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Book SynopsisExploring the multiracial, multiethnicTrade Review"An excellent and timely collection on an important set of civil rights issues."—Pedro Noguera, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York UniversityTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: The Past as Racial Prologue? 1. Color Lines in a Multiracial Nation: An Institutional Demographic Overview of the United States in the Twenty-First Century Part I: Foundations of Multiracial Inequality 2. Color Lines in the Mind: Implicit Prejudice, Discrimination, and the Potential for Change 3. Structural Racism and Color Lines in the United States Part II: Ambiguities of Racial and Ethnic Identity 4. "We Are Not Like Them": Social Distancing and Realignment in the U.S. Latino Racial Hierarchy 5. The Paradox of the Puerto Rican Race: The Interplay of Racism and Nationalism under U.S. Colonialism 6. Shared Fates in Asian Transracial Adoption: Korean Adoptee Experiences of Difference in Their Families Part III: Negotiating Change: Group Interaction on the Ground 7. Multiracial Youth Scenes and the Dynamics of Race: New Approaches to Racialization within the Bay Area Hip Hop Underground 8. Toward Diversity That Works: Building Communities through Arts and Culture 9. Commonality in Values across the Racial Divide 10. Immigrant Political Empowerment in New York and Los Angeles Part IV: The Road Ahead? 11. To Be Continued? The "Problem of the Color Line" in the Twenty-First Century Conclusion: Color Lines, the New Society, and the Responsibility of Scholars Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisBlack Communists Speak on Scottsboro, an account of a neglected chapter in the story of the Scottsboro saga, gives voice to a segment of the African American community that has often been ignored or distorted: black Communists.Trade Review"... offers a unique blend of primary sources on the Scottsboro case and the campaign by black Communists to liberate the nine young African American ... this rich collection of documents provide a window into the day-by-day and year-by-year struggles waged by American and international Communists around the Scottsboro defense." Gerald Zahavi "Howard provides insights into the modern civil rights struggle with this edited volume on the campaign by black American communists to free the defendants in the infamous Powell v. Alabama case... Howard includes an overview essay that provides a strong context for the documents included in the text. Summing Up: Recommended." Choice "Howard's Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro adds to this burgeoning literature [of scholarly inquiry into the history of the black Left] and promises to renew old debates as well as spawn new ones regarding black radicals' complex relationship with the international Left...Skilled essayists, [the contributors] effectively situated the Scottsboro case within the larger context of the international working class' political, legal, and economic struggles... [T]he selections do constitute a welcome addition to any classroom exploring the black radical tradition and the American left."- The Journal of Southern History, Feb 2009Table of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 “They Shall Not Die!”Chapter 2 A Call to MillionsChapter 3 Harry Haywood SpeaksChapter 4 William Patterson SpeaksChapter 5 Monitoring the CaseChapter 6 Following ThroughEpilogueProfiles of Black CommunistsAppendixSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHow does a landmark become, after just a few generations, a landfill? In Forgotten Philadelphia, Thomas Keels takes the reader through a lavishly illustrated journey through three centuries of Philadelphia's architecture: what was built, how the public perceived the value of certain buildings, and why those buildings were eventually demolished. In writing that celebrates Philadelphia past without ever being sentimental, Keels describes a city that was always reinventing itself, filled with people who always had a very measured view of the worth and beauty of its public architecture.Trade Review"For the first time, Forgotten Philadelphia places the lost architecture of the City of Brotherly Love into the widest possible context. Keels draws on the rich political, social, cultural, and intellectual history of the city in ways that explain the forces that created the lost buildings and the forces that led to their demise. In the process he illuminates the history of Philadelphia architecture at the same time that he uses its lost architecture as an important source for understanding the evolution of the city." David Contosta, Chestnut Hill College, author of Suburb in the City: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia 1850-1990 "a luscious collection of drawing and black-and-white photos of building s that no longer exist with lively description of what they were like when they did...anyone with a stake in the city's future should have a copy of this book by their bedside...it's a must." Philadelphia Weekly "For architecture, history and Philly buffs, it's an indispensible volume...[T]he 'Projected Philadelphia' chapter [may be] the most compelling...Looking at these beautiful architectural drawings is like walking directly into the province of dreams, and their pure optimism - the sense of their rightness - provides this book with a melancholy-tinged but fitting finale." The Jewish Exponent "A handsome volume...Not for nearly half a century...have we seen such a compilation of great departed buildings... There are good, important stories with good, familiar pictures." Nineteenth Century "This is a lavishly illustrated, tightly written coffee-table book, full of fascinating nuggets...Thanks to Keels' efforts, those lost buildings won't be forgotten." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "This book joins a small collection of architectural histories, useful for preservationists...which shift the focus from a building's conception to an examination of the forces that led to its death. A cautionary reminder that a culture is remembered for both what it creates and what it destroys. Summing Up: Recommended." Choice "The second half of Forgotten Philadelphia makes an important contribution to our appreciation of what Philadelphia recently lost... General readers with an interest in Philadelphia and preservationists alike will be turning to this book for years to come. Also unlike many books of photographs and postcards that have appeared in recent years, Forgotten Philadelphia is well organized and attractively formatted. It is also thoroughly indexed, and the repositories holding the original photographs, prints and drawings reproduced here are clearly identified--a lesson yet to be learned by many publishers." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography "Encyclopedic in scope and brimming with narrative detail, Forgotten Philadelphia presents a fascinating...account of significant Philadelphia buildings that have fallen to the wrecking ball...The book will be of interest not only to historians of Philadelphia, but also more generally to architectural historians, preservationists, and geographers...[T]he book is engagingly written and brings together an impressive array of evidence and detail." Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies Spring 2009Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction 1 Penn's Green Country Town (1682 to 1775); 2 Athens of America (1776 to 1820); 3 City in Transition (1821 to 1860); 4 Workshop of the World (1861 to 1900); 5 The Consumer City (1901 to 1940); 6 Renaissance and Retrenchment (1940 to the present); 7 Projected Philadelphia Selected Bibliography

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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

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Book SynopsisDo you love Philadelphia? Do you love good writing? Well, this is the book for you. It's about the people of Philadelphia--the good, the fine, and the imperfect. Yes, the sports heroes are here--Mike Schmidt, Julius (\u0022Dr. J.\u0022) Erving. And the politicians--Ed Rendell, John Street. And the moguls--Brian Roberts, Comcast honcho. And the would-be moguls--Mark Yagalla, world-class embezzler. And so many more, including--writing in their own words--Terry Gross, Patti LaBelle, W. Wilson Goode, Sr., Judy Wicks, Judith Rodin, and Smarty Jones (proving that this horse is no one-trick pony). And so many more--25 of them in all. The people--and the horse--who have meant something to this city during the last 20 years. Ripped from the pages of Philadelphia magazine (well, OK, carefully removed and lovingly pasted into this book), here are profiles of the people who made an era.Trade Review"The sensory experience of Philadelphia comes every time I walk through it or ride through it. It's exciting and refreshing, but it's still not enough. I want secrets both delicious and dark. I want the intimacies of the people who make this city so unlike any other. Which is where Philadelphia magazine comes in... Its journalism is the best of any urban magazine in the country, tough when it has to be, unflinching when it has to be, compassionate when it has to be... If you want to know the heart of Philadelphia, the complete heart with all the different veins, sit back and enjoy and read these wonderful pieces..."-Buzz Bissinger, from the Foreword "In the 1960s and 1970s, Philadelphia magazine was a pioneer of the so-called New Journalism and largely defined the template of what a city or regional magazine can be. At a time when most city magazines were Bibles of Babbitt, peddling gaseous boosterism and selling content to advertisers, Philadelphia was breaking china in Main Line drawing rooms, shining light into the smoky back rooms of Old Philadelphia power, and writing unflinchingly about the city's seamy underbelly... One of the staples of the magazine has always been the profile, an in-depth prose portrait of a newsmaker or larger-than-life character who in some way defines Philadelphia. This volume brings together, for the first time, some of the best of these pieces. The subjects are among the brightest lights in the recent history of Philadelphia-with a handful of infamous charmers and oddballs included for good measure-captured with a greater depth and intimacy than in any other medium."-Robert Huber and Benjamin Wallace, from the IntroductionTable of ContentsCONTENTS Foreword by Buzz Bissinger Introduction by the Editors 1986 - 1994 Sandra Newman (1988)-by Lisa DePaulo Arlen Specter (1992)-by Alicia Mundy Mumia Abu-Jamal (1993)-by Devin Leonard Bobby Simone (1993)-by Lisa DePaulo Mayor Ed Rendell (1994)-by Lisa DePaulo My Philadelphia Story: W. Wilson Goode, Sr. 1994 - 1999 Robert Montgomery Scott (1995)-by Mark Kram, Jr. Senator Rick Santorum (1995)-by Eric Konigsberg Mike Schmidt (1995)-by Larry Platt Anne d'Harnoncourt (1996)-by Amy Donohue My Philadelphia Story: Judy Wicks Brian Roberts (1997)-by Larry Platt Frank Bender (1997)-by Sabrina Rubin Erdely Richard Glanton (1997)-by Mark Cohen My Philadelphia Story: Judith Rodin Harry Jay Katz (1997)-by Stephen Rodrick Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (1997)-by Jim Quinn Richard Sprague (1998)-by Buzz Bissinger Mike Teti (1999)-by Christopher McDougall My Philadelphia Story: Terry Gross 2000 - 2004 Mayor John Street (2000)-by Christopher McDougall M. Night Shyamalan (2000)-by Maximillian Potter Vernon Hill (2001)-by Larry Platt My Philadelphia Story: Smarty Jones Mark Yagalla (2001)-by Benjamin Wallace Kenny Gamble (2001)-by Elizabeth Gold Julius Erving (2003)-by Robert Huber My Philadelphia Story: Patti LaBelle David Brooks (2004)-by Sasha Issenberg Dr. William Norwood (2004)-by Jason Fagone Lang Lang (2004)-by Christopher McDougall

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Book SynopsisDo you love Philadelphia? Do you love good writing? Well, this is the book for you. It's about the people of Philadelphia--the good, the fine, and the imperfect. Yes, the sports heroes are here--Mike Schmidt, Julius (\u0022Dr. J.\u0022) Erving. And the politicians--Ed Rendell, John Street. And the moguls--Brian Roberts, Comcast honcho. And the would-be moguls--Mark Yagalla, world-class embezzler. And so many more, including--writing in their own words--Terry Gross, Patti LaBelle, W. Wilson Goode, Sr., Judy Wicks, Judith Rodin, and Smarty Jones (proving that this horse is no one-trick pony). And so many more--25 of them in all. The people--and the horse--who have meant something to this city during the last 20 years. Ripped from the pages of Philadelphia magazine (well, OK, carefully removed and lovingly pasted into this book), here are profiles of the people who made an era.Trade Review"The sensory experience of Philadelphia comes every time I walk through it or ride through it. It's exciting and refreshing, but it's still not enough. I want secrets both delicious and dark. I want the intimacies of the people who make this city so unlike any other. Which is where Philadelphia magazine comes in... Its journalism is the best of any urban magazine in the country, tough when it has to be, unflinching when it has to be, compassionate when it has to be... If you want to know the heart of Philadelphia, the complete heart with all the different veins, sit back and enjoy and read these wonderful pieces..."-Buzz Bissinger, from the Foreword "In the 1960s and 1970s, Philadelphia magazine was a pioneer of the so-called New Journalism and largely defined the template of what a city or regional magazine can be. At a time when most city magazines were Bibles of Babbitt, peddling gaseous boosterism and selling content to advertisers, Philadelphia was breaking china in Main Line drawing rooms, shining light into the smoky back rooms of Old Philadelphia power, and writing unflinchingly about the city's seamy underbelly... One of the staples of the magazine has always been the profile, an in-depth prose portrait of a newsmaker or larger-than-life character who in some way defines Philadelphia. This volume brings together, for the first time, some of the best of these pieces. The subjects are among the brightest lights in the recent history of Philadelphia-with a handful of infamous charmers and oddballs included for good measure-captured with a greater depth and intimacy than in any other medium."-Robert Huber and Benjamin Wallace, from the IntroductionTable of ContentsCONTENTS Foreword by Buzz Bissinger Introduction by the Editors 1986 - 1994 Sandra Newman (1988)-by Lisa DePaulo Arlen Specter (1992)-by Alicia Mundy Mumia Abu-Jamal (1993)-by Devin Leonard Bobby Simone (1993)-by Lisa DePaulo Mayor Ed Rendell (1994)-by Lisa DePaulo My Philadelphia Story: W. Wilson Goode, Sr. 1994 - 1999 Robert Montgomery Scott (1995)-by Mark Kram, Jr. Senator Rick Santorum (1995)-by Eric Konigsberg Mike Schmidt (1995)-by Larry Platt Anne d'Harnoncourt (1996)-by Amy Donohue My Philadelphia Story: Judy Wicks Brian Roberts (1997)-by Larry Platt Frank Bender (1997)-by Sabrina Rubin Erdely Richard Glanton (1997)-by Mark Cohen My Philadelphia Story: Judith Rodin Harry Jay Katz (1997)-by Stephen Rodrick Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (1997)-by Jim Quinn Richard Sprague (1998)-by Buzz Bissinger Mike Teti (1999)-by Christopher McDougall My Philadelphia Story: Terry Gross 2000 - 2004 Mayor John Street (2000)-by Christopher McDougall M. Night Shyamalan (2000)-by Maximillian Potter Vernon Hill (2001)-by Larry Platt My Philadelphia Story: Smarty Jones Mark Yagalla (2001)-by Benjamin Wallace Kenny Gamble (2001)-by Elizabeth Gold Julius Erving (2003)-by Robert Huber My Philadelphia Story: Patti LaBelle David Brooks (2004)-by Sasha Issenberg Dr. William Norwood (2004)-by Jason Fagone Lang Lang (2004)-by Christopher McDougall

