peopling process of North America, and contributes significantly to that major field. The socioeconomic, regional, age, and gender analyses are significant, and establish new patterns. The regional mapping and distance analysis are also impressive. The analysis throughout is careful and elaborate, and the subject important… A notable monograph. -- Bernard Bailyn, Harvard UniversityA superbly detailed study that offers the most complete, sweeping view of the peopling of French Canada now available and constitutes a model for careful yet imaginative investigations of emigration to all New World societies. -- Jon Butler, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Peopling of French Canada PART 1: MODERNITY 1. Regional Origins: Peasants or Frenchmen? 2. A Geography of Modernity: The Northwest 3. A Geography of Modernity: Non-Northwesterners and Women 4. An Urban Society: Class Structure and Occupational Distribution 5. Religious Diversity: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics 6. The Age of Adventure in an Age of Expansion PART 2: TRADITION 7. Traditional Patterns of Mobility 8. A Traditional Movement: Northwestern Emigration to Canada 9. A Traditional Movement: Emigration Outside the Northwest 10. The Canadian System of Recruitment Conclusion: Frenchmen into Peasants Notes Index

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Book SynopsisVaughn Rasberry turns to black culture and politics for an alternative history of the totalitarian century. He shows how black writers reimagined the standard antifascist, anticommunist narrative through the lens of racial injustice, with the U.S. as a tyrannical force in the Third World but also an agent of Asian and African independence.Trade ReviewVaughn Rasberry’s Race and the Totalitarian Century is a powerful meditation that reveals the complexity and nuance of the African American diasporic literary imagination. This is no ordinary re-reading of classics, nor is it a slight gesture toward a transnational theory of race, writing, and politics. It is instead a close reading that manifests itself in a theoretically sophisticated analysis of race literature’s relationships to Cold War totalitarianism. With this book, Rasberry introduces himself as part of the new generation of critical theorists who are unapologetically broadening the scope, reach, and relevance of the African American literary canon. -- Jonathan Holloway, Yale UniversityVaughn Rasberry has written one of the most important books in diaspora studies in a generation. Race and the Totalitarian Century is a riveting and entirely new intellectual history of the Black twentieth century. This book matters at the most basic level—the lived experience of the struggle for freedom. -- Bill V. Mullen, American Studies, Purdue UniversityThis is a blazedly learned book with highly sophisticated thinking about ‘race,’ totalitarianism, colonialism, Communism, liberalism, and more, yet one devoid of preening and needless displays of erudition. Rasberry’s moral vigor and clarity, the subtle archeology of his research into well-kept secrets, his supreme command of the facts, and the profound relevance of this project to current trends in scholarship keep it intellectually riveting throughout. -- Alan Wald, University of MichiganVaughn Rasberry has captivatingly narrated twentieth-century Black letters through the lens of the Cold War, anticolonialism and Civil Rights. With an adept and detailed consideration of international political history ranging from the Suez Canal Crisis to West African independence struggles, Rasberry reads global Black literature at the crossroads of liberal democracy and communism, modernity and tradition. I highly recommend this brilliant and distinctive text for all students and scholars of Black diasporic history, politics, and literature. -- Imani Perry, Princeton UniversityMasterful…Race and the Totalitarian Century paints a nuanced, sympathetic, but not uncritical picture of this rich midcentury African-American and Third World literary tradition. Rasberry teases out writers’ complicated political views with clarity and verve, taking care to examine the contradictions and dangers of those views just as much as their promise. In doing so, he reconstructs a vital set of ideas and debates to fill in an important piece of the puzzle of 20th-century American thought. Above all, he offers a provocative account of the political and imaginative value of literature as a way to envision alternative futures in a nation both entangled in global conflict and roiled by domestic protests against racial violence…Race and the Totalitarian Century is such an important book because it adds crucial dimensions to our picture of that midcentury period that feels eerily relevant today. Throughout the presidential election and in its wake, critics and historians have felt increasingly moved to evaluate the totalitarian tenor of our times…What’s missing from this conversation, which draws heavily on the ideas of European émigrés like Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno, is the vibrant homegrown critique of totalitarianism that emerged in midcentury African-American literary and print culture, from Du Bois to Langston Hughes to Ann Petry to Gwendolyn Brooks. These writers’ unique perspectives on racial domination and totalitarian rule deserve to play a central role in our political thinking today, in both the academic and the public spheres. With Race and the Totalitarian Century, Rasberry brings their voices to the fore. We would do well to listen. -- Andrew Lanham * Los Angeles Review of Books *Capacious, ambitious, and meticulously researched…Rasberry expands the contours of the black geopolitical imagination to include not only Africa and its diaspora but Russia, the Middle East, and Asia as well. In this way, Race and the Totalitarian Century illuminates under-attended-to geographies of black internationalist thought at mid-century and—by foregrounding the life and work of Shirley Graham—makes a significant contribution to black women’s intellectual history as well…Race and the Totalitarian Century resonates with and provides important insights for our current geopolitical moment, particularly the rise of Islamophobia, white nationalism, and the ways in which the condition of blackness has always necessitated a moving within and against the nation-state to imagine alternative and more just futures. -- Jarvis C. McInnis * Public Books *

