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Book SynopsisDrawing on more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with participants, Catherine Tan investigates two autism-focused movements, shedding new light on how members contest expert authority.Trade ReviewAt the margins of the autism world, there are niches where vaccines are rejected, miracle cures are peddled, or, on the contrary, all therapies are rejected as forms of coercive normalization. Spaces on the Spectrum analyzes the moral experiences, rhetorical strategies, and advocacy practices of two groups that occupy opposite niches: parents who experiment with alternative therapies and autistic self-advocates. Catherine Tan went down the rabbit hole and came out bearing fascinating stories and insights. Written with generosity and poise, meticulously researched, this is a reflective and insightful analysis of how controversies over knowledge, expertise, and identity are intertwined. -- Gil Eyal, coauthor of The Autism MatrixWith engaging data, compelling stories, and compassionate insight, Tan brings us into the competing and complementary worlds of autism advocacy. Spaces on the Spectrum provides an important exploration of how two different worldviews of autism have led parents of autistic children and autistic adults to dramatically different beliefs about what causes the condition, what it means, and what, if anything, should be done. This is an important contribution that shows how knowledge production is contentious, how meanings of expertise can be multifaceted and contradictory, and how calls for sympathy and respect can place well-intentioned people who care deeply about the same issue at odds. -- Jennifer A. Reich, author of Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject VaccinesIn this phenomenal study, Catherine Tan explores two autism social movements hoping for a better world: parents of children diagnosed with autism embracing alternative treatments and adults living with autism advocating for acceptance and accommodation of neurodivergence. What the believers and participants find instead is support, community, and validation that they have been right after all. With grace and sensitivity, Tan deftly weaves their convictions, struggles, and joys into a nuanced analysis that demonstrates the best medical sociology has to offer. Also, a magic buffalo appears. -- Stefan Timmermans, coauthor of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of AngelsTable of ContentsPreface and PositionAcknowledgments1. Warriors and Aliens: Challenging Autism Experts2. Reimagining Autism: As a Difference to Accept, as a Sickness to Treat3. Seeking Hope and Support: Pathways to Autism Movements4. Knowing One’s Tribe: The Transformation of Autistic Rights Into Reality5. Laboratories and Experimentation: The Tools and Strategies of “Recovery”6. The Outsiders: Resisting Criticism and Claiming Legitimacy7. Making Space for the SpectrumAppendix A. Interview ProtocolsAppendix B. ParticipantsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing on more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with participants, Catherine Tan investigates two autism-focused movements, shedding new light on how members contest expert authority.Trade ReviewAt the margins of the autism world, there are niches where vaccines are rejected, miracle cures are peddled, or, on the contrary, all therapies are rejected as forms of coercive normalization. Spaces on the Spectrum analyzes the moral experiences, rhetorical strategies, and advocacy practices of two groups that occupy opposite niches: parents who experiment with alternative therapies and autistic self-advocates. Catherine Tan went down the rabbit hole and came out bearing fascinating stories and insights. Written with generosity and poise, meticulously researched, this is a reflective and insightful analysis of how controversies over knowledge, expertise, and identity are intertwined. -- Gil Eyal, coauthor of The Autism MatrixWith engaging data, compelling stories, and compassionate insight, Tan brings us into the competing and complementary worlds of autism advocacy. Spaces on the Spectrum provides an important exploration of how two different worldviews of autism have led parents of autistic children and autistic adults to dramatically different beliefs about what causes the condition, what it means, and what, if anything, should be done. This is an important contribution that shows how knowledge production is contentious, how meanings of expertise can be multifaceted and contradictory, and how calls for sympathy and respect can place well-intentioned people who care deeply about the same issue at odds. -- Jennifer A. Reich, author of Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject VaccinesIn this phenomenal study, Catherine Tan explores two autism social movements hoping for a better world: parents of children diagnosed with autism embracing alternative treatments and adults living with autism advocating for acceptance and accommodation of neurodivergence. What the believers and participants find instead is support, community, and validation that they have been right after all. With grace and sensitivity, Tan deftly weaves their convictions, struggles, and joys into a nuanced analysis that demonstrates the best medical sociology has to offer. Also, a magic buffalo appears. -- Stefan Timmermans, coauthor of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of AngelsTable of ContentsPreface and PositionAcknowledgments1. Warriors and Aliens: Challenging Autism Experts2. Reimagining Autism: As a Difference to Accept, as a Sickness to Treat3. Seeking Hope and Support: Pathways to Autism Movements4. Knowing One’s Tribe: The Transformation of Autistic Rights Into Reality5. Laboratories and Experimentation: The Tools and Strategies of “Recovery”6. The Outsiders: Resisting Criticism and Claiming Legitimacy7. Making Space for the SpectrumAppendix A. Interview ProtocolsAppendix B. ParticipantsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stoner has crafted an amazingly exhaustive biography of Shilts . . . Through interviews, oral histories, Shilts’s own journals, and archival materials, Stoner provides a deeper, more nuanced understanding of Shilts, his work, his advocacy, and his legacy." --Journalism History"[The Journalist of Castro Street] is an important addition to the HIV/AIDS archive, particularly thanks to its careful discussion of political figures like Harvey Milk, George Moscone, Dan White, and Gaëtan Dugas." --Media History"A major contribution to gay history." --Booklist"A serious account of the life of one of the twentieth century’s most divisive gay figures." --Times Literary Supplement"A sympathetic, first-rate narrative of one of the most notable journalists of our time. Stoner captures the passions and imperfections of both the fearless writer and the gay-rights crusader."--Patrick Lee Plaisance, author of Virtue in Media: The Moral Psychology of Excellence in News and Public Relations"The Journalist of Castro Street is a moving biography of a journalist and his life's work. . . . This is an excellent piece of writing." --Seattle Book Review"The Journalist of Castro Street is the result of copious research and interviewing." --The Gay & Lesbian Review"[In The Journalist of Castro Street] we get to discover Shilts, as if in real time, as he discovers himself, one page at a time." --A&U Magazine "The first-ever biography of the acclaimed investigative journalist and author captures a complex portrait of Randy Shilts, offering a rare behind-the-scenes glance into his short, yet blazing trajectory through life and (early AIDS and LGBTQ+) journalism." --A&U Magazine "Well written, comprehensive, and insightful. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice "Andrew Stoner has masterfully woven a powerful story: well-written, historically grounded, thoughtful, engaging, and important. The Journalist of Castro Street is engrossing yet haunting. It is indispensable for anyone who would understand the early years of the AIDS crisis, the intersection of the epidemic and the news media, and the challenges facing Shilts as the openly gay journalist blazed a trail into the media mainstream. It is not merely a biography of Shilts, it is more."--Edward M. Alwood, former CNN correspondent and author of Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press

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Trade Review"Enyeart's work comes at a moment in which forging the multiracial, multiethnic, working-class-based, transnational antifascist movement Adamic championed is urgently necessary. . . . Death to Fascism is both praiseworthy and relevant to scholars and organizers alike." --North Median Review"Enyeart weaves together the questions of Americanism, immigration, antifascism, and foreign policy in a coherent and engaging fashion. . . . Death to Fascism is a well-written and engaging piece of historical research." --Social History"The objective of his book, Enyeart says, is 'recovering Adamic’s legacy so that we can better understand [that] our antifascist past is vital to our future' (p. 161). His well-researched book largely achieves its objective." --Journal of Cold War Studies"In this well-researched, original work, Enyeart establishes the importance of Louis Adamic as an influential political and cultural figure of the period between the 1930s and the early Cold War. Adamic's life reveals the presence of a robust anticolonialist and antifascist strand of thinking in the often-overlooked early twentieth century immigrant/ethnic Left."--John Bukowczyk, editor of Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship"Because Enyeart has captured the life and work of an antifascist democratic radical who continues to resonate today, Death to Fascism is a major accomplishment. " --H-Net Reviews"Enyeart knows his subject intimately and passionately." --TruthDig"This is a very important book. It challenges the emphasis in so much recent radical history on the centrality--for good or ill--of the Communist Party, and sees the broader left, of which Adamic was a leading member, as central. Readers will come to care about Adamic, his struggles, and even his contradictions."--David Roediger, author of Class, Race, and Marxism

