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University of Arkansas Press What Became of Wystan?: Change and Continuity in
Book SynopsisIn this lucid and balanced treatise Alan Jacobs reveals the true parameters of Auden's change after the poet's move to America in 1939. By carefully examining poems that represent transitional moments in Auden's thinking, Jacobs identifies the points at which the tectonic plates of the poet's intellect clashed and the buckles and rifts these pressures caused in Auden's body of work.
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Purdue University Press The Mark of the Beast: Animality and Human Oppression
Book SynopsisThe Mark of the Beast historically and critically examines the dire effects of the process of animalization on both humans and animals. Roberts provides a general account of the theoretical division between humans and animals begun largely in the work of Aristotle and continued in that of Descartes and Kant. Following the philosophical provenance of the idea of animality, Roberts explores the practical and "scientific" uses of this idea, focusing largely on what Stephen J. Gould terms the "biodeterministic tradition" by evaluating the primarily ninteenth century theories of atavism, craniology, recapitulation, and so on, while also exploring the use of medical and psychological techniques of animalization.
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy China`s Housing Reform and Outcomes
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Temple University Press,U.S. Gay & Lesbian Politics: Sexuality and the
Book SynopsisThe making of gay and lesbian politicsTrade Review"This important study is both an analysis of and a call to an involved politics. It opens the door to a far-reaching dialogue."—Martin Duberman, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, The City University of New York"It is in the process of coming out...Blasius argues, that lesbians and gay men create themselves—as new subjects, as the producers of new truth, and as agents of social change. Blasius gives a coherent account that ties together all these processes—from coming out to the emergence of lesbian and gay studies-and goes on to show the 'ethical' contribution that lesbians and gay men make to contemporary American society."—Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review"An engaging book that intelligently explores a range of possibilities in human relations."—George Kateb, Department of Politics, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Creation of Gay and Lesbian Politics A Historical Ontology of Politics Power, Subjectivity, and Truth Politics and Technologies of Government 2. A Politics of Sexuality Poser in Modernity: Biopower Sexuality Becomes a Political Issue Sexuality: A Technology of Government The Lesbian and Gay Politics of Sexuality 3. Sexuality, Subjectivity, and Political Identity A Genealogy of Gay and Lesbian Identity Erotics: From Subjection to Agency Silence = Death: Coming Out and the Creation of the Self Conclusion: After Sexuality, Erotics? 4. What Are Lesbian and Gay Rights? Sexuality and Normativity: A Relational Right AIDS and Biopower Conclusion 5. An Ethos of Lesbian and Gay Existence Lesbian and Gay Existence: Sexual Orientation, Lifestyle, and Community The Emergence of a Lesbian and Gay Ethos Ethos, Knowledge, and Politics Gay and Lesbian Politics and a New Ethic Conclusion Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The First World War as a Clash of Cultures
Book SynopsisEssays examining the rift between British and German intellectual and cultural traditions before 1914 and its effect on events. This volume of essays examines the perceived rift between the British and German intellectual and cultural traditions before 1914 and how the resultant war of words both reflects and helped determine historical, political, and, ultimately, military events. This vexed symbiosis is traced first through a survey of popular fiction, from alarmist British and German "invasion novels" to the visions of Erskine Childers and Saki and even P.G. Wodehouse; contrastingly, the "mixed-marriage novels" of von Arnim, Spottiswoode, and Wylie are considered. Further topics include D. H. Lawrence's ambivalent relationship with Germany, Carl Sternheim's coded anti-militarism, H. G. Wells's and Kurd Lasswitz's visions of their countries under Martian invasion, Nietzsche as the embodiment of Prussian warmongering, and the rise in Germany of anglophobic, anti-Spencerian evolutionism. Case histories of the positions of German andEnglish academics in regard to the conflict round out the volume. Contributors: Iain Boyd White, Helena Ragg-kirkby, Rhys Williams, Ingo Cornils, Nicholas Martin, Gregory Moore, Stefan Manz, Andreas Huther, Holger Klein Fred Bridgham is Senior Lecturer in the Department of German at the University of Leeds.Trade ReviewThis admirably cohesive volume of cultural history essays addresses an important gap in the existing scholarship, linking prewar attitudes to wartime propaganda and arguments. ... The essays here make a strong contribution to the scholarship of the early twentieth century by elaborating upon Niall Ferguson's comment that World War I was 'caused by culture. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *Gathering contributions by experts in various disciplines, this volume elucidates antagonistic cultural crosscurrents between England and Germany in the period prior to WWI.... A book for historians and scholars of literature and cultural studies. * CHOICE *[A]n invaluable resource for further work on Anglo-German relations. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *The essays collected in this volume discuss the war of ideas that contributed to the sense that the First World War was more than simply the solution of political conflicts through armed action: it was a genuine 'clash of civilisations. * FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Fred Bridgham Anglo-German Conflict in Popular Fiction 1870-1914 - Iain Boyd Whyte Perversion and Pestilence: D. H. Lawrence and the Germans - Helena Ragg-Kirkby "Und muß ich von Dante schweigen, zieht Italien gegen uns?": Carl Sternheim's Opposition to the First World War - Rhys W. Williams The Martians Are Coming! War, Peace, Love, and Reflection in H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds and Kurd Lasswitz's Auf zwei Planetenand Kurd Lasswitz's Auf zwei Planeten - Nietzsche as Hate-Figure in Britain's Great War: "The Execrable Neech" - Nicholas Martin Darwinism and National Identity, 1870-1918 - Gregory Moore Bernhardi and "The Ideas of 1914" - Fred Bridgham Peacemaker and Warmonger: Alexander Tille and the Limits of Anglo-German Intercultural Transfer - Stefan Manz "In Politik verschieden, in Freundschaft wie immer": The German Celtic Scholar Kuno Meyer and the First World War - Andreas Huether Austrian (and Some German) Scholars of English and the First World War - Holger Klein
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Cultural Impact in the German Context: Studies in
Book SynopsisExamines, then employs the metaphor of cultural impact in an effort to understand how culture works in the German-speaking world. How to gauge the impact of cultural products is an old question, but bureaucratic agendas such as the one recently implemented in the UK to measure the impact of university research (including in German Studies) are new. Impact isseen as confirming a cultural product's value for society -- not least in the eyes of cultural funders. Yet its use as an evaluative category has been widely criticized by academics. Rather than rejecting the concept of impact, however, this volume employs it as a metaphor to reflect on issues of transmission, reception, and influence that have always underlain cultural production but have escaped systematic conceptualization. It seeks to understand how culture works in the German-speaking world: how writers and artists express themselves, how readers and audiences engage with the resulting products, and how academics are drawn to analyze this dynamic process. Formulating such questions afresh in the context of German Studies, the volume examines both contemporary cultural discourse and the way it evolves more generally. It links such topics as authorial intention, readerly reception, intertextuality, andmodes of perception to less commonly studied phenomena, such as the institutional practices of funding bodies, that underpin cultural discourse. Contributors: David Barnett, Laura Bradley, Rebecca Braun, Sarah Colvin, Anne Fuchs, Katrin Kohl, Karen Leeder, Jürgen Luh, Jenny McKay, Ben Morgan, Gunther Nickel, Chloe Paver, Joanne Sayner, Matthew Philpotts, Jane Wilkinson. Rebecca Braun is Executive Dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Celtic Studies at the National University of Ireland in Galway and Lyn Marven is Lecturer in German at the University of Liverpool.Trade ReviewA] splendid exercise in 'reclaiming' [the concept of 'impact']. Ably edited, fully accessible to readers without German . . . . Most contributors engage in stimulating debate with one another in their chapters, lending this volume a rare coherence. The quality is a most uniformly high . . . . This is a book which deserves wide attention for the excellence and its case studies and stimulating explorations in cultural theory. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *The implications of assessing 'impact' for the future of modern languages . . . make it a particularly sensitive area, so the publication of [this book] is, in all senses, a timely one. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *Reflects productively on the concept of 'impact,' not only as a category in contemporary political discourse, but in terms of the transmission, reception, and influence of cultural products. . . . [A] timely and original contribution to our understanding of the interactive processes of negotiation between cultural products, socio-historical context and the construction of political and cultural identity. * THIS YEAR'S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *[T]he scope and ambition of the volume is to be applauded . . . . * JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Cultural Impact in Theory and Practice - Rebecca Braun The Metaphor of Cultural Impact and the Cultural Impact of Metaphor - Katrin Kohl The Bombing of Dresden and the Idea of Cultural Impact - Anne Fuchs Understanding the Cultural Impact of Popular Film - Ben Morgan Cultural Impact and the Power of Myth in Popular Public Constructions of Authorship - Rebecca Braun Cultural Impact as Symbolic Capital: The Case of the Elite Intellectual Field - Matthew Philpotts Frederick 300 in 2012: A Case Study of Institutional Management of Heritage in Germany - Jürgen Luh "Art needs Bread": Supporting Literature in Germany - Gunther Nickel "I've been told . . . that the play is far too German": The Interplay of Institution and Dramaturgy in Shaping British Reactions to German Theater - David Barnett You Shall Know Them by Their Objects: Material Culture and Its Impact in Museum Displays about National Socialism - Chloe Paver Discrepant Narratives: The Impact of Trans-Border Theater Festivals on Communities at the German-Polish Border - Jane Wilkinson The Impact of an Unperson? Peter-Paul Zahl, Peter-Jurgen Boock,and the Cultural Impact of Prison Writing - Sarah Colvin The Organic Intellectual: The Public and Political Impact of Greta Kuckhoff, 1945-1949 - Joanne Sayner The Politics of Cultural Impact: Michael Kohlhaas in East Berlin - Laura Bradley Ingeborg Bachmann as Poet and Myth: A Case Study in Cultural Impact - Karen Leeder Sponsoring Authorial Impact: The Case of Ingo Schulze - Jenny McKay
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University of Tennessee Press Rac(e)Ing To The Right: Selected Essays George S.
Book SynopsisRac(e)ing to the Right is a great read and brings overdue attention to one of the most popular and controversial African American writers in history. . . . These writings reveal both the presence and the limits of conservatism in the African American intellectual tradition.- Jeffrey A. Tucker, University of Rochester From the 1920s to the 1970s, George S. Schuyler was one of the country's most prolific- and controversial- observers of African American life. As journalist, socialist, novelist, right-wing conservative, and, finally, political outcast, his thought was rife with insight and contradiction. A collection of Schuyler's political and cultural criticism, Rac(e)ing to the Right includes many essays that are not well known as well as pieces that have never before been published. One notable example is the first printed transcript of Schuyler's 1961 debate on the Black Muslims with Malcolm X, James Baldwin, and C. Eric Lincoln.
