Civics and citizenship Books
The University of Chicago Press Flunking Democracy Schools Courts and Civic
Book SynopsisRebell argues here that schools have a constitutional duty to teach citizenshipand that forcing them to do so is the key to revitalizing our democracy.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Flunking Democracy Schools Courts and Civic
Book SynopsisRebell argues here that schools have a constitutional duty to teach citizenshipand that forcing them to do so is the key to revitalizing our democracy.
£24.70
The University of Chicago Press Patriotic Education in a Global Age History and
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£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Patriotic Education in a Global Age History and
Book SynopsisShould schools attempt to cultivate patriotism? If so, why? And what conception of patriotism should drive those efforts? Is patriotism essential to preserving national unity, sustaining vigorous commitment to just institutions, or motivating national service? Are the hazards of patriotism so great as to overshadow its potential benefits? Is there a genuinely virtuous form of patriotism that societies and schools should strive to cultivate? In Patriotic Education in a Global Age, philosopher Randall Curren and historian Charles Dorn address these questions as they seek to understand what role patriotism might legitimately play in schools as an aspect of civic education. They trace the aims and rationales that have guided the inculcation of patriotism in American schools over the years, the methods by which schools have sought to cultivate patriotism, and the conceptions of patriotism at work in those aims, rationales, and methods. They then examine what those conceptions mean for just
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press None of Your Damn Business
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£24.70
The University of Chicago Press Education Democratic Citizenship in America
Book SynopsisFormal education is important in creating enlightened and active citizens. However, despite an increase in education attainment since the 1970s, political engagement has not risen at a commensurate level. This text explores how and why education affects citizenship in these ways.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables 1: Education and Democratic Citizenship in America: Enlightened Political Engagement 2: Enlightened Political Engagement: Characteristics of Democratic Citizenship and Their Relationship to Education 3: What Links Education to Enlightened Political Engagement? Cognitive and Positional Pathways 4: Integrating and Testing the Model 5: Confirming the Enlightenment and Political Engagement Dimensions 6: Reconceptualizing Educational Effects 7: Education and Democratic Citizenship from the 1970's to the 1990's: Defining and Operationalizing the Measures 8: Testing Educational Effects Over Time 9: Absolute and Relative Education in Synchronic Studies: Application to Cross-Sectional Surveys 10: Education and Democratic Citizenship in Other Nations: An Exploratory Comparative Analysis 11: The Future of Education and Democratic Citizenship: Some Implications of Our Findings App. A: 1990 Citizen Participation Study Questions App. B: Weighting Procedures for the 1990 Citizen Participation Study Data Martin Frankel App. C: Basic Model by Race and Gender App. D: Creating the Political Engagement and Enlightenment Scales App. E: Nonrecursive Specifications App. F: Educational Environment and Relative Education Measures Jean G. Jenkins App. G: Documentation of the Over Time Data App. H: Documentation of Unreported Coefficients Bibliography Index
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Teachers of the People
Book SynopsisTrade Review"How to educate citizens in a society of individuals? To this demanding question Villa dedicates this refined and extremely timely book. Unlike republics, which were not shy in acknowledging the need for and pursuing the project of educating good and honest citizens, liberal democracies are reticent instead, as they want things that seem irreconcilable: making us reason as individuals and behave in public as citizens. This book illustrates masterfully this tension through the analysis of projects of civic and political education in the works of classical authors before and after the French Revolution; it suggests a solution that brings us directly to the pragmatic mind: conceptions of a political education that stress the 'learning by doing' of ordinary citizens."--Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University "Hannah Arendt once wrote (in 'The Crisis in Education') that 'the word education has an evil sound in politics' for the simple reason that citizens are adults, not children. Villa, with his usual clarity and intelligence, here develops that provocative Arendtian thesis into a wonderfully ambitious dialogue with four great figures in the theory canon. Especially illuminating are Villa's insights into how paragons of the liberal tradition betray their own antipaternalistic ideals. He mounts a powerful case that the idea of political theory as pedagogy, while aspiring to build democratic competence, can easily fall into a failure to respect the autonomy of those it aims to teach."--Ronald Beiner, University of Toronto
£22.80
University of Chicago Press Uncivil Rights Teachers Unions and Race in the
Book SynopsisAlmost fifty years after Brown v Board of Education, a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. This title examines a complex relationship between teachers and civil rights activists, which traces the tensions between the two groups in New York City from the Great Depression to the present.Trade Review"Uncivil Rights makes a major contribution to our understanding of the often fraught relationship between (mostly white) teachers and (mostly non-white) students in the nation's largest school system. Skillfully framed around changing conceptions of teachers' and students' 'rights' in public schools, this book explains - better than any other - how teachers in New York City first won and then lost recognition of their status as 'professionals' in the classrooms and communities where they work." (Adam Nelson, University of Wisconsin - Madison)"
£90.00
The University of Chicago Press Uncivil Rights Teachers Unions and Race in the
Book SynopsisAlmost fifty years after Brown v Board of Education, research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and civil rights activists. This title traces the tensions between the two groups in New York City over the years.Trade Review"Uncivil Rights makes a major contribution to our understanding of the often fraught relationship between (mostly white) teachers and (mostly non-white) students in the nation's largest school system. Skillfully framed around changing conceptions of teachers' and students' 'rights' in public schools, this book explains - better than any other - how teachers in New York City first won and then lost recognition of their status as 'professionals' in the classrooms and communities where they work." (Adam Nelson, University of Wisconsin-Madison)"
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Citizen Speak The Democratic Imagination in
Book SynopsisWhen we think about what constitutes being a good citizen, routine activities like voting, letter-writing, and paying attention to the news spring to mind. This title argues that these activities play only a small part in democratic citizenship - a form of citizenship that requires creative thinking, talking, and acting.Trade Review"Citizen Speak improves our understanding of the conditions that foster active citizenship and the cultural conditions that lead citizens to be involved in politics. This book makes a convincing case that a focus on democratic imagination and talk can add crucial new dimensions to our conception of citizenship as it is practiced in today's society." - Michele Lamont, Harvard University"
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Citizen Speak The Democratic Imagination in
Book SynopsisWhen we think about what constitutes being a good citizen, routine activities like voting, letter-writing, and paying attention to the news spring to mind. This title argues that these activities play only a small part in democratic citizenship - a form of citizenship that requires creative thinking, talking, and acting.Trade Review"Citizen Speak improves our understanding of the conditions that foster active citizenship and the cultural conditions that lead citizens to be involved in politics. This book makes a convincing case that a focus on democratic imagination and talk can add crucial new dimensions to our conception of citizenship as it is practiced in today's society." - Michele Lamont, Harvard University"
£24.70
The University of Chicago Press Limits of Citizenship
Book SynopsisIn this work, Yasemin Soysal compares the different ways in which European nations incorporate immigrants, how these policies evolved and how they are influenced by international human rights discourse. She focuses on post-war international migration, paying particular attention to guestworkers.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: International Migration and the Nation-State System 3: Explaining Incorporation Regimes 4: Discourses and Instruments of Incorporation 5: The Organization of Incorporation 6: The Collective Organization of Migrants 7: The Membership Rights and Status of Migrants 8: Toward a Postnational Model of Membership 9: Conclusion Appendix A: List of State Agencies, Organizations, and Migrant Associations at which Interviews Were Conducted Appendix B: The Organizational Structure of Incorporation Appendix C: List of International Instruments that Provide Standards Applicable to International Migrants Appendix D: List of Intergovernmental and Nongovernmental Organizations Concerned with International Migration and Migrant Workers Notes Bibliography Index
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg Memoir and
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Cappello’s puckish sensibilities and engaging style dovetail wittily with his well-chosen and thoughtful examples, resulting in an academic text that any reader can appreciate. This book is a must-read for legislators, policymakers, and anyone curious about the ways their privacy could potentially be compromised by the government, the media, or data brokers.” * Publishers Weekly *“A thorough account of privacy struggles that draws on deep research to reveal that the privacy dilemma dates back more than a century and has roiled American life through two world wars, the New Deal, the Cold War, and the post 9/11 era. . . . None of Your Damn Business provides excellent background information for citizens concerned with the erosion of privacy rights, as well as for government officials and legal professionals positioned to act upon privacy laws that protect citizens while providing necessary oversight.” * Foreword Reviews *"Cappello’s treatment manages the trick of being both thorough and lively." * American Historical Review * “‘What is it we fear we’re losing?’ Cappello asks in his brilliant study of privacy in America. Is there any timelier question? Thoroughly researched and deftly told, None of Your Damn Business is a history of privacy written for and about Wall Street and Main Street, government and the courts, intelligence operatives and digital entrepreneurs, current and future citizens. It deserves our full attention.” -- David Nasaw * author of The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy *“Tracing a century of debates on topics from national security to reproductive rights, None of Your Damn Business offers a lively, instructive account of Americans’ ambivalent (and often muddled) thinking about privacy.” -- Sarah Igo * author of The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America *“Privacy, or the intimate politics of power, is becoming more important with each day. If there is no privacy, there can be no resistance and thus no social progress. In this fine book, Cappello makes a lucid case for why we need what Justice Louis Brandeis called ‘the right to be left alone.’” -- Christian Parenti * author of The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror *“Calmly, clearly, and sensibly, Mr. Cappello shows us how privacy as a right—and as a legal concept—gradually evolved as America itself evolved from small, largely rural beginnings into today’s incredibly intricate, sophisticated mega-state driven by an equally intricate, sophisticated mega-economy.” -- Aram Bakshian * The Washington Times *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part 1: What We Talk about When We Talk about Privacy Part 2: Shouting from the Housetops: The Right to Privacy and the Rise of Photojournalism, 1890–1928 Part 3: Exposing the Enemy Within: Privacy and National Security, 1917–1961 Part 4: Wiretaps, Bugs, and CCTV: Privacy and the Evolution of Physical Surveillance, 1928–1998 Part 5: Big Iron and the Small Government: Privacy and Data Collection, 1933–1988 Part 6: Sex, Morality, and Reproductive Choice: The Right to Privacy Recognized, 1961–1992 Part 7: Taking Stock Notes Index
