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"An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called 'anti-racist' movement is driving us-ironically-toward a new kind of racism. As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his own grandparents-who lived through segregation. The End of Race Politics is the culmination of his years-long search for an answer. Contemplative yet audacious, The End of Race Politics is necessary reading for anyone who questions the race orthodoxies of our time. Hughes argues for a return to the ideals that inspired the American Civil Rights movement, showing how our departure from the colorblind ideal has ushered in a new era of fear, paranoia, and resentment marked by draconian interpersonal etiquette, failed corporate diversity and inclusion efforts, and poisonous race-based policies that hurt the very people they intend to help. Hughes exposes the harmful side effects of Kendi-DiAngelo style antiracism, from programs that distribute emergency aid on the basis of race to revisionist versions of American history that hide the truth from the public. Through careful argument, Hughes dismantles harmful beliefs about race, proving that reverse racism will not atone for past wrongs and showing why race-based policies will lead only to the illusion of racial equity. By fixating on race, we lose sight of what it really means to be anti-racist. A racially just, colorblind society is possible. Hughes gives us the intellectual tools to make it happen"--

"Protect your brand's reputation and maintain public confidence by successfully managing everyday incidents and issues and preventing them from escalating into a corporate crisis.For most companies and communicators, dealing with a full-blown crisis is few and far-between. Every day, however, they are faced with various types of problems, challenges and incidents, which include customer complaints, campaign failure, staff comments and online criticism. Everyday Communication Strategies shows how to effectively contain these emerging situations and prevent them from destabilizing a business and impacting consumer confidence. It presents an easy-to-follow blueprint to ensure that identification can effectively move into intervention and action and explores how to develop appropriate messaging, work with the media and manage social media to minimize negative publicity and attention.Also covering how to build resilience and make effective decisions under pressure, it is supported by tips, checklists and flowcharts, as well as a range of case studies and examples from organizations including KPMG, Jo Malone and General Mills. Everyday Communication Strategies is an indispensable guide to averting a crisis and preventing your business or brand from being plunged into a reputational storm"--

"This book offers a new theoretical framework for exploring contemporary pilgrimage, exploring examples ranging from the Hajj to the Camino, and arguing that pilgrimage activity should be understood not solely as going to, staying at, and leaving a sacred place, but also as occurring in apparently mundane or domestic times, places, and practices"--

Glitter is everywhere, from crafting to makeup, from vagazelling to glitter-bombing, from fashion to fish. Glitter also gets everywhere. It sticks to what it is and isn't supposed to, and travels beyond its original uses, eliciting reactions ranging from delight to irritation. In Glitterworlds, Rebecca Coleman examines this ubiquity of glitter, following it as it moves across different popular cultural worlds and exploring its effect on understandings and experiences of gender, sexuality, class and race. Coleman investigates how girls engage with glitter in collaging workshops to imagine their futures; how glitter can adorn the outside and the inside of the body; how glitter features in the films Glitter and Precious; and how LGBTQ* activists glitter bomb homophobic and transphobic people.

"The star-spangled banner" and the development of a federalist musical tradition -- Musical organizations and the politics of American civil society -- Music and respectability in antebellum electoral politics -- Music and the making of a conservative radical.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- INTRODUCTION: OUR BRAVE NEW WORLD -- Intelligent Machines -- The Last Frontier of Invention -- Posthuman -- The Arcana of Values -- 1 | FIRE TO FIREWALLS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY -- Early Tech -- The Mechanical Age -- Electricity -- The Electronic Age -- 2 | THE SCIENCE OF INTELLIGENCE: ALGORITHMS, ANIMALS, AND MACHINES THAT CAN LEARN -- The Beginning -- The Nuts and Bolts -- Modeling the Human Mind -- Intelligence-Who Has It? -- The Ai Effect -- 3 | THE DANGER OF HOMOGENEITY AND THE POWER OF COMBINATORIAL CREATIVITY -- Who Is Going to Design the Future? -- Expanding the Conversation -- Combinatorial Creativity -- Leonardo da Vinci and Curiosity -- Diversifying Our Technology Requires Moral Imagination -- 4 | HUMAN RIGHTS AND ROBOT RIGHTS: PRIVACY, AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS, AND INSTILLING VALUES IN MACHINES -- Human Rights and Moral Machines -- Can We Preserve Our Right to Privacy? -- Should Robots Have Rights? -- Human and Machine Accountability -- Autonomous Weapons and Facing Our Ethical Dilemmas -- 5 | THE PERNICIOUS THREATS OF INTELLIGENT MACHINES -- New Wars-Old Tendencies -- Black Boxes, Bias, and Big Brother -- The End of Truth -- 6 | THE TRANSCENDENT PROMISE OF INTELLIGENT MACHINES -- Health and Well-Being -- More Time to Connect and be Creative -- Humanitarian and Benevolent Ai -- 7 | THE ECONOMICS AND THE POLITICS: REDRAWING THE SOCIETAL ROAD MAP -- Automation and Wealth Disparity -- Growing and Thriving -- Curious and Creative -- Navigating the Politics -- Redrawing the Societal Road Map -- The Awakening -- 8 | SEARCHING FOR THE DIGITAL SOUL -- The Uncanny Valley -- Self-Aware Robots -- Searching for the Digital Soul.

"New Zealand has always proudly worn its status of being the first country to enfranchise women. But not many know that it took a further 40 long years to get the first woman elected to Parliament. In fact women were not even entitled to stand as candidates in national elections until 1919 - 26 years after they won the right to vote in those elections. Even then there was resistance, with editor of the Auckland Star stating that it would open the way for 'a class of aggressive females who, thirsting for publicity, would be constantly pushing themselves forward into positions for which they are in no sense fitted'. The journey 'from the home to the House' was a shamefully protracted one for New Zealand women, as many male parliamentarians who grudgingly accepted the franchise being extended to women staunchly resisted any further progress. Their political machinations and filibustering were highly effective. Eventually, with an additional 130,000 voters enrolled, politicians began to realise that women's votes - and even women's voices - mattered. However, it was not until 1933 that the first woman was elected to the New Zealand Parliament, when Elizabeth McCombs won the Lyttelton seat, following the death of her husband, the sitting MP. The history of women striving to share in governing the country, a neglected footnote in the nation's electoral history, is now captured in this essential work by Jenny Coleman. She has drawn on a wide range of sources to create a rich portrayal of a rapidly evolving colonial society in which new ideas and social change were in constant friction with the status quo"--Back cover