Civics and citizenship Books
University of Pennsylvania Press Civil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor
Book SynopsisRepresentation of the poor has never been the top priority for civil rights organizations, which exist to eradicate racially prejudiced and discriminatory practices and policy. Scholars have argued that the activities and ideologies of civil rights groups have functioned with a distinct middle-class bias since well before the 1960s civil rights movement. Additionally, all political organizations face disincentives to represent the poor—such advocacy is expensive and politically unpopular, and often involves trade-offs with other issues that are more central to organizations'' missions.In Civil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor, Catherine M. Paden examines five civil rights organizations and explores why they chose to represent the poor—specifically low-income African Americans—during six legislative periods considering welfare reform. Paden''s archival research into groups such as NAACP, the Congress of Racial Equality, and the Southern Christian LTrade Review"Paden's impressive archival research establishes and explains shifts in Civil Rights organizations' priorities during the critical years of the Civil Rights movement and the War on Poverty. She reinforces the value of integrating history, politics, and policy in contemporary scholarship-a perspective that has the capacity to reach a general readership beyond the political science community." * Perspectives on Politics *"Catherine M. Paden takes a fresh look at an extremely important but understudied topic, examining the circumstances under which 'identity-based' advocacy organizations represent disadvantaged subpopulations of larger constituencies. Her findings are original, compelling, and provocative." * Dara Z. Strolovitch, University of Minnesota *Table of Contents1. Antipoverty as a Civil Rights Issue? 2. Assessing and Explaining Shifts in Organizational Priorities 3. Civil Rights Organizations and the War on Poverty 4. Civil Rights Organizations' Antipoverty Activities During the Late 1960s and Early 1970s 5. Explaining Priority Shifts During the 1960s 6. Explaining Priority Shifts During the Early 1970s 7. Recent Battles, Recent Challenges 8. Conclusions Appendix A: Archival Research and Coding Appendix B: Shifts in Organizational Attention to Antipoverty Policy List of Abbreviations Notes Notes to Figure Sources Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Police Power and Race Riots
Book SynopsisCathy Lisa Schneider looks at the relationship between racialized police violence and urban upheaval in impoverished neighborhoods of New York and greater Paris, and considers some of the changes that have made American cities less riot-prone today.Trade Review"[A] devastating study of police officers failing to enforce law in a manner that expresses appropriate respect for the communities that they purport to serves . . . the arguments raise much broader issues about the function of the police within the institutional fabric of the modern state." * Perspectives on Politics *"Readers will be rewarded with subtle remarks, a vast knowledge of historical trends helping to better grasp the current situations, and a stimulating ethnographic work." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Incredibly thorough and provocative. . . . Schneider skillfully brings individual perspectives to this complicated social phenomenon. In so doing, she demonstrates that violent revolt holds value for all those involved." * Humanity & Society *"[Police Power and Race Riots] generates a depth of ethnographic material that provides the reader with a rare insight as to the plight of specific ethnic minority groups and their relationship with the police." * Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy *"In past decades, most urban unrest in Western countries has been provoked by deadly confrontations between law enforcement officers and inhabitants of disadvantaged neighborhoods belonging to minorities. Offering a transatlantic comparison and a temporal depth to events which for the most part have been studied in national contexts from an ahistorical perspective, Police Power and Race Riots proposes a novel and crucial addition to the literature on the subject, allowing for a greater understanding of the often overlooked colonial and racial dimension of iterative disturbances in France as well as the little analyzed political and social aspects of the relative calm in New York-a remarkable achievement." * Didier Fassin, author of Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing *"Cathy Lisa Schneider's comparative analysis of policing in New York and Paris examines the relationships between the state and urban minorities, and asks under what conditions do fractious relationships turn into riots. Schneider compares police tactics in enforcing racial boundaries, and argues that access to the judicial system and municipal authorities are the key variables in dampening social unrest. The book is an exciting addition to the literature on policing and urban violence, and will find an appreciative audience with those interested in urban studies, sociology, and public policy." * Eric Schneider, University of Pennsylvania *"A superb work of comparative and historical scholarship that makes a major contribution to our understanding of policing, violence, and urban riots, in the United States as well as France." * Jacqueline E. Ross, University of Illinois College of Law *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Beyond Civil Rights
Book SynopsisShortly after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Daniel Patrick Moynihan authored a government report titled The Negro Family: A Case for National Action that captured the attention of President Lyndon Johnson. Responding to the demands of African American activists that the United States go beyond civil rights to secure economic justice, Moynihan thought his analysis of black families highlighted socioeconomic inequality. However, the report''s central argument that poor families headed by single mothers inhibited African American progress touched off a heated controversy. The long-running dispute over Moynihan''s conclusions changed how Americans talk about race, the family, and poverty.Fifty years after its publication, the Moynihan Report remains a touchstone in contemporary racial politics, cited by President Barack Obama and Congressman Paul Ryan among others. Beyond Civil Rights offers the definitive history of the Moynihan Report controversy. Focusing on competinTrade Review"The Moynihan Report is well-trodden historical ground, but Geary offers the most extensive and nuanced discussion to date of its intellectual, social, and political context and of its significant historical impact." * American Historical Review *"A concise, lucid, and wonderfully readable account. With remarkable acuity and grace, Beyond Civil Rights provides an utterly persuasive history of both the Moynihan Report and the ongoing argument about it." * Howard Brick, University of Michigan *"Daniel Geary provides a fresh portrait and insightful analysis of Daniel Patrick Moynihan during his heyday, and a nuanced framework for assessing the famous report and its wide-ranging impact-and more. Beyond Civil Rights is a path-breaking study of the limits of liberalism during a time of racial crisis and transformation." * Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina *"Written with an easy grace and accessibility, Beyond Civil Rights enriches our understanding of race politics, myth-making, and rhetorical brinksmanship over the last fifty years. Sophisticated and immensely enjoyable." * Jonathan Holloway, Yale University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Crisis of Equality Chapter 1. The Liberal Mindset Chapter 2. Negro Equality—Dream or Delusion? Chapter 3. The New Racism Chapter 4. The Death of White Sociology Chapter 5. Feminism and the Nuclear Family Norm Chapter 6. From National Action to Benign Neglect Epilogue. A Mixed Legacy Notes Archival Collections Consulted Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Backroads Pragmatists