£15.20
The University of Chicago Press The Nuptial Deal
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, gay and lesbian civil rights organizations have increasingly focused on the right of same-sex couples to marry, which represents a major change from earlier activists' rejection of the institution. This title explores this shift and its connections to the transformation of the US from a welfare state to a neo-liberal one.Trade Review"Decades from now, when historians reflect on today's same-sex marriage debate, The Nuptial Deal will provide an empirically based narrative of what was really going on in the lives and minds of activists and of ordinary people caught up in the political and personal hopes and struggles over marriage in the United States." (Christopher Carrington, San Francisco State University)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Nuptial Deal SameSex Marriage and NeoLiberal
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, gay and lesbian civil rights organizations have increasingly focused on the right of same-sex couples to marry, which represents a major change from earlier activists' rejection of the institution. This title explores this shift and its connections to the transformation of the US from a welfare state to a neo-liberal one.Trade Review"Decades from now, when historians reflect on today's same-sex marriage debate, The Nuptial Deal will provide an empirically based narrative of what was really going on in the lives and minds of activists and of ordinary people caught up in the political and personal hopes and struggles over marriage in the United States." (Christopher Carrington, San Francisco State University)"
£26.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Kin Majorities
Book SynopsisIn Moldova, the number of dual citizens has risen exponentially in the last decades. Before annexation, many saw Russia as granting citizenship toor passportizinglarge numbers in Crimea. Both are regions with kin majorities: local majorities claimed as co-ethnic by external states offering citizenship, among other benefits. As functioning citizens of the states in which they reside, kin majorities do not need to acquire citizenship from an external state. Yet many do so in high numbers.Kin Majorities explores why these communities engage with dual citizenship and how this intersects, or not, with identity. Analyzing data collected from ordinary people in Crimea and Moldova in 2012 and 2013, just before Russia's annexation of Crimea, Eleanor Knott provides a crucial window into Russian identification in a time of calm. Perhaps surprisingly, the discourse and practice of Russian citizenship was largely absent in Crimea before annexation. Comparing the situation in Crimea Trade Review“In a history of contested borderlands, Kin Majorities is a book about loss and gain. It looks “bottom-up” beyond states and ethnicity to meanings and practices. There is a great explicatory thrust to Knott’s intersectional book in that it should be read for its methodology, the new categories she has created for the identity-citizenship space.” The Russian Review"Kin Majorities has many insights to offer international lawyers, international relations scholars, and political theorists in addition to experts on Russian politics, Romanian politics, post-Soviet affairs, and comparative ethnic conflict." LSE Review of Books
£84.15
Palgrave MacMillan Us Black Power in Bermuda The Struggle for Decolonization Contemporary Black History
Book SynopsisThis book examines the impact of Black Power on the British colony of Bermuda, where the 1972-73 assassinations of its British Police Commissioner and Governor reflected the Movement's denouncement of British imperialism and the island's racist and oligarchic society.Trade Review"Black Power and Decolonization both have been profoundly pivotal movements but it is only with the publication of this marvelous and riveting book that these two potent trends have been linked so effectively. Persuasively argued and beautifully written, this book makes an effective case for the importance of Bermuda as a laboratory for political developments that reverberated significantly on the U.S. mainland." - Gerald Horne, Author of Mau Mau in Harlem?: The U.S. and the Liberation of Kenya "Black Power in Bermuda is a concise and scholarly discussion of the struggle for civil rights, Black nationalism, and political independence evolving in Bermuda during the mid to late twentieth century. Dr. Swan grounds his analysis in the historical context for rights that was pursued by blacks in Bermuda before this period and he demonstrates the interconnectedness between these local political movements and the larger, global, anti-colonialism of the period. Bermuda, he demonstrates, was part them: as influential contributor, as receiver of influence. Dr. Swan s narrative, strongly reflective of classic historiographic method, adeptly utilizing considerable primary and secondary source material, provides an important and powerful voice to the discourse on Bermuda s political history, and is destined to become a classic in the field." - Clarence V.H. Maxwell, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Caribbean History, Millersville UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Truth is An Offense : Black Power in a British Colony Negroes Dressed in Insolence : Boycotts, Black Muslims and Racial Uprisings (1959-1968) Another Unknown Soldier : Pauulu Kamarakafego A Bermuda Triangle of Imperialism Blueprint for Freedom : The 1969 Black Power Conference Wake the Town and Tell the People : The Black Beret Cadre Emerges The Empire Strikes Back : The Government's War Against the Berets We Don't Need No Water : The Cadre Burns the Union Jack Robin Hood Was Black in My Hood : 'Buck' Burrows and the Assassinations (1972-1977) Conclusion: Babylon Gave Them a Ride : Blackness in Contemporary Bermuda
£66.49
Columbia University Press Adapting to Abundance Jewish Immigrants Mass
Book SynopsisAn analysis of immigrant life in the USA which focuses on the habits of consumption. The author describes how Jews responded to the prospect of mass consumption, familiarizing themselves with such activities as installment buying, advertising and vacationing.Trade ReviewA very important book... at the cutting edge of what should be an exciting new scholarly development... opening up whole areas of behavior which [historians] previously shrugged off as irrelevant. Journal of American Ethnic History Well written... creative in its use of a wide range of primary source material. Canadian Review of American Studies Raises interesting questions about the immigrant experience in a gracefully written style. Journal of Consumer Affairs An important book that invites reflection upon the national character. American Jewish Archives
£25.50
Columbia University Press Still the Golden Door The Third World comes to
Book SynopsisThis revised edition includes extensive discussion of undocumented immigrants, the 1990 immigration act, recent changes in refugee status, and the new wave of East European and Soviet immigrants.
£25.20
Columbia University Press Engendering Citizenship in Egypt
Book SynopsisThe concept of citizenship in Egypt is explored, identifying the forces controlling women since the turn of the 20th century. The book seeks to understand how political culture has developed and how women have asserted themselves in public life and been continually restricted and excluded.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Engendering Citizenship 2. Liberalism, Nationalism, and Gender 3. Women and the State During the Nasir Years 4. Gender Asymmetry During the Regimes of Anwar Sadat and Husni Mubarak 5. Middle Eastern Patriarchy
£27.00
Columbia University Press The Promises of Liberty
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn important addition to the scholarship on an important aspect of America's constitutional heritage... Highly recommended.Choice Choice ...this book is an informative treatment of a depressing subject. -- Helen Knowles H-Law This volume is well edited and the essayists expertly chosen. Alexander Tsesis of Loyola University Chicago School of Law has assembled an unusually compact and cogent collection of the best work on the Thirteenth Amendment. -- Christopher Waldrep Journal of American History A riveting, provocative collection of essays by what can only be described as an all-star team of historians and legal analysts. -- Michael S. Green Journal of the Civil War EraTable of ContentsForeword: The Rocky Road to Freedom-Crucial Barriers to Abolition in the Antebellum Years, by David Brion Davis 1. Introduction: The Thirteenth Amendment's Revolutionary Aims, by Alexander Tsesis Part 1: Historical Settings 2. In Pursuit of Constitutional Abolitionism, by James M. McPherson 3. The Civil War, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment: Understanding Who Freed the Slaves, by Paul Finkelman 4. Citizenship and the Thirteenth Amendment: Understanding the Deafening Silence, by Michael Vorenberg 5. Emancipation and Civic Status: The American Experience, 1865-1915, by William M. Wiecek 6. Convict Labor in the Post-Civil War South: Involuntary Servitude After the Thirteenth Amendment, by David M. Oshinsky 7. The Thirteenth Amendment and a New Deal for Civil Rights, by Risa L. Goluboff 8. The Workers' Freedom of Association Under the Thirteenth Amendment, by James Gray Pope Part 2: Current Legal Landscapes 9. The Badges and Incidents of Slavery and the Power of Congress to Enforce the Thirteenth Amendment, by George A. Rutherglen 10. The Promise of Congressional Enforcement, by Rebecca E. Zietlow 11. Protecting Full and Equal Rights: The Floor and More, by Aviam Soifer 12. Forced Labor Revisited: The Thirteenth Amendment and Abortion, by Andrew Koppelman 13. The Slave Power Undead: Criminal Justice Successes and Failures of the Thirteenth Amendment, by Andrew E. Taslitz 14. Toward a Thirteenth Amendment Exclusionary Rule as a Remedy for Racial Profiling, by William M. Carter 15. Immigrant Workers and the Thirteenth Amendment, by Maria L. Ontiveros 16. A Thirteenth Amendment Agenda for the Twenty-first Century: Of Promises, Power, and Precaution, by Darrell A. H. Miller 17. Epilogue: The Enduring Legacy of the Thirteenth Amendment, by Robert J. Kaczorowski Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index
£54.40
Columbia University Press The Power of the Internet in China
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA boundary-breaking book... A snap review of some of the hottest issues in front of the Chinese public today. -- Daniel Little Understanding Society Mr. Yang's work is essential reading. -- Rebecca MacKinnon Far Eastern Economic Review This work represents a major advancement in scholarly research... unquestionably, it should be on reading lists for courses related to social and political development in China... it is highly recommended to all. -- Jonathan Sullivan The China Quarterly Of interest to sociologists and students of mass communications... Recommended. Choice Essential reading for all those seeking a more nuanced account of the power of the internet in China than that provided by international media and human rights organizations. -- Colin Hawes The China Journal Yang develops a lens that centers on concrete issues and situations that are both empirical-practical and conceptual-theoretical. -- Peter Marolt International Journal of Communication The Power of the Internet in China by Yang Guobin is destined to be classic and obligatory reading for anyone interested in understanding the role of the internet in people's struggle for freedom, justice, and democracy in China. -- Lokman Tsui China Information The Power of the Internet in China offers us not only a rich study of Chineseonline activism but also raises significant questions about China's civil society. -- Ming-Cheng Miriam Lo Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Online Activism in an Age of Contention 2. The Politics of Digital Contention 3. The Rituals and Genres of Contention 4. The Changing Style of Contention 5. The Business of Digital Contention 6. Civic Associations Online 7. Utopian Realism in Online Communities 8. Transnational Activism Online Conclusion: China's Long Revolution Notes Bibliography Index
£35.60
Columbia University Press Genetic Justice