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This anthology represents the distance that scholarship has come since the last quarter century of the twentieth century. White middle-class women are no longer the starting point of all feminist scholarship and we now consider how various variables intersect and overlap to influence identity. And for all kinds of reasons, this is something to celebrate."--Deborah Gray White, from the Introduction"Social work educators will find . . . an opportunity to expose students to nuances of the historical realities of social change that were not covered in traditional public education history courses. . . . Durante and all authors from the text provide us with an intriguing starting point for deep discussions with our students, colleagues, mentees/mentors, and ourselves as we look to the future of the work of women activists." --AffiliaTable of ContentsPreface ixIntroduction: The Difference that Difference Makes 1Deborah Gray White1 “To Cast Our Mite on the Altar of Benevolence: Women Begin to Organize” (Excerpt) 13Anne Firor Scott2 “‘There Sho’ Was a Sight of Us’: Enslaved Family and Community Rituals” 33Daina Ramey Berry3 “The Daily Labor of Our Own Hands” 60Lara Vapnek4 “Latin Women from Exiles to Immigrants” 86Nancy A. Hewitt5 “Performing and Politicizing ‘Ladyhood’: Black Washington Women and New Negro Suffrage Activism” 111Treva B. Lindsey6 “‘It Was the Women Who Made the Union’: Organizing the Brotherhood” 138Melinda Chateauvert7 “Nurse or Soldier? White Male Nurses and World War II” (Excerpt) 158Charissa J. Threat8 “‘Black Beauticians Were Very Important’: Southern Beauty Activists and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle” 180Tiffany M. Gill9 “Organizing for Reproductive Control” 205Anne M. Valk10 “Things Fall Apart; the LGBT Center Holds” (Excerpt) 235Deborah Gray WhiteList of Original Publications 251Contributors 253Index 255

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Book SynopsisWinner of a Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book AwardsWon Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History Association) The iconic leader of one of America's most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny's monumental biography tells the life story of the figure who built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor powerhouse that still represents almost 30,000 workers. An Australian immigrant, Bridges worked the Pacific Coast docks. His militant unionism placed him at the center of the 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike and spurred him to expand his organizing activities to warehouse laborers and Hawaiian sugar and pineapple workers. Cherny examines the overall effectiveness of Bridges as a union leader and the decisions and traits that made him effective. Cherny also details the price paid by Bridges as the US government repeatedly prosecuted him for hiTrade Review"In Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend, the culmination of thirty-five years of effort, Robert Cherny provides a majestic biography." --New York Labor History "Allows us to revisit a monumental twentieth-century life. Bridges the man may not be widely known, but his philosophy of inclusive, democratic unionism imbues much of today’s most ambitious organizing campaigns, from Starbucks and Amazon to the teachers’ unions in Chicago and Los Angeles." --New York Review of Books "A detailed account of Bridges’s life and achievements, using not only the extensive government files from his various prosecutions and the ILWU’s voluminous archives but also Bridges’s own papers, a number of interviews with him, and, crucially, CPUSA files in Russian archives. It is unlikely that a more complete story of the man will ever be told." --Commentary Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations From Australia to the San Francisco Docks, 1901-1922 San Francisco Longshoreman, 1922-1929 San Francisco Longshoremen Organize, 1929-May 9, 1934 The Big Strike, May 9 to July 4, 1934 The Big Strike: Bloody Thursday and After, July 5th to the End of 1934 Pursuing Maritime Unity, October 1934-January 1936 Founding the ILWU, 1936-1940 Harry Bridges and the Communist Party in the 1930s: Evidence from the Russian Archives Deport Bridges! 1934-1941 If at First You Don’t Succeed: Deportation, 1940-1945 World War, Labor Peace, 1940-1945 Cold War, Labor War, 1945-1948 Try, Try, Again: Deportation and Expulsion, 1948-1953 The Last Deportation Trial and New Beginnings, 1953-1960 Transforming Longshoring: The M&Ms, 1960-1966 Labor Statesman? 1960-1971 The Longest Strike: Relations with PMA, 1966-1977 Living Legend, 1971-1990 Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn annotated edition of Jane Addams' autobiography.Trade Review"One of the most important books ever written in the United States, Twenty Years at Hull-House remains a classic because it addresses large questions of human destiny and social justice in terms that are as relevant today as they were one hundred years ago."--Kathryn Kish Sklar, author of Catherin Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity"After twenty years of relative obscurity, the early-twentieth-century social crusader and author of Twenty Years at Hull-House is once again in the spotlight."--Arianne Chernock, Lingua Franca"The classic account of the development of Hull-House into a vibrant community center for Chicago's immigrants and poor. Addams' memoir is central to understanding the aims and mood of the progressive era."--The Front Table

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Book SynopsisPresents a feminist analysis of Indian issues that goes past rights to get to justice. This work explores the relationship between law and feminist politics, by examining the contemporary Indian women's movement with comparisons to France and the United States.Trade Review"Menon unpacks the practical difficulties, the ideological contradictions, and the political impasses that have accompanied the Indian women's movement's attempts to deal with questions of violence, abortion, rape, and parliamentary representation. The result is a very important and provocative piece of scholarship that will help feminists everywhere think through the complexities of gender, citizenship, and rights in today's world."--Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania"Nivedita Menon is among the most interesting intellectuals writing in the Indian academy today. This collection of her essays has been long awaited, and the final product is thought-provoking, energetic, and a pleasure to read. A work of such a high order of intelligence and theoretical sophistication is a rare thing." --Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Professorial Fellow, Wolfson College and Reader in English, University of Oxford

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJan Garton Prairie Heritage Book Award, Prairie Heritage, Inc., 2017 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016 "Brent M. S. Campney's Hostile Heartland: Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest is a timely exploration of the role of anti-black violence in the making of the modern Midwest." --Journal of American Ethnic History"A compelling and exhaustive work that examines the long history of anti-black violence and racism in Kansas, as well as the myriad efforts of African Americans to resist white supremacy."--H-Net"A significant contribution to the field of racial violence and the understanding of the history of Kansas in the post–Civil War period…This Is Not Dixie secures the University of Illinois Press’s dominance as a publisher of scholarship on racial violence in the post–Civil War era. Highly recommended.”--Choice"Campney exposes the shameful extent of violence in our past and also highlights the episodes of actions against such violence by law enforcement officers and by the African American community. Others should follow his lead to rediscover the world of law, race, and violence that shaped the past and continues to shape the present."--American Historical Review"A potent portrait of dramatically unequal but also complicated, highly contested, and geographically fragmented racial power relations in one Midwestern state during the rise and consolidation of the Jim Crow era." --Journal of African American History"When discussing lynching, race riots, and other forms of racist violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the emphasis often turns southward. Brent Campney's This Is Not Dixie builds on current historiography by challenging these assumptions… This work provides timely insights into racist violence in the North."--Civil War Book Review"Campney has written an amazing and profound book that challenges many assumptions regarding racist violence in America, putting both the Midwest and the South in a deeper, richer context. This Is Not Dixie will no doubt inspire similar state-level studies."--Journal of Southern History"Campney's book is an important corrective to the still prevailing belief that racial violence was a uniquely southern problem."--The Annals of Iowa "A groundbreaking book, its extensive Kansas data and its inclusion of "threatened" lynching as a potent factor being important contributions to the study of racist violence in America."--Middle West Review "This book is essential reading for those interested in the history of Kansas or of race relations in the Great Plains, as well as for scholars of racial violence and the black freedom struggle in the United States."--Great Plains Quarterly "Campney has written a persuasive and important book that rewrites the racial narrative of Kansas and challenges the periodization of numerous eras. Additionally he makes a compelling case that a broad paradigm of racial violence is preferable to a narrow focus on lynching." --Reviews in American History "This is Not Dixie exponentially expands our understanding of racist violence in the Midwest and in so doing fills out the national picture and puts the South in greater context. Deeply attentive to African American resistance to white violence, this landmark book is required reading for all interested in the sadly pivotal role of racist violence in America's past."--Michael J. Pfeifer, author of The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching "Part of a new wave of scholarship that broadens our examination of racial violence. This book is an important contribution to lynching studies and African American history and to the history of the Midwest. The scholarship is top notch."--William D. Carrigan, author of The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916 "Campney's focus on Kansas provides new and important evidence of the extent of racist violence in a non-Southern state. This is the rare book that does far more than add to the cumulative knowledge in an area of study. It challenges underlying assumptions, takes new perspectives on the material, and opens new lines of inquiry in several areas."--Margaret Vandiver, author of Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stoner has crafted an amazingly exhaustive biography of Shilts . . . Through interviews, oral histories, Shilts’s own journals, and archival materials, Stoner provides a deeper, more nuanced understanding of Shilts, his work, his advocacy, and his legacy." --Journalism History"[The Journalist of Castro Street] is an important addition to the HIV/AIDS archive, particularly thanks to its careful discussion of political figures like Harvey Milk, George Moscone, Dan White, and Gaëtan Dugas." --Media History"A major contribution to gay history." --Booklist"A serious account of the life of one of the twentieth century’s most divisive gay figures." --Times Literary Supplement"A sympathetic, first-rate narrative of one of the most notable journalists of our time. Stoner captures the passions and imperfections of both the fearless writer and the gay-rights crusader."--Patrick Lee Plaisance, author of Virtue in Media: The Moral Psychology of Excellence in News and Public Relations"The Journalist of Castro Street is a moving biography of a journalist and his life's work. . . . This is an excellent piece of writing." --Seattle Book Review"The Journalist of Castro Street is the result of copious research and interviewing." --The Gay & Lesbian Review"[In The Journalist of Castro Street] we get to discover Shilts, as if in real time, as he discovers himself, one page at a time." --A&U Magazine "The first-ever biography of the acclaimed investigative journalist and author captures a complex portrait of Randy Shilts, offering a rare behind-the-scenes glance into his short, yet blazing trajectory through life and (early AIDS and LGBTQ+) journalism." --A&U Magazine "Well written, comprehensive, and insightful. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice "Andrew Stoner has masterfully woven a powerful story: well-written, historically grounded, thoughtful, engaging, and important. The Journalist of Castro Street is engrossing yet haunting. It is indispensable for anyone who would understand the early years of the AIDS crisis, the intersection of the epidemic and the news media, and the challenges facing Shilts as the openly gay journalist blazed a trail into the media mainstream. It is not merely a biography of Shilts, it is more."--Edward M. Alwood, former CNN correspondent and author of Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press

