Civics and citizenship Books

Book SynopsisRecently, many critics have questioned the idea of universal citizenship by pointing to the racial, class, and gendered exclusions on which the notion of universality rests. Rather than jettison the idea of universal citizenship, however, R. Andrés Guzmán builds on these critiques to reaffirm it especially within the fields of Latina/o and ethnic studies. Beyond conceptualizing citizenship as an outcome of recognition and admittance by the nation-state—in a negotiation for the right to have rights—he asserts that, insofar as universal citizenship entails a forceful entrance into the political from the latter’s foundational exclusions, it emerges at the limits of legality and illegality via a process that exceeds identitarian capture.Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosopher Alain Badiou’s notion of “generic politics,” Guzmán advances his argument through close analyses of various literary, cultural, and Trade ReviewGuzmán’s incisive approach to the role of identity in Latino studies and broader collective group formation offers a timely intervention that will serve scholars in numerous disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. A compelling read that adds necessary revisions to understandings of undocumentation in Latino studies and of migration more broadly, Guzmán’s text offers a nuanced perspective on political action and structural change. By moving in scale from the individual’s relation to the self to the individual’s relationship to broader society, Guzmán activates a wide range of methods for cohering the social into radical democratic acts, offering new ways to approach the subject at the limits of identity and the nation-state. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Universal Citizenship at the Limits of Nature and Culture Chapter 1. Cause and Consistency: The Democratic Act, Universal Citizenship, and Nation Chapter 2. Ethnics of the Real: HB 2281 and the Alien(ated) Subject Chapter 3. Criminalization at the Edge of the Evental Site: Migrant “Illegality,” Universal Citizenship, and the 2006 Immigration Marches Chapter 4. Oscar “Zeta” Acosta and Generic Politics: At the Margins of Identity and Law Chapter 5. Between Crowd and Group: Fantasy, Revolutionary Nation, and the Politics of the Not-All Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive biography of a formidable civil rights activist and feminist whose grassroots organizing in Texas made her an influential voice in the fight for equal rights for Mexican Americans.Trade ReviewAgent of Change presents a compelling argument that Adela Sloss-Vento deserves a place of honor in American history, especially Texas history, as a passionately persistent activist and archivist of the Mexican American civil rights and Chicano movements. * Lone Star Literary Life *[Agent of Change] presents a timely critical investigation into one Latinx activist who shaped Texas, US, and women’s history. * Ms. Magazine *By writing a biography of Sloss-Vento, Orozco eloquently gives readers an understanding into the everyday life of middle-class Mexican American women who have shaped community concerns into political issues. Adela Sloss-Vento’s biography is first of its kind, this book pushes the field of Latinx history to consider what women’s lives can tell about state and national debates, such as civic engagement, civil rights, and gendered expectations. * New Books Network: Latino Studies *Superb...In Agent of Change, Cynthia E. Orozco has marshalled in-depth materials that convincingly spell out how Adela Sloss-Vento took on the powerful and proved herself to be a committed, smart, and tough servant of her people...This essential and timely book reinforces her significance to that cause and to Mexican American history. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Orozco gives an outspoken, complex activist her due in this compelling biography. * Book Riot *Agent of Change is a masterfully written biography that makes a dynamic contribution to Mexican American and Latina/o history. Thanks to Orozco’s work, historians and scholars alike can no longer omit Mexican American women’s importance to Texas and civil rights activities. * Western Historical Quarterly *[An] impressive study of Sloss-Vento...Agent of Change gives Sloss-Vento her full due...Agent of Change breaks new ground by showcasing how a woman played a significant, if mostly unheralded, role in the movement for Mexican American equal rights…[a] compelling and splendidly researched story. * Journalism History *A solid and retrospective review of [Adela Sloss-Vento's] life that is also a study of the Mexican American civil rights movement in Texas from 1920 to 1970 and beyond...Orozco describes her vault from obscurity to historical significance eloquently, using the events of the Mexican American and Chicano civil rights movements as steppingstones in Sloss-Vento’s career. * Corpus Christi Caller-Times *Adela Sloss-Vento was a trailblazing Mexican American feminist and Democratic Party activist across eight decades, long before most other women of La Raza had the opportunity in Texas. Agent of Change skillfully restores this pioneering woman to her place in Latina history, making this book an invaluable and well-recommended resource for an array of disciplines. * Chiricú Journal *This biography is a corrective and offers an example of how one might recover the lost intellectual histories of marginalized women of color in the twentieth century who sought to have their voices heard...Orozco’s book helps us get a better understanding of the not fully excavated intellectual history of Mexican Americans in the United States and is a welcome addition to Chicanx history. * American Historical Review *[A] powerful historical chronicle of Adela Sloss-Vento’s life as a Mexican American civil rights activist and Texas feminist...Orozco has an uncanny ability for uncovering historical figures that have been excluded from the list of civil rights champions in U.S. history, and this volume gives Sloss-Vento her rightful place in the pantheon of relentless warriors...Agent of Change should be read by all interested in public and organic intellectuals...History owes a debt of gratitude to Orozco for placing Mexican American women in U.S. and Texas civil rights and women’s history. * Journal of American History *Inspirational. Ingenious. Audacious. Revolutionary. These are the words that come to mind as the story and contributions of Adela Sloss-Vento unfold across the pages of this important contribution and necessary analysis of twentieth-century activism, feminism, and negotiation in Texas. * Pacific Historical Review *Orozco’s biography of Sloss-Vento adds to the historiography of Borderlands studies; more specifically, it adds to the study of women in Borderlands, Mexican American women, and Latinas in the United States. By examining Sloss-Vento as an agent of social, cultural, and intellectual change, Orozco contributes to a broader conversation on women, gender, and ethnic studies. Furthermore, Orozco’s work uncovers a previously omitted history and examines the gender nuances within the Mexican American civil rights and Chicano movements. * New Mexico Historial Review *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Across Time Chapter 1. Civil Rights Leader, Public Intellectual, and Feminist Chapter 2. The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, 1920–1950 Chapter 3. The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, 1950–1963 Chapter 4. The Chicano Movement of 1963–1978 and Beyond Part II. Personas Chapter 5. Feminist in the Gendered Mexican American Civil Rights Movement Chapter 6. Public Intellectual Chapter 7. Democrat in the United States and Democrat for Mexico Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChris Ingraham shows that gestures of concern, such as sharing or liking a post on social media, are central to establishing the necessary conditions for larger social or political change because they help to build the affective communities that orient us to one another with an imaginable future in mind.Trade Review“Chris Ingraham is a lively and engaging writer. While crafting beautiful prose he exhibits remarkable patience with trivial—often ephemeral—objects. Thus, he gives us ample opportunity to appreciate their public relevance and the role they play in helping to constitute public life in the internet age. And all of this he draws under the aegis of ‘gestures of concern’—a gem of a concept that makes a significant contribution to rhetoric, political theory, and public sphere theory.” -- Ted Striphas, author of * The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control *“Laying out precisely why gestures of concern are significant and reminding us that there are never any empty gestures, Chris Ingraham offers a timely response to a certain reductive political discourse that sees meaning only in terms of representation. This book is a real pleasure to read.” -- Jenny Rice, author of * Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis *“Ingraham’s wide-ranging engagement with rhetoric, artistic production, political engagement, and participatory culture makes his book of interest to those readers attracted to an interdisciplinary approach to cultural studies.” -- Nicole Dib * Lateral *“[The] unfinished, uncertain, future-oriented dimension of the gesture is one of the key ideas in [Gestures of Concern], and it will help scholars in a number of fields push beyond critical practices that are too certain of themselves.” -- Jim Brown * Rhetoric Society Quarterly *“Ingraham’s book is a timely investigation. In a period in which we are inundated by information and noise, he hopes to turn our attention to the quieter participatory acts ordinary people perform.... This work is an insightful look at the power of our concern.” -- Ashleigh Angus * Continuum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Shape We're In 1 1. Idiot Winds 23 2. Stickiness 51 3. Democratizing Creativity, Curating Culture 78 4. Citizen Artists, Citizen Critics 108 5. Uncommonwealth 133 6. Affective Commonwealths 161 Epilogue. The Poet and the Anthropocene 187 Notes 197 Bibliography 225 Index

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Book SynopsisChris Ingraham shows that gestures of concern, such as sharing or liking a post on social media, are central to establishing the necessary conditions for larger social or political change because they help to build the affective communities that orient us to one another with an imaginable future in mind.Trade Review“Chris Ingraham is a lively and engaging writer. While crafting beautiful prose he exhibits remarkable patience with trivial—often ephemeral—objects. Thus, he gives us ample opportunity to appreciate their public relevance and the role they play in helping to constitute public life in the internet age. And all of this he draws under the aegis of ‘gestures of concern’—a gem of a concept that makes a significant contribution to rhetoric, political theory, and public sphere theory.” -- Ted Striphas, author of * The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control *“Laying out precisely why gestures of concern are significant and reminding us that there are never any empty gestures, Chris Ingraham offers a timely response to a certain reductive political discourse that sees meaning only in terms of representation. This book is a real pleasure to read.” -- Jenny Rice, author of * Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis *“Ingraham’s wide-ranging engagement with rhetoric, artistic production, political engagement, and participatory culture makes his book of interest to those readers attracted to an interdisciplinary approach to cultural studies.” -- Nicole Dib * Lateral *“[The] unfinished, uncertain, future-oriented dimension of the gesture is one of the key ideas in [Gestures of Concern], and it will help scholars in a number of fields push beyond critical practices that are too certain of themselves.” -- Jim Brown * Rhetoric Society Quarterly *“Ingraham’s book is a timely investigation. In a period in which we are inundated by information and noise, he hopes to turn our attention to the quieter participatory acts ordinary people perform.... This work is an insightful look at the power of our concern.” -- Ashleigh Angus * Continuum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Shape We're In 1 1. Idiot Winds 23 2. Stickiness 51 3. Democratizing Creativity, Curating Culture 78 4. Citizen Artists, Citizen Critics 108 5. Uncommonwealth 133 6. Affective Commonwealths 161 Epilogue. The Poet and the Anthropocene 187 Notes 197 Bibliography 225 Index

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Book SynopsisPaul A. Passavant explores how the policing of protest in the United States has become increasingly hostile since the late 1990s, moving away from strategies that protect protestors toward militaristic practices designed to suppress legal protests.Trade Review“This book affected me like a good shot of whiskey. Complex, bracing, needed.” -- Lester K. Spence, author of * Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics *“Although of late a lot has been written on policing, nothing that I have read takes up this important topic of protest policing, let alone gives it such a far-reaching and well-supported reading. The policing of protest turns out to be a distinctive but truly revealing piece of contemporary policing, one that no one has covered as comprehensively as Paul A. Passavant does in this text.” -- Jonathan Simon, author of * Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America *“A masterful book filled with keen insights about policing protests using grounded data and compelling stories. It’s easily the best analysis I’ve read on this topic and sets a new standard for theoretical integration, clarity, and real-world relevance.” -- Peter B. Kraska, author of * Militarizing the American Criminal Justice System: The Changing Roles of the Armed Forces and the Police *"Policing Protest is a compelling read for scholars and graduate students interested in the police state and its institutional developments in law, political culture, and urban political economy." -- Shannon Woods * E3W Review of Books *"Policing Protest is an exceptionally good book—persuasively argued, meticulously researched, and stunning in its explanatory power." -- Erin R. Pineda * Perspectives on Politics *"Passavant’s Policing Protest is a book that eerily puts recent events into a new perspective and adds to our understanding of how the police are engaging with our right to protest." -- Tyler Dadge * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Policing Protest is a profound, groundbreaking, and urgent work that should be read by students of US politics, criminal justice, democratic theory, race and racism, and constitutional law." -- Joseph Lowndes * Theory & Event *"Skillfully connects seemingly disconnected trends and features of contemporary life to construct a cohesive and novel understanding of the legal, political, and economic predicament in which we find ourselves. The book is at once sweeping in its implications, nuanced in its arguments, and detailed in the evidence it brings to bear on these questions. It will be of great interest to scholars of social movements, policing, and law as well as a broader audience of those concerned about protecting the freedom to engage in dissent." -- Heidi Reynolds-Stentson * Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Book Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Policing Protest and the Post-Democratic State 1 1. Aesthetic Government: Neoliberal Authoritarianism and the Post-Democratic Right of Expression 25 2. New York's Mega-Event: Security Legacy and the Postlegitmation State 62 3. Policing the Uprising: Occupy Wall Street and Order Maintenance Policing 98 4. Violent Appearances and Neoliberalisms's Disintegrated Political Subjects 141 5. Political Antagonisn: #BlackLivesMatter and the Postlegitimation, Post-Democratic State 184 Conclusion. Policing Protest and Neoliberal Authoritarianism 239 Notes 253 Bibliography 315 Index 333

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Book SynopsisWinner, Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award of the Section on Children and Youth, given by the American Sociological AssociationFinalist for the 2021 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsLatinx children navigating identity, citizenship, and belonging in a divided America An estimated sixty million people in the United States are of Latinx descent, with youth under the age of eighteen making up two-thirds of this swiftly growing demographic. In Growing Up Latinx, Jesica Siham Fernández explores the lives of Latinx youth as they grapple with their social and political identities from an early age, and pursue a sense of belonging in their schools and communities as they face an increasingly hostile political climate.Drawing on interviews with nine-to-twelve-year-olds, Fernández gives us rare insight into how Latinx youth understand their own citizenship and bravely forge opportTrade ReviewGrowing Up Latinx provides a rich ethnographic account of how racist nativism, immigration policy and enforcement, and dominant ideas about 'good citizenship' play out in the lives of Latinx youth from immigrant and mixed status families. Fernandez powerfully centers Latinx young people’s own critical interpretations of citizenship as a status, a right, and a set of practices. She recognizes these young people as a source of theoretical insight into the multiple and shifting meanings of citizenship, making innovative contributions to the fields of migration studies, Latinx studies, childhood studies, and citizenship studies. -- Jessica K. Taft, author of The Kids Are in Charge: Activism and Power in Peru's Movement of Working ChildrenJesica Siham Fernández holds our hands tightly as we cross the borders into Growing up Latinx. With ethnographic care, she tells the stories of many young people and their immigration struggles at the border, including that of 6 year old Jesica, sin papeles, eager to spit up details to satisfy an intimidating border guard. Fernández gifts us a volume saturated in joy, resistance and justice. She insists that 'belonging is an inalienable right' and that citizenship must be understood beyond borders. Few scholars can write, across scale, like this, sketching young lives with grace, animating intimate moments of joy and fear, and accompanying readers as we consider our obligation to build a world not yet in existence. -- Michelle Fine, author of Just Research in Contentious Times: Widening the Methodological ImaginationIn Growing Up Latinx, Jesica Siham Fernandez disputes notions of children as 'citizens in the making' who are incapable of critical political understandings and actions.Taking us into the world of 9-12 year olds from mixed immigrant status, low-income families, Fernandez shows us that children are social and political thinkers and actors. This rich ethnography weaves a collective story of pain and possibility as children react to racialized nativism by engaging in acts of citizenship to demand dignity—and the right to belong—for themselves and their families. This book is a welcomed addition to scholarly works on children’s sociopolitical development as it underscores our responsibility to let children find their political voices and enact their political agency. -- Nilda Flores-González, author of Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging among Latino MillennialsFernández presents a conceptually thorough and substantively rich account of how Latinx youth embody and make meaning of citizenship…Along with Latinx youth narratives, Fernández grants us with a political vision and sociological future of what democracy will signify in the decades to come. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Precisely one of the values of this book is the author’s explicit valuing of the resilience and the strength of this community and, more specifically, its youth…Growing up Latinx also emphasizes the complex cultural and social identities that the adolescents must navigate. -- Yamile M. Martí Haidar * Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *Fernández presents a conceptually thorough and substantively rich account of how Latinx youth embody and make meaning of citizenship…Along with Latinx youth narratives, Fernández grants us with a political vision and sociological future of what democracy will signify in the decades to come. -- Aaron Arredondo * Ethnic and Racial Studies *