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University of Tennessee Press Bruce Grit: The Black Nationalist Writings Of
Book SynopsisBruce Grit will prove extremely valuable to scholars who do not have access to the Schomburg's Bruce collection or the time necessary for the daunting task of sifting through its contents. - African American Review John Edward Bruce (1856–1924) witnessed the dying days of American slavery, the turbulence of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, and the development of American imperialism. As a journalist, historian, and bibliophile, he was a major figure in African American history and politics during his lifetime. In this first intellectual biography of Bruce- a prolific writer and correspondent who published most frequently under the name Bruce Grit- William Seraile explores Bruce's tireless advocacy on behalf of African peoples everywhere, particularly in the United States. William Seraile traces Bruce's shifting strategies and tactics and his alliances with famous contemporaries such as Arthur A. Schomburg, Carter G. Woodson, Booker T. Washington, and Marcus Garvey. He argues that underlying all of Bruce's work was what would become his greatest legacy: his promotion of history and culture of African people in the diaspora as valuable fields of study. William Seraile is professor emeritus of Lehman College. He is the author of Voice of Dissent: Theophilus Gould Steward and Black America, Fire in His Heart: Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner and the A.M.E. Church, and New York's Black Regiments During the Civil War.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Animal/Human Boundary: Historical
Book SynopsisAn examination of the difficulties in fundamentally differentiating humans from all other animals. The way in which humans articulate identities, social hierarchies, and their inversions through relations with animals has been a fruitful topic in anthropological and historical investigations for the last several years. The contributors to this volume call attention to the symbolic meanings of animals, from the casting of first-year students as goats in medieval universities to the representation of vermin as greedy thieves in early modern England. But the essays in this volume are also concerned with the more material and bodily aspects of animal-human relations, like eating regulations, aggression, and transplanting of animal organs into human beings [xenotransplantation]. Modern biologists have increasingly problematized the human-animal boundary. Researchers have challenged the supposedly unique ability of humans to use language. Chimpanzees and gorillas, it has been argued, have learned to communicate using American Sign Language. In addition, some scientists regard the sophistication of modes of communication in species like dolphins and songbirds as undermining the view of humans as uniquely capable of complex expressions. As studies of nonhuman primates threaten to compromise the long-held assumption that only humans possess self-awareness. The question becomes: How can one firmly differentiate human beings from other animals? Contributors include Piers Beirne, Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., Mary E. Fissell, Paul H. Freedman, Ruth Mazo Karras, Susan E. Lederer, Rob Meens, John H. Murrin, James A. Serpell, and H. Peter Steeves. Angela N. H. Creager andWilliam Chester Jordan are Associates of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University.Trade ReviewThe Animal/Human Boundary will stand as a model for how research from different historical perspectives can be brought together in a coherent, valuable whole. * ANTHROZOOS, 2004 *Table of ContentsEating Animals in the Early Middle Ages: Classifying the Animal World and Building Group Ideentities Rob MeensRob Meens The Representation of Medieval Peasants as Bestial and as Human Paul Freedman Separating the Men from the Goats: Masculinity, Civilization, and Identity Formation in the Medieval University Ruth Mazo KarrasRuth Mazo Karras Imagining Vermin in Early Modern England Mary E. Fissell "Things Fearful to Name": Bestiality in Early America John M. Murrin Guardian Spirits or Demonic Pets: The Concept of the Witch's Familiar in Early Modern England, 1530-1712. James A. SerpellJames A. Serpell On the Sexual Assault of Animals: A Sociological View Piers Beirne The Familiar Other and Feral Selves: Life at the Human/Animal Boundary H. Peter SteevesH. Peter Steeves The Founders of Ethology and the Problem of Human Aggression: A Study in Ethology's Ecologies Richard W. Burkhardt Jr.Richard W. Burkhardt Jr. Animal Parts/Human Bodies: Organic Transplantation in Early Twentieth-Century America Susan E. LedererSusan E. Lederer
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St Augustine's Press The Concept of Social Justice
Book Synopsis“Social justice” is a term heard a great deal today, but what does it mean? It does not appear in pre-nineteenth century classic texts on justice. Is it a social agenda inspired by compassion? Is it a particular set of institutional arrangements to achieve justice? What the term means, and – in some quarters – whether it is even a term worth using, is a matter of controversy. The inspiration for this book comes from the fact that current discussions of “social justice” often deal overwhelmingly with programs that aim to advance certain specific and controversial policies to deal with various social problems. In the process, important theoretical questions about social justice are not even confronted, much less resolved. For example, what does the word “social” add to “justice”? Isn't all justice “social”? What is the relation between “social justice” and more classical Aristotelian terms such as “distributive justice,” “commutative justice,” and “legal justice”? With respect to its current usage, is the term “social justice” applicable only to special policies or programs (e.g., government or nonprofit social welfare programs)? Does it apply only to the provision of material goods and services? Does it play a role in the ordinary everyday world of business and work? The papers in this book aim, not at identifying some particular set of public policies that allegedly constitute the right content of “social justice,” but at reflection on the meaning of social justice. It is not an exhortation to pursue policies that are “understood,” without discussion, to be the right way to pursue social justice. It is not aimed at stimulating activism, mobilizing people to go out and achieve social justice now. Rather, it aims at building the foundation upon which people can identify general principles of justice, and make reasonable prudential judgments about how to pursue social justice. This theoretical orientation means that it is neither “right-wing” nor “left-wing.” The Concept of Social Justice provides a range of insightful essays on the term and on its various uses and abuses. The authors of these papers are committed to something like “social justice” – they don't believe that it is spurious notion that should be rejected. They may very well disagree about exactly how to pursue social justice. But their primary concern here is to ask, simply, “what is social justice?” Jean Bethke Elshtain and Michael Novak show various ways in which the term has been misunderstood or narrowed or abused for ideological reasons. Nicholas Wolterstorff’s essay makes careful distinctions necessary to identify the implications of adding “social” to “justice” and fleshes out a valuable notion of the concept. John Finnis locates the origins of social justice in an historical misreading of Thomas Aquinas’ discussion of justice, which narrowed his “general justice” in a way that required a new notion of “social justice.” Joseph Koterksi, S.J., Robert Kennedy, and J. Brian Benestad each elaborate some of the ways in which “social justice” has been used in the Catholic social teaching since Rerum Novarum and in international theological and U.S. episcopal documents. Readers will come away from this book with a deeper understanding of the origins of social justice, a sensitivity to the frequent abuses of the term, and a recognition of the forms in which it can be a valuable part of today’s political discourse.
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St Augustine's Press Moderately Modern
Book SynopsisModerately Modern wears its thesis on its sleeve. Modern men and women, those thoroughly imbued with modernity’s ideas, hopes, and projects, need to moderate themselves. They need to rein themselves in, they need to think and act beyond their comfort zone. Implicit in this claim, of course, is a slew of topics, claims, and an argument. What is modernity? What’s lacking in it? Where should its adherents look outside and beyond it? What would they find? And what would a conjunction of a chastened modernity and a newly respected outside look like? It would be difficult to find someone more equipped to raise and pursue these questions than Rémi Brague. Le règne de l’homme: l’echec du projet modern (The kingdom of man: the failure of the modern project) already laid out his basic views: modernity is the project of radical anthropocentrism, of man construed as the sovereign of the world and of his very humanity. If the traditional order of the West located man within a wider scheme of God/world/man, with the former two providing models of excellence for the latter, then modern thought reverses the order, expelling God and the divine from public centrality and, by means of technological science, aiming to make man, in Descartes’ famous phrase, “master and possessor of Nature”. The Legitimacy of the Human picks up the theme and surveys the results. Birth dearths, looming ecological disasters, and the threat of destruction on enormous scales testify to something having gone terribly awry. Its concluding chapters advise a reconsideration of the rejected premodern option: the biblical God and his providential care. Moderately Modern brings all of the foregoing together, mixing cultural critique with cultural restoration. It does so in characteristically Braguean ways: attention to the meaning and history of important terms; brilliant aperçus of the contemporary scene; enormous learning worn lightly and brought to bear deftly; a personal tone with intellectual and spiritual gravitas. His theme being the current condition of the West, this son of the West brings to bear all that she has made available to her children to live thoughtful and genuinely human lives. Let us hope that he is not a Cassandra, but more akin to Isaiah, albeit in a philosophical mode.Table of Contents Translator’s Introduction Foreword I Modernity as a Problem Introduction: On Modernitis 1 Can Europe Survive Modernity? 2 From One Transcendental to Another II Sacred Cows or Mad Cows? 3 To Ground Reason 4 Atheism or Superstition? 5 Is Secularization Modern? 6 Democracy and Theocracy 7 Reaction to Progress III Culture 8 Are There Really Two Cultures? 9 Does Culture Support the Idea of Truth? 10 Heirs Without a Will? IV To Temporize 11 From Time to Time 12 How One Writes History 13 The Conditions of a Future 14 Reconstruction 15 An Educational Dream 16 Not to Betray: The Tradition Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. City Of Sisterly And Brotherly Loves: Lesbian And
Book SynopsisMarc Stein's City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves is refreshing for at least two reasons: it centers on a city that is not generally associated with a vibrant gay and lesbian culture, and it shows that a community was forming long before the Stonewall rebellion. In this lively and well received book, Marc Stein brings to life the neighborhood bars and clubs where people gathered and the political issues that rallied the community. He reminds us that Philadelphians were leaders in the national gay and lesbian movement and, in doing so, suggests that New York and San Francisco have for too long obscured the contributions of other cities to gay culture.Trade Review"Important and provocative, this book persuasively demonstrates that lesbian and gay history is central to understanding twentieth-century urban culture. And it rejects mere celebration for a more profound scrutiny that balances liberal against conservative aspects of the historical challenge to heterosexism."—Martin Duberman, author of Stonewall"By leaving behind the gay meccas of New York and San Francisco and training his gaze on Philadelphia, Stein has produced a gay and lesbian history that startles and informs."—John D'Emilio, author of Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities"Eye-opening, often entertaining....Filled with colorful anecdotes and fun facts....Let's think of what Marc Stein has done as an act of public service to Philadelphia's gay community."—Kevin Riordan, Philadelphia Gay News"Philadelphians should be proud of the courage and creativity with which their lesbian and gay fellow citizens coped with and fought oppression in the Cradle of Liberty, and Stein can clearly be proud of his pioneering book."—Doug Ireland, Philadelphia InquirerTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Everyday Geographies, 1945-19721. Your Place or Mine?: Residential Zones in the "City of Neighborhoods"2. "No-Man's-Land": Commercial Districts in the "Quaker City"3. The Death and Life of Public Space in the "Private City"Part II. Public Cultures, 1945-19604. "The Most Fabulous Faggot in the Land"5. The "Objectionable" Walt Whitman Bridge6. Rizzo's Raiders and Beaten BeatsPart III. Political Movements, 1960-19697. "Come Out! Come Out! Wherever You Are!" 19608. "Earnestly Seeking Respectability," 1960-19639. "News for 'Queers' and Fiction for 'Perverts,'" 1963-196710. "The Masculine-Feminine Mystique," 1967-1969Part IV. Twin Revolutions? 1969-197211. "Turning Points," 1969-197012. Gay Liberation in the "Birthplace of the Nation," 1970-197113. Radicalesbian Feminism in "Fillydykia," 1971-1972Conclusion: Sexual Pride, Sexual ConservatismAbbreviationsNotesIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Beyond Segregation: Multiracial And Multiethnic
