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  • 1
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    Trucking Country : The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (2016)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400828791
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Course Book
    Series Statement: Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America
    DDC: 303.48/32
    Keywords: Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class populist voters are drawn to conservative politicians who seemingly don't represent their financial interests. Hamilton challenges the popular notion of "red state" conservatism as a devil's bargain between culturally conservative rural workers and economically conservative demagogues in the Republican Party. The roots of rural conservatism, Hamilton demonstrates, took hold long before the culture wars and free-market fanaticism of the 1990s. As Hamilton shows, truckers helped build an economic order that brought low-priced consumer goods to a greater number of Americans. They piloted the big rigs that linked America's factory farms and agribusiness food processors to suburban supermarkets across the country. Trucking Country is the gripping account of truckers whose support of post-New Deal free enterprise was so virulent that it sparked violent highway blockades in the 1970s. It's the story of "bandit" drivers who inspired country songwriters and Hollywood filmmakers to celebrate the "last American cowboy," and of ordinary blue-collar workers who helped make possible the deregulatory policies of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and set the stage for Wal-Mart to become America's most powerful corporation in today's low-price, low-wage economy.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Sep. 08, 2016)
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400828791
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400828791
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    What Is "Your" Race? : The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans (2016)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400846795
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.800973
    Abstract: America is preoccupied with race statistics--perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy, or cloud that reality and confuse social policy? Does America still have a color line? Who is on which side? Does it have a different "race" line--the nativity line--separating the native born from the foreign born? You might expect to answer these and similar questions with the government's "statistical races." Not likely, observes Kenneth Prewitt, who shows why the way we count by race is flawed. Prewitt calls for radical change. The nation needs to move beyond a race classification whose origins are in discredited eighteenth-century race-is-biology science, a classification that once defined Japanese and Chinese as separate races, but now combines them as a statistical "Asian race." One that once tried to divide the "white race" into "good whites" and "bad whites," and that today cannot distinguish descendants of Africans brought in chains four hundred years ago from children of Ethiopian parents who eagerly immigrated twenty years ago. Contrary to common sense, the classification says there are only two ethnicities in America--Hispanics and non-Hispanics. But if the old classification is cast aside, is there something better? What Is Your Race? clearly lays out the steps that can take the nation from where it is to where it needs to be. It's not an overnight task--particularly the explosive step of dropping today's race question from the census--but Prewitt argues persuasively that radical change is technically and politically achievable, and morally necessary.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Nov. 7, 2016)
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400846795
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400846795
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    Language, Immigration and Naturalization : Legal and Linguistic Issues (2016)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783095162
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.44/9
    Abstract: This volume focuses on the everyday legalities and practicalities of naturalization including governmental processes, the language of citizenship tests and classes, the labelling and lived experiences of immigrants/outsiders and the media’s interpretation of this process. The book brings together scholars from a wide range of specialities who accentuate language and raise issues that often remain unarticulated or masked in the media. The contributors highlight how governmental policies and practices affect native-born citizens and residents differently on the basis of legal status. Furthermore, the authors observe that many issues that are typically seen as affecting immigrants (such as language policies, nationalist identities and feelings of belonging) also impact first-generation native-born citizens who are seen as, or see themselves as, outsiders.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)
    DOI: 10.21832/9781783095162
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783095162
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  • 4
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    Restrictive Language Policy in Practice : English Learners in Arizona (2016)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783096428
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    DDC: 306.44/9791
    Abstract: As the most restrictive language policy context in the United States, Arizona’s monolingual and prescriptive approach to teaching English learners continues to capture international attention. More than five school years after initial implementation, this study uses qualitative data from the individuals doing the policy work to provide a holistic picture of the complexities and intricacies of Arizona’s language policy in practice. Drawing on the varied perspectives of teachers, leaders, administrators, teacher-educators, lawmakers and community activists, the book examines the lived experiences of those involved in Arizona’s language policy on a daily basis, highlighting the importance of local perspectives and experiences as well as the need to prepare and professionalize teachers of English learners.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)
    DOI: 10.21832/9781783096428
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783096428
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    Language, Identity and Education on the Arabian Peninsula : Bilingual Policies in a Multilingual Context (2016)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783096602
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Multilingual Matters
    DDC: 306.44/60953
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This collection examines the urban multilingual realities of inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula in the early 21st century from the perspectives of learners, teachers and researchers. Focusing on both public and private spheres, it considers the importance of both English and immigrants’ languages in a context of rapid socioeconomic development. Extending beyond English–Arabic societal bilingualism, the language practices of the Peninsula’s citizens and residents serve multiple purposes in their daily lived realities. Chapters on home and heritage languages, identity, ELT, commercial signage and academic publishing contribute to a deepening understanding of the inherent linguistic diversity in these dynamic societies.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)
    DOI: 10.21832/9781783096602
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783096602
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    Immigrants in the Lands of Promise : Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870 - 1914 (2016)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501705021
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Cornell Studies in Comparative History
    DDC: 305.8510821209034
    Keywords: Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Most studies of immigration to the New World have focused on the United States. Samuel L. Baily's eagerly awaited book broadens that perspective through a comparative analysis of Italian immigrants to Buenos Aires and New York City before World War I. It is one of the few works to trace Italians from their villages of origin to different destinations abroad. Baily examines the adjustment of Italians in the two cities, comparing such factors as employment opportunities, skill levels, pace of migration, degree of prejudice, and development of the Italian community. Of the two destinations, Buenos Aires offered Italians more extensive opportunities, and those who elected to move there tended to have the appropriate education or training to succeed. These immigrants, who adjusted more rapidly than their North American counterparts, adopted a long-term strategy of investing savings in their New World home. In New York, in contrast, the immigrants found fewer skilled and white-collar jobs, more competition from previous immigrant groups, greater discrimination, and a less supportive Italian enclave. As a result, rather than put down roots, many sought to earn money as rapidly as possible and send their earnings back to family in Italy. Baily views the migration process as a global phenomenon. Building on his richly documented case studies, the author briefly examines Italian communities in San Francisco, Toronto, and Sao Paulo. He establishes a continuum of immigrant adjustment in urban settings, creating a landmark study in both immigration and comparative history.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501705021
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501705021
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    Global Asian American Popular Cultures (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479803712
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 30 black and white illustrations
    DDC: 305.895/073
    Abstract: A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints—such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce—have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of “Asian” and “Asian American” are counterbalanced within global popular culture. Located at the crossroads of these global and national expressions, Global Asian American Popular Cultures highlights new approaches to modern culture, with essays that explore everything from music, film, and television to comics, fashion, food, and sports. As new digital technologies and cross-media convergence have expanded exchanges of transnational culture, Asian American popular culture emerges as a crucial site for understanding how communities share information and how the meanings of mainstream culture shift with technologies and newly mobile sensibilities. Asian American popular culture is also at the crux of global and national trends in media studies, collapsing boundaries and acting as a lens to view the ebbs and flows of transnational influences on global and American cultures. Offering new and critical analyses of popular cultures that account for emerging textual fields, global producers, technologies of distribution, and trans-medial circulation, this ground-breaking collectionexplores the mainstream and the margins of popular culture.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479803712.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479803712
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    Mattering : Feminism, Science, and Materialism (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479842308
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Biopolitics 1
    DDC: 305.4201
    Abstract: Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuroscience, epigenetics and other scientific disciplines. Mattering, edited by noted feminist scholar Victoria Pitts-Taylor, presents contemporary feminist perspectives on the materialist or ‘naturalizing’ turn in feminist theory, and also represents the newest wave of feminist engagement with science. The volume addresses the relationship between human corporeality and subjectivity, questions and redefines the boundaries of human/non-human and nature/culture, elaborates on the entanglements of matter, knowledge, and practice, and addresses biological materialization as a complex and open process. This volume insists that feminist theory can take matter and biology seriously while also accounting for power, taking materialism as a point of departure to rethink key feminist issues. The contributors, an international group of feminist theorists, scientists and scholars, apply concepts in contemporary materialist feminism to examine an array of topics in science, biotechnology, biopolitics, and bioethics. These include neuralplasticity and the brain-machine interface; the use of biometrical identification technologies for transnational border control; epigenetics and the intergenerational transmission of the health effects of social stigma; ADHD and neuropharmacology; and randomized controlled trials of HIV drugs.A unique and interdisciplinary collection, Mattering presents in grounded, concrete terms the need for rethinking disciplinary boundaries and research methodologies in light of the shifts in feminist theorizing and transformations in the sciences.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479833498.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479842308
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    Failing Families, Failing Science : Work-Family Conflict in Academic Science (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479851188
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.36
    Abstract: Work life in academia might sound like a dream: summers off, year-long sabbaticals, the opportunity to switch between classroom teaching and research. Yet, when it comes to the sciences, life at the top U.S. research universities is hardly idyllic. Based on surveys of over 2,000 junior and senior scientists, both male and female, as well as in-depth interviews, Failing Families, Failing Science examines how the rigors of a career in academic science makes it especially difficult to balance family and work. Ecklund and Lincoln paint a nuanced picture that illuminates how gender, individual choices, and university and science infrastructures all play a role in shaping science careers, and how science careers, in turn, shape family life. They argue that both men and women face difficulties, though differently, in managing career and family. While women are hit harder by the pressures of elite academic science, the institution of science—and academic science, in particular—is not accommodating, possibly not even compatible, for either women or men who want to raise families. Perhaps most importantly, their research reveals that early career academic scientists struggle considerably with balancing their work and family lives. This struggle may prevent these young scientists from pursuing positions at top research universities—or further pursuing academic science at all— a circumstance that comes at great cost to our national science infrastructure. In an era when advanced scientific research and education is more important than ever, Failing Families, Failing Science presents a compelling inside look at the world of the university scientists who make it possible—and what universities and national science bodies can do to make a difference in their lives.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479843121.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479851188
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  • 10
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    The Color of Kink : Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479899425
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Sexual Cultures 26
    DDC: 306.775
    Abstract: Winner of the MLA's 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ Studies How BDSM can be used as a metaphor for black female sexuality. The Color of Kink explores black women's representations and performances within American pornography and BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism) from the 1930s to the present, revealing the ways in which they illustrate a complex and contradictory negotiation of pain, pleasure, and power for black women. Based on personal interviews conducted with pornography performers, producers, and professional dominatrices, visual and textual analysis, and extensive archival research, Ariane Cruz reveals BDSM and pornography as critical sites from which to rethink the formative links between Black female sexuality and violence. She explores how violence becomes not just a vehicle of pleasure but also a mode of accessing and contesting power. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, critical race theory, and media studies, Cruz argues that BDSM is a productive space from which to consider the complexity and diverseness of black women's sexual practice and the mutability of black female sexuality. Illuminating the cross-pollination of black sexuality and BDSM, The Color of Kink makes a unique contribution to the growing scholarship on racialized sexuality.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479809288.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479899425
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    Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum : An Untimely Meditation on the American Vocation (2016)
    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780823268184
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 p.)
    DDC: 306.20973
    Abstract: Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum interrogates the polyvalent role that American exceptionalism continues to play after 9/11. Whereas American exceptionalism is often construed as a discredited Cold War–era belief structure, Spanos persuasively demonstrates how it operationalizes an apparatus of biopolitical capture that saturates the American body politic down to its capillaries.The exceptionalism that Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum renders starkly visible is not a corrigible ideological screen. It is a deeply structured ethos that functions simultaneously on ontological, moral, economic, racial, gendered, and political registers as the American Calling. Precisely by refusing to answer the American Calling, by rendering inoperative (in Agamben’s sense) its covenantal summons, Spanos enables us to imagine an alternative America.At once timely and personal, Spanos’s meditation acknowledges the priority of being. He emphasizes the dignity not simply of humanity but of all phenomena on the continuum of being, “the groundless ground of any political formation that would claim the name of democracy.”...