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Book SynopsisDo robots have rights? What about ecosystems? For that matter, what are our rights online? Is state corruption a violation of human rights? Beliefs about rights are changing, leading to new questions. William Schulz and Sushma Raman, both experienced human rights advocates, lay out the central debates of today’s rights revolution.Trade ReviewThis enjoyable read examines how changing norms create opportunities to expand the scope of universal protections and rights. -- Dov Greenbaum * Science *A good read, thoughtful and provocative. Schulz and Raman know their subject thoroughly and present complex material in comprehensible prose that inspires both reflection and action. Writing at a time when authoritarian leaders advanced a human rights counterrevolution, the authors persuasively contend in effect that the best defense must include a strong offense. Completed prior to the further human rights setbacks resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, the work advocating new rights still merits serious consideration. -- Howard Tolley, Jr. * Human Rights Quarterly *Raises some very provocative questions…[A] trail-blazing map through the new frontiers of rights…At times…a downright riveting read. -- Joann Mackenzie * Gloucester Times *William F. Schulz and Sushma Raman explore these new realms of knowledge and technology and begin to parse out what society will need to do to address human (and other) rights in the face of this onslaught of change…Clearly written and well argued. * The Humanist *In this essential work, Schulz and Raman explore what is needed to defend against the ever-present dangers to human rights. Perhaps just as importantly, they raise questions about what additional rights should be protected in our rapidly changing world. The Coming Good Society is an accessible primer for anyone who wishes to understand the current limitations in our notions of rights and the future challenges for which we must prepare. -- Kerry Kennedy, President, Robert F. Kennedy Human RightsThe international human rights regimen never stops growing both in importance and in breadth. What sounds far-fetched today becomes normative tomorrow. Schulz and Raman outline brilliantly where that growth may take rights in the generations to come. Whether you agree with them in every instance is less important than that you take their questions seriously. This book makes it impossible not to do that. -- Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human RightsSchulz and Raman take readers on a thought-provoking journey into the future of human rights and explain why we should all care. They draw on their extensive experience and their research at Harvard University’s Carr Center to address questions as fundamental and wide-ranging as ‘Does living in a surveillance society require us to think of the right to privacy in new ways?’ and ‘If gender is non-binary, do we need new rights on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity?’ This book is essential reading for human rights experts and newcomers alike. -- Darren Walker, President, The Ford FoundationWhen Amnesty International was founded in 1961, some human rights, such as those of women and LGBTQI persons and persons with disabilities, were in their infancies, if they were acknowledged at all. Schulz and Raman ask the fascinating question, ‘What rights are on the horizon now, perhaps just barely showing their faces, that may be widely recognized in the next generation or more?’ Their cogent answers challenge all of us to think deeply about what kind of society we and our children and our children’s children will want to live in. -- Margaret L. Huang, former Executive Director, Amnesty International USA