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Book SynopsisA fascinating study of Senegalese masters of the sabar drumTrade Review"Tang's ethnography is lucid and engaging... [Her] study is particularly significant for examining the performance of sabar beyond its indigenous social and aesthetic frames... Masters of the Sabar represents a significant contribution in this direction." -African Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction I. You will be griot in another way: The Ethnomusicologist's story; II. There once was a king called Maysa Waaly Jon: Sabar History, Instruments, Ensemble and Sound; III. The griot lineage, we are one: Wolof Caste and Identity; IV. My foreparents used to beat the drums: Wolof Family, Kinship and Musical Genealogy; V. If a snake bites you, you will think of death: Sabar Repertories; VI. Dancing fish and rice: Performance Contexts; VII. The 'pax' you play is so sweet: The role of sabar in mbalax Conclusion

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Book SynopsisSince he was a young adult, Grant Farred has wandered the world. Born in South Africa, his own personal growth was fueled by dreams of English football, as a player, and then, when age and reality set in, as a fan. Coming to the United States at a still young age, Farred still loved football -- especially Liverpool -- and watched it from afar. Writing about his experience, Farred shares with the reader his experience growing up colored in South Africa, moving to England, and finally to the US, and how his passion for football kept company with his many moves. Along the way, he talks about the contradictions of football; how race and class politics mix on and off the pitch; how Farred's own ideas about what it means to be a colonial subject is both reinforced and liberated by the idea of football, and how players can serve as gods and mosnters. Trade Review"A fascinating exploration of a sporting obsession conducted across continents and political divides. Grant Farred's narrative shows how sport both transcends and embodies politics, how close you can get and how far away you will always remain from your sporting heroes. Just as American businessmen have started to buy into English soccer in order to profit from its global appeal, this book provides a powerful explanation of the breadth and depth of the passion that the game can evoke." Stefan Szymanski, Cass Business School, London "That Farred writes well about football is beyond debate. He brings a distinctive passion to the topic along with a wealth of analytic insights that will please readers versed in the rich lore of the sport and alert to its growing status as an exemplary vehicle of globalization." Andrew Ross, New York University "More than a love letter to his beloved Liverpool Football Club, this is a journey into the present, from Farred's early years as an outcast in apartheid South Africa through Videla's Argentina and Franco's Spain to the docklands of Liverpool. It is a journey as much spiritual as temporal by a long-distance fan who reads like a latter-day Bill Shankly, albeit with the style and sophistication of a scholar." Bill Murray, author of The World's game: A History of Soccer and The Old Firm: Sectarianism, sport and society in Scotland "Remarkable...In delightfully exuberant prose, Farred recounts a passion that, for him, borders on religion... Long Distance Love is a playful -- yet no less brilliant -- work of political theory; its contribution to political thought comes from making such hopeful statements without compromising the immoderate passions that sports fandom indulge." Centre Daily TimesTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Talk, Drinks, and Dinner with GodChapter 1Long Distance Love: Growing Up a Liverpool Football Club FanChapter 2Som més que un club, però menys que una nació.“More than a Club but Less than a Nation.Chapter 3Careless Whispers: The Doubleness of Spanish LoveChapter 4:At Home, Out of PlaceChapter 5:God's Team: The Painful Pleasure of the Miracle on the Bosphorus Chapter 6:The Gerrard Final

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Book SynopsisContests the dominance of materialist and cultural critiques in Asian American literary discourse by re-centering critical attention around issues of aesthetics and literary formTrade Review"A brilliant introduction frames the essays. This groundbreaking book of essays is a must for any scholar of Asian American literary studies, or indeed, ethnic literature in general. Essential." Choice "These scholars effectively critique contemporary multicultural criticism's inability or unwillingness to encompass the aesthetic." MELUS Spring 2007

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Book SynopsisTakes stock of the new forms of welfare and offers new methods to understand themTrade Review"Schram critiques current trends in welfare policy and argues for using new approaches in studying welfare policy and governance. The new approach features a compassionate emphasis on reducing harm in order to allow for diversity while building community in an era of globalization." The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare "This book should challenge assumptions about redistributive politics in the United States and advance the study of the welfare state. It is particularly ideal for teaching undergraduate or Masters-level policy students." Perspectives on Politics

