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Book SynopsisSomehow people continue to imagine a world of justice against the odds of a deck that has been stacked against them. In her urgent and perceptive book, Life in and against the Odds, Hoechst focuses on the particular circumstances and conditions of different phases of speculative expansion in the United States. She traces the roots of the nation-state to nineteenth-century land markets and slave exchanges. Hoechst also chronicles how these racial foundations extend through corporate capitalism from the 1920s and 30s to the present era of financialized capitalism and the recent housing bubble. Life in and against the Odds identifies where and how speculative nationalism creates roadblocks to freedom. Hoechst retells the history of the United States with a perspective on howhuman lives are made, destroyed, reconfigured, and claimed under the systemic violence of anation that is rooted in the racializing futurity of speculative capitalism.

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Book SynopsisSomehow people continue to imagine a world of justice against the odds of a deck that has been stacked against them. In her urgent and perceptive book, Life in and against the Odds, Hoechst focuses on the particular circumstances and conditions of different phases of speculative expansion in the United States. She traces the roots of the nation-state to nineteenth-century land markets and slave exchanges. Hoechst also chronicles how these racial foundations extend through corporate capitalism from the 1920s and 30s to the present era of financialized capitalism and the recent housing bubble. Life in and against the Odds identifies where and how speculative nationalism creates roadblocks to freedom. Hoechst retells the history of the United States with a perspective on howhuman lives are made, destroyed, reconfigured, and claimed under the systemic violence of anation that is rooted in the racializing futurity of speculative capitalism.

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Book SynopsisWhile focused on serving children and families, the adoption industry must also generate sufficient revenue to cover an agency's operating costs. With its fee-for-service model, Elizabeth Raleigh asks, How does private adoption operate as a marketplace? Her eye-opening book, Selling Transracial Adoption, provides a fine-grained analysis of the business decisions in the adoption industry and what it teaches us about notions of kinship and race.Adoption providers, Raleigh declares, are often tasked with pitching the idea of transracial adoption to their mostly white clientele. But not all children are equally desirable, and transracial adoptiona market calculationis hardly colorblind. Selling Transracial Adoption explicitly focuses on adoption providers andemploys candid interviews with adoption workers, social workers, attorneys, and counselors, as well as observations from adoption conferences and information sessions, toillustrate how agencies institute a racial hierarchyespecially whTrade Review"Elizabeth Raleigh boldly dares to address adoption’s proverbial elephant in the room in her powerful and enlightening book, Selling Transracial Adoption.... The organization of the material, the explicit detailing of the objectives, and the rich content make a compelling case for her arguments in each chapter and the book overall.... In a sea of books on transracial adoption from psychological, counseling, and social work perspectives, this sociological contribution is much needed and appreciated."--Contemporary Sociology

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Book SynopsisIn this fascinating exploration of citizenship and the politics of culture in contemporary France, Ingram examines two theatre troupes in Provence: one based in a small town in the rural part of the Vaucluse region, and the other an urban project in Marseille, France''s most culturally diverse city. Both troupes are committed to explicitly civic goals in the tradition of citizens'' theatre. Focusing on the personal stories of the theatre artists in these two troupes, and the continuities between their narratives, their performances, and the national discourse directed by the Ministry of Culture, Ingram examines the ways in which these artists interpret universalistic ideals underlying both art and the Republic in their theatrical work. In the process he charts the evolution of new models for society and citizenship in a rapidly changing France.Trade ReviewDrawing on research spanning two decades, [Ingram] is well positioned to address how these cultural producers creatively respond to a perceived crisis of postcolonial French identity and to processes of Europeanization and globalization. The result is a widely accessible ethnography that will appeal to scholars of contemporary France both inside and outside the field of anthropology. -- American Anthropologist Ingram's study artfully demonstrates how the practices and 'rites' of state cultural policy are incorporated and negotiated at quotidian, embodied levels, even as European integration and globalization expand the scales at which individuals think and live. -- French Studies [...] this work of contemporary scholarship celebrating the role of the arts in promoting dialogue and community-building, with its ample maps, images, background information, and rich ethnographic detail will be appropriate for undergraduates as well as scholars of France and beyond. It provides a welcome new perspective on French cultural policy and challenges to republican universalism. It also offers a clear, on-the-ground account of local impacts of EU cultural initiatives, and the consequences for artists of neoliberalization moves by the French state. It will be very useful for courses on theatre, the media and the arts; globalization, neoliberalism, and the state; contemporary French society; and the anthropology of Europe. -- French Politics, Culture and SocietyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction * Defining culture: State cultural policy and discourse on the arts in France *"Culture" in local perspective: The TRAC of Beaumes de Venise * The Friche la Belle de Mai: Redefining state cultural policy in "Euro-Mediterranean" Marseille *"Unity in Diversity" in EU and municipal cultural policy: Avignon and Marseille as European capitals of culture * Performing "citizens' theatre": Rites of the Republic between Europe and the Mediterranean *"Citizens' Theatre" in post-colonial Europe: New foundations for the politics of culture? Conclusion: The state, the arts, and the polis Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe New Bibliopolis is an important contribution to the study of book history, French sociocultural history, and fine and decorative arts.

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Book SynopsisThese definitions and the complexities inherent in the different cultural, legal, and political positions of Italy's people are at the heart of Migration Italy, a unique work of immense importance for understanding society in both modern-day Italy and, indeed, the entire European continent.Trade Review'Highly readable and thought provoking.' -- Anne Urbancic Quaderni d'italianistica 'This book will be valuable to readers interested in contemporary Italy and the diversity of its voices in literature and film ... Recommended.' -- S. Vander Closter CHOICE 'Migration Italy stands as the first monograph in English genuinely dedicated to Italian migrant literature and cinema, and it achieves impressively its author's objective.' -- Jennifer Burns Modern ItalyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction * Strategies of 'Talking Back' * Minor Literature, 'Minor Italy' * Cinema and Migration: 'What' and 'Who' Is a Migrant * The Laws of Migration * Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisForceful and provocative, The Matter of Mind will encourage lively debate on the norms and discourses of seventeenth-century philosophy.Trade Review'All of them [readers] will most likely be impressed with the intellectual range and critical acumen displayed by Braider throughout this highly stimulating study.' -- Edward Ousselin French Studies, vol 66:04:2012 'This book is a thought provoking contribution to early modern French studies.' -- Paul Scott French Review vol 88:02:2014Table of ContentsIntroduction. Experience and the Matter of Mind: Dualism, Classicism, and the Myth of the Modern Subject in Seventeenth-Century France * Front Matter: Placing Descarte's Meditations* A State of Mind: Embodying the Sovereign in Poussin's Judgment of Solomon* The Witch from Colchis: Coreneille's M dee, Chim ne's Le Cid, and the Invention of Classical Genius* Seeing is Believing: Image and Imaginaire in Moli re's Sganarelle* The Ghost in the Machine: Reason, Faith, and Experience in Pascalian Apologetics*Des mots sans fin: Meaning and the End(s) of History in Boileau's Satire XII, "Sur l'Equivoque"

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Book SynopsisShedding light on many topics of current interest, especially the commodification and globalization of museums, this study makes a lively contribution to museum studies and cultural studies.Trade Review'McTavish's case study is a welcome addition to the literature on museums and museological theory, and will be of particular interest to scholars and students interested in gender, regional identity, and visual art.' -- Davina M. DesRoches Topia: the Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies vol 35:2016 'Defining the Modern Museum offers a new way to think about museums by emphasizing their interrelationships and relationships with other institutions...This book is recommended for historians of critical museum theory as well as for curators and historians exploring the narratives of their own institutions.' -- Paul Robertson Canadian Historical Review vol 95:03:2014Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction The Impossible Museum Chapter One Exchanging Values in the Nineteenth-Century Museum Marketplace Chapter Two Learning to See: Vision, Visuality and Material Culture, 1862-1929 Chapter Three Offering Orientalism: Women and the Gift Economy of the Museum, 1880-1940 Chapter Four Libraries and Museums: Shifting Relationships, 1830-1940 Chapter Five Gendered Professionals: Debating the Ideal Museum Worker during the 1930s and 1940s Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSelena Daly’s work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period. In this book, she examines the cultural, political, and military engagement of the Futurists with the war effort, both on the battlefields and on the home front. Beginning with the outbreak of war in 1914, Italian Futurism and the First World War provides vivid accounts of Futurist experiences through an analysis of previously unpublished material, including letters, diaries, and military documents as well as newspapers, magazines, and popular novels. Her focus on Futurist protagonists such as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Emilio Settimelli, and lesser known figures such as Giuseppe Steiner and Ennio Valentinelli greatly extends our knowledge of the movement. Daly’s timely and detailed analysis challenges long-held assumptions about Futurist activity during the war and offers new insights for both the non-specialist and specialist alike.Trade Review'Well researched and documented account of the Futurist involvement in the First World War... With a multitude of notes, and large bibliography Salena Daly's book will surely become a standard work on the subject.' -- Jim Burns Northern Review of Books March 2017 'Highly recommended.' -- R.T. Ingoglia Choice Magazine vol 54:07:2017Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Futurist Non-Belligerence: The Failure of Futurist Interventionism 2. Futurism at the Front: Futurist Military and Combat Experiences 3. Futurismo moderato: Re-Imagining Futurism for a Wartime Society 4. How to Seduce Soldiers: Futurist Propaganda and Politics Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLisa Mckenzie lived on the notorious St Ann's estate in Nottingham for more than 20 years. Her insider' status enables us to hear the stories of its residents, often wary of outsiders, to give a unique account of life in poor communities in contemporary Britain.Trade Review"The stories within this book lay bare what it means to be regarded as inferior and an outcast in your own society. This is a resolutely impressive book written with authenticity and passion." Mary O'Hara, journalist and author of Austerity Bites"[McKenzie] leads the reader to examine their own understanding of the working class by challenging the stigma attached to this identity and by representing this silenced community in modern Britain." BSA Network"McKenzie has managed to transform several academic pieces of work into a accessible book full of humanity and honesty about St Ann's and some of the people who live there." The Spokesman"This book challenges social scientists to think again about how working-class life on urban estates is portrayed, both academically and in the mainstream media." Social Policy & Administration"Lisa McKenzie did not try to paint an idyllic view of the council estate with its ethnic tensions across families that settled many generations ago. However her ethnography, which describes a mixed race community facing racism and endogamy from the middle classes, balances the narrow minded view that often associates lower classes with racism." [trans] lectures.revues.org"A very fine ethnography of life in austerity Britain, charting the resilience and creativity of the community it describes, as well as their injuries and mistreatment by others." John Holmwood, Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham"As a child of St Ann’s and son of Jamaican immigrants, this is one of the most powerful celebrations of working-class and multi-cultural Britain I have ever read. I challenge you to read this book and not be ignited by a range of emotions such as sadness, anger, pleasure and joy. Read and enjoy. I did." Donald Mclean, Vice-Principal, Longley Park Sixth Form College"A vivid, passionate account of class, gender and race in a stigmatised and poor working-class community, and a powerful defence of its people. Essential reading for 21st century Britain." Andrew Sayer, Professor of Social Theory and Political Economy, Lancaster University and author of Why we can't afford the rich"This is one small example of a working class estate. But it tells the story of ordinary people as they see themselves, and in a corporate-dominated world that's worth something." Education for Tomorrow“Getting By is an essential antidote to media and governmental depictions of poverty in the UK today. McKenzie transports the reader into realities, rather than the stigmatised hype, of council estate life. This accessible and moving account of how people ‘get by’ in conditions of heightened poverty and inequality draws throughout on the powerful voices of working class people themselves.” Imogen Tyler, Lancaster University & author of Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain"Who am I to pass comment on this book? But that's the trick they play on you isn't it. We are all used, processed, slashed, but the under class, the worker, well they are thoroughly abused." Jason Williamson, Sleaford Mods"The book excels in bringing to life the realities of life lived in hard circumstances and the ways in which people respond to troubling experiences and harsh lie conditions." Journal of Social Policy“A heart-wrenching, eminently readable, powerful book. This is class analysis at its most visceral and sensitive, uncovering incredibly resourceful survival strategies for staying human in conditions of incredible inhumanity." Bev Skeggs, Goldsmiths, University of London"A book that pulls no punches about its politics and commitment to challenging the anti-working class hatreds that are so prevalent in the UK today." Journal of Poverty and Social Justice"Getting By is a moving portrait of stigma and inequality which illuminates how the people of St Ann's navigate through the architecture, institutions and prestige systems of estate life, and shows, powerfully, why we must put value at the centre of class analysis." Dr Tracey Jensen, University of East LondonTable of ContentsForeword by Danny Dorling; Introduction; Being and belonging: the importance of narrative; ‘Being St Ann's’: an alternative value system; ‘Passing by’: family and community; ‘A little bit of sugar’: a discussion of taste; ‘The roof is on fire’: despair, fear and civil unrest; ‘On Road, don’t watch’; Conclusion; Afterword by Owen Jones