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Book SynopsisWinner, Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award of the Section on Children and Youth, given by the American Sociological AssociationFinalist for the 2021 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsLatinx children navigating identity, citizenship, and belonging in a divided America An estimated sixty million people in the United States are of Latinx descent, with youth under the age of eighteen making up two-thirds of this swiftly growing demographic. In Growing Up Latinx, Jesica Siham Fernández explores the lives of Latinx youth as they grapple with their social and political identities from an early age, and pursue a sense of belonging in their schools and communities as they face an increasingly hostile political climate.Drawing on interviews with nine-to-twelve-year-olds, Fernández gives us rare insight into how Latinx youth understand their own citizenship and bravely forge opportTrade ReviewGrowing Up Latinx provides a rich ethnographic account of how racist nativism, immigration policy and enforcement, and dominant ideas about 'good citizenship' play out in the lives of Latinx youth from immigrant and mixed status families. Fernandez powerfully centers Latinx young people’s own critical interpretations of citizenship as a status, a right, and a set of practices. She recognizes these young people as a source of theoretical insight into the multiple and shifting meanings of citizenship, making innovative contributions to the fields of migration studies, Latinx studies, childhood studies, and citizenship studies. -- Jessica K. Taft, author of The Kids Are in Charge: Activism and Power in Peru's Movement of Working ChildrenJesica Siham Fernández holds our hands tightly as we cross the borders into Growing up Latinx. With ethnographic care, she tells the stories of many young people and their immigration struggles at the border, including that of 6 year old Jesica, sin papeles, eager to spit up details to satisfy an intimidating border guard. Fernández gifts us a volume saturated in joy, resistance and justice. She insists that 'belonging is an inalienable right' and that citizenship must be understood beyond borders. Few scholars can write, across scale, like this, sketching young lives with grace, animating intimate moments of joy and fear, and accompanying readers as we consider our obligation to build a world not yet in existence. -- Michelle Fine, author of Just Research in Contentious Times: Widening the Methodological ImaginationIn Growing Up Latinx, Jesica Siham Fernandez disputes notions of children as 'citizens in the making' who are incapable of critical political understandings and actions.Taking us into the world of 9-12 year olds from mixed immigrant status, low-income families, Fernandez shows us that children are social and political thinkers and actors. This rich ethnography weaves a collective story of pain and possibility as children react to racialized nativism by engaging in acts of citizenship to demand dignity—and the right to belong—for themselves and their families. This book is a welcomed addition to scholarly works on children’s sociopolitical development as it underscores our responsibility to let children find their political voices and enact their political agency. -- Nilda Flores-González, author of Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging among Latino MillennialsFernández presents a conceptually thorough and substantively rich account of how Latinx youth embody and make meaning of citizenship…Along with Latinx youth narratives, Fernández grants us with a political vision and sociological future of what democracy will signify in the decades to come. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Precisely one of the values of this book is the author’s explicit valuing of the resilience and the strength of this community and, more specifically, its youth…Growing up Latinx also emphasizes the complex cultural and social identities that the adolescents must navigate. -- Yamile M. Martí Haidar * Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *Fernández presents a conceptually thorough and substantively rich account of how Latinx youth embody and make meaning of citizenship…Along with Latinx youth narratives, Fernández grants us with a political vision and sociological future of what democracy will signify in the decades to come. -- Aaron Arredondo * Ethnic and Racial Studies *

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Book SynopsisExplores the unintended consequences of civic activism in a disaster-prone cityAfter Hurricane Katrina, thousands of people swiftly mobilized to rebuild their neighborhoods, often assisted by government organizations, nonprofits, and other major institutions. In Rethinking Community Resilience, Min Hee Go shows that these recovery efforts are not always the panacea they seem to be, and can actually escalate the city's susceptibility to future environmental hazards. Drawing upon interviews, public records, and more, Go explores the hidden costs of community resilience. She shows thatdespite good intentionsrecovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina exacerbated existing race and class inequalities, putting disadvantaged communities at risk. Ultimately, Go shows that when governments, nonprofits, and communities invest in rebuilding rather than relocating, they inadvertently lay the groundwork for a cycle of vulnerabilities. As cities come to terms with climate change adaptationrather than pTrade Review"Rethinking Community Resilience is a critical, timely account about the effects and limits of community action in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. Transcending the neighborhoods-in-the-lead narratives that dominated New Orleans’s recovery, Min Hee Go’s sobering findings illuminate how resident action alone could not overcome the structural racism that led to unequal disaster effects and inequitable recoveries, and how neighborhood scale successes could lead to exclusionary redevelopment and reduce resilience in other ways. As the memory of Hurricane Katrina recedes, the relationships between neighborhoods and local public action in Rethinking Community Resilience are more relevant than ever for researchers, planners, policymakers alike who are investigating neighborhood change and facing disaster recovery and climate adaptation." -- Renia Ehrenfeucht, co-author of Urban Revitalization: Remaking Cities in a Changing World"Within the context of both climate change and long-term population decline, Rethinking Community Resilience examines how well-intentioned community led recovery efforts in post-Katrina New Orleans were often incomplete and haphazard, deepening pre-crisis inequities and increasing the city’s overall susceptibility to future risk. Min Hee Go interrogates the romanticized notion that civic action can uniformly fill the void created by incompetent or weakened government and enable residents to overcome crises and create more resilient communities." -- Marla K. Nelson, Associate Professor, University of New Orleans

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Book SynopsisMoves the discussion of American civil religion into the twenty-first century Civil Religion, a term made popular by sociologist Robert Bellah a little over fifty years ago, describes how people might share in a sacred sense of their nation. While hotly debated, the idea continues to enjoy wide application among academics and journalists. Bellah used civil religion to make sense of the turmoil of the 1960s, especially moral debates provoked by the Vietnam War. Now, a half-century later, American society is again riven by conflict over immigration, economic inequality, racial oppression, and culture wars issues. Is Bellah's hopeful assessment still useful for understanding contemporary America? If not, how should we think of it differently?Civil Religion Today reassesses the term to take stock of its usefulness after fifty years of engagement in the field. Looking both at the concept and at ground-level studies of how we might find civil religion in practice, this book aims to push the Trade ReviewIs the concept of civil religion still relevant, more than fifty years after Robert Bellah made the term famous? According to the stellar cast of interdisciplinary scholars who contributed to this volume, the answer is yes—but only by going ‘beyond Bellah.’ Civil Religion Today makes a compelling case for keeping civil religion in our conceptual toolkit if we are to understand enduring conflict over the meaning of America. -- Ruth Braunstein, University of ConnecticutA profound and necessary book. A half-century since Robert Bellah’s seminal essay re-launched the study of civil religion, the United States is facing an alarming growth in religious nationalism and political polarization. The formidable team of scholars assembled here shed much needed light on what binds us together and what drives us apart. Even more, this book sets the agenda for the next generation of scholarship on US civil religion. -- Matthew Hedstrom, University of VirginiaMakes a strong case for the usability and enduring relevance of ‘civil religion.’ An important and timely book that should reach a wide readership. -- Kristy Nabhan-Warren, University of IowaThis is a rich and provocative discussion of the meaning of American civil religion fifty years after Robert Bellah’s famous essay. * Nova Religio *The papers in this volume largely, but not exclusively, focus on the political and social aspects of civil religion, although a few papers address theological elements as well. The papers are well written and carefully argued… * Choice *

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Book SynopsisHow activist groups across the country adapted their strategies and tactics to their local contexts to keep the protests aliveOn January 21, 2017, the day after Trump's inauguration, feminist activists and allies across many progressive movements assembled across the United States to express their displeasure with the new President and his agenda. These marches were unprecedented in size, bringing together as many as 5.3 million Americans, with at least 408 protests in cities and towns across the country. These protests were large and dramatic, and had an outsized impact. But, they do not tell the whole story of this wave of contention. Keeping the March Alive follows thirty-five progressive groups founded after the Women's March across ten cities from Amarillo and Atlanta to Pasadena and Pittsburgh to tell the whole story of how some social movement organizations survive and thrive while others falter. Catherine Corrigall-Brown explains how activists navigate their local context andTrade ReviewPenetrating cross-sectional analysis of how different grassroots networks formed and endured through the challenges of the Trump years. This is a book both for the moment and – given the enduring challenges to American democracy – for the future. * Sidney Tarrow, author of Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political Development *A terrific contribution to our understanding of the strategic choices that affect the ongoing mobilization of social movements. The book provides an impressive model of multi-method research and demonstrates the importance of tactics, coalition work, recruitment techniques, and online technologies in keeping the movement alive. * Suzanne Staggenborg, author of Grassroots Environmentalism *With great nuance and an impressive trove of quantitative and qualitative data, Corrigall-Brown’s deep dive into grassroots activism shows how local contexts fueled and shaped mobilization during an intense period of resistance. Not only an empirically rich and engaging read, Keeping the March Alive is also a welcome theoretical achievement in terms of movement context and survival, tactics, coalitions, and online mobilization. * Alison Dahl Crossley, author of Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution *

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Book SynopsisAn eye-opening look at youth in contemporary Egypt, from the role they play in advancing political change to their everyday strugglesIn Youth in Egypt, Nadine Sika explores the political world of young people in Egypt, focusing on their experiences under authoritarianism. From the reigns of Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat to that of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, she offers an on-the-ground perspective through the eyes of multiple generations of young people who lived through consecutive periods of political upheaval and state militarization. Drawing on surveys, interviews, and focus groups, Sika shines a light on youth who have participated in protest movements, civil society organizations, and political parties. She shows us the different opportunities for economic and political participation that exist for them, explaining why young Egyptians may choose to either mobilize against orsurprisinglyin support of the regime. Sika underscores how youth in Egypt have been regarded as both the hTrade Review"Youth in Egypt explores how young people in Egypt see opportunities and impediments to living active, civically-engaged lives. Nadine Sika contributes to our understanding of how people and government shape each other’s opportunity structures in authoritarian contexts." -- Lisa Anderson, author of Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-first Century

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Book SynopsisHow popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political changeOne cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions; it also requires the ability to see oneself as a civic agent capable of making change, as a participant in a larger democratic culture. Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination represents a call for greater clarity about what we're fighting fornot just what we're fighting against. Across more than thirty examples from social movements around the world, this casebook proposes civic imagination as a framework that can help us identify, support, and practice new kinds of communal participation. As the contributors demonstrate, young people, in particular, are turning to popular culturefrom Beyoncé to Bollywood, from Smokey Bear to Hamilton, from comic books to VRfor the vernacular through whichTrade ReviewAn exceptionally well-conceived and thoughtfully assembled collection that resuscitates a cultural studies oriented toward the popular, in service of politically urgent questions about agency and resources for imagining otherwise. Across a wide array of case studies that span genres, media, and geopolitical contexts, the entries in this volume build on each other in a rich and versatile way. -- Eva Cherniavsky, author of Neocitizenship: Political Culture after DemocracyRaises timely, critical questions and provides creative answers to this current moment in US history ... The essays thus function as a handbook for how individuals and groups can find creative collaborative approaches to crystallize their aspirations for a better society. This collection is a useful resource for scholars and advanced students in media studies, critical cultural studies, social movements, and sociology. * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, given by the National Council for Black StudiesFinalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, given by the African American Intellectual History SocietyWinner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education SocietyThe inspiring story of the black students, faculty, and administrators who forever changed America's leading educational institutions and paved the way for social justice and racial progress The eight elite institutions that comprise the Ivy League, sometimes known as the Ancient EightHarvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornellare American stalwarts that have profoundly influenced history and culture by producing the nation's and the world's leaders. The few black students who attended Ivy League schools in the decades following WWII not only went on to greatly influence black America and the nation in general, but unquestionably awakened these most traditTrade Review"Upending the Ivory Tower is an engaging, revealing, fluid read.It takes its place alongside some of the finest recent scholarship on the Black Power and civil rights movements, including KendisThe Black Campus Movement, Martha BiondisThe Black Revolution on Campus, Peniel JosephsWaiting & Til the Midnight Hour:A Narrative History of Black Power in America, and Jeanne Theoharis boldly revisionistA More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History." * New York Journal of Books *"Upending the Ivory Tower is a definitive account of the experiences of black students at the Ivy League universities from 1945 to 1975. It is a brilliant book, complete with stunning photographs...essential reading" * Academe *"Richly nuanced in its discussion of points of conflict and affiliation with radical white students and divisions over tactics, rhetoric, and ultimate goals among African Americans, both within academia and in the surrounding communities." * Journal of American History *"Fascinating and ambitious, Upending the Ivory Tower breathes of meticulous research and analysis from beginning to end. With this definitive chronicling of black students organizing, demanding, and sometimes protesting to blacken the exclusively white Ivy League, Stefan Bradley shows us once again why he is the historian of the Ivy black activist. There may be nothing more powerful than the student activist, and Upending the Ivory Tower again shows us why." -- Ibram X. Kendi,award-winning author of The Black Campus Movement and Stamped from the Beginning"Stefan Bradley is one of the foremost scholars of the black student movement. In Upending the Ivory Tower, he as turned his attention black student activism in the Ivy League. This is a brilliant book about how the Black Power Movement reached the elites halls of higher education. In a moment when 21st century black student activists in the Ivy League and across the country are demanding more faculty of color, wanting more accountability for anti-black pedagogy and policy, and declaring that black lives matter, Upending the Ivory Tower is an important and necessary history of black student activism in higher education." -- Derrick W. White,Dartmouth College"Upending the Ivory Tower is a critical but scrupulous exposition of some of the major changes that overtook the American academyand American culture in generaltoward the end of the storied 1960s. Although Stefan Bradley views these changes mainly through the lens of the privileged Ivy League, he never loses sight of either the steep price of such historic privilege or the more democratic and equally dynamic mainstream of American university life. His book is an invaluable record of institutional change in a few schools that manages nevertheless to capture the spirit of a transformational moment when some of our most venerable ideas about education, race, and power changed forever." -- Arnold Rampersad,Sara Hart Kimball Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Stanford

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Book SynopsisJoel Bakan argues that the Canadian Charter of Rights (1982) has failed to promote social justice because it is administered by a conservative judiciary and because social and economic conditions constantly interfere with its principles.

