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"In From Vision to Folly in the American Soul Thomas Singer collates his investigations into soul both in its personal and collective manifestations. This text is a valuable resource for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas, politics, sociology, and American studies as well as for anyone interested in the current state of the US"--

It's the final week of June and that means that we are anxiously awaiting the decisions in several high-profile Supreme Court cases. The remaining cases touch on issues including affirmative action, President Biden's student loan forgiveness program, business services to LGBTQ people and the power of state legislatures. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics […]

This article takes advantage of a quasi-experiment in the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS) to examine the effects of exogenous events on identity. Roughly halfway through the survey's data collection, millions of Latinos mobilized to protest HR 4437, an immigration bill advancing in the U.S. Congress. This event provides the opportunity to examine differences in self-identification among comparable populations. I divide the LNS into a control group interviewed prior to these demonstrations and a treatment group interviewed after. My analysis shows respondents in the latter group were more likely to identify as American, with effects concentrated among Spanish speakers, and particularly Mexicans and Dominicans. I find no difference in identification as Latino or with one's ancestral subgroup. These findings run contrary to the expectations of much existing literature, which assumes an increased sense of group threat results in heightened pan-ethnic sentiment across the Latino population. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright holder.]

In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted the Good Neighbor Policy, which was based on the principles of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America. With the growing threat of war with Germany and the expansion of Nazi influence in Latin American nations, it was imperative for the United States to protect the Western Hemisphere from this impending peril. With the implementation of the Good Neighbor Policy, the United States embarked on a campaign to promote hemispheric solidarity by transforming both the image of the United States abroad and the representation of Latin Americans particularly on film. Hollywood quickly became involved with the government's defense efforts. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact that U.S. foreign policy had on Latin American stardom. An analysis of the films The Three Caballeros, Down Argentine Way, and several episodes from the I Love Lucy television series as well as an investigation of the experiences of Carmen Miranda and Desi Arnaz reveal that while the objective of Hollywood's Good Neighbor Policy was to reconstruct perception of Latin Americans, the Latin American stereotypes were only slightly altered while the featured films continued to fall into line with American imperialism. This study acknowledges the United States' historically inaccurate portrayal of Latin America specifically through film, and helps to raise awareness persisting inaccuracies in the present day motion picture industry.

Viewing the modern right as more than a passing fad for state-anxious individuals, Amy E. Ansell and the contributors in this volume treat the current conservative movement as an important effort to contextualize and rearticulate the truths taken for granted in the American liberal tradition. Written as a response to the apparent rightward turn in

Examines political and economic reform, and their relation to Roman Catholic social thought, liberation theology's emphasis on the material, and Evangelical Protestantism's support of democratization and economic reform; finds Catholics and Evangelical Protestants allied on social policies.