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Postmodernism Rightly Understood: The Return to Realism in American ThoughtPostmodernism Rightly Understood is a dramatic return to realism--a poetic attempt to attain a true understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the postmodern predicament. Prominent political theorist Peter Augustine Lawler reflects on the flaws of postmodern thought, the futility of pragmatism, and the...
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Food and Poverty: Food Insecurity and Food Sovereignty among America's PoorFood insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels. Food pantries are stretched thin, and states are imposing new restrictions on programs like SNAP that are preventing people from getting crucial government assistance. At the same time,...
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Arab MediaEver since the events of 9/11, great attention has been paid to Arab mass media by politicians, experts and journalists around the world. Many have argued that Arab media has been the catalyst for various political and social developments ranging from democracy to political...
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Cuba: Picturing ChangeWith insightful essays--in English and Spanish--from Louis A. P rez Jr., America's preeminent Cuba scholar, and Ambrosio Fornet, renowned Cuban author and screenwriter, Cuba: Picturing Change introduces the work of photographer E. Wright Ledbetter, whose images create a captivating portrait of the remarkable Cuban...
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Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees: Legal Issues, Clinical Skills, and AdvocacyPraise for the First Edition: "This book is an optimal tool for instructors and students of graduate classes in social work and related disciplines." Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health "This book is a major contribution to social workers and their clients as it...
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The Social Work Field Placement: A Competency-Based ApproachHelps students to integrate social work education with field placement learning experiences in a purposeful, reflective, and unified manner This authoritative text is designed to help BSW and MSW students structure their field placement learning around the nine CSWE profession social work competencies to...
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Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina's International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the AmericasIn 1946 Juan Per n launched a populist challenge to the United States, recruiting an army of labor activists to serve as worker attach s at every Argentine embassy. By 1955, over five hundred would serve, representing the largest presence of blue-collar workers in...
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Cold War Anthropology: The Cia, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use AnthropologyIn Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the field of anthropology since the Second World War. Using a wealth of information unearthed in CIA, FBI, and military records,...
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Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American DemocracyA vivid and fast-paced history, Gary May's Bending toward Justice offers a dramatic account of the birth and precarious life of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. It is an extraordinary story of the intimidation and murder of courageous activists who struggled to ensure that...
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Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left PoliticsDemocracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies is an impassioned call for the realization of a progressive left politics in the United States. Through an assessment of the ideologies underlying contemporary political culture, Jodi Dean takes the left to task for its capitulations to conservatives and...
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Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial EnlightenmentAt this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history--when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption, and authoritarianism--David Scott argues the need to reconceptualize the past in order to reimagine a more usable future. He describes how, prior to independence,...
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The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive AccumulationThe originators of classical political economy-Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others-created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential rightness of capitalism. But, in the great texts of that discourse, these writers downplayed a crucial requirement...
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The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and CitizenshipIn The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, she addresses the triumph of the idea of...
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The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950sAn excellent study of American intellectuals in the 40's and 50's.Author: Richard H. PellsPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublished: 09/01/1989Pages: 488Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 8.46h x 5.54w x 1.22dISBN: 9780819562258About the AuthorRICHARD H. PELLS is a graduate of Rutgers University (B.A., 1963) and Harvard (Ph.D., 1969)....
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Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther PartyThe Black Panther Party (BPP) seized the attention of America in the frenetic days of the late 1960s when a series of assassinations, discontent with the Vietnam War, and impatience with lingering racial discrimination roiled the United States, particularly its cities. The BPP inspired...
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The Rhetoric of FascismHighlights the persuasive devices most common to fascist appeals Fascism has resurfaced as one of the most pressing problems of our time. The rise of extremist parties and candidates in Europe, the United States, and around the globe has led even mainstream political commentators...
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The End Of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political EconomyIn the mid-1990s, at the height of academic discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking and controversial argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical responses to The End...
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Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. CultureAuthor: Joy JamesPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPublished: 10/15/1996Pages: 280Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 8.95h x 5.95w x 0.63dISBN: 9780816628131Review Citation(s): Library Journal 09/01/1996 pg. 199This title is only available via back order
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Detours: Travel and the Ethics of Research in the Global SouthTouring. Seeing. Knowing. Travel often evokes strong reactions and engagements. But what of the ethics and politics of this experience? Through critical, personal reflections, the essays in Detours grapple with the legacies of cultural imperialism that shape travel, research, and writing. Influenced by the...
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México Beyond 1968: Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive SeventiesM xico Beyond 1968 examines the revolutionary organizing and state repression that characterized Mexico during the 1960s and 1970s. The massacre of students in Mexico City in October 1968 is often considered the defining moment of this period. The authors in this volume challenge...
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