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Book SynopsisBlame for the putative failure of liberalism in late-nineteenth-century Japan and China has often been placed on an insufficient grasp of modernity among East Asian leaders or on their cultural commitments to traditional values. In Personal Liberty and Public Good, Douglas Howland refutes this view, turning to the central text of liberalism in that era: John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty.Howland offers absorbing analyses of the translations of the book into Japanese and Chinese, which at times reveal astonishing emendations. As with their political leaders, Mill’s Japanese and Chinese translators feared individual liberty could undermine the public good and standards for public behaviour, and so introduced their own moral values – Christianity and Confucianism, respectively– into On Liberty, filtering its original meaning. Howland mirrors this mistrust of individual liberty in Asia with critiques of the work in England, which itself had

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Book SynopsisThrough an analysis of how citizenship was lived, practiced, and deployed by women in France in the modern period, Practiced Citizenship demonstrates how gender normativity and the resulting constraints placed on women nevertheless created opportunities for a renegotiation of the social and sexual contract.Trade Review"Remarkably cohesive and consistent in tone and writing quality, Practiced Citizenship is historiography at its finest."—Hope Christiansen, French Review"There is much to commend in this volume, not least the extensive research that underpins each essay. Its central concept of “citizenship as practice” enables a diverse exploration of the ways in which women carved out spaces for themselves in the social domain and were far from silent, especially on issues about which their womanhood gave them some particular interest under the gender norms of the day. Several chapters show how successful they were in influencing policy and shaping politics, even if they could not formulate policy or vote.This approach gives complexity to the notion of “citizenship” and highlights the different interpretations that can be applied to it."—Susan Foley, H-France Review“Practiced Citizenship takes the issue of women’s citizenship, most often discussed theoretically by political scientists, and gives it concrete substance based on the activism and activities of women across almost two centuries of French history. The ramifications and the lessons to be learned go beyond the borders of France to help inform our understanding of women’s citizenship more generally. Rich in new archival research and work with primary sources, this volume shows the civic, political, and social activism and activities of women from all social classes. Quite a feat.”—Bonnie Smith, Board of Governors Distinguished Emerita Professor of History at Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Foreword by Johnson Kent Wright Introduction Nimisha Barton and Richard Hopkins 1. “Patriotic Discipline”: Cloistered Behinds, Public Judgment, and Female Violence in Revolutionary Paris Katie Jarvis 2. Restoring the Royal Family: Marie-Thérèse and the Family Politics of the Early Restoration Victoria E. Thompson 3. Gender, Immigration, and the Everyday Practice of Social Citizenship Nimisha Barton 4. Hospital Policies, Family Agency, and Mothers at l’Hôpital Sainte-Eugénie, 1855–1875 000 Stephanie McBride-Schreiner 5. Illustrations as Good as Any Slides: Women’s Activist Social Novels and the French Search for Social Reform, 1880–1914 Jean Elisabeth Pedersen 6. French Girls Are the Most Desired: Organizing against the White Slave Trade in the Belle Epoque Eliza Earle Ferguson 7. Vérine, the Ecole des Parents, and the Politics of Gender, Reaction, and the Family, 1929–1944 Cheryl A. Koos 8. Politics, Money, and Distrust: French-American Alliances in the International Campaign for Women’s Equal Rights, 1925–1930 Sara L. Kimble Afterword by Elinor A. Accampo Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisBack to America is one of the few ethnographies of local activist groups within the Tea Party. Westermeyer explains the significance of grassroots groups in individual as well as collective political identity formation and how both contribute to the success of the wider movement. Trade Review“The definitive ethnographic account of Tea Party activism, illuminating the links between the lived experiences of local Tea Party groups, conservative elites, and right-wing media. A must-read for anyone trying to understand right-wing populism today!”—Jeffrey S. Juris, associate professor of anthropology at Northeastern University “Filled with fascinating examples of Tea Party members explaining the personal meanings of national conservative discourses. . . . There are important implications of this study for social movements across the political spectrum.”—Claudia Strauss, professor of anthropology at Pitzer College “An extraordinary, profound, enduringly important, and lucidly written anthropology that shows how people in the American South fashion identities as Tea Party activists out of an expedient and unmatched relationship to national conservative media.”—Peter Hervik, associate professor of anthropology at Aalborg University “Do you want to understand how the Tea Party movement works? Read Back to America. . . . Anthropologist William Westermeyer, drawing on his field-based research in the American South, shows us the interrelated grassroots, media, and elite nature of the Tea Party. Westermeyer analyzes how Tea Party members utilize various cultural resources to communicate their identity and their claims, and how their messages are amplified on the state and national level. Back to America will show you how the Tea Party works as a social movement.”—Charles Price, associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Tea Party Movement as Cultural Politics 1. Patriots: Fashioning a Figured World of Tea Party Politics 2. Troubles: Making Personal Meaning in the Tea Party Movement 3. Plantation Politics: Race in the Figured World of the Tea Party 4. Fellowship: Local Tea Party Groups as Communities of Political Practice 5. Trickle-Up Politics: Local Tea Party Groups as Movement Actors in Local Politics Conclusion: Political Anthropology of U.S. Right-Wing Politics Notes References Index

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Book Synopsis Back to America is an ethnography of local activist groups within the Tea Party, one of the most important recent political movements to emerge in the United States and one that continues to influence American politics. Though often viewed as the brainchild of conservative billionaires and Fox News, the success of the Tea Party movement was as much, if not more, the result of everyday activists at the grassroots level. William H. Westermeyer traces how local Tea Party groups (LTPGs) create submerged spaces where participants fashion action-oriented collective and personal political identities forged in the context of cultural or figured worlds. These figured worlds allow people to establish meaningful links between their own lives and concerns, on the one hand, and the movement’s goals and narratives, on the other. Collectively, the production and circulation of the figured worlds within LTPGs provide the basis for subjectivities that often nurture political activism.Trade Review“The definitive ethnographic account of Tea Party activism, illuminating the links between the lived experiences of local Tea Party groups, conservative elites, and right-wing media. A must-read for anyone trying to understand right-wing populism today!”—Jeffrey S. Juris, associate professor of anthropology at Northeastern University “Filled with fascinating examples of Tea Party members explaining the personal meanings of national conservative discourses. . . . There are important implications of this study for social movements across the political spectrum.”—Claudia Strauss, professor of anthropology at Pitzer College “An extraordinary, profound, enduringly important, and lucidly written anthropology that shows how people in the American South fashion identities as Tea Party activists out of an expedient and unmatched relationship to national conservative media.”—Peter Hervik, associate professor of anthropology at Aalborg University “Do you want to understand how the Tea Party movement works? Read Back to America. . . . Anthropologist William Westermeyer, drawing on his field-based research in the American South, shows us the interrelated grassroots, media, and elite nature of the Tea Party. Westermeyer analyzes how Tea Party members utilize various cultural resources to communicate their identity and their claims, and how their messages are amplified on the state and national level. Back to America will show you how the Tea Party works as a social movement.”—Charles Price, associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Tea Party Movement as Cultural Politics 1. Patriots: Fashioning a Figured World of Tea Party Politics 2. Troubles: Making Personal Meaning in the Tea Party Movement 3. Plantation Politics: Race in the Figured World of the Tea Party 4. Fellowship: Local Tea Party Groups as Communities of Political Practice 5. Trickle-Up Politics: Local Tea Party Groups as Movement Actors in Local Politics Conclusion: Political Anthropology of U.S. Right-Wing Politics Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisPresident Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty instigated a ferocious backlash in Mississippi. Federally funded programs--the embodiment of 1960s liberalism--directly clashed with Mississippi's closed society. From 1965 to 1973, opposing forces transformed the state.In this state-level history of the war on poverty, Emma J. Folwell traces the attempts of white and black Mississippians to address the state's dire economic circumstances through antipoverty programs. At times, the war on poverty became a powerful tool for black empowerment. But more often, antipoverty programs served as a potent catalyst of white resistance to black advancement.After the momentous events of 1964, both black activism and white opposition to black empowerment evolved due to these federal efforts. White Mississippians deployed massive resistance in part to stifle any black economic empowerment, twisting antipoverty programs into tools to marginalize black political power. Folwell u

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Book SynopsisIn this state-level history of the war on poverty, Emma Folwell traces the attempts of white and black Mississippians to address the state's dire economic circumstances through antipoverty programs.

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Book SynopsisPresents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine photographers who participated in the movement as activists with SNCC, SCLC, and CORE. Unlike images produced by photojournalists, these photographers lived within the movement and documented its activities by focusing on student activists and local people.Trade ReviewThis book of photographs, interviews, and biographies pays homage to nine activist photographers associated with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who advanced the US civil rights cause by documenting movement actions and backlashes. The photographs poignantly and brilliantly capture key events in the southern movement in the 1960s—protests, memorials for murdered activists and innocent children, exuberant songfests, marches, and bloody encounters. . . . A must-read. Summing Up: Essential." - CHOICE"This Light of Ours offers insightful commentary and a treasure trove of stunning images gleaned from the files of nine activist photographers, seven of whom were connected to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Based on a traveling exhibit designed by the Center for Documentary Expression & Art, this beautifully produced book highlights the understudied and often underappreciated visual dimension of the 1960s civil rights struggle. Confronting the artists and historical dimension of these photographs fifty years after their creation was an unforgettable and moving experience that I hope thousands of individuals will ultimately share." - Raymond Arsenault, author of Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice and The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America"Movement photographers created a striking visual history of the black freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. This superb collection of their best work will evoke powerful memories among those who lived through those turbulent times, while introducing a new generation to the courage and tenacity of local people determined to take charge of their destiny. This Light of Ours should be required reading for all who believe in the possibilities of democracy." - John Dittmer, professor emeritus at DePauw University and author of Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi"This remarkable collection is as inspiring as it is instructive. A few iconic images are represented but most of these photos will be new to most readers. Collectively, they make palpable a moment of possibility, not fully realized but not fully missed either. Perhaps what is most striking is the way these photos capture the sheer determination of ‘ordinary’ people to be free. One caption says it best: ‘Strength where you might least expect it was often encountered . . . reflecting vitality and dignity in a society trying to strip it away." - Charles M. Payne, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, and coeditor of Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African American Tradition