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780823268184
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823268184
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823268184
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    Strategies for Media Reform : International Perspectives (2016)
    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780823271672
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (360 p.)
    Series Statement: Donald McGannon Communication Research Center's Everett C
    DDC: 302.23
    Abstract: Media reform plays an increasingly important role in the struggle for social justice. As battles are fought over the future of investigative journalism, media ownership, spectrum management, speech rights, broadband access, network neutrality, the surveillance apparatus, and digital literacy, what effective strategies can be used in the pursuit of effective media reform?Prepared by thirty-three scholars and activists from more than twenty-five countries, Strategies for Media Reform focuses on theorizing media democratization and evaluating specific projects for media reform. This edited collection of articles offers readers the opportunity to reflect on the prospects for and challenges facing campaigns for media reform and gathers significant examples of theory, advocacy, and activism from multinational perspectives.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780823271672
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823271672
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823271672
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    Security/Capital : A General Theory of Pacification (2016)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781474413688
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (156 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 306.3/42
    Abstract: A radical social theory of the security-industrial complex, showing how pacification underpins the global economic system What is security, and what is its relationship to capitalism? George S. Rigakos' powerful sociological treatise charts the rise of the security-industrial complex. Starting from a critical appraisal of 'productive labour' in the works of Karl Marx and Adam Smith, Rigakos builds a conceptual model of pacification based on practices of dispossession, exploitation and the fetish of security commodities.Rigakos argues that a defining characteristic of the global economic system is its ability to productively sell (in)security to those it makes insecure. Materially and ideologically, the security-industrial complex is the blast furnace of global capitalism, fuelling the perpetuation of the system while feeding relentlessly on the surpluses it has exacted.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781474413688
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474413688
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    A Process Philosophy of Signs (2016)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780748695027
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 302.23
    Abstract: A new process philosophy of signs, where process becomes primary, and fixed relation secondary'Behind Red Doors - Signs, Process and the Political' - a post by James Williams on the Edinburgh University Press blogWhat is a sign? We usually think that it is a fixed relation: a red light signifies 'Stop'. In his bold new book, James Williams now argues that signs are varying processes: seeing the red light triggers a creative response to the question, Should I stop?Williams develops this new process philosophy of signs through a formal model, in contrast to earlier structuralist definitions. He draws on the philosophies of Deleuze and Whitehead, criticises earlier work on the sign in biology by Jakob von Uexküll, and connects to contemporary work on process in the philosophy of biology by John Dupré.The process model has wide applications in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and informs their critical debates with science. In defining the sign as essentially political, this radical definition of the sign opens up new possibilities for social and political critique."...
    DOI: 10.1515/9780748695027
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748695027
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748695027
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    Visiting the Visitor : An Enquiry Into the Visitor Business in Museums (2016)
    Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783839432891
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Edition Museum 18
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Museum ; Besucher ; Cultural Management ; Exhibitions ; Identity ; Museology ; Museum Management ; Museum ; Object Relationships ; Visitors ; Ausstellungskatalog ; Ausstellungskatalog
    Abstract: The study of the museum visitor has undergone radical transformation. Each author here has asked unfamiliar questions and responded with fresh answers. Some of these questions involve the visitor's identity, what she brings to her museum experience. Can we gain entry into this experience? Does more technology really increase access to the objects themselves? Others probe the very nature of museum going and exhibition making, demanding that we reexamine the traditional exhibition to reposition the visitor and her meaning-making at the centre. The volume provokes imaginative research and encourages new conclusions.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9783839432891
    URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201608258274
    URL: http://d-nb.info/1112305998/34
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783839432891?locatt=mode:legacy
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    URL: https://elibrary.utb.de/doi/book/10.5555/9783839432891
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    My Father and I : The Marais and the Queerness of Community (2016)
    Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780801458422
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.76/6092244361
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    Abstract: "It is a living museum of a long-gone Jewish life and, supposedly, a testimony to the success of the French model of social integration. It is a communal home where gay men and women are said to stand in defiance of the French model of social integration. It is a place of freedom and tolerance where people of color and lesbians nevertheless feel unwanted and where young Zionists from the suburbs gather every Sunday and sometimes harass Arabs. It is a hot topic in the press and on television. It is open to the world and open for business. It is a place to be seen and a place of invisibility. It is like a home to me, a place where I feel both safe and out of place and where my father felt comfortable and alienated at the same time. It is a place of nostalgia, innovation, shame, pride, and anxiety, where the local and the global intersect for better and for worse. And for better and for worse, it is a French neighborhood."—from My Father and IMixing personal memoir, urban studies, cultural history, and literary criticism, as well as a generous selection of photographs, My Father and I focuses on the Marais, the oldest surviving neighborhood of Paris. It also beautifully reveals the intricacies of the relationship between a Jewish father and a gay son, each claiming the same neighborhood as his own. Beginning with the history of the Marais and its significance in the construction of a French national identity, David Caron proposes a rethinking of community and looks at how Jews, Chinese immigrants, and gays have made the Marais theirs.These communities embody, in their engagement of urban space, a daily challenge to the French concept of universal citizenship that denies them all political legitimacy. Caron moves from the strictly French context to more theoretical issues such as social and political archaism, immigration and diaspora, survival and haunting, the public/private divide, and group friendship as metaphor for unruly and dynamic forms of community, and founding disasters such as AIDS and the Holocaust. Caron also tells the story of his father, a Hungarian Jew and Holocaust survivor who immigrated to France and once called the Marais home.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9780801458422
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    Before the Fires : An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s (2016)
    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780823273553
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 305.896/0730742750904
    Abstract: People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven into their heads over the years by the media. As Howard Cosell famously said during the 1977 World's Series at Yankee Stadium, "There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning." In this new book, Naison and Gumbs provide a completely different picture of the South Bronx through interviews with residents who lived here from the 1930s to the 1960s.In the early 1930s, word began to spread among economically secure black families in Harlem that there were spacious apartments for rent in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. Landlords in that community, desperate to fill their rent rolls and avoid foreclosure, began putting up signs in their windows and in advertisements in New York's black newspapers that said, "We rent to select colored families," by which they meant families with a securely employed wage earner and light complexions. Black families who fit these criteria began renting apartments by the score. Thus began a period of about twenty years during which the Bronx served as aborough of hope and unlimited possibilities for upwardly mobile black families.Chronicling a time when African Americans were suspended between the best and worst possibilities of New York City, Before the Fires tells the personal stories of seventeen men and women who lived in the South Bronx before the social and economic decline of the area that began in the late 1960s. Located on a hill hovering over one of the borough's largest industrial districts, Morrisania offered black migrants from Harlem, the South, and the Caribbean an opportunity to raise children in a neighborhood that had better schools, strong churches, better shopping, less crime, and clean air. This culturally rich neighborhood also boasted some of the most vibrant music venues in all of New York City, giving rise to such music titans as Lou Donaldson, Valerie Capers, Herbie Hancock, Eddie Palmieri, Donald Byrd, Elmo Hope, Henry "Red" Allen, Bobby Sanabria, Valerie Simpson, Maxine Sullivan, the Chantels, the Chords, and Jimmy Owens.Alternately analytical and poetic, but all rich in detail, these inspiring interviews describe growing up and living in vibrant black and multiracial Bronx communities whose contours have rarely graced the pages of histories of the Bronx or black New York City. Capturing the excitement of growing up in this stimulating and culturally diverse environment, Before the Fires is filled with the optimism of the period and the heartache of what was shattered in the urban crisis and the burning of the Bronx.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780823273553
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    Blood and Progress : Violence in Pursuit of Emancipation (2016)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781474410618
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 303.48/4
    Abstract: How do we decide when violence in pursuit of emancipation is legitimate and what form - if any - should it take?Every day, we hear about war, state repression, uprisings, suicide bombing, gang warfare, slavery and domestic abuse. Is it realistic to think of a future that is free from violence? And can we justify the paradox of violence in pursuit of a peaceful future? Nick Hewlett places the goal of a wholly peaceful society centre-stage to give us a new understanding of violence.Hewlett brings together the modern history of capitalist violence and communist violence; political thought on insurgent violence; a passionate defence of the idea of peace and non-violence; and the political economy of contemporary capitalism. He explores topics ranging from the prospects for peace and non-violence to Fidel Castro's ethics of guerrilla warfare, and from the brutality of US foreign policy and the violence of historical communism to the meaning of terrorism today.Strongly argued and supported by a wealth of facts, Blood and Progress is suffused with the profound belief that we need to go beyond the inequalities and injustices of the current age and towards societies characterised by equality, deep democracy and peace.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781474410618
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474410618
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    The Playdate : Parents, Children, and the New Expectations of Play (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814724668
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.4
    Abstract: A playdate is an organized meeting where parents come together with their children at a public or private location to interact socially or “play.” Children no longer simply “go out and play,” rather, play is arranged, scheduled, and parentally-approved and supervised. How do these playdates happen? Who gets asked and who doesn’t? What is acceptable play behavior? In The Playdate, Tamara R. Mose focuses on the parents of young children in New York City to explore how the shift from spontaneous and child-directed play to managed and adult-arranged playdates reveals the structures of modern parenting and the new realities of childhood. Mose argues that with the rise of moral panics surrounding child abuse, pedophilia, and fears about safety in the city, as well as helicopter parenting, and over-scheduling, the playdate has emerged as not just a necessity in terms of security and scheduling, but as the very hallmark of good parenting.Based on interviews with parents, teachers, childcare directors, and nannies from Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Long Island, the book provides a first-hand account of the strategies used by middle-class parents of young children to navigate social relationships—their own and those of their children. Mose shows how parents use playdates to improve their own experiences of raising children in New York City while at the same time carefully managing and ensuring their own social and cultural capital. Mose illustrates how the organization of playdates influences parents’ work lives, friendships, and public childrearing performances, and demonstrates how this may potentially influence the social development of both children and parents. Ultimately, this captivating and well-researched book shows that the playdate is much more than just “child’s play.”Tamara Mose on The Brian Lehrer Show...
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814760512.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814724668
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    Waves of Knowing : A Seascape Epistemology (2016)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822373803
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p.) , 12 illustrations
    DDC: 305.899/42
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: In Waves of Knowing Karin Amimoto Ingersoll marks a critical turn away from land-based geographies to center the ocean as place. Developing the concept of seascape epistemology, she articulates an indigenous Hawaiian way of knowing founded on a sensorial, intellectual, and embodied literacy of the ocean. As the source from which Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) draw their essence and identity, the sea is foundational to Kanaka epistemology and ontology. Analyzing oral histories, chants, artwork, poetry, and her experience as a surfer, Ingersoll shows how this connection to the sea has been crucial to resisting two centuries of colonialism, militarism, and tourism. In today's neocolonial context-where continued occupation and surf tourism marginalize indigenous Hawaiians-seascape epistemology as expressed by traditional cultural practices such as surfing, fishing, and navigating provides the tools for generating an alternative indigenous politics and ethics. In relocating Hawaiian identity back to the waves, currents, winds, and clouds, Ingersoll presents a theoretical alternative to land-centric viewpoints that still dominate studies of place-making and indigenous epistemology.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822373803
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822373803?locatt=mode:legacy
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    Research Guide to the Russian and Soviet Censuses (2016)
    Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501707087
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Studies in Soviet history and society
    DDC: 304.60947
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    MS 4250
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Taken together, the Russian census of 1897 and the Soviet censuses of 1926, 1959, 1970, and 1979 constitute the largest collection of empirical data available on that country, but until the publication of this book in 1986, the daunting complexity of that material prevented Western scholars from exploiting the censuses fully. This book is both a guide and a detailed index to these censuses. The first part of the book consists of eight essays by specialist on the USSR, six of them dealing with the use of census materials and the availability of data for research on ethnicity and language, marriage and the family, education and literacy, migration and organization, age structure, and occupations. The second part, a comprehensive index for all the published censuses, presents more than six hundred annotated entries for the census tables, a keyword index that enables researchers to find census data by subject, and a list of political-administrative units covered in each census.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501707087
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    Nart Sagas : Ancient Myths and Legends of the Circassians and Abkhazians (2016)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400880737
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 398.2 09475
    Abstract: The sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths preserved among four related peoples whose ancient cultures today survive by a thread. In ninety-two straightforward tales populated by extraordinary characters and exploits, by giants who humble haughty Narts, by horses and sorceresses, Nart Sagas from the Caucasus brings these cultures to life in a powerful epos. In these colorful tales, women, not least the beautiful temptress Satanaya, the mother of all Narts, are not only fertility figures but also pillars of authority and wisdom. In one variation on a recurring theme, a shepherd, overcome with passion on observing Satanaya bathing alone, shoots a "bolt of lust" that strikes a rock--a rock that gives birth to the Achilles-like Sawseruquo, or Sosruquo. With steely skin but tender knees, Sawseruquo is a man the Narts come to love and hate. Despite a tragic history, the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs have retained the Nart sagas as a living tradition. The memory of their elaborate warrior culture, so richly expressed by these tales, helped them resist Tsarist imperialism in the nineteenth century, Stalinist suppression in the twentieth, and has bolstered their ongoing cultural journey into the post-Soviet future. Because these peoples were at the crossroads of Eurasia for millennia, their myths exhibit striking parallels with the lore of ancient India, classical Greece, and pagan Scandinavia. The Nart sagas may also have formed a crucial component of the Arthurian cycle. Notes after each tale reveal these parallels; an appendix offers extensive linguistic commentary. With this book, no longer will the analysis of ancient Eurasian myth be possible without a close look at the Nart sagas. And no longer will the lover of myth be satisfied without the pleasure of having read ...