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Book SynopsisFor the Achi, one of the several Mayan ethnic groups indigenous to Guatemala, the music of the marimba serves not only as a form of entertainment but also as a form of communication, a vehicle for memory, and an articulation of cultural identity. Sergio Navarrete Pellicer examines the marimba tradition -- the historical confluence of African musical influences, Spanish colonial power, and Indian ethnic assimilation -- as a driving force in the dynamics of cultural continuity and change in Rabinal, the heart of Achi culture and society. By examining the performance and consumption of marimba music as complementary parts of a system of social interaction, religious belief, and ethnic identification, Navarrete Pellicer reveals how the strains of the marimba resonate with the spiritual yearnings and cultural negotiations of the Achi as they try to come to terms with the political violence and economic hardship wrought by their colonial past.Trade Review"As new material garnered from original field research, Maya Achi Marimba Music in Guatemala is a significant contribution to studies of folk music in any language, especially in English, on neglected Central America. The marimba is officially declared-and in fact is-the closest thing to a national instrument in Guatemala. This in-depth study on one of that nation's marimba musical cultures combines historical background with intelligent analysis and perceptive interpretation of contemporary practice to advance our understanding of a major musical tradition in Latin America. Navarrete Pellicer brings out the voices of the members of the community in this book rich in detail and sensitive in its description of personalities and human relations."-T. M. Scruggs, University of IowaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A History of the Achi People of Rabinal2. The Belief in the Dead3. Concepts and Classifications of Music4. The Marimba and the Son5. Good and Evil: Music, Alcohol, and Women6. Musical Occasions7. Cognition, Values, and the Aesthetics of Music8. The Economy of the Son and the Pieza9. Music within Social Interaction10. Conclusion: "Who Am I to Know Better Than the Ancestors?"Contents of Compact DiscAppendix 1: OrthographyAppendix 2: CofradiasAppendix 3: Musical Ensembles, Repertoires, and OccasionsAppendix 4: Synopses of Dance-DramasNotesGlossaryDiscographyReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe movement for a shorter workweek that once defined the labor movement in the United States was largely displaced by the new corporatist structure of organized labor in the post-New Deal era. Labor's Time examines the changes that occurred within organized labor and traces their influence on the decline of the shorter hours movement. Focusing on the internal union politics of the influential United Automobile Workers and Local 600, its chapter at Henry Ford's massive River Rouge factory, Jonathan Cutler demonstrates how an all-but-forgotten interracial movement for a shorter workweek during the 1950s and 1960s became a casualty of an increasingly top-heavy union bureaucracy that lost touch with the desires, fears, and aspirations of rank and file workers and dug its own grave in the process. Jonathan Cutler examines the political context in which the shorter hours movement emerged within Local 600 in the 1940s, then chronicles the attempts by Walter Reuther, the head of the UAW, to suppress it. Cutler also reviews the role the Communist Party played in the controversy. Finally, he documents the UAW response to rank and file pressure for a shorter workweek, and how the local's own organizational flaws allowed Reuther and the national union to wrest control from the dissidents. Fresh and boldly written, Labor's Time recreates a moment when unions-as a movement, not as an amalgam of leaders-could have transformed the landscape of work in the United States.Trade Review"This is, quite simply, the most brilliant and original study of American labor to appear in a generation. Jonathan Cutler shows that the ascendancy of labor 'statesmen' and their ideology of political and industrial responsibility has meant not just the death of the shorter-hours movement, but also the end of the labor movement as a dynamic force in American life. Introducing entirely new conceptions of work, power, desire, and freedom, Labor's Time is a monumental achievement."-Thaddeus Russell, Barnard College, and author of Out of the Jungle: Jimmy Hoffa and the Remaking of the American Working Class "The fight for shorter hours! Now there's a lost bit of American history that is in sore need of remembrance. Jonathan Cutler's perceptive and thoroughly researched history of one key part of that struggle deserves to be read and debated so that the fight against 'overwork' is once more near the top of America's social agenda."-Nelson Lichtenstein, author of Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II "Jonathan Cutler's book is essential reading for those concerned about the fate of America's overworked and underpaid workers. Labor's Time is an engaging and well-researched account of union struggles over work hours. At a moment when many employers are demanding longer workdays and 'shaving' hours from employees' time sheets, Cutler's book makes an important scholarly intervention into an issue whose history has profound implications for the present."-Thomas J. Sugrue, Bicentennial Class of 1940 Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania "This is a very readable, engaging account of a critical moment in labor history."-Industrial Worker "In telling the story, Cutler raises bigger questions about democracy, power, and direction for the labor movement. His book is fascinating and informative, and it made me think."-Against The Current "Cutler is an expert guide... [his] enormous research into the intricacies of the internecine battles with the UAW over the thirty-hour workweek is important in its own right. His insightful and deeply researched study into the struggles compose the majority of his book."-Working USA "[B]rings a welcome focus to a very interesting issue in economic history... the author is quite good at establishing the political climate within the union and Local 600 where much of the story takes place."-EH.Net "Jonathan Cutler's spirited history of the fight for shorter hours in the auto industry offers us a combative narrative... my hat is off to him for coming closer than any other scholar in tracing the fortunes of the anti-Reuther left-communist, opportunist, syndicalist, African American-what for many years proclaimed itself the largest local union in the world."-DissentTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Thirty Hours Work for Forty Hours' Pay2. The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit3. The Collapse of Communism4. Future Perfect5. False Promises6. Retreat and DefeatConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Reo Motor Car Company operated in Lansing, Michigan, for seventy years, and encouraged its thousands of workers to think of themselves as part of a factory family. Reo workers, most typically white, rural, native-born Protestant men, were dubbed Reo Joes. These ordinary fellows had ordinary aspirations: job security, decent working conditions, and sufficient pay to support a family. They treasured leisure time for family activities (many sponsored by the company), hunting, and their fraternal organizations. Even after joining a union, Reo Joes remained loyal to the company and proud of the community built around it. Lisa M. Fine tells the Reo story from the workers' perspective on the vast social, economic, and political changes that took place in the first three quarters of the twentieth century.Lisa Fine explores their understanding of the city where they lived, the industry that employed them, and the ideas about work, manhood, race, and family that shaped their identities. "The Story of Reo Joe" is, then, a book about historical memory; it challenges us to reconsider what we think we know about corporate welfare, unionization, de-industrialization, and working-class leisure. Lisa M. Fine is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. She is the author of "Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930" (Temple), and coeditor, with Mary Anderson, Kathleen Geissler, and Joyce Ladenson, of "Doing Feminism: Teaching and Research in the Academy".Trade Review"Lisa Fine's study [is] excellent...The author deftly interweaves the story of the firm and the story of its workers...Any book with enough thick description of the lives of working people that it could credibly be used to sustain multiple interpretations is a scholarly achievement. Even readers who see the story differently from the author will find this a vivid and thought-provoking narrative." The Journal of Social History "Lisa M. Fine has done something both unusual and difficult. She has written a social history of a small-to-medium-sized factory in a small-to-medium-sized Midwestern city...This is the sort of labor history that economic historians will find useful, and interesting...a fine work." EH.net "Lisa M. Fine's book aims to be a different type of labor history, and on all accounts it succeeds...This sweep and scope give the narrative a different flavor and set of findings than other works and brings to the fore elements of working-class history such as whiteness, maleness, and conservatism that are often handled far less empathetically than Fine does here." American Historical Review "labor educators may benefit from [the book] as a way to understand both how the local context impacts worker behavior and political activities. The study of Reo Joe may offer insight into understanding the conservative tendencies of significant segments of the American working class." Labor Studies Journal "Fine presents a well-researched case, and her emphasis on the racial and gender components of worker identity enrich labor history." The Journal of American History "This timely and engaging history of the Reo Motor Car Company represents a valuable contribution to the work of labor historians trying to analyze the phenomenon of conservatism in many working-class communities in the United States. Fine uses oral histories to good effect." Labor History "Fine's admirable case study enriches our social description of American autoworkers, underscores how their sense of manhood shaped and reshaped their lives, and generally enriches our knowledge and understanding of American autoworkers." Michigan Historical Review "Fine traces workers and their relationship to their community, their family, women and their bosses with a combination of scholarship and theories from modern gender history. The result is a work that is readable, occasionally funny, and sensitive and respectful of her subjects." Industrial Worker "Insightful, engaging, and important, The Story of Reo Joe is a terrific book. Fine brings into the spotlight the sort of workers--overwhelmingly white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant male farmers--who played such a pivotal role in industrial history but who, because of their homogeneity, are largely overlooked. Fine's extraordinarily sensitive portrayal of Reo Joe makes us understand and care about the working people of Lansing. [We] see their lives as they saw them, celebrate their victories, and feel their losses." --Kevin Boyle, author of The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968 "This superb social history illuminates the lived experience of class in towns and cities throughout the twentieth-century Midwest. Fine's attention to the bonds of manhood forged in and out of the workplace and to the power of the imagined Reo factory family offers an important new perspective on labor history." --Nancy Gabin, Purdue UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introducing Reo Joe in Lansing, Michigan 1. Making Reo and Reo Joe in Lansing, 1880-1929 2. Reo Joe and His Big Factory Family, 1904-1929 3. Reo Joe's New Deal, 1924-1939 4. Reo Rebellions, 1939-1951: Wars, Women, and Wobblies 5. A Cold War Factory Family 6. The "Fall" of Reo, 1955-1975 Epilogue: Reo of the Mind Appendix: Tables Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Magali Roy-F\u00e9qui\u00e8re casts new light on the Generaci\u00f3n del Treinta, a group of Creole intellectuals who situated themselves as the voice of a new cultural nationalism in Puerto Rico. Through a feminist lens, she focuses on the interlocking themes of nationalism, gender, class, and race in the articulation of early twentieth century Puerto Rican identity. Roy-F\u00e9qui\u00e8re's discussion revolves around the affirmations and contradictions of the female intelligentsia, a cultural elite that sought to overcome American cultural hegemony by linking Puerto Rican identity to a white Spanish ethnic heritage, all the while negotiating their own precarious status within the male-dominated professional and intellectual spheres. The author also highlights the role of Margot Arce, a major essayist and intellectual who promoted this racially inflected discourse in her literary criticism. Arce's case parallels the thrust of the book in revealing the ideological alliances and tradeoffs made by female intellectuals in their pursuit of a unified sense of national identity in a racially heterogeneous and culturally diverse society.Trade Review"An illuminating and sorely needed reconsideration of the most influential of modern Puerto Rican literary circles. Roy-Fequiere confronts the profound implications of the racist discourse of this group. Her most brilliant contribution lies in her careful unpacking of Puerto Rican conservative feminism, evident in the group's women intellectuals. Roy-Fequiere shows how gender discourse was complicitous with the racial discourse deployed by the Generacion del Treinta. Roy-Fequiere's critique will challenge and enrich our understanding of gender and the place of women in the history of Puerto Rican and Caribbean elite culture."-Licia Fiol-Matta, Lehman College, City University of New York and author of A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral "Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico is a superb book. It will fill a niche that has been neglected in the past. Roy-Fequiere looks at national identity as an intellectual construct formulated by a besieged generation and establishes an important paradigm of the ideology of intellectuals since and after the Generacion del Treinta. She connects literature with other sites of production of Puerto Rican national discourse, and shows very effectively how gender is subsumed in this nationalist discourse."-Marvette Perez, Curator, Latino History and Culture, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution "[An] extremely well-documented, in-depth study...a valuable contribution to Puerto Rican scholarship."-Multicultural Review "[S]o thorough and rigorous are her analyses, and so beautifully are they made to yield a rich, nuanced portrait of the period, that it is difficult to see how else this story could have been told. Roy-Fequiere's study raises the bar for all of us who are interested in the literary and intellectual history of the region."-The Journal of American Ethic History "Women, Creole Identity and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico offers a superb analysis of how white, male, Creole intellectuals have tended to shun nonwhite and lower-class women from their nationalist discourse."-Latin American Research ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Nationalism Revisited: Deciphering the Creole Imaginary2. Compromising Positions: Reconstituting the Creole Gender Hierarchy3. Professional Women and the Refashioning of the SelfPhotograph Gallery4. The New Creolism: Three Responses to Pedreira5. The Nation as Male Fantasy: Emilio S. Belaval's Los Cuentos de la Universidad6. A Brave New (Discursive) World: Maria Cadilla de Martinez's Milestones of the Race7. Negrismo, Literary Criticism, and the Discourses of White Supremacy8. Speaking For and Speaking With: The Limits of Negrismo's Cultural DiscourseNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this, the sequel to his critically acclaimed and controversial The End of Homework, John Buell extends his case against homework. Arguing that homework robs children-and parents-of unstructured time for play and intellectual and emotional development, Closing the Book on Homework offers a convincing case for why homework is an outgrowth of broader cultural anxieties about the sanctity of work itself. After the publication of Buell's previous book, many professional educators portrayed reducing homework as a dangerous idea, while at the same time parents and teachers increasingly raised doubts as to its continued usefulness in education. According to John Buell, the importance of play is culturally underappreciated. Not only grade schoolers, but high school students and adult workers deserve time for the kind of leisure that fosters creativity and sustains a life long interest in learning. Homework is assigned for many reasons, many having little to do with learning, including an accepted, if unchallenged, belief that it fosters good work habits for children's futures. As John Buell argues convincingly, homework does more to obstruct the growth of children's minds, and consumes the time of parents and children who may otherwise develop relationships that foster true growth and learning. A unique book that is sure to fuel the growing debate on school reform, Closing the Book on Homework offers a roadmap for learning that will benefit the wellbeing of children, parents, and teachers alike.Trade Review"John Buell makes a cogent case for homework reform. The strength of this new book is its placing of the 'homework wars' in historical and cultural context. By showing how current concerns about homework are part of a larger debate about the place of work in modern life, Buell is able to suggest broader remedies and policies that apply to a variety of modern problems and concern-such as overwork that constrain family andcommunity life in a multitude of ways. Buell offers a compelling argument, and his voice needs to be heard."-Benjamin Hunnicutt, Professor, the University of Iowa, and author of Work Without End "John Buell's Closing the Book on Homework is a unique and timely contribution to the torrid debate and about whether the heavy burdens of homework and standardized tests actually improve education. What marks this book from the others is that, in addition to thorough reviews and refutations, Buell places education and homework in the contexts of the global economy, the fiscal crisis of the states, and the emergence of the rote styles of learning as the dominant educational technology. Teachers, researchers, parents, indeed everyone concerned with the fate of our kids cannot afford to miss this powerful book."-Stanley Aronowitz "[R]eaders new to Buell's argument will find much in this book to think about and, possibly, to act upon."-Kappa Delta Pi Record "Sure to fuel the growing debate on school reform, Closing the Book on Homework offers a roadmap for learning that will benefit the wellbeing of children, parents, and teachers alike."-Adolescence "...a sequel to his controversial The End of Homework. Buell extends his case against homework, arguing that it robs children-and parents-of unstructured time for play, as well as intellectual and emotional development."-Curriculum ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Homework as an Issue in American Politics1. Revisiting the Evidence2. A History Lesson about Work and Homework3. Educating Global Citizens or Global Workers?4. Education at the EpicenterConclusion: On Character and Public Education in Democratic SocietyNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhen bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and immediately called upon to defend the Hawaiian islands against invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them. In No Sword to Bury, Franklin Odo places the largely untold story of the wartime experience of these young men in the context of the community created by their immigrant families and its relationship to the larger, white-dominated society. At the heart of the book are vivid oral histories that recall their service on the home front in the Varsity Victory Volunteers, a non-military group dedicated to public works, as well as in the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Illuminating a critical moment in ethnic identity formation among this first generation of Americans of Japanese descent (the nisei), Odo shows how the war-time service and the post-war success of these men contributed to the simplistic view of Japanese Americans as a model minority in Hawai'i.Trade Review"Franklin Odo has captured with much warmth and poignancy, the emotions of men who, though abandoned by their country, loved this country and proved it by repeatedly standing in harm's way to defend it."-Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D, HI) "No Sword to Bury is a fascinating study of an often overlooked part of the story of Americans of Japanese ancestry in the World War II era. The Japanese American population of Hawai'i navigated its way through one of the most dangerous and transformational periods in U.S. history. Franklin Odo's use of personal stories of the men and women who made that journey reveals the choices that were made, the strategies that were used, and the lessons we all can draw from them."-The Hon. Norman Y. Mineta "One of the strengths of No Sword to Bury is Odo's care in presenting a more layered, nuanced study of Japanese Americans and their role in Hawaiian history. What emerges is a portrait of a lively, diverse group of men who had mixed motives and feelings of what they did during the course of their lives."-International Examiner "No Sword to Bury is a masterful contribution based on years of painstaking research. In fact, there is nothing quite like it written about the Japanese American experience. Franklin Odo presents a detailed history of the Varsity Victory Volunteers in the larger context of Hawai'i before and during World War II. He does an excellent job of marshalling data from the extant literature, rare archival sources, and most importantly, a plethora of original oral history interviews. The voices and biographies of key VVV members and the public figures in Hawai'i who supported their endeavors lie at the core of Odo's work. Captivating and informative, No Sword to Bury demonstrates the multicultural dynamics that have been so central in the formation of our 50th state."-Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside "[A] significant addition ot the literature in western U.S. history...a fine book, [it] promises to be an important work for years to come."-History: Reviews of New Books "By drawing on oral records and archival materials, Odo provides a rich and detailed social history of the VVV members. He not only situates them in the racial dynamics of prewar and wartime Hawai'i, but also successfully allows them to tell their individual stories."-Choice "The story is well told and carefully documented."-SAGE Race Relations Abstract "...a deep and detailed look at an articulate and important group." The book was described as being "a good addition to the literature on Asian America, on WW II's transformation of American life, and on Hawai'I..."-Biography: An Interdisciplinary JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Making of a Model Minority1. Immigrant Parents2. Generation on Trial: The 1920s3. Before the Fire: The 1930s4. Pearl Harbor5. Hawai'i Territorial Guard6. The Varsity Victory VolunteersPhoto Gallery7. Schofield Barracks8. The Front Lines: Battlefront and Home Front9. After the WarConclusionAppendix: Roster of Varsity Victory VolunteersNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisLatrell Sprewell. Allen Iverson. John McEnroe. Even Mohammed Ali and Mike Schmidt and Michael Jordan. These are characters of our national imagination, athletes who stand as symbols of our complex relationship with professional sport.In this erudite and captivating book, bestselling author Larry Platt takes us on a tour through American sports. Offering profiles of the athletes we love (and love to hate), Platt shows that sport, more than any other nationwide pastime, is the way we come to understand—and alter—race relations, gender, and, most profoundly, how we communicate with each other in ways that are often given too little credit in the minds of intellectuals.Thought-provoking and richly written, New Jack Jocks offers a textured picture of how athletes live their lives and how we live out and define American culture by the way we come to understand their lives in and out of the halls of play.Trade Review"Larry Platt's writing flies two places at once: inside America's sports heroes and high above them, gazing down on the strange dynamic between us and them. You won't be able to look at our athletes or our society the same after you've read Platt."—Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated"Larry Platt's view of the sports world reads like fiction—but it's fact! Writers of sitcoms and soap operas could use New Jack Jocks as a source of great content."—Pat Croce, part owner and former president, Philadelphia 76ers"Like the athletes he profiles, Larry Platt is a renegade in his own right. He has always known that the real stories are found outside the arenas and playing fields, and he tells them with insight and passion. Too bad he still can't go left...."—Gail Shister, Philadelphia Inquirer television columnist and former sportswriter"Larry Platt is a rarity among writers—a guy who understands the hip-hop lifestyle of today's athlete. Platt keeps it real; he explains where others judge."—John Lucas, NBA head coach, Cleveland Cavaliers"Few writers get the connection between sports and our public life as well as Larry Platt."—Ed Rendell, former mayor of Philadelphia"Larry Platt is one of the biggest pains in the ass I've had the misfortune of meeting. I can't stand the guy. Unfortunately this is a really good book."—Angelo Cataldi, WIP Radio (Philadelphia) talk show host"...written in a readable style for a variety of ages and audiences."—Kliatt"Platt tackles a wide range of subjects related to sports in his hometown Philadelphia in an attempt to analyze how fans and media construct and define athletic heroism at the turn of the twenty-first century. ...sports fans of all kinds should find the book to be an enjoyable read..."—American StudiesTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: The New Jack Jock1. Spree's World2. Soul Members3. Pat and Allen's Tough Love AdventurePart II: The Anti-Hero4. Portrait of an Artist on the Court5. No Requiem Necessary6. In the Name of the Father7. The Unloved8. The Round Mound Bids FarewellPart III: Entrepreneurs9. The Graying of Dr. J10. Magic Johnson Builds an Empire11. The Business of Rebellion12. Even the Ball Is White13. Jelly MakerAcknowledgments