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Book SynopsisThe transformation of the American South - from authoritarian to democratic rule - is the most important political development since World War II. This title illuminates this sea change by analyzing the democratization experiences of Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2017 V.O. Key Award, Southern Political Science Association Winner of the 2016 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association "Paths Out of Dixie is the rare gem of American politics destined to be a touchstone across political science subfields."--Jason Brownlee, Journal of Politics "Mickey's work rests on an exhaustive treasure of archival research that displays a stunning commitment to the best traditions of American political development scholarship. Paths Out of Dixie is a worthy and indeed more rigorous successor to Key's (1949) Southern Politics."--Kimberley Johnson, Journal of PoliticsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Part One: Deep South Enclaves, 1890-1940 1 CHAPTER ONE Southern Political Development in Comparative Perspective 3 CHAPTER TWO The Founding and Maintenance of Southern Enclaves, 1890-1940 33 CHAPTER THREE Deep South Enclaves on the Eve of the Transition 64 Part Two: The Transition Begins, 1944-48 93 CHAPTER FOUR Suffrage Restriction under Attack, 1944-47 95 CHAPTER FIVE Driven from the House of Their Fathers Southern Enclaves and the National Party, 1947-48 131 Part Three: The Clouds Darken, 1950-63 171 PROLOGUE "No Solution Offers Except Coercion" Brown, Massive Resistance, and Campus Crises, 1950-63 173 CHAPTER SIX "No Task for the Amateur or Hothead" Mississippi and the Battle of Oxford 190 CHAPTER SEVEN "Integration with Dignity" South Carolina Navigates the Clemson Crisis 215 CHAPTER EIGHT "No, Not One" Georgia's Massive Resistance and the Crisis at Athens 240 Part Four: Modes of Democratization and Their Legacies since 1964 257 CHAPTER NINE The Deathblows to Authoritarian Rule The Civil and Voting Rights Acts and National Party Reform, 1964-72 259 CHAPTER TEN Harnessing the Revolution? Three Paths Out of Dixie 281 CHAPTER ELEVEN Legacies and Lessons of the Democratized South 335 Notes 355 Index 531

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Book SynopsisThe transformation of the American South - from authoritarian to democratic rule - is the most important political development since World War II. This title illuminates this sea change by analyzing the democratization experiences of Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2017 V.O. Key Award, Southern Political Science Association Winner of the 2016 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association "Paths Out of Dixie is the rare gem of American politics destined to be a touchstone across political science subfields."--Jason Brownlee, Journal of Politics "Mickey's work rests on an exhaustive treasure of archival research that displays a stunning commitment to the best traditions of American political development scholarship. Paths Out of Dixie is a worthy and indeed more rigorous successor to Key's (1949) Southern Politics."--Kimberley Johnson, Journal of PoliticsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Part One: Deep South Enclaves, 1890-1940 1 CHAPTER ONE Southern Political Development in Comparative Perspective 3 CHAPTER TWO The Founding and Maintenance of Southern Enclaves, 1890-1940 33 CHAPTER THREE Deep South Enclaves on the Eve of the Transition 64 Part Two: The Transition Begins, 1944-48 93 CHAPTER FOUR Suffrage Restriction under Attack, 1944-47 95 CHAPTER FIVE Driven from the House of Their Fathers Southern Enclaves and the National Party, 1947-48 131 Part Three: The Clouds Darken, 1950-63 171 PROLOGUE "No Solution Offers Except Coercion" Brown, Massive Resistance, and Campus Crises, 1950-63 173 CHAPTER SIX "No Task for the Amateur or Hothead" Mississippi and the Battle of Oxford 190 CHAPTER SEVEN "Integration with Dignity" South Carolina Navigates the Clemson Crisis 215 CHAPTER EIGHT "No, Not One" Georgia's Massive Resistance and the Crisis at Athens 240 Part Four: Modes of Democratization and Their Legacies since 1964 257 CHAPTER NINE The Deathblows to Authoritarian Rule The Civil and Voting Rights Acts and National Party Reform, 1964-72 259 CHAPTER TEN Harnessing the Revolution? Three Paths Out of Dixie 281 CHAPTER ELEVEN Legacies and Lessons of the Democratized South 335 Notes 355 Index 531

