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An English translation of the German book Farbe bekennen. A compilation of texts, testimonials and other secondary sources, the collection brings to life the stories of Black German women living amid racism, sexism and other institutional constraints in Germany.

At the end of the twentieth century, it becomes ever more clear that Western countries are witnessing the exhaustion of the two great political and economic systems-democratic capitalism and collective state socialism-that have held sway for the past 150 years. Yet neither the traditional Right nor Left has been able to provide viable solutions to this crisis. In this book, Paul Hirst offers a new approach, which he calls associative democracy.Not simply a utopian idea, associative democracy calls for new forms of economic and social governance as supplements to representative democracy and market economies. It addresses the problems of the overload of big government by democratizing and empowering civil society. It transfers social provision to self-governing voluntary associations, while retaining public funding and political accountability. In the economic sphere, it advocates regional economic regulation through public-private partnerships, the promotion of self-governing industrial districts, and the democratization of the company.

During the War of 1812 thousands of enslaved people rallied to the British side, turning against an American republic that had barred them from the promises of freedom and democracy. Set against the backdrop of rebellion and war, this book follows the interconnected stories of Towerhill and Sarai, two African slaves, and their master, Jacob Hallam.

Explores how protest libraries - labour-intensive, temporary installations in parks and city squares, poorly protected from the weather, at odds with security forces - continue to arise. In telling the stories of these inspiring spaces through interviews and other research, Sherrin Frances confronts the complex history of American public libraries.

Drawing on primary texts, paratexts, audio and visual recordings, and archival sources, James Smethurst looks at how Amiri Baraka's writing on and performance of music envisioned the creation of an African American people or nation, as well as the growth and consolidation of a black working class within that nation, that resonates to this day.

Mapping an uncanny journey through the clusters of media we encounter daily but seldom stop to contemplate, Christina Pugh's focused descriptions, contrasting linguistic textures, and acute poetic music become multifarious sources of beauty, disruption, humour, and hurt.

Interrogating the movement's alleged atheistic underpinnings, David Faflik contends that transcendentalism reconstituted the religious sensibilities of 1830s and 1840s New England, producing a dynamic and complex array of beliefs and behaviours that cannot be categorized as either religious or non-religious.

The sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news. Amy Hildreth Chen offers the history of how this multimillion dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and considers what impact authors, literary agents, curators, archivists, and others have had on this burgeoning economy.

At turns lyrical, poignant, and alluring, The Memory Eaters tells the story of a family's cyclical and intergenerational incidents of trauma, secret-keeping, and forgetting in the context of 1970s and 1980s New York City.

Exploring the darker side of optimism, Sarah Harris Wallman's debut collection shows women attempting to build durable havens from reality, struggling to keep relationships intact, and reinventing themselves. As these twelve stories prove, there's no sensible way to fall in love, raise children, or escape. This is Senseless Women.

Traces the histories of the largest, most lucrative, and rapidly growing genealogical databases to delineate a broader history of the industry. As each unique case study reveals, new database and DNA technologies enable an obsessive completeness - the desire to gather all of the world's genealogical records in the interests of life beyond death.

Offers a provocative critique of sexual justice language and policy in higher education around the concept of consent. This book shows how inaccurate concepts about gender, gender identity, and sexuality erase queer or trans students' experiences and perpetuate narrow, regressive gender norms and individualist frameworks for understanding violence.

Examines gender and power as it charts an archival journey connecting the least remembered writers and readers of the early twentieth century with one of its most renowned literary figures, Gertrude Stein.

The ascendance of television news in the 1960s as America's top choice for information threatened the self-defined supremacy of print journalism. In Contested Ground, Mike Conway argues that the production and reception of television news and documentaries during this period reveals a major upheaval in American news communications.

Poems written by children are not typically part of the literary canon. Because of cultural biases, these works are often excluded or dismissed as juvenilia. Rachel Conrad contends that youth-composed poems should be read as literary works in their own right - works that are deserving of greater respect in literary culture.

The first book to explore how cultural action - including minstrelsy, theatre, and popular literature - transformed public opinion and political structures. Taking the North's rallying cry as his title, John Brooke shows how the course of history was forever changed.

Drawing upon published sources, oral histories, and previously unused archival documents, Jeffrey Shepherd situates the Guadalupe Mountains and the national park in the context of epic tales of Spanish exploration, westward expansion, Native survival, immigrant settlement, the conservation movement, early tourism, and regional economic development.

Female loyalists occupied a nearly impossible position during the American Revolution. Unlike their male counterparts, loyalist women were effectively silenced. In this book, Kacy Dowd Tillman argues that women's letters and journals are the key to recovering these voices, as these private writings were used as vehicles for public engagement.

Today ownership of weapons poses more acute legal problems than ever before. In this volume, contributors confront urgent questions, among them the usefulness of history as a guide in ongoing struggles over gun regulation, the changing meaning of the Second Amendment, the perspective of law enforcement, and individual perspectives on gun rights.

Has a stunning surprise or lucky encounter ever propelled you in an unanticipated direction? Are you doing what you always thought you would be doing or has some unseen magnetism changed your course? And has that redirection come to seem inevitable? Edie Meidav and Emmalie Dropkin asked leading contemporary writers to consider these questions.

West of downtown St. Louis sits an 1851 town house that bears no obvious relationship to its surroundings. Now the Campbell House Museum, the house has been subject to energetic preservation and heritage work. Heidi Aronson Kolk explores the complex and sometimes contradictory motivations for safeguarding the house as a site of public memory.

Explores the debate over the protection of the US oyster fishery industry took between 1870 and 1920 in law enforcement, legislative advising, and natural science. Samuel Hanes argues that the effort to centralize and privatize the industry failed due to a lack of understanding of the complex social-ecological systems in place.

Interdisciplinary in content, this collection of essays looks at the ecology of urban communities, exploring issues of geography, ecology, landscape architecture, urban forestry, law and environmental education. Broad overviews of common problems are accompanied by specific case studies.

This epic novel presents a sweeping portrait of war and peace in northern Vietnam from the defeat of the French to the mid-1980s. The story follows the odyssey of Giang Minh Sai, the son of a Confucian scholar in the rural Red River delta, from his early childhood through his decorated service during the American War and his later efforts to adapt to the postwar world of urban Ha Noi.

An examination of the perception of lesbians in American culture, this work focuses on the subversion and of both steriotyped representations and some ""straight"" texts. It is divided into three principal parts - inventing the lesbian, forms of ressistance, and writing in the margins.

Before the Civil War, slaveholders made themselves into the powerful, deeply rooted, and organized private interest group within the United States. This title explains how a small group of radical activists, the abolitionist movement, played a pivotal role in turning American politics against this formidable system.

The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of an Army nurse. In this powerful story collection - the first such work of fiction by a woman who served in Vietnam - Susan O'Neill offers a remarkable view of the war from a female perspective.

This text looks at the 1675 war between the English colonists and the indigenous people of New England, which decimated the region's native population. The author examines the causes of the conflict, and its effects on the relationship between the two cultures.