Book SynopsisLike the United States, Mexico is a country of profound cultural differences. In the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution (1910-20), these differences became the subject of intense government attention as the Republic of Mexico developed ambitious social and educational policies designed to integrate its multitude of ethnic cultures into a national community of democratic citizens. To the north, Americans were beginning to confront their own legacy of racial injustice, embarking on the path that, three decades later, led to the destruction of Jim Crow. Backroads Pragmatists is the first book to show the transnational cross-fertilization between these two movements.In molding Mexico''s ambitious social experiment, postrevolutionary reformers adopted pragmatism from John Dewey and cultural relativism from Franz Boas, which, in turn, profoundly shaped some of the critical intellectual figures in the Mexican American civil rights movement. The Americans Ruben Flores follows Trade Review"Elegantly crafted. . . . Backroads Pragmatists is an outstanding work that has broad application and relevance well beyond its Mexican-U.S. context to scholars of studies of social reform, struggles over national membership, and political formation the world round as well as of borderlands and transnational history. . . . A welcome contribution." * Hispanic American Historical Review *"A tremendously ambitious book, Backroads Pragmatists is uncommonly original and broad in conceptualization and research. The emphasis on ideas and their transnational circulation makes this the most important work on Mexican American civil rights struggles in the last decade." * Benjamin Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee *"A powerful reminder that the one-way intellectual relationship North Americans often assumed for U.S.-Latin American intellectual relations was simply not the case. The influence of Mexican social reform in the United States promises to be of great interest to scholars in any number of fields, including U.S. and Mexican history as well as borderlands and transnational history." * Alexander Dawson, Simon Fraser University *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. THE BELOVED COMMUNITIES 1. A Symphony of Cultures 2. Shock Troops PART II. THE SCIENTIFIC STATE 3. The Language of Experience 4. The School and Society 5. The Yaqui Way of Life PART III. MEXICO AND THE ATTACK ON PLESSY 6. ''The Sun Has Exploded'': Integration and the California School 7. Texas and the Parallel Worlds of Civil Rights Epilogue. Pragmatism and the Decline of Dewey Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Human Rights Under African Constitutions
Book SynopsisSome of the most massive and persistent violations of human rights occur in African nations. In Human Rights Under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves, scholars from a wide range of fields present a sober, systematic assessment of the prospects for legal protection of human rights in Africa. In a series of detailed and highly contextual studies of Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, and Uganda, experts seek to balance the socioeconomic and political diversity of these nations while using the same theoretical framework of legal analysis for each case study.Standards for human rights protection can be realized only through direct and strong support from a nation''s legal and political institutions. The contributors to this volume uniformly conclude that a well-informed and motivated citizenry is the most powerful force for creating the political will necessary to effect change at the national Trade Review"The contributors maintain that a well-informed citizenry is the most powerful (and likely only) force for creating the political will necessary to effect change at the national level. There is no sitting on the fence. . . . The fundamental belief here is that human rights will only be realized once the African people claim their rights, make them their own, and demand their respect." * Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Truth Commissions
Book SynopsisSince the 1980s a number of countries have established truth commissions to come to terms with the legacy of past human rights violations, yet little is known about the achievements and shortcomings of this popular transitional justice tool. Drawing on research on Chile''s National Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Peru''s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and exploring the scholarship on thirteen other transitional contexts, Onur Bakiner evaluates the success of truth commissions in promoting policy reform, human rights accountability, and the public recognition of human rights violations. He argues that although political elites often see a truth commission as a convenient way to address past atrocities, the findings, historical narratives, and recommendations of such commissions often surprise, upset, and discredit influential political actors. Even when commissions produce only modest change as a result of political constraints, Bakiner contends, they open up new avenueTrade Review"Onur Bakiner has written a first-rate book that speaks to concerns and debates among students of transitional justice, qualitative methodologists and ethical-normative theorists. Moving well beyond the illuminating-but highly limited-descriptive literature on truth commissions, Bakiner develops a broader argument that captures their operation and impact, highlighting the politics at play. The argument is then tested in a series of narratives that are not only well written, but methodologically self-aware-a rare combination. For all the talk of 'mechanisms' and 'process tracing,' it is refreshing to read a book where they are analytic tools doing real work." * Jeffrey T. Checkel, Simon Fraser University *"Truth Commissions is a wonderful contribution to the increasingly robust scholarship on transitional justice. It brings a fresh perspective on why truth commissions are formed, how they operate under domestic political constraints, and what-if anything-their impact is on post-conflict societies. Through a detailed study of dozens of truth commissions around the world, Onur Bakiner carefully considers not only the pragmatic aspects of truth commissions, but also their ethical and normative impact on societies coming to terms with legacies of mass violence." * Jelena Subotic, author of Hijacked Justice: Dealing with the Past in the Balkans *"Truth Commissions makes an important contribution to scholarship on truth commissions, as well as scholarship on memory politics. It offers an original and compelling argument regarding the role and influence of truth commissions and a useful set of conceptual tools for framing analyses of truth commissions." * Bronwyn Anne Leebaw, University of California, Riverside *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. TRUTH, POWER, AND LEGITIMATION IN TRUTH COMMISSION PROCESSES Chapter 1. Definition and Conceptual History of Truth Commissions: What Are They? What Have They Become? Chapter 2. Speaking Truth to Power? The Politics of Truth Commissions Chapter 3. One Truth Among Others? Truth Commissions' Struggle for Truth and Memory PART II. ZOOMING IN: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH TRUTH COMMISSIONS Chapter 4. Truth Commission Impact: An Assessment of How Commissions Influence Politics and Society Chapter 5. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (I): Chile and Peru Chapter 6. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (II): Evidence from Thirteen Countries Chapter 7. Comparing Truth Commissions' Memory Narratives: Chile and Peru PART III. ZOOMING OUT: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PAST THROUGH TRUTH COMMISSIONS Chapter 8. Nation and (Its New) Narration: A Critical Reading of Truth Commissions Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Sovereignty Suspended
