Bøker utgitt av Temple University Press,U.S.

"Offers evidence that the phenomenon of American gentrification has much earlier historical roots than many believe, and argues that a more thorough understanding of this history has implications for how we should think about impoverished communities, "obsolete" structures, and urban neighborhoods going forward."--

"Women's Empowerment and Disempowerment in Brazil uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate how Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's first female president, shaped women's political empowerment in her country and what the implications of these findings may be for women's executive leadership globally"--

"Examines Filipino diaspora through the complex of meanings associated with "giving back" and explores the process of diaspora formation. Argues that giving-related institutions and discourse-such as aid, development, altruism, and benevolence-are integral to understanding diaspora formation today"--

Nearly half the 2.3 million residents of Queens, New York are foreign-born. Immigrants in Queens hail from more than 120 countries and speak more than 135 languages. As an epicenter of immigrant diversity, Queens is an urban gateway that exemplifies opportunities and challenges in shaping a multi-racial democracy. The editors and contributors to Immigrant Crossroads examine the social, spatial, economic, and political dynamics that stem from this fast-growing urbanization. The interdisciplinary chapters examine residential patterns and neighborhood identities, immigrant incorporation and mobilizations, and community building and activism.Essays combine qualitative and quantitative research methods to address globalization and the unprecedented racial and ethnic diversity as a result of international migration. Chapters on incorporation focus on immigrant participation and representation in electoral politics, and advocacy for immigrant inclusion in urban governance and service provision. A section of Immigrant Crossroads concerns placemaking, focusing on the production of neighborhood spaces and identities as well as immigrant activism and community development and control.Based on engaged and robust analysis, Immigrant Crossroads highlights the dynamics of this urban gateway.

"Implementing City Sustainability examines how local governments are organizing to carry out sustainability initiatives. It provides insights into urban sustainability and public management through examination of the mechanisms cities are using to overcome the functional collective action challenges that inevitably arise during the administration of sustainability"--

Nearly half the 2.3 million residents of Queens, New York are foreign-born. Immigrants in Queens hail from more than 120 countries and speak more than 135 languages. As an epicenter of immigrant diversity, Queens is an urban gateway that exemplifies opportunities and challenges in shaping a multi-racial democracy. The editors and contributors to Immigrant Crossroads examine the social, spatial, economic, and political dynamics that stem from this fast-growing urbanization. The interdisciplinary chapters examine residential patterns and neighborhood identities, immigrant incorporation and mobilizations, and community building and activism.Essays combine qualitative and quantitative research methods to address globalization and the unprecedented racial and ethnic diversity as a result of international migration. Chapters on incorporation focus on immigrant participation and representation in electoral politics, and advocacy for immigrant inclusion in urban governance and service provision. A section of Immigrant Crossroads concerns placemaking, focusing on the production of neighborhood spaces and identities as well as immigrant activism and community development and control.Based on engaged and robust analysis, Immigrant Crossroads highlights the dynamics of this urban gateway.

A book for children on the City of Philadelphia, illustrated by the city's school children.

Looks into the many ways in which popular music and artists around the world are subjected to censorship.

A story of one of the oldest operating professional sports franchise in America. This work begins with the team's birth in 1871 as the Boston Red Stockings, and follows them to Milwaukee in 1953 and to Atlanta in 1966. It features 600 photographs of players, game highlights, and memorabilia.

A debate on the personal and political dimensions of masculinity, this work critiques the surface ideals and underlying messages promoted by the men's movement.

Offers a political-economic reassessment of New York's African American and Puerto Rican communities.

A collection of essays on the importance of community to women's social, cultural, and political relationships.

An autobiography of Mark Monroe, a Lakota Sioux Indian, is a story of courage, faith, and determination, and a rare opportunity to witness the life of a contemporary American Indian. Despite lifelong confrontations with violence, racism, and personal hardship - alcoholism, family deaths, illness, poverty, and unemployment.

Provides a picture of the complex dynamic among individual biography and sociological practice, personal growth, and institutional change. This volume is written by eighteen senior women sociologists who engage in analytic reflections on interconnections between their personal lives and their research, teaching, and activism.

Basing her work on the premise that sexuality is molded by both history and culture, the author analyzes the emergence of adolescent pregnancy as a public policy issue. She examines how Americans think about and handle deviant behavior and social change.

Citing examples of promises made in everyday life, in extraordinary circumstances, and in literary works, this book grapples with the central paradox of promising: that human beings can intend a future to which they are largely blind. It evaluates contemporary approaches to the topic by such philosophers as John Rawls, Henry Sidgwick, and others.

A collection of essays in contemporary radical philosophy, which draws on diverse traditions and movements, including feminism, critical theory, Marxism, deconstruction, democratic socialism, theories of race and ethnicity, deep ecology, and politicized spirituality.

Explores the relationship of power in the process of social choice. Outlining a "process-oriented" understanding of popular sovereignty, this work focuses on political and socio-economic rights as background conditions for free and equal public deliberation.

A collection of essays that places a distinguished academic career within the context of a personal and political reality that is grounded in a working-class background and a commitment to feminist activism. It offers criticism of philosophical and feminist ethics and social theory.

Considering photographs by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Tee, and Arthur Rothstein, as well as personal papers, memoirs, interviews, and the FSA file, this title reconstructs the methods the photographers used to create the images that defined the Depression in the public's imagination.

Arguing that war is philosophically irreconcilable with Christianity, this title contradicts just war theorists, whose position can be traced to Church figures notably Tomas Acquinas. While the roots of pacifism lie in the teachings of Jesus, it relies as much on philosophical argument as on theological exegesis or speculation.

Examines the final text of the "Resolution on the Negro Question". This work seeks to substantiate the view that the significant impact of communism in combating racism and supporting Black Liberation cannot be ignored by a student of United States history and society.

Examines gang activities in East Los Angeles. This book is written by the author of "Mexican Americans" and co-author (with Leo Grebler) of "The Mexican American People."

Considering the writings of Jameson, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Nietzsche, among others, this book shows how Kiefer's use of literary, mythological, and other cultural texts parallels the intertextual approach common among postmodern theorists.

A literary study of three important black women writers, this book examines the "inter-American" characteristics in the work of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones, including detailed discussions of Morrison's Song of Solomon and Tar Baby, Jones' Corregidora and Song of Anninho, and Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People.