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Book SynopsisMore than six million Americans - most of them women - have been diagnosed with the controversial medical disorder fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). Because of the absence of definitive physiological markers, a well-understood cause, or effective treatment, FMS is controversial. Many have questioned if FMS is a "real" illness or if women sufferers are modern-day hysterics. Amidst the controversy, millions of women live with their very real symptoms. Rather than taking sides in the heated FMS debate, Kristin Barker explains how FMS represents an awkward union between the practices of modern medicine and the complexity of women's pain. Using interviews with sufferers, Barker focuses on how the idea of FMS gives meaning and order to women beset by troubling symptoms, self-doubt, and public skepticism. This book offers a fresh look at a controversial diagnosis, avoids overly simplistic explanations, and empathizes with sufferers without losing sight of medicine's power over our lives.Trade Review"This clearly written book.[is] exhaustively researched." The American Journal of Sociology "important...[it] offers much for scholars of many disciplines who seek to understand the experience of pain, and to cast mind-body duality in a modern light...[a] well-written exposition on the preconceptions of highly disparate academic traditions." The New England Journal of Medicine "There is much to admire about this book manuscript - I commend the author for tackling a difficult subject and treating it so deftly and insightfully." Elizabeth Armstrong "The sociologist, Kristin K. Barker, scrutinizes the medical making of a disease...This is a really good book about why biomedicine is not good enough when judged according to its most noble mandate: to alleviate human suffering." - The Permanente Journal, Fall 2008Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1. The Diagnostic Making of FMS; Chapter 2. The Woman Problem and the Feminization of FMS; Chapter 3. Similar-But-Different: The FMS Illness Experience; Chapter 4. The Symptomatic Self and the Life World; Chapter 5. In Search of Meaning; Chapter 6. Diagnostic Transformations; Chapter 7. Self-Help and the Making of an FMS Illness Identity; Chapter 8. Ties That Bind and the Problem That Had No Name; Conclusion ; Appendix A. The FMS Biomedical Literature; Appendix B. The Interviews

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Book SynopsisAn argument for more judicial discretion in sentencing childrenTrade Review"This is an eloquent book from a judge who has been 'in the trenches' dealing with young serious offenders for a considerable time. This is an intriguing book that hopefully, will gain a wide audience and trigger a national debate, both within and outside the juvenile justice system, about the wisdom of the policies we have been following for about the past two decades. That seems to be Judge Corriero's intention and he has achieved it in a highly skilled and readable fashion." Juvenile Justice Update "Corriero employs his experience to good effect in outlining the challenges of balancing society's interest in being safe with the desire to avoid transforming a youthful offender into a career criminal."--Publishers Weekly "combines a scholar' thoroughness with the unique insights of a judge trying children in an adult court. He rails against the stark failures of the current juvenile and criminal justice systems in handling troubles adolescents, but then he pushes us to pursue a hybrid system which would improve children's' lives and keep our communities safer." Victor Streib, author of Death penalty for Juveniles "The book reveals Judge Corriero's passion for justice and due process through his daily experiences, supported by extensive research; it is both personal and academic, instructive and moving. It is political and philosophical." The New York Law Journal "Judging Children as Children is highly readable as an enthralling look at how a judge works, as well as a reference volume for those interested in juvenile justice. It is well written and timely. It accurately captures the no-nonsense approach of this judge as well as his huge heart." Child & Adolescent Psychiatry "Corriero deserves much praise for his thoughtfully critical challenge to the policy of prosecuting children as adults. At the least, Corriero's strong embrace of a revised legal structure for juvenile justice, planted firmly in the soil of judging children as children, should foment interest in further exploration of this thorny legal terrain. Criminologists, child advocates, criminal justice experts, child development specialists, judges, lawyers, public policy makers, legislators, social workers, behavioral scientists, psychologists and psychiatrists are among those who professionally may benefit greatly from scrutiny of the information and ideas put forth by Corriero." Metapsychology Online, 27th January 2009Table of ContentsPrologue 1 The Proposition; 2 The Nature of Adolescence; 3 The Criminal Responsibility of Juveniles; 4 Sentencing Children Tried in Adult Courts; 5 Our Hardest to Love Children; 6 Interactive Justice; 7 Fridays in the Youth Part; 8 The Experiment that Failed; 9 Creation of the Youth Part; 10 The Youth Part Model; 11 A Model Juvenile Justice System; 12 Juvenile Justice Policy Reform

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Book SynopsisP Is for Philadelphia is a unique, alphabetic tour of the city and the region, illustrated by the area's public school children, who participated in a city-wide drawing contest. From A is for Athlete to Z is for Zoo, all of the city's rich history is explored. P Is for Philadelphia includes entries on William Penn's arrival and historic treaty with the Delaware Indians, the city's heritage as the cradle of American liberty, as well as its food, sports teams, neighborhoods, and festivals. This book will have the kind of impact on Philadelphia and the region that few children's books ever have. It belongs on the bedside tables of every child in the Delaware Valley and the bookshelves of every visitor.Trade Review"It's a fun read, and the illustrations grab your attention. The students put a lot of effort into these drawings, from the realistic depiction of the stones in Elfreth's Alley to the impressionistic view of the river as the Delaware Indians gathered there... This is collaboration at its best."-The Philadelphia Inquirer "In addition to the text being exclusively about our home, and having lots of pretty pictures, the book is special because "P is for Philadelphia" is illustrated by the children of Philadelphia."-Philadelphia Daily News "A creative and informative blend of text and art, this alphabet book celebrates much of what the city has to offer... The book is a grand tour of the city, its history, and its creative spirit... It could also serve as an inspiration for students to create similar books for any geographical area."-School Library JournalTable of ContentsA is for AthleticsB is for Benjamin FranklinC is for Cheese SteaksD is for Delaware IndiansE is for Elfreth's AlleyF is for Fairmount ParkG is for GardensH is for HospitalsI is for Independence HallJ is for JusticeK is for Kimmel CenterL is for LeadersM is for MummersN is for NeighborhoodsO is for Outdoor FestivalsP is for PhiladelphiaQ is for QuakersR is for RiversS is for SculptureT is for TrainsU is for Underground RailroadV is for Valley ForgeW is for Washington SquareX is for XylophonesY is for YouthZ is for Zoo

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Book SynopsisEmphasizes the place of the male body in the sociology of medicalization and genderTrade Review"[A]n excellent collection that will be required reading for scholars interested in gender and health. Its clear and lively writing, the wealth of background information in the introduction, and its contributors’ compelling identification and analysis of key sites for the medicalization of masculinity in American today make it a pivotal addition to the fields of medicalization and gender research. Its accessibility and topicality will also make it an excellent teaching resource." —Archives of Sexual Behavior

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Book SynopsisUrban historians have long portrayed suburbanization as the result of a bourgeois exodus from the city, coupled with the introduction of streetcars that enabled the middle class to leave the city for the more sylvan surrounding regions. Demonstrating that this is only a partial version of urban history, "Manufacturing Suburbs" reclaims the history of working-class suburbs by examining the development of industrial suburbs in the United States and Canada between 1850 and 1950. The contributors demonstrate that these suburbs developed in large part because of the location of manufacturing beyond city limits and the subsequent building of housing for the workers who labored within those factories.Through case studies of industrial suburbanization and industrial suburbs in several metropolitan areas (Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Montreal), "Manufacturing Suburbs" sheds light on a key phenomenon of metropolitan development before the Second World War. Robert Lewis is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto. He is the author of "Manufacturing Montreal: The Making of an Industrial Landscape, 1850 to 1930" and co-editor of "Urban History Review".Trade Review"The objectives of this collection of theoretically inclined and empirically defended essays by well-respected scholars of suburban-industrial growth are successfully met.The great value of this book, then, is the successful melding of a North American perspective that establishes a meaningful benchmark for further research in the field." The Canadian Historical Review "The foremost merit of the book lies in the quality of the different contributions, written by major researchers in the field of urban history. Together, they provide a comprehensive view of the pre-World War Two evolution of manufacturing in North American metropolitan regions and of its impact on their urban structure." Urban Studies "In Manufacturing Suburbs, edited by Robert Lewis, eleven authors have done a pioneering and impressive job of sorting out some of the many complexities of industrial suburbanization in the United States and Canada during the century from 1850 to 1950. All in all, Manufacturing Suburbs is an excellent study that should lead the way to further research into a hitherto neglected aspect of suburban history." The Journal of American History "At base, the arguments set out in this collection challenge a considerable amount of the collective wisdom about North American suburbs and will stimulate scholars and students to rethink what suburbs consist of and what the relationships are between cities and suburbs... This work strikes at the heart of scholars' thinking about what suburbia looks like and was/is and who or what lived/lives there." --Mary Corbin Sies, University of MarylandTable of ContentsPreface 1. Industry and the Suburbs Robert Lewis 2. Beyond the Crabgrass Frontier: Industry and the Spread of North American Cities, 1850-1950 Richard Walker and Robert Lewis 3. The Emergence of Industrial Districts in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Baltimore Edward K. Muller and Paul A. Groves 4. Model City? Industry and Urban Structure in Chicago Mary Beth Pudup 5. A City Transformed: Manufacturing Districts and Suburban Growth in Montreal, 1850-1929 Robert Lewis 6. Industry Builds Out the City: The Suburbanization of Manufacturing in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1850-1940 Richard Walker 7. Industrial Suburbs and the Growth of Metropolitan Pittsburgh, 1870-1920 Edward K. Muller 8. The Suburbanization of Manufacturing in Toronto, 1881-1951 Gunter Gad 9. "Nature's Workshop": Industry and Urban Expansion in Southern California, 1900-1950 Greg Hise 10. "The American Disease of Growth": Henry Ford and the Metropolitanization of Detroit, 1920-1940 Heather B. Barrow 11. Suburbanization and the Employment Linkage Richard Harris Notes About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the first books to link identity, age, and gender, "The Changing of the Guard" offers a significant meditation on the politics of older lesbians and gays. Combining interviews and sustained critical thought, Rosenfeld links the development of lesbian and gay elders' identity with the key moments in the 20th century reinvention of homosexuality. In doing so, she bridges the gap between history and interaction that has characterized and constrained previous studies of identity. Rosenfeld first summarizes the meaning of homosexuality that prevailed when her subjects came of age and the radical changes it underwent during their middle years. She uses these changes to trace the paths they took toward one of two homosexual identities: a discreditable one adopted before the advent of gay liberation, or an accredited one, adopted during and through those momentous years.She theorizes that there is the existence of two distinct identity 'cohorts', shaped by a willingness or resistance to accept the historical forces at work on lesbian and gay identity. Such decisions on identities, Rosenfeld argues, strongly shaped her subjects in later life, specifically their understanding of the nature of homosexuals and their implications for relations with other people, straight and gay alike, as well as for standards of 'homosexual competence' they use to assess their own and others' enactment of homosexuality. An important book that challenges research on identity and identity formation, "The Changing of the Guard" rethinks how we have come to understand the meaning of homosexuality. Author note: Dana Rosenfeld is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Colorado College.Trade Review"This is a scholarly study that gives us insight into a population from which we rarely hear. Rosenfeld helps us to understand the influences of historical circumstances and how they influence social relations, sexuality, and the creation of a personal identity...This book is highly recommended." Sex Roles "This is a book that should be read by everyone wanting to do gerontological social work." The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare "Rosenfeld's book is an important contribution to life course social science and adds to our understanding of aging among lesbians and gay men." --The American Journal of Sociology "...an important study." --Lambda Book Report "The Changing of the Guard will make an important contribution to our understanding of aging and lesbian and gay life. I don't know of any other work that looks at lesbian/gay elders from a theoretically informed standpoint. Rosenfeld adds significantly to our thinking about identity and sexuality." --Kristin Esterberg, University of Massachusetts Lowell "This book is an insightful analysis of the life narratives of lesbians and gay men born before 1930. It uncovers and theorizes the connection between identifications made in youth and middle age, social change, and self constructions in later life. Rosenfeld deftly bridges the gap between historical and interactionist approaches to identity and identity politics, proving that the intersection between personal decisions and historical circumstances informs social relations and moral evaluations across the life course. Theoretically sophisticated--and a darned good read--The Changing of the Guard will be recognized as a significant addition to the growing literature on the complexities of identity and social life in old age." --Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri, Columbia "Rosenfeld's book is an important contribution to life course social science and adds to our understanding of aging among lesbians and gay men." --The American Journal of Sociology "...an important study." --Lambda Book ReportTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Distinctiveness of Lesbian and Gay Elders 1. "I Didn't Have Identity": Same-Sex Desire and the Search for Meaning 2. "I Picked Up That I Was Gay" 3. Biography and History: From Identity Careers to Identity Cohorts 4. "Dangerous Territory": The Heterosexual World 5. Homosexual Competence and Relations with Heterosexuals 6. Contingencies and Challenges Conclusion: Challenges and Opportunities Appendix: Informant Profiles Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this moving account of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath, eleven women who lived through it as children or young adults recall the events of the last forty years. In Torres' words, 'This book, which began in Miami, looking toward the island, ends on the island as it gazes toward the exile community.' These poets, artists and scholars represent each post-revolution exile generation. Some left Cuba in the Peter Pan airlift, some left afterward, some never left at all. Others like the editor left as children only to return and leave again, disillusioned with both the exile community and with Castro's island. Together they testify to the powerful intersections of memory, politics, nation, and exile.Maria de los Angeles Torres is Associate Professor of Political Science at DePaul University. She is the author of "In the Land of Mirrors: The Politics of Cuban Exiles in the United States" and the co-editor (with Frank Bonilla, Edwin Melendez, and Rebecca Morales) of "Borderless Borders: Latinos and the Global Society" (Temple).Trade Review"Fascinating... never before have we seen such refreshing, evocative and balanced testimonials written exclusively by women... These eleven essays and poems represent more than an invaluable contribution to U.S. Latina/o studies and Women's Studies, they are a continuation of the dialogue and an essential element in the construction of cubania." The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History "By Heart/De Memoria is a very powerful book. The material is often very creative and approaches women, women's writing and women's experiences in an innovative way. People interested in U.S. Latina Literature and experiences will find this book moving, interesting, and of use." --Eliana Rivero, Spanish and Portuguese Dept., The University of Arizona "By Heart/De Memoria is another contribution to testimonial literature that almost seems de rigueur for literature and intellectually motivated Cuban exiles fleeing Castro's Cuba. de los Angeles Torres offers several unique and valuable contributions to the experience of the Cuban exile. The contributors to this volume are all women and their lament is for a homeland which they experience sensually and emotionally. Reading their testimonies leaves the reader no doubt about their suffering and grief, and it offers some explanation for the continued obsession with their homeland." --K. Lynn Stoner, Department of History, Arizona State University "The book's well-defined purpose and carefully selected contributors/contributions make it one of the better volumes on the subject. It enhances the understanding of the reader with these visions of political and personal reconciliation, and its different way of defining nationhood." --The British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal, and SpainTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction Maria de los Angeles Torres 2. El Bote Achy Obejas 3. Reflections Liz Balmaseda 4. Donde los Fantasmas Bailan Guaguanco: Where Ghosts Dance el Guaguanco Maria de los Angeles Torres 5. Not the Golden Age Nereida Garcia-Ferraz 6. From This Side of the Fishtank Teresa de Jesus Fernandez 7. Through Other Looking Glasses Josefina de Diego 8. La Salida: The Departure Mirta Ojito 9. The Recurring Dream Carmen Diaz 10. Only Fragments of Memory Raquel Mendieta Costa 11. Words Without Borders Madelin Camara 12. Postwar Memories Tania Bruguera About the Contributors

