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The thirteen contributors to As We Are Now invite readers to explore with them the untamed territory of race and mixblood identity in North America. A "mixblood," according to editor W.S. Penn, recognizes that his or her identity comes not from distinct and separable strains of ancestry but from the sum of the tension and interplay of all his or her ancestral relationships. These first-person narratives cross racial, national, and disciplinary boundaries in a refreshingly experimental approach to writing culture. Their authors call on similar but varied cultural and aesthetic traditions—mostly oral—in order to address some aspect of race and identity about which they feel passionate, and all resist the essentialist point of view. Mixblood Native American, Mestizo/a, and African-American writers focus their discussion on the questions indigenous and minority people ask and the way in which they ask them, clearly merging the singular "I" with the communal "we." These are new voices in the dialogue of ethnic writers, and they offer a highly original treatment of an important subject

Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- EXCURSUS I Paul's Use of Diatribal Style in Romans -- Romans 1 -- EXCURSUS II The Wrath of God against All Idolatry-A Trajectory from Zephaniah to Romans -- Romans 2 -- Romans 3 -- Romans 4 -- Romans 5 -- Romans 6 -- EXCURSUS III Slavery to God -- Romans 7 -- Romans 8 -- Romans 9 -- Romans 10 -- Romans 11 -- EXCURSUS IV Supersessionism at Rome -- Romans 12 -- Romans 13 -- Romans 14:1-15:6 -- Romans 15:7-13 -- Romans 15:14-33 -- Romans 16 -- References -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Biblical Texts -- Index of Modern Authors.

"Catholic men and women worked to prove themselves to be model American citizens in the decades between the Civil War and the Great Depression. This book shows that, far from being outsiders in American history, Catholics took command of public life in the early twentieth century, claiming leadership in the growing American nation."--

In Making Catholic America, William S. Cossen shows how Catholic men and women worked to prove themselves to be model American citizens in the decades between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Far from being outsiders in American history, Catholics took command of public life in the early twentieth century, claiming leadership in the growing American nation. They produced their own version of American history and claimed the power to remake the nation in their own image, arguing that they were the country's most faithful supporters of freedom and liberty and that their church had birthed American independence. Making Catholic America offers a new interpretation of American life in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, demonstrating the surprising success of an often-embattled religious group in securing for itself a place in the national community and in profoundly altering what it meant to be an American in the modern world

"Taking an analytic and historical approach, this work develops and defends Althusserian critical theory. This theory, it is argued, produces knowledge of how a particular class of people, in a particular time, in a particular place, is dominated, oppressed, or exploited. Moreover, without relying on a general notion of human emancipation, concrete critical theory can suggest political means for the alleviation of these conditions. Because it puts Althusser's ideas in dialogue with contemporary social science and philosophy, the book as a whole makes contributions to Althusser studies, to Anglo-American political philosophy, and to current debates in the philosophy of the social sciences"--

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Guide to Acronyms -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I - Water -- 1 - The Kickapoo Valley -- 2 - Glory Days -- 3 - The Dam -- 4 - The Soft Path -- 5 - The Battle of La Farge -- 6 - The Dedication -- 7 - Mní wičhóni (Water Is Life) -- 8 - How the Federal Role Began -- 9 - Problems with Structures -- 10 - Sound the Retreat -- 11 - Natural Solutions -- 12 - Early Adopters -- 13 - The Next Mass Migration -- 14 - Revisiting Soldiers Grove -- Part II - The Biocene -- 15 - Introducing the Biocene -- 16 - The Devalue Chain -- 17 - The Four Alarms -- 18 - Frontierism -- 19 - Avarice -- 20 - Safe Operating Spaces -- 21 - The Restoration Economy -- 22 - The Vision Thing -- 23 - The Biocene -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Climate 101 -- Appendix 2: Recommendations -- Appendix 3: Tips for Relocation Facilitators -- Appendix 4: Ecosystem Restoration Resources -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE Poverty, Race, and Politics in Postwar Texas -- TWO Postwar Liberalism, Civil Rights, and the Origins of the War on Poverty -- THREE The War on Poverty and Texas Politics -- FOUR Launching the War on Poverty in Texas -- FIVE Making Maximum Participation Feasible Community Action in Urban Texas -- SIX Race Conflict and the War on Poverty in Texas -- SEVEN The War on Poverty and the Militants The OEO and the Chicano Movement -- EIGHT A "Preventative Force"? Urban Violence, Black Power, and the OEO -- NINE After LBJ Republican Ascendance and Grassroots Antipoverty Activism -- CONCLUSION Texans and the "Long War on Poverty" -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

This book details the development and evaluation of technological interventions designed to improve human and economic development within complex, low-resource settings, showing that a solution becomes an innovation when it reaches widespread use. The book shortens the time-gap between development and up-take of the intervention, especially for student solution-developers or innovators who are new to the cultural and geopolitical settings of the problem-source country or region. Technological interventions in development are sustainable if they meet a real need, are affordable by the users, fit within the cultural context and are ergonomically appropriate. Many interventions have failed because of inattentiveness to one or more of these factors. Each of the book's points is backed up with scholarly research work, confidently guiding solution-developers confronted with issues such as acquiring intellectual property protections, among many others.

"If you have ever felt out of place living in the modern world, Retroculture gives you the option to dwell in a different era. Addressing the various aesthetics, architectural styles, values and manners of days gone by, William Lind identifies the concepts of Retroculture and provides the reader with the tool-set to begin situating their lives in the "new-old." However, this shift in lifestyle addresses not only the hobbyist, but also American society at large, urging a return to an era in which truth, politeness and beauty were considered paramount, and pointing a way forward to a brighter future for the nation as a whole."--Amazon.com

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. COMMUNISM AND HISTORY IN VIETNAM -- 2. VIETNAMESE REVOLUTIONARY DOCTRINE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 3. VIETNAMESE COMMUNISM AND THE PEASANTS: ANALOGY AND ORIGINALITY IN VIETNAMESE EXPERIENCE -- 4. "CLASS-ISM" IN NORTH VIETNAM, 1953-1956 -- 5. VIETNAMESE COMMUNISM AND RELIGIOUS SECTARIANISM -- 6. INFLUENCES AND IDIOSYNCRACIES IN THE LINE AND PRACTICE OF THE VIETNAM COMMUNIST PARTY -- 7. POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST PARTY -- 8. INSTITUTIONALIZING THE REVOLUTION: VIETNAM'S SEARCH FOR A MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT -- 9. VIETNAM AND THE SOCIALIST CAMP: CENTER OR PERIPHERY? -- Index.