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University of Illinois Press Down Ballot
Book SynopsisWhen an obscure primary election met the culture wars In 1990, a suburban Chicago race for the Republican Party nomination for state representative unexpectedly became a national proxy battle over abortion in the United States. But the hard-fought primary also illustrated the overlooked importance of down-ballot contests in America's culture wars. Patrick Wohl offers the dramatic account of a rollercoaster campaign that, after attracting political celebrities and a media circus, came down to thirty-one votes, a coin toss to determine the winner, and a recount fight that set a precedent for how to count dimpled chads. As the story unfolds, Wohl provides a rare nuts-and-bolts look at an election for state office from its first days through the Illinois Supreme Court decision that decided the winner--and set the stage for a decisive 1992 rematch. A compelling political page-turner, Down Ballot takes readers behind the scenes of a legendary Illinois election.Trade Review"Engaging prose. . . . Will likely be a popular selection as the 2024 election draws near. It will also be of interest to those teaching civics and journalism." --Library Journal“Patrick Wohl’s important, entertaining book illustrates what we lose when local news is replaced with nationalized political coverage. Anyone who thinks local politics is boring hasn’t heard of the Pullen-Mulligan race.”--Elise Jordan, NBC News and MSNBC political analyst“The Pullen-Mulligan race was unlike any other I covered in thirty-plus years in journalism on so many levels. It absolutely underscores the importance of paying attention to local races and to the critical role local media play in our democracy.”--Madeleine Doubek, former Daily Herald political reporter and executive director of CHANGE IllinoisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Amendment XXVII Rosemary Mulligan Blood Terrorists Henry Penny Two Cents On the Trail Raccoons, Reporters, and Rapists’ Rights GOTV Dimpled Chads Heads or Tails Rematch Talk of the Town Goldwater Girls Epilogue Notes
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MO - University of Illinois Press Postcolonial Hauntings
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MO - University of Illinois Press Beyond the Bandstand
Book Synopsis The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in the mainstreaming of jazz. Whiteman and his band premiered Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Duke Ellington acknowledged his achievements. His astonishing ear for talent vaulted a who’s who of artists toward prominence. But Whiteman’s oversized presence eclipsed Black jazz musicians while his middlebrow music prompted later generations to jettison him from jazz history. W. Anthony Sheppard’s collection of essays confronts the racial implications of Whiteman’s career. The contributors explore Whiteman’s broad impact on popular culture, tracking his work and influence in American marketing, animated films, the Black press, Hollywood, and the music publication industry, and following him behind the scenes with arrangers, into grand concert halls, across the Atlantic, into the courtroom, and on television. Multifaceted and cuttin
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MO - University of Illinois Press Indians on Indian Lands Intersections of Race
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University of Illinois Press The Green New Deal from Below How Ordinary
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MO - University of Illinois Press South Side Impresarios How Race Women
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John Wiley & Sons Public Education and Social Reform
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John Wiley & Sons Feminist Digital Humanities
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John Wiley & Sons Ephemeral City
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John Wiley & Sons Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from
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John Wiley & Sons Pedagogies of Interconnectedness
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MO - University of Illinois Press Bong Joon Ho
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John Wiley & Sons Inside Chinese Theater
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John Wiley & Sons Los Yarderos
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John Wiley & Sons The National Alliance of Black Feminists
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John Wiley & Sons Double Crossover
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John Wiley & Sons The Resounding Revolution
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John Wiley & Sons Faithful Transformations
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John Wiley & Sons Bittersweet Sounds of Passage
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MO - University of Illinois Press Goin Viral Uncontrollable Black Performance
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John Wiley & Sons The Future of Memory
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John Wiley & Sons Almost Nothing
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John Wiley & Sons Digital Rights at the Periphery
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John Wiley & Sons Beyond the Field
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John Wiley & Sons Baseball
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MO - University of Illinois Press Moral Visions
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MO - University of Illinois Press Migration Stories Connecting Activism Policy and Scholarship
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MO - University of Illinois Press Chicago Transit Hikes A Guide to Getting Out in
