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  • International Education at the Crossroads

    by Michael A. McRobbie, Mary Sue Coleman, Kenneth Coleman, Patrick O'Meara, Robin Matross Helms, Elspeth Jones, Hans de Wit, Eva Egron-Polak, Jonathan Fanton, Stephen E. Hanson, Kris Olds, Zsuzsa Gille, Seung-Kyung Kim, Brian Edwards, Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal, Dan E. Davidson, Daryl Baldwin, Kim Potowski, Francisco Marmolejo, Safwan M. Masri, Caroline Levander, Kathleen Claussen, Takyiwaa Manuh, Allan E. Goodman, Dawn Michele Whitehead, Cheryl Gibbs, Anthony Koliha, General Gene Renuart ...
    International Education at the Crossroads captures the essence and complexity of international education in an interconnected and globalized world. Written by leading scholars, international educators, and policy makers, the 26 essays in this volume take stock of the unpredictable landscape of international education and demonstrate why international higher education is more essential now than ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Cradle of Liberty

    Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois

    by Caroline Levander, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Throughout American literature, the figure of the child is often represented in opposition to the adult. In Cradle of Liberty Caroline F. Levander proposes that this opposition is crucial to American political thought and the literary cultures that surround and help produce it. Levander argues that from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth, American literary and political texts ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs

    by Tess Chakkalakal, Kenneth W. Warren, Caroline Levander, Finnie Coleman, Hanna Wallinger, John Cullen Gruesser, John Ernest, M. Fabi, Andreá Williams0, Robert S. Levine1 ...
    Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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  • We Have Never Been Woke

    The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

    by Musa al-Gharbi ...
    How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The White Image in the Black Mind

    African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

    by Mia Bay ...
    How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American perceptions of whites between 1830 and 1925 to depict America's shifting attitudes about race in a ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Peaceland

    Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention

    by Séverine Autesserre ...
    Series series Problems of International Politics
    This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and usual approaches to understanding their areas of operation - strongly influence peacebuilding effectiveness. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Black on White

    Black Writers on What It Means to Be White

    by David R. Roediger ...
    In this thought-provoking volume, David R. Roediger has brought together some of the most important black writers throughout history to explore the question: What does it really mean to be white in America?From folktales and slave narratives to contemporary essays, poetry, and fiction, black writers have long been among America's keenest students of white consciousness and white behavior, but ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity

    A History of Southern Identity

    by James C. Cobb ...
    From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity served in an engaging blend of history literature and popular culture. In this insightful book written with dry wit and sharp insight James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came to see ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Youth Rising?

    The Politics of Youth in the Global Economy

    by Mayssoun Sukarieh, Stuart Tannock ...
    Series series Critical Youth Studies
    Over the last decade, "youth" has become increasingly central to policy, development, media and public debates and conflicts across the world – whether as an ideological symbol, social category or political actor. Set against a backdrop of contemporary political economy, Youth Rising? seeks to understand exactly how and why youth has become such a popular and productive social category and concept ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • American Lynching

    by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy ...
    A history of lynching in America over the course of three centuries, from colonial Virginia to twentieth-century Texas.After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined that to comprehend this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the United States. In this meticulously ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Maarif Global Education Series
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Manliness and Its Discontents

    The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930

    by Martin Summers ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production. Examining both the public and private aspects of gender formation, Summers challenges the current ... Read more

    $28.49 USD