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Book SynopsisIn Native to the Republic, Minayo Nasiali traces the process through which expectations about living standards and decent housing came to be understood as social rights in late twentieth-century France. These ideas evolved through everyday negotiations between ordinary people, municipal authorities, central state bureaucrats, elected officials, and social scientists in postwar Marseille. Nasiali shows how these local-level interactions fundamentally informed evolving ideas about French citizenship and the built environment, namely that the institutionalization of social citizenship also created new spaces for exclusion. Although everyone deserved social rights, some were supposedly more deserving than others.From the 1940s through the early 1990s, metropolitan discussions about the potential for town planning to transform everyday life were shaped by colonial and, later, postcolonial migration within the changing empire. As a port and the historical gateway to and fromTrade ReviewThis detailed review of citizenship and housing in postwar Marseille amplifies understanding of French urban life through reconstruction and analysis of local dynamics in the neighborhoods (and public housing projects) of this dynamic, variegated city over time.... Carefully engaging literatures on the state and society in France, the author offers new vantages more than new patterns or interpretations. Nonetheless, the book should be welcomed for both its local, human focus and its accessible study of politics and urban transformations in the second city of France, which speaks to many contemporary issues in France and beyond. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. -- G. W. McDonogh, Bryn Mawr College * CHOICE *In this groundbreaking book, Nasiali argues that ideas about membership in the nation and about quality of life in late twentieth-century France were forged at the local level...What is pioneering in Nasiali's approach is her engagement with housing projects at the local level in Marseille. Rather than observation from the heights of French central state authority, she digs down into the nitty-gritty of local negotiations between ordinary people and government authorities. * Journal of Modern History *Native to the Republic is a solid addition to postcolonial studies on France and the French welfare state. * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisRecent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has gained force through its identification of pervasive social injustices with individual losses. The deaths of Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, and so many others have brought private grief into the public sphere. The rhetoric and iconography of mourning has been noteworthy in Black Lives Matter protests, but David W. McIvor believes that we have paid too little attention to the nature of social mourningits relationship to private grief, its practices, and its pathologies and democratic possibilities.In Mourning in America, McIvor addresses significant and urgent questions about how citizens can mourn traumatic events and enduring injustices in their communities. McIvor offers a framework for analyzing the politics of mourning, drawing from psychoanalysis, GreeTrade ReviewMcIvor weaves together Greek tragedies, ancient and modern political theory, and stories of truth and reconciliation commissions (TRCs) in South Africa and Greensboro, North Carolina, to argue for the importance of such commissions to American democracy.... The afterword links the democratic work of mourning to the fairly new Black Lives Matter movement, as well as to recent books by Claudia Rankine and Ta-Nehisi Coates, and would serve well as a stand-alone reading assignment on race and racism. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through faculty. -- M. R. Michelson, Menlo College * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisIn the familiar tale of mass migration to France from 1880 onward, we know very little about the hundreds of thousands of women who formed a critical part of those migration waves. In Reproductive Citizens, Nimisha Barton argues that their relative absence in the historical record hints at a larger and more problematic oversightthe role of sex and gender in shaping the experiences of migrants to France before the Second World War. Barton''s compelling history of social citizenship demonstrates how, through the routine application of social policies, state and social actors worked separately toward a shared goal: repopulating France with immigrant families. Filled with voices gleaned from census reports, municipal statistics, naturalization dossiers, court cases, police files, and social worker registers, Reproductive Citizens shows how France welcomed foreign-born men and womenmobilizing naturalization, family law, social policy, and welfare assistance toTrade ReviewThis book will therefore appeal to a wide readership. The strength of this book lies in its attention to details and relatability. By offering personal accounts to illustrate the effects of these populationist policies, Barton has made History accessible, and maybe more importantly, real: These are people's stories, lives lived. * The French Review *Barton's attention to solidarity and the forces that shaped immigrants' opportunities and everyday experiences provides an enormously valuable contribution to a literature that has tended to stress exclusion and discrimination. * H-France *Barton shows, without whitewashing the racist and genocidal policies of the French state under Vichy, that populationism could also have a different face: namely, one that gave immigrants a place in a society at risk of depopulation caused by a combination of political and economic crises. * Law and History Review *Barton has done a remarkable job of resurrecting the voices of people at the margins of social and political life in France, and she strikes the perfect balance between the inner lives of her protagonists and their forgotten role in shaping the French state's policies toward immigration, the family, and the meaning of the nation. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Forces that Push and Pull 2. Bachelors, Bureaucrats, and Marrying into the Nation 3. Wives, Wages, and Regulating Breadwinners 4. Mothers, Welfare Organizations, and Reproducing for the Nation 5. Neighborhood, Street Culture, and Melting-Pot Mixité 6. Motherhood, Neighborhood, and Nationhood 7. Neighborly Networks and Welfare Work under Vichy Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn the familiar tale of mass migration to France from 1880 onward, we know very little about the hundreds of thousands of women who formed a critical part of those migration waves. In Reproductive Citizens, Nimisha Barton argues that their relative absence in the historical record hints at a larger and more problematic oversightthe role of sex and gender in shaping the experiences of migrants to France before the Second World War. Barton''s compelling history of social citizenship demonstrates how, through the routine application of social policies, state and social actors worked separately toward a shared goal: repopulating France with immigrant families. Filled with voices gleaned from census reports, municipal statistics, naturalization dossiers, court cases, police files, and social worker registers, Reproductive Citizens shows how France welcomed foreign-born men and womenmobilizing naturalization, family law, social policy, and welfare assistance toTrade ReviewThis book will therefore appeal to a wide readership. The strength of this book lies in its attention to details and relatability. By offering personal accounts to illustrate the effects of these populationist policies, Barton has made History accessible, and maybe more importantly, real: These are people's stories, lives lived. * The French Review *Barton's attention to solidarity and the forces that shaped immigrants' opportunities and everyday experiences provides an enormously valuable contribution to a literature that has tended to stress exclusion and discrimination. * H-France *Barton shows, without whitewashing the racist and genocidal policies of the French state under Vichy, that populationism could also have a different face: namely, one that gave immigrants a place in a society at risk of depopulation caused by a combination of political and economic crises. * Law and History Review *Barton has done a remarkable job of resurrecting the voices of people at the margins of social and political life in France, and she strikes the perfect balance between the inner lives of her protagonists and their forgotten role in shaping the French state's policies toward immigration, the family, and the meaning of the nation. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Forces that Push and Pull 2. Bachelors, Bureaucrats, and Marrying into the Nation 3. Wives, Wages, and Regulating Breadwinners 4. Mothers, Welfare Organizations, and Reproducing for the Nation 5. Neighborhood, Street Culture, and Melting-Pot Mixité 6. Motherhood, Neighborhood, and Nationhood 7. Neighborly Networks and Welfare Work under Vichy Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIs civility dead? Americans ask this question every election season, but their concern is hardly limited to political campaigns. Doubts about civility regularly arise in just about every aspect of American public life. Rudeness runs rampant. Our news media is saturated with aggressive bluster and vitriol. Our digital platforms teem with trolls and expressions of disrespect. Reflecting these conditions, surveys show that a significant majority of Americans believe we are living in an age of unusual anger and discord. Everywhere we look, there seems to be conflict and hostility, with shared respect and consideration nowhere to be found. In a country that encourages thick skins and speaking one's mind, is civility even possible, let alone desirable? In How Civility Works, Keith J. Bybee elegantly explores the "crisis" in civility, looking closely at how civility intertwines with our long history of boorish behavior and the ongoing quest for pleasant company. Bybee argues that the very features that make civility ineffective and undesirable also point to civility's power and appeal. Can we all get along? If we live by the contradictions on which civility depends, then yes, we can, and yes, we should.Trade Review"Keith Bybee has delved into the literature of civility and emerged with a clear-eyed and helpful account of politesse. Let us bow." -- Henry Alford * author of Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners *"In an age of Donald Trump, campus 'safe spaces,' unprecedented online bullying, and a rising public conception that 'speaking the truth' is the sole response to 'political correctness,' Keith Bybee's thoughtful meditation on the possibilities of civility is a tonic. For anyone who believes that First Amendment values and human morality need not be on a collision course, and that constraint of our own words is neither hypocrisy nor inauthentic, Bybee begins an important conversation about how our discourse can be moral and robust without sacrificing truth or freedom." -- Dahlia Lithwick * Slate *"The current political moment does not exactly exude civility. Appeals to civic aspirations seem quaint, and for now some of us may just need to follow Bybee's advice of 'going along for the sake of getting along.' But eventually we'll have to stop faking it and internalize a genuine desire for civility. The more aspirational sections of How Civility Works intimate how we might get there. And this important book shows us why pursuing that path is as necessary as it is difficult." -- John Inazu * Comment *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1The Promise of Civility chapter abstractThis chapter first outlines the standard argument for returning civility to American public life, and then raises key questions that any advocate of civility must confront. Given the long history of rudeness in the United States, why should we think that civility is possible? Given the strong American tradition of free speech, why should we want to be civil? Why not instead encourage people to speak their minds and to develop thick skins? The chapter concludes by suggesting that we can only understand how civility works if we learn to see that, paradoxically, civility's strengths are in its weaknesses. 2Civility Defined chapter abstractThis chapter defines civility as a form of good manners and as a code of public conduct. Civility is distinguished from other types of good manners, including politeness, courtesy, chivalry, and gallantry. The chapter then surveys the competition between different varieties of civility in the United States, dating from the ratification of the Constitution to the presidential election of 2016. The possibility of enforcing civil etiquette through law is considered. The chapter concludes by observing that the profusion of different beliefs about civility creates an environment in which common courtesies do not seem very common. 3The Excellence of Free Expression chapter abstractThis chapter examines the argument against civility's repressive use made by John Stuart Mill in On Liberty. Contemporary examples of repressive civility in the context of AIDS activism, hip-hop music, and on-campus free speech are discussed. The chapter argues that even though civility can obstruct free speech, civility also underwrites free speech by creating an accessible, easily employed means of communicating good character and personal decency. The importance of civility as a means of communication is illustrated through discussion of Aristotle, Erasmus, table manners, and decorum in the United States Congress. 4Are You Just Being Polite? chapter abstractThis chapter begins by arguing that even though civility has the great virtue of giving people a method for publicizing their good character, civility also has a glaring vice: the messages that civility communicates can easily be faked. The disadvantages of hypocritically exploiting civility are detailed, and the possibility of controlling such hypocrisy by treating civility as a form of morality is discussed. The chapter then argues that the inauthenticity of civil behavior has the advantage of allowing flawed people appear to be better than they actually are. This positive use of hypocrisy is examined through discussion of Lord Chesterfield, Edmund Burke, Dale Carnegie, Judith Shklar, Ruth Grant, and Miss Manners. 5Strength in Weakness chapter abstractThis chapter summarizes how civility relies on a series of paradoxes. We feel civility's absence as a result of its abundance. We see civility as an impediment to free expression, and at the same time we demand civility to sustain the free exchange of ideas. We encounter civility as a bulwark of hierarchy and domination, and we also enlist civility to level social relations and promote inclusion. We condemn civility's inauthenticity, yet we depend on the many opportunities for hypocrisy that civility affords. The chapter concludes by arguing that the work of enacting better and more acceptable means of getting along requires us to embrace the paradoxes on which civility depends.

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Book SynopsisA new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunteering, religiosity, and civic consciousness. Conspicuously, the WWII generation introduced collectivist notions of civic obligations—but such obligations have since become regarded as options. In this book, David H. Kamens takes this basic shift as his starting point for exploring numerous trends in American political culture from the 1930s to the present day. Drawing on and synthesizing an enormous array of primary and secondary materials, Kamens examines the critical role of macro social changes, such as the growth and expansion of government and education, often in response to the emergence of globalization. From these tectonic shifts erupted numerous ripple effects, such as the decline of traditional citizen values, the rise of individualism, loss of trust in institutions, anti-elitism, and dramatic political polarization. In this context, antagonism to government as an enemy of personal freedom grew, creating a space for populist movements to blossom, unrestrained by traditional political parties. Beyond painting a comprehensive picture of our current political landscape, Kamens offers an invaluable archive documenting the steps that got us here. Trade Review"Kamens provides an impressive depiction of historic American political culture – individualist and anti-statist – as explaining current public crises and conflicts. From this point of view, the contemporary scene is less exceptional than the period of mobilized consensus from the 1930s through the '80s. This creative book will be of great interest to those thinking about the future of American democracy, especially as globalization disconnects empowered individuals from the responsibilities and constraints of citizenship." -- John W. Meyer, Professor Emeritus of Sociology * Stanford University *"In the tradition of Tocqueville, Almond and Verba, and Lipset, David Kamens provides a sweeping analysis of the U.S. polity, paying special attention to its distinctive development from the 1930s and the distinctive predicament it is in today. The book is masterfully crafted and urgently needed at this moment of harrowing political crisis." -- David John Frank, Professor of Sociology * University of California, Irvine *"A New American Creed is so rich in data and original insights—of which this review can barely scratch the surface—that it should be required reading for every officeholder, candidate, and voter interested in understanding the current political climate, how we got here, and whether the situation is reparable." -- Karen Lyon * The Hill Rag *"[Kamens'] conclusions are sobering, to say the least. He worries about the rise of individualism and whether it can coexist with a stable and viable political community....Can [US political parties] manage polarization and provide stability to the political system? Kamens offers little hope that they can. Recommended." -- E. C. Sands * CHOICE> *"A New American Creed: The Eclipse of Citizenship and Rise of Populism provides a sophisticated analysis of a fundamental issue of our times – the nature of contemporary American democracy. Kamens makes an unparalleled case for understanding prominent features of recent decades, such as the rise of populism and nativism, as emerging in part due to long-term cultural and institutional changes at national and global levels. He reminds us that the reconstruction of the individual actor as the primary focus of social, political, and economic action facilitates, on the one hand, the expansion of civil rights to historically marginalized groups, but, on the other hand, simultaneously undercuts the emergence of a strong welfare state and allows for massive inequality. This theoretically innovative and well-argued book is a must-read for anyone interested in the present and future of American democracy." -- Patricia Bromley, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education * Stanford University *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction chapter abstractThe book argues that global events of the 1930s and the following decades temporarily suspended key elements of the American creed. The role of government became enlarged and a regulated capitalism emerged. The decades of the post–1960s witnessed a reaction to these changes. An expanded education system legitimated a surge in individualism and a decline in citizen obligations. Emphasis on individual rights swelled, and individual responsibilities became options. Fear of government as an enemy of individual freedoms also grew. These developments were the seeds out of which social and political polarization later grew. They also provided support for intensified anti-elitism and its political offspring—anti-establishment populism. 2The United States in Comparative Perspective chapter abstractThis chapter surveys the elements of the traditional American creed. It is the narrative of a frontier society that deemphasizes diversity of opinion and culture. In its place this ethos imagines that all legitimate citizens share a diffuse religion called the American way. In this depiction this common belief system is the glue that holds society together society in lieu of a strong state. It places a high value on conformity, though equality of all citizens and individualism are also parts of the creed. This folk culture supports populism as a political philosophy and source of political action, anti-intellectualism and anti-scientific attitudes, and exclusion of those who do not share this folk culture. Yet it provides staunch support for deregulated capitalism and technological innovation. This chapter shows with comparative public opinion data that U.S. political culture continues to be different from that of other wealthy democracies. 3The Embedded State chapter abstractThis chapter argues that American government is more embedded in society than European democracies. This means that the boundaries between state and civil society are weaker in the United States. This form of populist democracy compels government officials to bargain with citizen groups over policy. This feature helps account for the rapidity with which American society can mobilize policy and resources if there is a popular consensus for change. The same feature also allows for rapid demobilization once popular interest has waned or when the public mood changes. Politicians avoid legitimacy crises by using a form of decision making that produces consensus but gives less weight to cost control and the evaluation of outcomes. Congress passes legislation with broad goals. Decision makers in regulatory agencies must then interpret the statutes and formulate the working rules and outcomes. Cost control and evaluation of outcomes fall by the wayside in this process. 4The Collectivist Moment chapter abstractThe argument of this chapter is that the Great Depression of the 1930s initiated a period of suspension of the classic American creed. Suddenly government became legitimate as a collective actor in the struggle against a major economic catastrophe. But its form did not change. The center distributed resources and new authority to local governments. The federal government did not centralize policy control because of the preferences of Southern Democrats. The 1950s continued this process with the growth of the national security state and the threat of the Cold War. The perception of external threats also acted as a check on populism during this period. 5The Liberal Activist Society chapter abstractThe optimism of the 1950s led to resurgence of two key elements of the American creed: individualism and deregulated capitalism. Two movements developed around these themes. First, movements pushing for the extension of individual rights and freedoms resurfaced. Second, business groups began the fight against a regulated economy. Liberals supporting the first agenda pushed for more government spending to expand the welfare state and education. The idea of the knowledge society was born. Supporting education and the expansion of universities and science became legitimate government responsibilities. Government funding for them soared. Civil society responded by backing social movements pushing for the extension of individual rights. But support for government expansion became contentious among business groups and conservatives. Opposition to this plank of liberalism was growing. 6The Intensification of Individualism and the Displacement of Citizenship chapter abstractThis chapter argues that the individual has become the main social construct of society. Its significance displaces the idea of citizenship, which includes a variety of obligations as well as rights. Becoming educated has become the major responsibility of children and parents. Education is now the secular religion of society and the way to produce rational and moral individuals. One result is to reduce the charisma and authority of many institutions and to confer it on educated individuals. This transformation of authority in society has paved the way for radical forms of populism based on generalized anti-elitism. 7The Growth of Big Government and the Conservative Counterattack chapter abstractThis chapter argues that government growth produced a backlash from those who saw it as an attack on a key feature of the American creed: the hegemony of capitalism in America. The chapter describes the decline of the liberal state and the growing unwillingness of political elites to fund it. Business elites fought the regulated capitalism of the postwar period by mobilizing politically. These attacks escalated and focused on starving government of funds both by cutting taxes, particularly on business and the wealthy, and by refusing to borrow money to finance government projects. They successfully revived that part of the American creed that supported individual freedom to thrive through their own economic efforts. The chapter also describes key changes in society that result from an expanded state. 8The Breakup of the Postwar Order chapter abstractThis chapter describes the dissent that emerged in the post–1960s era. It argues that conflict grew around two elements of the American creed: the extension of individual freedoms and rights that was occurring and government regulation of capitalism. These splits produced four separate political cultures that neither political party has been able to contain. Two majoritarian positions have emerged: majorities favor the extension of civil rights and freedoms to many, and majorities favor less regulation of capitalism and the economy. But there are strong minorities who dissent from both these positions. Moral conservatives and the religious have reservations on many issues such as abortion and homosexuality. On the other hand, people who define themselves as progressives argue for more regulation of industry and the economy, such as pollution regulations and worker rights. Political entrepreneurs and the media have seized on these issues and have produced a more polarized society. 9The Intensification of Populism and the Declining Legitimacy of Elites chapter abstractThis chapter argues that the new populism castigates all elites in society as illegitimate. It has arisen and become successful because of two major changes in American society. First, the intensification of individualism has transferred authority to individuals and undermined that of elites in society. Second, the breakdown of the center and the failure of both parties to deal with economic and other problems has opened up space for radical alternatives to flourish. The chapter discusses the types of populism that emerge and the way that economic and cultural discourse becomes connected to intensify populist antagonism to particular sets of others. 10From Consensus to Culture Wars chapter abstractThis chapter notes that local community politics is much less polarized than the national political debate. This fact suggests that it is national institutions that are responsible for the new politics of polarization. The chapter discusses the sources of this change: (1) the changing trajectories of the political parties, (2) deregulation of the national media, and (3) the increasing importance of social media as megaphones of extremism. 11Conclusion chapter abstractThis chapter discusses three issues raised by the book: (1) whether individualism can be the basis for national solidarity, (2) the future of the current polarization of politics, and (3) populism and its future. It presents several different possibilities and cautions that these futures will be determined by both what happens in the United States and the fate of globalization itself.