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Book Synopsis"Reclaiming Class" offers essays written by women who changed their lives through the pathway of higher education. Collected, they offer a powerful testimony of the importance of higher learning, as well as a critique of the programs designed to alleviate poverty and educational disparity. The contributors explore the ideologies of welfare and American meritocracy that promise hope and autonomy on the one hand, while also perpetuating economic obstacles and indebtedness on the other.Divided into the three sections, "Reclaiming Class" assesses the psychological, familial, and economic intersections of poverty and the educational process. In the first section, women who left poverty through higher education recall their negotiating the paths of college life to show how their experiences reveal the hidden paradoxes of education. Section two presents first person narratives of students whose lives are shaped by their roles as poor mothers, guardian siblings, and daughters, as well as the ways that race interacts with their poverty.Chapters exploring financial aid and welfare policy, battery and abuse, and the social constructions of the poor woman finish the book. Offering a comprehensive picture of how poor women access all levels of private and public institutions to achieve against great odds, "Reclaiming Class" shows the workings of higher learning from the vantage point of those most subject to the vicissitudes of policy and reform agendas. Vivyan C. Adair is Assistant Professor in the Women's Studies Department at Hamilton College, and Director of The ACCESS Project, which supports low-income parents in their efforts to exit inter-generational poverty through higher education and pre-career employment. Sandra L. Dahlberg is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown.Trade Review"The authors offer a solid and updated policy analysis, identifying reforms that support poor and working-class women and uncovering the policies that drive them away from the academy." Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work "Reclaiming Class is an important book that will inform readers about the short and long term effects of welfare reform on the capacity of women to use higher education as a means of social advancement. Offering a rare and accessible discussion of both welfare policy and welfare stigma and their impact upon people's capacity to learn within American institutions of higher education, it brings much of the current literature on welfare and welfare stereotypes into a concrete realm that students will understand in connection with their own lives. For that reason especially, it is a very valuable book." Radical Teacher Review "Reclaiming Class is truly first-rate. An extremely thoughtful, illuminating analysis of the role class plays in American society, particularly the perception of poverty, the stigma of poverty on those who are or who have ever been poor and the role of higher education in the survival of poor women. What is perhaps most valuable about the book is the combination of the personal with the theoretical and the analytic. The writing is vivid, immediate and compelling; the volume has an intensity that I believe will capture readers' attention and involve them in the debates and dilemmas poor women face." --Ruth Sidel, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and author of Keeping Women and Children Last "Adair and Dahlberg have compiled a daring collection that challenges both the core values of punitive welfare reform policies and the myth of meritocracy in American higher education. It is a moving demonstration of the best kind of social justice scholarship." --Carolyn Law, Dissertation Adviser in the Graduate School at Northern Illinois University and co-editor of This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class and Out in the South (both Temple) "Every college professor no matter what discipline should read this gripping and compelling collection of narratives and analysis about poor women and higher education. This sometimes brilliant book deconstructs and subverts the conventional wisdom about poor women and women on welfare offering instead a sociological imagining of their lives that sloughs off stereotypes to open up voices within. It portrays higher education as both problematic and opportunity, and offers compelling policy analysis." --Sari Knopp Biklen, Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University "This book is uniformly well written and conceived, with a coherency that is difficult to achieve in edited volumes...Reclaiming Class adds substantially to literature on the classed and gendered experiences of poverty class women in higher education. Hopefully, it will also inform policymakers at all levels who have the ability to clear the path to higher education for this group of people." NWSA Journal "This book seems likely to be very useful in a number of educational settings, inside and outside the academy, because of its diverse approaches to the issues. Further, nearly all the professional educators and policy analysts have had firsthand acquaintance with poverty and/or welfare, and this enriches their narratives and their analyses both. One can scarcely read this text without affirming and reiterating the final words of Vivyan Adair: 'We stand at a critical juncture.' Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies ResourcesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America Vivyan C. Adair and Sandra L. Dahlberg Speech Pathology: The Deflowering of an Accent Laura Sullivan-Hackley Part I: Educators Remember 1. Disciplined and Punished Poor Women, Bodily Inscription, and Resistance through Education Vivyan C. Adair 2. Academic Constructions of "White Trash," or How to Insult Poor People without Really Trying Nell Sullivan 3. Survival in a Not So Brave New World Sandra L. Dahlberg 4. To Be Young, Pregnant, and Black: My Life as a Welfare Coed Joycelyn K. Moody 5. If You Want Me to Pull Myself Up, Give Me Bootstraps Lisa K. Waldner Part II: On The Front Lines 6. If I Survive, It Will Be Despite Welfare Reform: Reflections of a Former Welfare Student Tonya Mitchell 7. Not By Myself Alone: Upward Bound with Family and Friends Deborah Megivern 8. Choosing the Lesser Evil: The Violence of the Welfare Stereotype Andrea S. Harris 9. From Welfare to Academe: Welfare Reform as College-Educated Welfare Mothers Know It Sandy Smith Madsen 10. Seven Years in Exile Leticia Almanza Part III: Policy, Research, And Poor Women 11. Families First-but Not in Higher Education: Poor, Independent Students and the Impact of Financial Aid Sandra L. Dahlberg 12. The Leper Keepers: Front-Line Workers and the Key to Education for Poor Women Judith Owens-Manley 13. "That's Why I'm on Prozac": Battered Women, Traumatic Stress, and Education in the Context of Welfare Reform Lisa D. Brush 14. Fulfilling the Promise of Higher Education Vivyan C. Adair About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisAn important history of the way class formed in the US, "The Rule of Racialization" offers a rich new look at the invention of whiteness and how the inextricable links between race and class were formed in the seventeenth century and consolidated by custom, social relations, and eventually naturalized by the structures that organize our lives and our work. Arguing that, unlike in Europe, where class formed around the nation-state, race deeply informed how class is defined in this country and, conversely, our unique relationship to class in this country helped in some ways to invent race as a distinction in social relations. Martinot begins tracing this development in the slave plantations in 1600s colonial life. He examines how the social structures encoded there lead to a concrete development of racialization. He then takes us up to the present day, where forms of those structures still inhabit our public and economic institutions.Throughout, he engages historical and contemporary thinkers on the nature of race in the US, creating a book that at once synthesizes significant critiques of race while at the same time offers a completely original conception of how race and class have operated in American life throughout the centuries. A uniquely compelling book, "The Rule of Racialization" offers a rich contribution to the study of class, labor, and American social relations. Author note: Steve Martinot is Instructor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Programs at San Francisco State University. He has edited two previous books, and translated "Racism" by Albert Memmi.Trade Review"In fine accounts of the 17th-century Virginia colony, post-Revolutionary class and racial formation, Civil-Rights-era affirmative action debates, and the languages of whiteness, Steve Martinot offers a clear and ultimately clarifying work of scholarly synthesis. The Rule of Racialization tracks the structures of feeling and thinking--illogical, unconscious, baffling, and vestigial though they may be--that remain the driving forces of racialization and racism today." --Eric Lott, University of Virginia, author of Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class "This book deserves to be consulted not just by students of race and ethnicity, but also by those interested in the failures of American socialism and ore concrete issues of affirmative action." --Ethnic and Racial Studies "[This book] makes an indispensable contribution to understanding the origins of racism in the United States, and [it] offers a useful framework to clarify the interconnection between economic and racial domination." --Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The History And Construction Of Slavery And Race 2. Racialization And Class Structure 3. The Contemporary Control Stratum 4. The Meanings Of White Racialized Identity Notes Index

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Book SynopsisSmall-scale fishing, a house-hold based enterprise in Puerto Rico, rarely provides sufficient income for a family, but it anchors their culture and sense of themselves within that culture. Even when family members must engage in wage work to supplement house-hold income, they think of themselves as fishers. Liche typifies these wage workers: \u0022When he was quite young, he left the island to struggle in other lands, to work, to raise a family, to send home the money he earned. Ten, twenty, thirty years passed...during which he did not once fish or even see the ocean. But in a boat-building factory in New Jersey, in a bakery in the Bronx, on the production line of a chemical factory, on dozens of construction sites, every single day he made a mental review of the waters, the isles and cays ...and entertained no thought that was not related to his return.\u0022 Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea describes Puerto Rican fishing families as they negotiate homeland and diaspora. It considers how wage work affects their livelihoods and identities at home and how these independent producers move in and out of global commodity markets. Drawing on some 100 life histories and years of fieldwork, David Griffith and Manuel Vald\u00e9s Pizzini have developed a complex, often moving portrait of the men and women who fiercely struggle to hang onto the coastal landscapes and cultural heritage tied to the Caribbean Sea.Trade Review"Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea makes a major contribution to the literature on the anthropology and sociology of fisheries by providing an intelligent analysis of Puerto Rican fishermen which extends beyond a description of their fishing techniques and strategies and, more recently, the implications for public policy. The authors present a wealth of rich and thick data in an organized and coherent fashion...and focus upon the detailed complexities of what these fishermen bring to the increasing conflict between labor and the forces of capital." -Robert Lee Maril, Chair and Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas Pan American, and author of Waltzing with the Ghost of Tom Joad "The stunning accomplishment of this book is the way in which the authors have theoretically and ethnographically related deep cultural meanings not only to ecological contexts but to the stuff of political economy-the material social relationships entailed in class formation, the commodity form, and globalizing capitalism generally. Griffith and Valdes Pizzini focus on the praxis of Puerto Rican fishers and their families through a sophisticated theoretical framework that is as illuminating as it is powerful. These are the kinds of heights to which anthropology should strive. This book gives me hope for the discipline's future." -Kevin A. Yelvington, University of South Florida, and author of Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace (Temple) "This book masterfully shows how combinations of wage labor and informal independent production are still at the heart of global capitalism and the reproduction of proletariat households. Offering some of the best anthropology of labor around, the authors examine the multiple and contradictory meanings of small-scale commercial fishing in Puerto Rico: subsidy to capital, space for rest and therapy, source of pride, identity and livelihood for workers." -Ruben Hernandez-Leon, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsPreface Divided Selves: Domestic Production and Wage Labor in Puerto Rico and Anthropology Palatable Coercion: Fishing in Puerto Rican History Puerto Rican Fisheries Chiripas: Working-class Opportunity and Semiproletarianization Injury and Therapy Roads Less Traveled: Proletarianization and Its Discontents Power Games: Work Versus Leisure Along Puerto Rico's Coast Fragments of a Refuge References Index Photographs