Book SynopsisAt a time when cities appear to be fragmenting mosaics of ethnic enclaves, it is reassuring to know there are still stable multicultural neighborhoods. Beyond Segregation offers a tour of some of America's best known multiethnic neighborhoods: Uptown in Chicago, Jackson Heights (Queens), and San Antonio-Fruitvale in Oakland. Readers will learn the history of the neighborhoods and develop an understanding of the people that reside in them, the reasons they stay, and the work it takes to maintain each neighborhood as an affordable, integrated place to live.Trade Review"Maly has created a marvelous resource for educators, advocates, and researchers alike. While acknowledging that 'urban space bears a racial stamp,' he examines the basis for stable integration in a variety of fascinating, ever-changing communities. His book will become an important reference point as we search for new models of integration in a society more diverse than any in history."-Xavier de Souza Briggs, Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and editor of The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America "Maly argues that many neighborhoods actually do achieve stable racial integration, and that high rates of immigration suggest that the populations of more and more places will diversify over time. He brings the concept of residential integration into the 21st century by looking closely at the dynamics of multiethnic, multiracial settings, and considering what these places teach us about relevant strategies for improving racial and ethnic relations in the post-Civil Rights era. Maly writes clearly and concisely, and the book is fun to read. Beyond Segregation offers an important corrective to our perceptions of U.S. cities as inevitably and perpetually racially divided."-Mara Sidney, author of Unfair Housing: How National Policy Shapes Community Action "Michael Maly has written a pioneering study of the evolving processes of neighborhood change in U.S. cities. Based on careful fieldwork in Chicago, New York City, and Oakland, Beyond Segregation opens new vistas on race and ethnic relations in our increasingly multicultural urban centers. Maly is attentive to the details of local institutional action and shrewd in his assessment of the connections between neighborhood-level and broader social phenomena."-Larry Bennett, Political Science Department, DePaul University "Readers won't be disappointed ... in the detailed descriptions of the communities or the challenge to conventional thinking on this still volatile subject."-Planning "Maly's study is one of tempered hope that multiethnicity can be achieved... This rich approach, however, draws a portrait of challenges and opportunities to which those working toward a truly integrated society can respond."-Multicultural Review "Michael Maly's interesting new book...reveals the challenges and complexity of contemporary integration... Maly's case studies present vivid and insightful descriptions of some wonderfully diverse communities and underscore both the role that the latest wave of immigration in playing in their creation and the role that local actors are playing in their longer-term stability."-City and CommunityTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Racial and Ethnic Segregation and Integration in Urban America2. Changing Demographics, Multiethnic and Multiracial Neighborhoods, and Unplanned Diversity3. Uptown, Chicago4. Jackson Heights, New York5. San Antonio-Fruitvale, OaklandConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Social Logic Of Politics: Personal Networs As
Book SynopsisUsing classic theories to explain individuals' political decisions, this volume examines what influences these decisions. Supported by the research of the Columbia school of electoral sociology, this view is contrasted with rational choice theory and the Michigan school of electoral analysis. Written by a range of political scientists, this volume advances theory and method in the study of political behavior and returns the social logic of politics to the heart of political science.Trade Review"In the classic sociological tradition of the Columbia School, this impressive collection of studies explores the impact of families, friends, workplaces, and communities on our political choices and behavior. The imaginative research in this volume amply demonstrates that, despite the imposing presence of the mass media, we continue to be shaped in significant ways by the company we keep."-Dennis Chong, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor, Northwestern University, Department of Political Science "The Social Logic of Politics addresses the question of sociological influences on political behavior, and the essays in this volume do in fact succeed in this purpose, offering a significant contribution in this area. Zuckerman brings the original sociological themes and research of Lazarsfeld and his colleagues into the 21st century, and the scholarship here is state-of-the-art, showcasing a wide range of data and methodologies."-Robert Shapiro, Columbia University "Overall, this is an important collection of essays... an essential read."-Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresPreface and AcknowledgmentsAbout the ContributorsIntroduction: Theoretical and Methodological Context1. Returning to the Social Logic of Politics - Alan S. Zuckerman2. Individuals, Dyads, and Networks: Autoregressive Patterns of Political Influence - Robert Huckfeldt, Paul E. Johnson, and John SpraguePart I. Families as Sources of Strong Political Ties3. Political Similarity and Influence between Husbands and Wives - Laura Stoker and M. Kent Jennings4. Do Couples Support the Same Political Parties? Sometimes: Evidence from British and German Household Panel Surveys - Alan S. Zuckerman, Jennifer Fitzgerald, and Josip Dasovic5. Family Ties: Understanding the Intergenerational Transmission of Political Participation - Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Nancy BurnsPart II. Friends, Workmates, Neighbors, and Political Contexts: The Effects of Weak Ties on Electoral Choices and Political Participation6. Changing Class Locations and Partisanship in Germany - Ulrich Kohler7. Choosing Alone? The Social Network Basis of Modern Political Choice - Jeffrey Levine8. Friends and Politics: Linking Diverse Friendship Networks to Political Participation - Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz9. Networks, Gender, and the Use of State Authority: Evidence from a Study of Arab Immigrants in Detroit - Ann Chih Lin10. Putting Voters in their Places: Local Context and Voting in England and Wales, 1997 - Ron J. Johnston and Charles J. Pattie11. Party Identification, Local Partisan Contexts, and the Acquisition of Participatory Attitudes - James G. Gimpel and J. Celeste Lay12. Macro-Politics and Micro-Behavior: Mainstream Politics and the Frequency of Political Discussion in Contemporary Democracies - Christopher J. Anderson and Aida PaskeviciutePart III. The Social Logic of Politics: Looking Ahead13. Agent-Based Explanations for the Survival of Disagreement in Social Networks - Paul E. Johnson and Robert Huckfeldt14. Turnout in a Small World - James H. FowlerNotesReferencesIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Across The Red Line: Stories From The Surgical
Book SynopsisRichard Karl, a doctor and teacher, takes the reader closer than any writer before into the corridors of the hospital, on the surgical table, and into the world of medicine. In these pages we see the tragedies and triumphs of modern medicine: the beauty of surgery done well, and the aftermath of operations that fail to deliver on the hopes of the doctor and patient. We witness the \u0022M&M\u0022-the morbidity and mortality meeting-where doctors scrutinize their own work and mistakes, and the often inevitable outcomes of treatment. Suffused throughout are Karl\u2019s keen observations on the workings of the human body and its immense capacity for healing. \u0022...I celebrate the rich privilege accorded the practicing surgeon. The surgical life is really about bearing witness to the human condition and about respecting the many almost whimsical variations of biology and about the intersection of the two. It is remarkable, really, the way I get to know people so intimately so quickly, and to observe the brave and often noble behavior in them, while I witness the relentless push of biology, the aging and decay, the growth and development, but most especially the healing, both physical and emotional. It is this natural drive of our bodies to repair themselves from all injuries (including the surgeon's wounds) that is the centerpiece of medicine. Without it no surgeon could cut.\u0022 Written with economy and subtlety, Across the Red Line offers a vivid picture of disease and the miracle of life. It will interest anyone who's ever been on either side of the surgical table.Trade Review"Richard Karl appears to be one of those rare surgeons who cares about as well as for his patients, who speaks to them in English, rather than confusing them with complex medical terms, and who in these difficult days still loves surgery. I admire his ability to describe technical matters in simple language. His book is engagingly conversational, and, like many surgeons, he's a great storyteller."-Joan Cassell, Ph.D., Department of Surgery, Washington Medical School, St. Louis "[Karl is] a natural storyteller and writer... He writes short, pithy sentences and gives a description of an MRI that should speak for everyone who has survived that procedure. Dr. Karl has an acute sense of patients' rights, and members of Congress would do well to read his book before voting on the matter."-Mary McGrory, The Washington Post "From the introduction, readers will be struck with how well this book captures the human side of medicine... It's enlightening to read as Karl eloquently chronicles the sleepless nights spent worrying about patients, the outcomes that were more related to luck than his expertise and the very moving conversations held at the end of life."-Tribune & Times (Tampa, Florida) "In Across the Red Line the author describes much that is satisfying in being an academic surgeon. [Karl] emphasizes the pleasures of teaching, the satisfaction of performing complex surgery, and the great joy in participating in the course of patient recovery...he emphasizes the emotional rewards of surgical work and the privileged interaction with the secrets of bodies and patients."-Dr. Sanford E. Feldman, The Journal of the American Medical Association "...[A] collection of vignettes about the training, practice, and personal life of a busy surgeon...The chapter about the M&M conference is especially revealing and familiar...I recommend this easy-to-read, heartwarming, and familiar book. It will cause you to reflect, remember, and smile."-James O. Menzoian, The Journal of Vascular Surgery "14 tough and gritty essays... If you want to know what it's like to chat with someone one minute and cut into him in the next... this book won't disappoint."-Albert Howard Carter III, St. Petersburg Times "Dr. Karl is a good storyteller. No, make that a very good storyteller... This book will appeal to laypeople as well as to health care practitioners. The book contains no revelations for the surgeon-nor need it contain any. Across the Red Line provides enjoyable reading about things infrequently discussed, and that's reason enough to pick it up."-The Permanente Journal "...spellbinding...The book is entertaining in some parts, but very intense in others, making it difficult to put down. It has value for anyone interested in medical matters or simply a good read, and will be helpful for prospective medical students to decide whether surgery interests them."-KliattTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Across the Red Line1. M & M2. How It Comes About That a Successful Operation Ends in Disaster3. Fate4. A Columnist Comes to Work5. Four Patients in Santa Fe6. Hanging7. Helping Sal-Knowing When to Quit8. On the Table9. Hotel Utah10. Midwest Bulletin Board11. Retirement Party12. Match Day13. The Norwich Classic Car Rally14. Luck
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Temple University Press,U.S. Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families
Book SynopsisExamines the obstacles to economic mobility for low- and increasingly middle-income familiesTrade Review"This book is highly recommended, and its in-depth treatment of the historical and social context of concentrated poverty and policy alternatives would make it particularly useful in a graduate seminar...The editors have done a remarkable job of putting together a volume in which each chapter seems to build on the examples and policy recommendations of the others. Rather than being an assortment of articles on a theme, the chapters together create a 'collective wisdom' of community economic development." -Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of Contents1: Are Jobs Enough for Economic Mobility?; 2: From the Old to the New Economic Mobility; 3: The Parents: Their Backgrounds, Lives and Locations; 4: The Children: Their Lives and Worlds; 5: Workforce Development: Systems and Networks; 6: Yesterday's Firms and Today's Families: Connects and Disconnects with Michelle Belliveau; 7: Children's Schools, Parents' Work and Policy: Alignment and Misalignment; 8: Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward an Agenda for Family Economic Mobility
£61.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Courts Liberalism And Rights: Gay Law And
Book SynopsisIn the courts, the best chance for achieving a broad set of rights for gays and lesbians lies with judges who view liberalism as grounded in an expansion of rights rather than a constraint of government activity. At a time when most gay and lesbian politics focuses only on the issue of gay marriage, Courts, Liberalism, and Rights guides readers through a nuanced discussion of liberalism, court rulings on sodomy laws and same-sex marriage, and the comparative progress gays and lesbians have made via the courts in Canada. As debates continue about the ability of courts to affect social change, Jason Pierceson argues that this is possible. He claims that the greatest opportunity for reform via the judiciary exists when a judiciary with broad interpretive powers encounters a political culture that endorses a form of liberalism based on broadly conceived individual rights; not a negative set of rights to be held against the state, but a set of rights that recognizes the inherent dignity and worth of every individual.Trade Review"Courts, Liberalism, and Rights is passionate scholarship at its best. It is a thoughtful defense of judicial activism to protect the inherent dignity and worth of every individual. This book should be required reading for every member of Congress and the Executive Branch concerned about 'judicial activism.'"-Michael Mello, Vermont Law School, and author of Legalizing Gay Marriage "Pierceson has written an engaging book that should appeal to a broad array of readers. It lucidly explores issues of public law, comparative politics, political culture, liberal political theory, and institutionalism."-Evan Gerstmann, Loyola Marymount University "This is an excellent analysis of many of the legal issues dealing with sodomy and same-sex marriages, and helps to explain why they have developed in the way that they have. The material is theoretically rich and grounded in diverse literature."-Richard Pacelle, Georgia Southern UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. U.S. Federal Courts and Gay Rights: A History of Hesitancy3. Liberalism and Gay Politics: Rights and Their Critics4. Toward a Better Liberalism5. Sodomy Laws, Courts, and Liberalism6. Lessons from Continued Sodomy Adjudication7. Courts and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States: Hawaii and Alaska8. Courts and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States: Vermont9. Developments after Vermont: An Evolving Jurisprudence and Its Backlash10. Canada: Rethinking Courts, Rights, and Liberalism11. Courts, Social Change, and the Power of Legal Liberalism12. ConclusionNotesIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Art in Cinema: Documents Toward a History of the
