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The origins of anti-Haitian and anti-black nationalist ideologies in the Dominican Republic have long been central to debates among the historians, political scientists, and journalists who wish to understand the relationship between popular expressions of Dominican identity and official nationalism. In The Mulatto Republic, April Mayes looks at the many ways Dominicans define themselves through race, skin color, and culture. She explores significant historical factors and events that have led the nation, for much of the twentieth century, to favor privileged European ancestry and Hispanic cultural norms such as the Spanish language and Catholicism. Mayes seeks to discern whether contemporary Dominican identity is a product of the Trujillo regime--and, therefore, only a legacy of authoritarian rule--or is representative of a nationalism unique to an island divided into two countries long engaged with each other in ways that are sometimes cooperative and at other times conflicted. Her answers enrich and enliven an ongoing debate.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Navigating the Chaos of Contemporary World Politics: Network versus No-work -- 1 Understanding the Language of Energy: Why Entropy Does Not Herald Doomsday -- 2 Entropy as Metaphor: Pattern Recognition, Time's Arrow, and the Big Chill -- 3 The Multidimensions of Disorder: Thermodynamics and World Politics -- 4 The Role of Emerging Powers in the Age of Entropy -- or, What Happens When the Sheriff Leaves Town and Anonymous Moves In -- 5 How Power Diffusion Works to a State's Advantage: This Is Not Your Great-Grandfather's Multipolar World -- 6 Rising Entropy at the Macro Level: The World Is Not Flat in Purgatory -- 7 Rising Entropy at the Micro Level: Information Overload and the Advent of Truthiness -- 8 Maxwell's Demon and Angry Birds: Big Data to the Rescue? -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Central Eastern Europeans in the Euro-Atlantic Migration System Before the First World War -- The "Floating Homeland" : The Ship as a "Connectivity Space" in Greek Migrant and Public Discourse -- A Lasting Transit in Antwerp: Eastern European Jewish Migrants On Their Way to the New World, 1900-1925 -- Shtetl on the High Seas : The Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe and the Cross Oceanic Experience -- The Transatlantic Voyage as a Translational Process : What Migrant Letters Can Tell Us -- Decisions in Transit : The Case of Scandinavian Immigrants to Argentina -- German Colonists in Southern Brazil: Navigating Multiple Identities on the Brazilian Frontier -- Traveling Between Languages and Literatures : A Spatial Analysis of The Family Tree by Margo Glantz -- Steamships, Hospitals, and Funerals: Liminal Spaces in Nineteenth- Century Liverpool's Narratives of Transit -- Heavenly Sensations and Communal Celebrations : Experiences of Liminality in Transatlantic Journeys -- Competing Fictionalizations of the Lower East Side : Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky and Michael Gold's Jews Without Money -- Kishinev Redux : Pogrom, Purim, Patrimony

Introduction: Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts / Mary Caputi and Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. -- Part I : 1. Derrida, Deconstruction, and the University / Mary Caputi, Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., and Keith Woodward ; 2. What Is the Institutional Form of Thinking? / Simon Critchley -- Part II : 3. Grammatology Revisited: Derrida on Language, Truth and Deviant Logic / Christopher Norris ; 4. Derrida and Literary Studies / Jonathan Culler ; 5. Deconstructing History / Mark Mason ; 6. Third Wave Feminism, Derridean Ragpicking, and the Liberal Arts / Mary Caputi ; 7. Reading and Teaching Derrida in Departments of French and Francophone Literature and Cultural Studies / Clorinda Donato ; 8. Derrida, Animals, and the Future of the Humanities / Matthew Calarco ; 9. The Name of Sociology and the Trace of Derrida / Colm J. Kelly ; 10. A Most Inhospitable Discipline: Jacques Derrida and the "Political Science to Come" / Diane Rubenstein ; 11. Spacing Deconstruction / Keith Woodward -- Afterword, In Brief / Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. and Mary Caputi ; Bibliography ; Index.

1. Introduction / Kostas Gouliamos and Christos Kassimeris -- 2. Stratocracy : the growing hypertrophy of the lifeworld militarization / Kostas Gouliamos and Christos Kassimeris -- 3. A dangerous language / Ruta Marcinkeviciene -- 4. Militarization and popular culture / Matt Davies and Simon Philpott -- 5. The treadmill of destruction goes global : anticipating the environmental impact of militarism in the 21st century / Gregory Hooks and Chad L. Smith -- 6. Democracy and militarism / Robert L. Ivie -- 7. US Homeland Security, the global War on Terror and militarism / Michael Stohl -- 8. Re-launching NATO after 9/11 / Vangelis Horafas -- 9. Space : the high ground of the European Union's emerging military policies / Frank Slijper -- 10. War and capitalism / Fanny Coulomb and Jacques Fontanel -- 11. Military expenditure and the global culture of militarism / Sam Perlo-Freeman -- 12. The national security exception, the global political economy and militarization / Susan T. Jackson -- 13. The militarization of US higher education after 9/11 / Henry A. Giroux -- 14. Conclusion / Kostas Gouliamos and Christos Kassimeris.