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781400880737
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    The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XIII : The Caribbean Diaspora, 1921-1922, Volume 13 (2016)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822374282
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (472 p.) , 10 illustrations
    DDC: 305.8/96073
    Abstract: Volume XIII of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers covers the twelve months between the UNIA's second international convention in New York in August 1921 and the third convention in August 1922. It was a particularly tumultuous time for Garvey and the UNIA: Garvey's relationship with the UNIA's top leadership began to fracture, the U.S. federal government charged Garvey with mail fraud, and his Black Star Line operation suffered massive financial losses. This period also witnessed a marked shift in Garvey's rhetoric and stance, as he retreated from his previously radical anticolonial positions, sought to court European governments as well as the leadership of the Ku Klux Klan, and moved against his political rivals. Despite these difficult and uncertain times, Garveyism expanded its reach throughout the Caribbean archipelago, which, as Volume XIII confirms, became the UNIA's de facto home in the early 1920s. The volume's numerous reports from the UNIA's Caribbean divisions and chapters describe what it was like for UNIA activists living and working under extremely repressive circumstances. The volume's major highlight covers the U.S. military's crackdown on the UNIA in the Dominican Republic, as documented in the correspondence between John Sydney de Bourg-whom Garvey had dispatched to monitor the situation-and U.S. and British government officials. In addition to UNIA divisional reports and de Bourg's extensive correspondence, Volume XIII contains a wealth of newspaper articles, political tracts, official documents, and other sources that outline the complex responses to Garveyism throughout the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, all the while documenting this watershed moment for Garvey and the UNIA.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822374282
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822374282?locatt=mode:legacy
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    The Management of hate : nation, affect, and the governance of right-wing extremism in Germany (2016)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400883653
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 300 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    DDC: 303.48/40943
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1990- ; Rechtsradikalismus ; Politische Einstellung ; Lebenswelt ; Politische Kultur ; Politische Soziologie ; Deutschland ; Berlin
    Abstract: Since German reunification in 1990, there has been widespread concern about marginalized young people who, faced with bleak prospects for their future, have embraced increasingly violent forms of racist nationalism that glorify the country's Nazi past. The Management of Hate, Nitzan Shoshan’s riveting account of the year and a half he spent with these young right-wing extremists in East Berlin, reveals how they contest contemporary notions of national identity and defy the clichés that others use to represent them.Shoshan situates them within what he calls the governance of affect, a broad body of discourses and practices aimed at orchestrating their attitudes toward cultural difference—from legal codes and penal norms to rehabilitative techniques and pedagogical strategies. Governance has conventionally been viewed as rational administration, while emotions have ordinarily been conceived of as individual states. Shoshan, however, convincingly questions both assumptions. Instead, he offers a fresh view of governance as pregnant with affect and of hate as publicly mediated and politically administered. Shoshan argues that the state’s policies push these youths into a right-extremist corner instead of integrating them in ways that could curb their nationalist racism. His point is certain to resonate across European and non-European contexts where, amid robust xenophobic nationalisms, hate becomes precisely the object of public dispute.Powerful and compelling, The Management of Hate provides a rare and disturbing look inside Germany’s right-wing extremist world, and shines critical light on a German nationhood haunted by its own historical contradictions.
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    Social acceleration : a new theory of modernity (2016)
    New York : Columbia University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780231519885
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xl, 470 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New Directions in Critical Theory
    DDC: 303.4
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    DOI: 10.7312/rosa14834
    URL: http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7312/rosa14834
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    Fertility and Family Planning in the United States (2016)
    Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Princeton Legacy Library
    DDC: 304.63
    Abstract: In 1955 the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems conducted a survey to determine the number of pregnancies and births wives had had, the number of children wanted expected etc. In 1960 a similar study was made, and the results are presented here. Projections on births and population for the US to 1985 are presented.Originally published in 1966.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781400877447
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    Meeting at Grand Central : Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation (2016)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400845484
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Course Book
    DDC: 303.3
    Abstract: From the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be--snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ignored. The benefits to oneself of a free ride on the efforts of others mean that collective goals often are not met. But compared to most other species, people actually cooperate a great deal. Why is this? Meeting at Grand Central brings together insights from evolutionary biology, political science, economics, anthropology, and other fields to explain how the interactions between our evolved selves and the institutional structures we have created make cooperation possible. The book begins with a look at the ideas of Mancur Olson and George Williams, who shifted the question of why cooperation happens from an emphasis on group benefits to individual costs. It then explores how these ideas have influenced our thinking about cooperation, coordination, and collective action. The book persuasively argues that cooperation and its failures are best explained by evolutionary and social theories working together. Selection sometimes favors cooperative tendencies, while institutions, norms, and incentives encourage and make possible actual cooperation. Meeting at Grand Central will inspire researchers from different disciplines and intellectual traditions to share ideas and advance our understanding of cooperative behavior in a world that is more complex than ever before.
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    The Cultural and Intercultural Dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca (2016)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783095100
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
    DDC: 306.442/21
    RVK:
    HE 150
    Keywords: Englisch ; Verkehrssprache ; Kultur ; Kulturkontakt ; Fremdsprachenlernen ; Englischunterricht ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book investigates the cultural and intercultural aspects of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Authors discuss how ‘culture’ and the ‘intercultural’ can be understood, theorised and operationalised in ELF, and how the concepts can be integrated into formats of ELF-oriented learning and teaching. The various cultural connotations are also discussed (ideological, political, religious and historical) and whether it is possible to use and/or teach a lingua franca as if it were culturally neutral. The chapters consider the communication and pedagogical implications of the cultural and intercultural dimensions of ELF and offer suggestions for new directions in ELF research, pedagogy and curriculum development.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781783095100
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    Our Compelling Interests : The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society (2016)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400881260
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Our Compelling Interests
    DDC: 306.20973
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: It is clear that in our society today, issues of diversity and social cohesion remain deeply unresolved and can lead to crisis and instability. The major demographic changes taking place in America make discussions about such issues all the more imperative. Our Compelling Interests engages this conversation and demonstrates that diversity is an essential strength that gives nations a competitive edge. This inaugural volume of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Our Compelling Interests series illustrates that a diverse population offers our communities a prescription for thriving now and in the future. This landmark essay collection begins with a powerful introduction situating the demographic transitions reshaping American life, and the contributors present a broad-ranging look at the value of diversity to democracy and civil society. They explore the paradoxes of diversity and inequality in the fifty years following the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, and they review the ideals that have governed our thinking about social cohesion—such as assimilation, integration, and multiculturalism—before delving into the new ideal of social connectedness. The book also examines the demographics of the American labor force and its implications for college enrollment, graduation, the ability to secure a job, business outcomes, and the economy. Contributors include Danielle Allen, Nancy Cantor, Anthony Carnevale, William Frey, Earl Lewis, Nicole Smith, Thomas Sugrue, and Marta Tienda. Commentary is provided by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Patricia Gurin, and Ira Katznelson.At a time when American society is swiftly being transformed, Our Compelling Interests sheds light on how our differences will only become more critical to our collective success.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781400881260
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    Animal Rights Activism : A Moral-Sociological Perspective on Social Movements (2016)
    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789048525485
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 2 halftones, 1 line drawing
    Series Statement: Protest and Social Movements 10
    DDC: 303.48/4
    Abstract: We’re in an era of ever increasing attention to animal rights, and activism around the issue is growing more widespread and prominent. In this volume, Kerstin Jacobsson and Jonas Lindblom use the animal rights movement in Sweden to offer the first analysis of social movements through the lens of Emile Durkheim’s sociology of morality. By positing social movements as essentially a moral phenomenon—and morality itself as a social fact—the book complements more structural, cultural, or strategic action–based approaches, even as it also demonstrates the continuing value of classical sociological approaches to understanding contemporary society.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9789048525485
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048525485
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    The Multilingual City : Vitality, Conflict and Change (2016)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783094783
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.446
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book is an exploration of the vitality of multilingualism and of its critical importance in and for contemporary cities. It examines how the city has emerged as a key driver of the multilingual future, a concentration of different, changing cultures which somehow manage to create a new identity. The book uses the recent LUCIDE multilingual city reports as a basis for discussion and analysis, and deals with both societal and individual multilingualism in a way that draws on the full range of their historical, contemporary, visual/audible, psychological, educational and policy-oriented aspects. The book will be of interest to students and researchers of multilingualism, migration studies, European Studies, anthropology, sociology and urbanism.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781783094783
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783094783
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    The Linguistic Landscape of Post-Apartheid South Africa : Politics and Discourse (2016)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783095810
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.44/968
    Abstract: The appointment of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa in 1994 signalled the end of apartheid and transition to a new democratic constitution. This book studies discursive trends during the first twenty years of the new democracy, outlining the highlights and challenges of transforming policy, practice and discursive formations. The book analyses a range of discourses which signal how and by what processes the linguistic landscape and identities of South Africa’s inhabitants have changed in this time, finding that struggles in South African politics go hand in hand with shifts in the linguistic landscape. In a country now characterised by multilingualism, heteroglossia, polyphony and translanguaging, the author debates where the discourse practices of those born post-1994 may lead.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781783095810
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    Engaging Superdiversity : Recombining Spaces, Times and Language Practices (2016)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783096800
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Encounters
    DDC: 306.44/6
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book is the fruition of five years’ work in exploring the idea of superdiversity. The editors argue that sociolinguistic superdiversity could be a source of inspiration to a wide range of post-structuralist, post-colonial and neo-Marxist interdisciplinary research into the potential and the limits of human cultural creativity and societal renewal under conditions of increasing and complexifying global connectivity. Through case studies of language practices in spaces understood as inherently translocal and multi-layered (classrooms and schools, youth spaces, mercantile spaces and nation-states), this book explores the relevance of superdiversity for the social and human sciences and positions it as a research perspective in sociolinguistics and beyond.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781783096800
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    The Changing Role of Women in Bengal, 1849-1905 (2016)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400843909
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Princeton Legacy Library
    DDC: 305.4 2 095414
    Abstract: Basing her work on Bengali-language sources, such as women’s journals, private papers, biographies, and autobiographies, Meredith Borthwick approaches the lives of women in nineteenth-century Bengal from a new standpoint. She moves beyond the record of the heated debates held by men of this period—over matters such as widow burning, child marriage, and female education—to explore the effects of changes in society on the lives of women and to question assumptions about “advances” prompted by British rule.Focusing on the wives, mothers, and daughters of the English-educated Bengali professional class, Dr. Borthwick contends that many reforms merely substituted a restrictive British definition of womanhood for traditional Hindu norms. The positive gains for women—increased physical freedom, the acquisition of literacy, and limited entry to nondomestic work—often brought unforeseen negative consequences, such as a reduction in autonomy and power in the household.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781400843909
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400843909
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    Population Policies and Programmes in Singapore, 2nd edition (2016)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789814762205
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 304.66095957
    Abstract: The second edition of Population Policies and Programmes in Singapore presents an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the government’s initiatives to influence the course of fertility, and hence the rate of population growth in the island-state of Singapore since the 1960s. The varied population issues and consequences associated with the prolonged below-replacement fertility are discussed in detail. The strength of the book lies in the author’s intimate familiarity with the subject acquired through some personal involvement in the formulation of population policies for the country.