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Book SynopsisShows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today. This title looks at three key arenas of government control - immigration, the military, and welfare.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2012 Biennial Book Award, Order of the Coif Winner of the 2011 John Boswell Prize, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History Winner of the 2010 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2010 Lambda Literary Award, LGBT Studies by the Lambda Literary Foundation Co-Winner of the 2010 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association Winner of the 2010 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association Winner of the 2010 Cromwell Book Prize, American Society for Legal History "It is not really news that inhabitants of the United States are governed by what historian Margot Canaday calls, in the title of her excellent book, a 'straight state.' For some time now, scholars of sexuality (following in the footsteps of those who have studied and challenged the race and gender hierarchies embedded in state policies and actions) have professed the analytical goal of what historian Lisa Duggan, writing in 1994, called 'queering the state.' These scholars have argued that the supposed naturalness of the heterosexual couple, and the unnaturalness of alternatives, is presumed and reinforced in the ordinary workings of government. Canaday's substantial contribution is to trace, in gripping and at times horrifying detail, exactly how the United States came to operate in this fashion over the course of much of the twentieth century. The Straight State provides a compelling history of the designation of 'the homosexual as the anticitizen.' ... The Straight State is a captivating, engagingly written work of social, political, legal and sexual history, and the fruit of an extraordinary attention to archival documents."--Steven Epstein, Nation "[Canaday] succeeds in ... contributing brilliantly both to understandings of the relationship between state practices and the construction of identity and to the story of the rise of the modern bureaucratic state as a sexual state... [This] book ... presents a fascinating reframing of a familiar story and opens substantial new space for related research."--Julie Novkov, Perspectives on Politics "[The Straight State] is a pathbreaking, riveting historical study... [Canaday's] brilliant book is revelatory."--David A. J. Richards, Law and History Review "Princeton Professor Margot Canaday has presented us with a superb and groundbreaking analysis of the role of federal institutions in shaping the LGBT identity over the course of the 20th Century... Professor Canaday's work satisfies in a way all too rarely encountered in contemporary historical writing. The Straight State opens our eyes to the role of evolving federal policies in immigration, welfare, and the military in defining homosexuality and the gay persona... The Straight State is indispensable to the student of modern queer history."--Toby Grace, Out in Jersey "Canaday contends that the emergence of state bureaucracy in the 20th-century US may be tracked through its developing definition and regulation of homosexuality... While some scholars may debate the author's particular inferences from her evidence, this volume opens new ground in gender research."--Choice "The Straight State makes three outstanding contributions: it delineates the state as a whole fresh category in the formation of gay identities; elite reform becomes more important than bottom up revolution; while she moves gay history, convincingly, right into the mainstream of historical inquiry. Canaday has, therefore, produced an extremely important book."--Kevin White, Journal of Social History "Canaday offer[s] a much more complete record than has previously appeared in print of the law of gay-straight discrimination and its meaning in people's lives."--Felicia Kornbluh, Law & Social Inquiry "[An] absorbing account of federal policies, [this study] makes an important intervention by showing why historians of sexuality need to pay more attention to questions of citizenship and the practices of the administrative state."--George Chauncey, American Historical Review "[This] book contributes to an ongoing body of lesbian, gay, bi, and transgender theoretical, historical, and social research in fascinating new ways, revealing the extent to which normative critiques continue to inform queer theory and structure queer lives."--Jaime Cantrell, Feminist FormationsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 PART I: Nascent Policing Chapter 1: IMMIGRATION "A New Species of Undesirable Immigrant": Perverse Aliens and the Limits of the Law, 1900-1924 19 Chapter 2: MILITARY "We Are Merely Concerned with the Fact of Sodomy": Managing Sexual Stigma in the World War I-Era Military, 1917-1933 55 Chapter 3: WELFARE "Most Fags Are Floaters": The Problem of "Unattached Persons" during the Early New Deal, 1933-1935 91 PART II: Explicit Regulation Chapter 4: WELFARE "With the Ugly Word Written across It": Homo-Hetero Binarism, Federal Welfare Policy, and the 1944 GI Bill 137 Chapter 5: MILITARY "Finding a Home in the Army": Women's Integration, Homosexual Tendencies, and the Cold War Military, 1947-1959 174 Chapter 6: IMMIGRATION "Who Is a Homosexual?": The Consolidation of Sexual Identities in Mid-twentieth-century Immigration Law, 1952-1983 214 Conclusion 255 Index 265