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Book SynopsisAsian Americans are widely believed to be passive and compliant participants in the U.S. political process—if they participate at all. In this ground-breaking book, Pei-te Lien maps the actions and strategies of Asian Americans as they negotiate a space in the American political arena.Professor Lien looks at political participation by Asian Americans prior to 1965 and then examines, at both organizational and mass politics levels, how race, ethnicity, and transnationalism help to construct a complex American electorate. She looks not only at rates of participation among Asian Americans as compared with blacks, Latinos, American Indians, and non-Hispanic whites, but also among specific groups of Asian Americans—Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Koreans, Asian Indians, and Vietnamese. She also discusses how gender, socioeconomic class, and place of birth affect political participation.With documentation ranging from historical narrative to opinion survey data, Professor Lien creates a picture of a diverse group of politically active people who are intent on carving out a place for themselves in American political life.Trade Review"This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Asian American studies. Lien, one of the leading scholars in the field, offers a convincing argument that Asian American identity as been shaped through political participation. She has made a major contribution to the revision of the Asian American image."—Andrew L. Aoki, Augsburg College, and co-editor of Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics"This is the first book to address broadly and thoroughly the political implications of the rapid growth of Asian immigrant to the U.S. The Making of Asian America through Political Participation is full of fascinating and little-known evidence. The sheer amount of information available nowhere else is extremely useful, and Ms. Lien's control over it all is excellent. An important book on a topic that promises to become increasingly important over the next few decades."—Professor Jennifer Hochschild, Departments of Government and Afro-American Studies, Harvard University"Lien uncovers a rich history of political activism on the part of Asian Americans from the 1800s to the present day. Thus, her unique study adds substantially to our understanding of Asian Americans, not only in the development of economic and social life in this country but also in the development of interethnic political participation."—MultiCultural ReviewTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Charting a Hidden Terrain: Historical Struggles for Inclusion and Justice Prior to the Era of Civil Rights and Electoral Politics2. Constructing a Community That (Almost) Cannot Be: Contemporary Movements Toward Liberation and Empowerment—After 19653. Participation in Electoral Politics: Evolving Patterns in Hawaii and Mainland States4. How Can We All Get Along? Cross-Racial Coalition-Building Possibilities and Barriers5. What Ties That Bind? Comparing Political Attitudes and Behavior Across Major Asian American Groups6. Linking Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender: Asian American Women and Political ParticipationConclusionAppendix: Researching Asian American Political Behavior with Sample Surveys: A Methodological ReportNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisA drastic reform of intelligence activities is long overdue. The Cold War has been over for ten years. No country threatens this nation's existence. Yet, we still spend billions of dollars on covert action and espionage. In National Insecurity ten prominent experts describe, from an insider's perspective, what went wrong with U.S. intelligence and what will be necessary to fix it. Drawing on their experience in government administration, research, and foreign service, they propose a radical rethinking of the United States' intelligence needs in the post-Cold War world. In addition, they offer a coherent and unified plan for reform that can simultaneously protect U.S. security and uphold the values of our democratic system. As we now know, even during the Cold War, when intelligence was seen as a matter of life and death, our system served us badly. It provided unreliable information, which led to a grossly inflated military budget, as it wreaked havoc around the world, supporting corrupt regimes, promoting the drug trade, and repeatedly violating foreign and domestic laws. Protected by a shroud of secrecy, it paid no price for its mistakes. Instead it grew larger and more insulated every year. Taking into consideration our strategic interests abroad as well as the price of covert operations in dollars, reliability, and good will, every American taxpayer can be informed by and will want to read this book. National Insecurity is essential for readers interested in contemporary political issues, international relations, U.S. history, public policy issues, foreign policy, intelligence reform, and political science.Trade Review"The distinguished contributors to this book present a wide range of perspectives from which to assess our intelligence system. Their decades of public service command tremendous respect. Their views break new ground and demand the attention of the White House and of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. This book should be required reading by all congressional committees concerned with intelligence policy, surveillance, and appropriations, and by all Americans." -Senator Tom Harkin, from the Foreword "[A] comprehensive sweep of the disputes and principles that underlie the struggle for an ethics-grounded U.S. intelligence commitment." -Baltimore Sun "[The book] was published in 2000 but unfortunately, its relevance and importance have increased exponentially since the turn of the century... This book is a must read." The review is available on the EU Policy Network website: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 43-46. -The Journal of European Affairs "National Insecurity is only the latest in a long line of volumes that make you think about the good and the bad all over again." -Washington Monthly "Veteran diplomats, former congressional staff members and journalists who specialize in intelligence coverage join forces in this collection of essays to call for a total overhaul of U.S. intelligence strategy." -Christian CenturyTable of ContentsCONTENTS Foreward Senator Tom Harkin Introduction Craig Eisendrath 1 After the Cold War: The Need for Intelligence Roger Hilsman 2 Espionage and Covert Action Melvin A. Goodman 3 Too Many Spies, Too Little Intelligence Robert E. White 4 CIA-Foreign Service Relations Robert V. Keeley 5 Covert Operations: The Blowback Problem Jack A. Blum 6 The End of Secrecy: U.S. National Security and the New Openness Movement Kate Doyle 7 Mission Myopia: Narcotics as Fallout From the CIA's Covert Wars Alfred W. McCoy 8 TECHINT: The NSA, the NRO, and NIMA Robert Dreyfuss 9 Improving the Output of Intelligence: Priorities, Managerial Changes, and Funding Richard A. Stubbing 10 Who's Watching the Store? Executive-Branch and Congressional Surveillance Pat M. Holt Conclusions Craig Eisendrath Selected Bibliography About The Center for International Policy About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of women's place in the U.S. political economyTrade Review"...mak[ing] an important contribution to our historical understanding of women's pursuits and the ways their employment was shaped by ethnicity and race, class, family composition, regional location, and work opportunities. It will be a useful addition to courses aimed at upper-division undergraduates, in graduate seminars, and for specialists."—Work and Occupations"Bose's book provides a much-needed opportunity to explore [assumptions about women's work] and to broaden our conceptual framework for examining them.... I thoroughly enjoyed and learned from Bose's analysis and her writing, and I am certain that my students will as well."—Gender and Society"Bose's detailed findings deserve the attention of scholars of women's situation, and hopefully will lead to further comparisons with contemporary analyses..."—Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Understanding the Past to Interpret the Present 2. Home-Based Work and the Informal Economy: The Case of the "Unemployed" Housewife 3. Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender: Determining Women's Employment 4. Occupational Concentration: The Links Between Occupational Sex and Race Segregation 5. Ethnic Enclaves and Ethnic Queues: Women and Domestic Work 6. Female-Headed Households and the "Hidden" Headship of Single Mothers: Strategies for an Era Without Government Support 7. Regional Segregation: Geography as a Context for Work 8. Epilogue Appendix: Supplementary Tables Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTold with humor and flair, this is the autobiography of one transsexual's wild ride from boyhood as Alfred Brevard ("Buddy") Crenshaw in rural Tennessee to voluptuous female entertainer in Hollywood. Aleshia Brevard, as she is now known, underwent transitional surgery in Los Angeles in 1962, one of the first such operations in the United States. (The famous sexual surgery pioneer Harry Benjamin himself broke the news to Brevard's parents.)Under the stage name Lee Shaw, Brevard worked as a drag queen at Finocchio's, a San Francisco club, doing Marilyn Monroe impersonations. (Like Marilyn, she sought romance all the time and had a string of entanglements with men.) Later, she worked as a stripper in Reno and as a Playboy Bunny at the Sunset Strip hutch.After playing opposite Don Knotts in the movie The Love God, Brevard appeared in other films and broke into TV as a regular on the Red Skelton Show. She created the role of Tex on the daytime soap opera One Life To Live. As a woman, Brevard returned to teach theater at East Tennessee State, the same university she had attended as a boy.This memoir is a rare pre-Women's Movement account of coming to terms with gender identity. Brevard writes frankly about the degree to which she organized her life around pleasing men, and how absurd it all seems to her now.Trade Review"...an entertaining and heartfelt journey from male to female, ostracism to acceptance, and obscurity to fame. ... Aleshia Brevard's journey is a brilliant, gutsy, and insightful look at a life simultaneously marginalized and in the spotlight."—Lambda Book Report"The Woman I Was not Born to Be is not the kind of book one really expects from an academic press: no statistics, no elaborate theoretical structure. Nor is it the story of people whom history has utterly ignored. Mocked, crucified, tortured, and jailed, yes; ignored, no. But I'm glad Temple University Press chose to publish it: in academia as in real life, a reasonably well-adjusted, kind-hearted woman who was born male is not so common."—Amy Bloom, Wilson Quarterly"Brevard's story adds an entertaining curve to the growing body of literature—academic scientific, theoretical and literary—on transgendered experience, without the self-pity or sentimentality found in many such memoirs....Written in a gossipy style reminiscent of 1950's movie-star autobiographies (which at heart, it is)."—Publishers WeeklyTable of Contents1. Just for a Change 2. Farm Boy 3. Drag Queen 4. A Man in the House 5. Alfred, Adieu 6. The Coed 7. Burlesque Queen 8. Miss Congeniality 9. Call Me Mrs. 10. Teacher! Teacher! 11. A Playboy Bunny 12. That Female Bunch 13. Fashion's Guru 14. Off-Broadway Baby 15. A Faceless Intruder 16. Mother's Final gift 17. The Finished Produce Index

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of women's place in the U.S. political economyTrade Review"...mak[ing] an important contribution to our historical understanding of women's pursuits and the ways their employment was shaped by ethnicity and race, class, family composition, regional location, and work opportunities. It will be a useful addition to courses aimed at upper-division undergraduates, in graduate seminars, and for specialists."—Work and Occupations"Bose's book provides a much-needed opportunity to explore [assumptions about women's work] and to broaden our conceptual framework for examining them.... I thoroughly enjoyed and learned from Bose's analysis and her writing, and I am certain that my students will as well."—Gender and Society"Bose's detailed findings deserve the attention of scholars of women's situation, and hopefully will lead to further comparisons with contemporary analyses..."—Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Understanding the Past to Interpret the Present 2. Home-Based Work and the Informal Economy: The Case of the "Unemployed" Housewife 3. Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender: Determining Women's Employment 4. Occupational Concentration: The Links Between Occupational Sex and Race Segregation 5. Ethnic Enclaves and Ethnic Queues: Women and Domestic Work 6. Female-Headed Households and the "Hidden" Headship of Single Mothers: Strategies for an Era Without Government Support 7. Regional Segregation: Geography as a Context for Work 8. Epilogue Appendix: Supplementary Tables Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisChallenging the basic assumptions of a meat-eating society, Deep Vegetarianism is a spirited and compelling defense of a vegetarian lifestyle. Considering all of the major arguments both for and against vegetarianism and the habits of meat-eaters, vegetarians, and vegans alike, Michael Allen Fox addresses vegetarianism's cultural, historical, and philosophical background; details vegetarianism's impact on one's living and thinking; and relates vegetarianism to classical and recent defenses of the moral status of animals. Demonstrating how a vegetarian diet is related to our awareness of the world and our ethical outlook on life, Fox looks at the different kinds of vegetarian commitments people make and their reasons for making them. In chapters that address such issues as the experiences, emotions, and grounds that are part of choosing vegetarianism, Fox discusses not only good health, animal suffering, and the environmental impacts of meat production, but such issues as the meaning of food, world hunger, religion and spirituality, and, significantly, the links share between vegetarianism and other human rights movements and ideologies, particularly feminism. In an extensive chapter that addresses arguments made by advocates of meat-eating, Fox speaks to claims of humans as natural carnivores, animals as replaceable, and vegetarians as anti-feminist. He also addresses arguments surrounding the eating habits of indigenous peoples, eating free-range animals, and carnivorous behavior among animals. The most complete examination of the vegetarian outlook to date, Deep Vegetarianism reveals the broad range of philosophical views that contribute to such a choice. It recognizes, and calls for, a conscious awareness of -- and an individual responsibility to -- the issues that exist in the moral, political, and social spheres of our existence. With its lively and controversial discussion, Deep Vegetarianism promises to appeal to anyone looking to explore the relationship between dietary choice, lifestyle, the treatment of animals and the environment, and personal ethical responsibility. It will also be particularly useful for students and teachers of moral philosophy, ethics, religion, comparative cultures, ecology, and feminism.Trade Review"Detailed, thorough, and wide-ranging, this is the most comprehensive, original work on philosophical vegetarianism to date. Deep Vegetarianism addresses the cultural, historical and philosophical backgrounds for vegetarianism, details the impact to vegetarianism on one's thinking and living, relates vegetarianism to recent defenses of the moral status of animals, and very ably considers all the significant arguments for and against vegetarianism." -Evelyn B. Pluhar, author of Beyond Prejudice: The Moral Significance of Human and Nonhuman AnimalsTable of ContentsCONTENTS Series Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1 A Historical-Philosophical Overview 1. Learning from the History of Vegetarianism 2. Antiquity and the Special Case of Porphyry 3. From Medieval Times to the Modern Era 2 You Are What You Eat (Almost): The Meaning of Food 1. Food Symbolism 2. The Meaning of Meat 3. Vegetarian Meanings 3 Compartmentalization of Thought and Feeling -- and the Burden of Proof 1. The Compartmentalization Phenomenon 2. Inconsistency 3. Failing to See Connections 4. A Brief Case Study: Environmental Ethicists 5. Reversing the Burden of Proof 4 Vegetarian Outlooks 1. Types of Vegetarianism 2. Experiences, Emotions, and Vegetarianism 3. Grounds for Vegetarianism 4. The Moral Status of Animals 5 Arguments for Vegetarianism: I 1. An Overview 2. Good Health 3. Animal Suffering and Death 4. Impartiality, or Disinterested Moral Concern 6 Arguments for Vegetarianism: II 1. The Environmental Impact of Meat Production 2. The Manipulation of Nature 3. World Hunger and Injustice 4. Interconnected Forms of Oppression 5. Common Threads 7 Arguments for Vegetarianism: III 1. Wisdom Traditions and Modern Parallels 2. Interspecies Kinship and Compassion 3. Universal Nonviolence (Ahimsa) 4. Earthdwelling: Native Peoples' Spirituality 5. Major Religions and Minority Voices 6. Vegetarian Building Blocks 8 Arguments Against Vegetarianism 1. The Consequences of Vegetarianism 2. Humans as Natural Carnivores 3. Animals as Replaceable 4. An Ecological Objection 5. The Necessity of Killing 6. A Feminist Critique of Killing 7. Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Imperialism, and Meat-Eating 8. Preventing Carnivorous Behavior in Nature 9. Eating Shmoos and Other Consenting or Indifferent Animals 10. Why Not Eat Free-Range Animals? 11. The Requirement of Moral Sainthood 12. Some Observations 9 Conscience and Change 1. The Vegetarian Conscience 2. Vegetarianism or Veganism? 3. New Directions and Creative Thinking 4. A Way of Life Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJim Bunning began as a $150-a-month rookie in Richmond, Indiana, spent seven years in the minor leagues, and still made it to the Hall of Fame. He pitched a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park, even though the first-base coach was relaying his catcher's signs to the batters, retiring Ted Williams for the final out. Bunning also pitched an historic perfect game against the New York Mets and performed spectacularly in a succession of All-Star Game appearances. He was the second pitcher in major league history to win 100 games in each league. The first was CY Young. He was the second pitcher to strike out 1000 in each league; again, only Cy Young beat hims to it. When Bunning retired at the end of the 1971 season, only one man -- Walter Johnson -- had more career strikeouts. A proud, intensely competitive man, Bunning relished his duels with Ted Williams, Micky Mantle, and other slugging superstars of the day. What he didn't relish was dealing with sportswriter who didn't do their homework and with baseball leaders whose mismanagement, Bunning felt, jeopardized the game's place in the nation's heart. He waged battles with the likes of former commissioner Peter Ueberroth and club-owner-turned-interim-commissioner Bud Selig. But Bunning did more than play baseball. He was a driving force in the early years of the Players Association, one of the men responsible for choosing Marvin Miller as head of the union. Bunning also was a manager in the minor leagues and in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and was even a player's agent for a time. His baseball career behind him, he began a second career in politics. With a huge assist from his wife, Mary, the mother of their nine children, he waged an unsuccessful gubernational campaign in Kentucky and then became a six-term congressman. Bunning is currently running for the U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction 1 The Best Day 2 Turning Pro 3 Mary 4 The Winter Game I (The Player) 5 The Tigers 6 Champs -- for 150 Games 7 The Crash of '64 8 Trying to Win 20 9 A Star Among Stars 10 A Union Man 11 The Competitive Edge 12 Farewell to Pitching 13 Back to the Minors 14 God's Country 15 Jim Bunning, Mud Hen 16 The 89ers 17 The Firing 18 The Winter Game II (The Manager) 19 The Political Game 20 Man of the House 21 Love of the Game 22 The Biggest Challenge Appendix: The No-Hitters Index