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789814762205
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814762205
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    The End of American Childhood : A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child (2016)
    Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400880430
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.850973
    Abstract: The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition, and individual success have informed Americans' attitudes toward children. But as parents today hover over every detail of their children's lives, are the qualities that once made American childhood special still desired or possible? Placing the experiences of children and parents against the backdrop of social, political, and cultural shifts, Fass challenges Americans to reconnect with the beliefs that set the American understanding of childhood apart from the rest of the world.Fass examines how freer relationships between American children and parents transformed the national culture, altered generational relationships among immigrants, helped create a new science of child development, and promoted a revolution in modern schooling. She looks at the childhoods of icons including Margaret Mead and Ulysses S. Grant—who, as an eleven-year-old, was in charge of his father's fields and explored his rural Ohio countryside. Fass also features less well-known children like ten-year-old Rose Cohen, who worked in the drudgery of nineteenth-century factories. Bringing readers into the present, Fass argues that current American conditions and policies have made adolescence socially irrelevant and altered children's road to maturity, while parental oversight threatens children's competence and initiative.Showing how American parenting has been firmly linked to historical changes, The End of American Childhood considers what implications this might hold for the nation's future.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781400880430
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    The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules : Latinos and African Americans in South Los Angeles (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814760970
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.8009794/94
    Abstract: South Los Angeles is often seen as ground zero for inter-racial conflict and violence in the United States. Since the 1940s, South LA has been predominantly a low-income African American neighborhood, and yet since the early 1990s Latino immigrants—mostly from Mexico and many undocumented—have moved in record numbers to the area. Given that more than a quarter million people live in South LA and that poverty rates exceed 30 percent, inter-racial conflict and violence surprises no one. The real question is: why hasn't there been more? Through vivid stories and interviews, The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules provides an answer to this question. Based on in-depth ethnographic field work collected when the author, Cid Martinez, lived and worked in schools in South Central, this study reveals the day-to-day ways in which vibrant social institutions in South LA— its churches, its local politicians, and even its gangs—have reduced conflict and kept violence to a level that is manageable for its residents. Martinez argues that inter-racial conflict has not been managed through any coalition between different groups, but rather that these institutions have allowed established African Americans and newcomer Latinos to co-exist through avoidance—an under-appreciated strategy for managing conflict that plays a crucial role in America's low-income communities. Ultimately, this book proposes a different understanding of how neighborhood institutions are able to mitigate conflict and violence through several community dimensions of informal social controls.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814760970.001.0001
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    Upside-Down Gods : Gregory Bateson's World of Difference (2016)
    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780823270378
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p.)
    Series Statement: Meaning Systems
    DDC: 301.092
    Abstract: This intellectual biography covers the trajectory of Bateson’s career, from his anthropological work in Bali alongside his wife, Margaret Mead, to his contributions to family therapy in the United States, and to studies of recursion as a feature of communication patterns in both the human and in the animal world. Layers of feedback with their many differing contexts, highlight the presence of meaning in social relations in contrast to that absence of meaning, purposefully proposed, within information theory. Throughout the human and in the animal world, recursion of feedback accounts for grasp of patterns, their difference, and with ability to communicate, enable transduction of perceptions of difference.Bateson’s insistence on feedback and communication re-frames many aspects of culture, psychology, biology, and evolution. His legacy is recognized as an important precursor to the formation of a new science called Biosemiotics.Harries-Jones argues that Bateson turns conventional causality upside down through showing how humanity’s perceptions, as with perceptions of all sentient beings, are anticipative. All sentient beings abduct from recursive patterns, rather than relying on linear evidence gathered about time/space movements of objects. Thus circular pattering provides clearer perceptions of the difference between sustainable creativity and current biocide, between our appreciation of nature’s aesthetics and time/space ‘games of power’ which underlie so many social and biological theories.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780823270378
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823270378
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    The Retreats of Reconstruction : Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865-1920 (2016)
    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780823272747
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (200 p.)
    Series Statement: Reconstructing America
    DDC: 305.8009749
    Abstract: Beginning in the 1880s, the economic realities and class dynamics of popular northern resort towns unsettled prevailing assumptions about political economy and threatened segregationist practices. Exploiting early class divisions, black working-class activists staged a series of successful protests that helped make northern leisure spaces a critical battleground in a larger debate about racial equality. While some scholars emphasize the triumph of black consumer activism with defeating segregation, Goldberg argues that the various consumer ideologies that first surfaced in northern leisure spaces during the Reconstruction era contained desegregation efforts and prolonged Jim Crow.Combining intellectual, social, and cultural history, The Retreats of Reconstruction examines how these decisions helped popularize the doctrine of “separate but equal” and explains why the politics of consumption is critical to understanding the “long civil rights movement.”...
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780823272747
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823272747
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    Social Transformations and Revolutions : Reflections and Analyses (2016)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781474415354
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (212 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    Series Statement: Annual of European and Global Studies : AEGS
    DDC: 303.4
    Abstract: Explores social revolutions and transformations from the viewpoints of philosophy, sociology, history and political sciencePrompted by the 25th anniversary of the Soviet collapse, this volume reflects on revolutions and transformations around the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, the political transformations after 9/11, the important changes following the global economic crisis, and the revolutionary transformations of India and China. The authors stress that the United States' military actions after the 9/11 terrorist attacks have had a major transformative impact on the global arena. More recently, the economic crisis that began in 2007/8 caused a series of breakdowns and provoked demands for social and political transformation, so far unfulfilled. The repercussions of the Arab Spring and transformations linked to the rise of BRICS are altering the patterns of international and global relations. All these processes have unfolded within the framework of global capitalism, whose reproduction on an expanding scale involved multiple economic, political ecological and civilizational transformations.List of ContributorsVladimíra Dvořáková, University of Economics Prague, Czech RepublicMarek Hrubec, Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University, Prague, Czech RepublicJan Keller, University of Ostrava, Czech RepublicJohann P. Arnason, La Trobe University, MelbourneJerry Harris, DeVry University in Chicago, USAOleg Suša, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech RepublicRichard Sťahel, University of Constantine the Philosopher, Nitra, SlovakiaGábor Gángó, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest and University of Miskolc, HungaryEmil A. Sobottka, Pontifical Catholic University in Porto Alegre (PUCRS), BrazilJiří Krejčík, Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University, Prague, Czech RepublicWei Xiaoping, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China...
    DOI: 10.1515/9781474415354
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    Are Racists Crazy? : How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479894758
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Biopolitics 11
    DDC: 303.3/85
    Abstract: The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illnessIn 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy? Sander Gilman and James Thomas trace the idea of race and racism as psychopathological categories., from mid-19th century Europe, to contemporary America, up to the aforementioned clinical experiment at the University of Oxford, and ask a slightly different question than that posed by Time: How did racism become a mental illness? Using historical, archival, and content analysis, the authors provide a rich account of how the 19th century ‘Sciences of Man’ - including anthropology, medicine, and biology - used race as a means of defining psychopathology and how assertions about race and madness became embedded within disciplines that deal with mental health and illness. An illuminating and riveting history of the discourse on racism, antisemitism, and psychopathology, Are Racists Crazy? connects past and present claims about race and racism, showing the dangerous implications of this specious line of thought for today. The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illnessIn 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy? Sander Gilman and James Thomas trace the idea of race and racism as psychopathological categories., from mid-19th century Europe, to contemporary America, up to the aforementioned clinical experiment at the University of Oxford, and ask a slightly different question than that posed by Time: How did racism become a mental illness? Using historical, archival, and content analysis, the authors provide a rich account of how the 19th century ‘Sciences of Man’ - including anthropology, medicine, and biology - used race as a means of defining psychopathology and how assertions about race and madness became embedded within disciplines that deal with mental health and illness. An illuminating and riveting history of the discourse on racism, antisemitism, and psychopathology, Are Racists Crazy? connects past and present claims about race and racism, showing the dangerous implications of this specious line of thought for today.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479894758.001.0001
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    Elusive Refuge : Chinese Migrants in the Cold War (2016)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674973831
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 p.) , 5 halftones
    Edition: 2017
    DDC: 305.895/10086914
    Abstract: The 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution is a subject of inexhaustible historical interest, but the plight of millions of Chinese who fled China during this tumultuous period has been largely forgotten. Elusive Refuge recovers the history of China's twentieth-century refugees. Focusing on humanitarian efforts to find new homes for Chinese displaced by civil strife, Laura Madokoro points out a constellation of factors-entrenched bigotry in countries originally settled by white Europeans, the spread of human rights ideals, and the geopolitical pressures of the Cold War-which coalesced to shape domestic and international refugee policies that still hold sway today. Although the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were home to sizeable Asian communities, Chinese migrants were a perpetual target of legislation designed to exclude them. In the wake of the 1949 Revolution, government officials and the broader public of these countries questioned whether Chinese refugees were true victims of persecution or opportunistic economic migrants undeserving of entry. It fell to NGOs such as the Lutheran World Federation and the World Council of Churches to publicize the quandary of the vast community of Chinese who had become stranded in Hong Kong. These humanitarian organizations achieved some key victories in convincing Western governments to admit Chinese refugees. Anticommunist sentiment also played a role in easing restrictions. But only the plight of Southeast Asians fleeing the Vietnam War finally convinced the United States and other countries to adopt a policy of granting permanent residence to significant numbers of refugees from Asia.
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674973831
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    Dark Ghettos : Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (2016)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674974647
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p.)
    Edition: 2017
    DDC: 304.3/3660973
    Abstract: Why do American ghettos persist? Decades after Moynihan's report on the black family and the Kerner Commission's investigations of urban disorders, deeply disadvantaged black communities remain a disturbing reality. Scholars and commentators today often identify some factor-such as single motherhood, joblessness, or violent street crime-as the key to solving the problem and recommend policies accordingly. But, Tommie Shelby argues, these attempts to "fix" ghettos or "help" their poor inhabitants ignore fundamental questions of justice and fail to see the urban poor as moral agents responding to injustice. Drawing on liberal-egalitarian philosophy and informed by leading social science research, Dark Ghettos examines the thorny questions of political morality raised by ghettos. Should government foster integrated neighborhoods? If a "culture of poverty" exists, what interventions are justified? Should single parenthood be avoided or deterred? Is voluntary nonwork or crime an acceptable mode of dissent? How should a criminal justice system treat the oppressed? Shelby offers practical answers, framed in terms of what justice requires of both a government and its citizens, and he views the oppressed as allies in the fight for a society that warrants everyone's allegiance. "The ghetto is not 'their' problem but ours, privileged and disadvantaged alike," Shelby writes. The existence of ghettos is evidence that our society is marred by structural injustices that demand immediate rectification. Dark Ghettos advances a social vision and political ethics that calls for putting the abolition of ghettos at the center of reform.