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Genetic Justice, the authors provide a thorough discussion of the concerns they believe the DNA revolution and the use of DNA databases in law enforcement pose. While I do not agree with all of their policy conclusions, I commend the authors for their bold and uncompromising positions. Providing discussion of these sensitive criminal justice matters is critical for generating the best tools to serve society while maintaining those precious rights that we enjoy. I recommend the book to all who seek a better understanding of the impact of the genomic age on the criminal justice process. -- Bruce Budowle, executive director, Institute of Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth Essential reading for anyone concerned with balancing public safety and personal freedom. The proliferation of DNA databases is not simply 'all good' or 'all bad.' Genetic Justice admirably deconstructs opposing arguments and then erects an inspiring yet realistic vision of justice. -- Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, codirectors of the Innocence Project Genetic Justice provides a lucid assessment of forensic DNA data banking that counters our CSI-infatuated culture in which DNA testing is assumed to be infallible. The authors reveal the serious threats that misuses of modern genetic technology and DNA databases can pose to cherished constitutional rights. This book is essential reading for all who care about pursuing justice while ensuring fairness to our diverse citizenry and the protection of our individual right to privacy. -- Nadine Strossen, New York Law School and former president, American Civil Liberties Union Genetic Justice illuminates every important controversy in the way DNA has entered the criminal justice system: from arguments about a universal DNA databank to the efficacy of DNA dragnets, from whether the state has the right to search your 'abandoned DNA' to the pros and cons of familial searching. Moreover, it accomplishes this in an engaging style that requires no technical background. A vital reference work for the next decade. -- Troy Duster, New York University Sheldon Krimsky is one of the most intelligent and creative multidisciplinary scholars working in bioethics, genetics and society, science studies, and biotechnology. He always knows how to pick topics that are socially significant and require careful public attention. -- Phil Brown, author of Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement Firmly grounded in science, this inquiry proves that while DNA can be dramatic in its disclosures, it is not to be used lightly, as is so often depicted in crime stories. Booklist A thoughtful and informative read -- James A. Cox Midwest Book Review For anyone concerned about DNA technology, evolving concepts of justice, or the erosion of the basic freedoms of our democracy, Genetic Justice is a book not to miss. -- Doug Pet Biopolitical Times The book offers a lucid and accurate presentation of DNA forensic technology that will be useful to any nonspecialist. -- Michael A. Goldman Science Genetic Justice constitutes the single most comprehensive articulation of the civil-liberties concerns associated with law-enforcement DNA databases and should, therefore, serve as a touchstone for debates about the spread of DNA profiling. -- Simon A. Cole American Scientist Engaging and informative. -- Charalambos P. Kyriacou Times Higher Education Thoroughly researched and well referenced, Genetic Justice distinguishes itself as an interesting and informative book on the history of the development of DNA testing, forensic DNA databanks, and the justice system's evolving approaches... -- Ananda M. Chakrabarty BioScience required reading -- Richard Lewontin New York Review of Books An important strength of this timely,engaging, and readable book-and what distinguishes it from some others-is the clarity with which it demonstrates how genomics findings in one discipline... are applied to others... -- Lundy Braun PsycCRITIQUES I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in and concerned about the balance between the protection of rights such as privacy and autonomy and public safely and criminal justice imperatives... -- Wilhelm Peekhaus Science and SocietyTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: DNA in Law Enforcement 1. Forensic DNA Analysis 2. The Network of U.S. DNA Data Banks 3. Community DNA Dragnets 4. Familial DNA Searches 5. Forensic DNA Phenotyping 6. Surreptitious Biological Sampling 7. Exonerations 8. The Illusory Appeal of a Universal DNA Data Bank Part II: Comparative Systems 9. The United Kingdom 10. Japan's Forensic DNA Data Bank 11. Australia 12: Germany 13. Italy Part III: Critical Perspectives 14. Privacy and Genetic Surveillance 15. Racial Disparities in DNA Data Banking 16. Fallibility in DNA Identification 17. The Efficacy of DNA Data Banks 18. Toward a Vision of Justice Appendix: A Comparison of DNA Databases in Six Nations Notes Selected Readings Index
£67.20
Columbia University Press Genetic Justice
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Genetic Justice, the authors provide a thorough discussion of the concerns they believe the DNA revolution and the use of DNA databases in law enforcement pose. While I do not agree with all of their policy conclusions, I commend the authors for their bold and uncompromising positions. Providing discussion of these sensitive criminal justice matters is critical for generating the best tools to serve society while maintaining those precious rights that we enjoy. I recommend the book to all who seek a better understanding of the impact of the genomic age on the criminal justice process. -- Bruce Budowle, executive director, Institute of Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth Essential reading for anyone concerned with balancing public safety and personal freedom. The proliferation of DNA databases is not simply 'all good' or 'all bad.' Genetic Justice admirably deconstructs opposing arguments and then erects an inspiring yet realistic vision of justice. -- Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, codirectors of the Innocence Project Genetic Justice provides a lucid assessment of forensic DNA data banking that counters our CSI-infatuated culture in which DNA testing is assumed to be infallible. The authors reveal the serious threats that misuses of modern genetic technology and DNA databases can pose to cherished constitutional rights. This book is essential reading for all who care about pursuing justice while ensuring fairness to our diverse citizenry and the protection of our individual right to privacy. -- Nadine Strossen, New York Law School and former president, American Civil Liberties Union Genetic Justice illuminates every important controversy in the way DNA has entered the criminal justice system: from arguments about a universal DNA databank to the efficacy of DNA dragnets, from whether the state has the right to search your 'abandoned DNA' to the pros and cons of familial searching. Moreover, it accomplishes this in an engaging style that requires no technical background. A vital reference work for the next decade. -- Troy Duster, New York University Sheldon Krimsky is one of the most intelligent and creative multidisciplinary scholars working in bioethics, genetics and society, science studies, and biotechnology. He always knows how to pick topics that are socially significant and require careful public attention. -- Phil Brown, author of Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement Firmly grounded in science, this inquiry proves that while DNA can be dramatic in its disclosures, it is not to be used lightly, as is so often depicted in crime stories. Booklist A thoughtful and informative read -- James A. Cox Midwest Book Review For anyone concerned about DNA technology, evolving concepts of justice, or the erosion of the basic freedoms of our democracy, Genetic Justice is a book not to miss. -- Doug Pet Biopolitical Times The book offers a lucid and accurate presentation of DNA forensic technology that will be useful to any nonspecialist. -- Michael A. Goldman Science Genetic Justice constitutes the single most comprehensive articulation of the civil-liberties concerns associated with law-enforcement DNA databases and should, therefore, serve as a touchstone for debates about the spread of DNA profiling. -- Simon A. Cole American Scientist Engaging and informative. -- Charalambos P. Kyriacou Times Higher Education Thoroughly researched and well referenced, Genetic Justice distinguishes itself as an interesting and informative book on the history of the development of DNA testing, forensic DNA databanks, and the justice system's evolving approaches... -- Ananda M. Chakrabarty BioScience required reading -- Richard Lewontin New York Review of Books An important strength of this timely,engaging, and readable book-and what distinguishes it from some others-is the clarity with which it demonstrates how genomics findings in one discipline... are applied to others... -- Lundy Braun PsycCRITIQUES I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in and concerned about the balance between the protection of rights such as privacy and autonomy and public safely and criminal justice imperatives... -- Wilhelm Peekhaus Science and SocietyTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: DNA in Law Enforcement 1. Forensic DNA Analysis 2. The Network of U.S. DNA Data Banks 3. Community DNA Dragnets 4. Familial DNA Searches 5. Forensic DNA Phenotyping 6. Surreptitious Biological Sampling 7. Exonerations 8. The Illusory Appeal of a Universal DNA Data Bank Part II: Comparative Systems 9. The United Kingdom 10. Japan's Forensic DNA Data Bank 11. Australia 12: Germany 13. Italy Part III: Critical Perspectives 14. Privacy and Genetic Surveillance 15. Racial Disparities in DNA Data Banking 16. Fallibility in DNA Identification 17. The Efficacy of DNA Data Banks 18. Toward a Vision of Justice Appendix: A Comparison of DNA Databases in Six Nations Notes Selected Readings Index
£23.80
Columbia University Press Social Work and Human Rights
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword by Joseph Wronka Introduction 1. Development and History of Human Rights 2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 4. International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 5. Diversity Within a Human Rights Perspective 6. Human Rights and Children, Persons with Disabilities, Persons with HIV-AIDS, Gays and Lesbians, Older Persons, and Victims of Racism 7: International Aspects of Human Rights 8: Applying Human Rights to the Social Work Profession Conclusion Appendix A: Universal Declaration of Human Rights Appendix B: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Including Optional Protocol Appendix C: International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Appendix D: Resolution Adopted by the General Assembly Appendix E: Suggested Internet Websites for Further Research Index
£87.20
Columbia University Press Health Care as a Right of Citizenship
Book SynopsisThis ambitious book examines how the American health care system must be further reformed to bring it closer in line with the ideals of a modern democracy, as well as how the ACA may change in the coming years. It suggests the next, natural step in the realization of health and well being as a fundamental human right.Trade ReviewAlmgren presents an extensively detailed and well-sourced story of the precursors to the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a "principled critique" of the ACA as it currently stands, and a proposal for the path (or paths?) forward. The book is beautifully written and a great read. -- Karla Washington, University of Missouri For the past two decades health scholars have documented the existence and prevalence of health disparities with a recent intentional shift away from additional documentation of health disparities to a focus on possible solutions for achieving health equity. Almgren's book argues that these micro level efforts may be largely in vain if we do not also address the larger systematic design issues. This book can be used to assess the multiple dimensions of equity in the US health care system, and to develop health care reforms to remedy where equity falls short. -- Colleen Grogan, University of Chicago Almgren's book on health reform could not be more timely. In the aftermath of the US presidential campaign, where the concept of a right to health care reemerged (as well as calls for complete abandonment of the Affordable Care Act), we need a principled, historically grounded, thoughtful, and yes, radical rethinking of the American dilemma of health care coverage. This book knits it all together and makes compelling sense of our confusing health care policy world. -- Edward F. Lawlor, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis This clearly written book offers a concise review of the unique history of the U.S. health care and health insurance system, a well-reasoned presentation of the ethical basis of a universal right to health care, a comprehensive examination of the Affordable Care Act in the context of these ethical principals, and a map for the way forward, taking historical trajectory and ethical aspirations into account. What an invaluable resource for the health policy readership! -- Janet M. Bronstein, University of Alabama at Birmingham, author of Preterm Birth in the United States: A Sociocultural ApproachTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Statement of the Problem: American Exceptionalism in Health Care and the Emergence of the Great Unsustainable Compromise 2. The Emergence of the New Era of Reform 3. The Theoretical Foundations for Health Care as a Social Right of Citizenship 4. A Principled Critique of the ACA and the ACA in an Evolutionary Perspective 5. A Principled Approach to Radical Health-Care Finance Reform 6. A Principled Approach to Essential Health-Care Delivery System Reforms 7. Assessing Health- Care System Performance Against the Four Core Aims of Health-Care Policy 8. Special Issues and Considerations Notes References Index