Book SynopsisReveals a crucial dimension of the history of American independent cinemaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction The Documents 1. Conversation with Jack Stauffacher, 8/14/99 2. Letter to Arthur Rosenheimer Jr. from Richard Foster, 7/31/46 3. Letter to Lewis Jacobs from Frank Stauffacher, 8/1/46 4. Letter to Maya Deren from Frank Stauffacher, 8/2/46 5. Letter to Richard Foster from Maya Deren, 8/2/46 6. Letter to James and John Whitney from Frank Stauffacher, 8/3/46 7. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Maya Deren, 8/10/46 8. Letter to Arthur Rosenheimer Jr. from Frank Stauffacher, 8/20/46 9. Letter to Maya Deren from Frank Stauffacher, 8/20/46 10. Letter to Luis Buñuel from Frank Stauffacher, 8/22/46 11. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Douglass Crockwell, 8/24/46 12. Letter to Jay Leyda from Frank Stauffacher, 8/25/46 13. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Douglass Crockwell, 8/31/46 14. Letter to Peggy Guggenheim from Grace L. McCann Morley, 8/31/46 15. Letter to Man Ray from Frank Stauffacher, 9/5/46 16. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Hans Richter, 9/6/46 17. Letter to Hans Richter from Frank Stauffacher, 9/9/46 18. Program Announcement for Art in Cinema's First Series, 9/46 19. Letter to James and John Whitney from Frank Stauffacher, 9/22/46 20. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from James Broughton, 9/24/46 21. Letter to Mrs. Noble Hamilton from Edward J. Soph, 9/26/46 22. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from James Broughton, 9/26/46 23. Letter to Edward J. Soph from Mrs. Noble Hamilton, 9/28/46 24. Alfred Frankenstein, "Art and Music," from the San Francisco Chronicle, 10/6/46 25. Letter to Richard Foster from Sara Kathryn Arledge, 10/9/46 26. Program Notes for the 10/11/46 Presentation 27. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Grace L. McCann Morley, 10/22/46 28. Letter to Richard Foster from Margaret Wright and Una Atkinson, 10/24/46 29. Program Notes for the 10/25/46 Presentation 30. Letter to Mrs. Noble Hamilton from Paul Ballard, 10/30/46 31. Program Notes for the 11/1/46 Presentation 32. Letter to Herman G. Weinberg from Frank Stauffacher, 11/8/46 33. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Hans Richter, 11/9/46 34. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Lewis Jacobs, 11/12/46 35. Letter to Paul Ballard from Frank Stauffacher, 11/46 36. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Robert Florey, 2/47 [?] 37. Letter to James W. Moore from Frank Stauffacher, 2/6/47 38. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from James W. Moore, 2/7/47 39. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from James W. Moore, 2/28/47 40. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Eli Willis, 3/7/47 41. Program Announcement for Art in Cinema's Second Series, 3/47 42. Program Announcement for the First University of California at Berkeley Series 43. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Emlen Etting, 3/26/47 44. Letter to James W. Moore from Frank Stauffacher, 3/27/47 45. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from James W. Moore, 3/31/47 46. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Curtis Harrington, 4/3/47 47. Program Notes for the 4/4/47 Presentation 48. Letter to Curtis Harrington from Frank Stauffacher, 4/28/47 49. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Kenneth Anger, 4/29/47 50. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Curtis Harrington, 5/6/47 51. Facsimile of Art in Cinema Catalogue (published late 5/47) 52. Letter to Oskar Fischinger from Richard Foster, 6/8/47 53. Letter to Herman G. Weinberg from Frank Stauffacher, 6/21/47 54. Letter to Oskar Fischinger from Harry Smith, 7/25/47 55. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Kenneth Anger, 7/25/47 56. Letter to Kenneth Anger from Harry Smith, 7/28/47 57. Letter to Harry Smith from William Howe, 7/31/47 58. Letter to Harry Smith from Kenneth Anger, 7/31/47 59. Letter to Miss Bullitt from Hans Richter, 8/14/47 60. Letter to Art in Cinema from Amos Vogel, 9/7/47 61. Letter to Amos Vogel from Frank Stauffacher, 9/13/47 62. Letter to Harry Smith from Jim Davis, 9/14/47 63. Program Announcement for Art in Cinema's Third Series, 9/47 64. Letter to Curtis Harrington from Frank Stauffacher, 9/15/47 65. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Curtis Harrington, 9/24/47 66. Conversation with Jordan Belson, 7/22/00 67. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Elwood Decker, 5/48 68. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Elwood Decker, 6/48 69. Program Announcement for Art in Cinema's Fourth Series, 8/48 70. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Sidney Peterson, 8/4/48 71. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Maya Deren, 8/8/48 72. James Broughton, "Frank Stauffacher: The Making of Mother's Day," from SPIRAL, No. 1 (1984) 73. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Elwood Decker, 10/3/48 74. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Hans Richter, 10/13/48 75. Letter to Maya Deren from Frank Stauffacher, 1/10/49 76. Letter to Hans Richter from Frank Stauffacher, 1/49 77. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Hans Richter, 1/21/49 78. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Maya Deren, 2/8/49 79. Program Announcement for "Contemporary Experimental Films of Importance," 2/49 80. Letter to Hans Richter from Frank Stauffacher, 2/49 81. Letter to Theodore Huff from Frank Stauffacher, 2/49 82. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from James Broughton, 3/49 83. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from James Broughton, 3/8/49 84. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from James Broughton, 3/16/49 85. Letter to Ralph K. Potter from Frank Stauffacher, 3/23/49 86. Letter to Arthur Knight from Frank Stauffacher, 4/2/49 87. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Arthur Knight, 4/16/49 88. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Arthur Knight, 5/30/49 89. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Amos Vogel, 6/7/49 90. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Theodore Huff, 6/20/49 91. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Theodore Huff, 7/16/49 92. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Arthur Knight, 7/17/49 93. Program Announcement for Art in Cinema's Fifth Series, Fall 1949 94. Letter to Hans Richter from Frank Stauffacher, 10/28/49 95. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Curtis Harrington, 12/1/49 96. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Jim Davis, 2/25/50 97. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Symon Gould, 3/1/50 98. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Jim Davis, 3/21/50 99. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Arthur Knight, 3/30/50 100. Letter to Grace L. McCann Morley from Frank Stauffacher, 4/50 101. Program Announcement for Art in Cinema's Sixth Series, Spring 1950 102. Letter to Elwood Decker from Frank Stauffacher, 5/17/50 103. Letter to Amos Vogel from Frank Stauffacher, 5/27/50 104. Arthur Knight, "Self-Expression," Saturday Review, 5/29/50 105. Letter to Elwood Decker from Frank Stauffacher, 6/7/50 106. Letter to Rosalind Kossoff from Frank Stauffacher, 6/14/50 107. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Amos Vogel, 9/4/50 108. Letter to Jim Davis from Frank Stauffacher, 10/4/50 109. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Jim Davis, 10/7/50 110. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Arthur Knight, 10/28/50 111. Letter to Arthur Knight from Frank Stauffacher, 11/1/50 112. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Amos Vogel, 11/28/50 113. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Hilary Harris, 12/1/50 114. Letter to Grace L. McCann Morley from Frank Stauffacher, 1/8/51 115. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Amos Vogel, 1/9/51 116. Letter to Amos Vogel from Frank Stauffacher, 1/13/51 117. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Anne Dubs, with Notes from Maya Deren, 1/30/51 118. Letter to Harold Leonard from Frank Stauffacher, 2/8/51 119. Program Announcement for Art in Cinema's Seventh Series, Spring 1951 120. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Maya Deren, 3/24/51 121. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from James Broughton, 4/18/51 122. Letter to Vincent Price from Frank Stauffacher, 5/22/51 123. Conversation with Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, 7/18/99 124. Program Announcement for Art in Cinema's Eighth Series 125. Program Notes for the 11/14/52 Presentation, by Frank Stauffacher 126. Program Notes for the 2/23/53 Presentation, by Frank Stauffacher 127. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Ian Hugo, 7/8/53 128. Letter to Raymond Rohauer from Frank Stauffacher, 8/31/53 129. Letter to Ian Hugo from Barbara Stauffacher, 9/15/53 130. Letter to Barbara Stauffacher from Ian Hugo, 9/18/53 131. Program Announcement for Art in Cinema's Ninth Series, Fall 1953 132. Letter to Frank Stauffacher from Ian Hugo, 9/27/53 133. Program Notes for the 10/2/53 Presentation, by Frank Stauffacher 134. Text of Talk by George Stevens Presented at Art in Cinema on 10/2/53 135. Letter to Ian Hugo from Frank Stauffacher, 10/9/53 136. Program Notes for the 10/9/53 Presentation, by Frank Stauffacher 137. Program Notes for the 10/16/53 Presentation, by Frank Stauffacher 138. Letter to Raymond Rohauer from Frank Stauffacher, 11/10/53 139. Letter to Ian Hugo from Frank Stauffacher, 11/10/53 140. Letter to Amos Vogel from Frank Stauffacher, 11/18/53 141. Letter to John Ford from Barbara Stauffacher, 12/17/53 142. Early Description of Art in Cinema's Tenth and Eleventh Series 143. Letter to Barbara Stauffacher from Vincent Minnelli, 1/18/54 144. Letter to Barbara Stauffacher from Willard Van Dyke, 1/25/54 145. Letter to Willard Van Dyke from Barbara Stauffacher, 1/27/54 146. Letter to Barbara Stauffacher from Fred Zinnemann, 1/29/54 147. Letter to Fred Zinnemann from Frank Stauffacher, 2/1/54 148. Letter to Barbara Stauffacher from Willard Van Dyke, 2/2/54 149. Letter to Fred Zinnemann from Barbara Stauffacher, 3/18/54 150. Program Announcement for Art in Cinema's Tenth Series, Spring 1954 151. Letter to Joseph Youngerman from Frank Stauffacher, 4/12/54 152. Luther Nichols, "Dissertations on the Arts of Movie-Making," New York Times, 4/25/54 153. Letter to Frank and Barbara Stauffacher from Fred Zinnemann, 5/7/54 154. Letter to Rouben Mamoulian from Frank Stauffacher, 5/12/54 155. Letter to Joseph Youngerman from Frank Stauffacher, 5/20/54 156. Letter to Lou Smith from Barbara Stauffacher, 5/28/54 157. Letter to Frank Capra from Barbara Stauffacher, 5/28/54 158. Letter to Frances H. Flaherty from Barbara Stauffacher, 7/8/54 159. Letter to Barbara Stauffacher from Frances H. Flaherty, 7/27/54 160. Program Announcement for Art in Cinema's Eleventh Series, Fall 1954 161. Letter to Francis H. Flaherty from Barbara Stauffacher, 10/18/54 162. Letter to Barbara Stauffacher from Amos Vogel, 8/22/55 Index
£51.00
Temple University Press,U.S. Mayors and Schools: Minority Voices and Democratic Tensions in Urban Education
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the trend toward increased mayoral control of urban schools, using Chicago and Cleveland as case studiesTrade Review"I believe that Chambers' book will make a tremendous contribution to the current and future debates about urban school reform. The focus on two important US cities will make it a must read for those interested in urban politics. The focus on minority incorporation will draw readers interested in race and American politics. Finally, Chambers' focus on urban school reform will make this book of interest to those who care about the state of America's urban school systems." Marion Orr, Department of Political Science, Brown University "Timely and nuanced...Chambers' book is notable for its attention to historical context and its balanced presentation of competing evidence." Urban Affairs ReviewTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction1. School Reform in Two American CitiesPart II. The Politics of School Reform and Minority Political Empowerment2. Big-City Mayors and the Politics of School Reform; 3. Innovation and Reaction in the Politics of School Reform: Chicago; 4. The Politics of School Reform in the "Comeback City": ClevelandPart III. Measuring Success in Education Reform5. Responsiveness and Community Incorporation; 6. Administrative Accountability to Minority Issues; 7. Reform and Measuring Student ImprovementPart IV. Mayoral Control in Perspective8. Mayoral Control in Perspective
£23.39
Temple University Press,U.S. Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of