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674974647
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674974647
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    The Promise of Sociology : Classical Approaches to Contemporary Society, Second Edition (2016)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442634077
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (416 p.)
    Edition: 2nd Edition
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 301
    Abstract: Unlike most introductory texts that take a topical approach to studying sociology, this smart, challenging, and accessibly written text looks at the core principles of the discipline, making links to a contemporary context. The second edition of this award-winning book has been substantially revised, making more direct connections between Generation Z, Mills's concept of the sociological imagination, and the challenges students face in higher education today. The section on popular culture contains a new chapter on the history of popular music from early rock 'n' roll to contemporary pop and R&B. New chapter objectives, end-of-chapter review and reflection questions, key terms, and glossary, as well as an instructor's manual, make this text much more useful in the classroom.
    DOI: 10.3138/9781442634077
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442634077
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    The New Jewish Diaspora : Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany (2016)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813576312
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 3 figures, 22 tables
    DDC: 305.892/4
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    LB 56325
    Keywords: Geschichte 1970-2015 ; Juden ; Russisch ; Diaspora ; Russland ; Israel ; USA ; Deutschland ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration has made deep marks on the social, cultural, and political terrain of many countries, in particular the United States, Israel, and Germany. The contributors examine the varied ways these immigrants have adapted to new environments, while identifying the common cultural bonds that continue to unite them. Assembling an international array of experts on the Soviet and post-Soviet Jewish diaspora, the book makes room for a wide range of scholarly approaches, allowing readers to appreciate the significance of this migration from many different angles. Some chapters offer data-driven analyses that seek to quantify the impact Russian-speaking Jewish populations are making in their adoptive countries and their adaptations there. Others take a more ethnographic approach, using interviews and observations to determine how these immigrants integrate their old traditions and affiliations into their new identities. Further chapters examine how, despite the oceans separating them, members of this diaspora form imagined communities within cyberspace and through literature, enabling them to keep their shared culture alive. Above all, the scholars in The New Jewish Diaspora place the migration of Russian-speaking Jews in its historical and social contexts, showing where it fits within the larger historic saga of the Jewish diaspora, exploring its dynamic engagement with the contemporary world, and pointing to future paths these immigrants and their descendants might follow. ...
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    DOI: 10.36019/9780813576312
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    By Any Media Necessary : The New Youth Activism (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479829712
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 26 black and white illustrations
    Series Statement: Connected Youth and Digital Futures 3
    DDC: 305.235
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479829712.001.0001
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    A Bun in the Oven : How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479846023
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.48/4
    Abstract: There are people dedicated to improving the way we eat, and people dedicated to improving the way we give birth. A Bun in the Oven is the first comparison of these two social movements. The food movement has seemingly exploded, but little has changed in the diet of most Americans. And while there’s talk of improving the childbirth experience, most births happen in large hospitals, about a third result in C-sections, and the US does not fare well in infant or maternal outcomes. In A Bun in the Oven Barbara Katz Rothman traces the food and the birth movements through three major phases over the course of the 20th century in the United States: from the early 20th century era of scientific management; through to the consumerism of Post World War II with its ‘turn to the French’ in making things gracious; to the late 20th century counter-culture midwives and counter-cuisine cooks. The book explores the tension throughout all of these eras between the industrial demands of mass-management and profit-making, and the social movements—composed largely of women coming together from very different feminist sensibilities—which are working to expose the harmful consequences of industrialization, and make birth and food both meaningful and healthy. Katz Rothman, an internationally recognized sociologist named ‘midwife to the movement’ by the Midwives Alliance of North America, turns her attention to the lessons to be learned from the food movement, and the parallel forces shaping both of these consumer-based social movements. In both movements, issues of the natural, the authentic, and the importance of ‘meaningful’ and ‘personal’ experiences get balanced against discussions of what is sensible, convenient and safe. And both movements operate in a context of commercial and corporate interests, which places profit and efficiency above individual experiences and outcomes. A Bun in the Oven brings new insight into the relationship between our most intimate, personal experiences, the industries that control them, and the social movements that resist the industrialization of life and seek to birth change.
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    Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be : Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition (2016)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501700903
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 5 halftones, 1 chart
    DDC: 301.01
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Within anthropology, as elsewhere in the human sciences, there is a tendency to divide knowledge making into two separate poles: conceptual (theory) vs. empirical (ethnography). In Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be, Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and George E. Marcus argue that we need to take a step back from the assumption that we know what theory is to investigate how theory—a matter of concepts, of analytic practice, of medium of value, of professional ideology—operates in anthropology and related fields today. They have assembled a distinguished group of scholars to diagnose the state of the theory-ethnography divide in anthropology today and to explore alternative modes of analytical and pedagogical practice.Continuing the methodological insights provided in Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be, the contributors to this volume find that now is an optimal time to reflect on the status of theory in relation to ethnographic research in anthropology and kindred disciplines. Together they engage with questions such as, What passes for theory in anthropology and the human sciences today and why? What is theory's relation to ethnography? How are students trained to identify and respect anthropological theorization and how do they practice theoretical work in their later career stages? What theoretical experiments, languages, and institutions are available to the human sciences? Throughout, the editors and authors consider theory in practical terms, rather than as an amorphous set of ideas, an esoteric discourse of power, a norm of intellectual life, or an infinitely contestable canon of texts. A short editorial afterword explores alternative ethics and institutions of pedagogy and training in theory.Contributors: Andrea Ballestero, Rice University; Dominic Boyer, Rice University; Lisa Breglia, George Mason University; Jessica Marie Falcone, Kansas State University; James D. Faubion, Rice University; Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Andreas Glaeser, University of Chicago; Cymene Howe, Rice University; Jamer Hunt, Parsons The New School for Design and the Institute of Design in Umea, Sweden; George E. Marcus, University of California, Irvine; Townsend Middleton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Deepa S. Reddy, University of Houston–Clear Lake; Kaushik Sunder Rajan, University of Chicago...
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501700903
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    Historical Style : Fashion and the New Mode of History, 1740-1830 (2016)
    Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780812293043
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 54 illus
    Series Statement: Material Texts
    DDC: 391.00942
    Abstract: Historical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eighteenth century, British style was slow to change and followed the cultural and economic imperatives of monarchical regimes. By the 1750s, however, a growing fashion press extolled, in writing and illustration, the new phenomenon of periodized fashion trends. As fashion fads came in and out of style, and as fashion texts circulated and obsolesced, Britons were forced to confront the material persistence of out-of-date fashions. Timothy Campbell argues that these fashion texts and objects shaped British perception of time and history by producing new curiosity about the very recent past, as well as a new self-consciousness about the means by which the past could be understood.In a panoptic sweep, Historical Style brings together art history, philosophy, and literary history to portray an era increasingly aware of itself. Burgeoning consumer society, Campbell contends, highlighted the distinction between the past and the present, created an expectation of continual change, and forged a sense of history as something that could be tracked through material objects. Campbell assembles a wide range of writings, images, and objects to render this eighteenth-century landscape: commercial dress displays and David Hume's ideas of novelty as historical form; popular illustrations of recent fashion trends and Sir Joshua Reynolds's aesthetic precepts; fashion periodicals and Sir Walter Scott's costume-saturated historical fiction. In foregrounding fashion to trace eighteenth-century historicism, Historical Style draws upon the interdisciplinary, multimedia archival impressions that fashionable dress has left behind, as well as the historical and conceptual resources within the field of fashion studies that literary and cultural historians of eighteenth-century and Romantic Britain have often neglected.
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    DOI: 10.9783/9780812293043
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    Buttoned Up : Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity (2016)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501700965
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 15 halftones, 1 line figure
    DDC: 391.00973
    Abstract: Who is today's white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and other mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and identity. Contemporary jobs are more precarious, casual Friday has become an institution, and telecommuting blurs the divide between workplace and home. Gender expectations have changed, too, with men's bodies increasingly exposed in the media and scrutinized in everyday interactions. In Buttoned Up, based on interviews with dozens of men in three U.S. cities with distinct local dress cultures—New York, San Francisco, and Cincinnati—Erynn Masi de Casanova asks what it means to wear the white collar now.Despite the expansion of men’s fashion and grooming practices, the decrease in formal dress codes, and the relaxing of traditional ideas about masculinity, white-collar men feel constrained in their choices about how to embody professionalism. They strategically embrace conformity in clothing as a way of maintaining their gender and class privilege. Across categories of race, sexual orientation and occupation, men talk about "blending in" and "looking the part" as they aim to keep their jobs or pursue better ones. These white-collar workers’ accounts show that greater freedom in work dress codes can, ironically, increase men’s anxiety about getting it wrong and discourage them from experimenting with their dress and appearance.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501700965
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    Intimate Bonds : Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic (2016)
    Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780812293067
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 6 illus
    Series Statement: The Early Modern Americas
    DDC: 306.362097297/6
    Abstract: Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period. As race-based slavery became entrenched in French laws, all household members in the French Atlantic world —regardless of their status, gender, or race—negotiated increasingly stratified legal understandings of race and gender.Through her focus on household relationships, Jennifer L. Palmer reveals how intimacy not only led to the seemingly immutable hierarchies of the plantation system but also caused these hierarchies to collapse even before the age of Atlantic revolutions. Placing families at the center of the French Atlantic world, Palmer uses the concept of intimacy to illustrate how race, gender, and the law intersected to form a new worldview. Through analysis of personal, mercantile, and legal relationships, Intimate Bonds demonstrates that even in an era of intensifying racial stratification, slave owners and slaves, whites and people of color, men and women all adapted creatively to growing barriers, thus challenging the emerging paradigm of the nuclear family. This engagingly written history reveals that personal choices and family strategies shaped larger cultural and legal shifts in the meanings of race, slavery, family, patriarchy, and colonialism itself.