Book SynopsisA journey into de facto state-building based on ethnographic and archival research in the Turkish Republic of Northern CyprusWhat is de facto about the de facto state? In Sovereignty Suspended, this question guides Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay through a journey into de facto state-building, or the process of constructing an entity that looks like a state and acts like a state but that much of the world says does not or should not exist. In international law, the de facto state is one that exists in reality but remains unrecognized by other states. Nevertheless, such entities provide health care and social security, issue identity cards and passports, and interact with international aid donors. De facto states hold elections, conduct censuses, control borders, and enact fiscal policies. Indeed, most maintain representative offices in sovereign states and are able to unofficially communicate with officials. Bryant and Hatay develop the concept of the aporetic statTrade Review"This book is an extensive and critical study on the KKTC’s and Turkish Cypriots’ in-between/limbo history. It has a well-structured content and theoretical framework, consolidated by intelligible language and spot-on case analysis. Moreover, [Bryant and Hatay] strive to overcome antagonistic dichotomies and unilateral claims about unresolved Cyprus conflicts, such as representing Turkish Cypriots as victims and Turkey as their saviour by critically underlining the peculiarity of the building of KKTC and its subjects. Thus, their critical and genealogical approach to this frozen conflict contributes substantively to their outstanding work in this field." * Mediterranean Politics *"Sovereignty Suspended is a treat. Organizing their analysis around concerns with perceptions and (in)visibility, with recognition and (non-)naming, and with agency and modes of getting by, Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay have prepared two gifts for us: a riveting historical ethnography of the Turkish Cypriot sovereignty project, now embodied in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), and a sophisticated analytical toolbox to think through questions of sovereignty well beyond this ‘de facto’ state. What is particularly impressive is that those two contributions are developed in close interaction, giving the lie to the stereotypical division of labour between authors whose contribution is said to be ‘theoretical’ or ‘regional’ respectively...[R]ead Sovereignty Suspended. This is a big book: big on empirical insight, big on conceptualization...very big on inspiration. It’s big on volume too, and worth every page of it. " * History and Anthropology *"Part ethnography, part political theory, and part war memoir, Sovereignty Suspended is a valuable addition for anthropologists and scholars in adjacent disciplines working on issues of statecraft, borders, and political uncertainty. The book’s ethnographic and theoretical vigor is undeniable: it stems from, and supplements, a long corpus of previous collaborative work by the two authors." * American Anthropologist *"In a world in which such ambivalent, state-like entities seem to have proliferated, the case of northern Cyprus offers many useful lessons for understanding what statehood actually does-lessons that the authors of this insightful and original book artfully extract from a wonderful array of personal experience, documentary evidence, and ethnographic observation." * Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University *"Sovereignty Suspended is an absolute joy to read and easily one of the best books written on de facto states. Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay use their extensive knowledge and years of research on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to provide an extremely rich and original analysis of the processes of de facto state-building: how state-builders tried to make Turkish Cypriots perceptible and recognizable to the world, how this has resulted in a state that seems made up, and the resilient tactics that Turkish Cypriots have developed to go on with their lives. But Bryant and Hatay are not simply interested in state-building in de facto states, and their analysis allows them to reconceptualize sovereignty as capacity, as a form of institutionally realized agency. This is an important contribution which should make this impressive book of interest to anyone interested in state-building and sovereignty." * Nina Caspersen, University of York *"Sovereignty Suspended is a creative contribution to the cultural turn in state theory, presenting an original approach to state formation by focusing on the aspiration to statehood as a political and social situation sui generis, involving distinct methodological and theoretical problems for would-be citizens (as the authors call them) and scholars alike." * Carol Greenhouse, Princeton University *Table of ContentsPreface Note on Toponyms and Turkish Pronunciation Introduction. The Aporetic State Part I. The Border That Is Not One Chapter 1. Building a "Border" Chapter 2. Mastering the Landscape Chapter 3. Planting People Part II. Enacting the Aporetic State Chapter 4. The So-Called State Chapter 5. The Political Economy of Spoils Chapter 6. Federalism as Fetish Part III. The Aporetic Subject Chapter 7. Victim and Citizen Chapter 8. The Ambiguities of Domination Chapter 9. The Politics of Dis/simulation Conclusion. The Absurdity of the Aporia Appendix: Turkish Cypriot Institutions Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Migrant Citizenship
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Martínez-Matsuda provides a detailed glimpse into a moment of historical possibility that has many lessons for present-day advocates of civil rights for immigrant communities. Migrant Citizenship is powerfully written, exceptionally researched, and an outstanding contribution to the literature on immigration, labor, and citizenship studies." * Journal of American Ethnic History *"Migrant Citizenship tells a powerful story about how agricultural workers, Popular Front activists, and New Deal liberals reimagined the power of the state. Spanning multiple regions and communities, Martínez-Matsuda beautifully animates individuals, families, and communities." * Labor *"Verónica Martínez-Matsuda's research takes us far beyond John Steinbeck's Weedpatch Camp, the Joad family's gleaming refuge in The Grapes of Wrath (1939), to the multiracial, nationwide network of migrant labor camps as sites of contest over full national belonging and citizenship. . . . With archival research and oral histories from camps across the nation, including Texas and Florida as well as California, Martínez-Matsuda reveals the physical layout of FSA camps (110 total in 1942) as spaces that not only contained and disciplined residents but also formed the literal grounds for new connections, communities, and improved health and welfare." * Journal of American History *"In Migrant Citizenship, Martínez-Matsuda tells the hopeful story of a short-lived experiment by New Deal progressives to extend the era’s promise of robust citizenship and a dignified standard of living to farmworkers, including Mexican Americans and African Americans. While historians to date have dismissed the Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp program for its failures, Martínez-Matsuda foregrounds migrants’ own perspectives to hold it up as a useful example of historical possibility. The result challenges both the characterizations of the New Deal as having effectively ignored the rural poor and the overdetermined declensionist narratives of farmworkers’ rights in the face of twentieth-century agricultural capitalism." