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During the years leading up to World War I, America experienced a crisis of civic identity. How could a country founded on liberal principles and composed of increasingly diverse cultures unite to safeguard individuals and promote social justice? In this book, Jonathan Hansen tells the story of a group of American intellectuals who believed the solution to this crisis lay in rethinking the meaning of liberalism.

This collection brings together historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas.

Asian and Pacific Islander Americans constitute the fastest-growing racial group in the United States. They are also one of the most religiously diverse. Through them Asian traditions such as Hinduism, Sikhism, Confucianism, and Buddhism have been introduced into every major city and across a wide swath of Middle America. The contributors to this volume provide an essential inter-disciplinary resource for the study of Asian and Pacific Islander American religion.

Country by country, the authors deal with the specific conditions of government-sponsored media repression, economic censorship, corruption, and consumer trends that shape the political landscape. Challenging the notion of the media as a democratizing force, Media Power in Central America shows how the media are used to block democratic reforms in the region and outlines the difficulties of playing watchdog to rulers who use the media as a tool of power. [from publisher's advertisement].

"Offering unprecedented breadth of coverage, North America: A Continental Overview of Environmental Issues provides a concise, accessible overview of the environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing the world's most affluent continent."--Jacket

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Status of African American Women in Traditionally White Academia -- 3 Epoch of the Time -- 4 The Power-Thirsty People Syndrome -- 5 Interpretive Views of Race and Gender -- 6 Our Voices about Our Experiences -- 7 Coping with Indelible Experiences -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- References -- Index.

American anthropology in the late twentieth century interrogated and depicted the worlds of others, past and present, in subtle and incisive ways while increasingly questioning its own authority to do so. Marxist, symbolic, and structuralist thought shaped the fieldwork and conclusions of many researchers around the globe. Practicing anthropology blossomed and grew rapidly as a subdiscipline in its own right. There emerged a keener appreciation of both the history of the discipline and the histories of those studied. Archaeologists witnessed a resurgence of interest in the concept of culture

Chinese American transnationalism and U.S.-China relations : presence and promise for the trans-Pacific century / Peter H. Koehn and Xiao-huang Yin -- Historical connections between the Chinese trans-Pacific family and U.S.-China relations / Haiming Liu -- Navigating U.S.-China waters : the experience of Chinese students and professioanls in science, technology, and business / Sufei Li -- Transnational sensibilities in Chinese American diasporic literature / Qian Suoqiao -- The involvement of Chinese Americans in China-related issues : implications of a North Carolina study of current political orientations and future expectations / Yuhang Shi

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: THE CONTEXT OF BLACK CONSERVATISM -- 1 Black Creole Cultures: The Eighteenth-Century Origins of African American Conservatism -- 2 The American Moral Reform Society and the Origins of Black Conservative Ideology -- 3 "There is no refuge in conservatism": A Case Study of Black Political Conservatism in Richmond, Virginia -- PART II: GENDER, FAMILY, AND SOCIAL POLICY -- 4 The Politics of the Anti-Woman Suffrage Agenda: African Americans Respond to Conservatism -- 5 "If it ain't broke, don't fix it": Thomas Sowell on Black Women, Affirmative Action, and the Death of Discrimination -- 6 The Neoconservative Assault on Black Males: Origins, Objectives, and Outcomes -- PART III: RHETORIC, MEDIA, AND PUBLIC OPINION -- 7 The Individual Ethos: A Defining Characteristic of Contemporary Black Conservatism -- 8 Remaking African American Public Opinion: The Role and Function of the African American Conservatives -- PART IV: STRUGGLE, CLASS, AND IDEOLOGY -- 9 The Lonely Iconoclast: George Schuyler and the Civil Rights Movement -- 10 Neoconservatives, Black Conservatives, and the Retreat from Social Justice -- 11 Black Conservatives and Class Relations -- 12 Beyond Black Neoconservatism and Black Liberalism -- Index.

From the early Cold War years through the social unrest and activism of the 1960s, American anthropology expanded considerably in size and outreach, becoming spectacularly global and cross-cultural in its interests. Complex societies and communities became increasingly popular subjects of inquiry; the influence of sociological methods upon fieldwork and interpretation grew; a reimagined cultural evolution emerged; and a pervasive interest in the broader forces of culture change shaped research, writing, and theory throughout the quarter century. A dynamic range of schools of anthropological th

The formative years of American anthropology were characterized by intellectual energy and excitement, the identification of key interpretive issues, and the beginnings of a prodigious amount of fieldwork and recording. The American Anthropological Association (AAA) was born as anthropology emerged as a formal discipline with specialized subfields; fieldwork among Native communities proliferated across North America, yielding a wealth of ethnographic information that began to surface in the flagship journal, the American Anthropologist; and researchers increasingly debated and probed deeper in

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction ''It's not right for a body to know his own origins,' -- Chapter 1 ''I should be—American!'' Abjection and the Asian (American) Body -- Chapter 2 ''The dance that's happening'' Performance, Politics, and Asian American Theatre Companies -- Chapter 3 ''We'come a Chinatowng, Folks!'' Resisting Abjection -- Chapter 4 ''I'll be here . . . right where you left me'' Mimetic Abjection/Abject Mimicry -- Chapter 5 ''Whose history is this, anyway?'' Changing Geographies in Ping Chong's East-West Quartet -- Afterword ''Then we'll have drama,'' -- Notes -- References -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustration -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Spectragraphia -- 1. On Dangers Seen and Unseen: Identity Politics and the Burden of Black Male Specularity -- Part Two. No hiding place -- 2. ''Are We Men?'': Prince Hall, Martin Delany, and the Black Masculine Ideal in Black Freemasonry, 1775–1865 -- 3. Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography -- 4. A Man's Place: Architecture, Identity, and Black Masculine Being -- Part Three. Looking B(l)ack -- 5. ''I'm Not Entirely What I Look Like'': Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the Hegemony of Vision; or, Jimmy's FBEye Blues -- 6. What Juba Knew: Dance and Desire in Melvin Dixon's Vanishing Rooms -- Afterword: ''What Ails You Polyphemus?'': Toward a New Ontology of Vision in Frantz Fanon's Black Skin White Masks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Generic Fixations: Reading the Writing Self -- Chapter 2 Cinematic Projections: Marking the Desirous Body -- Chapter 3 Historical Reconfigurations: Delineating Asian Women as/not American Citizens -- Chapter 4 Disciplined Embodiments: Si(gh)ting Asian/American Women as Transnational Labor -- Chapter 5 Compositional Struggles: Re-membering Korean/American -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This book presents a unique view of the current state of development of bioethics in Latin America. Twelve Latin American thinkers who share a primary interest in bioethics address a vast range of questions, including autonomy, rights, justice, and the role of culture and religion in bioethics. These studies contribute to an understanding of Latin American thought, and they make possible a transcultural dialogue on bioethical issues