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    DOI: 10.9783/9780812293067
    URL: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293067
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    The Affect of Difference : Representations of Race in East Asian Empire (2016)
    Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780824852818
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 57 b&w illustrations
    DDC: 305.800952
    Abstract: The Affect of Difference is a collection of essays offering a new perspective on the history of race and racial ideologies in modern East Asia. Contributors approach this subject through the exploration of everyday culture from a range of academic disciplines, each working to show how race was made visible and present as a potential means of identification. By analyzing artifacts from diverse media including travelogues, records of speech, photographs, radio broadcasts, surgical techniques, tattoos, anthropometric postcards, fiction, the popular press, film and soundtracks—an archive that chronicles the "idian experiences of the colonized—their essays shed light on the politics of inclusion and exclusion that underpinned Japanese empire.One way this volume sets itself apart is in its use of affect as a key analytical category. Colonial politics depended heavily on the sentiments and moods aroused by media representations of race, and authorities promoted strategies that included the colonized as imperial subjects while simultaneously excluding them on the basis of "natural" differences. Chapters demonstrate how this dynamic operated by showing the close attention of empire to intimate matters including language, dress, sexuality, family, and hygiene.The focus on affect elucidates the representational logic of both imperialist and racist discourses by providing a way to talk about inequalities that are not clear cut, to show gradations of power or shifts in definitions of normality that are otherwise difficult to discern, and to present a finely grained perspective on everyday life under racist empire. It also alerts us to the subtle, often unseen ways in which imperial or racist affects may operate beyond the reach of our methodologies. Taken together, the essays in this volume bring the case of Japanese empire into comparative proximity with other imperial situations and contribute to a deeper, more sophisticated understanding of the role that race has played in East Asian empire.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780824852818
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9780824852818
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    Dark Work : The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479822898
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Early American Places 12
    DDC: 306.36209745
    Abstract: Tells the story of one state in particular whose role in the slave trade was outsized: Rhode IslandHistorians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in early American economic life. Like their northern neighbors, Rhode Islanders bought and sold slaves and supplies that sustained plantations throughout the Americas; however, nowhere else was this business so important. During the colonial period trade with West Indian planters provided Rhode Islanders with molasses, the key ingredient for their number one export: rum. More than 60 percent of all the slave ships that left North America left from Rhode Island. During the antebellum period Rhode Islanders were the leading producers of “negro cloth,” a coarse wool-cotton material made especially for enslaved blacks in the American South.Clark-Pujara draws on the documents of the state, the business, organizational, and personal records of their enslavers, and the few first-hand accounts left by enslaved and free black Rhode Islanders to reconstruct their lived experiences. The business of slavery encouraged slaveholding, slowed emancipation and led to circumscribed black freedom. Enslaved and free black people pushed back against their bondage and the restrictions placed on their freedom. It is convenient, especially for northerners, to think of slavery as southern institution. The erasure or marginalization of the northern black experience and the centrality of the business of slavery to the northern economy allows for a dangerous fiction—that North has no history of racism to overcome. But we cannot afford such a delusion if we are to truly reconcile with our past.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479870424.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479822898
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    Asian American Media Activism : Fighting for Cultural Citizenship (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479835942
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 22 black and white illustrations
    Series Statement: Critical Cultural Communication 10
    DDC: 302.23089/95073
    Abstract: Choice Top 25 Academic TitleHow activists and minority communities use media to facilitate social change and achieve cultural citizenship. Among the most well-known YouTubers are a cadre of talented Asian American performers, including comedian Ryan Higa and makeup artist Michelle Phan. Yet beneath the sheen of these online success stories lies a problem—Asian Americans remain sorely underrepresented in mainstream film and television. When they do appear on screen, they are often relegated to demeaning stereotypes such as the comical foreigner, the sexy girlfriend, or the martial arts villain. The story that remains untold is that as long as these inequities have existed, Asian Americans have been fighting back—joining together to protest offensive imagery, support Asian American actors and industry workers, and make their voices heard. Providing a cultural history and ethnography, Asian American Media Activism assesses everything from grassroots collectives in the 1970s up to contemporary engagements by fan groups, advertising agencies, and users on YouTube and Twitter. In linking these different forms of activism, Lori Kido Lopez investigates how Asian American media activism takes place and evaluates what kinds of interventions are most effective. Ultimately, Lopez finds that activists must be understood as fighting for cultural citizenship, a deeper sense of belonging and acceptance within a nation that has long rejected them.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479835942.001.0001
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    Brown Bodies, White Babies : The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479843589
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Intersections 9
    DDC: 306.8743
    Abstract: Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman - through in-vitro fertilization using the sperm and egg of intended parents or donors - carries a pregnancy for intended parents of a different race. Focusing on the racial differences between parents and surrogates, this book is interested in how reproductive technologies intersect with race, particularly when brown bodies produce white babies. While the potential of reproductive technologies is far from pre-determined, the ways in which these technologies are currently deployed often serve the interests of dominant groups, through the creation of white, middle-class, heteronormative families. Laura Harrison, providing an important understanding of the work of women of color as surrogates, connects this labor to the history of racialized reproduction in the United States. Cross-racial surrogacy is one end of a continuum in which dominant groups rely on the reproductive potential of nonwhite women, whose own reproductive desires have been historically thwarted and even demonized. Brown Bodies, White Babies provides am interdisciplinary analysis that includes legal cases of contested surrogacy, historical examples of surrogacy as a form of racialized reproductive labor, the role of genetics in the assisted reproduction industry, and the recent turn toward reproductive tourism. Joining the ongoing feminist debates surrounding reproduction, motherhood, race, and the body, Brown Bodies, White Babies ultimately critiques the new potentials for parenthood that put the very contours of kinship into question.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479808175.001.0001
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    The Environment in Anthropology (Second Edition) : A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    Language: English
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    DDC: 304.2
    Abstract: The Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well as offering practical tools for solving environmental problems.Haenn, Wilk, and Harnish pose the most urgent questions of environmental protection: How are environmental problems mediated by cultural values? What are the environmental effects of urbanization? When do environmentalists’ goals and actions conflict with those of indigenous peoples? How can we assess the impact of “environmentally correct” businesses? They also cover the fundamental topics of population growth, large scale development, biodiversity conservation, sustainable environmental management, indigenous groups, consumption, and globalization.This revised edition addresses new topics such as water, toxic waste, neoliberalism, environmental history, environmental activism, and REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), and it situates anthropology in the multi-disciplinary field of environmental research. It also offers readers a guide for developing their own plan for environmental action. This volume offers an introduction to the breadth of ecological and environmental anthropology as well as to its historical trends and current developments. Balancing landmark essays with cutting-edge scholarship, bridging theory and practice, and offering suggestions for further reading and new directions for research, The Environment in Anthropology continues to provide the ideal introduction to a burgeoning field.
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    After Marriage Equality : The Future of LGBT Rights (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479898794
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.760973
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    Keywords: LGBT ; Eingetragene Lebenspartnerschaft ; Gleichbehandlung ; Diskriminierungsverbot
    Abstract: In persuading the Supreme Court that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, the LGBT rights movement has achieved its most important objective of the last few decades. Throughout its history, the marriage equality movement has been criticized by those who believe marriage rights were a conservative cause overshadowing a host of more important issues. Now that nationwide marriage equality is a reality, everyone who cares about LGBT rights must grapple with how best to promote the interests of sexual and gender identity minorities in a society that permits same-sex couples to marry. This book brings together 12 original essays by leading scholars of law, politics, and society to address the most important question facing the LGBT movement today: What does marriage equality mean for the future of LGBT rights?After Marriage Equality explores crucial and wide-ranging social, political, and legal issues confronting the LGBT movement, including the impact of marriage equality on political activism and mobilization, antidiscrimination laws, transgender rights, LGBT elders, parenting laws and policies, religious liberty, sexual autonomy, and gender and race differences. The book also looks at how LGBT movements in other nations have responded to the recognition of same-sex marriages, and what we might emulate or adjust in our own advocacy. Aiming to spark discussion and further debate regarding the challenges and possibilities of the LGBT movement’s future, After Marriage Equality will be of interest to anyone who cares about the future of sexual equality.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479883080.001.0001
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    From a Limestone Ledge : Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas (2016)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781477309612
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 305.48/960730764
    Keywords: Authors, American Biography 20th century ; Country life ; Country life--Texas ; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
    Abstract: “Another fine, reflective, anecdotal look at rural Texas.” —New Yorker “Graves writes eloquently about a countryman’s concerns. There's not a false note in the book.” —Boston Globe “Like the unmortared stone fences of Graves’s native hill country, From a Limestone Ledge is constructed of bits and pieces never designed to fit together, yet made to achieve a unity that is more enduring than the sum of its individual parts by the hands of a master craftsman.” —Southwestern Historical Quarterly “The beauty of his work endures, and there is a greater pride in Texans’ hearts for their home, I think, than there would be if he hadn’t written the books he did.” —Rick Bass, Garden & Gun “In describing the particulars of his surroundings, Graves often was describing the world in microcosm and the place and plight of humankind in it.” —Bryan Woolley, Dallas Morning News...
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    DOI: 10.7560/309360
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/309360
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    Rwandas Popular Genocide : A Perfect Storm (2016)
    Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781626375420
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (404 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 304.6/630967571
    Abstract: Why did Rwanda's rural Hutus participate so massively, and so personally, in the country's 1994 genocide of its Tutsi population? Given all that has been written already about this horrific episode, is there still more that can be learned? Answering these questions, Jean-Paul Kimonyo's social and economic history explores at the deepest level the role both of power relations among Rwanda's grassroots citizens, political parties, and the state and of socioeconomic factors vs. politically/socially constructed ethnicity.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781626375420
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    The Matter of Voice : Sensual Soundings (2016)
    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780823270026
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p.)
    DDC: 302.2/242
    Abstract: Philosophers for millennia have tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bodies. Nevertheless, voices resonate among bodies, among texts, and across denotation and sound; they are singular, as unique as fingerprints, but irreducibly collective too. They are material, somatic, and musical. But voices are also meaningful—they give body to concepts that cannot exist in abstractions, essential to sense yet in excess of it. They can be neither reduced to neurology nor silenced in abstraction. They complicate the logos of the beginning and emphasize the enfleshing of all words. Through explorations of theology and philosophy, pedagogy, translation, and semiotics, all interwoven with song, The Matter of Voice works toward reintegrating our thinking about both speaking and authorial voice as fleshy combinings of meaning and music.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780823270026
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823270026
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    The Common Growl : Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community (2016)
    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780823270941
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p.)
    Series Statement: Commonalities
    DDC: 307
    Abstract: No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an imperative to think the common. The prominent scholars assembled here come together to articulate community while thinking seriously about the tropes, myths, narratives, metaphors, conceits, and shared cultural texts on which any such articulation depends. The result is a major contribution to literary theory, postcolonialism, philosophy, political theory, and sociology.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780823270941
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823270941
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    Beyond Monogamy : Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479895342
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Intersections 13
    DDC: 306.8423
    Abstract: A man and woman are in an open relationship. They have agreed that having sexual partners outside of their relationship is permissible. One night, when her partner is in another city, the woman has sex with the man’s best friend. What does this mean for their relationship? More importantly, why is there such a strong cultural taboo against this kind of triangulation and what does it reveal about the social organization of gender and sexuality? In Beyond Monogamy, Mimi Schippers asks these and other questions to explore compulsory monogamy as a central feature of sexual normalcy. Schippers argues that compulsory monogamy promotes the monogamous couple as the only legitimate, natural, or desirable relationship form in ways that support and legitimize gender, race, and sexual inequalities. Through an investigation of sexual interactions and relationship forms that include more than two people, from polyamory, to threesomes, to the complexity of the ‘down-low,’ Schippers explores the queer, feminist, and anti-racist potential of non-dyadic sex and relationships. A serious look at the intersections of society and sexuality, Beyond Monogamy takes the reader on a compelling and accessible journey through compulsory monogamy, polyamory, and polyqueer sex and relationships.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479801596.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479895342
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    Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell (2016)
    University Park, PA : Penn State University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780271077604
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    Series Statement: Re-Reading the Canon
    DDC: 305.4201
    Keywords: Feminist theory ; PHILOSOPHY / Criticism
    Abstract: Often referred to as a proto-feminist, early modern English philosopher and rhetorician Mary Astell was a pious supporter of monarchy who wrote about gender equality at a time when society tightly constrained female agency. This diverse collection of essays situates her ideas in feminist, historical, and philosophical contexts. Focusing on Astell’s work and thought, this book explores the degree to which she can be considered a “feminist” in light of her adherence to Cartesianism, Christian theology, and Tory politics. The contributors explore the philosophical underpinnings of Astell’s outspoken advocacy for the autonomy and education of women; examine the intricacies underlying her theories of power, community, and female resistance to unlawful authority; and reveal the similarities between her own philosophy of gender and sexual politics and feminist theorizing today.A broad-ranging look at one of the most important female writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this volume will be especially valuable to students and scholars of feminist history and philosophy and the early modern era.Aside from the editors, the contributors are Kathleen A. Ahearn, Jacqueline Broad, Karen Detlefsen, Susan Paterson Glover, Marcy P. Lascano, Elisabeth Hedrick Moser, Christine Mason Sutherland, and Nancy Tuana.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780271077604
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271077604
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    Demography of Tropical Africa (2016)
    Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400877140
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Princeton Legacy Library
    DDC: 304.6096
    Abstract: This treatise on the demography of sub-Saharan Africa contains materials on age and sex composition, fertility, and mortality. Sets of demographic data are emerging that provide the completeness and specificity required for critical evaluation and analysis. The main body of the work consists of case studies on the Republic of the Congo, French-speaking territories, Portuguese territories, the Sudan, and Nigeria. Evidence is described in critical detail, methods of analysis are presented in full; and the reader is given the basis for judging the quality of the estimates.Originally published in 1968.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781400877140
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400877140
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    Afro-Latin America : Black Lives, 1600-2000 (2016)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674545847
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 2 maps, 2 graphs, 4 tables
    Series Statement: The Nathan I 19
    DDC: 305.80098
    RVK:
    LB 50595
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    LB 50615
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    LB 56465
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    DOI: 10.4159/9780674545847
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674545847
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    Tamil (2016)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674974678
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.894/811
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    LB 48385
    Keywords: Biografie
    Abstract: Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil, emphasizing how its speakers and poets have understood the unique features of their language over its long history.