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Book SynopsisHow sexuality and sexual orientation intersect with gender, race, ethnicity, and religion in the ongoing formation of national identityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Nation's Rights and National Rites 3. Righting Wrongs 4. Queer Nations 5. Eurocentrism 6. Reimagining Australia 7. Concluding Remarks Notes References Index

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Book Synopsis\u0022Despite the plethora of piscine literature,\u0022 say the authors of Fishing the Delaware Valley, \u0022we have tried to create a book unlike anything else on the market. With our approach that fishing is a major entertainment endeavor and that it is a family activity that can be pursued within fascinating historical and culinary settings, we have tried to demonstrate that, most important, fishing is serious fun.\u0022 The Delaware River is the last major free-flowing river in the eastern United States Drawing on their cumulative century of angling experience, the authors range through the 14,000 square miles of the Delaware River watershed, with offshore visits for saltwater fishing along the New Jersey coast. All the places they talk about are within three-and-a-half hours of Philadelphia by car. Besides giving directions to their favorite spots, the authors regale the reader with comments about what to expect of each place and how to make the most of your visit. Along the way they mention and frequently evaluate nearby tackle shops, restaurants, taverns, historical and scenic attractions, and even shopping opportunities. Throughout, they share their own experiences with the reader -- both the pride of spectacular catches and the embarrassment of spectacular follies. One of the authors admits to breaking a new rod in a restroom door. Another tells about having to be rescued from a midriver rock by the very anglers to whom he had just bragged about his accomplishments. They spice their descriptions with apt quotations adn finish it off, like a truly successful fishing day, with their favorite recipes. This is a book with something for everyone from the novice to the expert. Even non-fishing friends and family members will welcome the authors' suggestions for things to do while waiting for their loved one to land the perfect trout or will be entertained by the stories about those incomprehensible people who flock year-round to the Delaware Valley's lakes, ponds, streams, and coastal waters.Trade Review"A well-written guide to sandwich joints in Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with almost as much information about nearby fishing holes." --Philadelphia Magazine "This book, written by a Temple University administrator and two retired colleagues, has a little bit of everything: commentary on the authors' favorite fishing spots, evaluations of tackle shops, advice on nearby attractions where nonfishing family and friends can pass the time, and restaurant recommendations in case you don't get any keepers." --New York TimesTable of ContentsCONTENTS Foreword Introduction Some Basic Principles Freshwater Fishing in Northeastern Pennsylvania Wayne County and the Upper Delaware River The Delaware River in the Poconos Areas and the Kittatinny Mountains Monroe County Lehigh and Northampton Counties Bucks County Philadelphia Montgomery County Delaware County Chester County Berks County Freshwater Fishing in Northern New Jersey Sussex and Warren Counties Hunterdon County Mercer-Monmouth Counties Freshwater Fishing in South Jersey Burlington County Camden County Gloucester County Atlantic County Cumberland County Cape May County The Delaware Bay Coastal Seawater Practical Tips for Saltwater Fishing The Joy of Surf Fishing Cape May County Atlantic County Burlington County Crabbing Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisHow do unions around the world respond to issues raised by sexual minorities? Much as been written on labor's response to issues raised by women and racial minorities, but there has been little work done on labor's engagement with gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgendered. The original essays in this collection attempt to fill that void by bringing together a group of experts who examine labor's response to such issues as benefits for same-sex partners, anti-discrimination language in collective agreements, and education. Speaking from a variety of racial backgrounds, sexual orientations, and political views, the contributors bring their unique personal perspectives and scholarly approaches to this groundbreaking book. The chapters included in Laboring for Rights give a global vision to the increasingly important subject of equity in the workplace. They offer a much-needed look at labor's involvement with current international workplace conditions from such diverse countries as the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, Britain, France, the Netherlands, and South Africa, as well as parts of the South Pacific. Some of these countries have strong and progressive labor unions; some, like the U.S., have relatively weak labor organizations. But whatever the context, as these articles demonstrate, there seems to be a growing and in some instances prospering gay/lesbian labor alliance in many parts of the world. Laboring for Rights is a pioneering text in an important new area of labor study. It will engage readers interested in equality in the workplace, labor and organizational studies, gay and lesbian activism, and international, comparative studies.Trade Review"For the majority of industrial relations academics whose training and research keep us focused on the classical problems of labour-management relations, Laboring for Rights, edited by Gerald Hunt, offers a decided, and much-needed, shift in perspective. This book provides readers with information, much of which will be unknown to most readers, about the extent of 'bridge-building' between the lesbian/gay and union movements in a wide variety of countries. It is a first attempt to document what organized labour is doing in relation to lesbian/gay issues... Laboring for Rights is an important and useful book because it broadens the common understanding about what unions do and why." -Industrial RelationsTable of ContentsCONTENTS "What Can Be Done? Sexual Diversity and Labor Unions in Perspective" -- Gerald Hunt "No Longer Outsiders: Labor's Response to Sexual Diversity in Canada" -- Gerald Hunt "Fighting It Out in Canadian Courts" -- Cynthia Petersen "A Short History of Gay and Lesbian Labor Activism in the United States" -- Christian Arthur Bain "Lesbian and Gay Caucuses in the United States Labor Movement" -- Miriam Frank "Domestic Partner Health Benefits: The Corporate Model vs. the Union Model" -- Desma Holcomb "The Limits to Union: Labor, Gays and Lesbians, and Marriage in Hawaii" -- Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller "Silence at Work: Trade Unions, Gender, and Sexual Diversity in the South Pacific" -- Jacqueline Leckie "Sexual Diversity and the Australian Labor Movement in Historical Perspective" -- Shane Ostenfeld "At a Turning Point: Organized Labor, Sexual Diversity, and the New South Africa" -- Mazibuko K. Jara, Naomi Webster, and Gerald Hunt "On the Fringes of the New Europe: Sexual Diversity Activism and the Labor Movement" -- David Rayside "Labor Unions and Sexual Diversity in Germany" -- Ron Holzhacker "British Trade Unions and Sexual Diversity: Survey Evidence Since the 1980s" -- Phil Greasley "Moving Forward in UNISON: Lesbian and Gay Self-Organization in Action" -- Fiona Colgan "Laboring for Rights in Global Perspective" -- Gerald Hunt

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Book SynopsisThis story explodes the popular belief that women white-collar workers tend to reject unionization and accept a passive role in the workplace. On the contrary, the women workers of Harvard University created a powerful and unique union--one that emphasizes their own values and priorities as working women and rejects unwanted aspects of traditional unionism. The workers involved comprise Harvard's 3,600-member "support staff," which includes secretaries, library and laboratory assistants, dental hygienists, accounting clerks, and a myriad of other office workers who keep a great university functioning. Even at prestigious private universities like Harvard and Yale, these workers--mostly women--have had to put up with exploitive management policies that denied them respect and decent wages because they were women. But the women eventually rebelled, declaring that they could not live on "prestige" alone. Encouraged by the women's movement of the early 1970's, a group of women workers (and a few men) began what would become a 15-year struggle to organize staff employees at Harvard. The women persisted in the face of patronizing and sexist attitudes of university administrators and leaders of their own national unions. Unconscionably long legal delays foiled their efforts. But they developed innovative organizing methods, which merged feminist values with demands for union representation and a means of influencing workplace decisions. Out of adversity came an unorthodox form of unionism embodied in the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). Its founding was marked by an absorbing human drama that pitted unknown workers, such as Kris Rondeau, a lab assistant who came to head the union, against famous educators such as Harvard President Derek Bok and a panoply of prestigious deans. Other characters caught up in the drama included Harvard's John T. Dunlop, the nation's foremost industrial relations scholar and former U.S. Secretary of Labor. The drama was played out in innumerable hearings before the National Labor Relations Board, in the streets of Cambridge, and on the walks of historic Harvard Yard, where union members marched and sang and employed new tactics like "ballooning," designed to communicate a message of joy and liberation rather than the traditional "hate-the-boss" hostility. John Hoerr tells this story from the perspective of both Harvard administrators and union organizers. With unusual access to its meetings, leaders, and files, he examines the unique culture of a female-led union from the inside. Photographs add to the impact of this dramatic narrative. postamble();Trade Review"Hoerr's book breaks new ground as it traces how the rising feminist consciousness of the 60's and early 70's fused with working-class, union sensibilities, and how...organizers made mainstream unions bend to accommodate this new mix." -Ellen Clegg, The Boston Globe "Hoerr provides a comprehensive account of the history of the history of the Harvard office workers' struggle to unionize at Harvard...instructive for labor educators, union organizers, and general readers who are interested in women's role in the labor movement and union organizing in academia or in the female-dominated service industries." -Labor Studies Journal "Hoerr's tale of staunch women and Harvard's comeuppance make his book exciting reading." -Jean Alonso, The Women's Review of BooksTable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Epilogue Index