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Columbia University Press The Freedom Schools
Book SynopsisJon N. Hale weaves a social history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools from the perspective of former students and teachers. Having turned their training into decades of activism, they speak on their locally organized, widely transmitted curriculum and offer key strategies for integrating the school system and politically engaging today’s youth.Trade ReviewJon N. Hale's work hits the mark! It is accurate and timely in refocusing our attention on the profound power of African American youth and education. The activists and young learners who made the Freedom Schools possible have greatly gone unsung. In the midst of imminent danger, they learned and experienced democracy while illustrating the efficacy of community participation in education. Hale rightly places them at the forefront of the struggle for freedom. His book reminds us of those who saved the nation's soul. -- Stefan M. Bradley, author of Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s Hale's groundbreaking examination of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's tireless efforts to provide free educational opportunities for Mississippi's African American children is an often overlooked yet instrumental component of the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The Freedom Schools offers a greater understanding of the schools' lasting legacy and the profound impact of the Freedom Schools on Mississippi's black students as they later engaged in boycotts and school walkouts, influencing public school desegregation efforts and the civil rights movement. -- Sonya Ramsey, author of Reading, Writing, and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville Hale's impressive study will make a major contribution to civil rights historiography. It provides a very realistic view of Freedom Schools with great detail and precision and astutely illustrates the significant role of education in the civil rights movement. -- Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia The narrative reads smoothly and leaves the reader with a greater sense of the hopes, desires, and goals of the [Mississippi Civil Rights] movement. CounterPunch Hale's well-documented chronicle sharply reminds readers that there are still miles to go in obliterating racism, and that there are still stories to be told. Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Mississippi Freedom Schools 1. "The Pathway from Slavery to Freedom": The Origins of Education and the Ideology of Liberation in Mississippi 2. "There Was Something Happening": The Civil Rights Education and Politicization of the Freedom School Students 3. "The Student as a Force for Social Change": The Politics and Organization of the Mississippi Freedom Schools 4. "We Will Walk in the Light of Freedom": Attending and Teaching in the Freedom Schools 5. "We Do Hereby Declare Independence": Educational Activism and Reconceptualizing Freedom After the Summer Campaign 6. Carrying Forth the Struggle: Freedom Schools and Contemporary Educational Policy Epilogue: Remembering the Freedom Schools Fifty Years Later Notes Index
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Columbia University Press The Freedom Schools
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJon N. Hale's work hits the mark! It is accurate and timely in refocusing our attention on the profound power of African American youth and education. The activists and young learners who made the Freedom Schools possible have greatly gone unsung. In the midst of imminent danger, they learned and experienced democracy while illustrating the efficacy of community participation in education. Hale rightly places them at the forefront of the struggle for freedom. His book reminds us of those who saved the nation's soul. -- Stefan M. Bradley, author of Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960sHale's groundbreaking examination of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's tireless efforts to provide free educational opportunities for Mississippi's African American children is an often overlooked yet instrumental component of the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The Freedom Schools offers a greater understanding of the schools' lasting legacy and the profound impact of the Freedom Schools on Mississippi's black students as they later engaged in boycotts and school walkouts, influencing public school desegregation efforts and the civil rights movement. -- Sonya Ramsey, author of Reading, Writing, and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in NashvilleHale's impressive study will make a major contribution to civil rights historiography. It provides a very realistic view of Freedom Schools with great detail and precision and astutely illustrates the significant role of education in the civil rights movement. -- Derrick Alridge, University of VirginiaThe narrative reads smoothly and leaves the reader with a greater sense of the hopes, desires, and goals of the [Mississippi Civil Rights] movement. * CounterPunch *The Freedom Schools adds depth and complexity to our emerging understanding of the civil rights movement. It should appeal especially to those interested in the intersection of education and social change. * American Historical Review *Hale's well-documented chronicle sharply reminds readers that there are still miles to go in obliterating racism, and that there are still stories to be told. Highly recommended. * Choice *Hale’s important study impresses because of its meticulous research, insightful analysis, and cogent argument... His work adds yet another important piece to the complex puzzle of the civil rights movement and will be of value to scholars and educators. -- Simon Wendt, University of Frankfurt * Journal of American History *Present-day teachers and students reading Hale’s book might find themselves invigorated by this history of the Freedom Schools. Perhaps its lessons can inspire renewed questioning about the meaning of citizenship and democracy today. -- Susan Eckelmann Berghel, University of Tennessee–Chattanooga * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *Apart from its subject matter and its analytical contributions, The Freedom Schools exemplifies the power of community studies and oral histories. * History of Education *Make[s] invaluable contributions to our understanding of the relationship between education and the Mississippi freedom struggle, and as such should have broad appeal to scholars focused on education, civil rights, African American history, childhood, and/or Southern history . . . While not flinching away from failures and setbacks, Hale [reminds] us that transformative change is possible, even in the face of overwhelming odds. * Reviews in American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Mississippi Freedom Schools1. "The Pathway from Slavery to Freedom": The Origins of Education and the Ideology of Liberation in Mississippi2. "There Was Something Happening": The Civil Rights Education and Politicization of the Freedom School Students3. "The Student as a Force for Social Change": The Politics and Organization of the Mississippi Freedom Schools4. "We Will Walk in the Light of Freedom": Attending and Teaching in the Freedom Schools5. "We Do Hereby Declare Independence": Educational Activism and Reconceptualizing Freedom After the Summer Campaign6. Carrying Forth the Struggle: Freedom Schools and Contemporary Educational PolicyEpilogue: Remembering the Freedom Schools Fifty Years LaterNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Projecting Race
Book SynopsisProjecting Race presents a history of educational documentary filmmaking in the postwar era in light of race relations and the fight for civil rights.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Learning to Look: The Educational Documentary and Post-war Race Relations 1. Documenting from Below: Post-war Documentary, Race, and Everyday Life 2. The Sick Quiet That Follows Violence: Neorealism, Psychotherapy, and Collaboration 3. Charismatic Knowledge: Modernity and Southern African American Midwifery in All My Babies (1952) 4. Full of Fire: Historical Urgency and Utility in The Man in the Middle (1966) 5. Training Days: Liberal Advocacy and Self-Improvement in War on Poverty Films 6. The World Is Quiet Here: War on Poverty, Participatory Filmmaking and The Farmersville Project (1968) 7. An Urban Situation: The Hartford Project (1969) and the North American Challenge Conclusion: Still Burning: Pedagogy, Participation and Documentary Media Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Struggle on Their Minds The Political Thought of
Book SynopsisStruggle on Their Minds shows how the American political tradition have been continually challenged—and strengthened—by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American thought. Alex Zamalin focuses on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse.Trade ReviewFred Moten memorably wrote that the "history of blackness is testament to the fact that objects can and do resist." Alex Zamalin reaffirms this assertion through exquisite examination of narratives of resistance-not merely protest-by David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Huey Newton, and Angela Davis. Zamalin's deft treatise demonstrates how Afro-modern political thought refashions our fundamental understandings of resistance and the attendant ideals of democracy and freedom. -- Neil Roberts, author of Freedom as Marronage, Williams College Struggle on Their Minds places Alex Zamalin at the forefront of scholars concerned with the political thought of African American activists. I can think of no reading more timely than this rich account of the centrality of black resistance to U.S. democracy and democratic citizenship. -- Nick Bromell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst In intellectually compelling and valuable ways, this book presents significant (but relatively neglected) figures in the canon of African American political theorizing and relates them both to broad idioms of American political thought and to our contemporary political conjuncture. -- George Shulman, Professor of Political Science at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Political Thought of African American Resistance 1. David Walker, Frederick Douglass, and the Abolitionist Democratic Vision 2. Ida B. Wells, the Antilynching Movement, and the Politics of Seeing 3. Huey Newton, the Black Panthers, and the Decolonization of America 4. Angela Davis, Prison Abolition, and the End of the American Carceral State Conclusion: The Future of Resistance Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Struggle on Their Minds The Political Thought of
Book SynopsisStruggle on Their Minds shows how the American political tradition have been continually challenged—and strengthened—by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American thought. Alex Zamalin focuses on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse.Trade ReviewFred Moten memorably wrote that the "history of blackness is testament to the fact that objects can and do resist." Alex Zamalin reaffirms this assertion through exquisite examination of narratives of resistance—not merely protest—by David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Huey Newton, and Angela Davis. Zamalin's deft treatise demonstrates how Afro-modern political thought refashions our fundamental understandings of resistance and the attendant ideals of democracy and freedom. -- Neil Roberts, author of Freedom as Marronage, Williams CollegeStruggle on Their Minds places Alex Zamalin at the forefront of scholars concerned with the political thought of African American activists. I can think of no reading more timely than this rich account of the centrality of black resistance to U.S. democracy and democratic citizenship. -- Nick Bromell, University of Massachusetts, AmherstIn intellectually compelling and valuable ways, this book presents significant (but relatively neglected) figures in the canon of African American political theorizing and relates them both to broad idioms of American political thought and to our contemporary political conjuncture. -- George Shulman, Professor of Political Science at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York UniversityOverall, the book offers an alternative view to American consensus theories on history, politics, and race. Excellent for American history, race, and political thought collections. * Choice *Zamalin thoughtfully and concisely illustrates how his chosen writers reveal not only the paradoxes of resistance but also the inherent tensions within American democracy. Struggle on Their Minds will work well in undergraduate classrooms as a systematic deconstruction of the idea that America has arrived at a 'so-called postracial moment.' . . . He shows how Walker, Douglass, Wells, Newton, and Davis have radically explicated the inherent, continual, pervasive and pernicious commitment to white supremacy that runs throughout U.S. history. -- Chernoh M. Sesay Jr. * Journal of American History *Zamalin...make[s] a significant contribution to contemporary political theory by demonstrating the importance of taking black thinkers seriously. -- Justin Rose * Contemporary Political Theory *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Political Thought of African American Resistance1. David Walker, Frederick Douglass, and the Abolitionist Democratic Vision2. Ida B. Wells, the Antilynching Movement, and the Politics of Seeing3. Huey Newton, the Black Panthers, and the Decolonization of America4. Angela Davis, Prison Abolition, and the End of the American Carceral StateConclusion: The Future of ResistanceNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Harlem Uprising
