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The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists -By Arlene Hirschfelder and Paulette Fairbanks Molin
978-0-8108-7709-2 $49.95, Cloth Imprint: The Scarecrow Press November 2011 544pp Size: 6 x 9 Category: Native American Studies (Reference) Includes: Index The Book:
While Native Americans are perhaps the most studied people in American society, they too often remain the least understood and visible. Fictions and stereotypes predominate, obscuring substantive and fascinating facts about Native societies. The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists works to remedy this problem by compiling fun, unique, and significant facts about Native groups into one volume, complete with references to additional online and print resources. In this volume, readers can learn about: Native figures from a diverse range of cultures and professions, including award-winning athletes, authors, filmmakers, musicians, and environmentalists. Readers are introduced to Native U.S. senators, Medal of Freedom winners, Medal of Honor recipients, Major League baseball players, and U.S. Olympians, as well as a U.S. vice president, a NASA astronaut, a National Book Award recipient, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Other categories found in this book are History; Stereotypes and Myths; Tribal Government; Federal-Tribal Relations; State-Tribal Relations; Native Lands and Environmental Issues; Health; Religion; Economic Development; Military Service and War; Education; Native Languages; Science and Technology; Food; Visual Arts; Literary and Performing Arts; Film; Music and Dance; Print, Radio, and Television; Sports and Games; Exhibitions, Pageants, and Shows; Alaska Natives; Native Hawaiians; and Urban Indians. The Authors:
Arlene Hirschfelder is series editor for Scarecrow’s It Happened to Me Ultimate Teen Guides and the author of award-winning nonfiction books concerning Native Americans. Paulette Fairbanks Molin is a member of the Chippewa Tribe from the White Earth Reservation and a faculty member at Hampton University. Hirschfelder and Molin are coauthors of American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children (1999).
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The Challenge of the Threshold
Border Closures and Migration Movements in Africa
- Edited by Jocelyne Streiff-Fénart and Aurelia Wa Kabwe Segatti 978-0-7391-6510-2 $75.00, Cloth Imprint: Lexington Books October 2011 290pp Size: 6 x 9 Category: African Studies (Society, Culture, and Religion)
The Book: The recent containment policies aimed at regulating immigration flows towards Europe have profoundly altered the dynamics of migration in Africa. The impact of these policies is apparent in the redefinitions of the routes, itineraries and actors of migration. By placing the problem of border control at the heart of the migration issue, the policies aimed at the restriction of migration flows have changed the meaning and significance of migration. The editors of this volume have decided to work on the notion of “threshold” as a concept for addressing the multiple dimensions of the issue. While ambitioning to innovate theoretically and methodologically, the volume is above all strong on empirics, drawing on extensive original research across the continent and in Europe. While in each part of this work emphasis is placed on one aspect of the threshold (policies, spaces and migrants themselves), the different contributions to the volume speak to each other extensively. The Editors:
Jocelyne Streiff-Fénart is director of the Research Unit on Migration and Societies at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France. Aurelia Wa Kabwe Segatti is a senior researcher for the African Center for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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American Soul
The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence - By Justin B. Dyer
978-1-4422-1146-9 $49.95, Cloth Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers November 2011 152pp Size: 6 x 9 Category: American Government (Theory and Methods)
The Book:
The Declaration of Independence has been the subject of competing interpretations since its adoption by the Continental Congress on the Fourth of July 1776, and for nearly two and a half centuries the political ideas expressed in its preamble have inspired reform movements both at home and abroad. From the early debates on the nature of the American Republic to abolitionism, progressivism, the civil rights movement, and contemporary debates about American economic and foreign policy, the Declaration is, as it has been, a vibrant and dynamic, though perennially disputed, source of American ideals. This volume brings together a variety of speeches and writings related to the contested meaning and legacy of the Declaration of Independence, and the various documents assembled together demonstrate how competing interpretations of the Declaration have shaped, and been shaped by, political conflict in America. The Declaration is perhaps our “national soul,� as Charles Sumner wrote in 1860, but Americans have rarely spoken of it with one voice. American Soul paints, with broad strokes, a picture of the debates that have shaped a nation
The Author:
Justin Buckley Dyer is a professor in political science at the University of Missouri.
Table of Contents:
Preface: How Much Does Education Cost?; Acknowledgement; Introduction: Are Zombies Stalking Schools?; Chapter 1: Do Razors Belong at School?; Chapter 2: Can School Reform Be Marketed?; Chapter 3: Should Schools Buy E-textbooks?; Chapter 4: How Much Should Teachers Be Paid?; Chapter 5: What Can Be Done With Negligible Funds?; Chapter 6: Should Educators Worry About Diminishing Returns?; Chapter 7: What Drives Innovators?; Chapter 8: Should Schools Change Their Labor Practices?; Chapter 9: Can Redundant Spending Be Worthwhile?; Chapter 10: Is Educational Lobbying Amoral?; Chapter 11: Do Teachers Need Special Protection?