The Sephardic communities of Latin America: a puzzle of subethnic fragments, / Margalit Bejarano -- Nuevos mundos halló colón, or, what's different about Sephardic literature in the Americas? / Edna Aizenberg -- Sephardic and Syrian immigration to America: acculturation and communal preservation / Jane Gerber -- Cultural Zionism as a contact zone: Sephardic and Askenazi Jews bridge the gap on the pages of the Argentine newspaper Israel / Raanan Rein and Mollie Lewis Nouwen -- Syrian Jews in Buenos Aires: between religious revival and return to biblical sources, 1953-90 / Susana Brauner -- Religious movements in Mexican Sephardism / Liz Hamui Halabe -- Transnational identity and Miami Sephardim / Henry A. Green -- From Turkey to the United States: the trajectory of Cuban Sephardim in Miami / Margalit Bejarano -- Ladino in Latin America: an old language in the new world / Monique R. Balbuena -- A taste of sepharad from the Mexican suburbs: Rosa Nissán's stylized Ladino in Novia que te vea and Hisho que te nazca / Yael Halevi-Wise -- The role of music in the Quebec Sephardic community / Judith R. Cohen

"In the Japanese language the word 'ie' denotes both the materiality of homes and family relations within. The traditional family and family house -- often portrayed in ideal terms as key foundations of Japanese culture and society -- have been subject to significant changes in recent years. This book comprehensively addresses various aspects of family life and dwelling spaces, exploring how homes, household patterns and kin relations are reacting to contemporary social, economic and urban transformations, and the degree to which traditional patterns of both houses and households are changing. The book contextualises the shift from the hegemonic post-war image of standard family life, to the nuclear family and to a situation now where Japanese homes are more likely to include unmarried singles; childless couples; divorcees; unmarried adult children and elderly relatives either living alone or in nursing homes. It discusses how these new patterns are both reinforcing and challenging typical understandings of Japanese family life"--Provided by publisher

"In this comprehensive comparative study, Jorge Duany explores how migrants to the United States from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico maintain multiple ties to their countries of origin. Chronicling these diasporas from the end of World War II to the present, Duany argues that each sending country's relationship to the United States shapes the transnational experience for each migrant group, from legal status and migratory patterns to work activities and the connections migrants retain with their home countries. Blending extensive ethnographic, archival, and survey research, Duany proposes that contemporary migration challenges the traditional concept of the nation-state. Increasing numbers of immigrants and their descendents lead what Duany calls 'bifocal; lives, bridging two or more states, markets, languages, and cultures throughout their lives. Even as nations attempt to draw their boundaries more clearly, the ceaseless movement of transnational migrants, Duany argues, requires the rethinking of conventional equations between birthplace and residence, identity and citizenship, borders and boundaries."--Provided by publisher.

The future of Englishes: going local / David Crystal -- Code switching in diasporic Indian and Jewish English language media / Jill Hallett -- Identity and Israeli politeness in English between Dugriyut and Musayra / Cristiana Chiarini -- A comparative analysis of English feature articles in magazines published in Thailand and Britain: linguistic aspects / Wannapa Trakulkasemsuk and Namtip Pingkarawat -- Investigating ELF group membership: A case study focusing on The Baltic Times / Franca Poppi -- Only the immigrants can speak the Queen's English these days but all kids have a Jamaican accent: Overcompensation vs. urban slang in multiethnic London / Mara Logaldo -- Giving VOICE to English as a Lingua Franca / Barabara Seidlhofer -- The Pakeha myth of one New Zealand Aotearoa: An exploration in the use of Maori loanwords in New Zealand English / Marta Degani -- The pragmatics of Anglicisms in modern Russian discourse / Irina Khoutyz -- A persuasive upturn / Maria Cristina Gatti -- Textual and semiotic variations in the intercultural recontextualisation of financial discourse and sign-making practices on YouTube: Between globalisation and specificities / Elisabetta Adami Elf

