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Why do colleges have intercollegiate athletics? Why should colleges keep them? Determining the values that are intrinsic to sport, this collection of essays explores how these values fit with the essential goals of universities. It also looks at the peculiar features of revenue-producing sports and asks whether these change the nature of sport.

Combining oral history and 'political archeology', this title grounds the African American struggle for justice in the lives of ordinary people making extraordinary progress on issues such as land ownership, education, voting, work, and health care in the face of violent repression.

Discusses how labor should respond to "restructuring," a euphemistic term for the economic squeeze on workers for givebacks to avoid plant closings and for the business efforts to abolish union workforces.

Traces the experiences of widows in a society that imposed an ideology of proper female behavior. The author challenges the portrayal of widows as helpless women, unable to fend for themselves or their families. She alters our understanding of the diversity of women's experiences.

The popular image of Brazil was that of a tropical utopia for people of color, and it was looked upon as a beacon of hope by African Americans. This work features essays that focus on the authors' observations of race relations in Brazil.

In December of 1984, the members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local P-9 initiated a campaign against wage and benefit concessions at Geo A Hormel Company in Austin, Minnesota. This book offers the insider's account of this watershed strike.

Addressing such topics as child pornography, feminism, deep ecology, vivisection, Christian theology, and career choice, this title includes questions that consider the boundaries of the moral community, and what it means to be human in our own generation.

"Women and Stepfamilies: Voices of Anger and Love" describes the experiences of women in stepfamilies as told by the women themselves.

Argues that moral responsibility must be rejected; there is no room for such a notion within our naturalist framework. This title intends to deny the common assumption that moral responsibility is inseparably linked with individual freedom.

In the past fifteen years, feminist science critics have, for the most part, rejected empiricism because of its identification with positivism. This book proposes the view that the evolving network of our theories does and should incorporate political views, including those shaped by, and shaping in turn, our experiences of gender.

Finding that the voluntary plans with incentives (magnets) ultimately produce more interracial exposure than the mandatory plans, this title examines the evolution of school desegregation and addresses a number of issues with regard to public policy. It analyzes the characteristics of magnet schools that are attractive to white and black parents.

A philosophical exploration of the relationship between the individual, the culture, and the world. It explores the implications of a world - view that would integrate the perspective of the sciences with humanistic ways of thought.

Analyzes the tensions and political dilemmas that coexist in the interrelationship among science, technology and society. Illustrating how computer security is as concerned with social relationships as it is with technology, this book provides an ethnography that considers corporate culture and the workplace environment of the antivirus industry.

Examines the stage performances created by the Artef collective, the Modicut puppeteers, and the Yiddish Unit of the Federal Theatre Project. This title introduces to contemporary readers some of the popular theatre actors of the 30s, including Leo Fuchs, Menasha Skulnik, and Yetta Zwerling.

Offers multifaceted explorations of how Chinese Americans have shaped their ethnic culture and identities to claim recognition in America's multiracial, multicultural democratic state.

Assesses the GSOC strike, using a variety of publications dealing with the teaching assistants. This book offers lessons on what the GSOC strike says about the role of the university in public life, and how the pressure for universities to realign themselves along the lines of private corporations has broad implications for higher education.

Offers a glimpse into the challenges faced by black and white college students from widely different class backgrounds as they come to live together as freshmen. This book chronicles what they learned from racial and class diversity - and what colleges might do to help their students learn more.

A collection that provides an overview of the contemporary racial and ethnic terrain in the United States. It addresses issues of work, education, family life and nationality for different ethnic groups, including Asians and Latinos as well as African Americans and whites.

A collection of recipes and stories, this book tells the beginning of Fork, and how it coincided with Philadelphia's second restaurant renaissance. It describes how Fork was born, and the chefs who came through Fork's doors and helped contribute to its unique cuisine. It says that the very best food is any food that's delicious and cooked right.

Explaining the life of the Mummers in pictures and words, this book covers the bands, the costumes, and the people who dance, perform, and live their lives through their brigades every day of the year. It captures the joy of brigades preparing for the big parade down Broad Street.

Represents a review undertaken of a major collaboration between industry and academe. This study presents the inside story of the partnership itself, places it in the context of contemporary university-industry relationships, and provides a theoretical framework for evaluating such collaborations.

A sequel to the bestselling "Philadelphia Murals" and the "Stories They Tell", this book presents the remarkable story of an unlikely artistic collaboration - between boys who live in a residential facility, a community in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, and men who are incarcerated in a maximum-security state correctional facility.

Danny Litwhiler is one of the lucky major league baseball players to 'live the dream' of playing in not one, but two World Series during his eleven and a half year career in the majors. This memoir chronicles Litwhiler's playing, teaching, and coaching baseball during eight decades, starting with his childhood in Ringtown, PA.

A look at Chinese filmmaking in the post-1989 American diaspora

Fifteen stories told by young Vietnamese who came to the US after the fall of Saigon and during the "boat people" exodus are contextualized within a history of Vietnam and the international politics of refugee resettlement. This work also presents a history of Vietnam.

Famed for its lush sound, the Philadelphia Orchestra is equally famous for the maestros who lead it: Eugene Ormandy, Ricardo Muti, and Wolfgang Sawallisch. This book is intended for fans of the Philadelphia Orchestra and of classical music.

Scrapbooks bring pleasure in both the making and consuming - and are one of the most enduring cultural forms. This book explores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms, as well as the human agents behind the books themselves. It also considers the makers and the viewers within the context of American culture.

For centuries tobacco was generally thought to have medicinal and even spiritual value. Tobacco changed the very course of US history, because its discovery caused the British to support Jamestown, its struggling New World colony. This book chronicles the social history of tobacco, especially in the United States.

Drawing from the "Philadelphia" magazine, this is a collection of profiles of the famous, infamous, and nearly famous in Philadelphia. It includes essays on athletes, such as: Mike Schmidt and Dr J; captains of industry, including Brian Roberts; and the politicians - Governor Rendell, Mayor Goode, and many other civic leaders.

Examines the diasporic and transnational aspects of Asian-American literature and engages works of prose and poetry as aesthetic articulations of the fluid transnational identities formed by Asian-American writers.