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"Migrant Citizenship is a magisterial study of the Farm Security Administration and the people it served. In an evocative work that speaks across several fields, Verónica Martínez-Matsuda reveals how FSA officials on the ground and in Washington challenged the political mind-set during World War II by expanding the range of services offered and the hopes for reform encoded within them, highlighting the agency's visionary experiments in democracy." * Vicki L. Ruiz, University of California, Irvine *"Verónica Martínez-Matsuda foregrounds the perseverance of the workers-especially Japanese and Mexican-who occupied agricultural labor camps in the 1930s and 1940s and drew upon the promises made during the New Deal to argue for 'civil rights' well before the concept applied to Latinx or Asian Americans. Her most important intervention may be her argument that the Farm Security Administration tried (and failed) to extend rights to noncitizens, anticipating the current vogue of rights regardless of citizenship. Migrant Citizenship will appeal to anyone interested in understanding the origins of farm worker activism in this country and the continued struggle to hold the state accountable for injustice in our food system." * Matt Garcia, author of From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Fighting Machines
Book SynopsisLethal autonomous weapons are weapon systems that can select and destroy targets without intervention by a human operator. Fighting Machines explores the relationship between lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS), the concept of human dignity, and international law. Much of this analysis speaks to three fundamental and related problems: When a LAWS takes a human life, is that killing a violation of human dignity? Can states and non-state actors use LAWS in accordance with international law? And are there certain responsibilities of human decision-making during wartime that we should not delegate to machines?In the book, Dan Saxon argues that the use of LAWS to take human life constitutes a violation of human dignity. Rather than concentrating on the victims of the use of lethal force, Saxon instead focuses on the technology and relevant legal principles and rules to advance several propositions. First, as LAWS operate at increasingly greater speeds, their use will undermine Trade ReviewLethal autonomous weapons systems – ‘killer robots’ — are no longer the stuff of science fiction. Their champions argue that taking targeting decisions out of the hands of fallible humans will save lives in wartime. In this powerful and rigorously reasoned critique, legal expert Dan Saxon warns that very soon the speed and complexity of the weapons will make it impossible to keep human decision makers in the loop. The result is a disastrous loss of responsibility – and responsibility lies at the heart of war fighters’ human dignity and capacity for empathy. This is the best book I know on the law and morality of autonomous weapons systems. * David Luban, Georgetown University Law Center *Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the moral and legal challenges posed by the use of lethal autonomous weapons. Saxon adeptly traverses multiple bodies of law to examine how such weapons will erode moral agency, human dignity, and international law. * Sarah Knuckey, Columbia Law School *
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida To Render Invisible
Book SynopsisWhat defines a city’s public space? Who designates such areas, who determines their uses, and who gets to use them? Robert Cassanello uses nineteenth-century Jacksonville as both backdrop and springboard to explore social transformation in Florida and the South. This is the first book to focus on the emergence of African American public life in Jacksonville between Reconstruction and the 1920s.
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Rutgers University Press Calculating Visions Kennedy Johnson and Civil Rights Perspectives on the Sixties Perspectives on the Sixties series
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Rutgers University Press Forever Suspect Racialized Surveillance of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Well researched and to provide a rich account of the experiences of two communities of Muslim Americans after September 11 without being too generalizing or overreaching." — American Journal of Sociology "Saher Selod makes a major contribution to conversations around anti-Muslim sentiment by focusing on the way gender impacts not only how Muslims are profiled and policed, but also how Muslims’ response to surveillance is gendered. She provides a clear, well-organized, and nuanced account of Arab and South Asian Muslims’ unstable relationship with power, privilege, and citizenship in the United States post-9/11. Selod’s work forces scholars and activists to move past a one-size-fits-all approach to dismantling anti-Muslim racism, instead recognizing the importance of intersectionality."— American Religion "Selod skillfully blends decades of survey data with recent ethnographic research, drawing on personal interviews she conducted with family members and interview subjects in the metropolitan areas of Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth. Selod carefully lays out the political and economic context of the US 'war on terror' and provides useful historical perspective on the status and experience of Arab and South Asian immigrants within the US, prior to and after September 2001. Selod does a particularly astute job of illuminating the rhetorical processes by which Muslim men and women have been constructed as threatening and/or threatened bodies."— TDR "Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub— Chronicle of Higher Education "This is the book we’ve been waiting for. Scholars of Muslim Americans have long needed a rigorous study of how Muslims get racialized during the War on Terror. Saher Selod has not only provided us with the answers we were seeking but importantly shows how this racialization is both profoundly gendered and deeply institutionalized into today’s surveillance state. A necessary book for our time."— Moustafa Bayoumi, author of This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror "There is a deep-seated stigmatization of Muslims in the U.S. today. Forever Suspect offers a portrait of this stigmatization and also offers a framework for understanding its character. Selod's work is a fine addition to the sociology of race and ethnicity, immigration, and the Muslim American experience."