Mothers Who Deliver -- Mothers Who Deliver -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Delivering Mothering Studies -- PART 1: Feminist Interventions in Public Discourse -- ONE: Contrapuntal Delivery and Reception of Hildegard Westerkamp's Electrovocal Performance Work on Mothering, Moments of Laughter -- TWO: The Empty Mirror No More: Mother-Daughter Relationship and Film Spectatorship in Patricia Cardoso's Real Women Have Curves -- THREE: Cyborg Mothering -- FOUR: "Mommyblogging Is a Radical Act": Weblog Communities and the Construction of Maternal Identities -- FIVE: "The Pencilling Mamma": Public Motherhood in Alice Meynell's Essays on Children -- SIX: Picturing Mom: Mythic and Real Mothers in Children's Picture Books -- PART 2: Feminist Interventions in Interpersonal Discourse -- SEVEN: More than Talk: Single Mothers Claiming Space and Subjectivity on the University Campus -- EIGHT: From Postcolonial to Postpartum: Pedagogical Politics of Motherhood -- NINE: Constrained Agency: British Heterosexual Mothers of Homosexual Sons -- TEN: Writing the Script: Finding a Language for Mothering -- ELEVEN: From Gestation to Delivery: The Embodied Activist Mothering of Cindy Sheehan and Jennifer Schumaker -- TWELVE: Political Motherhood in the United States and Argentina -- Epilogue: Power in a Movement -- Contributors -- Index.

Volume 28, The Impact of Demographics on Health and Healthcare: Race, Ethnicity and other Social Factors, focuses on differences in health and health care as linked to important social factors. The first section, Social Factors Leading to Differences in Health and Health Care, reviews basic material on the topic. The second section on Racial and Ethnic Factors in Differences in Health and Health Care is the largest section of the book, and includes 6 articles looking at racial disparities on a variety of topics such as knowledge of hepatitis C Virus, health services received and patients experiences in seeking health care, use of CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) services, and the role of social capital in class and race health disparities in health information seeking behaviour. The third section includes three articles focused on geographic and community factors. The fourth section has two articles on gender and age and gender and language. The fifth section has two articles on lifecourse issues such as maternal depression and hospice care.

"Whether you are evaluating the effectiveness of a drug, a medical device, a behavioral intervention, a community mobilization, or even a new law, this is the book for you. Written in plain language, it simplifies the process of designing interventions, analyzing the data, and publishing the results. Because the choice of research design depends on the nature of the intervention, the book covers randomized and nonrandomized designs, prospective and retrospective studies, planned clinical trials and observational studies. In addition to reviewing standard statistical analysis, the book has easy-to-follow explanations of cutting edge techniques for evaluating interventions, including propensity score analysis, instrumental variable analysis, interrupted time series analysis and sensitivity analysis. All techniques are illustrated with up-to-date examples from medical and public health literature. This will be essential reading for a wide range of healthcare professionals involved in research as well as those more specifically interested in public health issues and epidemiology"--Provided by publisher

The global developments in Information Technology Enabled Services have transformed customer service encounters which were until recently face-to-face. The major business areas of healthcare, insurance, banking and media are increasingly moving their customer processes to call centres, web based interaction, and email. ITES is set for explosive growth over the next decade, alongside being increasingly outsourced to non-English speaking destinations. The need for good English language communication skills is becoming ever more acute.This book looks closely at interactive communication in customer-facing services, featuring the voices of both academics and those in industry. It aims to integrate the work of applied linguists, teachers, trainers and businesses. After an initial discussion on the value of research to applied training, the major issues of ITES communications are addressed with either an academic analysis being followed by a training example derived from it, or with an analysis of a workplace problem followed by a research-based solution proposal. This volume should appeal to a wide readership in academic, business training and HR departments.

This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development. This title questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into 'gender myths' and 'feminist fables': women are more likely to care for the environment; are better at working together; are less corrupt; and, have a seemingly infinite capacity to survive.It explores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded in development policy and practice. It traces the ways in which language and images of development are related to practice and provides a nuanced account of the politics of knowledge production. It argues that struggles for interpretive power are not only important for our own sake, but also for the implications they have for women's lives worldwide. It is an informed analysis of how 'gender' has been transformed in its transfer into development policy and how many authors are now revisiting and reflecting on their earlier work.

"Liberal Beginnings examines the origins and development of the modern liberal tradition and explores the relationship between republicanism and liberalism between 1750 and 1830. Andreas Kalyvas and Ira Katznelson consider the diverse settings of Scotland, the American colonies, the new United States, and France and examine the writings of six leading thinkers of this period: Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, Germaine de Stael, and Benjamin Constant. The book traces the process by which these thinkers transformed and advanced the republican project, both from within and by introducing new elements from without. Without compromising civic principles or abandoning republican language, they came to see that, unrevised, the republican tradition could not grapple successfully with the political problems of their time. By investing new meanings, arguments, and justifications into existing republican ideas and political forms, these innovators fashioned a doctrine for a modern republic, the core of which was surprisingly liberal."--Jacket