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Book SynopsisSnobbery matters because it is the way in which social divisions are built. In these times of growing social inequality, snobbery is becoming ever more pertinent. This book draws on literature, popular culture and autobiography as well as sociology and history to take a fresh and engaging look at this key social and cultural issue.Trade Review''David Morgan applies his considerable sociological imagination to everyday life which both challenges and delights. His analysis of the processes and persistence of snobbery is no exception.'' Sue Scott, University of York"A delicious literary feast of research evidence, amusing anecdotes, personal reflection, and clever argument....a great and highly enjoyable read." Diane Reay, University of Cambridge''While many books on inequality allude to snobbery and address overlapping issues, this is the first to be written on the subject that draws upon social science.'' Andrew Sayer, Lancaster UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Snobbery and why it matters Snobberies of position Snobberies of possession Varieties of snobbery Snobbery and social class Political and social dramas Snobbery and everyday life

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Book SynopsisThis book considers the importance of cultural intermediaries, analysing their role as mitigators of the worst effects of social exclusion and examining the necessity to engage communities with different forms of cultural consumption and production.Trade Review"This book looks behind the bland statement that 'culture is good for you' and explores the messy, contradictory and hopeful space that exists in the intersection between cultural work and community development. Drawing on practice and academic thought, this book will be challenging and helpful to readers working in this area." Dave Beck, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Bringing communities and culture together; Phil Jones, Beth Perry, Paul Long. Section One: Changing Contexts Chapter 2. The Creative Economy, The Creative Class, and Cultural Intermediation; Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien, and Mark Taylor. Chapter 3. Mapping Cultural Intermediaries; Lisa De Propris. Chapter 4. Towards cultural ecologies: why urban cultural policy must embrace multiple cultural agendas; Beth Perry and Jessica Symons. Chapter 5. State-Sponsored Amateurism: Cultural Intermediation, Participation and Non-Professional Production; Paul Long. Section Two: Practices of Cultural Intermediation Chapter 6. `An area lacking cultural activity’: Researching Cultural Lives in Urban Space; Paul Long and Saskia Warren. Chapter 7. Case Study: SOME CITIES; Dan Burwood. Chapter 8. Governing the creative city: the practice, value and effectiveness of cultural intermediation; Beth Perry Chapter 9. Participatory budgeting for culture: handing power to communities? Phil Jones Chapter 10. Saadia Kiyani. Case study: Balsall Heath Legends; Saadia Kiyani. Chapter 11. Screening films for social change: origins, aims and evolution of the Bristol Radical Film Festival; Laura Ager. Section Three: Evaluation, Impact and Methodology Chapter 12. Engineering cohesion: a reflection on academic practice in a community-based setting; Arshad Isakjee. Chapter 13. Case study: Force Deep; Chris Jam Chapter 14. Strategies for overcoming research obstacles: developing the Ordsall Method as a process for ethnographically-informed impact in communities; Jessica Symons Chapter 15. Street Art, Faith and Cultural Engagement, Mohammed Ali. Chapter 16. From the inside: reflections on cultural intermediation; Yvette Vaughan Jones. Conclusion Chapter 17. Conclusion. Where next for cultural intermediation? Phil Jones, Paul Long and Beth Perry.

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Book SynopsisThis book considers the importance of cultural intermediaries, analysing their role as mitigators of the worst effects of social exclusion and examining the necessity to engage communities with different forms of cultural consumption and production.Trade Review"This book looks behind the bland statement that 'culture is good for you' and explores the messy, contradictory and hopeful space that exists in the intersection between cultural work and community development. Drawing on practice and academic thought, this book will be challenging and helpful to readers working in this area." Dave Beck, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Bringing communities and culture together; Phil Jones, Beth Perry, Paul Long. Section One: Changing Contexts Chapter 2. The Creative Economy, The Creative Class, and Cultural Intermediation; Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien, and Mark Taylor. Chapter 3. Mapping Cultural Intermediaries; Lisa De Propris. Chapter 4. Towards cultural ecologies: why urban cultural policy must embrace multiple cultural agendas; Beth Perry and Jessica Symons. Chapter 5. State-Sponsored Amateurism: Cultural Intermediation, Participation and Non-Professional Production; Paul Long. Section Two: Practices of Cultural Intermediation Chapter 6. ‘An area lacking cultural activity’: Researching Cultural Lives in Urban Space; Paul Long and Saskia Warren. Chapter 7. Case Study: SOME CITIES; Dan Burwood. Chapter 8. Governing the creative city: the practice, value and effectiveness of cultural intermediation; Beth Perry Chapter 9. Participatory budgeting for culture: handing power to communities? Phil Jones Chapter 10. Saadia Kiyani. Case study: Balsall Heath Legends; Saadia Kiyani. Chapter 11. Screening films for social change: origins, aims and evolution of the Bristol Radical Film Festival; Laura Ager. Section Three: Evaluation, Impact and Methodology Chapter 12. Engineering cohesion: a reflection on academic practice in a community-based setting; Arshad Isakjee. Chapter 13. Case study: Force Deep; Chris Jam Chapter 14. Strategies for overcoming research obstacles: developing the Ordsall Method as a process for ethnographically-informed impact in communities; Jessica Symons Chapter 15. Street Art, Faith and Cultural Engagement, Mohammed Ali. Chapter 16. From the inside: reflections on cultural intermediation; Yvette Vaughan Jones. Conclusion Chapter 17. Conclusion. Where next for cultural intermediation? Phil Jones, Paul Long and Beth Perry.

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Book SynopsisWith a diverse range of case studies, and chapters co-written between academics and community partners, this book shows that co-produced research can be an empowering force by which communities stake a claim in the places they live.Trade Review"This work is a needed stimulus for collaborative research between academics and communities and for critical interdisciplinary heritage studies." Celeste Ray, Sewanee: The University of the SouthTable of ContentsIntroduction: Heritage as community research ~ Jo Vergunst and Helen Graham; Part one: Ways of knowing; Chapter one: Legacy and lavender: community heritage and the arts ~ Helen Smith and Mark Hope; Chapter two: Co-writing about co-producing musical heritage: what happens when musicians and academics work together? ~ John Ball, Tony Bowring, Fay Hield and Kate Pahl; Chapter three: Visibly authentic: images of Romani people from 19th-century culture to the digital age ~ Jodie Matthews; Chapter four: Digital building heritage ~ Nick Higgett and Jenny Wilkinson; Chapter five: Shaping heritage in the landscape amongst communities past and present ~ Jo Vergunst, Elizabeth Curtis, Neil Curtis, Jeff Oliver and Colin Shepherd; Part two: Heritage as action; Chapter six: CAER heritage: legacies of co-produced research ~ Oliver Davis, Dave Horton, Helen McCarthy and Dave Wyatt; Chapter seven: Do-It-Yourself heritage: Heritage-as-a-process (designing for the Stoke ‘ping’) ~ Karen Brookfield, Danny Callaghan and Helen Graham with members of the Ceramic City Stories team: Jayne Fair, Jan Roberts and Phil Rowley; Chapter eight: From researching heritage to action heritage ~ Kimberley Marwood, Esme Cleall, Vicky Crewe, David Forrest, Toby Pillatt, Gemma Thorpe and Robert Johnston; Chapter nine: Co-productive research in a primary school environment: un-earthing the past of Keig ~ Elizabeth Curtis, Jane Murison and Colin Shepherd; Conclusion: Co-producing futures: directions for community heritage as research ~ Helen Graham, Jo Vergunst and Elizabeth Curtis.

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Book SynopsisIn this moving microhistory of nineteenth-century Haiti and Jamaica, Matthew J. Smith details the intimate connections that illuminate the conjoined histories of both places after slavery. He argues that the history of the Caribbean is bound up in the shared experiences of those who crossed the straits and borders between the islands just as much as in the actions of colonial powers.

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Book SynopsisIn this innovative and revealing study of midcentury American sex and culture, Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s. She argues that sexual liberation was much more than a reaction to 1950s repression because it largely involved the mainstreaming of a counterculture already on the rise among girls and young women decades earlier.