— Nazli Kibria, author of Muslims in Motion: Islam and National Identity in the Bangladeshi DiasporaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Moving from South Asian and Arab Identity to a Muslim Identity 2 Flying While Muslim: State Surveillance of Muslim Americans in US Airports 3 Citizen Surveillance 4 Self-Discipline or Resistance?: Muslim American Men and Women’s Responses to their Hyper Surveillance 5 Shifting Racial Terrain for Muslim Americans: The Impact of Racialized Surveillance Conclusion: The Future for Muslims in America Appendix A Acknowledgments References Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Forever Suspect Racialized Surveillance of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Well researched and to provide a rich account of the experiences of two communities of Muslim Americans after September 11 without being too generalizing or overreaching." — American Journal of Sociology "Saher Selod makes a major contribution to conversations around anti-Muslim sentiment by focusing on the way gender impacts not only how Muslims are profiled and policed, but also how Muslims’ response to surveillance is gendered. She provides a clear, well-organized, and nuanced account of Arab and South Asian Muslims’ unstable relationship with power, privilege, and citizenship in the United States post-9/11. Selod’s work forces scholars and activists to move past a one-size-fits-all approach to dismantling anti-Muslim racism, instead recognizing the importance of intersectionality."— American Religion "Selod skillfully blends decades of survey data with recent ethnographic research, drawing on personal interviews she conducted with family members and interview subjects in the metropolitan areas of Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth. Selod carefully lays out the political and economic context of the US 'war on terror' and provides useful historical perspective on the status and experience of Arab and South Asian immigrants within the US, prior to and after September 2001. Selod does a particularly astute job of illuminating the rhetorical processes by which Muslim men and women have been constructed as threatening and/or threatened bodies."— TDR "Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub— Chronicle of Higher Education "This is the book we’ve been waiting for. Scholars of Muslim Americans have long needed a rigorous study of how Muslims get racialized during the War on Terror. Saher Selod has not only provided us with the answers we were seeking but importantly shows how this racialization is both profoundly gendered and deeply institutionalized into today’s surveillance state. A necessary book for our time."— Moustafa Bayoumi, author of This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror "There is a deep-seated stigmatization of Muslims in the U.S. today. Forever Suspect offers a portrait of this stigmatization and also offers a framework for understanding its character. Selod's work is a fine addition to the sociology of race and ethnicity, immigration, and the Muslim American experience."— Nazli Kibria, author of Muslims in Motion: Islam and National Identity in the Bangladeshi DiasporaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Moving from South Asian and Arab Identity to a Muslim Identity 2 Flying While Muslim: State Surveillance of Muslim Americans in US Airports 3 Citizen Surveillance 4 Self-Discipline or Resistance?: Muslim American Men and Women’s Responses to their Hyper Surveillance 5 Shifting Racial Terrain for Muslim Americans: The Impact of Racialized Surveillance Conclusion: The Future for Muslims in America Appendix A Acknowledgments References Index
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Rutgers University Press Liberal Christianity and Womens Global Activism
Book SynopsisReligiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn of the late twentieth century. Izzo argues that contrary to this view, the liberal wings of Christian churches have remained an instrumental presence in U.S. and transnational politics, and that women make up a large proportion of these activists. Trade Review"Amanda Izzo’s book is a revelation. Two intertwining stories--the Maryknoll sisters going from cold warriors to dissidents, and the YWCA as the target of anti-communist repression-- together demonstrate how faith in the power of love propelled Christian women’s political agendas on a world stage in the 20th century." -- Ann Braude * author of Sisters and Saints: Women and American Religion *"In this crisply-written and illuminating account, Amanda Izzo tells the story of two women's associations, the Protestant YWCA and the Catholic Maryknoll sisters. Following dramatically different routes along the way, the groups' politics converged in the 1960s and 70s, becoming powerful forces for social justice at home and abroad. Izzo treats both strands of this important alliance with nuance and insight, suggesting how far creeds of Christian love took the American people – and how far we have to go." -- Jane Hunter * author of Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China *"Amanda Izzo's wonderful excavation of early twentieth century women's activism among liberal Catholics and Protestants casts new light everywhere. Izzo stresses liberalism's activist energy, Maryknoll and YWCA globalism, and, ultimately, the importance of women’s religious activism in the global human rights movement. Beautifully researched and even more beautifully written, Liberal Christianity and Women’s Global Activism illuminates the exceptional reach of women’s activism across religions and world borders.” -- Jon Butler * Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies Yale Univ. *"Pg. 99: Amanda Izzo's 'Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism'" by Marshal Zeringue * Campaign for the American Reader *"The Author’s Corner with Amanda Izzo" * The Way of Improvement Leads Home *"Weekly Book List, April 27, 2018" compiled by Nina Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *Izzo's work contributes to the ever-expanding history of feminisms, especially at the intersection of religious commitment and social justice activism. Izzo's effective use of sources and clear writing and organization makes this text a good choice for advanced undergraduate courses exploring women and religion, social activism and world Christianity, and gender, politics, and religion." * Journal of American History *"Such an interesting book! The parallels and differences between the YMCA movement and the Maryknoll Sisters make for fascinating feminist history. Both organizations have had far wider and deeper impacts than their mere numbers would suggest. Both have shaped and empowered their members and the broader society. These groups incarnate justice and equality for women and BIPOC. This study captures their essences and displays their achievements in relief against formidable patriarchal odds." * Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Women and Christian Fellowship in the Early Twentieth Century 15 1 “Life More Abundant”: The YWCA and the Social Gospel 19 2 “By Love, Serve One Another”: Foreign Mission and the Changing Meanings of Evangelization 44 3 “Hidden and Effective Service”: The Maryknoll Sisters Enter the Mission Field 66 Part II: From the Popular Front and American Century to the New Frontier 89 4 “Dare We Be as Radical as Our Religion Demands?”: Christian Activism and the Long Red Scare 93 5 A “Fifth Column for God”: The Maryknoll Sisters at Midcentury 124 Part III: “The Ferment of Freedom” 153 6 “We Choose to Identify with the Church of the Poor”: Preferential Option in Action 159 7 “The Nuns Were Not Just Nuns”: Foreign Mission and Foreign Policy 191 Epilogue 215 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 223 Selected Bibliography 257 Index 267
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Rutgers University Press Liberal Christianity and Womens Global Activism