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Contemporary Mexican Politics, 2nd Edition - By Emily Edmonds-Poli and David A. Shirk
978-1-4422-0756-1 $90.00, Cloth 978-1-4422-0757-8 $39.95, Paper Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers November 2011 392pp Size: 6 X 9 Category: Latin American Studies (Government/ Comparative)
The Book:
Now in a thoroughly updated edition, this comprehensive and engaging text explores contemporary Mexico’s political development and examines the most important policy issues facing Mexico in the twentyfirst century. The first half of the book begins with a broad historical overview leading to the 1910 Revolution, the emergence of the modern Mexican political system, and the transition from single party rule to democracy. It includes a thorough discussion of government and party politics under the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, and of two successive National Action Party presidential administrations. The second half of the book analyzes the most pressing challenges confronting Mexican society today, including promoting economic development, reducing poverty and inequality, strengthening civil society, combating crime and violence, and bolstering relations with the United States. How these challenges are addressed will be crucial for Mexico as it looks to the 2012 presidential elections and beyond. The text to this revised edition is richly supplemented by new figures and tables that illustrate broad political, social, and economic trends, and boxes that provide in-depth treatment of a variety of subjects and concepts.
The Authors:
Emily Edmonds-Poli is associate professor in the department of political science at the University of San Diego. David A. Shirk is associate professor in the department of political science and director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego.
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Unburdened by Conscience, 3rd Edition
A Black People’s Collective Account of America’s Ante-Bellum South and the Aftermath - By Anthony W. Neal - By Anthony W. Neal
978-0-7618-5492-0 $26.95, Paper 978-0-7618-5494-4 $65.00, Cloth Imprint: University Press of America June 2011 168pp Size: 6 x 9 Category: African/African American Studies (General)
The Book: In Unburdened by Conscience, Anthony W. Neal argues that influential historians have been unable to offer a complete account of ante-bellum-era American slavery because of their preoccupation with humanizing the slaveholders. He charges them with concealing the full horrors of slavery in order to present the slaveholders in a more positive light. By skillfully weaving together candid first-hand accounts of courageous ex-slaves, Neal then permits us to see slavery in the United States from their point of view. Former slaves talk openly about the break-up of their marital unions and families and about matters rarely examined in most American slavery history books. Those issues include the slaveholders’ legally sanctioned acts of violence, their practice of slave breeding, and their rape of black women. Through this work, Neal gives a voice to black people who endured American slavery, and they present a sobering record of it that is not found in most books on the topic. The Author: Anthony W. Neal holds an A.B. with honors in history from Brown University and a J.D. from University of Texas School of Law. He has lectured at Bentley College on the topic of civil rights and has been a panelist for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and The Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts, advising lawyers, employers, and employees on state and federal anti-discrimination laws. He is a community leader, artist, historian, and an attorney of over twenty-two years, Unburdened by Conscience is his first book.
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Made of Shores
Rethinking Identities, Interpreting the Past in Recent Judeo-Argentinean Fiction - By Amalia Ran
978-1-61146-014-8 $65.00, Cloth Imprint: Lehigh University Press August 2011 174pp Size: 6 X 9 Category: Latin American Studies (Society, Culture, and Religion)
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This book offers to rethink identities within contemporary Judeo-Argentinean fiction by dealing with the transforming notion of Jewishness and of national identity in Argentina. It focuses on the dialogue (and confrontation) between the narrative text and the imaginary national space it questions. By reviewing the new material conditions within Argentina and its diasporic communities, this book imposes a new reflection on what Judeo-Argentinean fiction is all about. It reflects on the shifting notion of identity, abandoning traditional definitions, in order to rather analyze how feelings of alienation and nostalgia echo an era of transculturation and floating borders. The novels that this book studies return to the past from a certain distance created by time and space. This distance leads the reader to question the relevance of geographical, cultural, and linguistic differences within identity formation. Since its beginning, the research of Jewish Latin America has focused on the quest of Jewish immigrants for a consolidated identity, social, and cultural integration in their receiving societies, and recognition within the “official” and canonical national history. Traditional scholarship has paid special attention to the construction of collective memory and the dilemma of “double identity.” Nonetheless, the transforming notion of otherness in the last few decades, associated traditionally with the Jewish character, requires a new approach when discussing contemporary affiliations of Jews in Argentina and their narrative representations. New waves of emigration from Argentina at the beginning of the new millennium, economic and social disintegration, general disillusion with the state apparatus, and the gaps left in the collective memory following the years of the military dictatorship redefine personal and collective identities and demand a careful reexamination of the concept of argentinidad and its cultural significances. Made of Shores proposes to explore these issues by discussing novels previously excluded from the corpus of JudeoArgentinean fiction, and by placing Jewish Argentinean fiction within the context of Latin American literature and Judaic studies. It offers the reader to participate actively in the scholarly debates on issues of Memory and Identity, and the different representations of Jewishness in Latin America today. The Author:
Amalia Ran is assistant professor of contemporary Latin American fiction and Jewish Latin American literature and culture at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and a research fellow at the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies at Tel Aviv University.
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