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Book Synopsis During the Rubella Syndrome epidemic of the 1960s, many children were born deaf, blind, and mentally disabled. David Goode has devoted his life and career to understanding such people's world, a world without words, but not, the author confirms, one without communication. This book is the result of his studies of two children with congenital deaf-blindness and mental retardation. Goode spent countless hours observing, teaching, and playing with Christina, who had been institutionalized since age six, and Bianca, who remained in the care of her parents. He also observed the girls' parents, school, and medical environments, exploring the unique communication practices—sometimes so subtle they are imperceptible to outsiders—that family and health care workers create to facilitate innumerable every day situations. A World Without Words presents moving and convincing evidence that human beings both with and without formal language can understand and communicate with each other in many ways. Through various experiments in such unconventional forms of communication as playing guitar, mimicking, and body movements like jumping, swinging, and rocking, Goode established an understanding of these children on their own terms. He discovered a spectrum of non-formal language through which these children create their own set of symbols within their own reality, and accommodate and maximize the sensory resources they do have. Ultimately, he suggests, it is impractical to attempt to interpret these children's behaviors using ideas about normal behavior of the hearing and seeing world.Trade Review"David Goode's work is unique and his thinking original and deep. It is some of the best in the sociology of disability." --Robert Bogdan, Syracuse UniversityTable of ContentsContents Foreword – Irving Kenneth Zola Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. A World Without Words 3. On Understanding Without Words 4. Reflections on the Possibility of Understanding Without Formal Language 5. Construction and Use of Data in Social Science Research 6. Kids, Culture, and Innocents 7. Conclusions Appendix: Ascertaining Choice with Alingual, Deaf-Blind, and Retarded Clients Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the volatile nature and complex dynamics of national movements and ethnic conflict around the worldTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I: The National Question in the Third World 1. Palestinian Nationalism and the Struggle for National Self-Determination Gordon Welty 2. The Kurdish National Movement and the Struggle for National Autonomy Ferhad Ibrahim 3. Apartheid and the National Question in South Africa Martin J. Murray 4. Ethnicity, Religion, and National Politics in India Dipankar Gupta 5. Women in National Liberation Struggles in the Third World Ona Altson Dosunmu and M. Bahati Kuumba Part II: The National Question in Advanced Capitalist Countries 6. Puerto Rican Nationalism and the Struggle for Independence Juan Manuel Carrion 7. The National Question and the Struggle against British Imperialism in North Ireland Martin Orr 8. Basque Nationalism and the Struggle for Self-Determination in the Basque Country Francisco Letamendia 9. Quebec Nationalism and the Struggle for Sovereignty in French Canada Gilles Bourque Part III: Socialism and the Nationalities Question 10. The Nationalities Question in the Former Soviet Union: Transcaucasia, the Baltics, and Central Asia Levon Chorbajian 11. National Minorities and Nationalities Policy in China Gerard Postiglione 12. Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Self-Determination in the former Yugoslavia Jasminka Udovicki Selected Bibliography About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisCase studies capture the experiences, difficulties, and determination of immigrant workersTrade Review"Through close analysis of the changing workplace in three U.S. communities, these informative academic essays chart the variety of work experience for new immigrants."—Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction --Louise Lamphere, Guillermo Grenier, and Alex Stepick Part I: Garden City 2. Beef Stew: Cattle, Immigrants, and Established Residents in a Kansas Beefpacking Town --Michael Broadway 3. Knock 'Em Dead: Work on the Killfloor of a Modern Beefpacking Plant --Donald D. Stull 4. Guys in White Hats: Short-Term Participant Observation among Beef-Processing Workers and Managers --Ken C. Erickson 5. The Effects of Packinghouse Work on Southeast Asian Refugee Families --Janet E. Benson Part II: Miami 6. Miami: Capital of Latin America --Alex Stepick 7. Brothers in Wood --Alex Stepick and Guillermo Grenier, with Steve Morris and Debbie Draznin 8. Grounding the Saturn Plant: Failed Restructuring in a Miami Apparel Plant --Guillermo Grenier and Alex Stepick, with Aline LaBorwit 9. The View from the Back of the House: Restaurants and Hotels in Miami --Alex Stepick and Guillermo Grenier, with Hafidh A. Hafidh, Sue Chaffee, and Debbie Draznin Part III: Philadelphia 10. Polishing the Rustbelt: Immigrants Enter a Restructuring Philadelphia --Judith Goode 11. Facing Job Loss: Changing Relationships in a Multicultural urban Factor --Carole Cohen 12. Encounters Over the Counter: Bosses, Workers, and Customers on a Changing Shopping Strip --Judith Goode 13. Poverty and Politics: Practice and Ideology among Small Business Owners in an Urban Enterprise Zone --Cynthia Carter Ninivaggi Contributors' Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBaltimore has a long, colorful history that traditionally has been focused on famous men, social elites, and patriotic events. The Baltimore Book is both a history of "the other Baltimore" and a tour guide to places in the city that are important to labor, African American, and women's history. The book grew out of a popular local bus tour conducted by public historians, the People's History Tour of Baltimore, that began in 1982. This book records and adds sites to that tour; provides maps, photographs, and contemporary documents; and includes interviews with some of the uncelebrated people whose experiences as Baltimoreans reflect more about the city than Francis Scott Key ever did. The tour begins at the B&O Railroad Station at Camden Yards, site of the railroad strike of 1877, moves on to Hampden-Woodbury, the mid-19th century cotton textile industry's company town, and stops on the way to visit Evergreen House and to hear the narratives of ex-slaves. We travel to Old West Baltimore, the late 19th-century center of commerce and culture for the African American community; Fells Point; Sparrows Point; the suburbs; Federal Hill; and Baltimore's "renaissance" at Harborplace. Interviews with community activists, civil rights workers, Catholic Workers, and labor union organizers bring color and passion to this historical tour. Specific labor struggles, class and race relations, and the contributions of women to Baltimore's development are emphasized at each stop. In the series Critical Perspectives on the Past, edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig.Trade Review"[The] authors infuse the city and its history with life.... [Readers] will emerge with an uncommonly complete picture of the character of Baltimore and its people."—Nancy Brennan, Executive Director, Baltimore City Life Museums"The Baltimore Book tells the story of the real people of Baltimore—the true fabric of the city. These are the courageous individuals who fought for their right to work, and fought for their right to buy a home and live where they chose. Their goals and their struggle to achieve those goals is the real story of how a city grows."—Barbara A. Mikulski, United States Senator from Maryland"...'must' reading for anyone who wishes to develop a comprehensive view of the city's history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries...."—Robert J. Brugger, Editor, Maryland Historical MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction: Toward a New History of Baltimore Acknowledgments 1. Camden Yards and the Strike of 1877 - Sylvia Gillett 2. Evergreen House and the Garrett Family: A Railroad Fortune - Elizabeth Fee 3. Hampden-Woodberry: Baltimore's Mill Villages - Bill Harvey 4. Old West Baltimore: Segregation, African-American Culture, and the Struggle for Equality - Karen Olson 5. The City that Tries to Suit Everybody: Baltimore's Clothing Industry - Jo Ann E. Argersinger 6. East-Side Union Halls: Where Craft Workers Met, 1887-1917 - Roderick Ryon 7. Fells Point: Community and Conflict in a Working-Class Neighborhood - Linda Shopes 8. Radicalism on the Waterfront: Seamen in the 1930s - Linda Zeidman and Eric Hallegren 9. Sparrows Point, Dundalk, Highlandtown, Old West Baltimore: Home of Gold Dust and the Union Card - Linda Ziedman 10. Flight to the Suburbs: Suburbanization and Radical Change on Baltimore's West Side - W. Edward Orser 11. A View from Federal Hill - David Harvey Interviews with Former Slaves: Caroline Hammond and Richard Macks Interviews with Civil Rights Activists: Dr. John E.T. Camper and J. Broadus Mitchell Interviews with Community Activists: Dr. Beryl Warner Williams, Betty Hyatt, Barbara Mikulski, Lucille Gorham, Willa Bickham and Brendan Walsh Interviews with Labor and Political Activists: George Meyers, Robert Moore, Sirkka Tuomi Lee Holm, Dean Pappas and Ann Gordon Afterword Bibliography Photo Sources About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1990, Hartford, Connecticut, ranked as the eight poorest city in the country by the census; the real estate market was severely depressed; downtown insurance companies were laying off and the retail department stores were closing; public services were strained; and demolition sites abandoned for lack of funds pockmarked the streets. Hartford's problems are typical of those experienced in numerous U.S. cities affected by a lingering recession. The harsh economic times felt throughout the city's workplaces and neighborhoods precipitated the formation of grassroots alliances between labor and community organizations. Coming together to create new techniques, their work has national implications for the development of alternative strategies for stimulating economic recovery. Louise B. Simmons, a former Hartford City Councilperson, offers an insider's view of these coalitions, focusing on three activist unions the New England Health Care Employees Union, the Hotel and Restaurant Employees, and the United Auto Workers and three community groups Hartford Areas Rally Together, Organized North Easterners-Clay Hill and North End, and Asylum Hill Organizing Project. Her in-depth analysis illustrates these groups' successes and difficulties in working together toward a new vision of urban politics. Louise B. Simmons is Director of the University of Connecticut Urban Semester Program.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Alliances, Coalitions, and Electoral Activities 3. Labor Organizing 4. Neighborhood Organizing 5. Concluding Thoughts Epilogue References Index

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Book SynopsisLatin America's growing evangelical movement sparks political and social changeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America -- David Stoll 1. Struggling Against the Devil: Pentecostalism and Social Movements in Urban Brazil -- John Burdick 2. The Crentes of Campo Alegre and the Religious Construction of Brazilian Politics -- Rowan Ireland 3. Brother Votes for Brother: The New Politics of Protestantism in Brazil -- Paul Freston 4. Protestantism in El Salvador: Conventional Wisdom versus the Survey Evidence -- Kenneth M. Coleman, Edwin Eloy Aguilar, Jose Miguel Sandoval, and Timothy J. Steigenga 5. The Reformation of Machismo: Asceticism and Masculinity among Colombian Evangelicals -- Elizabeth Brusco 6. Shifting Affiliations: Mayan Widows and Evangelicos in Guatemala -- Linda Green 7. Religious Mobility and the Many Words of God in La Paz, Bolivia -- Lesley Gill Conclusion: Is This Latin America's Reformation? -- Virginia Garrard-Burnett Bibliography About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis rich collection of essays presents a new vision of adolescent sexuality shaped by a variety of social factors: race and ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, physical ability, and cultural messages propagated in films, books, and within families. The contributors consider the full range of cultural influences that form a teenager's sexual identity and argue that education must include more than its current overriding message of denial hinged on warnings of HIV and AIDS infection and teenage pregnancy. Examining the sexual experiences, feelings, and development of Asians, Latinos, African Americans, gay man and lesbians, and disabled women, this book provides a new understanding of adolescent sexuality that goes beyond the biological approach all too often simplified as "surging hormones." In the series Health, Society, and Policy, edited by Sheryl Ruzek and Irving Kenneth Zola.Trade Review"A book of compelling importance—this volume dissects contemporary myths about adolescent sexuality and presents a startling and powerful cultural and political analysis of adolescent development, sexuality and sexual expression. I recommend this book with a sense of urgency."—Dr. Michael A. Carrera, Director, National Adolescent Sexuality Training Center, The Children's Aid SocietyTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I: Contexts and Theories 1. Culture, Identities, and the Discourse of Adolescent Sexuality - Janice M. Irvine 2. Adolescent Development: Whose Perspective? - Jill Taylor 3. Sexuality Education for Immigrant and Minority Students: Developing a Culturally Appropriate Curriculum - Janie Victoria Ward and Jill Taylor Part II: Culture and Communities 4. Culture, Context, and HIV Infection: Research on Risk Taking Among Adolescents - Lee Strunin 5. Asian American Adolescents: Issues in the Expression of Sexuality - Connie Chan 6. AIDS and Latino Adolescents - Luisa Medrano 7. Homophobia, Identity, and the Meanings of Desire: Reflections on the Cultural Construction of Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Sexuality - Diane Raymon 8. Daughters with Disabilities: Defective Women or Minority Women? - Harilyn Rousso Part III: Texts and Conversations 9. Keeping Adolescents in the Picture: Construction of Adolescent Sexuality in Textbook Images and Popular Films - Mariamne H. Whatley 10. Young Women and Their Dream Lovers: Sexuality in Adolescent Fiction - Linda K. Christian-Smith 11. What Friends Are For: On Girls' Misogyny and Romantic Fusion - Sharon Thompson 12. Daring to Desire: Culture and the Bodies of Adolescent Girls - Deborah L. Tolman 13. Speaking Across Cultures Within Your Own Family - Janet Kahn 14. Teens Talk Sex: Can We Talk Back? - Robert E. Fullilove, Warren Barksdale, and Mindy Thompson Fullilove About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisAllen Iverson loved Philadelphia Daily News basketball beat reporter Phil Jasner, calling him the best in the world of sports journalism. From 1981 until his death in 2010, Jasner was always on the case, going to great lengths to track athletes down for a quote or a story. He was most known for covering the team's famous players, including World B. Free and Bobby Jones, Julius Erving and Moses Malone, Charles Barkley, and, of course, Iverson. His tremendous output was beloved by players and fans alike, earning him many honors, including inductions into six Halls of Fame. Phil Jasner On the Case collects the best of Jasner's writing throughout his illustrious career. Jasner wrote about baseball, the Eagles, and the Philadelphia Atoms' soccer with the same insight and aplomb he showed in his coverage of The Big 5, the 76ers' championship season in 1983, and the Dream Team. Lovingly assembledeach chapter is introduced by some of the most prominent figures Jasner covered, from Vince Papa

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Book SynopsisPublished in conjunction with Drexel University's 125th anniversary, Building Drexel chronicles the founding of the university by Anthony J. Drexel through to the present day. The editors and contributors create a prismatic discussion of the university and its evolution. Richly illustrated chapters cover the architectural history of notable Drexel buildings; the role of Drexel in Philadelphia's modern history; its Greek life; sportsparticularly Drexel's history in the Big 5; and each of the university's schools and colleges. There is a history of the medical college and law school, plus the creation of new schools such as those of biomedical engineering, science and health systems. Building Drexel also documents the civil rights history of Drexel and its urban planning history in relation to the racially diverse Powelton Village and Mantua neighborhoods it borders. This commemorative volume shows the development of the university both in the city and in the world. Contributors in

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Book Synopsis In this last book by the late Donald Pitkin, author of The House thatGiacomo Built, comes a story of the Schorcht family, through whosefortunes and struggles one can see the transformations of Germanythrough the long twentieth century. Each chapter of Four Germanys is reflective of generational ratherthan historical time. In 1922, Edwin Schorcht inherited his family farm,and in Part One, Pitkin traces the derivation of this farmstead. Part Two focuses on Schorcht’s children who came of age in Hitler’sGermany. Part Three has the Schorchts growing up in the Ulbrichtyears (1950–73) of the German Democratic Republic. The bookconcludes with the great-granddaughter, Maria, looking back to thepast in relation to the new Germany that history had bequeathed her. Ultimately, Four Germanys reflects the impact of critical historicalevents on ordinary East Germans while it also reveals how one particular family managed its own historical ad

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