Book SynopsisIn July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed a Black teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Christopher Hayes examines the causes and consequences of the uprisings, providing a vivid portrait of postwar New York, a new perspective on the civil rights era, and a timely analysis of racial inequality.Trade ReviewAn immersive chronicle of the July 1964 uprising in New York City’s Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods over the police killing of a Black teenager . . . Hayes unpacks the causes and effects of the uprising in scrupulous detail, and makes salient connections to recent events. This scholarly history is a powerful reminder that it takes ‘great force’ to bend the moral arc of the universe toward justice. * Publishers Weekly *The Harlem Uprising offers a powerful narrative of the riots and upheaval in Harlem and other African American neighborhoods in New York City in the summer of 1964. Hayes’s vividly written book provides a stinging portrayal of midcentury New York from the perspective of Black New Yorkers and offers an important new historiography of the carceral state. -- Kim Phillips-Fein, author of Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity PoliticsSuch a needed study of New York's long history of racial inequality in housing, schools, jobs, and policing and the years of frustrated civil rights struggles that laid the ground for the 1964 Harlem uprising. Hayes examines Mayor Lindsay's decision to constitute a majority-civilian CCRB in its wake, the swift and successful police-led backlash that ended it, and the law and order politics that gained ascendancy in the city and the nation. -- Jeanne Theoharis, author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights HistoryThis is an exceptionally important and powerful book about white racism and police brutality in the Jim Crow North, especially New York City. That postwar urban crisis produced the 1964 Harlem and Brooklyn uprisings. This book’s argument is forceful and its grasp of historiography is masterful. -- Komozi Woodard, author of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power PoliticsThe Harlem Uprising is a welcome contribution to the intertwined histories of liberalism, policing, and urban rebellions in New York and, more broadly, the urban North. * Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York History *The Harlem Uprising refines our understanding of protest culture in America and reminds us once again that neither James Powell in 1964 nor George Floyd in 2020 fell victim to individual failure but a failing system. * H-Soz-Kult *In this gripping and detailed account, the book explores how those in power have refused to address structural racism, while also examining the limits of liberalism. * Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) *A highly readable and evocative rendering of the Harlem uprising of 1964, its causes, and its immediate policy aftermath. * History of Education Quarterly *The Harlem Uprising is deserving of a wide readership. Hayes’s clear and engaging prose makes the work accessible, while his historical insight and contributions will be of use and interest to historians of urban America, the civil rights movement, and police brutality. The work also recontextualizes the history of policing, violence, and the Black community in New York and makes important inferences about local practices of injustice that still plague the city and state. * New York History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Living2. Working3. Union Work4. Learning5. The New York City Police Department6. A Death and Protests7. Daybreak: Sunday, July 198. Spreading Anxiety: Monday, July 209. Day Four: Tuesday, July 2110. Day Five: Wednesday, July 2211. Day Six: Thursday, July 2312. After13. Reforming the Civilian Complaint Review Board14. A ReferendumEpilogue: Insufficient FundsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Harlem Uprising Segregation and Inequality
Book SynopsisIn July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed a Black teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Christopher Hayes examines the causes and consequences of the uprisings, providing a vivid portrait of postwar New York, a new perspective on the civil rights era, and a timely analysis of racial inequality.Trade ReviewAn immersive chronicle of the July 1964 uprising in New York City’s Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods over the police killing of a Black teenager . . . Hayes unpacks the causes and effects of the uprising in scrupulous detail, and makes salient connections to recent events. This scholarly history is a powerful reminder that it takes ‘great force’ to bend the moral arc of the universe toward justice. * Publishers Weekly *The Harlem Uprising offers a powerful narrative of the riots and upheaval in Harlem and other African American neighborhoods in New York City in the summer of 1964. Hayes’s vividly written book provides a stinging portrayal of midcentury New York from the perspective of Black New Yorkers and offers an important new historiography of the carceral state. -- Kim Phillips-Fein, author of Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity PoliticsSuch a needed study of New York's long history of racial inequality in housing, schools, jobs, and policing and the years of frustrated civil rights struggles that laid the ground for the 1964 Harlem uprising. Hayes examines Mayor Lindsay's decision to constitute a majority-civilian CCRB in its wake, the swift and successful police-led backlash that ended it, and the law and order politics that gained ascendancy in the city and the nation. -- Jeanne Theoharis, author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights HistoryThis is an exceptionally important and powerful book about white racism and police brutality in the Jim Crow North, especially New York City. That postwar urban crisis produced the 1964 Harlem and Brooklyn uprisings. This book’s argument is forceful and its grasp of historiography is masterful. -- Komozi Woodard, author of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power PoliticsThe Harlem Uprising is a welcome contribution to the intertwined histories of liberalism, policing, and urban rebellions in New York and, more broadly, the urban North. * Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York History *The Harlem Uprising refines our understanding of protest culture in America and reminds us once again that neither James Powell in 1964 nor George Floyd in 2020 fell victim to individual failure but a failing system. * H-Soz-Kult *In this gripping and detailed account, the book explores how those in power have refused to address structural racism, while also examining the limits of liberalism. * Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) *A highly readable and evocative rendering of the Harlem uprising of 1964, its causes, and its immediate policy aftermath. * History of Education Quarterly *The Harlem Uprising is deserving of a wide readership. Hayes’s clear and engaging prose makes the work accessible, while his historical insight and contributions will be of use and interest to historians of urban America, the civil rights movement, and police brutality. The work also recontextualizes the history of policing, violence, and the Black community in New York and makes important inferences about local practices of injustice that still plague the city and state. * New York History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Living2. Working3. Union Work4. Learning5. The New York City Police Department6. A Death and Protests7. Daybreak: Sunday, July 198. Spreading Anxiety: Monday, July 209. Day Four: Tuesday, July 2110. Day Five: Wednesday, July 2211. Day Six: Thursday, July 2312. After13. Reforming the Civilian Complaint Review Board14. A ReferendumEpilogue: Insufficient FundsNotesBibliographyIndex
£21.25
Columbia University Press Race on the Brain What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong
Book SynopsisJonathan Kahn argues that an uncritical embrace of implicit bias, to the exclusion of power relations and structural racism, undermines wider civic responsibility for addressing racial inequality by turning it over to experts. Race on the Brain challenges us to engage more democratically in the difficult task of promoting racial justice.Trade ReviewRace on the Brain offers a provocative examination of contemporary discussions of race, racism, and law. Kahn carefully assesses the scientific framework of implicit bias, highlighting its laudable intent and aspirations while revealing hidden challenges. This is a thoughtful and timely contribution that will surely enrich ongoing conversations on race and human cognition and their socio-legal significance. -- Osagie K. Obasogie, author of Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the BlindTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Rethinking Implicit Bias—the Limits to Science as a Tool of Racial Justice1. Defining and Measuring Implicit Bias2. The Uptake of Implicit Social Cognition by the Legal Academy3. Accepting Conservative Frames: Time, Color Blindness, Diversity, and Intent4. Behavioral Realism in Action5. Deracinating the Legal Subject6. Obscuring Power7. Recreational Antiracism and the Power of Positive Nudging8. Seeking a Technical Fix to Racism9. Biologizing Racism: The Ultimate Technical FixConclusion: Contesting the Common Sense of RacismNotesIndex
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Penguin Books Ltd The Dead Are Arising
Book Synopsis**WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY****WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)**Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown AwardFinalist, LA Times Book PrizeA landmark biography of one of the twentieth century''s most compelling figures, rewriting much of the known narrative.Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X - including siblings, classmates, friends, cellmates, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become hundreds of hours of interviews into a portrait that would separate fact from fiction.The result is this magisterial work that conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist, whose title is inspired by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his followers stir with purpose to overcome the obstacles of racism. Setting his life not only within the political struggles of his day but also against the larger backdrop of American history, this remarkable masterpiece traces his path from street criminal to devoted moralist and revolutionary.An author who saw Malcolm X speak and could not stand the phrase ''we may never know'', Payne writes cinematically from start to finish and delivers extraordinary revelations - from a hair-raising scene of Malcolm''s clandestine meeting with the KKK, to a minute-by-minute account of his murder in Harlem in 1965, in which he makes the case for the complicity of the American government.Introduced by Payne''s daughter and primary researcher, Tamara Payne, who, following her father''s death, heroically completed the biography, The Dead Are Arising is a penetrating and riveting work that affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle and the story of the twentieth century.Trade ReviewBrilliant and indispensable . . . Using the fruits of decades of interviews, [Payne] brings new information and perspectives on one of the most fascinating, and often misunderstood, figures in American history -- Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeThe result of nearly three decades of investigative reporting, The Dead Are Arising is an essential new biography of one of the most compelling political figures of the twentieth century -- Jill Lepore, author of These TruthsIn a time of breezy, green-room infotainment, Les Payne restores the art of old-fashioned