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Book SynopsisExamines momentous changes in notions of citizenship, sovereignty, nation, state, and empire in a time of acute uncertainty about the future of a world that had earlier been divided into colonial empires. This book shows how both France and its former colonies backed into more "national" conceptions of the state than either had sought.Trade ReviewWinner of the Martin A. Klein Prize 2015, American Historical Association Winner of the George Louis Beer Prize 2015, American Historical Association "The question posed by Frederick Cooper is one that philosophers would relish; so also political scientists and indeed social theorists. It fits excellently into a discourse, mostly at an abstract level, beloved by these scholars."--Olajide Oloyede, African Sociological Review "In these ever troubled times this is a work that should be read by all those contemplating or demanding independence, from the UK to eastern Europe and beyond."--Don Vincent, Open History "It is nothing short of a masterpiece."--Samuel Moyn, Dissent "It offers an excellent discussion about France's policy regarding citizenship as it was defined in Paris and Dakar and convincing evidence that challenges the apparent dichotomy between empire and nation-state... Cooper sets a standard that is likely to last for a long time."--Alexander Keese, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "This book is a masterly work of close archival investigation and analysis. It will be a new reference point for discussions of decolonization in French Africa."--Tony Chafer, French HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface ix Notes on Language and Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Chapter 1 From French Empire to French Union 26 Chapter 2 A Constitution for an Empire of Citizens 67 Chapter 3 Defining Citizenship, 1946-1956 124 Chapter 4 Claiming Citizenship: French West Africa, 1946-1956 165 Chapter 5 Reframing France: The Loi-Cadre and African Federalism, 1956-1957 214 Chapter 6 From Overseas Territory to Member State: Constitution and Conflict, 1958 279 Chapter 7 Unity and Division in Africa and France, 1958-1959 326 Chapter 8 Becoming National 372 Conclusion 431 Bibliography 449 Index 467

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Rosenblum] draws on a wide range of historical, literary, and sociological sources--from the stories of Raymond Carver to an ethnography of Crown Heights, Brooklyn--to produce a kaleidoscopic picture of American neighborliness."--Joshua Rothman, New YorkerTable of ContentsIntroduction: Good Neighbor Nation 1 Part I. The Lay of the Land 21 1. Who Is My Neighbor? 23 2. Narrative Threads: Settlers, Immigrants, and Suburban "Grotesques" 44 Part II. The Democracy of Everyday Life 69 3. Reciprocity among "Decent Folk" 71 4. Taking Offense, Speaking Out 91 5. What Anyone Would Do, Here 108 6. Live and Let Live 131 Part III. Holding Our Lives in Their Hands 151 7. Betrayal 153 8. Killing 174 9. Disasters 200 Part IV. Minding Our Own Business 217 10. Thoreau's Neighbors 219 Conclusion: Political Theory and the Democracy of Everyday Life in America 234 Acknowledgments 249 Notes 251 Index 293