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Book SynopsisBirthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "a nation of immigrants." Even as the question of citizenship for children of immigrants was seemingly settled by the Fourteenth Amendment, vitriolic debate has continued for well over a century, especially in relation to U.S. race relations. Most recently, a provocative and decidedly more offensive term than birthright citizenship has emerged: "anchor babies." With this book, Leo R. Chavez explores the question of birthright citizenship, and of citizenship in the United States writ broadly, as he counters the often hyperbolic claims surrounding these so-called anchor babies. Chavez considers how the term is used as a political dog whistle, how changes in the legal definition of citizenship have affected the children of immigrants over time, and, ultimately, how U.S.-born citizens still experience trauma if they live in families with undocumented immigrants. By examining this pejorative term in its political, historical, and social contexts, Chavez calls upon us to exorcise it from public discourse and work toward building a more inclusive nation.Trade Review"Leo Chavez establishes two important truths with Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship: he reinforces the historical and continuing importance of 'citizenship' in defining our nation's character, and he documents the very real and significant impacts on children and families in how we talk about citizenship and how we seek to limit its availability. These are critical lessons for all who participate in policy debates today in America." -- Thomas A. Saenz, President and General Counsel * MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) *"This very readable book makes an enormously important contribution to the immigration debate. Leo Chavez carefully examines the history, rhetoric, and law of why those born in the United States are rightly accorded citizenship. Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship is a must-read for all future discussions about U.S. citizenship." -- Erwin Chemerinsky * author of The Conservative Assault on the Constitution *"Leo Chavez has written a timely and compelling book that poses some of the most critical questions about citizenship and deservingness facing our nation today. Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship illuminates the human costs of drawing bright lines that exclude those born on U.S. soil—forced family separation, economic hardship, broken spirits, and a fractured nation. Analytically sharp, powerfully written, and cogently argued, this important book is essential reading for every American." -- Roberto G. Gonzales * author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsPrologue chapter abstractThe Prologue introduces the reader to the concept of anchor babies and birthright citizenship. It provides examples of issues and political rhetoric related to anchor babies and the problem of defining the concept. It also lays out the structure and organization of the book as well as the general argument that the anchor baby rhetoric undermines the sense of belonging of U.S.-citizen children by questioning their citizenship on the basis of their parents' immigration status. 1Undeserving Citizens? chapter abstractThis chapter examines media stories about anchor babies and birthright citizenship that appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times between 1965 and 2015. Media coverage began with stories about birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants. Early in the 2000s, the term "anchor baby" became part of public discourse and was used to question whether the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants deserved citizenship. This chapter traces the politics surrounding the anchor baby rhetoric as well as attempts to legislate changing the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to deny anchor babies citizenship. 2A History of Birthright Citizenship chapter abstractThis chapter attempts to put the often hyperbolic rhetoric surrounding anchor babies into a historical framework. The children of immigrants have always had a tenuous position in American society. The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution made birth in the nation, with some exceptions, a definition of citizenship. The Supreme Court, in the Wong Kim Ark case in 1898, made it clear that birthright citizenship applied to the children of immigrants, even when their parents may not have been eligible for citizenship themselves. However, the children of stigmatized ethnic and racial groups still found their citizenship questioned throughout the 20th century. 3Diminished Citizenship chapter abstractCitizens living with families that include undocumented immigrants may be subject to policies that diminish their rights as citizens, or they may face verbally and physically aggressive behavior by individuals who challenge their right to belong in America. They also face the daily threat of deportation that would tear apart their families, often leaving them destitute. State policies that deny birth certificates to U.S.-born children not only affect the individuals so denied; they also underscore that the state can disregard the rights of these so-called anchor babies. Such policies also provide evidence of the power of the anchor baby rhetoric to justify policies on the basis of the belief that anchor babies are undeserving citizens. Epilogue chapter abstractThe Epilogue returns to the book's argument that the anchor baby rhetoric undermines the sense of belonging and citizenship for the U.S.-born children of immigrants. It also shows that the targets of such rhetoric can feel as if they are being singled out as undeserving Americans. It examines the case of Judge Gonzalo Curiel, whose ability to perform his judicial duties were questioned because of his Mexican heritage. The book ends with the hope that the children of immigrants will not let the anchor baby rhetoric diminish them as people and as citizens.

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Book SynopsisPursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era provides readers with the everyday perspectives of immigrants on what it is like to try to integrate into American society during a time when immigration policy is focused on enforcement and exclusion. The law says that everyone who is not a citizen is an alien. But the social reality is more complicated. Ming Hsu Chen argues that the citizen/alien binary should instead be reframed as a spectrum of citizenship, a concept that emphasizes continuities between the otherwise distinct experiences of membership and belonging for immigrants seeking to become citizens. To understand citizenship from the perspective of noncitizens, this book utilizes interviews with more than one-hundred immigrants of varying legal statuses about their attempts to integrate economically, socially, politically, and legally during a modern era of intense immigration enforcement. Studying the experiences of green card holders, refugees, military service members, temporary workers, international students, and undocumented immigrants uncovers the common plight that underlies their distinctions: limited legal status breeds a sense of citizenship insecurity for all immigrants that inhibits their full integration into society. Bringing together theories of citizenship with empirical data on integration and analysis of contemporary policy, Chen builds a case that formal citizenship status matters more than ever during times of enforcement and argues for constructing pathways to citizenship that enhance both formal and substantive equality of immigrants.Trade Review"Ming Hsu Chen writes with great intelligence and compassion about the frightening reality of attempting to pursue citizenship in a moment when every interaction with the federal government also involves tremendous risk. She brings to life the struggle of recently arrived immigrants who want to integrate more fully into American society, even as federal policy seeks to exclude as many as possible. The complexities of constantly changing and sometimes even contradictory immigration laws are explained and the true predicaments of well-intentioned immigrants who seek only to follow the law to the best of their understanding are illuminated. Chen does a masterful job."—Helen Thorpe, author of The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in America"As much critique as corrective vision, Ming Chen's powerful book brings us revelatory conversations with immigrants seeking to become citizens. Their experiences, frustrations, and dreams shine sharp spotlights on the official barriers they face—and on our shared humanity."—Ian F. Haney López, University of California, Berkeley"Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era offers a nuanced analysis of the complex relationship between the legal status of citizenship and real belonging to U.S. society. Drawing on wide-ranging interviews, Ming Chen shows how overemphasizing immigration enforcement undermines the integration of immigrants and their potential to make society more cohesive. This is trail-blazing scholarship on how immigrants become citizens."—Hiroshi Motomura, UCLA School of Law"Chen makes a compelling case that federal government can and should do more—much more—to integrate its residents by supporting access to citizenship. With a clear-eyed picture of the functional benefits of formal citizenship, this book offers a thoughtful policy roadmap for achieving that goal."—Jennifer Chacón, UCLA School of Law"Chen here demands that we migration scholars stake a deeper claim in the changes that are needed to ensure all of our well-being.Pursuing Citizenshipis an essential read for all of us committed to accepting that challenge."—Shannon Gleeson, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era provides a powerful account of the struggles that many noncitizens and their families faced during the increased immigration enforcement of the Trump era... Chen offers a strong defense of formal citizenship, particularly in contexts where immigration enforcement is prioritized, because of its impact on one's sense of equality and community membership."—Rose Cuison-Villazor, Michigan Law ReviewTable of Contents1. Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era 2. Unequal Citizenship: Gaps in Formal and Substantive Citizenship 3. Winding Pathways to Citizenship 4. Barriers to Formal Citizenship 5. Blocked Pathways to Full Citizenship 6. Constructing Pathways to Full Citizenship