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Book SynopsisReveals how Kiowa people drew on the tribe's rich history of expressive culture to assert its identity at a time of profound challenge. Examining traditional forms such as beadwork, metalwork, painting, and dance, Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote argues that their creation and exchange were as significant to the expression of Indigenous identity and sovereignty as formal political engagement.

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Book SynopsisDesafios, diferencias y deformaciones de la ciudadania se inserta dentro del creciente interes en los estudios sobre ciudadania al tener como objetivo el entender las diferentes formas en las que las politicas-economicas neoliberales cuestionan, controvierten e incluso mutan el concepto de ciudadania.

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Book SynopsisStraight A’s features personal narratives of Asian American undergraduate students at Harvard University in which they reflect on their shared experiences with discrimination, stereotypes, immigrant communities, their relationship to their Asian heritage, and the difficulties that come with being expected to reach high levels of achievement.Trade Review"Offers powerful insights into what today’s Asian American students may feel, perceive, and experience within their circles and communities." -- Raymond Pun * Booklist *"Offers fascinating insights into the nature of academic achievement and the American Dream." -- Matthew Reisz * Times Higher Education *"The book is a great preliminary text for those interested in Asian American studies and higher education experiences. This is especially true for Asian Americans who are interested in unpacking the complications related to attending college. Overall, the text serves as a way to uplift seldom heard voices and use them to open larger conversations." -- Reuben B. Deleon * Journal of Asian American Studies *

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Book SynopsisStraight A’s features personal narratives of Asian American undergraduate students at Harvard University in which they reflect on their shared experiences with discrimination, stereotypes, immigrant communities, their relationship to their Asian heritage, and the difficulties that come with being expected to reach high levels of achievement.Trade Review"Offers powerful insights into what today’s Asian American students may feel, perceive, and experience within their circles and communities." -- Raymond Pun * Booklist *"Offers fascinating insights into the nature of academic achievement and the American Dream." -- Matthew Reisz * Times Higher Education *"The book is a great preliminary text for those interested in Asian American studies and higher education experiences. This is especially true for Asian Americans who are interested in unpacking the complications related to attending college. Overall, the text serves as a way to uplift seldom heard voices and use them to open larger conversations." -- Reuben B. Deleon * Journal of Asian American Studies *

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Book SynopsisIn India, the practice of jugaad-finding workarounds or hacks to solve problems-emerged out of subaltern strategies of negotiating poverty, discrimination, and violence but is now celebrated in management literature as a disruptive innovation. In Jugaad Time Amit S. Rai explores how jugaad operates within contemporary Indian digital media cultures through the use of the mobile phone. Rai shows that despite being co-opted by capitalism to extract free creative labor from the workforce, jugaad is simultaneously a practice of everyday resistance, as workers and communities employ hacks to oppose corporate, caste, and gender power. Locating the tensions surrounding jugaad-as both premodern and postdigital, innovative and oppressive-Rai maps how jugaad can be used to undermine neoliberal capitalist media ecologies and nationalist politics.Trade Review"Jugaad Time will be of great interest to an array of scholars of South Asia who are committed to ethnographically and historically examining assemblages of affect, media technologies, and temporality. The book offers a novel and important opportunity for these scholars to examine how the Global South is implicated in and by innovation studies." -- Anisha Chadha * Visual Anthropology Review *"Researchers of waste, maintenance, and repair or of the Anthropocene will be interested in jugaad and jugaadus, and Rai’s offering is a welcome challenge to the innovation-dominated framings of consumer capitalist marketing. . . . Even as he emphasizes Indian experiences of jugaad, Rai shows us a way toward wider understandings of how information technologies interlock with contingent and individuated labor to produce the subjectivities of a digital neoliberalism." -- Juris Milestone * Exertions *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction. A Political Ecology of Jugaad 1 Fables of the Reinvention I. Toward a Universal History of Hacking 39 1. The Affect of Jugaad: "Frugal Innovation" and the Workaround Ecologies of Postcolonial Practice 45 2. Neoliberal Assemblages of Perception and Digital Media in India 68 Fables of the Reinvention II. New Desiring Machines 102 3. Jugaad Ecologies of Social Reproduction 106 4. Diagramming Affect: Smart Cities and Plasticity in India's Informal Economy 128 Fables of the Reinvention III. A Series of Minor Events 150 Conclusion. Jugaad Jugaading: Time, Language, Misogyny in Hacking Ecologies 153 Notes 167 References 175 Index 203

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Book SynopsisTracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, this revised and expanded second edition of The Cuba Reader presents myriad perspectives on Cuba's history, culture, and politics, including a new section that explores the changes and continuities in Cuba since Fidel Castro stepped down from power in 2006.Trade Review"The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Aviva Chomsky was really insightful for me. It has all these essays from people who lived in Cuba at different times, including a priest who came with the Spanish, so you get a different perspective on the attacks on native people and their resistance." -- Ytasha Womack * Boston Globe *"[An] ambitious and impressive anthology, a sweeping collection of source materials by and about Cubans both on the island and living in other countries. The editors . . . have wisely chosen songs, paintings, photographs, short stories, essays, speeches, government reports, cartoons and newspaper articles that span Cuban history. . . . What The Cuba Reader does extraordinarily well is to reveal the nuances and complexity of the Cuban experience. All shades of politics are here, and they infuse Cuban dance, music, film and religion." -- Susan Fernandez * The Miami Herald *"[A] crash course in Cuban history. If you’re looking for a single (hefty) volume to get you up to speed about the past 500 years of Cuban politics and culture, this is it." -- Julie Schwietert Collazo * The Guardian *"For a solid introduction to all things Cuban, start with this edited collection of primary sources, including speeches, articles, songs, poems, book excerpts, and other publications spanning 500 years of Cuban history and culture." -- Boyd Childress * Library Journal *"This is a balanced, far-ranging, equitable, and insightful book, and the suggestions for further reading list and comprehensive index add to its usability. Altogether an essential addition to any Latin American studies collection. . . . Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- L. K. Miller * Choice *“One of the great strengths of this collection is the manner in which, through perceptive selection of writings..., we readers are offered the opportunity to process for ourselves how it can be that an achievement as promising as the overthrow of a repressive dictatorship ... could turn out so badly.” -- Judith Adler Hellman * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"The Cuba Reader is an indispensable book for scholars interested in Cuban, Caribbean, and Latin American history.... The editors’ judicious selection of classic primary sources, complemented by lesser-known contemporary accounts ... make this an ideal volume for classroom use or for the lay reader with an interest in Cuba’s past and present.” -- Matt D. Childs * History: Review of Books *“Part of Duke’s excellent series of Latin Amer­ica readers, [The Cuba Reader] weaves together the writings, experiences, and analyses of indi­viduals from an array of backgrounds and perspectives, giving voice to a diverse multitude of Cubans (and non-Cuban observers) across more than five hundred years of history.” -- Rubrick Biegon * Latin American Politics and Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 I. Indigenous Society and Conquest 7 II. Sugar, Slavery, and Colonialism 37 III. The Struggle for Independence 111 IV. Neocolonialism 141 V. Building a New Society 309 VI. Culture and Revolution 405 VII. The Cuban Revolution and the World 453 VIII. The Período Especial 517 IX. Cuba after Fidel: Continuities and Transitions 577 Suggestions for Further Reading 683 Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 697 Index 709

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Book SynopsisTracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspectives on Cuba''s history, culture, and politics. The volume foregrounds the experience of Cubans from all walks of life, including slaves,prostitutes,doctors, activists, and historians. Combining songs, poetry, fiction, journalism, political speeches, and many other types of documents, this revised and updated second edition of The Cuba Reader contains over twenty new selections that explore the changes and continuities in Cuba since Fidel Castro stepped down from power in 2006. For students, travelers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of Florida, The Cuba Reader is an invaluable introduction.Trade Review"The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Aviva Chomsky was really insightful for me. It has all these essays from people who lived in Cuba at different times, including a priest who came with the Spanish, so you get a different perspective on the attacks on native people and their resistance." -- Ytasha Womack * Boston Globe *"[An] ambitious and impressive anthology, a sweeping collection of source materials by and about Cubans both on the island and living in other countries. The editors . . . have wisely chosen songs, paintings, photographs, short stories, essays, speeches, government reports, cartoons and newspaper articles that span Cuban history. . . . What The Cuba Reader does extraordinarily well is to reveal the nuances and complexity of the Cuban experience. All shades of politics are here, and they infuse Cuban dance, music, film and religion." -- Susan Fernandez * The Miami Herald *"[A] crash course in Cuban history. If you’re looking for a single (hefty) volume to get you up to speed about the past 500 years of Cuban politics and culture, this is it." -- Julie Schwietert Collazo * The Guardian *"For a solid introduction to all things Cuban, start with this edited collection of primary sources, including speeches, articles, songs, poems, book excerpts, and other publications spanning 500 years of Cuban history and culture." -- Boyd Childress * Library Journal *"This is a balanced, far-ranging, equitable, and insightful book, and the suggestions for further reading list and comprehensive index add to its usability. Altogether an essential addition to any Latin American studies collection. . . . Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- L. K. Miller * Choice *“One of the great strengths of this collection is the manner in which, through perceptive selection of writings..., we readers are offered the opportunity to process for ourselves how it can be that an achievement as promising as the overthrow of a repressive dictatorship ... could turn out so badly.” -- Judith Adler Hellman * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"The Cuba Reader is an indispensable book for scholars interested in Cuban, Caribbean, and Latin American history.... The editors’ judicious selection of classic primary sources, complemented by lesser-known contemporary accounts ... make this an ideal volume for classroom use or for the lay reader with an interest in Cuba’s past and present.” -- Matt D. Childs * History: Review of Books *“Part of Duke’s excellent series of Latin Amer­ica readers, [The Cuba Reader] weaves together the writings, experiences, and analyses of indi­viduals from an array of backgrounds and perspectives, giving voice to a diverse multitude of Cubans (and non-Cuban observers) across more than five hundred years of history.” -- Rubrick Biegon * Latin American Politics and Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 I. Indigenous Society and Conquest 7 II. Sugar, Slavery, and Colonialism 37 III. The Struggle for Independence 111 IV. Neocolonialism 141 V. Building a New Society 309 VI. Culture and Revolution 405 VII. The Cuban Revolution and the World 453 VIII. The Período Especial 517 IX. Cuba after Fidel: Continuities and Transitions 577 Suggestions for Further Reading 683 Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 697 Index 709