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    DOI: 10.4159/9780674974678
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674974678
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    Elf Queens and Holy Friars : Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church (2016)
    Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780812293166
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages Series
    DDC: 398/.450902
    Abstract: In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern literary scholarship: the omnipresent belief in fairyland.Taking as his starting point the assumption that the major cultural gulf in the Middle Ages was less between the wealthy and the poor than between the learned and the lay, Green explores the church's systematic demonization of fairies and infernalization of fairyland. He argues that when medieval preachers inveighed against the demons that they portrayed as threatening their flocks, they were in reality often waging war against fairy beliefs. The recognition that medieval demonology, and indeed pastoral theology, were packed with coded references to popular lore opens up a whole new avenue for the investigation of medieval vernacular culture.Elf Queens and Holy Friars offers a detailed account of the church's attempts to suppress or redirect belief in such things as fairy lovers, changelings, and alternative versions of the afterlife. That the church took these fairy beliefs so seriously suggests that they were ideologically loaded, and this fact makes a huge difference in the way we read medieval romance, the literary genre that treats them most explicitly. The war on fairy beliefs increased in intensity toward the end of the Middle Ages, becoming finally a significant factor in the witch-hunting of the Renaissance.
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    DOI: 10.9783/9780812293166
    URL: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293166
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    Talking About Global Migration : Implications for Language Teaching (2016)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783095551
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: New Perspectives on Language and Education
    DDC: 306.44
    Keywords: Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: How do migrants describe themselves and their experiences? As the world faces a migration crisis, there is an enhanced need for educational responses to the linguistic and cultural diversity of student bodies, and for consideration of migrant students at all levels of the curriculum. This book explores the stories of over 70 migrants from 41 countries around the world and examines the language they use when talking about their move to a new country and their experiences there. The book interprets common themes from the stories using metaphor and metonymy analysis to lead to more nuanced understandings of migration that have implications for language teachers. The stories also dispel many stereotypes relating to migration, serving as a reminder to us all to consider our own language when talking about this complex subject.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781783095551
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783095551
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    Honoring Richard Ruiz and his Work on Language Planning and Bilingual Education (2016)
    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781783096701
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    DDC: 306.44
    Abstract: Richard Ruiz has inspired generations of scholars in language planning and multilingual education with his unique orientations to language as a problem, a right and a resource. This volume attests to the far-reaching impact of his thinking and teaching, bringing together a selection of his published and unpublished writings on language planning orientations, bilingual and language minority education, language threat and endangerment, voice and empowerment, and even language fun, accompanied by contributions from colleagues and former students reflecting and expanding on Ruiz’ ground-breaking work. This book will be of great interest to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in language planning and multilingual education, Indigenous and minority education, as well as to junior and senior researchers in those fields.
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    DOI: 10.21832/9781783096701
    URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783096701
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    Out of the Ordinary : A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions (2016)
    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780823274826
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.) , 12
    DDC: 306.76/8092
    Abstract: Now available for the first time—more than 50 years after it was written—is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915–62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here at last is Dillon/Jivaka’s extraordinary life story told in his own words.Out of the Ordinary captures Dillon/Jivaka’s various journeys—to Oxford, into medicine, across the world by ship—within the major narratives of his gender and religious journeys. Moving chronologically, Dillon/Jivaka begins with his childhood in Folkestone, England, where he was raised by his spinster aunts, and tells of his days at Oxford immersed in theology, classics, and rowing. He recounts his hormonal transition while working as an auto mechanic and fire watcher during World War II and his surgical transition under Sir Harold Gillies while Dillon himself attended medical school. He details his worldwide travel as a ship’s surgeon in the British Merchant Navy with extensive commentary on his interactions with colonial and postcolonial subjects, followed by his “outing” by the British press while he was serving aboard The City of Bath.Out of the Ordinary is not only a salient record of an early sex transition but also a unique account of religious conversion in the mid–twentieth century. Dillon/Jivaka chronicles his gradual shift from Anglican Christianity to the esoteric spiritual systems of George Gurdjieff and Peter Ouspensky to Theravada and finally Mahayana Buddhism. He concludes his memoir with the contested circumstances of his Buddhist monastic ordination in India and Tibet. Ultimately, while Dillon/Jivaka died before becoming a monk, his novice ordination was significant: It made him the first white European man to be ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.Out of the Ordinary is a landmark publication that sets free a distinct voice from the history of the transgender movement.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780823274826
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823274826
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    Transnational Reproduction : Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479849574
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice 1
    DDC: 306.8743
    Abstract: Transnational Reproduction traces the relationships among Western aspiring parents, Indian surrogates, and egg donors from around the world. In the early 2010s India was one of the top providers of surrogacy services in the world. Drawing on interviews with commissioning parents, surrogates, and egg donors as well as doctors and family members, Daisy Deomampo argues that while the surrogacy industry in India offers a clear example of “stratified reproduction”—the ways in which political, economic, and social forces structure the conditions under which women carry out physical and social reproductive labor—it also complicates that concept as the various actors in this reproductive work struggle to understand their relationships to one another. The book shows how these actors make sense of their connections, illuminating the ways in which kinship ties are challenged, transformed, or reinforced in the context of transnational gestational surrogacy. The volume revisits the concept of stratified reproduction in ways that offer a more robust and nuanced understanding of race and power as ideas about kinship intersect with structures of inequality. It demonstrates that while reproductive actors share a common quest for conception, they make sense of family in the context of globalized assisted reproductive technologies in very different ways. In doing so, Deomampo uncovers the specific racial reproductive imaginaries that underpin the unequal relations at the heart of transnational surrogacy.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479804214.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479849574
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    Unfreedom : Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479869985
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Early American Places 2
    DDC: 306.3620974461
    Abstract: Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016Reveals the lived experience of slaves in eighteenth-century Boston Instead of relying on the traditional dichotomy of slavery and freedom, Hardesty argues we should understand slavery in Boston as part of a continuum of unfreedom. In this context, African slavery existed alongside many other forms of oppression, including Native American slavery, indentured servitude, apprenticeship, and pauper apprenticeship. In this hierarchical and inherently unfree world, enslaved Bostonians were more concerned with their everyday treatment and honor than with emancipation, as they pushed for autonomy, protected their families and communities, and demanded a place in society.Drawing on exhaustive research in colonial legal records – including wills, court documents, and minutes of governmental bodies – as well as newspapers, church records, and other contemporaneous sources, Hardesty masterfully reconstructs an eighteenth-century Atlantic world of unfreedom that stretched from Europe to Africa to America. By reassessing the lives of enslaved Bostonians as part of a social order structured by ties of dependence, Hardesty not only demonstrates how African slaves were able to decode their new homeland and shape the terms of their enslavement, but also tells the story of how marginalized peoples engrained themselves in the very fabric of colonial American society.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479816149.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479869985
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    Queering the Countryside : New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479890897
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Intersections 11
    DDC: 306.76/62091734
    Abstract: Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires depend upon urban life for meaning.By considering rural queer life, the contributors challenge readers to explore queer experiences in ways that give greater context and texture to modern practices of identity formation. The book’s focus on understudied rural spaces throws into relief the overemphasis of urban locations and structures in the current political and theoretical work on queer sexualities and genders. Queering the Countryside highlights the need to rethink notions of “the closet” and “coming out” and the characterizations of non-urban sexualities and genders as “isolated” and in need of “outreach.” Contributors focus on a range of topics—some obvious, some delightfully unexpected—from the legacy of Matthew Shepard, to how heterosexuality is reproduced at the 4-H Club, to a look at sexual encounters at a truck stop, to a queer reading of TheWizard of Oz.A journey into an unexplored slice of life in rural America, Queering the Countryside offers a unique perspective on queer experience in the modern United States and Canada.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479890897.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479890897
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    The Veil of Circumstance : Technology, Values, Dehumanization and the Future of Economics and Politics (2016)
    Singapore : ISEAS Publishing | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9789814762564
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.48/3
    Abstract: Discontent and frustrations around the world fuel commotion and rebellion against the global model. How did we get into this mess? How do we get out of it? Why doesn’t globalization work? The author puts forward solutions to the most challenging transition civilization has ever faced: from individual Societies to full Humanity. Møller shows how the understanding of groups and values is the key to making our economics and politics work again.
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    DOI: 10.1355/9789814762564
    URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019022016350334150290
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814762564
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    How to Choose a Leader : Machiavelli's Advice to Citizens (2016)
    Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400880409
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.3/4
    RVK:
    CE 7217
    Abstract: One of the greatest political advisers of all time, Niccolò Machiavelli thought long and hard about how citizens could identify great leaders—ones capable of defending and enhancing the liberty, honor, and prosperity of their countries. Drawing on the full range of the Florentine's writings, acclaimed Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli gathers and interprets Machiavelli's timeless wisdom about choosing leaders. The brief and engaging result is a new kind of Prince—one addressed to citizens rather than rulers and designed to make you a better voter. Demolishing popular misconceptions that Machiavelli is a cynical realist, the book shows that he believes republics can't survive, let alone thrive, without leaders who are virtuous as well as effective. Among much other valuable advice, Machiavelli says that voters should pick leaders who put the common good above narrower interests and who make fighting corruption a priority, and he explains why the best way to recognize true leaders is to carefully examine their past actions and words. On display throughout are the special insights that Machiavelli gained from long, direct knowledge of real political life, the study of history, and reflection on the great political thinkers of antiquity.Recognizing the difference between great and mediocre political leaders is difficult but not at all impossible—with Machiavelli's help. So do your country a favor. Read this book, then vote like Machiavelli would.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781400880409
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400880409
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    Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States : Reimagining Survivors (2016)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813569710
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 3 tables
    Series Statement: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
    DDC: 306.74/5
    RVK:
    MS 6440
    RVK:
    MS 1235
    Keywords: Kinderhandel ; Schmuggel ; Kinderprostitution ; Überlebensstrategie ; Kinderfürsorge ; Empirische Sozialforschung ; USA
    Abstract: Trafficked children are portrayed by the media—and even by child welfare specialists—as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States, the picture is far more complex. Basing her observations on research with 140 children, most of them girls, from countries all over the globe, Gozdziak debunks many myths and uncovers the realities of the captivity, rescue, and rehabilitation of trafficked children. She shows, for instance, that none of the girls and boys portrayed in this book were kidnapped or physically forced to accompany their traffickers. In many instances, parents, or smugglers paid by family members, brought the girls to the U.S. Without exception, the girls and boys in this study believed they were coming to the States to find employment and in some cases educational opportunities. Following them from the time they were trafficked to their years as young adults, Gozdziak gives the children a voice so they can offer their own perspective on rebuilding their lives—getting jobs, learning English, developing friendships, and finding love. Gozdziak looks too at how the children’s perspectives compare to the ideas of child welfare programs, noting that the children focus on survival techniques while the institutions focus, not helpfully, on vulnerability and pathology. Gozdziak concludes that the services provided by institutions are in effect a one-size-fits-all, trauma-based model, one that ignores the diversity of experience among trafficked children. Breaking new ground, Trafficked Children in the United States offers a fresh take on what matters most to these young people as they rebuild their lives in America. ...