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Book SynopsisOne of the greatest political advisers of all time, Niccolo Machiavelli thought long and hard about how citizens could identify great leaders--ones capable of defending and enhancing the liberty, honor, and prosperity of their countries. Drawing on the full range of the Florentine's writings, acclaimed Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli gathersTrade Review"Voters of all persuasions will find much here to confirm their convictions... Machiavelli wanted to make his country great again, but greatness should have nothing to do with vanity or cruelty. Viroli offers a timely reminder of his thought."--Raphael Hogarth, Times Literary Supplement "As Maurizio Viroli makes clear in his short, sharp, and sobering How to Choose a Leader: Machiavelli's Advice to Citizens, the GOP's presidential nominee would have horrified the Florentine political thinker--not because he has grasped Machiavelli's advice--he hasn't--but because he scorns Machiavelli's values."--Robert Zaretsky, Los Angeles Review of Books "A good book for an election year."--ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why Ask Machiavelli? ix I Citizens ought to "keep their hands on the republic" and "choose the lesser evil." 1 II " Judge by the hands, not by the eyes." 6 III " It is the common good which makes republics great." 12 IV " Whoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times." 17 V " How by the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and how they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises." 22 VI " Men almost always follow the beaten track of others, and proceed in their actions by imitation." 26 VII " Great men and powerful republics preserve an equal dignity and courage in prosperity and adversity." 33 VIII " And although these men were rare and wonderful, they were nevertheless but men, and the opportunities which they had were far less favorable than the present; nor were their undertakings more just or more easy than this; neither was God more a friend of them than of you." 37 IX " For it is the duty of any good man to teach others that good which the malignity of the times and of fortune has prevented his doing himself; so that amongst the many capable ones whom he has instructed, someone perhaps, more favored by Heaven, may perform it." 42 X " It is very difficult, indeed almost impossible to maintain liberty in a republic that has become corrupt or to establish it there anew." 46 XI " Poverty never was allowed to stand in the way of the achievement of any rank or honor and virtue and merit were sought for under whatever roof they dwelt; it was this system that made riches naturally less desirable." 52 XII " In well-regulated republics the state ought to be rich and the citizens poor." 56 XIII " Prolonged commands brought Rome to servitude." 63 XIV " I love my country more than my soul." 67 XV " For where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no considerations of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be, 'what course will save the life and liberty of the country?'" 73 XVI " The authority of the dictatorship has always proved beneficial to Rome, and never injurious; it is the authority which men usurp, and not that which is given them by the free suffrages of their fellow-citizens, that is dangerous to civil liberty." 80 XVII " I say that I have never practiced war as my profession, because my profession is to govern my subjects and to defend them, and, in order to be able to defend them, to love peace and to know how to make war." 85 XVIII " An excellent general is usually an orator because, unless he knows how to speak to the whole army, he will have difficulty in doing anything good." 89 XIX " A prince becomes esteemed when he shows himself either a true friend or a real enemy." 97 XX " To insure a long existence to religious sects or republics, it is necessary frequently to bring them back to their original principles." 101 Notes 107 Sources of the Quotations 115 Note on the Texts 117

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"For a collection of essays, the book is well organized and unusually coherent. Each of the essays makes important contributions to what is likely among the most important challenges the US will face in the twenty-first century. Though balanced, the overall tone is optimistic."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix List of Contributors xiii Introduction: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society 1 Earl Lewis and Nancy Cantor The "Diversity Explosion" Is America's Twenty- first- Century Baby Boom 16 William H. Frey PART ONE: ESSAYS Chapter 1. Less Separate, Still Unequal: Diversity and Equality in "Post- Civil Rights" America 39 Thomas J. Sugrue Chapter 2. Toward a Connected Society 71 Danielle Allen Chapter 3. The Economic Value of Diversity 106 Anthony Carnevale and Nicole Smith PART TWO : COMMENTARIES Chapter 4. The Diversity of Diversity 161 Kwame Anthony Appiah Chapter 5. Group Interactions in Building a Connected Society 170 Patricia Gurin Chapter 6. Diversity and Institutional Life: Levels and Objects 182 Ira Katznelson Chapter 7. Diversity as a Strategic Advantage: A Sociodemographic Perspective 192 Marta Tienda Notes 207 Index 245