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Book SynopsisAs an undergraduate at Brown University, Tyler Denmead founded New Urban Arts, a nationally recognized arts and humanities program primarily for young people of color in Providence, Rhode Island. Along with its positive impact, New Urban Arts, under his leadership, became entangled in Providence''s urban renewal efforts that harmed the very youth it served. As in many deindustrialized cities, Providence''s leaders viewed arts, culture, and creativity as a means to drive property development and attract young, educated, and affluent white people, such as Denmead, to economically and culturally kick-start the city. In The Creative Underclass, Denmead critically examines how New Urban Arts and similar organizations can become enmeshed in circumstances where young people, including himself, become visible once the city can leverage their creativity to benefit economic revitalization and gentrification. He points to the creative cultural practices that young people of color from low-Trade Review“Tyler Denmead offers a far-reaching look into the complexities of creative communities, implicating factors involving labor, economics, race, the arts, education, urban planning, and politics, all while joyfully, lovingly, and thoughtfully describing stories from young people's lives. Denmead describes these multiple perspectives and what young people taught him and his change of perception with humility. His book's credibility and power are even more compelling because of his capacity to comprehend and critique an institution he himself constructed. I'm in awe of all the intricacies and implications that Denmead has revealed.” -- Rebekah Modrak, author of * Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice *"Since the early 2000s we have regarded the creative class as those with the greatest access to capital, technology, and robust economic environments. Tyler Denmead reveals a portion of the creative class that is dynamic and generative and forgotten—low-income youth in underserved communities. This is a must-read for reimagining the creative talents of today's urban youth." -- Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin–Madison"[This] book is written in a personal, engaging style and peppered with conversations between Denmead and the youth who offer a sense of hope through their clever, observant and deeply cognizant understandings of structural injustice. . . . It is important reading for those working with youth, in urban centers and within the context of the 'creative industry.'" -- Darlene E. Clover * International Review of Education *“For those who are interested in cultural policy and youth programmes, this book is an important awakening for those who uncritically accept the discourse of creativity as a force for good. This study destabilizes the taken-for-granted assumption about arts activities as ‘positive activities’ through which young people can ‘better themselves’. This book is a timely reminder that youth development programmes do not solve economic problems.” -- Frances Howard * Cultural Sociology *“The Creative Underclass is a compelling example of how we can write about recent educational history without a detachment from the struggles of an author’s conscience…. For historians of education this book reminds us of the tensions and contradictions of philanthropic work across the past two centuries.” -- Lottie Hoare * History of Education *"The relationship between gentrification and culture is a fraught and complicated one, and there is no easy path. But through engaging with the creative strategies of the youth that Denmead profiles in The Creative Underclass, we might begin to envision a future city that enables the creativity of all, not ‘creativity’ as a luxury consumer product. This volume highlights the lived experiences of youth living through the challenges of gentrification. Planners and policymakers may find it to be an important corollary to more revenue-oriented visions of the ‘creative city’, exposing a deep rift between the experiences of Florida’s ‘creative class’ and Denmead’s ‘creative underclass’. Those in the education sector, too, will find its exploration of inequality valuable, especially in considering the ways that even well-meaning arts programmes can replicate systems of race- and class-based inequalities in the face of gentrification." -- Kevin Ritter * LSE Review of Books *“The Creative Underclass is appropriate reading for undergraduate courses in Sociology, Geography, Urban Planning, Urban Studies, and Political Science.... The book is well organized and easy to follow.” -- Evelyn Ravuri * Journal of Urban Affairs *“Within the literature on urban renewal and gentrification, Denmead’s contribution is important for the personal dimension of his analysis as well as for its consideration of how creativity, a perceived innately human ability, can be channeled and managed by economic elites to serve the end goal of gentrification.” -- Arthur Ivan Bravo * Exertions *Table of ContentsAcknowledgment ix Introduction 1 1. Troublemaking 30 2. The Hot Mess 45 3. Chillaxing 76 4. Why the Creative Underclass Doesn't Get Creative-Class Jobs 96 5. Autoethnography of a "Gentrifying Force" 118 6. "Is This Really What White People Do" in the Creative Capital? 133 Conclusion 155 Notes 173 Biography 185 Index 197

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Book SynopsisTyler Denmead critically examines his role as the founder of New Urban Artsa nonprofit arts program for young people of color in Providence, Rhode Islandand how despite its success, it unintentionally contributed to Providence's urban renewal efforts, gentrification, and the displacement of people of color.Trade Review“Tyler Denmead offers a far-reaching look into the complexities of creative communities, implicating factors involving labor, economics, race, the arts, education, urban planning, and politics, all while joyfully, lovingly, and thoughtfully describing stories from young people's lives. Denmead describes these multiple perspectives and what young people taught him and his change of perception with humility. His book's credibility and power are even more compelling because of his capacity to comprehend and critique an institution he himself constructed. I'm in awe of all the intricacies and implications that Denmead has revealed.” -- Rebekah Modrak, author of * Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice *"Since the early 2000s we have regarded the creative class as those with the greatest access to capital, technology, and robust economic environments. Tyler Denmead reveals a portion of the creative class that is dynamic and generative and forgotten—low-income youth in underserved communities. This is a must-read for reimagining the creative talents of today's urban youth." -- Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin–Madison"[This] book is written in a personal, engaging style and peppered with conversations between Denmead and the youth who offer a sense of hope through their clever, observant and deeply cognizant understandings of structural injustice. . . . It is important reading for those working with youth, in urban centers and within the context of the 'creative industry.'" -- Darlene E. Clover * International Review of Education *“For those who are interested in cultural policy and youth programmes, this book is an important awakening for those who uncritically accept the discourse of creativity as a force for good. This study destabilizes the taken-for-granted assumption about arts activities as ‘positive activities’ through which young people can ‘better themselves’. This book is a timely reminder that youth development programmes do not solve economic problems.” -- Frances Howard * Cultural Sociology *“The Creative Underclass is a compelling example of how we can write about recent educational history without a detachment from the struggles of an author’s conscience…. For historians of education this book reminds us of the tensions and contradictions of philanthropic work across the past two centuries.” -- Lottie Hoare * History of Education *"The relationship between gentrification and culture is a fraught and complicated one, and there is no easy path. But through engaging with the creative strategies of the youth that Denmead profiles in The Creative Underclass, we might begin to envision a future city that enables the creativity of all, not ‘creativity’ as a luxury consumer product. This volume highlights the lived experiences of youth living through the challenges of gentrification. Planners and policymakers may find it to be an important corollary to more revenue-oriented visions of the ‘creative city’, exposing a deep rift between the experiences of Florida’s ‘creative class’ and Denmead’s ‘creative underclass’. Those in the education sector, too, will find its exploration of inequality valuable, especially in considering the ways that even well-meaning arts programmes can replicate systems of race- and class-based inequalities in the face of gentrification." -- Kevin Ritter * LSE Review of Books *“The Creative Underclass is appropriate reading for undergraduate courses in Sociology, Geography, Urban Planning, Urban Studies, and Political Science.... The book is well organized and easy to follow.” -- Evelyn Ravuri * Journal of Urban Affairs *“Within the literature on urban renewal and gentrification, Denmead’s contribution is important for the personal dimension of his analysis as well as for its consideration of how creativity, a perceived innately human ability, can be channeled and managed by economic elites to serve the end goal of gentrification.” -- Arthur Ivan Bravo * Exertions *Table of ContentsAcknowledgment ix Introduction 1 1. Troublemaking 30 2. The Hot Mess 45 3. Chillaxing 76 4. Why the Creative Underclass Doesn't Get Creative-Class Jobs 96 5. Autoethnography of a "Gentrifying Force" 118 6. "Is This Really What White People Do" in the Creative Capital? 133 Conclusion 155 Notes 173 Biography 185 Index 197

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Book SynopsisLaura Hyun Yi Kang demonstrates that the figure of Asian women functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of US power and knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century.Trade Review“Deeply thought-provoking and powerfully written, Traffic in Asian Women is an eminently illuminating examination of the contradictory figuration of ‘Asian Women.’ Laura Hyun Yi Kang offers a singular model of critically erudite, deeply engaged scholarship.” -- Lisa Yoneyama, author of * Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes *“Traffic in Asian Women is a meticulously researched, thoroughly compelling, and persistently incisive study. It is a book full of brilliance, one that shows us how to conduct outward facing, politically engaged research in ways that enact intersectional thinking, not only in research but as a way of relating to the world.” -- Kandice Chuh, author of * The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities “After Man” *“This is a mode of feminist writing that rejects faith in the twinned powers of exposure and expertise…. Kang’s deft history skips a stone across regimes of visibility and governance, alighting on their connective systems instead of laying claim to the subjects inside.” -- Zoë Hu * Baffler *“Through its detailed historiography, [Traffic in Asian Women] documents how multiple political, legal, and ethical frameworks have ultimately proved inadequate to fully acknowledge violence against Asian women throughout the twentieth century and beyond.” -- Kodai Abe * Journal of Asian American Studies *“Traffic in Asian Women is a generative text for scholars of the comfort system and its legacies, Asian Studies, transnational American and Asian American Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies, among others.... Kang demonstrates the value of continuously learning from those possessing intimate knowledge about experiences of racial and gendered violence and living their effects.” -- Nicolyn Woodcock * American Studies *“While written for practitioners of U.S. women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, American studies, and Asian American studies, [Traffic in Asian Women] is likely to appeal to social work scholars and policymakers interested in questions of intersectionality, critical race and ethnic studies, cultural production, human rights, transnational feminism, and social movement.” -- Alexa Ploss * Affilia *“Although Traffic in Asian Women is ostensibly a reconsideration of history, . . . Kang's main interest is in the present and future—in shifting the efforts of those who claim to be feminists and/or human rights activists toward a wider sphere of current injustices. . . . Kang's is a powerful polemic.” -- Margaret D. Stetz * History Teacher *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Traffic in Asian Women 1 1. Asian Women as Method? 19 2. Traffic in Women 51 3. Sexual Slavery 83 4. Violence against Women 117 5. Truth Disclosure 153 6. Just Compensation 189 7. Enduring Memorials 221 Notes 261 Bibliography 311 Index 331