shoe-leather journalism. Malcolm X was one of the most fascinating and charismatic figures of the twentieth century, but like many icons,he was not without flaws. Payne exposes some of the major ones made under the influence of Elijah Muhammad whom Malcolm treated as one would a god. Payne charts Malcolm's disillusionment with his mentor, and the tensions between two egged on by J.Edgar Hoover. Payne's detailed account of Malcolm's negotiations with the Klan alone has mini-series possibilities. The Dead Are Arising is superior to the other Malcolm books, including the autobiography, which Malcolm despised -- Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo JumboMeticulously researched and masterfully reported, this chronicle offers fresh insights and disturbing revelations that, among other things, strengthen the case for government complicity in the murder of Malcolm X. . . . A gripping read . . . [and] a worthy companion to Malcolm's famed autobiography -- Nathan McCall, author of Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in AmericaThe Dead Are Arising. . . will become the definitive biography of Malcolm X -- Ray Winbush, director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan StateLes Payne has written a biography of this African American icon that sets a new standard for investigative journalism -- DeWayne Wickham, founding dean of Morgan State University’s School of Global Journalism & CommunicationPayne's storytelling weave[s] an epic tale of Malcolm's exuberant life, his tragic death, and the Phoenix-like legacy -- Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of Harlem NocturneNo one who wishes to reckon with the life of this man, one of the most important African American figures of the twentieth century can afford to forgo this account -- Howard W. French, Columbia UniversityComprehensive, timely life of the renowned activist and his circuitous rise to prominence. . . . Payne delivers considerable news not just in recounting unknown episodes of Malcolm's early years, but also in reconstructing events during his time as a devotee of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad . . . Payne's accounts of the consequences that rupture and Malcolm's assassination at the hands of a 'goon squad' with ties to the FBI and CIA are eye-opening, and they add a new dimension to our understanding of Malcolm X's last years. . . . A superb biography and an essential addition to the library of African American political engagement -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review'Les Payne was one of the most distinguished journalists of our time. Here, after thirty years of research and collecting and by interviewing Malcolm X's family as well as many others, we have the most lyrical and complete biography of this uniquely brilliant American ever written. This book is a great read, full of original insights about an elusive figure rendered deeply human -- David Blight, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning Frederick DouglassPayne goes into gripping detail... In this highly worthy effort, [he] has produced a well-written and deeply engaging biography of a uniquely American figure whose life offers a matchless window into our continuing national struggle over race -- Robert J Norrell * The American Scholar *Compelling... events are portrayed in cinematic detail... this book captures the uncompromising clarity that speaks to this moment of Black Lives Matter -- Colin Grant * The Observer *The Paynes, fortified by hundreds of interviews with family and associates, have thrown some fresh light on the legend created by the Autobiography -- Trevor Phillips * The Sunday Times *This new biography of Malcolm X paints a much more detailed and intimate picture of the man than previous works have ever been able to do -- Sarah Smith * Today *It's to this biography's credit that it attempts to scrape away some of the mythology... Payne doesn't airbrush the facts -- Clive Davis * The Times *Brimming with detail, insight and feeling... Nobody has written a more poetic account... Malcolm's presence is beautifully rendered within the rhythm of Payne's masterly storytelling -- Michael P. Jeffries * The New York Times *This book will always be timely, because the story it narrates is timeless... Les and Tamara Payne are especially good in detailing Malcolm's early years of delinquency and rebirth. Like Robert Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, The Dead Are Arising delves deeply into the wider context of Malcolm's world -- Andrew Preston * The Spectator *The Dead Are Arising sets out to provide a much fuller picture of the life and death of Malcolm X [than his autobiography]... The recent spate of protests have reminded us that we need the lessons of Malcolm now perhaps more than ever -- Kehinde Andrews * The Guardian *The Dead Are Arising is a meticulously researched, compassionately rendered, and fiercely analytical examination of the radical revolutionary as a human being... Payne's biography forces us to understand Malcolm X as his various communities experienced him-as a brilliant, troubled, selfish, generous, sincere, ugly, and beautiful Black radical... The Dead Are Arising forces us to ask deeper, more complicated questions about the Black people and places from which our heroes come -- Kerri Greenidge * The Atlantic *Fascinating and essential... Payne adds invaluably to our understanding of Malcolm's story -- Mark Whitaker * The Washington Post *This compelling biography of Malcolm X is an appropriately ambitious and forceful book. Delivering an outstanding portrait through lucid prose, it deserves and demands to be widely read * Judges of the HWA Non-Fiction Crown Award *Thirty years in the making and encompassing hundreds of original interviews, this magisterial biography of Malcolm X was completed by Les Payne's daughter after his death in 2018. Its strengths lie in its finely shaded, penetrating portrait of the Black activist and thinker, whose legacy continues to find fresh resonance today * New York Times, Notable Books of 2020 *A monumental biography giving new meaning to our understanding of Malcolm X and his ever-expanding impact on American history... told in riveting prose, The Dead Are Arising is a major accomplishment that could set the bar for how we will define Malcolm X from now on * The Voice *A pensive, lyrical, and finely wrought portrait of young Malcolm Little's evolution into the icon known as Malcolm X... The Dead Are Arising brilliantly crafts a new origin story of the most important working-class Black leader ever produced... Les and Tamara Payne have produced an exceedingly valuable and important biography that adds immeasurably to our understanding of Malcolm X -- Peniel E. Joseph * Los Angeles Review of Books *
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Penguin Books Ltd No Place to Hide
Book SynopsisTHE INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE EVENTS DOCUMENTED IN LAURA POITRAS''S CITIZENFOUR Glenn Greenwald''s No Place to Hide is the story of one of the greatest national security leaks in US history.In June 2013, reporter and political commentator Glenn Greenwald published a series of reports in the Guardian which rocked the world.The reports revealed shocking truths about the extent to which the National Security Agency had been gathering information about US citizens and intercepting communication worldwide, and were based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden to Greenwald.Including new revelations from documents entrusted to Greenwald by Snowden, this essential book tells the story of Snowden and the NSA and examines the far-reaching consequences of the government''s surveillance program, both in the US and abroad.''The first thing I do when I turn on the computer in the morningTrade ReviewA Pulitzer in the bag, Hollywood knocking on the door and a newfound status as one of the world's most celebrated journalists, Greenwald has pursued the [Snowden] story with passion. Gripping: Jason Bourne meets The Social Network * Financial Times *To put it simply, Greenwald has had one hell of a dizzying run, at the white-hot centre of the media universe as the most reliable source for NSA surveillance scoops * GQ *Compelling, powerful, shocking, important * Observer *The inside account. Action-packed, engrossing and polemical * Daily Telegraph *Persuasive, thrilling and necessary * Globe and Mail *Impassioned * The New York Times *Pulse-pounding * Wired *In Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden found a perfect match. If you want to get a handle on what was at stake when Snowden downloaded the government's most precious secrets onto a thumb drive, this book is your primer * Slate *Rings with authority * Chicago Tribune *The story of Edward Snowden is remarkable. Has all the makings of a thriller. Greenwald provides an excellent overview, putting the pieces together in a way that daily journalism cannot * Economist *At times, this account by Greenwald of how he landed one of the biggest scoops of the century feels like it has come straight out of the pages of a Robert Ludlum thriller * Sunday Times *Spectacular. Dedicated, fearless journalism * Spiegel (Germany) *Between a spy thriller and analysis . . . an impassioned book * Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) *Rewarding. Some passages read like a Tom Clancy CIA thriller * General Anzeiger (Germany) *An indispensable book for anyone who cares about the future of privacy, not just in the United States but throughout the world * National Post (Canada) *Gripping. Not only does [No Place to Hide] confirm what many have suspected - that surveillance is happening - but it also makes clear that it's happening on an almost unimaginably vast scale * Guardian *A powerful and persuasive case for the duty to defend our fast-disappearing privacy -- Naomi Klein * Guardian (Books of the Year) *The story of a real conspiracy -- Nicholas Blincoe * Daily Telegraph *An important first-hand account of the Snowden affair -- Rebecca Rose * Financial Times *
£10.44
MO - University of Illinois Press Dissident Friendships Feminism Imperialism and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose's dazzling collection invites readers to consider the politics of feminist friendships, alliances, and collaborations. The volume explores the powerful ways that we can be transformed by our connections with others, and urges a new attention to feminist friendships as sites of generosity and empathy, alliance and resistance. Chowdhury and Philiopose's volume reminds us that friendship is fraught terrain, that we encounter each other across borders and boundaries of multiple kinds, and that the language of friendship can be co-opted by discourses of neoliberalism and imperialism. Yet their contributors urge us to continue to dream of the promise of connection, consciousness, and transformation that dissident friendships make possible."--Jennifer Nash, author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography "Rejuvenating our expectations of the most commonplace of human relations, Dissident Friendships challenges us to politicize that which is either overlooked or dismissed by more mainstream academic investigations. The intricate, and compassionate, analyses of friendship presented in these pages leave us renewed and provide an energizing vision for Gender Studies scholarship, social transformation and productive solidarities."--Shefali Chandra, author of The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India "Dissident Friendships is a significant transdisciplinary intervention that engages seriously with the meanings and possibilities of transformative feminist praxis in the face of the contradictions and complicities produced by neoliberalism, militarism, imperialism, humanism, and peace-building initiatives. Together, the contributors not only advance critical conversations about the work of affect in transnational solidarities and alliances; they also grapple in rich ways with the theoretical, methodological, and political complexities that are co-constitutive of the labor of dreaming, living, sustaining, and remaking epistemic friendships and communities across borders."--Richa Nagar, author of Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism"A timely collection."--Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual"Vivid, clear, diverse, and creative, the essays in this volume demonstrate the tenacity of emotional relationalities and agnostic attachments, dissident friendships that can help redefine our connections amid the nefarious intricacies of power relations."--Signs
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Black Public History in Chicago Civil Rights