Book SynopsisReligiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn of the late twentieth century. Izzo argues that contrary to this view, the liberal wings of Christian churches have remained an instrumental presence in U.S. and transnational politics, and that women make up a large proportion of these activists. Trade Review"Amanda Izzo’s book is a revelation. Two intertwining stories--the Maryknoll sisters going from cold warriors to dissidents, and the YWCA as the target of anti-communist repression-- together demonstrate how faith in the power of love propelled Christian women’s political agendas on a world stage in the 20th century." -- Ann Braude * author of Sisters and Saints: Women and American Religion *"In this crisply-written and illuminating account, Amanda Izzo tells the story of two women's associations, the Protestant YWCA and the Catholic Maryknoll sisters. Following dramatically different routes along the way, the groups' politics converged in the 1960s and 70s, becoming powerful forces for social justice at home and abroad. Izzo treats both strands of this important alliance with nuance and insight, suggesting how far creeds of Christian love took the American people – and how far we have to go." -- Jane Hunter * author of Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China *"Amanda Izzo's wonderful excavation of early twentieth century women's activism among liberal Catholics and Protestants casts new light everywhere. Izzo stresses liberalism's activist energy, Maryknoll and YWCA globalism, and, ultimately, the importance of women’s religious activism in the global human rights movement. Beautifully researched and even more beautifully written, Liberal Christianity and Women’s Global Activism illuminates the exceptional reach of women’s activism across religions and world borders.” -- Jon Butler * Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies Yale Univ. *"Pg. 99: Amanda Izzo's 'Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism'" by Marshal Zeringue * Campaign for the American Reader *"The Author’s Corner with Amanda Izzo" * The Way of Improvement Leads Home *"Weekly Book List, April 27, 2018" compiled by Nina Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *Izzo's work contributes to the ever-expanding history of feminisms, especially at the intersection of religious commitment and social justice activism. Izzo's effective use of sources and clear writing and organization makes this text a good choice for advanced undergraduate courses exploring women and religion, social activism and world Christianity, and gender, politics, and religion." * Journal of American History *"Such an interesting book! The parallels and differences between the YMCA movement and the Maryknoll Sisters make for fascinating feminist history. Both organizations have had far wider and deeper impacts than their mere numbers would suggest. Both have shaped and empowered their members and the broader society. These groups incarnate justice and equality for women and BIPOC. This study captures their essences and displays their achievements in relief against formidable patriarchal odds." * Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Women and Christian Fellowship in the Early Twentieth Century 15 1 “Life More Abundant”: The YWCA and the Social Gospel 19 2 “By Love, Serve One Another”: Foreign Mission and the Changing Meanings of Evangelization 44 3 “Hidden and Effective Service”: The Maryknoll Sisters Enter the Mission Field 66 Part II: From the Popular Front and American Century to the New Frontier 89 4 “Dare We Be as Radical as Our Religion Demands?”: Christian Activism and the Long Red Scare 93 5 A “Fifth Column for God”: The Maryknoll Sisters at Midcentury 124 Part III: “The Ferment of Freedom” 153 6 “We Choose to Identify with the Church of the Poor”: Preferential Option in Action 159 7 “The Nuns Were Not Just Nuns”: Foreign Mission and Foreign Policy 191 Epilogue 215 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 223 Selected Bibliography 257 Index 267
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Turning the Page Storytelling as Activism in
Book SynopsisCombining a close analysis of specific films and video programs with extensive interviews of industry professionals, Turning the Page demonstrates how queer storytelling in visual media has the potential to empower individuals, strengthen communities, and motivate social justice activism.Trade Review"Coon offers well-developed, insightful analyses of specific media texts that have received little if no critical attention by queer scholars. In writing Turning the Page, Coon blazes a new trail in queer media studies." -- Stephen Tropiano * author of Rebels & Chicks: A History of Hollywood Teen Movies *"Pg. 99: David R. Coon's 'Turning the Page'" feature reposted on Campaign for the American Reader by Marshal Zeringue * Campaign for the American Reader *"David R. Coon's 'Turning the Page' Page 99 Test," by Marshal Zeringue * The 99 Page Test *"An impressive work of original and seminal scholarship...Turning the Page is unreservedly recommended for community and academic library LGBTQ Studies, Film/Media Studies, and Gender Studies collections." * Midwest Book Review *"What Are Writers Reading" spotlight with David R. Coon by Marshal Zeringue * Writers Read *"Coon is a fine companion to Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary." * Choice *"In the Life collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive essay from Turning the Page," by David R. Coon https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/inthelife/history/life-and-archive-20-years-facts-and-feelings * In the Life - UCLA Film and Television Archive *"Coon compels readers to consider the radical, democratizing potentialities of film, television, and other forms of visual media in representing queer experiences and perspectives." * JHistory (H-Net) *"Turning the Page offers readers a concise exploration of film and television as sites for LGBTQ advocacy and activism. He exposes them to a wide array of theoretical debates and methodological frameworks in the fields of queer history and media studies. He demonstrates how they are increasingly formative to the queer experience as sites of community building and knowledge production." * H-Net *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Telling Stories for Social Change 1 Challenging Oppressive Myths: LGBTQ Activism and Storytelling 2 Documenting and Preserving Stories from the LGBTQ Movements: In the Life Media 3 Training Filmmakers and Educating Audiences: POWER UP 4 Connecting Diverse Communities through Film and Media Festivals: Three Dollar Bill Cinema 5 Developing the Next Generation of Storytellers: Reel Queer Youth Conclusion: Stories of Some of Our Lives Appendix Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Rutgers University Press The New Black Middle Class in the TwentyFirst
Book SynopsisThe New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century is a continuing study of black middle class life. Landry examines the changes that have occurred since the publication of his now-classic The New Black Middle Class, and conducts a comprehensive examination of black middle class American life in the early decades of the twenty-first century. Trade Review"The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century is an important piece of scholarship that details the characteristics, experiences, and concerns of a still understudied subset of the U.S. Black population." -- Camille Zubrinsky Charles * University of Pennsylvania *"There is no better way to understand the new Black middle class than to hear directly from them. Landry brings statistics to life and offers an important story about the potential of strong and economically stable Black communities." -- Mary Patillo * author of Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class *"The Kojo Nnamdi Show" interview with Bart Landry - "How The Black Middle Class Is Growing And Changing" * WAMA "Kojo Nnamdi Show" *"Highly recommended." * Choice *BBC Sounds "Thinking Aloud" interview with Bart Landry, "The Changing Middle Class" * BBC "Thinking Aloud" *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The New Black Middle Class and the Demographics of the Twenty-First Century 2 Suburbanization of the New Black Middle Class 3 Changing Neighborhoods 4 Pick up the Newspaper We’re Out of Town 5 Catch 22 6 Educating the New Black Middle Class 7 From School to Work 8 Income and Wealth 9 The Next Generation 10 Afterword: 2007 to the Present 11 Conclusion: The Twenty-First Century Appendix Acknowledgements Notes Index