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Book SynopsisIn Traffic in Asian Women Laura Hyun Yi Kang demonstrates that the figure of "Asian women" functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of U.S. power/knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century. Kang analyzes the establishment, suppression, forgetting, and illegibility of the Japanese military "comfort system" (19321945) within that broader geohistorical arc. Although many have upheld the "comfort women" case as exemplary of both the past violation and the contemporary empowerment of Asian women, Kang argues that it has profoundly destabilized the imaginary unity and conceptual demarcation of the category. Kang traces how "Asian women" have been alternately distinguished and effaced as subjects of the traffic in women, sexual slavery, and violence against women. She also explores how specific modes of redress and justice were determined by several overlapping geopolitical and economic changes ranging from U.S.-guided movements of capital across Asia and the end of the Cold War to the emergence of new media technologies that facilitated the global circulation of "comfort women" stories.Trade Review“Deeply thought-provoking and powerfully written, Traffic in Asian Women is an eminently illuminating examination of the contradictory figuration of ‘Asian Women.’ Laura Hyun Yi Kang offers a singular model of critically erudite, deeply engaged scholarship.” -- Lisa Yoneyama, author of * Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes *“Traffic in Asian Women is a meticulously researched, thoroughly compelling, and persistently incisive study. It is a book full of brilliance, one that shows us how to conduct outward facing, politically engaged research in ways that enact intersectional thinking, not only in research but as a way of relating to the world.” -- Kandice Chuh, author of * The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities “After Man” *“This is a mode of feminist writing that rejects faith in the twinned powers of exposure and expertise…. Kang’s deft history skips a stone across regimes of visibility and governance, alighting on their connective systems instead of laying claim to the subjects inside.” -- Zoë Hu * Baffler *“Through its detailed historiography, [Traffic in Asian Women] documents how multiple political, legal, and ethical frameworks have ultimately proved inadequate to fully acknowledge violence against Asian women throughout the twentieth century and beyond.” -- Kodai Abe * Journal of Asian American Studies *“Traffic in Asian Women is a generative text for scholars of the comfort system and its legacies, Asian Studies, transnational American and Asian American Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies, among others.... Kang demonstrates the value of continuously learning from those possessing intimate knowledge about experiences of racial and gendered violence and living their effects.” -- Nicolyn Woodcock * American Studies *“While written for practitioners of U.S. women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, American studies, and Asian American studies, [Traffic in Asian Women] is likely to appeal to social work scholars and policymakers interested in questions of intersectionality, critical race and ethnic studies, cultural production, human rights, transnational feminism, and social movement.” -- Alexa Ploss * Affilia *“Although Traffic in Asian Women is ostensibly a reconsideration of history, . . . Kang's main interest is in the present and future—in shifting the efforts of those who claim to be feminists and/or human rights activists toward a wider sphere of current injustices. . . . Kang's is a powerful polemic.” -- Margaret D. Stetz * History Teacher *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Traffic in Asian Women 1 1. Asian Women as Method? 19 2. Traffic in Women 51 3. Sexual Slavery 83 4. Violence against Women 117 5. Truth Disclosure 153 6. Just Compensation 189 7. Enduring Memorials 221 Notes 261 Bibliography 311 Index 331

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Book SynopsisLynn Spigel explores historical snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s, showing how TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives in an increasingly mediated culture.Trade Review“In this brilliant book Lynn Spigel examines TV snapshots as an activity, hobby art, expressive medium, and a thing people did with television, convincingly arguing for the importance of thinking about how photography and television work together. She reorients television studies away from programs and questions of spectatorship toward an exploration of the home as a ‘theater of everyday life,’ offering a diverse picture of how people use television, what the medium means, and where and how people live. I love this book and can’t wait to teach it.” -- Pamela Robertson Wojcik, author of * The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975 *"Spigel uses midcentury photographs of people posing next to television sets to construct a fascinating study of Americana. . . . A vital addition to media studies and popular culture collections." -- Claire Sewell * Library Journal *"Spigel indicates that she worked on the book during the years when the center of gravity of television shifted from broadcast to digital streaming. Her archive of snapshots documents a phase of the medium's development shrinking into the rearview mirror. But they are also artifacts embodying something now much more familiar. The compact camera and the TV set correspond to two phases in the circulation of imagery: production and consumption respectively. In these snapshots, the image cycle is limited: flow, not a flood. The screen remains part of domestic space—and not yet, as it's becoming now, a home of sorts in its own right." -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed *"Spigel has yet again shown herself to be a signal historian of the family, helping us make sense of the ways we actually were, in the flickering light of the pressure to be otherwise." -- Hannah Zeavin * New York Review of Books *“Spigel dives deep into histories of race, sexuality, family and domesticity, architecture, and more, as they are called up by these snapshots. The result is a rich, wide-ranging historical account of cultural, social, and familial practices surrounding both television and photography that extrapolate what are often considered to be the dominant uses of these two media.” -- Bruno Guaraná * Film Quarterly *"Displaying a sophisticated mastery of media studies, photographic history, and contemporary art theory, Spigel shifts seamlessly through a wide span of intellectual underpinnings. . . . At times whimsical and frequently revealing gender and class relationships, this work is engaging and thoughtful. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- D. McClure * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Companion Technologies 1 1. TV Portraits: Picturing Families and Household Things 25 2. TV Performers: A Theater of Everyday Life 72 3. TV Dress-Up: Fashion Poses and Everyday Glamour 121 4. TV Pinups: Sex and the Single TV 175 5. TV Memories: Snapshots in Digital Times 222 Conclusion: Hard Stop 255 Notes 263 Bibliography 289 Index 307