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSuperior Achievement Award, Illinois State Historical Society, 2019 "Rocksborough-Smith offers a concise scholarly monograph on Black Chicago public history's tangled relationship with the left and utilizes that conflicting relationship to examine politics in our present and future."--Black Perspectives"Black Public History will appeal to all students of African American history, particularly cultural history, and is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of Chicago's expanding black past." --History: Reviews of New Books "Black Public History in Chicago is a worthwhile read and greatly contributes to the understudied history of African American public activism during the pre-civil rights movement years." --The Journal of American History"Scholars are starting to discuss in more detail how African American activists for Civil Rights were stifled under this side of the 'iron curtain' during the Cold War. However, very few have discussed the innovative ways that Black visionaries turned to public history as a broad canvas for rethinking the boundaries of community belonging and national citizenship in the face of political repression. Ian Rocksborough-Smith sheds light on a powerful core of Chicago-based culture workers who expanded the battlefront for Black freedom from the picket line and street rally to the library, the museum hall, and the classroom, using public displays of the past to imagine a different future. Black Public History in Chicago is an amazing project of both recovery and redemption."--Davarian L. Baldwin, author of Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life"In this remarkable book, Ian Rocksborough-Smith examines the network of librarians, writers, teachers, and others who built an African American usable past that could advance their visions of racial liberation in mid-twentieth-century Chicago. Amid repression of all kinds, these unsung activists and artists set out to make history matter beyond the academy and mainstream museums. They devoted their lives to building independent knowledge-producing institutions through school curriculum, public rituals and commemorations, and ultimately the DuSable Museum. Like his protagonists, Rocksborough-Smith resists sanitized narratives and makes public history accessible, revealing how these cultural workers bridged generations and fused interracial and nationalist ideologies. Readers interested in the Black Chicago Renaissance and the generations of the Black Freedom Struggle, Cold War scholars, and especially public historians of all stripes need to read this book. Then and now, African American public history matters as a key source of knowledge as activism to combat poverty, racism, and xenophobia in the American city."--Erik S. Gellman, author of Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights"Black Public History in Chicago spans decades and is complemented and supported by the detailed efforts of the unseen and often mentioned contributors of each era. . . . Rocksborough-Smith has produced an excellent work that those with interest in African American history of Chicago history will enjoy." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"This book helps to celebrate those who worked to keep alive the memory of an all-too-often buried past." --The Progressive
£77.35
MO - University of Illinois Press The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights Liberal Protestant Activism 19001950
Trade Review"Griffith adds more white voices of opposition to the racism and nativism of the 1920s, gives more evidence of the global reach of Christian non-governmental organizations, and extends the work of David Hollinger and William Hutchison on the public presence of Protestant liberalism in the twentieth century. " --Journal of American History"The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights expands our understanding of civil rights by illuminating the contribution of liberal white leadership to Asian American equality."--Jon Thares Davidann, author of Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919–1941"This illuminating study documents how liberal Protestant activists mobilized against racial discrimination and engaged in interracial coalition-building. Recommended." --Choice"YMCA officials with experience as Protestant missionaries in Japan led the defense of Asian Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. Griffith illuminates several decades of anti-racist organizing and writing by a dynamic group of Y leaders, culminating in the group's climactic and courageous defense of Japanese Americans during World War II. This is a substantial research achievement that broadens our understanding of ecumenical Protestantism and of the history of civil rights."--David A. Hollinger, author of After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History"Scholars of religion and Asian American history should have Griffith's book on their shelves, as it provides a necessary intervention into the fields of Christian interethnic and interracial activism." --American Historical Review "Griffith does an excellent job of synthesizing the massive amounts of publications produced by these activists and shows how their approach shifted as they attempted to combat nativists and anti-immigration legislation. . . . Her deep analysis of liberal Protestant rhetoric is the book's greatest strength." --Pacific Historical Review"This is a fascinating book that will challenge everything we think we know about race, empire, missionaries, and race politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Go get this book." --Western Historical Quarterly
£77.35
University of Illinois Press CommunityCentered Journalism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Recommended." --Choice"Rooted in an impressive range of on-the-ground research . . . Wenzel has made an important contribution." --The Arts Fuse"Andrea Wenzel is that rarest of beings, a thorough and skilled academic and an accomplished journalist. This book is a must read for anyone wanting to fully understand the crisis of trust in journalism, how it grows from deep, ingrained roots and flourishes through lack of attention and engagement. Wenzel’s examination of how journalism can better serve communities charts a clear empirical path for the field, but it also tells a compelling story about media, representation and social cohesion at a critical time."--Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School"This book is an important contribution to academic scholarship but also to the journalism industry and to foundations that support ongoing projects to rebuild trust. It provides much needed documentation at a pivotal and pivoting time, as journalism undertakes new practices in an attempt to survive."--Sue Robinson, author of Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive CommunitiesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The case for shared community storiesChapter 1. Shifting stories with solutions journalismChapter 2. Connecting journalists and community membersChapter 3. Developing an intervention: Building a public sphere in polarized placesChapter 4. The process is portable: Toward a community-driven interventionChapter 5. A new kind of journalist? Competencies for community-centered journalismConclusion: To repair, or to burn it down?Appendix: Methods for a Process ModelNotesBibliographyIndex
£77.35
MO - University of Illinois Press Practical Politics
Book SynopsisGuiding to practice democracy, this book is for members of community and neighbourhood organizations, parent-teacher associations, local government, citizens groups, and other grass-root organizations.Trade Review"Before you give up on democracy, read this book! In an era when public engagement seems ever more contentious and mean-spirited, Michael Briand offers practical, espericne-based wisdom--not naive bromides--about what we can do to make democracy work in our communities. Read this book and gain new insights and new hope."--Frances Moore Lappe, cofounder, Center for Democracy
£19.79
MO - University of Illinois Press The Taste for Civilization
Book SynopsisFrom table talk to farmers' markets, analyzing the cultural politics of what and how we eatTrade Review"Provocative. . . . Flammang makes a convincing case for the centrality of food work and shared meals, much along the lines laid down by Carlo Petrini and Alice Waters, but with more historical perspective and theoretical rigor."--Michael Pollan, The New York Review of Books"[Flammang] treats this subject with the high seriousness and scholarly insight it deserves."--Hypatia "An important and provocative book."--Gastronomica"A compelling argument reconnecting domesticity to civil society. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Eating is something we all have in common: it opens up both our senses and our consciences to our place in the world. Janet A. Flammang's The Taste for Civilization shows how the American family meal has been devalued from its role as a daily enactment of shared necessity and ritualized cooperation--and how important it is to restore the daily ritual of the table in our lives."--Alice Waters, founder, Chez Panisse"Deftly bringing together political theory, feminist analysis, and cultural studies, Flammang uses the familiar world of our private lives and everyday practices with food to interrogate the public life of American democracy and civil society. Thoughtful and creative."--Anna Sampaio, coeditor of Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and CulturesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Civility, Civil Society and Democracy; Political Theory: Where's the Household in Civil Society?; Empirical Studies: It's Hard to Measure the Table; The Art of Conversation and Civic Virtues of Thoughtfulness and Generosity; Meals, Conversations and Women; What Changes are Needed?; Part One: Household Foodwork; Chapter 1: The Time Crunch; Farm and City Foodwork; Women's Labor Force Participation and Overworked Americans; Technology and Food Tasks; The Second Shift and the Globalization of Housework; Invisible Foodwork; Solutions to the Time Crunch; Chapter 2: Domesticity: Meals, Obligation and Gratitude; Political and Gendered Domesticity; Deciding on the Menu: Household Variations; Gift, Obligation and the Economy of Gratitude; Psychological Memories and Social Connections; Escape from the Household with Commercial Food; Chapter 3: American Food; American Food as Multi-Ethnic and Regional Corporations Urge Immigrants to Eat American; Racial and Ethnic Pride in Foodways; The Slow Food Movement; American foodways, the Obesity Crisis and Global Warming; Part Two: Table Conversation; Chapter 4: Conversation and Manners; Conversations and Civility; Civil Society: Light Social Conversations and Heavy Political Arguments; The Lost Art of Conversation in the United States; Upper Class and Feminine: Courtesy, Civility, Politeness and Manners; The Universality of Table Manners; Manners and the Middle Class
£18.89
University of Illinois Press Citizens in the Present
Book SynopsisThis innovative comparative study provides nuanced accounts of the personal experiences of young people who care deeply about their communities and are actively engaged in a variety of public issuesTrade Review"Investigating the experience of young activists, their motivations, and the forms of their engagement, this innovative book presents a refreshingly optimistic picture of dedicated and engaged young people."--Anne B. Smith, coeditor of Advocating for Children: International Perspectives on Children's Rights"A much needed and timely contribution that celebrates the commonalities among youth leaders on a hemispheric scale. The book offers a unified voice that rejects the fragmentation of difference, and with thought-provoking youth interviews, convincingly articulates today's concept of youth leadership. These authors help their readers, whether scholars, educators or activists, effectively situate and challenge their own ideas of youth leaders."--Latino Studies
£18.89
University of Illinois Press Dissident Friendships