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Book SynopsisIn the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, liberal outcry over ethnonationalist views promoted a vision of America as a nation of immigrants. Given the pervasiveness of this rhetoric, it can be easy to overlook the fact that the immigrant rights movement began in the US relatively recently. This book tells the story of its grassroots origins, through its meteoric rise to the national stage. Starting in the 1990s, the immigrant rights movement slowly cohered over the demand for comprehensive federal reform of immigration policy. Activists called for a new framework of citizenship, arguing that immigrants deserved legal status based on their strong affiliation with American values. During the Obama administration, leaders were granted unprecedented political access and millions of dollars in support. The national spotlight, however, came with unforeseen pressures—growing inequalities between factions and restrictions on challenging mainstream views. Such tradeoffs eventually shattered the united front. The Immigrant Rights Movement tells the story of a vibrant movement to change the meaning of national citizenship, that ultimately became enmeshed in the system that it sought to transform.Trade Review"This book offers a lucid and highly readable analysis of the modern U.S. immigrant rights movement. Systematically documenting the contribution of local struggles in the late 20th century to the movement's national consolidation in the 2000s and its more recent re-fragmentation, Nicholls' behind-the-scenes account carefully exposes the tensions between grassroots immigrant rights activism and national-level realpolitik. An important contribution." -- Ruth Milkman * CUNY Graduate Center, author of L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement *"The Immigrant Rights Movement's historical and geographic sweep is remarkable: it extends far beyond existing accounts, which tend to either focus on the 2006 protests or to present case studies of immigrant mobilization in one or two places. Theoretically rich and empirically rigorous, the book will set the terms for the debate about the best way forward for the immigrant rights movement for many years to come." -- Kim Voss * University of California, Berkeley *"This timely book explains the successes and challenges of pro-immigration activism in the United States. Its provocative argument raises tough practical and theoretical questions about the political costs of nationalizing and professionalizing social movements." -- David Scott FitzGerald * author of Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers *"In this daring volume Nicholls looks beyond the achievements and failures of the ever-developing immigrant rights' movement in the US to explore how the movement has changed the discourse, the scope, and the descriptive nature of national citizenship....In this highly accessible and readable book, Nicholls weaves together political and social theory throughout, making this text especially useful for classroom incorporation. Highly recommended." -- R. A. Harper * CHOICE *"Future research could easily build on Nicholls's brilliant work....Rigorously corroborated, theoretically inspiring, and yet impressively readable, this book has much to offer students and scholars at all levels." -- Kevin Lee * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Nicholls's meticulous institutional analysis spans decades....the book offers us an invaluable critique of nationalism itself." -- Miranda C. Hallett * American Ethnologist *"The Immigrant Rights Movement is a must-read for anyone interested in migration rights, social movements, and the institutional reproduction of inequality. Nicholls provides an array of qualitative data, different forms of data presentation, and thought-provoking arguments about the constraints and opportunities of social movements. Though focused on immigration, this timely book generates broad reflection on the relationship between social movements and philanthropy, and debates about how disciplining a social movement occurs through the political elite." -- Blanca Ramirez * Mobilization *"Nicholls's book convincingly highlights a key paradox that advocates and activists face when moving into the political field: the same conditions that allowed immigrant rights movements to become a political force wound up binding the movement to the very system it sought to change." -- Ana Hontanilla * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThe introduction provides readers with a basic overview of the book's central concepts and arguments. It suggests that today's immigrant rights movement has its roots in local battles scattered throughout the country. It maps out how these local fights emerged and goes on to discuss their aggregation into a national social movement. 1The Rights of Immigrants in the Nation chapter abstractSome scholars have argued that globalization and transnational migration have weakened the importance of national citizenship. This theoretical chapter addresses this central issue. It suggests that national citizenship is still very much intact and constrains how immigrant rights activists develop their claims and demands. By engaging with various literatures including citizenship studies, social movement, and immigration, the chapter aims to explain the continued caging powers of the nation state over the thoughts, words, and actions of activists. 2Suburbia Must be Defended chapter abstractThe chapter explores the local conditions that helped give rise to ethnonational arguments by examining local responses to immigrant day laborers. By drawing on materials from the 1990s, the chapter maintains that the public assembly of Latino immigrants on street corners disrupted the everyday life suburban residents. Such disruptions propelled thousands of people to step in and debate the meanings of citizenship. From this cauldron of conflicting passions emerged a particular understanding of citizenship that was ethnonationalist, exclusionary, and revanchist. This was an ethnic understanding of citizenship backed by an increasingly violent and exclusionary state. 3Resisting Ethnonationalism, One Town at a Time chapter abstractThe chapter examines how pro-immigrant groups bubbled up in suburban towns around the county and pushed back on their anti-immigrant neighbors. It does so by first describing early resistances by day laborers and their diverse range of supporters. The chapter goes on to describe how some local mobilizations snow-balled into sizeable struggles mostly anchored by regional immigrant rights organizations. The chapter finishes by showing how many campaigns succeeded in stopping many restrictive ordinances. 4Regionalizing the Fight for Immigrant Rights: The Case of Los Angeles chapter abstractMetropolitan Los Angeles is used as a case to illustrate how immigrant rights activism shifted to the regional scale. The chapter begins with a very local conflict over day laborers in the suburb of Pasadena. It examines how highly precarious immigrants stepped out of the proverbial shadows to resist their criminalization in the city. Following this discussion, the chapter proceeds to a discussion of the regionalization of the struggle. Center for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) played a pivotal role in connecting and coordinating battles unfolding across the metropolitan area. 5The Resurgent Nation State chapter abstractFrom the mid 1990s onwards, the federal government became increasingly active in the area of immigration. It passed more restrictive laws and policies and invested more money in enforcement. Moreover, elected officials began to talk more about immigration and immigration reform than ever. The federal government's symbolic and legal power were overwhelming in shaping the parameters of national citizenship. For immigrant rights activists who had spent their formative years in local political trenches, it became increasingly important to shift scale and enter national politics. 6Entering the Field of National Citizenship chapter abstractThe chapter addresses the shift to national politics by examining the creation of a countrywide social movement infrastructure. Well-endowed and politically connected national organizations worked with prominent local organizations to form a string of new coalitions with national-level reach. The primary goal of these coalitions was to create a vehicle to pursue comprehensive immigration reform. Washington D.C.-based organizations sat at the helm of the coalitions and reached out to local organizations in immigrant rich metropolitan areas. These organizations co-sponsored meetings, trainings, and other events. The coalitions fashioned new instruments (organizations, networks, communication networks, trainings and workshops) to transmit understandings about rights, immigration reform, and citizenship from the centers of power (Washington D.C.) to immigrant communities around the country. 7Money Makes the Movement chapter abstractThe funding pie grew much larger in the 2000s and 2010s. The financial bounty enabled leading organizations to create the infrastructure underlying the mainstream immigrant rights movement. They could afford to undertake costly communications research. They had the resources to generate training materials and run local workshops in localities across the country. Well-resourced organizations could afford to lobby national politicians and develop relations with political elite. The infusion of money enabled an unprecedented level of coordination, but the wealth and professionalization of national organizations contributed to sharpening inequalities and a veritable class divide in the social movement. 8A Seat at the Table chapter abstractThe Obama administration provided advocacy organizations extraordinary access. The leading organizations had many meetings with White House officials and congressional leaders. Strong ties with federal policymakers and politicians also provided movement leaders with direct access to valuable information. Access did not, however, result in much political influence. During a period of unprecedented access, the Obama White House did not prioritize comprehensive immigration reform during its first term. The White House and its Senate allies believed that they needed to burnish their deportation credentials in order to win broad support from reluctant Republicans. Between 2009 and 2013, the Obama administration removed approximately 400,000 unauthorized immigrants a year. Thus, in spite of its enormous reservoirs of political capital, the leadership of the immigrant rights movement was not able exercise great influence over federal immigration policy. 9Making Immigrants American chapter abstractThis chapter examine how the movement generated public representations of immigrants in their battle for comprehensive immigration reform. Entry into the national field precipitated a process of selecting one master frame (liberal nationalism) over others (territorial personhood, postnationalism). Following the failure to pass immigration reform in 2007, the leadership initiated a broad campaign to change how Americans viewed immigrants. They set out to generate a disciplined message that would resonate with hearts and minds of average Americans. Liberal nationalism provided advocates with the language, ideas, sentiments, and narratives to effectively construct a message of immigrant deservingness. America was, they argued, a nation of immigrants and immigrants possessed essential attributes (assimilated in norms and culture, contributing, innocent) that made them deserving of membership. Conclusion: Where We Stand chapter abstractThe concluding chapter assesses the challenges facing the immigrant rights movement in the Trump era. It suggests that new political challenges have contributed to further splintering the movement. The chapter also describes how the new difficulties are rooted in problems that had metastasized over the previous fifteen years.

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Book SynopsisA new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunteering, religiosity, and civic consciousness. Conspicuously, the WWII generation introduced collectivist notions of civic obligations—but such obligations have since become regarded as options. In this book, David H. Kamens takes this basic shift as his starting point for exploring numerous trends in American political culture from the 1930s to the present day. Drawing on and synthesizing an enormous array of primary and secondary materials, Kamens examines the critical role of macro social changes, such as the growth and expansion of government and education, often in response to the emergence of globalization. From these tectonic shifts erupted numerous ripple effects, such as the decline of traditional citizen values, the rise of individualism, loss of trust in institutions, anti-elitism, and dramatic political polarization. In this context, antagonism to government as an enemy of personal freedom grew, creating a space for populist movements to blossom, unrestrained by traditional political parties. Beyond painting a comprehensive picture of our current political landscape, Kamens offers an invaluable archive documenting the steps that got us here. Trade Review"Kamens provides an impressive depiction of historic American political culture – individualist and anti-statist – as explaining current public crises and conflicts. From this point of view, the contemporary scene is less exceptional than the period of mobilized consensus from the 1930s through the '80s. This creative book will be of great interest to those thinking about the future of American democracy, especially as globalization disconnects empowered individuals from the responsibilities and constraints of citizenship." -- John W. Meyer, Professor Emeritus of Sociology * Stanford University *"In the tradition of Tocqueville, Almond and Verba, and Lipset, David Kamens provides a sweeping analysis of the U.S. polity, paying special attention to its distinctive development from the 1930s and the distinctive predicament it is in today. The book is masterfully crafted and urgently needed at this moment of harrowing political crisis." -- David John Frank, Professor of Sociology * University of California, Irvine *"A New American Creed is so rich in data and original insights—of which this review can barely scratch the surface—that it should be required reading for every officeholder, candidate, and voter interested in understanding the current political climate, how we got here, and whether the situation is reparable." -- Karen Lyon * The Hill Rag *"[Kamens'] conclusions are sobering, to say the least. He worries about the rise of individualism and whether it can coexist with a stable and viable political community....Can [US political parties] manage polarization and provide stability to the political system? Kamens offers little hope that they can. Recommended." -- E. C. Sands * CHOICE> *"A New American Creed: The Eclipse of Citizenship and Rise of Populism provides a sophisticated analysis of a fundamental issue of our times – the nature of contemporary American democracy. Kamens makes an unparalleled case for understanding prominent features of recent decades, such as the rise of populism and nativism, as emerging in part due to long-term cultural and institutional changes at national and global levels. He reminds us that the reconstruction of the individual actor as the primary focus of social, political, and economic action facilitates, on the one hand, the expansion of civil rights to historically marginalized groups, but, on the other hand, simultaneously undercuts the emergence of a strong welfare state and allows for massive inequality. This theoretically innovative and well-argued book is a must-read for anyone interested in the present and future of American democracy." -- Patricia Bromley, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education * Stanford University *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction chapter abstractThe book argues that global events of the 1930s and the following decades temporarily suspended key elements of the American creed. The role of government became enlarged and a regulated capitalism emerged. The decades of the post–1960s witnessed a reaction to these changes. An expanded education system legitimated a surge in individualism and a decline in citizen obligations. Emphasis on individual rights swelled, and individual responsibilities became options. Fear of government as an enemy of individual freedoms also grew. These developments were the seeds out of which social and political polarization later grew. They also provided support for intensified anti-elitism and its political offspring—anti-establishment populism. 2The United States in Comparative Perspective chapter abstractThis chapter surveys the elements of the traditional American creed. It is the narrative of a frontier society that deemphasizes diversity of opinion and culture. In its place this ethos imagines that all legitimate citizens share a diffuse religion called the American way. In this depiction this common belief system is the glue that holds society together society in lieu of a strong state. It places a high value on conformity, though equality of all citizens and individualism are also parts of the creed. This folk culture supports populism as a political philosophy and source of political action, anti-intellectualism and anti-scientific attitudes, and exclusion of those who do not share this folk culture. Yet it provides staunch support for deregulated capitalism and technological innovation. This chapter shows with comparative public opinion data that U.S. political culture continues to be different from that of other wealthy democracies. 3The Embedded State chapter abstractThis chapter argues that American government is more embedded in society than European democracies. This means that the boundaries between state and civil society are weaker in the United States. This form of populist democracy compels government officials to bargain with citizen groups over policy. This feature helps account for the rapidity with which American society can mobilize policy and resources if there is a popular consensus for change. The same feature also allows for rapid demobilization once popular interest has waned or when the public mood changes. Politicians avoid legitimacy crises by using a form of decision making that produces consensus but gives less weight to cost control and the evaluation of outcomes. Congress passes legislation with broad goals. Decision makers in regulatory agencies must then interpret the statutes and formulate the working rules and outcomes. Cost control and evaluation of outcomes fall by the wayside in this process. 4The Collectivist Moment chapter abstractThe argument of this chapter is that the Great Depression of the 1930s initiated a period of suspension of the classic American creed. Suddenly government became legitimate as a collective actor in the struggle against a major economic catastrophe. But its form did not change. The center distributed resources and new authority to local governments. The federal government did not centralize policy control because of the preferences of Southern Democrats. The 1950s continued this process with the growth of the national security state and the threat of the Cold War. The perception of external threats also acted as a check on populism during this period. 5The Liberal Activist Society chapter abstractThe optimism of the 1950s led to resurgence of two key elements of the American creed: individualism and deregulated capitalism. Two movements developed around these themes. First, movements pushing for the extension of individual rights and freedoms resurfaced. Second, business groups began the fight against a regulated economy. Liberals supporting the first agenda pushed for more government spending to expand the welfare state and education. The idea of the knowledge society was born. Supporting education and the expansion of universities and science became legitimate government responsibilities. Government funding for them soared. Civil society responded by backing social movements pushing for the extension of individual rights. But support for government expansion became contentious among business groups and conservatives. Opposition to this plank of liberalism was growing. 6The Intensification of Individualism and the Displacement of Citizenship chapter abstractThis chapter argues that the individual has become the main social construct of society. Its significance displaces the idea of citizenship, which includes a variety of obligations as well as rights. Becoming educated has become the major responsibility of children and parents. Education is now the secular religion of society and the way to produce rational and moral individuals. One result is to reduce the charisma and authority of many institutions and to confer it on educated individuals. This transformation of authority in society has paved the way for radical forms of populism based on generalized anti-elitism. 7The Growth of Big Government and the Conservative Counterattack chapter abstractThis chapter argues that government growth produced a backlash from those who saw it as an attack on a key feature of the American creed: the hegemony of capitalism in America. The chapter describes the decline of the liberal state and the growing unwillingness of political elites to fund it. Business elites fought the regulated capitalism of the postwar period by mobilizing politically. These attacks escalated and focused on starving government of funds both by cutting taxes, particularly on business and the wealthy, and by refusing to borrow money to finance government projects. They successfully revived that part of the American creed that supported individual freedom to thrive through their own economic efforts. The chapter also describes key changes in society that result from an expanded state. 8The Breakup of the Postwar Order chapter abstractThis chapter describes the dissent that emerged in the post–1960s era. It argues that conflict grew around two elements of the American creed: the extension of individual freedoms and rights that was occurring and government regulation of capitalism. These splits produced four separate political cultures that neither political party has been able to contain. Two majoritarian positions have emerged: majorities favor the extension of civil rights and freedoms to many, and majorities favor less regulation of capitalism and the economy. But there are strong minorities who dissent from both these positions. Moral conservatives and the religious have reservations on many issues such as abortion and homosexuality. On the other hand, people who define themselves as progressives argue for more regulation of industry and the economy, such as pollution regulations and worker rights. Political entrepreneurs and the media have seized on these issues and have produced a more polarized society. 9The Intensification of Populism and the Declining Legitimacy of Elites chapter abstractThis chapter argues that the new populism castigates all elites in society as illegitimate. It has arisen and become successful because of two major changes in American society. First, the intensification of individualism has transferred authority to individuals and undermined that of elites in society. Second, the breakdown of the center and the failure of both parties to deal with economic and other problems has opened up space for radical alternatives to flourish. The chapter discusses the types of populism that emerge and the way that economic and cultural discourse becomes connected to intensify populist antagonism to particular sets of others. 10From Consensus to Culture Wars chapter abstractThis chapter notes that local community politics is much less polarized than the national political debate. This fact suggests that it is national institutions that are responsible for the new politics of polarization. The chapter discusses the sources of this change: (1) the changing trajectories of the political parties, (2) deregulation of the national media, and (3) the increasing importance of social media as megaphones of extremism. 11Conclusion chapter abstractThis chapter discusses three issues raised by the book: (1) whether individualism can be the basis for national solidarity, (2) the future of the current polarization of politics, and (3) populism and its future. It presents several different possibilities and cautions that these futures will be determined by both what happens in the United States and the fate of globalization itself.