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Book SynopsisFrom Gleeto gay marriage, from lesbian senators to out gay Marines, we have undoubtedlyexperienced a seismic shift in attitudes about gays in American politics andculture. Our reigning national story isthat a new era of rainbow acceptance is at hand. But dig a bit deeper, and thisseemingly brave new gay world is disappointing. For all of the undeniable changes,the plea for tolerance has sabotaged the full integration of gays into Americanlife. Same-sex marriage is unrecognized and unpopular in the vast majority ofstates, hate crimes proliferate, and even in the much vaunted gay friendlyworld of Hollywood and celebrity culture, precious few stars are openly gay. In TheTolerance Trap, Suzanna Walterstakes on received wisdom about gay identities and gay rights, arguing that weare not almost there, but on thecontrary have settled for a watered-down goal of tolerance and acceptancerather than a robust claim to full civil rights. After all, we tolerate unpleasant realities: medicinewith stTrade ReviewIn this engaging and accessible book, Walters weaves together disparate stories and sources. Her scope includes but is not limited to films, television shows, social media campaigns, popular music, religious and scientific discourse, and personal narratives. In each facet, Walters examines the rhetoric of "tolerance" in contemporary US societywith regard to LGBTQ persons and communities. Individual chapters, particularly those that deal with Internet spaces, coming out stories, "gay genes," and the legalization of gay marriage, would fit nicely into undergraduate survey courses as stand-alone readings. In the book as a whole, Walters manages the tricky feat of unpacking American ideologies of equality and accomplishment (i.e., "post" racial, feminist, gay) without recourse to the overly complicated jargon of much queer and gender theory. Walters's own voice is a constant throughout the text, providing a narrative backdrop that feels acutely personal, which amplifies, rather than detracts from, the thrust of the arguments. A must for any general or college collection, particularly at institutions with programs in LGBTQ studies, American studies, media studies, and anthropology.Summing Up: Essential. * Choice *Thought-provoking . . . Walter recognizes the complexities of our times. * Bay Area Reporter *Beneath this ugly cover lies an interesting addition to the important ongoing debate about inclusion, assimilation, acceptance and the future of the gay rights movement. SubtitledHow God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality, Walters' cultural critique argues that 'Tolerance is not the end goal, but a dead end.' * Diva Magazine *Over the last few decades, American society has become increasingly tolerant of gay culture: being gay is no longer seen as negative by many people and the gay community is represented in television, film, politics, and more. However, Walters argues successfully that this is not enough to achieve true respect and fair treatment for the gay community. Through a spirited and enlightening discussion of the history of gay rights, gay culture in the media and society, and her own experiences, the author elaborates on how the community and its allies have settled for mere tolerance of their presence rather than demanding true equality. Pulling from numerous sources, this thoughtful and accessible work includes discussions of topics such as the biological theories of a 'gay gene' and sociobiological effects on sexuality, the semantics of terms such as coming out, critiques such as how the film The Kids Are All Right perpetuates negative gender politics and gay family clichés, etc. The title concludes with helpful notes and a bibliography. VERDICT Different, relevant, and thorough, this book is excellent for readers interested in gay rights and culture, as well as sociology and current events. * Library Journal *The limits of tolerance and why it isn't enough. In her thorough and engaging study, Walters examines the well-intended but wrongheaded fight for tolerance by LGBT leaders and organizations, as well as lawmakers' pursuit of the same.Mere 'tolerance' falls short of full inclusion in society, she argues: 'No civil rights movement worthy of the name has banked its future in being tolerated or accepted.' The author examines other issues in gay culture, including the scientific search for a 'gay gene,' gender normativity, and the nature of sexual arousal and desire.Her prose is clear and nonacademic; the many references to pop culture make the results of her extensive research relevant and accessible.Particularly illuminating is Walters overview of discovering one's gay identity, which offers a pointed contrast between popular cultures depiction of the familiar 'coming out' narrative and its real-life particulars.The digital age has greatly simplified the process of finding and joining a like-minded community; these searches are now conducted in private and can make coming outto hundreds of 'friends' or the entire worldas quick and direct as clicking a mouse.Walters invites readers to judge the validity of her well-reasoned opinions, in marked contrast to those social critics more famous for verbal rock-throwing and theatrical provocations than persuasive analyses.In asserting that gay, lesbian and bisexual citizens want rights such as pay equity, voting rights, and an end to discrimination in the workplace and judicial systemindeed, 'full and deep integration and inclusion in the American dream'she makes it clear that tolerance is much too limited a goal. An enlightening examination of identity and the quest for 'deep freedom' by a largely misunderstood and marginalized group. * Kirkus Reviews *In her newly released book The Tolerance Trap, Walters takes aim at what she calls the & born this way argument, arguing that it has actually damaged the gay-rights cause, and that it has done so in part by embracing shoddy science that makes human sexual activity out to be a lot more straightforward and easily classified than they are in real life. * New York Magazine’s blog, Science of Us *ToleranceTrap may be the new norm; but are there hidden costs? Walters aims to raise awareness of covert power plays hidden in the 'tolerance' narrative . . . The book should appeal to a wide audience, from undergraduates to academicians, thanks to Walters' engaging writing, frame-shifting critiques, and plentiful popular culture references. * PsycCritques *Finally, a writer and critical thinker has treated queerness with true insight, and proper respect for its complexities and contradictions. Thank you, Suzanna Walters, for bringing so much rigor and balance; such ardent, subtle questioning; such respect for genuine human rights to the horrifically over-simplified term, 'tolerance.' -- Michael Cunningham,author of The HoursIn this lively scholarly work, Northeastern University sociologist Walters(All the Rage)manages the rare trick of producing a feast for the mind that is also incredibly funny and humane. In a cogent literary and political analysis, inflected by personal anecdotes and reflections, Walters argues that the concept of tolerance traps LGBT people into being regarded as perpetual outsiders, 'tolerated' rather than treated as full citizens. In making gay rights contingent on 'just like you' arguments, Walters asserts, the movement not only leaves behind LGBT people who dont fit an idealized standard, but also fails to effectively challenge homophobia and transphobia. The book leaves no shibboleth intactboth liberal and conservative orthodoxies on LGBT people are deftly skewered. Walters demonstrates an impressive command of her material and she deserves credit for making a nuanced argument that calls for robust integration as opposed to assimilation or separatism, with a wide-ranging analysis that touches on feminism, the military, marriage, the Internet, and discourse around scientific research. Walterss humane, transformative vision soars in this must-read for anyone interested in LGBT politics. -- STARRED * Publishers Weekly *The last decade has brought astonishing changes in the arena of lesbian and gay rights, culture, and everyday life, but The Tolerance Trappart memoir, part polemic, part sociological analysisuncovers the troubling dilemmas inside of them. Walters brings her formidable brain, disarming humor, and sharp tongue to bear on the question of why it just sucks to be tolerated. -- Joshua Gamson,author of Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary AmericaWalters has a wicked sense of humor, and in The Tolerance Trap she wields it to argue against tolerance. This is a beautifully written and provocative brief for the integration of queer difference in U.S. society. Combining personal stories with analysis of popular culture, public opinion, movement activism, and trends in gay life today, Walters evaluates where we are in this contemporary moment, showing that we have both come a long way and have a long way to go. And tolerance, she insists, is not the way to get there. After reading this book, you'll never want to be tolerated again. -- Leila J. Rupp,author of Sapphistries: A History of Love between WomenWhile the mainstream LGBT movement is clamoring for acceptance and tolerance, Walters worries about the radical vision contained by gay liberation being diluted, minimized, transformed, perhaps even lost forever. Is being accepted by the heterosexual majority really the best the movement can come up with? This book sparks a desperately needed conversation. It needs to be read by every heterosexual concerned about gay rights. -- Michael Kimmel,author of Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an EraThe Tolerance Trap brilliantly and boldly goes where few have gone before. It rattles the cage of tolerance in pursuit of true gay liberation. For gays and straights alike, it challenges us to be more our quirky, original, sexual gorgeous selves and to settle for nothing less than radical love and freedom. -- Eve Ensler,playwright and creator of The Vagina MonologuesWhether you are lesbian, gay or straight, Suzanna Walters's new book should make you wonder how the once kick-ass gay rights movement became someek and humble. . . .TheTolerance Trapserves as acautionary tale in a climate in which the majority of spokespeople for LGBT rightsare mired in appeasement andassimilation, meekly asking to beaccepted rather than demanding equality and respect. There has been ashift from angry radicalism to awhisper of gratitude. Walters will upset a great many folk who are invested in the softer, more conciliatory ways of today. But this book breathes vigorous life into a movement in danger of disappearing into a cloud ofmollifying acceptance. -- Julie Bindel * The Guardian *In [Walters] new book, The Tolerance Trap, she argues that the national salience of the GLBT discourse in the media and the movements impressive achievements in recent years have come at a cost. Although we may have won the battles for gay marriage and military service, these victories have done much less to advance the cause of authentic equality than advertised. * The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review *Its refreshing that an American academic, Suzanna Danuta Walters, has come forward with the heretical tract calledThe Tolerance Trap. . . shes at her most pertinent when questioning those twin pillars of current American gay orthodoxy, gay genes and gay marriage, which are mutually reinforcing. * The Independent *Fun, provocative, and future-directed, The Tolerance Trap is a must read. Get a copy to stimulate your own thinking about the kind of LGBTQ future you want. Get a second copy for all your straight friends and family. We can all benefit from thinking outside the box of tolerance and into a free-ranging exploration of the possibilities for a society that enriches and celebrates everyone. * Windy City Times *In a sharp cultural critique, Walters asks, how far have wereallycome in our attitudes and perceptions of the LGBT community? Her answer: Not far enough, not even close. While it may appear otherwisefrom gay characters on TV shows to wider legal acknowledgment of gay marriagethe author argues that we are still a long way from equality. * Time Out New York *Table of ContentsIntroduction: That's So Gay! (Or Is It?) PART I: THE END OF COMING OUT?1. Once upon a Time 2. Coming Out Is So Last Year 3. The Closet 2.0 PART II: DO THESE GENES MAKE ME LOOK GAY?4. The Medical Gayz 5. Dangerous Liaisons 6. You Say Nature, I Say Nurture ... Let's Call the Whole Thing OffPART III: CITIZEN GAY7. Homeland Insecurities 8. Better Put a Ring on It 9. In the Family Way PART IV: ESCAPE FROM THE TOLERANCE TRAP10. Is That All There Is? 11. When the Rainbow Isn't Enough Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe teenager has often appeared in culture as an anxious figure, the repository for American dreams and worst nightmares, at once on the brink of success and imminent failure. Spotlighting the troubled teen as a site of pop cultural, medical, and governmental intervention, Chronic Youth traces the teenager as a figure through which broad threats to the normative order have been negotiated and contained. Examining television, popular novels, science journalism, new media, and public policy, Julie Passanante Elman shows how the teenager became a cultural touchstone for shifting notions of able-bodiedness, heteronormativity, and neoliberalism in the late twentieth century. By the late 1970s, media industries as well as policymakers began developing new problem-driven edutainment' prominently featuring narratives of disabilityfrom the immunocompromised The Boy in the Plastic Bubble to ABC's After School Specials and teen sick-lit. Although this conjoining of disability and Trade Review[] Elmans critiques of particular media content have value. * The Journal of American History *Julia Passanante Elman has written a fine cross-disciplinary study that pulls from the fields of disability studies, popular culture, adolescent literature, queer theory, sociology, and history. * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *Chronic Youth is cultural studies at the top of its gamea whip-smart read that makes groundbreaking contributions across a diversity of disciplines. Its voice is passionate; its case studies are meticulously parsed; and its conclusions more than mere food for thought. It is, in sum, a profound treatise on how and why we worry, police, manufacture, and delude ourselves into the faux crisis that is the teenager in contemporary American cultures. -- Scott Herring,author of Another Country: Queer Anti-UrbanismWith rigorous and insightful analysis of popular media representations, Elman shows how disability has increasingly become an all-purpose referent for the & problem years of transition from childhood to adulthood. Bringing disability and femininity into the framework of youth studies in order to address a neglected intersection of experiences, Chronic Youth provides a wonderful example of what disability studies can bring to media studies of the body. * David T. Mitchell,George Washington University *Chronic Youthis a gripping read; a fascinating and much welcome addition to studies of disability and youth moving beyond dominating and naturalised tropes of youth-as-becoming and disability-to-be-overcome to instead engage with the politics of & adulthood. * Disability and Society *In her rigorous, ambitious, and timely study, Chronic Youth, Julie Passanante Elman powerfully demonstrates how the transformation of the teenager from rebel to patient in the US not only reflects an understanding of the teenager as a problem to be managed and solved but has also participated more broadly in an ongoing normalization of a culture of rehabilitation as & coterminous with good citizenship for everyone. * Journal of American Studies *Chronic Youth is a timely study whose meaning message of & growing up will appeal to readers of the journal, and Elmans clear and concise writing will enthrall others as well. * ournal of the History of Childhood and Youth *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: From Rebel to Patient 1 1 Medicine Is Magical and Magical Is Art: Liberation and Overcoming in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble 29 2 After School Special Education: Sex, Tolerance, and Rehabilitative Television 63 3 Cryin' and Dyin' in the Age of Aliteracy: Romancing Teen Sick-Lit 93 4 Crazy by Design: Neuroparenting and Crisis in the Decade of the Brain 131 Conclusion: Susceptible Citizens in the Age of Wiihabilitation 167 Notes 177 Bibliography 205 Index 231 About the Author 243

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish Book CouncilThe astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the HolocaustIn March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide that accompanied the Nazis' systematic acts of mass murder. The depot built a short-lived lieu de memoirea mortuary of books, as the later renowned historian Lucy Dawidowicz called itwith over three million books of Jewish origin coming from nineteen different European countries awaiting restitution. A Mortuary of Books tells the miraculous story of the many Jewish organizations and indiviTrade ReviewIn meticulous detail, drawing on archival sources, memoirs, correspondence, and histories, Gallas . . . makes an impressive book debut with a comprehensive history of efforts to recover, identify, and restore artifacts of Jewish culture and scholarship. . . . A fresh, significant contribution to Jewish history. * STARRED Kirkus Review *In this remarkable tale of a little-studied aspect of the Holocaust, Gallas reckons with what the attempted Nazi erasure of Jewish intellectual and cultural heritage means for a people whose identity is tied to a tradition of books and learning... A serious work of Jewish studies scholarship that is important and accessible for anyone interested in the history of the book or postwar Europe. -- Library Journal ReviewA Mortuary of Books is an incredible historical work that will benefit scholars in upcoming generations, partly because this is one aspect of post-Holocaust life that has not received much attention. The sheer amount of detail about the numerous Jewish organizations and officials featured is amazing. -- The ReporterThis well-researched and original monograph not only reconstructs a complex history in a multilayered and nuanced fashion, but also demonstrates the key importance of efforts in the immediate aftermath of the Nazi genocide to create new bases for Jewish culture and politics. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *