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Book SynopsisBorn to Slovenian peasants, Louis Adamic commanded crowds, met with FDR and Truman, and built a prolific career as an author and journalist. Behind the scenes, he played a leading role in a coalition of black intellectuals and writers, working class militants, ethnic activists, and others that worked for a multiethnic America and against fascism. John Enyeart restores Adamic''s life to the narrative of American history. Dogged and energetic, Adamic championed causes that ranged from ethnic and racial equality to worker''s rights to anticolonialism. Adamic defied the consensus that equated being American with Anglo-Protestant culture. Instead, he insisted newcomers and their ideas kept the American identity in a state of dynamism that pushed it from strength to strength. In time, Adamic''s views put him at odds with an establishment dedicated to cold war aggression and white supremacy. He increasingly fought smear campaigns and the distortion of his views--both of which continued aTrade Review"Enyeart's work comes at a moment in which forging the multiracial, multiethnic, working-class-based, transnational antifascist movement Adamic championed is urgently necessary. . . . Death to Fascism is both praiseworthy and relevant to scholars and organizers alike." --North Median Review"Enyeart weaves together the questions of Americanism, immigration, antifascism, and foreign policy in a coherent and engaging fashion. . . . Death to Fascism is a well-written and engaging piece of historical research." --Social History"The objective of his book, Enyeart says, is 'recovering Adamic’s legacy so that we can better understand [that] our antifascist past is vital to our future' (p. 161). His well-researched book largely achieves its objective." --Journal of Cold War Studies"In this well-researched, original work, Enyeart establishes the importance of Louis Adamic as an influential political and cultural figure of the period between the 1930s and the early Cold War. Adamic's life reveals the presence of a robust anticolonialist and antifascist strand of thinking in the often-overlooked early twentieth century immigrant/ethnic Left."--John Bukowczyk, editor of Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship"Because Enyeart has captured the life and work of an antifascist democratic radical who continues to resonate today, Death to Fascism is a major accomplishment. " --H-Net Reviews"Enyeart knows his subject intimately and passionately." --TruthDig"This is a very important book. It challenges the emphasis in so much recent radical history on the centrality--for good or ill--of the Communist Party, and sees the broader left, of which Adamic was a leading member, as central. Readers will come to care about Adamic, his struggles, and even his contradictions."--David Roediger, author of Class, Race, and Marxism

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Book SynopsisWomen in the United States organized around their own sense of a distinct set of needs, skills, and concerns. And just as significant as women''s acting on their own behalf was the fact that race, class, sexuality, and ethnicity shaped their strategies and methods. This authoritative anthology presents some of the powerful work and ideas about activism published in the acclaimed series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History. Assembled to commemorate the series'' thirty-fifth anniversary, the collection looks at two hundred years of labor, activist, legal, political, and community organizing by women against racism, misogyny, white supremacy, and inequality. The authors confront how the multiple identities of an organization''s members presented challenging dilemmas and share the histories of how women created change by working against inequitable social and structural systems. Insightful and provocative, Women’s Activist Organizing in US History draws on both Trade Review"This anthology represents the distance that scholarship has come since the last quarter century of the twentieth century. White middle-class women are no longer the starting point of all feminist scholarship and we now consider how various variables intersect and overlap to influence identity. And for all kinds of reasons, this is something to celebrate."--Deborah Gray White, from the Introduction"Social work educators will find . . . an opportunity to expose students to nuances of the historical realities of social change that were not covered in traditional public education history courses. . . . Durante and all authors from the text provide us with an intriguing starting point for deep discussions with our students, colleagues, mentees/mentors, and ourselves as we look to the future of the work of women activists." --AffiliaTable of ContentsPreface ixIntroduction: The Difference that Difference Makes 1Deborah Gray White1 “To Cast Our Mite on the Altar of Benevolence: Women Begin to Organize” (Excerpt) 13Anne Firor Scott2 “‘There Sho’ Was a Sight of Us’: Enslaved Family and Community Rituals” 33Daina Ramey Berry3 “The Daily Labor of Our Own Hands” 60Lara Vapnek4 “Latin Women from Exiles to Immigrants” 86Nancy A. Hewitt5 “Performing and Politicizing ‘Ladyhood’: Black Washington Women and New Negro Suffrage Activism” 111Treva B. Lindsey6 “‘It Was the Women Who Made the Union’: Organizing the Brotherhood” 138Melinda Chateauvert7 “Nurse or Soldier? White Male Nurses and World War II” (Excerpt) 158Charissa J. Threat8 “‘Black Beauticians Were Very Important’: Southern Beauty Activists and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle” 180Tiffany M. Gill9 “Organizing for Reproductive Control” 205Anne M. Valk10 “Things Fall Apart; the LGBT Center Holds” (Excerpt) 235Deborah Gray WhiteList of Original Publications 251Contributors 253Index 255