Book SynopsisDescribes the ways that the news media influences the development of our public past and how those publicly available pasts affect our understanding of current eventsTrade Review"Jill Edy provides a fascinating and important contribution to the study of political communication. Using a creative and fruitful research design, she demonstrates the way political actors communicate about the present through the lens of the past." Kathleen Cramer Walsh, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison "In her comprehensive study...Edy advances the study of collective memory in several ways." The International Journal of Communication "An important addition to the literature on how news is framed and how agendas are set...Edy's analysis is thoughtful and her citations are thorough." Choice "Troubled Pasts offers an excellent introduction to the concept of collective memory...Edy examines how journalists craft not only the proverbial 'first draft' of history but how they help shape later drafts. She also offers an interesting discussion and examples of three ways in which journalists contribute to historical understanding--or misunderstanding: commemorations, analogies, and contexts. The way in which she weaves together journalistic and political issues makes the book appropriate for consideration in a wide range of classes, including media history, media criticism, reporting, U.S. history, political science or sociology...It is well researched, cites numerous sources for journalistic content and theoretical context, and includes a clear discussion of methodology." Journalism History "Well researched and thought-provoking...a smart book that is of interest to anybody who understands the development of the social stock of knowledge and collective memory as a powerful social process." H-Net "Edy's short book is extremely well written and her work is well grounded in the literatures of communication and political science. As such, the work is an excellent resource for scholars interested in political communication, framing, media studies, and social history. It makes a significant contribution to our collective understanding of social movements and media coverage of them." Perspectives on Politics "The overall argument of the book is a strong one and even people who have no particular interest in the events of 40 years ago will find Troubled Pasts a good theoretical model and a good guide to how we might best use the literature about reporting, remembering, framing and motivation." "Communications Research Trends"Table of Contents1: Introduction; 2: Real Time News: Covering the Watts Riots and the Chicago Convention; 3: Political Officials and the Public Past; 4: Defusing Controversy and Paving the Way for Collective Memory; 5: Building Collective Memory: Story Integration; 6: Using Collective Memory: The Role of the Past in the Present; 7: Conclusions: The Future of the Past
£24.29
Temple University Press,U.S. Global Television: Co-Producing Culture
Book SynopsisThe face of U.S. television broadcasting is changing in ways that are both profound and subtle. Global Television uncovers the particular processes by which the international circulation of culture takes place, while addressing larger cultural issues such as identity formation. Focusing on how the process of internationally made programming such as Highlander: The Series and The Odyssey-amusingly dubbed \u201cEuropudding\u201d and \u201ccommercial white bread\u201d-are changing television into a transnational commodity, Barbara Selznick considers how this mode of production-as a means by which transnational television is created-has both economic rewards and cultural benefits as well as drawbacks. Global Television explores the ways these international co-productions create a \u201cglobal\u201d culture as well as help form a national identity. From British \u201cbrand\u201d programming (e.g, Cracker) that airs on A&E in the U.S. to children\u2019s television programs such as Plaza Sesamo, and documentaries, Selznick indicates that while the style, narrative, themes and ideologies may be interesting, corporate capitalism ultimately affects and impacts these programs in significant ways.Trade Review"Global Television is well focused, disciplined, imaginative, and original; the global outlook and free ranging expertise across borders are signature virtues. It looms to be a blueprint for the emergent field of globally-centric media studies." -Thomas Doherty , American Studies Department, Brandeis UniversityTable of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction: McTelevision in the Global Village... Chapter 1: History without Nation: Global Fiction... Chapter 2: Clear, Strong Brands: British Television as a Marketing Tool... Chapter 3: The 3 C's: Children, Citizenship and Co-Production... Chapter 4: Global Truths: Documentaries for the World... Conclusion: Transculturation or the Expansion of Modern Capitalism... Works Cited...
£24.29
Temple University Press,U.S. One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of
Book SynopsisDiscusses the power of the bicycle to impact mobility, technology, urban space and everyday lifeTrade Review"One Less Car is a serious update and expansion of the social and political history of bicycling. I would own this book for the notes and bibliography alone." —Robert Hurst, author of The Cyclist's Manifesto and The Art of CyclingTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introductions and Intersections 2 Becoming Auto-Mobile 3 Vélorutionaries and the Right to the (Bikeable) City 4 Critical Mass and the Functions of Bicycle Protest 5 Two-Wheeled Terrors and Forty-Year-Old Virgins: Mass Media and the Representation of Bicycling 6 DIY Bike Culture 7 Handouts, Hand Ups, or Just Lending a Hand? Community Bike Projects, Bicycle Aid, and Competing Visions of Development under Globalization 8 Conclusion, or "We Have Nothing to Lose but Our (Bike) Chains" Notes Bibliography Index
£23.39
Templeton Foundation Press,U.S. The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading
Book SynopsisIn 1987, Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind was published; a wildly popular book that drew attention to the shift in American culture away from the tenants that made America—and Americans—unique. Bloom focused on a breakdown in the American curriculum, but many sensed that the issue affected more than education. The very essence of what it meant to be an American was disappearing. That was over twenty years ago. Since then, the United States has experienced unprecedented wealth, more youth enrolling in higher education than ever before, and technology advancements far beyond what many in the 1980s dreamed possible. And yet, the state of the American mind seems to have deteriorated further. Benjamin Franklin’s “self-made man” has become a man dependent on the state. Independence has turned into self-absorption. Liberty has been curtailed in the defense of multiculturalism. In order to fully grasp the underpinnings of this shift away from the self-reliant, well-informed American, editors Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow have brought together a group of cultural and educational experts to discuss the root causes of the decline of the American mind. The writers of these fifteen original essays include E. D. Hirsch, Nicholas Eberstadt, and Dennis Prager, as well as Daniel Dreisbach, Gerald Graff, Richard Arum, Robert Whitaker, David T. Z. Mindich, Maggie Jackson, Jean Twenge, Jonathan Kay, Ilya Somin, Steve Wasserman, Greg Lukianoff, and R. R. Reno. Their essays are compiled into three main categories: States of Mind: Indicators of Intellectual and Cognitive Decline These essays broach specific mental deficiencies among the population, including lagging cultural IQ, low Biblical literacy, poor writing skills, and over-medication. Personal and Cognitive Habits/Interests These essays turn to specific mental behaviors and interests, including avoidance of the news, short attention spans, narcissism, and conspiracy obsessions. National Consequences These essays examine broader trends affecting populations and institutions, including rates of entitlement claims, voting habits, and a low-performing higher education system. The State of the American Mind is both an assessment of our current state as well as a warning, foretelling what we may yet become. For anyone interested in the intellectual fate of America, The State of the American Mind offers an accessible and critical look at life in America and how our collective mind is faring. Trade Review“Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow have edited a superb collection of essays on different aspects of American culture and life that extends, deepens, and updates Hofstadter’s critique of the naïve and feckless naturalism of John Dewey that now pervades and eviscerates our culture.” —M. D. Aeschliman, National Review Online“In their new book titled The State of the American Mind, Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow, through a compendium of essays written by experts, have outlined using empirical detail and ironclad analysis what exactly has happened to the American mind and what the “new anti-intellectualism” has done to put it in such a pitiful state. What does this deconstruction of thought look like at a systematic level? The State of the American Mind, by providing a prismatic analysis of the dereliction of education, psychiatry and public discourse, gives the reader a roadmap to destruction and a trail of breadcrumbs back. . . . . The State of the American Mind, while far from being light enough to read on an airplane or at the beach, is a 2015 summertime must-read for any conservative who finds him or herself at odds with the state of public discourse in the United States. . . . . While we may be intellectually lazy, clouded, unmotivated and driven by unbridled emotion devoid of right reason, Bellow and Bauerlein provide thin spaces of light and hope. From start to finish, the carefully curated selection of experts keeps the reader engaged, informed and constantly stimulated. Finally, and most hopefully, among the flotsam and jetsam of a discarded intellectual tradition, one can discern what steps need to be taken to save us from destruction by our own hand…or perhaps by our own mindset.” —Nate Madden, Conservative Review “This anthology will be a distressing but worthwhile read for those who believe traditional American values are endangered and must be preserved.” —Daniel Dreisbach, Publisher's Weekly “The State of the American Mind, is a ‘must read,’ especially the chapter written by the political economist and Wall Street Journal columnist, Nicholas Eberstadt." —The Motley Monk“Enhanced with the inclusion of an engaging Foreword (America: Are We Losing Our Mind?); an informative Introduction (The Knowledge Requirement: What Every American Needs to Know); and a concluding Afterword by the editorial team of Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow, The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism is an inherently fascinating read that is exceptionally well organized and presented throughout. Very highly recommended.” —Willis M. Buhle, Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsForeword—America: Are We Losing Our Mind? Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow / vii Introduction—The Knowledge Requirement: What Every American Needs to Know E. D. Hirsch Jr. / 1 Part One—States of Mind: Indicators of Intellectual and Cognitive Decline 1 The Troubling Trend of Cultural IQ / 19 Mark Bauerlein 2 Biblical Literacy Matters / 33 Daniel L. Dreisbach 3 Why Johnny and Joanie Can’t Write, Revisited / 49 Gerald Graff 4 College Graduates: Satisfied, but Adrift / 65 Richard Arum 5 Anatomy of an Epidemic / 77 Robert Whitaker Part Two—Personal and Cognitive Habits/Interests 6 A Wired Nation Tunes Out the News / 97 David T. Z. Mindich 7 Catching Our Eye: The Alluring Fallacy of Knowing at a Glance / 111 Maggie Jackson 8 The Rise of the Self and the Decline of Intellectual and Civic Interest / 123 Jean M. Twenge 9 Has Internet-Fueled Conspiracy-Mongering Crested? / 137 Jonathan Kay Part Three—National Consequences 10 Dependency in America: American Exceptionalism and the Entitlement State / 153 Nicholas Eberstadt 11 Political Ignorance in America / 163 Ilya Somin 12 In Defense of Difficulty: How the Decline of the Ideal of Seriousness Has Dulled Democracy in the Name of a Phony Populism ‘ 175 Steve Wasserman 13 We Live in the Age of Feelings / 189 Dennis Prager 14 How Colleges Create the “Expectation of Confirmation” / 205 Greg Lukianoff 15 The New Antinomian Attitude / 217 R. R. Reno Afterword Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow / 231 Contributors / 243 Index / 247
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Baylor University Press What Americans Really Believe
Book SynopsisA shocking snapshot of the most current impulses in American religion. Rodney Stark reports the surprising findings of the 2007 Baylor Surveys of Religion, a follow up to the 2005 survey revealing most Americans believe in God or a higher power. This new volume highlights even more hot-button issues of religious life in our country. A must-read for anyone interested in Americans' religious beliefs and practices.Trade ReviewAn indispensable resource for understanding the American public. - George H. Gallup Jr., American Public Opinion StatisticianAll who find in statistics precise food for thought owe Stark and his colleagues at Baylor gratitude. -Publisher's WeeklyA worthy addition to the burgeoning survey data literature in the sociology of religion. Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. -- CHOICETable of Contents List of Tables Introduction The Stability and Diversity of American Faith Part I Congregations 1 Church-going Labels Matter 2 Church Growth Competing for Members 3 Strict Churches The Reasons for their Popularity 4 The ""Scattered"" Church Traditional Congregations are not Going Away 5 Megachurches Supersizing the Faith Part II Beliefs and Practices 6 Religious Experiences God Told Me to Go to Church 7 Gender Women Believe More, Pray More 8 Heaven We are All Going There 9 God Love Makes a Difference 10 Evil Did Sin Cause the Hurricane? 11 Spirituality Religion and Spirituality Are Not Mutually Exclusive 12 Giving The Rich, the Poor, and the Widow's Mite 13 Personality Are We Hard-Wired for God? Part III Atheism and Irreligion 14 Atheism Godless Revolution Never Happened 15 Credulity New Age Believers in Big Foot 16 New Age Adherents Well-Educated, Formerly Irreligious Elites 17 The Irreligious Simply Unchurched not Atheists Part IV The Public Square 18 Faith and Politics Is There a Secret Plot of Evangelicals to Take over the American Government? 19 Merry Christmas, Jesus It's Okay to Put Sacred Symbols in the Public Square 20 Incivility Talking about Faith in Public 21 Religious Media Consumption The DaVinci Code Effect 22 Civic Participation Faith as Social Capital 23 Going to College, Getting a Job What Happens when Mom and Dad Take Their Kids to Church Epilogue The Institute for the Study of Religion Contributors Notes
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Michigan State University Press Social Controversy and Public Address in the
Book SynopsisThe period between the 1960s and 1970s is easily one of the most controversial in American history. Examining the liberal movements of the era as well as those that opposed them, this volume offers analyses of the rhetoric of leaders, including those of the civil rights movement, the Chicano movement, the gay rights movement, second-wave feminism, and conservative resistance groups. It also features an introduction that summarizes much of the significant research done by communication scholars on dissent in the 1960s and 1970s.This time period is still a fertile area of study, and this book provides insights into the era that are both provocative and illuminating, making it an essential read for anyone looking to learn more about this time in America.