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Book SynopsisThe canyon in central Mexico was ablaze with torches as hundreds of people filed in. So palpable was their shared shock and grief, they later said, that neither pastor nor priest was needed. The event was a memorial service for one of their own who had died during an attempted border passage.Trade ReviewSarat offers a fascinating ethnographic examination of the intersection of popular religious practices, Pentecostal faith, and the necessity forced upon individuals in economically challenging circumstances to migrate from Mexico to the United States. * Choice *Fire in the Canyonwill engage readers at all levels with its accessible prose and memorable life stories. The chapter on Caminata Nocturna should especially interest undergraduate students with its unique perspectives on border crossing. [] Sarat conveys the great dedication to community that persists in this town, despite all the divisions that it facesof religious factionalism, modernization, and, most of all, immigration. * Hispanic American Historical Review *[T]his study is an important contribution to migration studies, Pentecostal theology and the wider field of religion and the migration experience. While it is about the Mexican migration experience, it has implications for and is a resource for migration on a whole, especially that of the two-thirds world. * Pneuma *Beautifully illustrates the complex intersections of religion and immigration, where even the successful navigation of the dangerous migrants journey across the U.S. border results not in the 'American dream,' but in continued poverty and marginalization. . . . Religion within the context of immigration is not merely one of 'the things they carry,' but fundamental to the journey, helping migrants to frame their understanding of suffering, to confront life-and-death, and to define their notions of the possible. Yet Sarat suggests that this understanding alone is not enough, arguing that religionmodern Pentecostalism in particularhelps empower people to look beyond simple religious tropes and issues of individual salvation to join collective efforts that seek to address the roots causes of migration and inequality. -- Virginia Garrard-Burnett,The University of Texas at AustinThrough finely woven voices and descriptions of actors and locations in a life drama that transcends geographical and religious borders, Leah Sarats ethnography of the indigenous people of El Alberto . . . offers its readers an opportunity to witness the fantastic capacity of seemingly marginal peoples to selectively appropriate religious and economic impositions in an effort to carve out a future that makes sense to them, and, hopefully their children. -- Ella Schmidt,author of The Dream Fields of Florida: Mexican Farmworkers and the Myth of BelongingTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I 1. Fire from Heaven 2. Living Crosses 3. I Lift Up My Eyes to the North Part II 4. Send Us Power 5. To Crush the Devil's Head 6. Shielded by the Blood of Christ Part III 7. The Night Hike 8. The Mexican Dream Conclusion Glossary of Spanish and Hnahnu Terms Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisSpotlighting the "troubled teen" as a site of pop cultural, medical, and governmental intervention, this book traces the teenager as a figure through which broad threats to the normative order have been negotiated and contained. It shows how teenagers became a lynchpin for a culture of perpetual rehabilitation and neoliberal governmentality.Trade Review[] Elmans critiques of particular media content have value. * The Journal of American History *Julia Passanante Elman has written a fine cross-disciplinary study that pulls from the fields of disability studies, popular culture, adolescent literature, queer theory, sociology, and history. * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *Chronic Youth is cultural studies at the top of its gamea whip-smart read that makes groundbreaking contributions across a diversity of disciplines. Its voice is passionate; its case studies are meticulously parsed; and its conclusions more than mere food for thought. It is, in sum, a profound treatise on how and why we worry, police, manufacture, and delude ourselves into the faux crisis that is the teenager in contemporary American cultures. -- Scott Herring,author of Another Country: Queer Anti-UrbanismWith rigorous and insightful analysis of popular media representations, Elman shows how disability has increasingly become an all-purpose referent for the & problem years of transition from childhood to adulthood. Bringing disability and femininity into the framework of youth studies in order to address a neglected intersection of experiences, Chronic Youth provides a wonderful example of what disability studies can bring to media studies of the body. * David T. Mitchell,George Washington University *Chronic Youthis a gripping read; a fascinating and much welcome addition to studies of disability and youth moving beyond dominating and naturalised tropes of youth-as-becoming and disability-to-be-overcome to instead engage with the politics of & adulthood. * Disability and Society *In her rigorous, ambitious, and timely study, Chronic Youth, Julie Passanante Elman powerfully demonstrates how the transformation of the teenager from rebel to patient in the US not only reflects an understanding of the teenager as a problem to be managed and solved but has also participated more broadly in an ongoing normalization of a culture of rehabilitation as & coterminous with good citizenship for everyone. * Journal of American Studies *Chronic Youth is a timely study whose meaning message of & growing up will appeal to readers of the journal, and Elmans clear and concise writing will enthrall others as well. * ournal of the History of Childhood and Youth *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: From Rebel to Patient 1 1 Medicine Is Magical and Magical Is Art: Liberation and Overcoming in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble 29 2 After School Special Education: Sex, Tolerance, and Rehabilitative Television 63 3 Cryin' and Dyin' in the Age of Aliteracy: Romancing Teen Sick-Lit 93 4 Crazy by Design: Neuroparenting and Crisis in the Decade of the Brain 131 Conclusion: Susceptible Citizens in the Age of Wiihabilitation 167 Notes 177 Bibliography 205 Index 231 About the Author 243

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCases in which terrorists are residents or citizens of the targeted country (‘homegrown’ terrorists) complicate the dominant perception of terrorists as malevolent foreigners, says Szpunar. He looks at how issues of identity intersect with received understandings of terrorism and how to fight it, using case studies such as the Boston Marathon bombing. -- Survival

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Book SynopsisExplores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identityIn the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodied or disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define these identities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in a literally marked body. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, Ellen Samuels traces the evolution of the fantasy of identificationthe powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed, verifiable, and visible through modern science. From birthmarks and fingerprints to blood quantum and DNA, she examines how this fantasy has circulated between cultural representations, law, science, and policy to become one of the most powerfully institutionalized ideologies of modern society.Yet, as Samuels demonstrates, in every case, the fantasy distorts its claimed scientific basis, suTrade ReviewIn this smart and readable book, Samuels traces her subject from the nineteenth century into the early twenty-first, where it persists in debates over blood quantum, DNA testing, and disabled parking permits. * American Literature *[Samuels] shows the impossibility of talking about, say, race or gender, without showing their formation through a body under inspection. She is less engaged with tilting against identify politics than showing how socially constructed identities are lived and situated within specific cultural parameters. * American Literary History *Fantasies of Identification, which sits at the intersection of US literary history, disability, gender, queer, and critical race studies, will have a powerful impact, not only on disability studies but also on intersectional and transgender studies in generalScholars of transgender studies and disability studies alike will appreciate such a fine model of vital contributions each makes to the other as they are, indeed, in integral relationships. * TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly *A beautifully written, ambitiously imagined, and wonderfully nuanced book. Samuels provides brilliantly argued case studies that demonstrate the discursive and visual processes by which Americans have, since the mid-nineteenth century, lived under various regimes of identificationboth those imposed and those claimed through ones subjective understanding of the world.Fantasies of Identificationwill be a marvelous contribution to disability studies, American studies, and literary historical studies. -- David Serlin,author of Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar AmericaWhether through measures of blood quantum, disability assessment, or sex/gender testing in athletics, Ellen Samuels makes clear that what she terms & biocertification continues to operate everywhere in contemporary cultures, regulating social worth, citizenship, and group membership. We have long neededFantasies of Identificationto understand more fully the ways in which disability is thickly interwoven with histories of race, sexuality, and gender in the United States. -- Robert McRuer,author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and DisabilitySamuels examines in depth how stereotypes relating to disability, gender, and race are first created through literature, which shapes basic schema held by society. These stereotypes are then reinforced by media through cinematic representations of what Samuels calls & fantasy of identity or cultural tropes, often idealized with tangential relation to actual bodies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Fantasies of Identificationis enormously suggestive, bringing together disability studies, comparative racialization, queer theory, and cultural analysis in new and exciting ways. * MELUS *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Crisis of IdentificationPart I Fantasies of Fakery1 Ellen Craft's Masquerade 2 Confidence in the Nineteenth Century3 The Disability Con Onscreen Part II Fantasies of Marking4 The Trials of Salome Muller 5 Of Fiction and Fingerprints Part III Fantasies of Measurement6 Proving Disability 7 Revising Blood Quantum 8 Realms of Biocertification 9 DNA and the Readable Self Conclusion: Future Identifications Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn insightful study of how identity is mobilized in and for war in the face of homegrown terrorism. You are either with us, or against us is the refrain that captures the spirit of the global war on terror. Images of the them implied in this war crydistinct foreign othersinundate Americans on hit television shows, Hollywood blockbusters, and nightly news. However, in this book, Piotr Szpunar tells the story of a fuzzier image: the homegrown terrorist, a foe that blends into the crowd, who Americans are told looks, talks, and acts like us. Homegrown delves into the dynamics of domestic counterterrorism, revealing the complications that arise when the terrorist threat involves Americans, both residents and citizens, who have taken up arms against their own country. Szpunar examines the ways in which identities are blurred in the war on terror, amid debates concerning who is the real terrorist. He considers cases ranging from the white supremacist Sikh Temple sTrade ReviewCases in which terrorists are residents or citizens of the targeted country (‘homegrown’ terrorists) complicate the dominant perception of terrorists as malevolent foreigners, says Szpunar. He looks at how issues of identity intersect with received understandings of terrorism and how to fight it, using case studies such as the Boston Marathon bombing. -- Survival

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Book SynopsisA fascinating journey through the origins of American tourismIn the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation industry, Americans began to journey away from home simply for the sake of traveling, giving rise to a new cultural phenomenon the tourist.In Selling the Sights, Will B. Mackintosh describes the origins and cultural significance of this new type of traveler and the moment in time when the emerging American market economy began to reshape the availability of geographical knowledge, the material conditions of travel, and the variety of destinations that sought to profit from visitors with money to spend. Entrepreneurs began to transform the critical steps of traveldeciding where to go and how to get thereinto commodities that could be produced in volume and sold to a marketplace of consumers. The identities of Americans prosperous enough to afford such commodities were fundamentally changed as they came to define themselves through the conTrade Review"Grounded in careful study of the travel literature of the times, Mackintosh's study will help all readers appreciate the anxieties surrounding travel in the 19th century—and how these issues still resonate today" -- CHOICE"Lively and well-written, Selling the Sights is a rich manuscript that makes a vital contribution to the history of American travel and tourism." -- Wendy A. Woloson,author of In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression"This well-written and engaging book traces important shifts in geographic understandings and representations of tourism as well as the development of a transportation infrastructure that transformed the manner in which Americans explored, travelled and wrote about their experiences. ... Eschewing recent approaches to American tourism history, Mackintosh shifts our focus away from questions about national identity and patriotism to focus very specifically on the commodification of human experience, and how travel has been represented in travel guides, textbooks and literature. This is a welcome and important contribution." * The Journal of Transport History *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A highly readable ethnographic account offering a refreshing perspective on everyday politics and Arab American communities. It has much to offer scholars in a wide range of disciplines, as well as those who are curious about the ways silenced communities find and raise their voices." -- Louise Cainkar,Author of Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11"Wills has written an extraordinary book that captures the politics underlying the everyday lives of Arab Americans. By focusing on the ways in which Arab Americans understand and assign meaning to their political roles in society, [she] offers a compelling, rich and fascinating account of Arab American political experiences." -- Amaney A. Jamal,Author of Of Empires and Citizens: Pro-American Democracy Or No Democracy at All?"A solid example of how ethnographic research can help political leaders, scholars, and the public to understand the reality of Arab American communities in urban America. Arab New York provides a credible picture of a community interacting with politics while also celebrating its ethnic values. Through her interpretive research and participation in everyday social spaces, Wills played a role closer to an insider and accessed public and private moments of contestation and conversation. She provides a multidimensional perspective on American Arab communities and highlights how politics impact their everyday lives." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Engages the general reader and wrestles with primary questions of Arab American identity." * Al Jadid *