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MO - University of Illinois Press Alpine Mushrooms of North America Treasures above Treeline
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MO - University of Illinois Press The Hours Are Long But the Pay Is Low A Curious Life in Independent Music
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MO - University of Illinois Press Lingering Inland A Literary Tour of the Midwest
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MO - University of Illinois Press The Gridiron Gospel Faith and College Football in TwentiethCentury America
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MO - University of Illinois Press Joseph An Epic
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MO - University of Illinois Press Johann Most Life of a Radical
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MO - University of Illinois Press Knowing Him by Heart African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
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MO - University of Illinois Press Power and Just Transitions Struggles for a PostCoal Future in an Appalachian Valley
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MO - University of Illinois Press Aztec Music and Dance in California
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MO - University of Illinois Press Sallie Martin Mother of Gospel Music
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MO - University of Illinois Press Sol Butler An Olympians Odyssey through Jim Crow America
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Indiana University Press Global Pentecostalism in the 21st Century
Book SynopsisFocuses on cultural developments among second- and third-generation adherents in regions with large Pentecostal communities, considering the impact of these developments on political participation, citizenship, gender relations, and economic morality.Trade ReviewThis edited volume offers the reader excellent coverage on a range of issues about the social, cultural, and political aspects of Pentecostalism. With contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, and religion scholars, the editor has brought together some of the top experts in the field with cases from most regions of the world including Brazil, Zimbabwe, China, Russia, Ukraine, India, and the Philippines. * Religious Studies Review *Global Pentecostalism in the 21st Century is a valuable addition to the literature on a topic that was neglected by anthropologists for too long . . . it takes the pulse of an important field of research and begins to direct our gaze toward the futures of Pentecostalisms and to whatever new religious developments may come. * Anthropology Review Database *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Unexpected Modern—Gender, Piety, and Politics in the Global Pentecostal Surge \ Robert W. Hefner1. Pentecostalism: An Alternative Form of Modernity and Modernization? \ David Martin2. The Future of Pentecostalism in Brazil: The Limits to Growth \ Paul Freston3. Social Mobility and Politics in African Pentecostal Modernity \ David Maxwell4. Tensions and Trends in Pentecostal Gender and Family Relations \ Bernice Martin5. Gender, Modernity, and Pentecostal Christianity in China \ Nanlai Cao6. The Routinization of Soviet Pentecostalism and the Liberation of Charisma in Russia and Ukraine \ Christopher Marsh and Artyom Tonoyan7. Pentecost amid Pujas: Charismatic Christianity and Dalit Women in Twenty-First-Century India \ Rebecca Samuel Shah and Timothy Samuel Shah8. Politics, Education, and Civic Participation: Catholic Charismatic Modernities in the Philippines \ Katharine L. WiegeleAfterword \ Peter L. BergerContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Power and Change in Iran Politics of Contention
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis volume provides an overview of political, social, economic and ideological trends in Iran, touching on topics including education, the role of the Supreme Leader, the rule of law and human rights. Vol. 59, 2 2017 * Survival *Table of ContentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Politics of Contention and Conciliation in Iran's Semi-AutocracyDaniel Brumberg and Farideh FarhiPART I. The Contested Terrain1. Economic Privatization, Factional Politics, and Regime TransformationPayam Mohseni2. Social Welfare Policies and the Dynamics of Elite and Popular ContentionKevan Harris3. Education as Public Good or Private Resource: Accommodation and Demobilization in Iran's University System. Shervin MalekzadehPART II. Institutional Evolution4. The Office of the Supreme Leader: Epicenter of a TheocracyMehrzad Boroujerdi and Kourosh Rahimkhani5. Electoral Politics, Power, and Prospects for ReformYasmin Alem PART III. Political and Ideological Challenges6. The Rule of Law and Conflict in the Reform EraMehrangiz Kar and Azadeh Pourzand7. The Green Movement and Political Change in IranFatemeh Haghighatjoo8. "This Government Is Neither Islamic nor a Republic": Responses to the 2009 Post-Election CrackdownShadi MokhtariEpilogueDaniel Brumberg and Farideh FarhiSelected BibliographyContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Emptiness and Omnipresence
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThose who take the journey with Ziporyn will find a rich and rewarding work, not simply due to the mind-boggling Tiantai doctrine, but also because of Ziporyn's respect for the tradition and his extraordinary finesse in presenting its demanding ideas. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Just Here Is the End of Suffering: Letting Suffering Be in Early Buddhism 2. Rafts and Arrows: The Two Truths in Pre-Tiantai Buddhism 3. Neither Thus Nor Otherwise: Mahāyāna Approaches to Emptiness 4. Buddha-nature and Original Enlightenment 5. How to Not Know What You're Doing: Introduction to the Lotus Sūtra 6. The New Middle Way: Highlights of the Lotus Sūtra in Tiantai Context 7. The Interpervasion of All Points of View: From the Lotus Sūtra to Tiantai 8. Tiantai: The Multiverse as You 9. Experiencing Tiantai: Experiments with Tiantai Practice 10. Tiantai Ethics and the Worst Case Scenario Epilogue: So Far and Yet So Close NotesBibliography and Suggested ReadingIndex