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    DOI: 10.36019/9780813569710
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813569710
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    Informed Power : Communication in the Early American South (2016)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674968783
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (304 p.) , 11 halftones, 4 maps
    DDC: 302.20975
    Abstract: Alejandra Dubcovsky maps channels of information exchange in the American South, exploring how colonists came into possession of knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a printing press until the 1730s. She describes ingenious oral networks, and she uncovers important lessons about the nexus of information and power.
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674968783
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674968783
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    Undisciplined : Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940 (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479842865
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 9 black and white illustrations
    Series Statement: America and the Long 19th Century 9
    DDC: 305.80097
    Abstract: In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be “made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both contested and controlled.Examining scientific and literary narratives, Nihad M. Farooq’s Undisciplined encourages an alternative consideration of personhood, one that emerges from evolutionary and ethnographic discourse. Moving chronologically from 1830 to 1940, Farooq explores the scientific and cultural entanglements of Atlantic travelers in and beyond the Darwin era, and invites us to attend more closely to the consequences of mobility and contact on disciplines and persons. Bringing together an innovative group of readings—from field journals, diaries, letters, and testimonies to novels, stage plays, and audio recordings—Farooq advocates for a reconsideration of science, personhood, and the priority of race for the field of American studies. Whether expressed as narratives of acculturation, or as acts of resistance against the camera, the pen, or the shackle, these stories of the studied subjects of the Atlantic world add a new chapter to debates about personhood and disciplinarity in this era that actively challenged legal, social, and scientific categorizations.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479842865.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479842865
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    Bread and Circuses : Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay (2016)
    Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501707643
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306
    Abstract: Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the theorists of the Frankfurt Institute, down to Marshall McLuhan and Daniel Bell. Brantlinger considers the many versions of negative classicism and shows how the belief in the historical inevitability of social decay—a belief today perpetuated by the mass media themselves—has become the dominant view of mass culture in our time. While not defending mass culture in its present form, Brantlinger argues that the view of culture implicit in negative classicism obscures the question of how the media can best be used to help achieve freedom and enlightenment on a truly democratic basis.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501707643
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    The Plantation Machine : Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (2016)
    Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780812293012
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 14 illus.
    Series Statement: The Early Modern Americas
    DDC: 306.3/49
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    Abstract: Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by planters, merchants, and officials to become more efficient at exploiting their enslaved workers and serving their empires. Using a wide range of archival evidence, The Plantation Machine traces a critical half-century in the development of the social, economic, and political frameworks that made these societies possible. Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus find deep and unexpected similarities in these two prize colonies of empires that fought each other throughout the period. Jamaica and Saint-Domingue experienced, at nearly the same moment, a bitter feud between planters and governors, a violent conflict between masters and enslaved workers, a fateful tightening of racial laws, a steady expansion of the slave trade, and metropolitan criticism of planters' cruelty.The core of The Plantation Machine addresses the Seven Years' War and its aftermath. The events of that period, notably a slave poisoning scare in Saint-Domingue and a near-simultaneous slave revolt in Jamaica, cemented white dominance in both colonies. Burnard and Garrigus argue that local political concerns, not emerging racial ideologies, explain the rise of distinctive forms of racism in these two societies. The American Revolution provided another imperial crisis for the beneficiaries of the plantation machine, but by the 1780s whites in each place were prospering as never before—and blacks were suffering in new and disturbing ways. The result was that Jamaica and Saint-Domingue became vitally important parts of the late eighteenth-century American empires of Britain and France.
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    DOI: 10.9783/9780812293012
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812293012
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    Beyond Machismo : Intersectional Latino Masculinities (2016)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781477308783
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 305.31098
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    MS 2900
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    Keywords: Hispanos ; Chicana ; Geschlechterrolle ; Männlichkeit ; Männlichkeitskult ; Feminismus ; Unterdrückung ; Feminism ; Machismo ; Masculinity Social aspects ; Men Education ; Men Economic conditions ; Men Identity ; Men Social conditions ; Mexican American women Ethnic identity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies ; Lateinamerika ; USA
    Abstract: Long considered a pervasive value of Latino cultures both south and north of the US border, machismo-a hypermasculinity that obliterates any other possible influences on men's attitudes and behavior-is still used to define Latino men and boys in the larger social narrative. Yet a closer look reveals young, educated Latino men who are going beyond machismo to a deeper understanding of women's experiences and a commitment to ending gender oppression. This new Latino manhood is the subject of Beyond Machismo. Applying and expanding the concept of intersectionality developed by Chicana feminists, Aída Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha explain how the influences of race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender shape Latinos' views of manhood, masculinity, and gender issues in Latino communities and their acceptance or rejection of feminism. In particular, the authors show how encountering Chicana feminist writings in college, as well as witnessing the horrors of sexist oppression in the United States and Latin America, propels young Latino men to a feminist consciousness. By focusing on young, high-achieving Latinos, Beyond Machismo elucidates this social group's internal diversity, thereby providing a more nuanced understanding of the processes by which Latino men can overcome structural obstacles, form coalitions across lines of difference, and contribute to movements for social justice.
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    DOI: 10.7560/308769
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/308769
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    The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico : Chicana/o Radicalism, Solidarity Politics, and Latin American Social Movements (2016)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781477310779
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 303.48/40980904
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    Keywords: Radikalismus ; Chicanos ; Soziale Bewegung ; Chicano movement ; Mexican Americans Politics and government 20th century ; History ; Radicalism ; Social movements ; Solidarity Political aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies ; Lateinamerika
    Abstract: Bringing to life the stories of political teatristas, feminists, gunrunners, labor organizers, poets, journalists, ex-prisoners, and other revolutionaries, The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico examines the inspiration Chicanas/os found in social movements in Mexico and Latin America from 1971 to 1979. Drawing on fifteen years of interviews and archival research, including examinations of declassified government documents from Mexico, this study uncovers encounters between activists and artists across borders while sharing a socialist-oriented, anticapitalist vision. In discussions ranging from the Nuevo Teatro Popular movement across Latin America to the Revolutionary Proletariat Party of America in Mexico and the Peronista Youth organizers in Argentina, Alan Eladio Gómez brings to light the transnational nature of leftist organizing by people of Mexican descent in the United States, tracing an array of festivals, assemblies, labor strikes, clandestine organizations, and public protests linked to an international movement of solidarity against imperialism. Taking its title from the “greater Mexico” designation used by Américo Paredes to describe the present and historical movement of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Chicanas/os back and forth across the US-Mexico border, this book analyzes the radical creativity and global justice that animated “Greater Mexico” leftists during a pivotal decade. While not all the participants were of one mind politically or personally, they nonetheless shared an international solidarity that was enacted in local arenas, giving voice to a political and cultural imaginary that circulated throughout a broad geographic terrain while forging multifaceted identities. The epilogue considers the politics of going beyond solidarity.
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    DOI: 10.7560/309216
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/309216
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    The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China (2016)
    Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780812292664
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 11 illus.
    DDC: 302.23/10951
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The Internet and social media are pervasive and transformative forces in contemporary China. Nearly half of China's 1.3 billion citizens use the Internet, and tens of millions use Sina Weibo, a platform similar to Twitter or Facebook. Recently, Weixin/Wechat has become another major form of social media. While these services have allowed regular people to share information and opinions as never before, they also have changed the ways in which the Chinese authorities communicate with the people they rule. China's party-state now invests heavily in speaking to Chinese citizens through the Internet and social media, as well as controlling the speech that occurs in that space. At the same time, those authorities are wary of the Internet's ability to undermine the ruling party's power, organize dissent, or foment disorder. Nevertheless, policy debates and public discourse in China now regularly occur online, to an extent unimaginable a decade or two ago, profoundly altering the fabric of China's civil society, legal affairs, internal politics, and foreign relations.The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China explores the changing relationship between China's cyberspace and its society, politics, legal system, and foreign relations. The chapters focus on three major policy areas—civil society, the roles of law, and the nationalist turn in Chinese foreign policy—and cover topics such as the Internet and authoritarianism, "uncivil society" online, empowerment through new media, civic engagement and digital activism, regulating speech in the age of the Internet, how the Internet affects public opinion, legal cases, and foreign policy, and how new media affects the relationship between Beijing and Chinese people abroad.Contributors: Anne S. Y. Cheung, Rogier Creemers, Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, Peter Gries, Min Jiang, Dalei Jie, Ya-Wen Lei, James Reilly, Zengzhi Shi, Derek Steiger, Marina Svensson, Wang Tao, Guobin Yang...
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    DOI: 10.9783/9780812292664
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812292664
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    Muslim Cool : Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479829897
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.896/073
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    Abstract: Interviews with young, black Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hopThis groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, “Muslim Cool.” Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim—displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the ’hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic U.S. Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections, rather than divisions between “Black” and “Muslim.” Thus, by countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally different, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are “foreign” to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam. Yet Muslim Cool also demonstrates that connections to Blackness made through hip hop are critical and contested—critical because they push back against the pervasive phenomenon of anti-Blackness and contested because questions of race, class, gender, and nationality continue to complicate self-making in the United States.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479829897.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479829897
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    Houses of Ill Repute : The Archaeology of Brothels, Houses, and Taverns in the Greek World (2016)
    Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780812292695
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 59 illus.
    DDC: 306.7
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Houses of Ill Repute is the first book to focus on the difficulties of distinguishing between private homes and buildings, such as brothels and taverns, which housed activities neither public nor private in ancient Greece, providing a way forward for the study of domestic and entertainment spaces in the Hellenic world.
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    DOI: 10.9783/9780812292695
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812292695
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    The Sonic Color Line : Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening (2016)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479899081
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Postmillennial Pop 17
    DDC: 305.800973
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    LB 48000
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    Abstract: The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see “difference.” At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies of white supremacy are just as dependent on what we hear—voices, musical taste, volume—as they are on skin color or hair texture. Reinforcing compelling new ideas about the relationship between race and sound with meticulous historical research, Jennifer Lynn Stoever helps us to better understand how sound and listening not only register the racial politics of our world, but actively produce them. Through analysis of the historical traces of sounds of African American performers, Stoever reveals a host of racialized aural representations operating at the level of the unseen—the sonic color line—and exposes the racialized listening practices she figures as “the listening ear.” Using an innovative multimedia archive spanning 100 years of American history (1845-1945) and several artistic genres—the slave narrative, opera, the novel, so-called “dialect stories,” folk and blues, early sound cinema, and radio drama—The Sonic Color Line explores how black thinkers conceived the cultural politics of listening at work during slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow. By amplifying Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, Charles Chesnutt, The Fisk Jubilee Singers, Ann Petry, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Lena Horne as agents and theorists of sound, Stoever provides a new perspective on key canonical works in African American literary history. In the process, she radically revises the established historiography of sound studies. The Sonic Color Line sounds out how Americans have created, heard, and resisted “race,” so that we may hear our contemporary world differently.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479899081.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479899081
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    Digital Keywords : A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture (2016)
    Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400880553
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
    DDC: 303.48/34
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    AP 12600
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    LB 12000
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic Keywords, the timely collection Digital Keywords gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital humanities, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, and sociology. Digital Keywords examines and critiques the rich lexicon animating the emerging field of digital studies. This collection broadens our understanding of how we talk about the modern world, particularly of the vocabulary at work in information technologies. Contributors scrutinize each keyword independently: for example, the recent pairing of digital and analog is separated, while classic terms such as community, culture, event, memory, and democracy are treated in light of their historical and intellectual importance. Metaphors of the cloud in cloud computing and the mirror in data mirroring combine with recent and radical uses of terms such as information, sharing, gaming, algorithm, and internet to reveal previously hidden insights into contemporary life. Bookended by a critical introduction and a list of over two hundred other digital keywords, these essays provide concise, compelling arguments about our current mediated condition. Digital Keywords delves into what language does in today's information revolution and why it matters.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781400880553
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400880553
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