Book SynopsisOften perceived as unbridgeable, the boundaries that divide humanity from itself--whether national, gender, racial, political, or imperial--are rearticulated through friendship. Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose edit a collection of essays that express the different ways women forge hospitality in deference to or defiance of the structures meant to keep them apart. Emerging out of postcolonial theory, the works discuss instances when the authors have negotiated friendship''s complicated, conflicted, and contradictory terrain; offer fresh perspectives on feminists'' invested, reluctant, and selective uses of the nation; reflect on how the arts contribute to conversations about feminism, dissent, resistance, and solidarity; and unpack the details of transnational dissident friendships. Contributors: Lori E. Amy, Azza Basarudin, Himika Bhattacharya, Kabita Chakma, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Laurie R. Cohen, Esha Niyogi De, Eglantina Gjermeni, Glen Hill, Alka Kurian, Meredith MaddenTrade Review"Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose's dazzling collection invites readers to consider the politics of feminist friendships, alliances, and collaborations. The volume explores the powerful ways that we can be transformed by our connections with others, and urges a new attention to feminist friendships as sites of generosity and empathy, alliance and resistance. Chowdhury and Philiopose's volume reminds us that friendship is fraught terrain, that we encounter each other across borders and boundaries of multiple kinds, and that the language of friendship can be co-opted by discourses of neoliberalism and imperialism. Yet their contributors urge us to continue to dream of the promise of connection, consciousness, and transformation that dissident friendships make possible."--Jennifer Nash, author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography "Rejuvenating our expectations of the most commonplace of human relations, Dissident Friendships challenges us to politicize that which is either overlooked or dismissed by more mainstream academic investigations. The intricate, and compassionate, analyses of friendship presented in these pages leave us renewed and provide an energizing vision for Gender Studies scholarship, social transformation and productive solidarities."--Shefali Chandra, author of The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India "Dissident Friendships is a significant transdisciplinary intervention that engages seriously with the meanings and possibilities of transformative feminist praxis in the face of the contradictions and complicities produced by neoliberalism, militarism, imperialism, humanism, and peace-building initiatives. Together, the contributors not only advance critical conversations about the work of affect in transnational solidarities and alliances; they also grapple in rich ways with the theoretical, methodological, and political complexities that are co-constitutive of the labor of dreaming, living, sustaining, and remaking epistemic friendships and communities across borders."--Richa Nagar, author of Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism"A timely collection."--Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual"Vivid, clear, diverse, and creative, the essays in this volume demonstrate the tenacity of emotional relationalities and agnostic attachments, dissident friendships that can help redefine our connections amid the nefarious intricacies of power relations."--Signs
£21.59
University of Illinois Press Black Public History in Chicago
Book SynopsisIn civil-rights-era Chicago, a dedicated group of black activists, educators, and organizations employed black public history as more than cultural activism. Their work and vision energized a movement that promoted political progress in the crucial time between World War II and the onset of the Cold War. Ian Rocksborough-Smith’s meticulous research and adept storytelling provide the first in-depth look at how these committed individuals leveraged Chicago’s black public history. Their goal: to engage with the struggle for racial equality. Rocksborough-Smith shows teachers working to advance curriculum reform in public schools, while well-known activists Margaret and Charles Burroughs pushed for greater recognition of black history by founding the DuSable Museum of African American History. Organizations like the Afro-American Heritage Association, meanwhile, used black public history work to connect radical politics and nationalism. Together, these people and their projecTrade ReviewSuperior Achievement Award, Illinois State Historical Society, 2019 "Rocksborough-Smith offers a concise scholarly monograph on Black Chicago public history's tangled relationship with the left and utilizes that conflicting relationship to examine politics in our present and future."--Black Perspectives"Black Public History will appeal to all students of African American history, particularly cultural history, and is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of Chicago's expanding black past." --History: Reviews of New Books "Black Public History in Chicago is a worthwhile read and greatly contributes to the understudied history of African American public activism during the pre-civil rights movement years." --The Journal of American History"Scholars are starting to discuss in more detail how African American activists for Civil Rights were stifled under this side of the 'iron curtain' during the Cold War. However, very few have discussed the innovative ways that Black visionaries turned to public history as a broad canvas for rethinking the boundaries of community belonging and national citizenship in the face of political repression. Ian Rocksborough-Smith sheds light on a powerful core of Chicago-based culture workers who expanded the battlefront for Black freedom from the picket line and street rally to the library, the museum hall, and the classroom, using public displays of the past to imagine a different future. Black Public History in Chicago is an amazing project of both recovery and redemption."--Davarian L. Baldwin, author of Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life"In this remarkable book, Ian Rocksborough-Smith examines the network of librarians, writers, teachers, and others who built an African American usable past that could advance their visions of racial liberation in mid-twentieth-century Chicago. Amid repression of all kinds, these unsung activists and artists set out to make history matter beyond the academy and mainstream museums. They devoted their lives to building independent knowledge-producing institutions through school curriculum, public rituals and commemorations, and ultimately the DuSable Museum. Like his protagonists, Rocksborough-Smith resists sanitized narratives and makes public history accessible, revealing how these cultural workers bridged generations and fused interracial and nationalist ideologies. Readers interested in the Black Chicago Renaissance and the generations of the Black Freedom Struggle, Cold War scholars, and especially public historians of all stripes need to read this book. Then and now, African American public history matters as a key source of knowledge as activism to combat poverty, racism, and xenophobia in the American city."--Erik S. Gellman, author of Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights"Black Public History in Chicago spans decades and is complemented and supported by the detailed efforts of the unseen and often mentioned contributors of each era. . . . Rocksborough-Smith has produced an excellent work that those with interest in African American history of Chicago history will enjoy." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"This book helps to celebrate those who worked to keep alive the memory of an all-too-often buried past." --The Progressive
£19.79
University of Illinois Press The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Griffith adds more white voices of opposition to the racism and nativism of the 1920s, gives more evidence of the global reach of Christian non-governmental organizations, and extends the work of David Hollinger and William Hutchison on the public presence of Protestant liberalism in the twentieth century. " --Journal of American History"The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights expands our understanding of civil rights by illuminating the contribution of liberal white leadership to Asian American equality."--Jon Thares Davidann, author of Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919–1941"This illuminating study documents how liberal Protestant activists mobilized against racial discrimination and engaged in interracial coalition-building. Recommended." --Choice"YMCA officials with experience as Protestant missionaries in Japan led the defense of Asian Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. Griffith illuminates several decades of anti-racist organizing and writing by a dynamic group of Y leaders, culminating in the group's climactic and courageous defense of Japanese Americans during World War II. This is a substantial research achievement that broadens our understanding of ecumenical Protestantism and of the history of civil rights."--David A. Hollinger, author of After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History"Scholars of religion and Asian American history should have Griffith's book on their shelves, as it provides a necessary intervention into the fields of Christian interethnic and interracial activism." --American Historical Review "Griffith does an excellent job of synthesizing the massive amounts of publications produced by these activists and shows how their approach shifted as they attempted to combat nativists and anti-immigration legislation. . . . Her deep analysis of liberal Protestant rhetoric is the book's greatest strength." --Pacific Historical Review"This is a fascinating book that will challenge everything we think we know about race, empire, missionaries, and race politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Go get this book." --Western Historical Quarterly
£19.79
University of Illinois Press CommunityCentered Journalism
Book SynopsisContemporary journalism faces a crisis of trust that threatens the institution and may imperil democracy itself. Critics and experts see a renewed commitment to local journalism as one solution. But a lasting restoration of public trust requires a different kind of local journalism than is often imagined, one that engages with and shares power among all sectors of a community.Andrea Wenzel models new practices of community-centered journalism that build trust across boundaries of politics, race, and class, and prioritize solutions while engaging the full range of local stakeholders. Informed by case studies from rural, suburban, and urban settings, Wenzel''s blueprint reshapes journalism norms and creates vigorous storytelling networks between all parts of a community. Envisioning a portable, rather than scalable, process, Wenzel proposes a community-centered journalism that, once implemented, will strengthen lines of local communication, reinvigorate civic participation, and fTrade Review"Recommended." --Choice"Rooted in an impressive range of on-the-ground research . . . Wenzel has made an important contribution." --The Arts Fuse"Andrea Wenzel is that rarest of beings, a thorough and skilled academic and an accomplished journalist. This book is a must read for anyone wanting to fully understand the crisis of trust in journalism, how it grows from deep, ingrained roots and flourishes through lack of attention and engagement. Wenzel’s examination of how journalism can better serve communities charts a clear empirical path for the field, but it also tells a compelling story about media, representation and social cohesion at a critical time."--Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School"This book is an important contribution to academic scholarship but also to the journalism industry and to foundations that support ongoing projects to rebuild trust. It provides much needed documentation at a pivotal and pivoting time, as journalism undertakes new practices in an attempt to survive."--Sue Robinson, author of Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive CommunitiesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The case for shared community storiesChapter 1. Shifting stories with solutions journalismChapter 2. Connecting journalists and community membersChapter 3. Developing an intervention: Building a public sphere in polarized placesChapter 4. The process is portable: Toward a community-driven interventionChapter 5. A new kind of journalist? Competencies for community-centered journalismConclusion: To repair, or to burn it down?Appendix: Methods for a Process ModelNotesBibliographyIndex
£17.99
Indiana University Press Impulse to Act
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Resistance Reconsidered / Othon AlexandrakisPart I: Affect as Political Condition1. Being and Doing Politics: Moral Ontologies and Ethical Ways of Knowing at the End of the Cold War / Jessica Greenberg2. The Affective Echoes of an Overwhelming Life: The Demand for Legal Recognition and the Vicious Cycle of Desire, in the Case of Queer Activism in Istanbul, Turkey / Eirine Avramopoulou 3. Emergenc(i)es in the Fields: Affective Composition and Counter-Camps Against the Exploitation of Migrant Farm Labor in Italy / Irene Peano 4. Cosmologicopolitics: Vitalistic Cosmology Meets Biopower / James D. Faubion 5. Surreal Capitalism and the Dialectical Economies of Precarity / Neni PanourgiáPart II: Agency as Ethical Condition6. Intolerants: Politics of the Ordinary in Karachi, Pakistan / Tania Ahmad 7. Negative Space: Unmovement and the Study of Activism When There is No Action / Cymene Howe 8. What Should be Done?: Art and Political Possibility in Russia / Petra Rethmann9. The Multilinearity of Protest: Understanding New Social Movements Through Their Events, Trends, and Routines / John Postill 10. Whose Ethics?: Negotiating Ethics and Responsibility in the Field / Marianne Maeckelbergh 11. Within, Against, Beyond: The Radical Imagination in the Age of the Slow-Motion Apocalypse / Alex KhasnabishConclusion: On an Emergent Politics and Ethics of Resistance / Athená Athanasiou and Othon AlexandrakisList of ContributorsIndex
£59.40