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Indiana University Press Childrens Home Musical Experiences Across the
Book SynopsisThis book offers a fresh and diverse perspective on home musical activities of young children from a variety of countries, including; Brazil, Denmark, Greece, Israel, Kenya, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, South Africa,Taiwan, the UK, and the United States. Narrowing their study to seven-year-olds from middle-class families, the articles in this volume argue that home musical experiences provide new and important windows into musical childhoods as they relate to issues of identity, family life, gender, culture, social class and schooling. Though childhood musical engagement differs considerably, it has direct implications for a better understanding of music education and childhood development. Using a wiki to share data and research across time and space, this volume is a model for collaborative cross-cultural research and is centered on the home as a primary research site for children's musical engagement.Trade ReviewThis volume is an excellent contribution to the field. * Philosophy of Music Education Review *A useful resource for interdisciplinary educators, music educators, and sociologists. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: MyPlace, MyMusic: Children's Home Musical Experiences Across the World / Beatriz Ilari and Susan YoungSection 1: Theoretical Framework and Methods1. Musical Childhoods: Theoretical Background and New Directions / Susan Young 2. The MyPlace, MyMusic Wiki: Enabling and Transforming the Methods and Processes of Research / Jèssica PérezSection 2: Thematic Interpretations3. Public and Private Musical Worlds of Children / Claudia Gluschankof4. Belonging and Identity: Exploring Gendered Meanings of Musicking in Seven-year-olds / Elizabeth Andang'o and Caroline Brendel Pacheco5. Nurturing MY MUSICal Child: Parental Perspectives and Influences / Theano Koutsoupidou6. Middle Class Musical Childhoods: Autonomy, Concerted Cultivation, and Consumer Culture / Beatriz IlariSection 3: New Ideas7. Nurturing the Musical "Open-Earedness" of Seven-year-olds / Diane Persellin 8. Musical Childhoods in South Africa: "The times they are a-changin'" / Sheila C. Woodward9. The Influence of Parental Goals and Practices on Children's Musical Interests and Development: A Perspective on Chinese Families in Singapore / Chee-Hoo LumConclusion: Lessons Learned / Beatriz Ilari, Susan Young, and Claudia GluschankofList of ReferencesList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Spain Unmoored Migration Conversion and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review[Rogozen-Soltar's] methodological and theoretical approaches provide some lovely insights and very teachable moments about the complexities of European history, categorical difference, social alliances and betrayals, and identity itself. * City & Society *"An impressively accomplished ethnography of the ambivalent inclusion and exclusion of Islam and Muslims in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. Detailing a set of social encounters between migrant Muslims, Spanish Muslim converts, and non-Muslim Granadians, Rogozen-Soltar successfully charts the 'unequal multiculturalism' resulting from the peripheral city's harnessing of a historical narrative of convivencia to its claims for a privileged position within Spanish and European cosmopolitan modernity. -- Paul SilversteinThis timely, well-researched and engaging book examines the ways Muslim residents of Granada see themselves, and are seen by others, in relation to Granada's Arab past. . . . [B]y illuminating many aspects of the relationships between and within Muslims and non-Muslims in Granada today, Spain Unmoored will be of great interest to students and scholars interested in Spain, Islam and multiculturalism in Europe today. * Anthropos *"Of all the book's persuasive arguments, what stands out is Rogozen-Soltar's careful engagement of the heterogeneity of Granada's Muslim community and her attention to the ways disparity figures into Muslims' relations with one another as much as their encounters with others. An insightful study of multiculturalism and religion in Europe, relevant to scholars, students, and general readers." * Choice Reviews *While Rogozen-Soltar's book is well grounded in anthropological theory, it is not dragged down by jargon or theoretical disquisitions unrelated to the subject matter at hand. On the contrary, Rogozen-Soltar centers her narrative on the analysis of field experiences and uses theory to enrich and contextualize her analysis. * Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: Between Convivencia and Malafollá: Coexistence or Exclusion?AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Andalusian Encounters and the Politics of Islam1. Historical Anxiety and Everyday Historiography2. Paradoxes of Muslim Belonging and Difference3. Muslim Disneyland and Moroccan Danger Zones: Islam, Race, and Space4. A Reluctant Convivencia: Minority Representation and Unequal Multiculturalism5. Embodied Encounters: Gender, Islam, and Public SpaceConclusion: Granada Moored and UnmooredBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Media in Postapartheid South Africa Postcolonial
