Agreeing with the definition of whiteness as "a refusal to acknowledge how white people are implicated in certain social relations of privilege and relations of domination and subordination," Cooks (c
In this study, Obeng examines the history, faith, and cultural practices of the Karnataka African Indians (Siddis/Habshis). Drawing upon years of field research in India, he describes how people belon
This is a paperbound reprint of a 2002 book. Simon (School of Public Affairs and the Washington College of Law at American U.) and Blaskovich (Chicago Police Dept.) present a statistical and descripti
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the top minds of the Bourbon dynasty knew they could not exploit something if they did not know where it was. The kings of France tried desperately to creat
Years before becoming Japanese Prime Minister, Miyazawa Kiichi served as the secretary to Ikeda Hayato while the latter was finance Minister and when he was Minister of International Trade and Industr
Freedom's Journal hit the streets of New York in March 1827, and provided the first opportunity for African Americans to express their views without having to convince a white publisher. A scholar and
While the end of the Cold War stirred many to proclaim the final triumph of capitalism, Anton (philosophy, San Francisco State U.) and Schmitt (emeritus, philosophy, Brown U.) maintain that "we have n
This book reclaims Marx's Capital from the myth of inconsistency. An accessible account written for non-specialist readers, it shows that the inconsistencies are actually caused by misinterpretation;
The art of fengshui has had a deep and extensive impact on Korean, Chinese, and other East Asian cultures. Korean native Yoon (geography and environmental science, U. of Auckland, New Zealand) explore
By looking at the work of the two influential thinkers, Von Vacano (political science, Texas A&M U.) pursues such questions as how political theory can explain the persistent political power of images
This is the third and final volume in the series on American political thought edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West. The book addresses how the major themes in American political thought_i
This is the third and final volume in the series on American political thought edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West. The book addresses how the major themes in American political thought_i
Exploring a range of literary, poetic, and filmic texts, occasionally in comparison to political texts, the 13 papers presented by Go (political science, Calvin College) and Dolan (rhetoric, U. of Cal
Secular Spirituality challenges the traditional dichotomy between Enlightenment reason and religion. It follows French romantic socialists' and spiritists' search for a new spirituality based on reinc
Written by a team of professors of education, law, and public policy, this text explores the issue of academic freedom in Hong Kong since its return to China. Drawing upon interviews with academics an
The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass-market fat anxiety. Andrea Elizabeth Shaw l
The first in a series of volumes examining the foreign policy of various nations, this collection focuses on contemporary developments in Canadian foreign policy, seeking to highlight both well-known
Planning the Past studies the way a post-colonial society reconstructs its national history and grapples with its colonial past, specifically in Port Royal, a Jamaican village with a dramatic history
Knutsen (political science, U. of Oslo, Norway) investigates the relationship between economic social class and party choice in political systems. His analysis, studying European voting patterns form
Students and practitioners of Muslim political thought from Western and Muslim countries explore attempts by Muslim thinkers in the recent past and the present--a generation or two after most Muslims
A growing share of the world's population lives in the 175 developing countries, while global income and wealth are increasingly concentrated in the 25 developed countries. The resulting migration fro
Although its promises to women were largely betrayed after its brief triumph in the revolution of 1848, French romantic socialism had had a strong feminist element to it that, for Andrews (history, Sa
Because of severe domestic labor shortages, Japan has recently joined the increasing number of advanced industrialized nations that have begun importing large numbers of immigrant workers since the 19
Rebuilding Communities the Public Trust Way highlights cases of community foundation assistance to Community Development Corporations (CDCs) during the final two decades of the twentieth century in Cl
Time Signatures engages in a close study of the autobiographical writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the Maghreb: Assia Djebar, HZl_ne Cixous, and AbdelkZbir Khatibi. Alluding to m
In Jesuit Postmodern, nine American Jesuit scholars teaching at universities reflect on their scholarly work, why they engage in it, and how the work they do coheres with their self-understanding as J
This book of new critical essays and interviews with writers interrogates the current usage of the term and the category of the post-colonial as a theoretical concept, discourse and state of mind. By
In Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict Jonathan B. Isacoff constructs the nature of historical knowledge by deftly examining the multiple histories of the Arab-Israeli conflict written by generations of
Oriental Bodies charts the discursive transformations of U.S. immigration policy between 1875 and 1942. Drawing from American foreign policy, identity politics, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, a
The authors (a professor and a graduate of the Washington College of Law at American U.) provide a comparative discussion of the roles and statuses of women in the US, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
In Jesuit Postmodern, nine American Jesuit scholars teaching at universities reflect on their scholarly work, why they engage in it, and how the work they do coheres with their self-understanding as J
The emerging environmental justice movement has created greater awareness among scholars that communities from all over the world suffer from similar environmental inequalities. This volume takes up t
Divided into topical sections, this volume considers the issues of race, poverty, housing, education, health, and democracy. Poverty & Race in America is especially concerned with the links betwee
Catching Fire provides for the first time an in-depth analysis of political and humanitarian catastrophes in which forced migration characterizes the complexity of both the emergency and the response.
Taking the revival of civic republicanism as his point of departure, Erik Olsen examines the relationship between property, civic virtue, and democracy in post-socialist political thought. Steering a
With The Keys to the White House: A Surefire Guide to Predicting the Next President, average citizens are giving the pollsters and pundits a run for their money. In this book, prominent political anal
Through reading the early work of Walter Benjamin—up to and including the Trauerspiel, author Monad Rrenban elicits a cohesive conception of the wild, inforgettable form, philosophy, as inherent in ev
Domestic violence in Asian American communities remains a rarely discussed, yet pervasive problem. With eight chapters, each dedicated to a different Asian American community, the essays in this volum
Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution examines the intellectual and institutional context in which Alexis de Tocqueville developed his understanding of American political culture, with
Human Rights in Crisis uniquely documents recent ideas on democracy and human rights in the current French intellectual, social, and political context, arguing that the French emphasis on the interdep