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Book Synopsis Winner of a Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards Won Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History Association) The iconic leader of one of America’s most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny’s monumental biography tells the life story of the figure who built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor powerhouse that still represents almost 30,000 workers. An Australian immigrant, Bridges worked the Pacific Coast docks. His militant unionism placed him at the center of the 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike and spurred him to expand his organizing activities to warehouse laborers and Hawaiian sugar and pineapple workers. Cherny examines the overall effectiveness of Bridges as a union leader and the decisions and Trade Review"In Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend, the culmination of thirty-five years of effort, Robert Cherny provides a majestic biography." --New York Labor History"Allows us to revisit a monumental twentieth-century life. Bridges the man may not be widely known, but his philosophy of inclusive, democratic unionism imbues much of today’s most ambitious organizing campaigns, from Starbucks and Amazon to the teachers’ unions in Chicago and Los Angeles." --New York Review of Books ​"A detailed account of Bridges’s life and achievements, using not only the extensive government files from his various prosecutions and the ILWU’s voluminous archives but also Bridges’s own papers, a number of interviews with him, and, crucially, CPUSA files in Russian archives. It is unlikely that a more complete story of the man will ever be told." --Commentary "A must-read for students of 20th Century US History." --Labor History "Cherny's text is about as complete a biography of Bridges as one will find. Politically astute and with a deep understanding of the complexities of labor organizing and union work, the text presents a portrait of a man, his politics, and his steadfast belief in the necessity and potential power of an organized working class. . . . One of the best pictures of labor unionism ever written down." --Counterpunch "Cherny's text is as complete a biography of Bridges as one will find. Politically astute and with a deep understanding of the complexities of labour organizing and union work, the text presents a portrait of a man, his politics, and his steadfast belief in the necessity and potential power of an organized working class. " --Morning Star "A monumental achievement. More than thirty-five years in the making, it is exhaustively researched, gracefully written, and comprehensive. . . . Offers tantalizing details that may surprise even those who already know a great deal about Bridges and the ILWU. . . . It should appeal to everyone interested in Harry Bridges, the history of the ILWU, and the American labor movement in general." --Dispatcher "A deeply researched biography. . . this book will be valuable to readers interested in labor history, maritime history, the history of American communism, and California history." --Choice Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations From Australia to the San Francisco Docks, 1901-1922 San Francisco Longshoreman, 1922-1929 San Francisco Longshoremen Organize, 1929-May 9, 1934 The Big Strike, May 9 to July 4, 1934 The Big Strike: Bloody Thursday and After, July 5th to the End of 1934 Pursuing Maritime Unity, October 1934-January 1936 Founding the ILWU, 1936-1940 Harry Bridges and the Communist Party in the 1930s: Evidence from the Russian Archives Deport Bridges! 1934-1941 If at First You Don’t Succeed: Deportation, 1940-1945 World War, Labor Peace, 1940-1945 Cold War, Labor War, 1945-1948 Try, Try, Again: Deportation and Expulsion, 1948-1953 The Last Deportation Trial and New Beginnings, 1953-1960 Transforming Longshoring: The M&Ms, 1960-1966 Labor Statesman? 1960-1971 The Longest Strike: Relations with PMA, 1966-1977 Living Legend, 1971-1990 Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA fascinating read on the power of youth protest, Children of Communism shows what life was like for the first generation to have been born under communism and how one evening spent grieving rock and roll under a tree forever changed lives.Trade ReviewRelying on oral histories and other primary sources, Horváth explores how the Communist regime manipulated state-sponsored tabloid media during the trial to legitimize its own role as guardians of public safety and to portray the youth as social deviants who were instruments of Western-style decadence. . . . Highly recommended. -- C. P. Vesei * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Hippie Stroll2. The Trial: Casting3. How Hooligans Are Made4. Youth Protection5. The Police and Uses of the Urban Space6. The Socialist Tabloid Press7. Protest in a Diary8. Girl in the Gang9. MemoryConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA fascinating read on the power of youth protest, Children of Communism shows what life was like for the first generation to have been born under communism and how one evening spent grieving rock and roll under a tree forever changed lives.Trade ReviewRelying on oral histories and other primary sources, Horváth explores how the Communist regime manipulated state-sponsored tabloid media during the trial to legitimize its own role as guardians of public safety and to portray the youth as social deviants who were instruments of Western-style decadence. . . . Highly recommended. -- C. P. Vesei * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Hippie Stroll2. The Trial: Casting3. How Hooligans Are Made4. Youth Protection5. The Police and Uses of the Urban Space6. The Socialist Tabloid Press7. Protest in a Diary8. Girl in the Gang9. MemoryConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn insightful critique of ethnomusicology that challenges its colonialist roots and the resulting inequalities and exclusionary practices. At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice provides multiple paths to restructuring the discipline around the ideologies of social justice. In the process, the 'new norm' embraces difference—the ideas, opinions, approaches, and priorities of historically marginalized groups. This book turns the discipline on its head with the goal of encouraging ethnomusicologists to engage in self-reflection on how we research, teach and practice ethnomusicology. At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice is an ideal companion for monographs on the history of the field. -- Portia K. Maultsby, coeditor of Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation and African American Music: An Introduction, 2nd ed.The book's emphasis on a justice-oriented ethnomusicology offers hope. Gathering what could be called testimonio-like narratives by established scholars, the editors work to reimagine the field as one that is justice-oriented and in the process take the pulse of this exciting and necessary discipline. The editors have culled the work of authors to present the pedagogical implications as well as the practice of a social justice approach to the study of music and to performance. They are spot on in grouping the chapters around four main themes: Truth Telling and Listening Lovingly, Radical Inclusivity, Coalition Building, and Direct Action. The contributors' voices build a coherent picture through intriguing explorations of the field and offer new directions toward a justice-oriented ethnomusicology. -- Norma E. Cantú, Trinity UniversityTable of ContentsPreface, by Andrew G. Snyder and Katelyn E. BestAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Pathways toward a Justice-Oriented Ethnomusicology, by David A. McDonaldPart I: Truth Telling and Listening Lovingly1. Diversity on Repeat: The Deceptive Cadence of Social Domination in Ethnomusicology, by Kyra D. Gaunt2. Social Justice and My Work as a Music Scholar, Teacher, and Artist, by Steven Loza3. Punk and Politics and Transforming Musical Academe, by Brenda M. Romero4. Going Forward with Vigilance: American Indian Music is Always There, by Charlotte W. Heth5. Deliver Me from Danger, Èşù-Elgbára! Musical Offerings in Social Justice, by Paul AusterlitzPart II: Radical Inclusivity6. Ethnocentrism 2.0: Hearing-Centrism, Inclusivity, and Musical Expression in Deaf Culture, by Katelyn E. Best7. Pink Menno Hymn Sings: Queerness, Inclusivity, and the Mennonite Church, by Katie J. Graber8. Unsettling Euro-American Conceptions of Race in the Egyptian Independent Music Scene, by Darci Sprengel9. Reclaiming Nanook of the North, Tanya Tagaq's Sonic and Performative Counterpoints to Inuit Stereotypes, by Ho Chak Law10. "If I Could Go Back in Time": Rethinking Popular Culture, Social Justice, and the Compassionate Gaze in Palestine, by David A. McDonaldPart III: Coalition Building11. Promoting Social Justice through Traditional Irish Music: A New Model for Applied Research, by Alexandria Carrico12. The Sonic Politics of Interracial Coalitions, by Susan M. Asai13. "¡Vamos a Pelear en la Guerra!": Musical Manifestations of Coalition Building in the South Texas Chicano Movement, by Erin E. BauerPart IV: Direct Action14. "Music is Liberation": The Brass Liberation Orchestra and Direct Action, by Andrew G. Snyder15. Ecological Frictions and Borderless Futures: Art and Activism on a Sailing Ship, by Rebekah E. Moore16. Raising the Imperative for Direct Action, by Susan M. Asai17. Circling Back on Direct Action: On Difference and Representation, by Brenda M. RomeroList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores iconoclasm in American art history, focusing on the destruction of the statue of King George III in New York City in 1776. Argues that the destruction of art and objects has propelled the formation of an American creation story.Trade Review“A triumphant endorsement of the power of objects to act upon the human imagination.”—Caroline Culp Panorama“A timely study, given recent interest in removing Confederate statuary, this interdisciplinary volume will resonate with readers interested in history as well as those studying public monuments and memory. Highly recommended.”—J. Decker Choice“Bellion investigates many other pockets of American culture in her exploration of iconoclasm and its fractured meanings. The extent of her research is breathtaking, and her agile wit and engaging style keep the reader striding through the text. Somehow her command of theoretical work from a variety of disciplines manages to burnish rather than deaden the text. Eleven color plates and fifty-one black and white illustrations also give the reader plenty of visual material to ponder.”—Benjamin L. Carp The Gotham Center for New York City History“Vivid and visceral, Iconoclasm in New York weaves a brilliant tapestry of meanings from a moment of ritual violence in 1776 New York. Untangling the paradox of the always-toppling, never-quite-vanquished King George III, Wendy Bellion plumbs a central mystery of American culture. To see the destructive creation of the United States through Bellion’s keen eyes is to witness the American Revolution transformed.”—Jane Kamensky,author of A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley“Wendy Bellion has one of the most powerful interpretive voices helping us see what the early United States imagined of itself and for itself. In her new book on the power of destructive acts, she looks closely at the art of destruction, showing us how King George III fell and rose (along with other emblems of monarchy and Great Britain) in a pattern that continues to this day. I’m looking forward to regularly reading, teaching, and thinking through Iconoclasm in New York.”—Karin Wulf,author of Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia“Bellion’s provocative and timely study weaves together the geographic, environmental, political, and sensory landscapes of New York City to create a highly original contribution to scholarship on the American Revolution and its memorialization.”—Matthew Dziennik The William and Mary Quarterly“Meticulously researched and vividly written, Iconoclasm in New York provides a model for the field, demonstrating that the practice of art history can be at once expansive in scope and highly specific in its claims.”—Catherine Roach Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide“Iconoclasm in New York will be indispensable to interdisciplinary scholarship on the episode and illuminating to work on American iconoclasm and commemoration. The abundant archival research is inestimable; the book is brimming with exciting discoveries and new features of what once seemed a familiar story. This deep history solidifies the pivotal role of iconoclasm in a myth of American origins.”—Michelle Sizemore Early American Literature“Bellion’s book helps me to contextualize and understand at least two forms of iconoclasm that we are experiencing today, both nationally and on a global scale: one that rejects monuments to white supremacy and imperialism and another that defends those monuments and would see anything that threatens them toppled in their stead.”—Kirsten Pai Buick Winterthur Portfolio