Book SynopsisMedia in Postapartheid South Africa examines recent political developments in South Africa, using media as a narrator of social transition from the days of the struggle against apartheid to a capitalist consumer economy.Trade Review"Sean Jacobs take a unique approach to tell a comprehensive story of postapartheid South Africa and African society. Media consolidates and enacts the victory of a particular image of what South Africa ought to be. This is an incredibly powerful story, which is much bigger than media, but to which media gives us access."—Herman Wasserman, author of Tabloid Journalism in South Africa"Sean Jacobs proposes a new agenda for the study of culture in contemporary South Africa by focusing on media infrastructures that condition, select, and edit the sorts of information that are available. Jacobs's work will be read for its revelations about the nature of citizenship and public engagement in our media saturated age."—Daniel R. Magaziner, author of The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa , 1968–1977
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Indiana University Press Gaming Representation Race Gender and Sexuality
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...an important contribution to scholarship in the field of game studies." -Mia Consalvo, author of Players and their Pets: Gaming Communities from Beta to Sunset "...a new benchmark for the critical engagement of race, gender and sexuality in the study of video games and virtual representation." -Alan Brookey, editor of Playing to Win: Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of PlayTable of ContentsForeword / Anna EverettAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "Identity, Representation, and Video Game Studies Beyond the Politics of the Image" / Jennifer Malkowski and TreaAndrea M. RusswormPart 1: Gender / Bodies / Spaces1. "I Turned Out to Be Such a Damsel in Distress": Noir Games and the Unrealized Femme Fatale / Jennifer Malkowski2. No Time to Dream: Killing Time, Casual Games, and Gender / Braxton Soderman3. "Aw Fuck, I Got a Bitch on My Team!": Women and the Exclusionary Cultures of the Computer Game Complex / Carly A. Kocurek and Jennifer deWinter4. Attention Whores and Ugly Nerds: Gender and Cosplay at the Game Con / Nina Huntemann5. Machinima Parodies: Appropriating Video Games to Criticize Gender Norms / Gabrielle Trépanier-JobinPart 2: Race / Identity / Nation6. Dystopian Blackness and the Limits of Racial Empathy in The Walking Dead and The Last of Us / TreaAndrea M. Russworm7. Journey into the Techno-Primitive Desert / Irene Chien8. The Rubble and the Ruin: Race, Gender, and Sites of Inglorious Conflict in Spec Ops: The Line / Soraya Murray9. Representing Race and Disability: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as a Whole Text / Rachael Hutchinson10. Entering the Picture: Digital Portraiture and the Aesthetics of Video Game Representation / Lisa PattiPart 3: Play / Queer / Games11. Playing to Lose: The Queer Art of Failing at Video Games / Bonnie Ruberg12. Romancing an Empire, Becoming Isaac: The Queer Possibilities of Jade Empire and The Binding of Isaac / Jordan Wood13. A Game Chooses, a Player Obeys: BioShock, Posthumanism, and the Limits of Queerness / Edmond Y. ChangAfterword: Racism, Sexism, and Gaming's Cruel Optimism / Lisa NakamuraIndex
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Indiana University Press Balkan Blues Consumer Politics after State
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration and TranslationIntroduction1. Mente: Consumer Grievances2. "Needs," Rights, and Protection3. Consumer Activism?4. Consumption as Civic Engagement 5. Consumer Politics after State SocialismEpilogue: "Enough is Enough."—The Moral Commitment of the StateAppendix. Notes on Fieldwork: An East Asian Ethnographer in Eastern EuropeBibliography Index
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Indiana University Press Martin Bubers Theopolitics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What Samuel Hayim Brody has done is to focus on Martin Buber as a political thinker and to consider the character of his fundamental political ideas and commitments. He does this primarily as an intellectual historian, with a very rich sense of Buber's political activities and involvements. Brilliantly conceived, well-written, filled with deep readings and analysis."—Michael L. Morgan, author of Levinas's Ethical Poltics"Samuel Hayim Brody's book addresses an absolutely central, yet hitherto neglected, topic in Martin Buber's thought, which not only situates his philosophical trajectory in an intellectual-historical context, especially of the Weimar years, but also makes a persuasive argument for the pivotal role of theopolitics in that trajectory. A majesterial study in every way and certain to become the authoritative book in its field."—Asher Biemann, author of Dreaming of Michelangelo: Jewish Variations on a Modern ThemeTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments Note on Translation/Transliteration List of Abbreviations Introduction: What is Theopolitics? Part One: From Anarchism to Anarcho-Theocracy: The Birth of Theopolitics1. The True Front: Buber and Landauer on Anarchism and Revolution2. The Serpent: Theopolitics from Weimar to Nazi Germany3. God against Messiah: The Kingship of God and the Ancient Israelite Anarcho-TheocracyPart Two: The Anointed and the Prophet: Theopolitics in Israel from Exodus to Exile4. Between Pharaohs and Nomads: Moses5. The Arcanum of the Monarchy: The Anointed6. The Battle for YHVH: The Prophetic FaithPart Three: Theopolitics and Zion 7. Palestinian Rain: Zionism as Applied Theopolitics8. This Pathless Hour: Theopolitics in the PresentConclusion: The Narrow Ridge, the Razor's EdgeAppendix: Martin Buber to Hans Kohn, 10/4/1939BibliographyIndex
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