£105.40
New York University Press First Person Political Legislative Life and the
Book SynopsisThrough moving personal interviews, the author allows legislators to tell their own stories about how and why they came to politics, the experience of serving in their state legislature, their decisions to stay or leave, and the many trials they face in the name of public service. He contends that these politicians do have the public good in mind.Trade ReviewFirst Person Political fills an important void in our understanding of politicians and politics. Through a combination of surveys and the tools of the political scientist, Reeher provides for the reader both empathy and insight into what makes politicians tick at the state legislative level. We may not like what our state legislators do, but reading this work will help us understand much better who we elect and the constraints that operate on them. -- Thomas J. Volgy,author of Politics in the Trenches: Citizens, Politicians, and the Fate of DemocracyFirst Person Political illuminates why people run for and serve in state legislatures from the standpoint of the legislators themselves and in a way that increases our appreciation of representative democracy. Part of the charm of this book is that it is intensely personal and, therefore, compelling. -- Karl Kurtz,co-author of Republic on Trial: The Case for Representative DemocracyAn informative, sophisticated, and entertaining book. Reehers interviews with three sets of state lawmakers in three distinct legislatures provide candor, real food for thought, and wonderful insights. First Person Political stands as a real contribution to understanding legislative politics, the people who practice these politics, and how to gently nudge politicians to provide candid glimpses of their world. -- Burdett Loomis,co-author of The Sound of Money: How Political Interest Groups Get What They WantAt a time when public disillusionment with elected leaders and political institutions is increasing rapidly, it is refreshing to read a book that highlights the selfless nature of public service. . . . This is a wonderful read. The book realistically portrays the various stages in a legislator’s life and the challenges one faces while in office. * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Introduction: The Sickness Unto Politics 2 Arriving 3 Serving 4 Staying and Going 5 Falling Down and Standing Up Appendix: Methods and Contexts Notes References Index About the Author
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Poetry Politics and the Law in Modern Ireland
Book SynopsisProvides a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws, judgments, and constitutions of both of the island’s jurisdictions. This volume is the first in the growing field of law and literature to monograph exclusively on modern Ireland.
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John Wiley & Sons Poetry Politics and the Law in Modern Ireland
Book SynopsisProvides a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws, judgments, and constitutions of both of the island’s jurisdictions. This volume is the first in the growing field of law and literature to monograph exclusively on modern Ireland.
£53.55
University of Minnesota Press Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Christina Gerken has hold of a crucial issue, and her fine book makes clear that we have to confront the neoliberal paradigm to address questions of immigrant rights." —Rachel Ida Buff, University of Wisconsin, MilwaukeeTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Building a Neoliberal Consensus1. Exclusionary Acts: A Brief History of U.S. Immigration Laws2. Family Values and Moral Obligations: The Logic of Congressional Rhetoric3. Dehumanizing the Undocumented: The Legislative Language of Illegality4. Manufacturing the Crisis: Encoded Racism in the Daily Press5. Entrepreneurial Spirits and Individual Failures: The Neoliberal Human Interest StoryConclusion: Legacies of Failed ReformAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.79
The University of Alabama Press Argentina and the Jews A History of Jewish Immigration Judaic Studies
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£26.96
The University of Alabama Press Martin Luther King Jr. Heroism and African
Book SynopsisAfrican American writers have incorporated Martin Luther King Jr. into their work since he rose to prominence in the mid-1950s. Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature is a study by award-winning author Trudier Harris of King's character and persona as captured and reflected in works of African American literature.
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The University of Alabama Press Standing Before the Shouting Mob Lenoir Chambers
Book SynopsisA portrayal of Lenoir Chambers' campaign for racial justice.Trade ReviewThe book's principal contribution is its persuasive portrait of a thoroughly admirable and courageous journalist.... An important, well-researched, and well-written contribution. - Journal of American History ""Chambers was among only four of 53 southern journalists who consistently supported the 1954 Brown decision, [and] he received the Pulitzer Prize for his influential editorials - the Pilot was second in circulation among Virginia's newspapers - during Norfolk's school closings. Chambers represented, writes Leidholdt, the best of the South: genteel manners, courage, democratic beliefs, adherence to law, and rejection of intolerance."" - Journal of Southern History
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press A Time to Speak
Book SynopsisBrings back into print a classic account of courage and calamity in the long march towards racial justice in the South, and the nation.
£15.26
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Boy from Georgia Coming of Age in the Segregated South
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Grapevine of the Black South The Scott
Book SynopsisOffers the first critical history of the influential Southern Newspaper Syndicate, from its roots in the 1930s through its end in the 1950s. At its heyday, more than 240 papers were associated with the Syndicate, making it one of the biggest organs of the black press during the period leading up to the classic civil rights era (1955-68).
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LUP - University of Georgia Press SNCCs Stories The African American Freedom Movement in the Civil Rights South
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LUP - University of Georgia Press SNCCs Stories The African American Freedom Movement in the Civil Rights South
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Poor Peoples Campaign of 1968
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Poor Peoples Campaign of 1968
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood White Women Class and Segregation
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood White Women Class and Segregation
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Canaan Dim and Far Black Reformers and the
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LUP - University of Georgia Press A Day I Aint Never Seen Before Remembering the
Book SynopsisThe Black people of Marks, Mississippi, and other rural southern towns were the backbone of the civil rights movement, yet their stories have rarely been celebrated. Part memoir, part oral history, and part historical study, this book tells the story of the struggle for equality and dignity through the words of these largely unknown men and women.