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Book SynopsisIn Communicate for Change, Genelle Aldred explores how to recognise bias and the way it impacts every area of life, and how to communicate in a way that works to create meaningful and effective change.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This inter-disciplinary book draws on rare English and Marathi language sources — including novels, poems, and manifestoes — and contributes to debates in the fields of South Asian history, global Marxism, social anthropology, urban studies, labor studies, Dalit studies, and literature." * New Books in South Asia (NBN) *"Highlighting the nexus among caste, class, language, urban space, and the tensions within these categories, as well as how caste and class shaped the urban environment, this remarkable book contributes significantly to social/labor history and urban studies." * Choice *"[A] fascinating study of the politics of urban poor in the rapidly shifting landscape of twentieth-century Bombay city...it offers a glimpse of [the city] as it is lived, reshaped, and appropriated by its Dalit inhabitants, and makes a great contribution to the bourgeoning scholarship on Dalit labor and Bombay city." * The Middle Ground Journal *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This inter-disciplinary book draws on rare English and Marathi language sources — including novels, poems, and manifestoes — and contributes to debates in the fields of South Asian history, global Marxism, social anthropology, urban studies, labor studies, Dalit studies, and literature." * New Books in South Asia (NBN) *"Highlighting the nexus among caste, class, language, urban space, and the tensions within these categories, as well as how caste and class shaped the urban environment, this remarkable book contributes significantly to social/labor history and urban studies." * Choice *"[A] fascinating study of the politics of urban poor in the rapidly shifting landscape of twentieth-century Bombay city...it offers a glimpse of [the city] as it is lived, reshaped, and appropriated by its Dalit inhabitants, and makes a great contribution to the bourgeoning scholarship on Dalit labor and Bombay city." * The Middle Ground Journal *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Three major contributions of Hall’s study stand out. First, it challenges the trope of the violent anarchist, and explains anarcho-syndicalism and anarchist communism, appealing to Fox and others who valued the power of organized workers. Second, it highlights activists’ logistical work to keep organizations and publications afloat. Volunteer labor, problem-solving, failure, and redirection are part of such struggle. Third, the book underscores the power of writing as a vehicle for making sense of the world, for oneself and others. Fox demonstrated that in his correspondence and articles, and Hall does so in his approach. His research is impressive, and he excels in framing a quote to integrate it into an argument." * Pacific Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisJay Fox (18701961) was a journalist, intellectual, and labor militant whose influence rippled across the country. In Writing Labor's Emancipation, historian Greg Hall traces Fox's unorthodox life to highlight the shifting dynamics in US labor radicalism from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Radicalized as a teenager after witnessing the Haymarket tragedy, Fox embarked on a lifetime of union organizing, building anarchist communities (including Home, Washington), and writing. Thanks to his sharp wit, he became an influential voice, often in dialogue with fellow anarchists such as Emma Goldman and Lucy Parsons. Hall both explores Fox's life and shines a light on the utopians, revolutionaries, and union men and women with whom Fox associated and debated. Hall's research provides valuable knowledge of the lived experiences of working-class Americans and reveals alternative visions for activism and social change.Trade Review"Three major contributions of Hall’s study stand out. First, it challenges the trope of the violent anarchist, and explains anarcho-syndicalism and anarchist communism, appealing to Fox and others who valued the power of organized workers. Second, it highlights activists’ logistical work to keep organizations and publications afloat. Volunteer labor, problem-solving, failure, and redirection are part of such struggle. Third, the book underscores the power of writing as a vehicle for making sense of the world, for oneself and others. Fox demonstrated that in his correspondence and articles, and Hall does so in his approach. His research is impressive, and he excels in framing a quote to integrate it into an argument." * Pacific Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisShows how the Bible, in particular a Chinese translation of the Old Testament, profoundly influenced Hong and his followers, leading them to understand the first three of the Ten Commandments as an indictment of the imperial order. This book may appeal to scholars in the fields of Chinese history, religion, and culture.Trade Review"Reilly..is able to develop a strikingly original thesis. He argues that Protestant sources using Shangdi as the term for God in the translations of the Bible and especially the so-called Old Testament profoundly influenced Hong to connect his Christian faith to Chinese classical sources." * Canadian Journal of History *"All in all, the book presents an interesting thesis and is worth reading and using." * Journal of Chinese Religions *"Overall this is an important book that should not be overlooked by anyone working on Chinese religious history." * International Bulletin of Missionary Research *"A significant contribution to the understanding of the Taiping cause, the problems of indigenization of Christianity in any culture, and the difficulties attendant upon any and all cross-cultural exchanges." * The Journal of Asian Studies *"A well-written and researched volume with a new angle on understanding a Chinese civil war, but also of understanding Chinese religious sensibilities, the reading of sacred texts, and the ongoing Chinese issues of corruption and ethnic cleansing. This is a thought-provoking volume that sinologists and Asian historians should not overlook." * Church History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Early Catholic Search for the Name of God 2. The Protestant Bible and the Birth of the Taiping Christian Movement 3. The Taiping Challenge to Empire 4. Worship and Witness in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 5. The Taiping Legacy and Missionary Christianity Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOccupying much of imperial China's Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions were the spiritual beliefs of the rebels. This book deals with this topic.Trade Review"Reilly..is able to develop a strikingly original thesis. He argues that Protestant sources using Shangdi as the term for God in the translations of the Bible and especially the so-called Old Testament profoundly influenced Hong to connect his Christian faith to Chinese classical sources." * Canadian Journal of History *"All in all, the book presents an interesting thesis and is worth reading and using." * Journal of Chinese Religions *"Overall this is an important book that should not be overlooked by anyone working on Chinese religious history." * International Bulletin of Missionary Research *"A significant contribution to the understanding of the Taiping cause, the problems of indigenization of Christianity in any culture, and the difficulties attendant upon any and all cross-cultural exchanges." * The Journal of Asian Studies *"A well-written and researched volume with a new angle on understanding a Chinese civil war, but also of understanding Chinese religious sensibilities, the reading of sacred texts, and the ongoing Chinese issues of corruption and ethnic cleansing. This is a thought-provoking volume that sinologists and Asian historians should not overlook." * Church History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Early Catholic Search for the Name of God 2. The Protestant Bible and the Birth of the Taiping Christian Movement 3. The Taiping Challenge to Empire 4. Worship and Witness in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 5. The Taiping Legacy and Missionary Christianity Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia's most ethnically heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. This book reveals the links between ethnic violence and subnational politics. It also demonstrates that the endemic violence in this vast region is not the inevitable outcome of its ethnic diversity.Trade ReviewFascinating. Davidson's careful historical examination of this decades-long sequence of riots deserves to be read by anyone interested in ethnic conflict and violence. I learned a great deal. - Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University ""Thoroughly grounded in both the burgeoning theoretical literature on ethnic violence and the turbulent history of western Borneo, this nuanced study shows the need to disaggregate such vast entities as Indonesia to understand the 'tipping points' towards violence."" - Anthony Reid, National University of Singapore

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Book SynopsisCountering notions that Hmong history begins and ends with the “Secret War” in Laos of the 1960s and 1970s, this study reveals how the Hmong experience of modernity is grounded in their sense of their own ancient past, when this now-stateless people had their own king and kingdom, and illuminates their political choices over the course of a century in a highly contested region of Asia.Trade Review“Mai Na Lee’s ability to situate the histories in local, national and regional terms has raised the bar for scholarship on highland areas of Southeast Asia. She uses the French colonial archives with skill and nuance, and is methodologically equally at home with oral history interviews. Her use of dreams, rumours and the dynamics of millenarian movements, plus kinship and ritual conventions, adds yet other dimensions to her work.”—Asian Studies Review

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Book SynopsisDespite a propaganda programme intent on maintaining the cliche of stability, Putin's regime was suddenly confronted in December 2011 by a public protest movement that told a different side of the story. The author argues that Putinism has brought economic growth to Russia but also weaker institutions, and this contradiction leads to instability.Trade Review"'Judah is an intrepid reporter and classy political scientist.' (Luke Harding, The Guardian) 'The best of a recent crop of books on the Russian president, it describes the essential corruption of the system Putin created (supposedly) to clean up the country. It spans the extent of this huge country as well as the decade and a half that Putin has been in power.' (Oliver Bullough, The Telegraph) 'A beautifully written and very lively study of Russia that argues that the political order created by Vladimir Putin is stagnating - undermined by corruption and a failure to modernise economically. Judah's reporting stretches from the Kremlin to Siberia and has a clear moral sense, without being preachy.' (Gideon Rachman, Financial Times) 'Ben Judah, a young freelance writer, paints a more journalistic - and more passionate - picture in Fragile Empire. He shuttles to and fro across Russia's vast terrain, finding criminals, liars, fascists and crooked politicians, as well as the occasional saintly figure.' (The Economist) 'this detailed and impressive account of Putin's years in office' (Ian Critchley, The Sunday Times)"

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Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of a radical activist and intellectualTrade Review“A subtle portrait of a disappointed man . . . Readers wanting a full life of Eastman are well served by Mr. Irmscher’s meticulous chronicle.”—Richard Aldous, Wall Street Journal“A shrewd, important, and revealing portrait of the ever-unrepentant Eastman.”—Jill Lepore, author of Joe Gould’s Teeth“Eastman deserves a reintroduction, and Irmscher has done a magnificent job of dramatizing his life.”—George B. Hutchinson, Cornell University“Christoph Irmscher has written a truly humane biography of a life that captures the last century’s transformations. Richly illustrated with photographs, artwork, letters, and published documents, Max Eastman gives the reader a full sense of the man who wrote poetry as well as trenchant political, literary, and philosophical essays, and who retained a lifelong interest in the sources of humor and laughter.”—Werner Sollors, author of The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s“This revolutionary turned reactionary deserves to be studied again. A polarizing figure—much celebrated, much reviled—he was a true American original, and this clear-eyed biography is equal to the task.”—Nicholas Delbanco, author of Lastingness: The Art of Old Age."It’s difficult to be a legend, but Max Eastman has at long last acquired the absorbing and revelatory biography he ought to have. Christoph Irmscher’s textured portrait is written with self-confident clarity, a keen archeological eye, superb craft, and exemplary evidentiary standards. Surely definitive, Max Eastman disdains closets and dark places to reveal what it was like to have lived one of radicalism’s most remarkable lives."—Alan M. Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor of English Literature and American Culture, University of Michigan

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Book SynopsisWhy we cannot truly implement human rights unless we also recognize human responsibilities When we debate questions in international law, politics, and justice, we often use the language of rightsand far less often the language of responsibilities. Human rights scholars and activists talk about state responsibility for rights, but they do not articulate clear norms about other actors' obligations. In this book, Kathryn Sikkink argues that we cannot truly implement human rights unless we also recognize and practice the corresponding human responsibilities. Focusing on five areasclimate change, voting, digital privacy, freedom of speech, and sexual assaultand providing many examples of on-the-ground initiatives where people choose to embrace a close relationship between rights and responsibilities, Sikkink argues for the importance of responsibilities to any comprehensive understanding of political ethics and human rights.