£311.26
Information Age Publishing Cultural Psychology of Human Values
Book SynopsisThe book provides conceptual and theoretical elaboration's on human values from a cultural psychological approach. The authors illustrate their original contributions with empirical data, allowing for productive discussion on the topic of ontogenesis of values from a historical-cultural perspective.
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Information Age Publishing Cultural Psychology of Human Values
Book SynopsisThe book provides conceptual and theoretical elaboration's on human values from a cultural psychological approach. The authors illustrate their original contributions with empirical data, allowing for productive discussion on the topic of ontogenesis of values from a historical-cultural perspective.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Dialogic Formations: Investigations into the
Book SynopsisThis volume understands itself as an invitation to follow a fundamental shift in perspective, away from the self-contained `I’ of Western conventions, and towards a relational self, where development and change are contingent on otherness. In the framework of `Dialogical Self Theory’ (Hermans & Hermans-Konopka, 2010; Hermans & Gieser, 2012), it is precisely the forms of interaction and exchange with others and with the world that determine the course of the self’s development.The volume hence addresses dialogical processes in human interaction from a psychological perspective, bringing together previously separate theoretical traditions about the `self’ and about `dialogue’ within the innovative framework of Dialogical Self Theory. The book is devoted to developmental questions, and so broaches one of the more difficult and challenging topics for models of a pluralist self: the question of how the dynamics of multiplicity emerge and change over time. This question is explored by addressing ontogenetic questions, directed at the emergence of the dialogical self in early infancy, as well as microgenetic questions, addressed to later developmental dynamics in adulthood. Additionally, development and change in a range of culture-specific settings and practices is also examined, including the practices of mothering, of migration and cross-cultural assimilation, and of `doing psychotherapy’.
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University of Massachusetts Press From Page to Place: American Literary Tourism and
Book SynopsisLiterary tourism has existed in the United States since at least the early nineteenth century, and now includes sites in almost every corner of the country. From Page to Place examines how Americans have taken up this form of tourism, offering an investigation of the places and practices of literary tourism from literary scholars, historians, tour guides, and collectors. The essays here begin to trace for the first time the histories of some of these sites, the rituals associated with literary tourism, and the ways readers and visitors consume popular literature through touristic endeavors.In addition to the editors, contributors include Rebecca Rego Barry, Susann Bishop, Ben de Bruyn, Erin Hazard, Caroline Hellman, Michelle McClellan, Mara Scanlon, and Klara-Stephanie Szlezak.
£33.83
University of Massachusetts Press The Honky Tonk on the Left: Progressive Thought in Country Music
Book SynopsisMassively popular for the past century, country music has often been associated with political and social conservatism. While such figures as George Wallace, Richard Nixon, and Ted Cruz have embraced and even laid claim to this musical genre over the years, country performers have long expressed bold and progressive positions on a variety of public issues, whether through song lyrics, activism, or performance style.Bringing together a wide spectrum of cultural critics, The Honky Tonk on the Left takes on this conservative stereotype and reveals how progressive thought has permeated country music from its beginnings to the present day. The original essays in this collection analyze how diverse performers, including Fiddlin' John Carson, Webb Pierce, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, O. B. McClinton, Garth Brooks, and Uncle Tupelo, have taken on such issues as government policies, gender roles, civil rights, prison reform, and labor unrest. Taking notice of the wrongs in their eras, these musicians worked to address them in song and action, often with strong support from fans.In addition to the volume editor, this collection includes work by Gregory N. Reish, Peter La Chapelle, Stephanie Vander Wel, Charles L. Hughes, Ted Olson, Nadine Hubbs, Stephanie Shonekan, Stephen A. King, P. Renee Foster, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Travis D. Stimeling, and Jonathan Silverman.
£999.99
University of Massachusetts Press Authenticity Guaranteed: Masculinity and the Rhetoric of Anti-Consumerism in American Culture
Book SynopsisAmericans love to hate consumerism. Scholars, intellectuals, musicians, and writers of all kinds take pleasure in complaining that consumer culture endangers the ""real"" things in life, including self-determination and individualism. In Authenticity Guaranteed, Sally Robinson brings to light the unacknowledged gender and class assumptions of anti-consumerist critique in the second half of the twentieth century. American anti-consumerism, despite its apparent complexity, takes a remarkably consistent and predictable narrative form. From the mid-century Organization Man to the millennial No Logo, anti-consumerist critique reinforces the gender order by insisting that authenticity is threatened, and masculine agency curtailed, by the feminizing forces of consumer culture.Robinson identifies a tradition of masculine protest and rebellion against feminization in iconic texts such as The Catcher in the Rye and Fight Club, as well as in critiques of postmodernism, academic denunciations of shopping, and a variety of other discourses that aim to diagnose what ails American consumer culture. This fresh and timely argument enters into conversation with a wide range of existing scholarship and opens up new questions for scholarly and political discussion.
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University of Massachusetts Press Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century
Book SynopsisThe publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of social status, book publishers sought new market opportunities, authors discovered a growing readership, and more readers indulged in lighter fare.Drawing on publishing records, book reviews, readers' diaries, and popular novels of the period, Donna Harrington-Lueker explores the beginning of summer reading and the backlash against it. Countering fears about the dangers of leisurely reading - especially for young women - publishers framed summer reading not as a disreputable habit but as a respectable pastime and welcome respite. Books for Idle Hours sheds new light on an ongoing seasonal publishing tradition.
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University of Massachusetts Press Taking Possession: The Politics of Memory in a
Book SynopsisWest of downtown St. Louis sits an 1851 town house that bears no obvious relationship to the monumental architecture, trendy condominiums, and sports stadia of its surroundings. Originally the residence of a fur-trade tycoon and now the Campbell House Museum, the house has been subject to energetic preservation and heritage work for some 130 years.In Taking Possession, Heidi Aronson Kolk explores the complex and sometimes contradictory motivations for safeguarding the house as a site of public memory. Crafting narratives about the past that comforted business elites and white middle-class patrons, museum promoters assuaged concerns about the city's most pressing problems, including racial and economic inequality, segregation and privatization, and the legacies of violence for which St. Louis has been known since Ferguson. Kolk's case study illuminates the processes by which civic pride and cultural solidarity have been manufactured in a fragmented and turbulent city, showing how closely linked are acts of memory and forgetting, nostalgia and shame.
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Information Age Publishing Crossing the Bridge of the Digital Divide: A Walk
Book SynopsisCrossing the Bridge of the Digital Divide: A Walk with Global Leaders explores the combined effect of the rapid growth of information as an increasingly fragmented information base, a large component of which is available only to people with money and/or acceptable institutional affiliations. In the recent past, the outcome of these challenges has been characterized as the ""digital divide"" between the information “haves” and “have nots” along racial and socio economic lines that seem to widen as time passes. To address the issues of digital equity and digital inequality in an effort to bridge the digital divide, educational scholars, researchers and practitioners are in positions to ensure equitable opportunities are made available for people of all ages, races, ability, sexual orientation, and ethnicity in support of social justice for bridging the digital divide. The digital divide addresses issues concerning equal opportunity, equity and access that have an effect on the development of marginalized and otherwise disenfranchised populations within and across systems nationally and internationally.The contributing authors- representing Unites States, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, and the UK - posit that education institutions can serve as the bridge to close the digital divide for students who do not have access to information technology in their homes. At a time when more computers are made available in schools than ever before, the digital divide continues to widen and fewer people in the lowest SES groups are given the opportunity to join the world of computer technology and the internet. As a result, the influence of leadership activity on institutional racism, gender discrimination, inequality of opportunity, inequity of educational processes, digital exclusion, and justice have gained currency and attention.The contributing national and international authors examine the digital divide in terms of social justice leadership, equity and access. It is within this context that the authors offer discussions from a lens of their choice, i.e. conceptual, review of literature, epistemological, etc. By adopting an educational approach to bridging the digital divide, researchers and practitioners can connect and extend long- established lines of conceptual and empirical inquiry aimed at improving organizational practices and thereby gain insights that might be otherwise overlooked, or assumed. This holds great promise for generating, refining, and testing theories of leadership for equity and access, and helps strengthen already vibrant lines of inquiry on social justice.Table of Contents Foreword: Bridging Divides in Cyber-Lives, Jabari Mahiri. Introduction, Anthony H. Normore and Antonia Issa Lahera. Series Editor’s Preface, Jeffrey S. Brooks. Part I: Dynamics Of Digital And Social Inequity. Digital Equity and its Role in the Digital Divide, Kitty Fortner, Anthony H. Normore, and Jeffrey S. Brooks. An Examination of the Digital Divide and Its Dividing Factors in Formal Educational Settings, Albert D. Ritzhaupt and Tina N. Hohlfeld. Not All Young People “Use” the Internet: Exploring the Experiences of Ex-Use Amongst Young People in Britain, Rebecca Eynon and Anne Geniets. Part II: Digital Equity And Access Issues. Leading the Cohort across the Divide: Recent Best Practices to Enhance Cohort Teaching and Learning, Steven C. Williams. Walking the Pedagogical Line in Graduate Studies: Obstacles and Opportunities Transitioning to Digital and e-Learning, Duncan MacLellan and Heather Rintoul. A Model for Addressing Adaptive Challenges by Merging Ideas: How One Program Designed a Hacking Framework to Address Adaptive Challenges and Discovered the Ecotone, Kendall Zoller, Antonia Issa Lahera, and Julie K. Jhun. Emerging Technologies for Learning: Using Open Education Resources (OER), Ruben Caputo. Partnering with Teachers to Bridge Digital Divides, Doron Zinger, Jenell Krishnan, and Mark Warschauer. Social Networking Technology and the Social Justice Implications of Equitable Outcomes for First- Generation College Students, Yesenia Fernandez, Nancy Deng, and Meng Zhao. The Habitus and Technological Practices of Rural Students: A Case Study, Laura Czerniewicz and Cheryl Brown. Part III: Global Research And Development In Technology. The Digital Divide in Scientific Development and Research: The Case of the Arab World, Hamoud Salhi. Assistive Technology for Students with Disabilities: An International and Intersectional Approach, Saili S. Kulkarni, Jessica Parmar, Ann Selmi, and Avi Mendelson. Online Resource Courses to Enhance Education Abroad Learning: The Digital & Enhanced International Learning Divide, Gary M. Rhodes and Rosalind Latiner Raby. Biographies.