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Book SynopsisAfter three decades of massive rural-to-urban migration in China, a burgeoning population of over 35 million second-generation migrants living in its cities poses a challenge to socialist modes of population management and urban governance. In The Inconvenient Generation, Minhua Ling offers the first longitudinal study of these migrant youth from middle school to the labor market in the years after the Shanghai municipal government partially opened its public school system to them. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic data, Ling follows the trajectories of dozens of children coming of age at a time of competing economic and social imperatives, and its everyday ramifications on their sense of identity, educational outcomes, and citizenship claims. Under policies and practices of segmented inclusion, they are inevitably funneled through the school system toward a life of manual labor. Illuminating the aspirations and strategies of these young men and women, Ling captures their experiences against the backdrop of a reemergent global Shanghai.Trade Review"Ranging across all the main sites of social life – work, school, leisure, reproduction – Minhua Ling's comprehensive, meticulous, and valuable ethnography gives a worm's-eye view of life for Shanghai's second-generation migrant youth. On the city's edges and living in insecure, often ramshackle homes, they seek to shape a meaningful life and sense of personal worth under multiple pressures of marginalization, but they are the fastest-growing segment of a soon-to-be mostly migrant city. This picture of Shanghai shows us some of the results of the world's largest-ever human migration and the likely future dimensions of suffering and belonging in mega-cities everywhere."—Paul Willis, author of Learning to Labour"Minhua Ling's sensitive, fine-grained narrative of what she terms 'the inconvenient generation' affords a periscopic vision of ongoing state-structured discrimination against the children of rural migrants as this second generation comes of age. The reader can only ache over her poignant presentation of cosmopolitan dreams and dashed hopes as these young people's onward avenues remain blocked, some three and a half decades since their forebears set forth for the cities. The author's sharp eye, analytical acuity, and compassion have produced an engrossing, empathetic chronicle."—Dorothy J. Solinger, author of Contesting Citizenship in Urban China"Based on an in-depth longitudinal study, The Inconvenient Generation offers an original and riveting ethnographic account of the lived experience of second-generation Chinese migrant youth in a rapidly changing global Shanghai. Beautifully crafted, it is a poignant story about coming of age as 'liminal subjects,' who are caught in China's persistent rural/urban divide and yet strive to attain their dreams and aspirations while facing an unforgiving reality shaped by the urban citizenship regime, a massive demand for manual labor, and segmented inclusion."—Li Zhang, author of Strangers in the City and In Search of Paradise"Minhua Ling offers an incisive account of the segmented inclusion and unequal citizenship facing millions of migrant youths in fast-changing Shanghai....By skilfully interweaving qualitative data with fresh analysis, Ling invites readers to reflect on the long-standing mechanisms of social inequality and their direct impact on the people."—Jenny Chan, Journal of Asian Studies

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Book SynopsisAfter three decades of massive rural-to-urban migration in China, a burgeoning population of over 35 million second-generation migrants living in its cities poses a challenge to socialist modes of population management and urban governance. In The Inconvenient Generation, Minhua Ling offers the first longitudinal study of these migrant youth from middle school to the labor market in the years after the Shanghai municipal government partially opened its public school system to them. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic data, Ling follows the trajectories of dozens of children coming of age at a time of competing economic and social imperatives, and its everyday ramifications on their sense of identity, educational outcomes, and citizenship claims. Under policies and practices of segmented inclusion, they are inevitably funneled through the school system toward a life of manual labor. Illuminating the aspirations and strategies of these young men and women, Ling captures their experiences against the backdrop of a reemergent global Shanghai.Trade Review"Ranging across all the main sites of social life – work, school, leisure, reproduction – Minhua Ling's comprehensive, meticulous, and valuable ethnography gives a worm's-eye view of life for Shanghai's second-generation migrant youth. On the city's edges and living in insecure, often ramshackle homes, they seek to shape a meaningful life and sense of personal worth under multiple pressures of marginalization, but they are the fastest-growing segment of a soon-to-be mostly migrant city. This picture of Shanghai shows us some of the results of the world's largest-ever human migration and the likely future dimensions of suffering and belonging in mega-cities everywhere."—Paul Willis, author of Learning to Labour"Minhua Ling's sensitive, fine-grained narrative of what she terms 'the inconvenient generation' affords a periscopic vision of ongoing state-structured discrimination against the children of rural migrants as this second generation comes of age. The reader can only ache over her poignant presentation of cosmopolitan dreams and dashed hopes as these young people's onward avenues remain blocked, some three and a half decades since their forebears set forth for the cities. The author's sharp eye, analytical acuity, and compassion have produced an engrossing, empathetic chronicle."—Dorothy J. Solinger, author of Contesting Citizenship in Urban China"Based on an in-depth longitudinal study, The Inconvenient Generation offers an original and riveting ethnographic account of the lived experience of second-generation Chinese migrant youth in a rapidly changing global Shanghai. Beautifully crafted, it is a poignant story about coming of age as 'liminal subjects,' who are caught in China's persistent rural/urban divide and yet strive to attain their dreams and aspirations while facing an unforgiving reality shaped by the urban citizenship regime, a massive demand for manual labor, and segmented inclusion."—Li Zhang, author of Strangers in the City and In Search of Paradise"Minhua Ling offers an incisive account of the segmented inclusion and unequal citizenship facing millions of migrant youths in fast-changing Shanghai....By skilfully interweaving qualitative data with fresh analysis, Ling invites readers to reflect on the long-standing mechanisms of social inequality and their direct impact on the people."—Jenny Chan, Journal of Asian Studies

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Book SynopsisIn the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be Counted examines how Delhi's urban poor, in an effort to gain visibility from the local state, incrementally stake their claims to a house and life in the city. Contributing to debates about the contradictions of state governmentality and the citizenship projects of the poor in Delhi, this book explores social suffering, logistics, and the logic of political mobilizations that emanate from processes of displacement and resettlement. Sanjeev Routray draws upon fieldwork conducted in various low-income neighborhoods throughout the 2010s to describe the process of claims-making as an attempt by the political community of the poor to assert its existence and numerical strength, and demonstrates how this struggle to be counted constitutes the systematic, protracted, and incremental political process by which the poor claim their substantive entitlements and become entrenched in the city. Analyzing various social, political, and economic relationships, as well as kinship networks and solidarity linkages across the political and social spectrum, this book traces the ways the poor work to gain a foothold in Delhi and establish agency for themselves.Trade Review"The Right to Be Counted presents a rich ethnographic analysis of the range of strategies adopted by displaced populations crowding into urban slums to stake their claim to belong to the city. Routray's depiction of 'numerical citizenship' is persuasive and enlightening. This is a valuable addition to the growing literature on popular politics in megacities."—Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University"This is a 'how things work' book of top quality. With deep, analytical, thoughtful scholarship, Routray provides one of the clearest and most accessible accounts of how the poor fight to make a home in Delhi."—Durba Chattaraj, Ashoka University"Routray offers an impressive and authoritative account that displays a remarkable ability to synthesize interdisciplinary ideas from across disciplines and geographies, while always building his theorizing from a deep commitment to a historically informed ethnography. I learned so much about the relationship between housing, politics and citizenship in Delhi, and beyond. I am sure this text will resonate well beyond its origins."—Ryan Powell, Housing Studies"Routray's book highlights how the logics of planning are employed not only by the powerful to suit the interests of global city making but also by marginalized communities to resist processes of uprooting and work to secure the rights of urban citizenship. The author navigates the difficult task of arguing for the agency of Delhi's urban poor while documenting the profound injustice and suffering they endure in the process."—Shoshana Goldstein, Journal of the American Planning Association

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Book SynopsisIn the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be Counted examines how Delhi's urban poor, in an effort to gain visibility from the local state, incrementally stake their claims to a house and life in the city. Contributing to debates about the contradictions of state governmentality and the citizenship projects of the poor in Delhi, this book explores social suffering, logistics, and the logic of political mobilizations that emanate from processes of displacement and resettlement. Sanjeev Routray draws upon fieldwork conducted in various low-income neighborhoods throughout the 2010s to describe the process of claims-making as an attempt by the political community of the poor to assert its existence and numerical strength, and demonstrates how this struggle to be counted constitutes the systematic, protracted, and incremental political process by which the poor claim their substantive entitlements and become entrenched in the city. Analyzing various social, political, and economic relationships, as well as kinship networks and solidarity linkages across the political and social spectrum, this book traces the ways the poor work to gain a foothold in Delhi and establish agency for themselves.Trade Review"The Right to Be Counted presents a rich ethnographic analysis of the range of strategies adopted by displaced populations crowding into urban slums to stake their claim to belong to the city. Routray's depiction of 'numerical citizenship' is persuasive and enlightening. This is a valuable addition to the growing literature on popular politics in megacities."—Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University"This is a 'how things work' book of top quality. With deep, analytical, thoughtful scholarship, Routray provides one of the clearest and most accessible accounts of how the poor fight to make a home in Delhi."—Durba Chattaraj, Ashoka University"Routray offers an impressive and authoritative account that displays a remarkable ability to synthesize interdisciplinary ideas from across disciplines and geographies, while always building his theorizing from a deep commitment to a historically informed ethnography. I learned so much about the relationship between housing, politics and citizenship in Delhi, and beyond. I am sure this text will resonate well beyond its origins."—Ryan Powell, Housing Studies"Routray's book highlights how the logics of planning are employed not only by the powerful to suit the interests of global city making but also by marginalized communities to resist processes of uprooting and work to secure the rights of urban citizenship. The author navigates the difficult task of arguing for the agency of Delhi's urban poor while documenting the profound injustice and suffering they endure in the process."—Shoshana Goldstein, Journal of the American Planning Association

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Book SynopsisFrom flag-waving to the singing of national anthems, the practices and symbols ofpatriotism are inescapable, and modern politics is increasingly full of appeals topatriotic fervour. But if no-one chooses where they were born, and our ethicalobligations transcend national boundaries, then does patriotism make any sense? Doesit encourage an uncritical attachment to the status quo, or is it a crucial way ofunderstanding and applying our freedoms and moral duties? In this engaging book, Charles Jones and Richard Vernon guide us through thesequestions with razor-sharp clarity. They examine the different ways patriotism has beendefended and explained, from a republican attachment to free and democraticinstitutions to an ethical and historical fabric that makes our entire moral life andidentity possible. They outline its relationship to a range of other key concepts, such asnationalism and cosmopolitanism, and skilfully analyse the issues surroundingpartiality to country and whether we should prioritise the welfare of our compatriotsover outsiders. This concise and lucid volume will be essential for both students and general readerswishing to understand the contemporary resonance and historical development ofpatriotism, and how it intersects with debates about global justice, cosmopolitanismand nationalism.Trade Review"Jones and Vernon’s Patriotism is simply the best available introduction to the tangled questions about citizenship and belonging that roil contemporary political theory. They write with unfailing grace and clarity, their command of the relevant scholarship is peerless, and they are scrupulously fair to rival viewpoints. They deserve a very wide readership."—Eamonn Callan, Stanford University "In this timely work Charles Jones and Richard Vernon comprehensively examine the idea of patriotism, the different forms it might take, and how it might relate to other important concepts including nationalism and cosmopolitanism. This is a rich and accessible introduction to an important idea playing a key role in current political discourse."—Gillian Brock, University of Auckland "This book is a subtle and elegant discussion of the nature of patriotism, which manages to survey a vast literature without pedantry, while lucidly and persuasively defending a particular conception of love of country."—K. Anthony Appiah, New York UniversityTable of Contents Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Community, Loyalty, and Partiality Chapter 2: Nationalism, Patriotism, and Cosmopolitanism Chapter 3: The Republican Alternative Chapter 4: Special Concern for Our Compatriots Conclusion: A Subsidiarity Defence References

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Book SynopsisFrom flag-waving to the singing of national anthems, the practices and symbols ofpatriotism are inescapable, and modern politics is increasingly full of appeals topatriotic fervour. But if no-one chooses where they were born, and our ethicalobligations transcend national boundaries, then does patriotism make any sense? Doesit encourage an uncritical attachment to the status quo, or is it a crucial way ofunderstanding and applying our freedoms and moral duties? In this engaging book, Charles Jones and Richard Vernon guide us through thesequestions with razor-sharp clarity. They examine the different ways patriotism has beendefended and explained, from a republican attachment to free and democraticinstitutions to an ethical and historical fabric that makes our entire moral life andidentity possible. They outline its relationship to a range of other key concepts, such asnationalism and cosmopolitanism, and skilfully analyse the issues surroundingpartiality to country and whether we should prioritise the welfare of our compatriotsover outsiders. This concise and lucid volume will be essential for both students and general readerswishing to understand the contemporary resonance and historical development ofpatriotism, and how it intersects with debates about global justice, cosmopolitanismand nationalism.Trade Review"Jones and Vernon’s Patriotism is simply the best available introduction to the tangled questions about citizenship and belonging that roil contemporary political theory. They write with unfailing grace and clarity, their command of the relevant scholarship is peerless, and they are scrupulously fair to rival viewpoints. They deserve a very wide readership."—Eamonn Callan, Stanford University "In this timely work Charles Jones and Richard Vernon comprehensively examine the idea of patriotism, the different forms it might take, and how it might relate to other important concepts including nationalism and cosmopolitanism. This is a rich and accessible introduction to an important idea playing a key role in current political discourse."—Gillian Brock, University of Auckland "This book is a subtle and elegant discussion of the nature of patriotism, which manages to survey a vast literature without pedantry, while lucidly and persuasively defending a particular conception of love of country."—K. Anthony Appiah, New York UniversityTable of Contents Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Community, Loyalty, and Partiality Chapter 2: Nationalism, Patriotism, and Cosmopolitanism Chapter 3: The Republican Alternative Chapter 4: Special Concern for Our Compatriots Conclusion: A Subsidiarity Defence References

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Book SynopsisSince the global financial crisis of 2008, Greece has shouldered a heavy burden struggling with internal political and financial insecurity as well as hosting enormous numbers of migrants and asylum seekers who arrive by land and sea. In On the Doorstep of Europe, Heath Cabot presents an ethnographic study of the asylum system in Greece, tracing the ways asylum seekers, bureaucrats, and service providers attempt to navigate the dilemmas of governance, ethics, knowledge, and social relations that emerge through this legal process. Centering on the work of an asylum advocacy NGO in Athens, Cabot explores how workers and clients grapple with predicaments endemic to Europeanization and rights-based protection. Drawing inspiration from classical Greek tragedy to highlight both the transformative potential and violence of law, Cabot charts the structural violence effected through European governance, rights frameworks, and humanitarian intervention while also exploring how Greek society is being remade from the inside out. She shows how, in contemporary Greece, relationships between insiders and outsiders are radically reconfigured through legal, political, and economic crises. Now updated with a preface reflecting on the critical stakes of the book’s exploration of refuge in light of events that have transpired in and beyond Europe since its initial publication, On the Doorstep of Europe highlights how border crossers and residents in countries of arrival navigate legal and political violence. Cabot’s on-the-ground account of asylum and immigration in Europe’s borderlands, based on fieldwork conducted between 2004 and 2011, shows how the difficulties encountered by asylum seekers in an earlier time remain relevant and revealing in the face of ongoing crises and challenges today.

