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"Through this authoritative account of the historical record and important new findings, Abramitzky and Boustan will help shape our thinking and policies about the fraught topic of immigration with findings such as: ·Where you come from doesn't matter. The children of immigrants from El Salvador, Mexico, and Guatemala today are as likely to be as successful as the children of immigrants from Great Britain and Norway 150 years ago. ·Children of immigrants do better economically than children of those born in the U.S. - a pattern that has held for more than a century. ·The children of immigrants from nearly every country, especially children of poor immigrants, are more upwardly mobile than the children of US-born residents. ·Immigrants today, especially those from groups accused of lack of assimilation (such as Mexicans and those from Muslim countries) actually assimilate fastest. ·Immigration changes the economy in unexpected positive ways and staves off the economic decline that is the consequence of an aging population. ·Closing the door to immigrants harms the economic prospects of the U.S. born, the people politicians are trying to protect. More, not less, immigration will spur the American economy. ·Severe restrictions on immigration reduces innovation by blocking entry to future scientists, artists, and entrepreneurs. Using powerful story-telling and unprecedented research employing big data and algorithms, Abramitzky and Boustan are like dedicated family genealogists but millions of times over. They provide a new take on American history with surprising results, especially how comparable the "golden era" of immigration is to today, and why many current policy proposals are so misguided."

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Are We There Yet? -- 1. The Business of the Green Book -- 2. Driving While Black -- 3. The Fight -- 4. A License to Leave -- 5. All Aboard -- 6. Vacation -- 7. Music Venues -- 8. The Roots of Route 66 -- 9. Women and the Green Book -- 10. A Change Is Gonna Come -- 11. Integration and the Double-Edged Sword of Progress -- Epilogue: America After the Green Book -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Image Credits -- Index of Searchable Terms.

The N-Word's Musical Contours -- Out of Music : The N-Word's Material, Environmental, and Social Contours -- John Lennon's N-Word Moment -- Interlude. Diverse Opinions -- Philosorock : John Lennon, Bob Dylan, and Other White Musicians Who Sing the N-Word -- Black Demystification, White Bewilderment : Transformation and Numbing in Black Comedy and Black Music -- Muhammad Ali, Rap, and That Word -- A Hip-Hop Icon -- A Sensible Rule : A Case Study -- Inviting Destruction Beyond the Music -- Conclusion. Welcome to the Conversation, Country Music.

"First book in the Movement Rhetoric/Rhetoric's Movements series! September 17, 2021, marked the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Headlines this week have included "Was Occupy Wall Street the 'Beginning of the Beginning'?" (NY Times), "Occupy Wall Street Won the Future" (WSJ, opinion), "Lessons from Occupy Wall Street for today's tax fight" (The Hill), "Occupy Wall Street Did More Than You Think (The Atlantic). In The Democracy Ethos: Authenticity and Instrumentalism in US Movement Rhetoric after Occupy, A. Freya Thimsen asks the question implicit in these headlines: ten years later, what were the lasting impacts of Occupy? If it is evaluated solely in terms of specific, near-term policy outcomes, it cannot help but be found wanting. But the longer view, Thimsen argues, suggests that the democratic ethos consolidated and disseminated by the Occupy demonstrations plays an important role in the way that more mainstream US pro-democracy advocacy groups disclose their practices of self-organization in order to prove their commitment to democracy. The democratic ethos, she says, is a flexible, repeatable set of rhetorical tactics. The book begins by contrasting the democratic ethos drawing on Left radicalism and liberal instrumentalism that was consolidated in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations of 2011, and the "ironic instrumentalism" of the "Democracy Vouchers" used in the 2017 Seattle municiple elections--a pro-democracy strategy to reform campaign finance enacted through the undemocratic means of large private donations. In subsequent chapters, Thimsen shows how the democratic ethos born from Occupy has been adapted by collective actors working in the existing political system--in the contexts of amending the Constitution, Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign, and the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's work to provide legal aid to municipalities fighting corporate incursion. While Occupy began as a startling disruption in politics as usual, its long-term importance rests in how its performative techniques have been folded into more common, less "interruptive" forms of politics. It changed what "counts" as credibly democratic and how democracy is performed, with impacts visible in the current Movement for Black Lives, immigrants' rights activism, and political campaigns"--