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H.W. Wilson Publishing Co. Profiles of Ohio
Book SynopsisEach state-by-state volume in this series provides at-a-glance detailed demographic and statistical data on every populated place in the state, along with easy-to-use comparative rankings. Each Demographic Profile gives the user an easy-to-read snapshot of every single place and county in the state, from the biggest metropolis to the smallest unincorporated hamlet. Each profile offers data on History, Geography, Climate, Population, Vital Statistics, Economy, Income, Taxes, Education, Housing, Health & Environment, Public Safety and more. The richness of each profile is astounding in its depth, from history to weather, all packed in an easy-to-navigate, compact format. Next, each volume provides School District Data with a snapshot profile of each district serving 1,500 or more students. Each district profile includes contact information along with grades served, the numbers of students, teachers and schools, student/teacher ratios, drop out rates, ethnicity, gender and diploma recipients by race and district
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University of Nevada Press Protecting the Spanish Woman: Gender Identity and
Book SynopsisMaría de Zayas is unique in the seventeenth century as the only Spanish woman to write a collection of exemplary novels whose quality is often compared to Miguel de Cervantes' masterful works. Her two main collections of short stories, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares and Desengaños amorosos, encompass a social critique based on literary fiction that exposes flaws in the idealized archetypes of masculine identity in early modern Spain. Zayas's stories redefine women's patriarchal disadvantage as a tool to expose the ways in which early modern Spanish women could be empowered to counteract men's discursive and political authority, which they use to unfairly maintain their own social privilege.Xabier Granja Ibarreche explores how Zayas defies Spanish hegemony by manipulating and transforming the ideals of courtly masculinity that had been popularized by conduct manuals and the traits they specified for appropriate noble comportment. In doing so, Zayas elaborates a nonofficial discourse throughout plots that subvert patriarchal hierarchies: she rearticulates the existing ideological order to empower women who are no longer willing to remain silent and oppressed by masculine domination after centuries of failing to attain a sufficiently self-sufficient political position to ascend in the social hierarchy. By inverting the male gaze that assumes masculinity as a preeminent identity, Zayas subverts the patriarchal subject/masculine, object/feminine order and destabilizes manly superiority as a basic universal reality, thereby empowering and unshackling Spanish women to liberate Iberian culture from the repressive and pernicious future she forebodes.Trade ReviewThe author enhances his discussion of her fiction with historical case studies of abused women from the time during which Zayas lived and wrote. This archival material . . . is a welcome addition to the consideration of Zayas's stories and reflects her complexity." - Marina Brownlee, Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature, Princeton University, author of The Cultural Labyrinth of María de ZayasTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Man Redefined: Hegemony, History, and Refashioning Chapter Two: Woman Nullified: The Gendered Dangers of Noblemen's Despotism Chapter Three: Woman Victimized: The Sexual Assault in Patriarchal Oppression Chapter Four: Woman Brutalized: The Bodies Broken by Masculine Violence Chapter Five: Conclusion: Woman Redefined Bibliography Index About the Author
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Information Age Publishing (Re)Building Bi/Multilingual Leaders for Socially
Book SynopsisThe recent decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has had a major impact on many who have been geographically uprooted to places they have never lived or known. Established in 2012, DACA allows eligible immigrant youth (Dreamers) to apply for protection for deportation and work permits in two-year increments. On September 5, 2017 the Trump administration announced that it would tersely end the program. While several organizations have taken charge by advocating and representing Dreamers, there are still many students in school districts who have not been represented or advocated for because of their limited language skills. On January 22, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court declined, for now, to take up the Trump administration's request to review the lawsuit challenging the administration's decision to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. These students, although here legally, have not been able to been able to attain these skills simply because our schools do not have the adequate resources and personnel to attend to them (Cherng et al., 2017).This book exposes the experiences of 15 Educational Leadership candidates focused on improving their bilingual/ multilingual school communities via conceptual ideas and policies learned as students and synthesizing these ideas into practice as future administrators. As such, the chapters presented in this project will be focused on the development of innovative methods to meet the needs of these communities. Guided by social justice leadership, this project exposes the empirical practices of these teacher leaders in their respective New York City communities. Immigration can be an on-going challenge for educational leaders, counselors, school personnel, community members, and those who are engaged in meeting the needs of this population. Teachers and leaders in new immigrant destinations — places that are seeing rapidly increasing numbers of immigrants — often find themselves dealing with a host of unexpected issues: immigrant students’ unique socio-emotional needs, community conflict, a wider range of skills in English, lack of a common language for communication with parents, and more (Tamer, 2014). Still, there is a high need of research providing leadership guidance addressing immigration policies and resources inside and outside schools.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing (Re)Building Bi/Multilingual Leaders for Socially
Book SynopsisThe recent decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has had a major impact on many who have been geographically uprooted to places they have never lived or known. Established in 2012, DACA allows eligible immigrant youth (Dreamers) to apply for protection for deportation and work permits in two-year increments. On September 5, 2017 the Trump administration announced that it would tersely end the program. While several organizations have taken charge by advocating and representing Dreamers, there are still many students in school districts who have not been represented or advocated for because of their limited language skills. On January 22, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court declined, for now, to take up the Trump administration's request to review the lawsuit challenging the administration's decision to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. These students, although here legally, have not been able to been able to attain these skills simply because our schools do not have the adequate resources and personnel to attend to them (Cherng et al., 2017).This book exposes the experiences of 15 Educational Leadership candidates focused on improving their bilingual/ multilingual school communities via conceptual ideas and policies learned as students and synthesizing these ideas into practice as future administrators. As such, the chapters presented in this project will be focused on the development of innovative methods to meet the needs of these communities. Guided by social justice leadership, this project exposes the empirical practices of these teacher leaders in their respective New York City communities. Immigration can be an on-going challenge for educational leaders, counselors, school personnel, community members, and those who are engaged in meeting the needs of this population. Teachers and leaders in new immigrant destinations — places that are seeing rapidly increasing numbers of immigrants — often find themselves dealing with a host of unexpected issues: immigrant students’ unique socio-emotional needs, community conflict, a wider range of skills in English, lack of a common language for communication with parents, and more (Tamer, 2014). Still, there is a high need of research providing leadership guidance addressing immigration policies and resources inside and outside schools.
£82.80
Information Age Publishing Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on
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Information Age Publishing Teaching About Diversity: Activities to Start the
Book SynopsisThis book offers easily implemented strategies for use with secondary and undergraduate students to promote greater engagement with the realities of diversity and commitment to social justice within their classrooms. Defining diversity broadly, the book provides effective pedagogical techniques to help students question their own assumptions, think critically, and discuss issues within race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and ability.The K-12 student population is increasingly diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, language, religion, socio-economic status, and family structure. However, the overwhelming majority of teachers continues to come from White, non-urban, middle class backgrounds (Fletcher, 2014; Hughes et al., 2011) These differences can have serious repercussions for student learning. Non-majority students who feel that their culture or background is not acknowledged or accepted at school are likely to disengage from expected academic and social activities (Hughes et al., 2011). Concurrently, the majority students remain unaware of privilege and ignorant of societal systemic discrimination.In order to teach for social justice, ideas regarding power structure, privilege, and oppression need to be discussed openly. Fear of upsetting students or not knowing how to handle the issue of social justice are commonly heard reasons for not discussing “difficult” subjects (Marks, Binkley, & Daly, 2014). However, when teachers choose not to discuss topics within diversity, students assume that the topics are taboo, dangerous, or unimportant. These assumptions impede students’ abilities to ask important questions, learn how to speak about issues effectively and comprehend the complex challenges woven into current national conversations.
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Information Age Publishing Teaching About Diversity: Activities to Start the
Book SynopsisThis book offers easily implemented strategies for use with secondary and undergraduate students to promote greater engagement with the realities of diversity and commitment to social justice within their classrooms. Defining diversity broadly, the book provides effective pedagogical techniques to help students question their own assumptions, think critically, and discuss issues within race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and ability.The K-12 student population is increasingly diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, language, religion, socio-economic status, and family structure. However, the overwhelming majority of teachers continues to come from White, non-urban, middle class backgrounds (Fletcher, 2014; Hughes et al., 2011) These differences can have serious repercussions for student learning. Non-majority students who feel that their culture or background is not acknowledged or accepted at school are likely to disengage from expected academic and social activities (Hughes et al., 2011). Concurrently, the majority students remain unaware of privilege and ignorant of societal systemic discrimination.In order to teach for social justice, ideas regarding power structure, privilege, and oppression need to be discussed openly. Fear of upsetting students or not knowing how to handle the issue of social justice are commonly heard reasons for not discussing “difficult” subjects (Marks, Binkley, & Daly, 2014). However, when teachers choose not to discuss topics within diversity, students assume that the topics are taboo, dangerous, or unimportant. These assumptions impede students’ abilities to ask important questions, learn how to speak about issues effectively and comprehend the complex challenges woven into current national conversations.