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Book SynopsisRich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders As anti-immigrant nationalist discourses escalate globally, Border Thinking offers critical insights into how young people in the Latinx diaspora experience belonging, make sense of racism, and long for change. Every year thousands of youth leave Latin America for the United States and Europe, and often the young migrants are portrayed as invaders and, if able to stay, told to integrate into their new society. Border Thinking asks not how to help the diaspora youth assimilate but what the United States and Europe can learn about citizenship from these diasporic youth. Working in the United States, Spain, and El Salvador, Andrea Dyrness and Enrique Sepúlveda III use participatory action research to collaborate with these young people to analyze how they make sense of their experiences in the borderlands. Dyrness and Sepúlveda engage them in reflecting on their feelings of belonging in multiple places—including some places that treat them as outsiders and criminals. Because of their transnational existence and connections to both home and host countries, diaspora youth have a critical perspective on national citizenship and yearn for new forms of belonging not restricted to national borders. The authors demonstrate how acompañamiento—spaces for solidarity and community-building among migrants—allow youth to critically reflect on their experiences and create support among one another.Even as national borders grow more restricted and the subject of immigration becomes ever more politically fraught, young people’s identities are increasingly diasporic. As the so-called migrant crisis continues, change in how citizenship and belonging are constructed is necessary, and urgent, to create inclusive and sustainable futures. In Border Thinking, Dyrness and Sepúlveda decouple citizenship from the nation-state, calling for new understandings of civic engagement and belonging. Trade Review"Border Thinking offers critical insights into how Latinx youth speak back to racializing, colonial discourses that frame them as outsiders. It is theoretically sophisticated, engaging, and methodologically innovative, offering new insights into participatory methodologies—but its true contribution lies in how it reveals young people’s creative imaginings of transnational forms of citizenship and belonging that are too often silenced by integration initiatives focused on national assimilation."—Reva Jaffe-Walter, author of Coercive Concern: Nationalism, Liberalism, and the Schooling of Muslim Youth"A notable title in an age when border restrictions have become near-absolute."—The Know, Denver Post"Dyrness and Sepúlveda engage in critical methodologies, such as participatory action research and the use of testimonio, to uncover an array of unique but often overlooked perspectives."—Anthropology & Education Quarterly "Scholars interested in action research, transborder, migration, and citizenship studies will find these contributions very helpful."—Gender, Place & Culture "On its face, the book appears to be an excellently written contribution to a specific literature focused on immigration and Latinx youth. But the book is also a contribution to the broader discussion of how societies and communities incorporate—or do not—people from places different than the home context and the crater-sized impacts these seemingly everyday minute choices can have."—Great Plains ResearchTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Rethinking Youth Citizenship in the Diaspora1. Acompañamiento in the Borderlands: Toward a Communal, Relational, and Humanizing Pedagogy Enrique Sepúlveda2. In the Shadow of U.S. Empire: Diasporic Citizenship in El Salvador3. Negotiating Race and the Politics of Integration: Latinx and Caribbean Youth in Madrid4. Transnational Belongings: The Cultural Knowledge of Lives in Between5. Feminists in Transition: Transnational Latina Activists in Madrid Andrea DyrnessConclusion: Reflections on Acompañamiento in the BorderlandsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders As anti-immigrant nationalist discourses escalate globally, Border Thinking offers critical insights into how young people in the Latinx diaspora experience belonging, make sense of racism, and long for change. Every year thousands of youth leave Latin America for the United States and Europe, and often the young migrants are portrayed as invaders and, if able to stay, told to integrate into their new society. Border Thinking asks not how to help the diaspora youth assimilate but what the United States and Europe can learn about citizenship from these diasporic youth. Working in the United States, Spain, and El Salvador, Andrea Dyrness and Enrique Sepúlveda III use participatory action research to collaborate with these young people to analyze how they make sense of their experiences in the borderlands. Dyrness and Sepúlveda engage them in reflecting on their feelings of belonging in multiple places—including some places that treat them as outsiders and criminals. Because of their transnational existence and connections to both home and host countries, diaspora youth have a critical perspective on national citizenship and yearn for new forms of belonging not restricted to national borders. The authors demonstrate how acompañamiento—spaces for solidarity and community-building among migrants—allow youth to critically reflect on their experiences and create support among one another.Even as national borders grow more restricted and the subject of immigration becomes ever more politically fraught, young people’s identities are increasingly diasporic. As the so-called migrant crisis continues, change in how citizenship and belonging are constructed is necessary, and urgent, to create inclusive and sustainable futures. In Border Thinking, Dyrness and Sepúlveda decouple citizenship from the nation-state, calling for new understandings of civic engagement and belonging. Trade Review"Border Thinking offers critical insights into how Latinx youth speak back to racializing, colonial discourses that frame them as outsiders. It is theoretically sophisticated, engaging, and methodologically innovative, offering new insights into participatory methodologies—but its true contribution lies in how it reveals young people’s creative imaginings of transnational forms of citizenship and belonging that are too often silenced by integration initiatives focused on national assimilation."—Reva Jaffe-Walter, author of Coercive Concern: Nationalism, Liberalism, and the Schooling of Muslim Youth"A notable title in an age when border restrictions have become near-absolute."—The Know, Denver Post"Dyrness and Sepúlveda engage in critical methodologies, such as participatory action research and the use of testimonio, to uncover an array of unique but often overlooked perspectives."—Anthropology & Education Quarterly "Scholars interested in action research, transborder, migration, and citizenship studies will find these contributions very helpful."—Gender, Place & Culture "On its face, the book appears to be an excellently written contribution to a specific literature focused on immigration and Latinx youth. But the book is also a contribution to the broader discussion of how societies and communities incorporate—or do not—people from places different than the home context and the crater-sized impacts these seemingly everyday minute choices can have."—Great Plains ResearchTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Rethinking Youth Citizenship in the Diaspora1. Acompañamiento in the Borderlands: Toward a Communal, Relational, and Humanizing Pedagogy Enrique Sepúlveda2. In the Shadow of U.S. Empire: Diasporic Citizenship in El Salvador3. Negotiating Race and the Politics of Integration: Latinx and Caribbean Youth in Madrid4. Transnational Belongings: The Cultural Knowledge of Lives in Between5. Feminists in Transition: Transnational Latina Activists in Madrid Andrea DyrnessConclusion: Reflections on Acompañamiento in the BorderlandsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible Jonathan Beecher Field tracks the permutations of the town hall meeting from its original context as a form of democratic community governance in New England into a format for presidential debates and a staple of corporate governance. In its contemporary iteration, the town hall meeting models the aesthetic of the former but replaces actual democratic deliberation with a spectacle that involves no immediate electoral stakes or functions as a glorified press conference. Urgently, Field notes that though this evolution might be apparent, evidence suggests many US citizens don’t care to differentiate. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead Trade Review"In clear, sometimes acerbic, even humorous prose, Field adeptly accounts for the metamorphosis of town meetings into town halls."—ALH Online Review

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Book SynopsisA searing critique of the “freedom” that America offers to the victims of its imperialist machinations of war and occupation Meaningless Citizenship traces the costs of America’s long-term military involvement around the world by following the forced displacement of Iraqi families, unveiling how Iraqis are doubly displaced: first by the machinery of American imperialism in their native countries and then through a more pernicious war occurring on U.S. soil—the dismantling of the welfare state.Revealing the everyday struggles and barriers that texture the lives of Iraqi families recently resettled to the United States, Sally Wesley Bonet draws from four years of deep involvement in the refugee community of Philadelphia. An education scholar, Bonet’s analysis moves beyond the prevalent tendency to collapse schooling into education. Focusing beyond the public school to other critical institutions, such as public assistance, resettlement programs, and healthcare, she shows how encounters with institutions of the state are an inherently educative process for both refugee youths and adults, teaching about the types of citizenship they are expected to enact and embody while simultaneously shaping them into laboring subjects in service of capitalism. An intimate, in-depth ethnography, Meaningless Citizenship exposes how the veneer of American values—freedom, democracy, human rights—exported to countries like Iraq, disintegrates to uncover what is really beneath: a nation-state that prioritizes the needs of capitalism above the survival and wellbeing of its citizens.Trade Review"Sally Wesley Bonet’s book is a beautiful exploration of the meanings of refuge and citizenship through institutions, relationships, and the everyday experiences of children and families in the United States. It exposes essential understandings that are needed for stronger futures, particularly the consequences of misaligned expectations and reality as well as the responsibility the United States has to refugees, especially those to whom it has caused suffering."—Sarah Dryden-Peterson, author of Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education"Drawing on three years of tender and tenacious ethnographic research with Iraqi refugee families resettled into poverty in the U.S., Meaningless Citizenship explains how American imperialism and its brutal late-stage, low-road, neoliberal capitalism deny refugees the economic and social rights of full citizenship. Sally Wesley Bonet critiques how refugee resettlement, public assistance, and educational and health care institutions stymie justice, even as she shows how they might be reformed to foster more humane and equitable outcomes."—Lesley Bartlett, coauthor of Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth: 20 Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond

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Book SynopsisConstitutional scholar Elliot Bulmer considers what Britain might learn from Westminster-derived constitutions around the world. Exploring the principles of Westminster Model constitutions and their impact on democracy, human rights and good government, this book builds to a bold re-imagining of the United Kingdom’s future written framework.Table of Contents1. Rediscovering Britain’s Wider Constitutional Tradition 2. The Decline and Fall of the British Constitution 3. Towards a Written Constitution 4. Some Objections Answered 5. The Westminster Model as a Constitutional Archetype 6. Foundations, Principles, Rights and Religion 7. The Crown, Prime Minister and Government 8. Parliament I: Functions, Powers and Composition 9. Parliament II: Privileges, Organization and Procedures 10. Nations, Regions and Local Democracy 11. Judiciary, Administration, Elections and Miscellaneous Provisions 12. Constitution-Building Processes

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to investigate how migrants and migrant rights activists work together to generate new forms of citizenship identities through the use of language. Shindo's book is an original take on citizenship and community from the perspective of translation, and an alluring amalgamation of theory and detailed empirical analysis based on ethnographic case studies of Japan.Trade Review''Shindo turns assumptions about misinterpretation, inaudibility and untranslatability on their head as she explores the possibilities of communication and its failure. An important and pioneering contribution to Citizenship and Migration Studies, which – until now – has lacked a robust theorisation of linguistic diversity.'' Anne McNevin, The New School''As solidarity between citizens and noncitizens increasingly shapes international politics, translation becomes a site of struggles for the rights of both citizens and noncitizens. Shindo shows how translation works between multilingual migrant communities and community unions in Japan. This engaging book is an ethnographically informed theoretical study of challenges to solidarity in action.'' Engin Isin, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction 1.Language as a Contested Site of Belonging 2.Solidarity Activism? Rethinking Citizenship Through Inaudibility 3.Silence and the Image of Helplessness: The Challenge of Tozen Union 4.Rewriting the Meaning of Silence: Latin American Migrant Workers from Kanagawa City Union 5.The Hidden Space of Mediation: Migrant Volunteers, Immigration Lawyers, and Interpreters 6.Untranslatable Community: Toward a Gothic Way of Speaking Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAt a time of rising populism and debate about immigration, legal academic Jo Shaw sets out to review interactions between constitutions and citizenship. With examples from the political and cultural processes of countries’ worldwide, it is an incisive, accessible and urgent read for anyone interested in the boundaries of constitutions and citizenship today.Trade Review"Anyone who wants to understand the ambivalent dynamics of populism and globalism and think about the future of citizenship and democracy will profit immensely from Shaw's scholarly work." * Sandra Seubert, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt *"Democratic constitutions invoke citizens as the ultimate source of political authority. Yet the link between constitutionalism and citizenship has been surprisingly neglected so far. In her magisterial treatise, Jo Shaw paints a sweeping panorama of the global landscape of “constitutional citizenship” in all its manifold and contradictory manifestations." -- Rainer Bauböck, European University Institute, FlorenceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Juxtaposing Citizenship and Constitutions What Is Constitutional Citizenship and How Can We Study It? Key Themes Within Constitutional Citizenship Citizenship in an Era of National Populism Shifting Spatialities of Citizenship Reconciling the Ages of Populism and Globalism for an Open Concept of Constitutional Citizenship

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Book SynopsisAt a time of rising populism and debate about immigration, leading legal academic Jo Shaw sets out to review interactions between constitutions and constructs of citizenship. This incisive appraisal is the first sustained treatment of the relationship between citizenship and constitutional law in a comparative and transnational perspective. Drawing on examples from around the world, it assesses how countries’ legal, political and cultural processes help to determine the boundaries of citizenship. For students and academics across political, social and international disciplines, Shaw offers an accessible response to some of the most pressing international questions of our age.Trade Review“A broad-ranging tour de force that elegantly and uncompromisingly guides the reader through various battles of belonging, all waged under the auspices of constitutional law.” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies“Tackles hitherto under-explored dimensions of citizenship, offering a subtle, but convincing, rebuttal of its ‘fashionable’ negative treatment, while encouraging others to join in the ship-building task.” Helen Irving, Sydney Law School in the GLOBALCIT Review Symposium“It is liberating to read this book, which straddles so much research and yet finds its own multi-scalar analytical space…. [Jo Shaw] is signposting the freeway for future research. I, for one, will take advantage of this freeway.” Journal of Law and SocietyTable of ContentsPart One ~ Setting the Scene Introduction What Is ‘Constitutional Citizenship’ and How Can We Approach It? Part Two ~ Constitutional Citizenship Unpacked Picking Out the People: Ideals and Identities in the Citizenship / Constitution Relation The Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship in a Constitutional Context Filling Out Citizenship: Citizenship Rights, Constitutional Rights and Human Rights Part Three ~ Citizenship Under Pressure: National and Global Tensions The Populist Challenge to Constitutional Citizenship: The Closing of Discursive Space Shifting Spatialities of Citizenship Conclusions

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Book SynopsisHow many questions could you answer in a pub quiz about British values? Designed to ensure new migrants have accepted British values and integrated, the UK's citizenship test is often portrayed as a bad pub quiz with answers few citizens know. With the launch of a new post-Brexit immigration system, this is a critical time to change the test. Thom Brooks draws on first-hand experience of taking the test, and interviews with key figures including past Home Secretaries, to expose the test as ineffective and a barrier to citizenship. This accessible guide offers recommendations for transforming the citizenship test into a ‘bridge to citizenship’ which fosters greater inclusion and integration.Table of Contents1. A Bad Pub Quiz 2. Why Test for Citizenship? 3. A New Beginning 4. Not Learning from Mistakes 5. From Trivia to Trivial 6. Building Bridges and a Better Test 7. Conclusion and Recommendations

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