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] pithy, clearly-argued book."---Mike Rapport, Comparativ

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Book Synopsis"This is a book about contemporary European politics and the demographics of Muslim political candidacies."--Provided by publisher.Trade Review"Winner of the Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association""Winner of the 2018 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research, International Science Council""With a sophisticated analysis of thousands of elections in Austria, Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom, [Rafaela Dancygier] shows that European political parties have been ruthlessly pragmatic in attracting Muslim votes."---Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs"Rafaela Dancygier’s Dilemmas of Inclusion asks political scientists to take the idea of vote-maximizing parties seriously once again. . . . Dancygier provides extensive and convincing evidence for the idea that electoral incentives are the best explanation for cross-national and within-country variation in parties’ inclusion of Muslim minorities, both in who they nominate and how they promote their candidates."---Colin Brown, EuropeNow"This book is a most welcome addition to the social science literature on contemporary European politics specifically, and minority political representation in electoral politics generally. In terms of political responsibility, it aptly shiftsthe blame away from European Muslims."---Fatma Muge Gocek, Social Forces

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Book Synopsis"This is a book about contemporary European politics and the demographics of Muslim political candidacies."--Provided by publisher.Trade Review"Winner of the Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association""Winner of the 2018 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research, International Science Council""With a sophisticated analysis of thousands of elections in Austria, Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom, [Rafaela Dancygier] shows that European political parties have been ruthlessly pragmatic in attracting Muslim votes."---Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs"This book is a most welcome addition to the social science literature on contemporary European politics specifically, and minority political representationin electoral politics generally. In terms of political responsibility, it aptly shifts the blame away from European Muslims."---Fatma Muge Gocek, Social Forces

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2018 IPE Best Book Award, International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association""Winner of the 2018 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association""Selected for the Washington Post’s Albies “for the best work on the political economy in 2017” (chosen by Daniel W. Drezner)""Winner of the 2018 Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association""Winner of the 2018 Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award, American Political Science Association""The consistency of the findings across different contexts should be deeply informative for those who negotiate trade and immigration policy. If we cannot have both freer trade and freer immigration, we should choose carefully between the two. . . . All in all, the book is well worth reading and should bring a new and influential perspective to the ongoing debate over trade and immigration policy."---Greg C. Wright, Finance & Development"A timely and well-researched study that offers valuable insight into the trade-offs between free trade and immigration."---Paul Caruana-Galizia, London School of Economics Review of Books blog"Trading Barriers is an ambitious book that challenges the political economy of migration. In contrast to the common explanations that need for workers drives immigration and competition over limited jobs gives rise to anti-immigrant sentiment, Peters posits that people have overlooked the role of the firm in shaping immigration debates and outcomes." * Choice *"Particularly masterful is Peters’ innovative methodological use of data and analysis; she utilizes a number of datasets to prove her argument, many of which are original and innovative."---Erica Consterdine, International Migration ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii A Note to the Reader on the Online Appendixes xvii 1 Immigration and the Shape of Globalization 1 2 Immigration, Trade, and Firm Mobility: A Political Dilemma 15 3 Immigration Policy and Two Eras of Globalization 41 4 Changing Industry Preferences in the United States 69 5 Policymakers' Responses to Firms in the United States 116 6 Immigration Policy in Small Countries: The Cases of Singapore and the Netherlands 162 7 The Rise of Anti-Immigration Sentiment and Undocumented Immigration as Explanations for Immigration Policy 206 8 Immigration in an Increasingly Globalized World 222 Appendix A: Collection and Coding of the Immigration Policy Variable 243 Bibliography 295 Index 313

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