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Book SynopsisIn the sixties, Fitzhugh Mullan was an activist in the civil rights struggle. While in medical school, Mullan was shocked by gaps in what the students learned, and the lack of humanity in the classroom. This book charts the state of medical school and practices in the 1960s and 70s.Trade ReviewThis reissue of White Coast, Clenched Fist, the marvelous memoir depicting the shaping of a doctor in the seething sixties, delivers valuable lessons to a twenty-first century audience. If it is to be fixed, our chaotic system of health care must recapture Fitzhugh Mullan's altruism and commitment to social justice. His remarkable journey, both personal and professional, takes the reader through far reaches of community and government. The reward: a deeper understanding of health issues and solutions. - Studs Terkel, author of Hard Times, Working, Race, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Good War

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Book SynopsisThis work examines how the exercise of power and the strategies of social movements transformed with the transition from a military to an elected-civilian regime in Chile.Trade Review"In joining activism and fine ethnography, Paley enables us to appreciate the profound complexity of the links between civil society and public institutions." - Charles Briggs, author of Disorderly Discourse: Narrative, Conflict, and Inequality "An insightful and fascinating exploration of the shifting meanings of democracy for the Chilean state and for shantytown activists across the Pinochet dictatorship and through the contradictory democratic politics of the 1990s. The marketing of democracy is a highly relevant issue for societies and states throughout the world." - Kay Warren, author of Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala "This will be an important book, and a powerful exemplar for the growing numbers of anthropologists who seek to place such things as democracy, citizenship, and neoliberalism under an ethnographic lens." - James Ferguson, author of Expectations of Modernity"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction La Bandera in the Social Imaginary PART ONE: History of Collective Action 1. The Founding of the Poblacion 2. Military Rule 3. Transition to Democracy PART TWO: Ethnography of Democracy 4. Marketing Democracy 5. The Paradox of Participation 6. Legitimation of Knowledge Epilogue Appendix. Health Group's Ethnography Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA history of American women activists. It features biographical essays on feminist Bella Abzug and civil rights visionary Fannie Lou Hamer and a chapter on women environmental activists.Trade Review"Buy Nies's book and read it aloud faithfully, until all of you, young and old, have shared and incorporated into your vision of America the heroic, unique, and visionary contribution women have made to the history of the United States."-Cynthia Warrick Kemper, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Judith Nies [writes] about those courageous, visionary women in our history who were driven to write for and live for wider audiences.... It is about women who chose confrontation with the formidable forces of society rather than quiet communion with their diaries."-Elizabeth Benedict, Christian Science Monitor "Judith Nies begins here to restore the great women radicals to the tradition, knowing that to think of these heroic women simply as fighters for women's suffrage and women's rights is to impoverish...the larger political tradition of which it is a part."-Frances Putnam Fritchman, In These Times "Readers will be remembering a long time the vivid Mary Harris Jones, "Mother Jones," organizing coal miners...remarkable for insight are Nies's essays on Dorothy Day and Charlotte Perkins Gilman."-Willie LeeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface to the 2002 Edition Introduction Sarah Moore Grimke Harriet Tubman Elizabeth Cady Stanton Mother Jones Charlotte Perkins Gilman Anna Louise Strong Dorothy Day Fanny Lou Hamer Bella Savitsky Abzug Women and the Environmental Movement Epilogue: The Legacy of the Radical Tradition Further Readings and Individual Bibliographies Selected Bibliography on Women, Radicals, and Historiography Updated Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis'Africa for the Africans' was the name given to the extraordinary movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). This title demonstrates the central role Africans played in the development of the Garvey phenomenon. It provides an account of how Africans transformed Garveyism into an African social movement.