£82.80
Information Age Publishing Purveyors of Change: School Leaders of Color
Book SynopsisEffective leadership is the necessary ingredient in achieving educational improvement in schools; everything rises and falls on leadership. For School Leaders of Color, this leadership imperative is more difficult than it is for their White counterparts. Concomitantly with this leadership necessity are the social and academic disparities of racism, student poverty, lack of resources, just to name a few. Yet these leaders have courageously accepted their role to disrupt low performance and thus they have created environments where students learn and professors teach. These leaders are “purveyors of change.” The purpose of this educational preparation supplemental text is to share stories of these exceptional leaders in the field and in the academy. The experiences shared by the various authors cover four important areas in leadership: Culture & Climate; Student Success; Resilience, Persistence, & Turnaround; and Social Justice. The authors have shared some deeply personal issues and triumphs. These are the stories that resonate more deeply with students and that with these types of stories, the theory to practice bridge is successfully crossed. While many of the chapters include narratives of resilience and triumph in the context of the P-12 education system, the overarching themes and suggestions can be transmuted to any industry.Table of Contents Acknowledgments. Introduction. PART I: CULTURE AND CLIMATE. From Peril to Promise Out of School Suspensions Impact on Students of Color You’re Hired! An Administrator’s Tale of Attracting, Training, and Retaining Highly Qualified Teachers, Selling Education PART II: STUDENT SUCCESS. “Cause You Talk Like Me”: Color’d Girl Leading Coaching for Success: An Administrator’s Account About African American Leadership Planning for Student Success: Addressing Academic Achievement, and Social Emotional Well-Being District-Level Programs for Black Student Success: Constraints and Opportunities for Leaders, Staff, and Community PART III: RESILIENCE, PERSISTENCE, AND TURNAROUND. The Negligence of Conformist Leadership Dare to Dream and Keep It Moving: From GED to EdD Leading and Surviving: Navigating and Surviving the Political Currents in Urban Education Inner-City Public Schools Still Work: How One Principal’s Life Is Living Proof PART IV: RESILIENCE, PERSISTENCE, AND TURNAROUND. Talking Back: Two Leadership Dialogue About Leading While Black forSocial Justice Leading Against Anti-Blackness When Hegemony, Microaggressions, and White Fragility Undermine Your Leadership Leading While Black or Brown Aboutthe Contributors
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Information Age Publishing Purveyors of Change: School Leaders of Color
Book SynopsisEffective leadership is the necessary ingredient in achieving educational improvement in schools; everything rises and falls on leadership. For School Leaders of Color, this leadership imperative is more difficult than it is for their White counterparts. Concomitantly with this leadership necessity are the social and academic disparities of racism, student poverty, lack of resources, just to name a few. Yet these leaders have courageously accepted their role to disrupt low performance and thus they have created environments where students learn and professors teach. These leaders are “purveyors of change.” The purpose of this educational preparation supplemental text is to share stories of these exceptional leaders in the field and in the academy. The experiences shared by the various authors cover four important areas in leadership: Culture & Climate; Student Success; Resilience, Persistence, & Turnaround; and Social Justice. The authors have shared some deeply personal issues and triumphs. These are the stories that resonate more deeply with students and that with these types of stories, the theory to practice bridge is successfully crossed. While many of the chapters include narratives of resilience and triumph in the context of the P-12 education system, the overarching themes and suggestions can be transmuted to any industry.Table of Contents Acknowledgments. Introduction. PART I: CULTURE AND CLIMATE. From Peril to Promise Out of School Suspensions Impact on Students of Color You’re Hired! An Administrator’s Tale of Attracting, Training, and Retaining Highly Qualified Teachers, Selling Education PART II: STUDENT SUCCESS. “Cause You Talk Like Me”: Color’d Girl Leading Coaching for Success: An Administrator’s Account About African American Leadership Planning for Student Success: Addressing Academic Achievement, and Social Emotional Well-Being District-Level Programs for Black Student Success: Constraints and Opportunities for Leaders, Staff, and Community PART III: RESILIENCE, PERSISTENCE, AND TURNAROUND. The Negligence of Conformist Leadership Dare to Dream and Keep It Moving: From GED to EdD Leading and Surviving: Navigating and Surviving the Political Currents in Urban Education Inner-City Public Schools Still Work: How One Principal’s Life Is Living Proof PART IV: RESILIENCE, PERSISTENCE, AND TURNAROUND. Talking Back: Two Leadership Dialogue About Leading While Black forSocial Justice Leading Against Anti-Blackness When Hegemony, Microaggressions, and White Fragility Undermine Your Leadership Leading While Black or Brown Aboutthe Contributors
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Information Age Publishing Critical Storytelling During the COVID-19
Book SynopsisBerea College, founded in 1855 on the principles of socio-educational equality, is an institution devoted to giving voices to the oppressed. This book, Critical Storytelling during the COVID-19 Pandemic, is a tribute to giving students from a variety of backgrounds a voice for the displacement they felt during the raging spikes of the early pandemic period. Each student offers their take on the pandemic itself, how it affected their education, as well as how it displaced them. From stories of exile to those of triumph, this work is a heralding account of dozens of students' experiences.
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Information Age Publishing Critical Storytelling During the COVID-19
Book SynopsisBerea College, founded in 1855 on the principles of socio-educational equality, is an institution devoted to giving voices to the oppressed. This book, Critical Storytelling during the COVID-19 Pandemic, is a tribute to giving students from a variety of backgrounds a voice for the displacement they felt during the raging spikes of the early pandemic period. Each student offers their take on the pandemic itself, how it affected their education, as well as how it displaced them. From stories of exile to those of triumph, this work is a heralding account of dozens of students' experiences.
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Information Age Publishing Hollywood or History?: An Inquiry-Based Strategy
Book SynopsisTraumagenic events—episodes that have caused or are likely to cause trauma—color the experiences of K-12 students and the social studies curriculum they encounter in U.S. schools. At the same time that the global COVID-19 pandemic has heightened educators' awareness of collective trauma, the racial reckoning of 2020 has drawn important attention to historical and transgenerational trauma. At a time when social studies educators can simply no longer ignore "difficult" knowledge, instruction that acknowledges trauma in social studies classrooms is essential.Through employing relational pedagogies and foregrounding voices that are too often silenced, the lessons in Hollywood or History? An Inquiry-Based Strategy for Using Film to Acknowledge Trauma in Social Studies engage students in examining the role of traumatic or traumagenic events in social studies curriculum. The 20 Hollywood or History? lessons are organized by themes such as political trauma and war and genocide. Each lesson presents film clips, instructional strategies, and primary and secondary sources targeted to the identified K-12 grade levels. As a collection, they provide ready-to-teach resources that are perfect for teachers who are committed to acknowledging trauma in their social studies instruction.Table of Contents Introduction to Hollywood or History? An Inquiry-Based Strategy for Using Film to Acknowledge Trauma in Social Studies SECTION I: POLITICAL TRAUMA Voting Rights: Selma to Today - Alicen Brown and Michael Gurlea Us: Viewing Jordan Peele's Film Through a Lens of Systematic Oppression - William Toledo and Fares Karam 10s Across the Board: Paris Is Burning and LGBTQ Political Trauma - Lisa K. Pennington and Matthew Cooney Exploring The Genocidal Continuum in American History X - Bradley Kraft SECTION II: NATURAL DISASTERS AND DISEASE Daniel Tiger: A Storm in the Neighborhood - Stephen Day Depictions of Spanish Influenza and Downton Abbey: An Inquiry-Based Lesson on a Global Pandemic - Jason Allen Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster and the Trauma of Environmental Injustice - Elaine Alvey Building Empathy: Teaching About Refugees With Human Flow - Meghan Kessler and Donna Fortune SECTION III: WAR AND GENOCIDE Rwandan Genocide - Leona Calkins Telling the Story of the Armenian Genocide - Suzanne Shelburne and David Hicks Prisoners of War in the Pacific Theater - Taylor Hawes Between and Beyond Victim and Victimizer - Daniel Osborn SECTION IV: HISTORICAL TRAUMA Examining Roman Gladiator Games to Understand "Painfotainment" in the Societies of Ancient Rome and Modern America - Sara Evers Working to Understand Historical Violence Through Film - Grant Scribner and Taylor Hamblin The Great Gatsby, Income Inequality, Trauma, and a Future Global Depression - Vaughn Wilson Should Jesse Owens Have Boycotted Hitler's Olympics? - Mary Carney and Evan Long SECTION V: TRANSGENERATIONAL TRAUMA Family as an Extension of Place: Finding (and Interrogating) Your Roots - Ariel Cornett What's the Problem With a Little Elbow Room? - Lindsey Belt and Evan Long Mandela's Political Creativity - Zach Bower Just Mercy: Hollywood or History? - Taylor Hawes
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Information Age Publishing Hollywood or History?: An Inquiry-Based Strategy
Book SynopsisTraumagenic events—episodes that have caused or are likely to cause trauma—color the experiences of K-12 students and the social studies curriculum they encounter in U.S. schools. At the same time that the global COVID-19 pandemic has heightened educators' awareness of collective trauma, the racial reckoning of 2020 has drawn important attention to historical and transgenerational trauma. At a time when social studies educators can simply no longer ignore "difficult" knowledge, instruction that acknowledges trauma in social studies classrooms is essential.Through employing relational pedagogies and foregrounding voices that are too often silenced, the lessons in Hollywood or History? An Inquiry-Based Strategy for Using Film to Acknowledge Trauma in Social Studies engage students in examining the role of traumatic or traumagenic events in social studies curriculum. The 20 Hollywood or History? lessons are organized by themes such as political trauma and war and genocide. Each lesson presents film clips, instructional strategies, and primary and secondary sources targeted to the identified K-12 grade levels. As a collection, they provide ready-to-teach resources that are perfect for teachers who are committed to acknowledging trauma in their social studies instruction.Table of Contents Introduction to Hollywood or History? An Inquiry-Based Strategy for Using Film to Acknowledge Trauma in Social Studies SECTION I: POLITICAL TRAUMA Voting Rights: Selma to Today - Alicen Brown and Michael Gurlea Us: Viewing Jordan Peele's Film Through a Lens of Systematic Oppression - William Toledo and Fares Karam 10s Across the Board: Paris Is Burning and LGBTQ Political Trauma - Lisa K. Pennington and Matthew Cooney Exploring The Genocidal Continuum in American History X - Bradley Kraft SECTION II: NATURAL DISASTERS AND DISEASE Daniel Tiger: A Storm in the Neighborhood - Stephen Day Depictions of Spanish Influenza and Downton Abbey: An Inquiry-Based Lesson on a Global Pandemic - Jason Allen Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster and the Trauma of Environmental Injustice - Elaine Alvey Building Empathy: Teaching About Refugees With Human Flow - Meghan Kessler and Donna Fortune SECTION III: WAR AND GENOCIDE Rwandan Genocide - Leona Calkins Telling the Story of the Armenian Genocide - Suzanne Shelburne and David Hicks Prisoners of War in the Pacific Theater - Taylor Hawes Between and Beyond Victim and Victimizer - Daniel Osborn SECTION IV: HISTORICAL TRAUMA Examining Roman Gladiator Games to Understand "Painfotainment" in the Societies of Ancient Rome and Modern America - Sara Evers Working to Understand Historical Violence Through Film - Grant Scribner and Taylor Hamblin The Great Gatsby, Income Inequality, Trauma, and a Future Global Depression - Vaughn Wilson Should Jesse Owens Have Boycotted Hitler's Olympics? - Mary Carney and Evan Long SECTION V: TRANSGENERATIONAL TRAUMA Family as an Extension of Place: Finding (and Interrogating) Your Roots - Ariel Cornett What's the Problem With a Little Elbow Room? - Lindsey Belt and Evan Long Mandela's Political Creativity - Zach Bower Just Mercy: Hollywood or History? - Taylor Hawes
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Information Age Publishing Hollywood or History?: An Inquiry-Based Strategy
Book SynopsisTeaching with film is not a new approach in the social studies classroom. Different publications, such as Hollywood or History, have bridged the gap with challenges attached to using historical film and engage students through inquiry, not entertainment. To continue with the Hollywood or History strategy, this text uses television shows (sitcoms) to brings issue-centered curriculum to middle and high school classrooms. By exploring issues in specific episodes, students can learn the history behind an issue, relate it to their lives, and develop an informed decision associated with the issue.The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) framework is an integral part to the exploration of issue-centered curriculum. In each chapter, the students will work through the four dimensions and develop critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. My hope is that this text can play a small role in walking practicing teachers through the C3 framework while allowing students to learn about issues that affect society and the communities where they live.Table of Contents CHAPTER 1: Hollywood or History? The Introduction CHAPTER 2: Hollywood or History? The Inquiry Curriculum CHAPTER 3: Civil Rights CHAPTER 4: Gender CHAPTER 5: Immigration CHAPTER 6: Racism and Prejudice CHAPTER 7: Sectarianism CHAPTER 8: Sexism CHAPTER 9: Voting CHAPTER 10: Conclusion
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