£138.17
Duke University Press Necro Citizenship
Book SynopsisIn Necro Citizenship Russ Castronovo argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound to—and even dependent on—death. Deploying an impressive range of literary and cultural texts, Castronovo interrogates an American public sphere that fetishized death as a crucial point of political identification. This morbid politics idealized disembodiment over embodiment, spiritual conditions over material ones, amnesia over history, and passivity over engagement.Moving from medical engravings, séances, and clairvoyant communication to Supreme Court decisions, popular literature, and physiological tracts, Necro Citizenship explores how rituals of inclusion and belonging have generated alienation and dispossession. Castronovo contends that citizenship does violence to bodies, especially those of blacks, women, and workers. “Necro ideology,” he argues, supplied citizens with the means to think aboTrade Review“Liberty and death? Citizenship and necrophilia? The conjunction ‘and’ is shocking and is meant to shock. Russ Castronovo sees American political life as the burial ground of many corpses, literal as well as metaphoric. With ruthless determination he digs these up, examines their tell-tale remains, and, in the process, offers a trenchant critique of some consequences of American democracy.”—Wai Chee Dimock, author of Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, PhilosophyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Democray’s Graveyard 1. Political Necrophilia Freedom and the Longing for Dead Citizenship 2. “The Slavery of Man to Himself” White Male Sexuality, Self-Reliance, and Bondage 3. “That Half-Living Corpse” Female Mediums, Séances, and the Occult Public Sphere 4. The “Black Arts” of Citizenship Africanist Origins of White Interiority 5. De-Naturalizing Citizenship Afterword Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Pittsburgh Press Claiming Brazil
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University of Pittsburgh Press Struggles of Voice
Book SynopsisConsiders Ecuador's united indigenous movement and compares it to the more fragmented situation in Bolivia. This book analyzes the mechanisms at work in political and social structures to explain the different outcomes in various cases.
£38.95
University of Pittsburgh Press Equality and Revolution
Book SynopsisRuthchild's study reveals that Russian feminists were an integral force for revolution and social change, particularly during the monumental uprisings of 1905-1917.
£42.75
University of Pittsburgh Press Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador
Book SynopsisChronicles the changing forms of indigenous engagement with the Ecuadorian state since the early nineteenth century that grew into the strongest unified indigenous movement in Latin America. Nine case studies examine how indigenous peoples have attempted to claim control over state formation in order to improve their position in society.
£42.75
University of Pittsburgh Press Race and the Chilean Miracle Neoliberalism Democracy and Indigenous Rights Pitt Latin American Series
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University of Pittsburgh Press Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship Pitt Latin American Series
Book SynopsisCastilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how the abolition debates in Pernambuco transformed the practices of political citizenship and marked the first instance of a mass national political mobilization.
£38.95
University of Pittsburgh Press Making Citizens in Argentina
Book SynopsisMaking Citizens in Argentina charts the evolving meanings of citizenship in Argentina from the 1880s to the 1980s. Against the backdrop of immigration, science, race, sport, populist rule, and dictatorship, the contributors analyze the power of the Argentine state and other social actors to set the boundaries of citizenship.
£42.63
Fordham University Press The Dream Life of Citizens
Book SynopsisAn historical and political reading of late-nineteenth-century British novels by Olive Schreiner, Thomas Hardy, George Gissing, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. A. Henty, and Sarah Grand. Examines how these novels represent the emergence of a fantasy of the state as a heroic actor.Trade ReviewThe most ingenious suggestion of The Dream Life of Citizens is its most implicit: if the state is imagined, then so is its citizenry...One of the most rewarding aspects of Aslami's book is that it never loses sight of how nationalism and the modern state emerged coevally, and meticulously marks the points of contact between the two. * —Nineteenth-Century Literature *“This study has great potential as a contribution to literary and cultural studies scholarship on the late Victorian period. Its thoughtful close readings of key works by Schreiner, Hardy, Gissing, and Grand, together with its highly innovative treatment of ‘Victorian Afghanistan,’ will be of great interest to scholars in the field.”---—Ann Ardis, University of DelawareAslami's study is impressively far-ranging. . .---Aaron Worth, Boston University, —Victorian Studies
£48.60
University of Hawai'i Press Homing
Book SynopsisInvestigates the experiences of legacy migrants - later-generation diaspora Koreans who return' to South Korea - from China, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the United States. Homing addresses some of the most vexing and pressing issues of contemporary transnational migration and highlights their affective dimensions.
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University of Missouri Press The First Amendment Lives On
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University of Missouri Press Left in the Midwest
Book SynopsisOffers fifteen scholarly contributions - both original works and previously published - that together bring into focus the exceptional range of progressive activist initiatives that took shape in a single Midwestern city during the 1960s and 1970s.Trade Review“While historical in nature, this book is very timely. At a time when cities are crumbling and facing similar social justice and economic issues, this book will help a new generation of activists and leaders to figure out the best strategies to effect change."—as Sullivan, Louisiana State University, co-author of Dimensions of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Beliefs“An important corrective to common assumptions about the undisturbed conservatism of St. Louis, according to which the Ferguson uprising ‘came out of nowhere,’ and also an excellent, more general roadmap of progressive politics in the United States in the mid-twentieth century. Izzo and Looker’s collection will richly repay the attentive reader; its conceptual reach far exceeds the progressive politics of this one midwestern city."—Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University, author of Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis, Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era“In addition to offering more than a dozen great stories of life in the Gateway City, Left in the Midwest presents two lessons useful to historians and activists from any city, anywhere: first, a savvy untangling of the intertwined networks of people who worked to promote social, political, racial, and gender equality in postwar America; second, a model for putting left and liberal activism ‘in its place’—in this case, the streets and neighborhoods in which citizens worked, played, and worshipped as they struggled to build a better world."—Eric Sandweiss, Indiana University, author of St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape
£36.05
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Making Aztl225n Ideology and Culture of the
Book SynopsisProvides a long-needed overview of the Chicana and Chicano movement’s social history as it grew, flourished, and then slowly fragmented. The authors narrative offers an assessment of US society and the Mexican American community at a critical time, offering a unique understanding of its civic progress toward a more equitable social order.
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