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Book SynopsisHow should activists use new media tools to expose issues and mobilize grassroots support? When should activists form coalitions, and with whom? How are students - be they Dreamers seeking immigration reform or college activists battling ever-increasing tuition costs - winning major campaigns? This title deals with these questions.Trade Review"It's a remarkable, unsentimental record of modern Bay Area politics and causes, yet hardly belongs to a niche readership." -- Steven Mikulan Capital & MainTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Don't Respond, Strategize 2. Elected Officials: Inspiring Fear and Loathing 3. Coalition Activism: Rounding Up the Unusual Suspects 4. Ballot Initiatives: The Rules of the Game 5. The Media: Winning More Than Coverage 6. The Internet and Social Media: How Activists Should Harness the Information Superhighway 7. Direct Action: Acting Up, Sitting In, Taking to the Streets 8. Lawyers: Allies or Obstacles to Social Change? 9. Student Activists Offer Roadmaps for Social Change Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisLooks at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Interweaving historical and ethnographic evidence, this book explains how refuge-seeking has become a socially and politically debased practice in the Kashmir region and why this devaluation has turned refugee men into potential militants.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Note on Names, Transliteration, and Photographs Preface: The Kashmir Dispute and the Conflicts Within Conflict Ethnography Acknowledgments Introduction: The Social Production of Jihad Part One Between Hijarat and Jihad in Azad Kashmir 1 * Between War and Refuge in Jammu and Kashmir: Displacement, Borders, and the Boundaries of Political Belonging 2 Protective Migration and Armed Struggle: Political Violence and the Limits of Victimization in Islam Part Two The Historical Emergence of Kashmiri Refugees as Political Subjects 3 Forging Political Identities, 1947--1988: The South Asian Refugee Regime and Refugee Resettlement Villages 4 Transforming Political Identities, 1989--2001: Refugee Camps in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the International Refugee Regime Part Three Body of Victim, Body of Warrior 5 Human Rights and Jihad: Victimization and the Sovereignty of the Body 6 The Mujahid as Family-Man: Sex, Death, and the Warrior's (Im)pure Body Conclusion: From Muhajir to Mujahid to Jihadi in the Global Order of Things Postscript: And, "Humanitarian Jihad" Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAmidst war, economic meltdown, and ecological crisis, a "new spirit of radicalism is blooming" from New York to Cairo, according to Chris Dixon. This book examines the trajectory of efforts that contributed to the radicalism of Occupy Wall Street and other recent movement upsurges.Trade Review"An excellent distillation of what Dixon calls 'another politics,' a shared political orientation that unites grassroots organizers working from similar principles in the United States and Canada across issue, movement, sector, strategy and identity... Like a good organizing mentor, Dixon (and his interviewees) gives us insight without 'right' answers, helping to deepen our understanding of commonalities and remind us of the deep roots of the 'another politics' leftist lineage." -- Andrew Willis Garces Waging Nonviolence "An invaluable snapshot of the North American left today... To understand the state of the left in North America, in all its aspirations and its limitations, Another Politics is an important book." -- Justin Podur teleSUR "With such widespread challenges and injustice facing our society, combined with the shifting energies and momentum of people power, the 'another politics' Chris Dixon documents in Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements offers perhaps the most promising and exciting approaches to collectively addressing these problems while simultaneously moving us into the world in which we wish to live." -- Greg MacDougall Rabble "One of the most engaging books on activism that I've read in a long time ... Another Politics is inspiring and thought provoking without being naive. A must read for anyone into activism and grassroots politics." -- E V E L Y N We Were Raised By Wolves "Gripping and politically productive ... impressive and important ... A compelling work of social and political theory." -- Ted Rutland Race & Class "Chris Dixon exposes the teeth of anti-authoritarian organizing, and captures--with rigor--the emergent possibilities in this new spirit of radicalism ... This book serves as an invitation to activists and organizers to struggle better, more wholly, and more effectively for collective transformative change." Make/Shift "Remarkable... [Another Politics] accomplishes [a] complex task... by strategic inquisitiveness...[a] unique contribution." Labour/Le Travail "Another Politics is a major new work... a vital learning tool... [and] a must have." New Political Science "Dixon is an extremely generous scholar as he weaves his text around interviews with movement participants. The book offers readers a meticulous account of these organizing cultures in addition to the thought processes, decision-making mechanisms, and application of historical reflections and theoretical concepts in a contemporary social movement." -- Kevin Van Meter Cultural GeographiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Angela Y. Davis Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Politics 1. "Fighting against amnesia": Movement Histories of Another Politics 2. "Defining ourselves in opposition": The Four "Anti's" 3. "Organizing now the way you want to see the world later": Prefigurative Politics Part 2. Strategy 4. "Do you want to have a chance at winning something?": Developing Strategy 5. "In the world but not of it": An Emerging Strategic Framework Part 3. Organizing 6. "Bringing people together to build their power": Anti-authoritarian Organizing 7. "Leadership from below": Taking Initiative and Building Capacities 8. "Vehicles for movement-building": Creating Organizations Conclusion: "Imagining ourselves outside of what we know" Resources for Movement-Building Organizations and Projects Mentioned Biographies of Interviewees Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAmidst war, economic meltdown, and ecological crisis, a "new spirit of radicalism is blooming" from New York to Cairo, according to the author. This book examines the trajectory of efforts that contributed to the radicalism of Occupy Wall Street and other recent movement upsurges.Trade Review"An excellent distillation of what Dixon calls 'another politics,' a shared political orientation that unites grassroots organizers working from similar principles in the United States and Canada across issue, movement, sector, strategy and identity... Like a good organizing mentor, Dixon (and his interviewees) gives us insight without 'right' answers, helping to deepen our understanding of commonalities and remind us of the deep roots of the 'another politics' leftist lineage." -- Andrew Willis Garces Waging Nonviolence "An invaluable snapshot of the North American left today... To understand the state of the left in North America, in all its aspirations and its limitations, Another Politics is an important book." -- Justin Podur teleSUR "With such widespread challenges and injustice facing our society, combined with the shifting energies and momentum of people power, the 'another politics' Chris Dixon documents in Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements offers perhaps the most promising and exciting approaches to collectively addressing these problems while simultaneously moving us into the world in which we wish to live." -- Greg MacDougall Rabble "Chris Dixon exposes the teeth of anti-authoritarian organizing, and captures--with rigor--the emergent possibilities in this new spirit of radicalism ... This book serves as an invitation to activists and organizers to struggle better, more wholly, and more effectively for collective transformative change." Make/Shift "Gripping and politically productive ... impressive and important ... A compelling work of social and political theory." -- Ted Rutland Race & Class "Remarkable... [Another Politics] accomplishes [a] complex task... by strategic inquisitiveness...[a] unique contribution." Labour/Le Travail "One of the most engaging books on activism that I've read in a long time ... Another Politics is inspiring and thought provoking without being naive. A must read for anyone into activism and grassroots politics." -- E V E L Y N We Were Raised By Wolves "Another Politics is a major new work... a vital learning tool... [and] a must have." New Political Science "Dixon is an extremely generous scholar as he weaves his text around interviews with movement participants. The book offers readers a meticulous account of these organizing cultures in addition to the thought processes, decision-making mechanisms, and application of historical reflections and theoretical concepts in a contemporary social movement." -- Kevin Van Meter Cultural GeographiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Angela Y. Davis Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Politics 1. "Fighting against amnesia": Movement Histories of Another Politics 2. "Defining ourselves in opposition": The Four "Anti's" 3. "Organizing now the way you want to see the world later": Prefigurative Politics Part 2. Strategy 4. "Do you want to have a chance at winning something?": Developing Strategy 5. "In the world but not of it": An Emerging Strategic Framework Part 3. Organizing 6. "Bringing people together to build their power": Anti-authoritarian Organizing 7. "Leadership from below": Taking Initiative and Building Capacities 8. "Vehicles for movement-building": Creating Organizations Conclusion: "Imagining ourselves outside of what we know" Resources for Movement-Building Organizations and Projects Mentioned Biographies of Interviewees Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the problems and possibilities that the subject of political violence presented to American painters working between 1830 and 1890, a turbulent period during which common citizens frequently abandoned orderly forms of democratic expression to riot, strike, and protest violently.Trade Review"Intriguing." -- S. Webster CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. How Could a Mob Be Painted? Picturing Political Violence in the Jacksonian Era 2. Painting That "Might Prove Injurious": Cinque and the Representation of African American Political Violence 3. Riot, Rowdyism, and Reform: George Henry Hall and the Picturing of Midcentury Urban Upheaval 4. Trouble on the Home Front: Art, Democracy, and Disorder during the Civil War 5. Painting and Political Violence at Century's End Conclusion Notes List of Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to say that while cutting is ending, the Western discourse surrounding it is on the rise? And what kind of a feminist anthropology is needed in such a moment? This book examines these questions from the vantage point of Ghanaian feminist and reproductive health NGOs that have organized campaigns against cutting over the years.Trade Review"This rich ethnography has much to say about civil society and feminist problems in a 21st century postcolonial nation." * Somatosphere *"This book is a gem for it offers insights into issues of interest to a wide range of scholars such as development specialists, anthropologists, Africanist scholars and feminists." * African Review of Economics *"Hodžić’s ethnography compellingly reveals the ways in which FGM as a discursive concept remains active in the wake of the ending of genital cutting practices." * Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute *"Readers can expect a brilliant feminist critique of the 'problematisation' of female genital cutting." * Journal of Modern African Studies *"A timely contribution to pan-African scholarship." * Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: Coming to Questions Introduction: Governmentality against Itself 1 * Colonial Reason, Sensibility, and the Ethnographic Style 2 * Making Harmful Traditional Practices 3 * When Cutting Did and Did Not End 4 * Mistaken by Design: Biopolitics in Practice 5 * Blood Loss and Slow Harm in Times of Scarcity 6 * Th e Feminist Fetish: Legal Advocacy 7 * Against Sovereign Violence Epilogue Acknowledgments Acronyms Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity, political activism, community, and purpose. Not Yo' Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamotoartist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her life as a Japanese American child navigating a fearful west coast during World War II, Miyamotoleads readers into the landscapes that defined the experiences of twentieth-century America and alsoforegrounds the struggles of people of color who reclaimed their histories, identities, and power through activism and art. Miyamoto vividly describes her early life in the racialized atmosphere of Hollywood musicals and then her turn toward activism as an Asian American troubadour with the release of A Grain of Sandconsidered to be the first Asian American folk album. Her narrative intersects with the stories of Yuri Kochiyama and Grace Lee Boggs, influential in both Asian and Black liberation movements. She tells how her experience of motherhood with an Afro-Asian son, as well as a marriage that intertwined Black and Japanese families and communities, placed her at the nexus of the 1992 Rodney King riotsand how she used art to create interracial solidarity and conciliation. Through it all, Miyamoto has embraced her identity as an Asian American woman to create an antiracist body of work and a blueprint for empathy and praxis through community art. Her sometimes barbed, often provocative, and always steadfast story is now told.Trade Review"Frank and fierce, her story is bound to inspire." * Ms. Magazine *"Starts with a bang and takes off into a poetic whirlwind. . . . The memoir captures an important part of American history that, at this point, has been rarely written about, especially by someone who lived it." * Rafu Shimpo *"Playful, provocative, never boring. . . . The memoir captures an important part of American history that has been rarely written about. It is well worth reading." * Nichi Bei Weekly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Intro First Movement 1 • A Travelin' Girl 2 • Don’t Fence Me In 3 • A Tisket, a Tasket, a Brown and Yellow Basket 4 • From a Broken Past into the Future 5 • Twice as Good 6 • Shall We Dance! 7 • School Daze 8 • Chop Suey 9 • There's a Place for Us 10 • We Shall Overcome Second Movement 11 • Power to the People 12 • A Single Stone, Many Ripples 13 • Something About Me Today 14 • The People's Beat 15 • A Song for Ourselves 16 • Somos Asiáticos 17 • Foster Children of the Pepsi Generation 18 • A Grain of Sand 19 • Free the Land 20 • What Will People Think? 21 • Some Things Live a Moment 22 • How to Mend What's Broken Third Movement 23 • Women Hold Up Half the Sky 24 • Our Own Chop Suey 25 • What Is the Color of Love? 26 • Talk Story 27 • Yuiyo, Just Dance 28 • Float Hands Like Clouds 29 • Deep Is the Chasm 30 • To All Relations 31 • Bismillah Ir Rahman Ir Rahim 32 • The Seed of the Dandelion 33 • I Dream a Garden 34 • Mottainai—Waste Nothing 35 • Black Lives Matter 36 • Bambutsu—All Things Connected Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity, political activism, community, and purpose. Not Yo' Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamotoartist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her life as a Japanese American child navigating a fearful west coast during World War II, Miyamotoleads readers into the landscapes that defined the experiences of twentieth-century America and alsoforegrounds the struggles of people of color who reclaimed their histories, identities, and power through activism and art. Miyamoto vividly describes her early life in the racialized atmosphere of Hollywood musicals and then her turn toward activism as an Asian American troubadour with the release of A Grain of Sandconsidered to be the first Asian American folk album. Her narrative intersects with the stories of Yuri Kochiyama and Grace Lee Boggs, influential in both Asian and Black liberation movements. She tells how her experience of mothTrade Review"Frank and fierce, her story is bound to inspire." * Ms. Magazine *"Starts with a bang and takes off into a poetic whirlwind. . . . The memoir captures an important part of American history that, at this point, has been rarely written about, especially by someone who lived it." * Rafu Shimpo *"Playful, provocative, never boring. . . . The memoir captures an important part of American history that has been rarely written about. It is well worth reading." * Nichi Bei Weekly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Intro First Movement 1 • A Travelin' Girl 2 • Don’t Fence Me In 3 • A Tisket, a Tasket, a Brown and Yellow Basket 4 • From a Broken Past into the Future 5 • Twice as Good 6 • Shall We Dance! 7 • School Daze 8 • Chop Suey 9 • There's a Place for Us 10 • We Shall Overcome Second Movement 11 • Power to the People 12 • A Single Stone, Many Ripples 13 • Something About Me Today 14 • The People's Beat 15 • A Song for Ourselves 16 • Somos Asiáticos 17 • Foster Children of the Pepsi Generation 18 • A Grain of Sand 19 • Free the Land 20 • What Will People Think? 21 • Some Things Live a Moment 22 • How to Mend What's Broken Third Movement 23 • Women Hold Up Half the Sky 24 • Our Own Chop Suey 25 • What Is the Color of Love? 26 • Talk Story 27 • Yuiyo, Just Dance 28 • Float Hands Like Clouds 29 • Deep Is the Chasm 30 • To All Relations 31 • Bismillah Ir Rahman Ir Rahim 32 • The Seed of the Dandelion 33 • I Dream a Garden 34 • Mottainai—Waste Nothing 35 • Black Lives Matter 36 • Bambutsu—All Things Connected Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisMusic, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape. Reds, Whites, and Blues examines the political force of folk music, not through the meaning of its lyrics, but through the concrete sTrade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Charles Tilly Best Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association "Although some of Roy's theoretical discussions in the early chapters should interest folk music scholars, his book will be more important to students of social movements."--Robert V. Wells, Journal of American History "The importance of this excellent book is that it revisits these two movements and reveals once again the power of culture."--Ron Eyerman, American Journal of Sociology "With these carefully documented and well-argued case studies, Roy makes a considerable contribution to cultural sociology in general and social movement studies in particular, and those with a background in the latter field will gain the most from the work as a whole."--Dana Sawchuk, Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsPreface ix Chapter One: Social Movements, Music, and Race 1 Chapter Two: Music and Boundaries: Race and Folk 28 Chapter Three: The Original Folk Project 49 Chapter Four: White and Black Reds: Building an Infrastructure 79 Chapter Five: Movement Entrepreneurs and Activists 100 Chapter Six: Organizing Music: The Fruits of Entrepreneurship 126 Chapter Seven: The Highlander School 155 Chapter Eight: Music at the Heart of the Quintessential Social Movement 181 Chapter Nine: A Movement Splintered 213 Chapter Ten: How Social Movements Do Culture 234 Appendix: Coding of Songbooks and Song Anthologies 251 Notes 253 References 263 Index 277