Introduction. Veterans in the margins of modern American history / John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins -- So-called disabilities : Spanish War veterans and the New Deal's Economy Act / Barbara Gannon -- New frontiers for the new Negro : revisiting the World War Memoir and the postwar politics of Jesse L. Fraser in the 1920s / Robert Jefferson -- The unseen army : neuro-psychiatry, patient agency, and the First World War / Evan P. Sullivan -- Unsuitable for service : bedwetting veterans since World War II / John M. Kinder -- Uncle Sam's generosity? : Chicano veterans and the GI Bill, 1944-1974 / Steven Rosales -- Red, white, lavender, and blue : LGBT military veterans and the fight for military recognition / Heather Marie Stur -- Pawns in their wars : the Peace Committee of Southeast Asia and the tumultuous experiences of Vietnam POWs / Juan D. Coronado -- Our first sister : Lynda Van Devanter and the Vietnam veterans of America's Women's Project / Kara Dixon Vuic -- "The wrong man in uniform" : anti-draft Republicans and the ideological origins of the all-volunteer force, 1966-1973 / John Worsencroft -- The "patriot penalty" : National Guard and reserve troops, neoliberalism, and manufactured precarity in the era of perpetual conflict / David Kieran -- Prisoners after war : veterans in the age of mass incarceration / Jason A. Higgins -- Epilogue. #IAmVannessaGuillen / Jason A. Higgins and John M. Kinder.

Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Series Editors' Introduction -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Note on Translations -- 1. Building the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University -- 2. Franz Boas and His Early Students, 1901-1915 -- 3. Race and the Quest for Social Justice -- 4. Folklore and Ruins in Mexico and Puerto Rico -- 5. Conflict, War, and Censure -- 6. Preponderance of Women Students -- 7. Loss and Loneliness -- 8. The Last Cohort of Boas's Students -- 9. Rescuing Scientists -- 10. After Retirement -- Appendix: Tribal and Historical Designations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- .

"With essays that cover the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this volume presents a collective portrait of change over time that allows us to view the shifting nature of Jewish identity in the U.S. West, as well as the evolving frameworks for racial construction"--

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Induction: The Military-Entertainment Complex and the Contemporary War Imaginary -- 1. From Battlezone to America's Army: The Defense Department and the Game Industry -- 2. Creating Repeat Consumers: Epic Realism and the Birth of the Wargame Franchise -- Windows -- 3. Coming to a Screen Near You: The RMA and Affective Entertainment -- 4. Press X to Hack: Cyberwar and Videogames -- Window -- Discharge: Counter-Wargaming in Spec Ops: The Line -- Endnotes -- Linkography -- Acknowledgments -- Credits

Introduction: why young adult political expression deserves a fresh look -- Part I. Posting, protesting, and civic engagement: causes and movements that mobilized -- The MeToo movement: how an online social movement sparked civic engagement -- Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett: how controversial Supreme Court nominations provided opportunities to get involved -- School shootings: how gun violence encouraged civic involvement -- Immigration and family separation: when political expression fails to expand participation -- Black Lives Matter: how a surging movement engaged young people in -- Part II. Moving from the outside in: the link between posting and protesting and contacting elected officials -- Messages received? Examining the link between young adults posting political views online and sharing views with elected officials -- Discontent heard? Examining the link between young adults engaging in protests and sharing views with elected officials -- Conclusion: assessing young adult political power.

A panoramic history of American individualism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's divided public square. Individualism is a defining feature of American public life. Its influence is pervasive today, with liberals and conservatives alike promising to expand personal freedom and defend individual rights against unwanted intrusion, be it from big government, big corporations, or intolerant majorities. The Roots of American Individualism traces the origins of individualist ideas to the turbulent political controversies of the Jacksonian era (1820-1850) and explores their enduring influence on American politics and culture. Alex Zakaras plunges readers into the spirited and rancorous political debates of Andrew Jackson's America, drawing on the stump speeches, newspaper editorials, magazine articles, and sermons that captivated mass audiences and shaped partisan identities. He shows how these debates popularized three powerful myths that celebrated the young nation as an exceptional land of liberty: the myth of the independent proprietor, the myth of the rights-bearer, and the myth of the self-made man. The Roots of American Individualism reveals how generations of politicians, pundits, and provocateurs have invoked these myths for competing political purposes. Time and again, the myths were used to determine who would enjoy equal rights and freedoms and who would not. They also conjured up heavily idealized, apolitical visions of social harmony and boundless opportunity, typically centered on the free market, that have distorted American political thought to this day

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970

"Providing a critical humanities approach to ageing, this book addresses new directions in age studies: the meaning and workings of "ageism" in the twenty-first century, the vexed relationship between age and disability studies, the meanings and experiences of "queer" aging; the fascinating, yet often elided work of age activists; and, finally, the challenges posed by AI and, more generally, transhumanism in the context of caring for an ageing population. Drawing on work from across the humanities - philosophy, fine arts, religion, and literature, this book will be a useful supplemental text for courses on age studies, sociology and gerontology at both undergraduate and graduate levels"--

"A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party."--Provided by publisher.

"As protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with America's most confrontational activists. In pursuit of radical change themselves, these militant attorneys went beyond providing mere representation. They identified with their clients, defied the habits of a conservative profession, and formulated a corrosive critique of the legal system, questioning the neutrality and transformative power of law. While exploiting the courtrooms as political forums, they developed aggressive litigation strategies and became involved with the organization of protest. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, historian Luca Falciola reconstructs this largely unmapped phenomenon and challenges the reader to think anew about the pivotal role of lawyers in social movements"--