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Book SynopsisIn what began as an inquiry into the migration of his Irish ancestors to Canada, Edward J. Hedican tells the sweeping story of how Irish farmers came to settle in Eastern Ontario.Table of ContentsList of Maps and Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Farm and Family 3. The Agricultural Conditions of Renfrew County 4. Land Use and the Allocation of Resources 5. Measuring Agricultural Performance 6. Population and Family in Transition 7. The Irish Family and Household 8. Conclusions Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on unique visual methods, Where Am I in the Picture? explores researcher positionality in transnational studies of rurality.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments 1. Where Am I in the Picture? An Introduction Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane, and Katarina Giritli Nygren Section One: Rural Travelscapes 2. Travelling in Circles along Roads Less Travelled in Awe of Open Spaces Lisa Starr and Claudia Mitchell 3. Saskatchewan Song Cycle: Trans Readings of a Land Survey in the Canadian West Lou Sheppard 4. Taking to the Woods: Towards Decentralized Research in Protest Movements Angelika Sjöstedt 5. Picturing Transrurality: Connecting Rural People and Places across Borders April Mandrona Section Two: Girlhoods and Rurality as Context 6. Picturing Rurality: Towards a Shared Understanding of What It Means to Study Rurality in Two Country Contexts Katja Gillander Gådin and Naydene de Lange 7. Drawing Myself into the Picture: What Does It Mean to Be a Rural-Origin Student in an Urban University? Samukelisiwe Khumalo 8. “Beyond Getting Something”: Reflections on Researching the Closure of a Rural Municipality’s Maternity Ward Emelie Larsson 9. A Button Thief or a Researcher? Entangled Selves, Positionality, and Knowledge Production Sara Nyhlén Section Three: Positionality and the Rural 10. “Hey, Mlungu!”: Positionality in Participatory Visual Research in Post-apartheid South Africa Lisa Wiebesiek and Astrid Treffry-Goatley 11. Acting like a Skank: Reflections on a Researcher’s Involvement in the Production of Participatory Visual Research Texts in a Rural Area Katie MacEntee 12. Positioning Girls in Rural Contexts: Then and Now Ntomboxolo Yamile 13. Positionality at the Centre: Constructing an Epistemological and Methodological Approach for a Western Feminist Doctoral Candidate Conducting Research in the Postcolonial Catherine Vanner 14. Going the Distance: Theorizing Forward in the Time of a “Rural Turn” Claudia Mitchell, Katarina Giritli Nygren, and Relebohile Moletsane Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis bilingual photography book investigates the complexities of today's war on drugs by examining the art and architecture of Guatemala City's Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers.Table of ContentsList of Images / Lista de imagenes Acknowledgments / Agradecimientos Introduction / Introducción 1. Façade / Fachada 2. Captivity / Cautiverio 3. Freedom / Libertad 4. Art / Arte Conclusion / Conclusión Works Consulted / Obras consultados

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Book SynopsisThe Irish Famine saw hapless Irish citizens starve to death and die of disease, while the population of a neighbouring country, England, lived in relative bounty and apparent disinterest. After the Famine investigates the subsequent emigration of many surviving Irish to Eastern Ontario and tells the story of how, despite hardships, the Irish in Canada managed to survive and prosper after fleeing tragedy. The author explains how the Irish adapted to their new land, and how we might account for their triumph as farmers under somewhat less than favourable environmental conditions. Examining their successful farming life in rural Ontario through their agricultural performance, changing family structures, and farming adaptations, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the fate of the Irish after their greatest calamity. Table of ContentsList of Maps and Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Farm and Family 3. The Agricultural Conditions of Renfrew County 4. Land Use and the Allocation of Resources 5. Measuring Agricultural Performance 6. Population and Family in Transition 7. The Irish Family and Household 8. Conclusions Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis bilingual photography book investigates the complexities of today’s war on drugs by examining the art and architecture of Guatemala City’s Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers.Table of ContentsList of Images / Lista de imagenes Acknowledgments / Agradecimientos Introduction / Introducción 1. Façade / Fachada 2. Captivity / Cautiverio 3. Freedom / Libertad 4. Art / Arte Conclusion / Conclusión Works Consulted / Obras consultados

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Book SynopsisDrawing on unique visual methods, Where Am I in the Picture? explores researcher positionality in transnational studies of rurality.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments 1. Where Am I in the Picture? An Introduction Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane, and Katarina Giritli Nygren Section One: Rural Travelscapes 2. Travelling in Circles along Roads Less Travelled in Awe of Open Spaces Lisa Starr and Claudia Mitchell 3. Saskatchewan Song Cycle: Trans Readings of a Land Survey in the Canadian West Lou Sheppard 4. Taking to the Woods: Towards Decentralized Research in Protest Movements Angelika Sjöstedt 5. Picturing Transrurality: Connecting Rural People and Places across Borders April Mandrona Section Two: Girlhoods and Rurality as Context 6. Picturing Rurality: Towards a Shared Understanding of What It Means to Study Rurality in Two Country Contexts Katja Gillander Gådin and Naydene de Lange 7. Drawing Myself into the Picture: What Does It Mean to Be a Rural-Origin Student in an Urban University? Samukelisiwe Khumalo 8. “Beyond Getting Something”: Reflections on Researching the Closure of a Rural Municipality’s Maternity Ward Emelie Larsson 9. A Button Thief or a Researcher? Entangled Selves, Positionality, and Knowledge Production Sara Nyhlén Section Three: Positionality and the Rural 10. “Hey, Mlungu!”: Positionality in Participatory Visual Research in Post-apartheid South Africa Lisa Wiebesiek and Astrid Treffry-Goatley 11. Acting like a Skank: Reflections on a Researcher’s Involvement in the Production of Participatory Visual Research Texts in a Rural Area Katie MacEntee 12. Positioning Girls in Rural Contexts: Then and Now Ntomboxolo Yamile 13. Positionality at the Centre: Constructing an Epistemological and Methodological Approach for a Western Feminist Doctoral Candidate Conducting Research in the Postcolonial Catherine Vanner 14. Going the Distance: Theorizing Forward in the Time of a “Rural Turn” Claudia Mitchell, Katarina Giritli Nygren, and Relebohile Moletsane Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTison Pugh examines the intersection of narratology, ludology, and queer studies, pointing to the ways in which the blurred boundaries between game and narrative provide both a textual and a metatextual space of queer narrative potential. By focusing on these three distinct yet complementary areas, Pugh shifts understandings of the way their play, pleasure, and narrative potential are interlinked. Through illustrative readings of an eclectic collection of cultural artifacts—from Chaucer’sCanterbury Talesto Nintendo’sLegend of Zeldafranchise, from Edward Albee’s dramaticmasterpiece Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?to J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter fantasy novels—Pugh offers perspectives of blissful ludonarratology, sadomasochistic ludonarratology, the queerness of rules, the queerness of godgames, and the queerness of children’s questing video games. Collectively, these analyses present a range of interpretive Trade Review“Pugh does an impressive job as he addresses one of the major gaps in narrative theory: the lack of adequate study of play and game theory. He also provides a bracing intervention into queer narratology. The book is nuanced, insightful, provocative, and important; I recommend it highly.”—Brian Richardson, professor of English at the University of Maryland Table of ContentsIntroduction: David Sedaris’s Queer Poker Game Part 1. Theorizing Queer Ludonarratology 1. Theorizing Ludonarratology 2. Queering Ludonarratology Part 2. Structures and Readings in Queer Ludonarrativity 3. Win/Loss Pregame: The Thrill of Defeat Geoffrey Chaucer’s Queer Losers and Blissful Ludonarrativity 4. Players Pregame: Whose Side Are You On? Edward Albee’s Queer Players and Sadomasochistic Ludonarrativity 5. Godgames Pregame: Fun and Games with Sociopaths David Fincher’s Films and Ludonarrativity’s Queer Godgames 6. Rules Pregame: May the Better Player Lose! J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Novels, Muggle Quidditch, and Ludonarrativity’s Queer Rules 7. Children Pregame: Of Preschoolers and Prodigies Nintendo’s Queer Children and Questing Ludonarrativity in The Legend of Zelda Video Games Conclusion: Gone Home and the Ludonarrative Limits of Queer Representation Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAllegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be American. Beginning with the question What do we want from a theory of politics? Dolan explores the metaphysics of American-ness and stops along the way to reflect on John Winthrop, the Constitution, 1950s behavioralist social science, James Merrill, and William Burroughs.The pressing problem, in Dolan''s view, is how to find a vocabulary for politics in the absence of European metaphysics. American political thinkers, he suggests, might respond by approaching their own theories as allegories. The postmodern dilemma of the loss of traditional absolutes would thus assume the status of a national mythologyAmerica''s perennial identity crisis in the absence of a tradition establishing the legitimacy of its founding.After examining the mid-Atlantic sermons of John Winthrop, the spiritual founding father, Dolan reflects on the authority of the Constitution and the Federa

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Book SynopsisHow do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do they articulate their hopes for change? John McGowan seeks to identify the goals and strategies of contemporary humanistic intellectuals who strive to shape the politics and culture of their time. In a lively mix of personal reflection and shrewd analysis, McGowan visits the sites of intellectual activity (scholarly publications, professional conferences, the classroom, and the university) and considers the hazards of working within such institutional contexts to effect change outside the academy. Democracy''s Children considers the historical trajectory that produced current intellectual practices. McGowan links the growing prestige of culture since 1800 to the growth of democracy and the obsession with modernity and explores how intellectuals became both custodians and creators of culture. Caught between fears of culture''s irrelevance and dreams of its omnipotence, intellTrade ReviewDemocracy’s Children is a meditation on how intellectuals might try to achieve their political and social goals in the early twenty-first century. -- William G. Tierney * Academe *Democracy’s Children is one of the more distinguished recent examples of that curious academic genre, the book of linked essays. It is also one of the most consistently provocative and contrarian academic books I have yet come across. -- Susan Read Baker * South Atlantic Review *

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