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Book SynopsisMothers of Conservatism tells the story of 1950s Southern Californian housewives who shaped the grassroots right in the two decades following World War II. Michelle Nickerson describes how red-hunting homemakers mobilized activist networks, institutions, and political consciousness in local education battles, and she introduces a generation of womeTrade Review"Nickerson has enriched conservative historiography by examining the integral role women played in conservatism's development and implementation and has forced feminist historiography to confront the complications that conservative female activists bring to the literature."--Mary C. Brennan, Journal of American History "Michelle M. Nickerson's carefully crafted study of grassroots conservative activists in Los Angeles County in the 1950s and early 1960s offers an important contribution to the scholarship on twentieth-century conservatism and women's political activism in the pre-Feminine Mystique (1963) 'doldrums.'"--Sylvie Murray, American Historical Review "Mothers of Conservatism provides a useful guide to American grassroots conservatism from before World War I to the present."--Christine Graf, InterLibTable of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction xiii Abbreviations xxv Chapter I: Patriotic Daughters and Isolationist Mothers Conservative Women in the Early Twentieth Century 1 Chapter II: All Politics Was Local Grassroots Conservatism in Postwar Los Angeles 32 Chapter III: Education or Indoctrination? Conservative Female Activism in the Los Angeles Public Schools 69 Chapter IV: "Siberia, U.S.A." Psychological Experts and the State 103 Chapter V: The "Conservative Sex" Women and the Building of a Movement 136 Conclusion 169 Appendix: Conservative Bookstores Operating in Southern California in the 1960s 175 Notes 179 Index 217

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Book SynopsisThroughout American history, some social movements, such as organized labor and the Christian Right, have forged influential alliances with political parties, while others, such as the antiwar movement, have not. When Movements Anchor Parties provides a bold new interpretation of American electoral history by examining five prominent movements andTrade ReviewWinner of the 2016 Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association "Many groups make up party coalitions, but few have the influence and endurance to anchor parties. This exceptionally well-written book explains the complex political networking and alliance building activities that can help movements secure permanence within political parties."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Chapter 1 Introduction: The Making of Anchoring Groups 1 Chapter 2 Political Parties and Social Movements 14 Part I Forging Alliance Chapter 3 Labor and the Democrats in the New Deal 49 Chapter 4 "We Are Different from Previous Generations of Conservatives": The New Right and the Mobilization of Evangelicals 77 Chapter 5 The Limits of Influence: Populism and the Antiwar Movement 108 Part II Maintaining Alliance Chapter 6 The Price of Alliance: Labor and the Democrats Meet Postwar Realities 131 Chapter 7 Alliance through Adversity: Labor and the Democrats since the Merger 159 Chapter 8 From the Moral Majority to Karl Rove 198 Chapter 9 The Failure of Abolition-Republicanism 223 Chap ter 10 Conclusion: The Future of Alliance 242 Index 257

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Book SynopsisHow do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they tribal--a people whose obligations extend solely to their own? Or are they prophetic--a light unto nations, working to repair the world? The Star and the Stripes is an original, provocative interpretation of the effects of these worldviews on the foreign policy beliefs of American JewsTrade Review"[A]n important book that shows how American Jews struggle with and express their identities on a global scale."--Publishers Weekly "Compelling... An astute study that should provoke productive conversations."--Kirkus "[This book] usefully brings together important episodes in American Jewish history."--Jonathan Neumann, Standpoint "Distressing... [The Star and the Stripes] deserves attention because the issues it raises should not be ignored."--Libby K. White, Jewish Book Council "An astute study that should provoke productive conversations."--Stephen Darori, Israel Book Review "[The Star and Stripes] supplies much-needed coherence to the topic."--Choice "Barnett's useful, original book puts contemporary American Jewish attitudes toward foreign policy in historical context."--Walter Russell Mead, Foreign AffairsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Chapter One Heine's Law and Jewish Foreign Policies 19 Chapter Two The Making of a Prophetic People (pre-1914) 51 Chapter Three Prophets Mugged by Reality (1914-1945) 87 Chapter Four The Cosmopolitan and the National (1945-1967) 121 Chapter Five The New Tribalism (1967-1990) 155 Chapter Six Back to the Future? (1990-present) 195 Chapter Seven The Foreign Policies of an Uncertain People 243 Notes 275 Bibliography 303 Index 335

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Book SynopsisWhile environmental advocacy groups have become bigger in recent years, so have the corporate interests that compete with them for the attention of public and politicians. This study looks at environmental advocacy that focuses on contemporary lobbying, electioneering and agenda setting.

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Book SynopsisPresents an alternative perspective on constitutional history. Telling, in a sense, the other side of the story of the Constitution, this book offers key insights into the ideas that helped to form the nation’s founding document and that continue to inform American politics and public life.Table of Contents Preface 1. The Anti-Federalists and the Development of Dissent 2. Three Strands of Anti-Federalism 3. First Impressions and Initial Objections 4. Opposition in Pennsylvania 5. Federalist Momentum 6. The Heart of the National Debate 7. Compromise in Massachusetts 8. Setbacks in the Northeast 9. Summer Convention Elections 10. Missed Opportunities in Maryland 11. Futility in South Carolina 12. the Virginia Convention 13. anti-Federalists of New York 14. The Constitution Ratified 15. Reconciliation and Resistance 16. Elections and Amendments 17. The Last Resistance and the Completion of the Union 18. An Anti-Federalist Constitution 19. The Prospects of an Anti-Federalist Constitution Notes Bibliography Index

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