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MacDonald makes the case constructively, without extravagant...
MacDonald makes the case constructively, without extravagant claims, and inventively, looking in places where scholars of publicly funded, mid-20th-century space travel might not look. The emerging, privately funded race to space is not as far from the history of space exploration as the understanding of the Cold War space race might lead people to think.
Patriarchy is not dead, but it is no longer the default...
Patriarchy is not dead, but it is no longer the default arrangement for Chinese families: Daughters-in-law openly berate their fathers-in-law. Companies sell filial-piety insurance. Many couples live together before marriage, and in some parts of rural China, almost all brides are pregnant.
Over time, value can be added to objects or things originally...
Over time, value can be added to objects or things originally regarded as “rubbish” and destroyed in favor of those now judged as “durable.”
From Fred Astaire, whom she adores, to La La Land , which she...
From Fred Astaire, whom she adores, to La La Land , which she deplores, Basinger examines a dazzling array of stars, strategies, talents, and innovations in the history of musical cinema.
Yuen also exposes sexist hiring and programming practices,...
Yuen also exposes sexist hiring and programming practices, highlighting the structural inequalities that actors of color, particularly women, continue to face in Hollywood.
Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s...
Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification.
By examining this history of modern racial impersonation, Gaines...
By examining this history of modern racial impersonation, Gaines shows that there was, and still is, a faulty cultural logic that places enormous faith in the idea that empathy is all that white Americans need to make a significant difference in how to racially navigate our society.
Rampino’s new geology offers a cosmic context for...
Rampino’s new geology offers a cosmic context for Earth’s geologic evolution, in which cataclysms from above in the form of comets and asteroid impacts and from below in the form of huge outpourings of lava in flood-basalt eruptions have led to severe changes in the Earth’s surface.
Arguing that disciples must take responsibility for the social...
Arguing that disciples must take responsibility for the social evils that bar “beloved community,” Martin Luther King’s term for a just social order, the promised kingdom of God, McBride calls for a dual commitment to the works of mercy and the struggle for justice.
But in order to build the stadium, O'Malley negotiated with the...
But in order to build the stadium, O'Malley negotiated with the city to acquire publicly owned land (from which the city had uprooted a Mexican American community), raising sharply contested questions about the relationship between private profit and “public purpose.”
Today the university is refortifying its commitment to the...
Today the university is refortifying its commitment to the defense of the status quo off campus and the regulation of students, faculty, and staff on campus. The progressive forms of knowledge that the student-led movements demanded and helped to produce are being attacked on every front.
Through careful studies of several key contexts and detailed...
Through careful studies of several key contexts and detailed analysis of the policies and politics that governed the creation of school meal programs, Ruis demonstrates how the early history of school meal program development helps us understand contemporary debates over changes to school lunch policies.
In 1965, fed up with President Lyndon Johnson’s refusal to...
In 1965, fed up with President Lyndon Johnson’s refusal to make serious diplomatic efforts to end the Vietnam War, a group of female American peace activists decided to take matters into their own hands by meeting with Vietnamese women to discuss how to end U.S. intervention.
Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel...
Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall, her ancestral land had become the nation’s foremost crossing ground for undocumented workers, many of whom perished along the way.
However, the bandit escapes a straightforward definition, since...
However, the bandit escapes a straightforward definition, since the same label can apply to the leader of thousands of soldiers (as in the case of Villa) or to the humble highwayman eking out a meager living by waylaying travelers at machete point.
Tattooing, the process of inserting pigment into the skin to...
Tattooing, the process of inserting pigment into the skin to create permanent designs and patterns, appears on human mummies by 3200 BCE and was practiced by ancient cultures throughout the world.
Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the...
Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world’s leading incarcerator.
The authors provide a moving description of why and how men...
The authors provide a moving description of why and how men abuse women in myriad ways during and after a separation or divorce. The material is punctuated with the stories and voices of both perpetrators and survivors of abuse, as told to the authors over many years of fieldwork.
In most places on the African continent, multiple health care...
In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology.