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“david e toohey”

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  • Reemergent Commons

    Land Loss, Emigration, and the Immigrant Diaspora

    by David E. Toohey ...
    Introduces a theoretical perspective on the loss of communal lands and subsequent migration, with a focus on how media can help sustain diaspora communities' culture and their relation to land amidst such crises.Through an exploration of the impact of land loss on emigration and immigration, this book lays out the permanent consequences of land loss and how these consequences have been explored ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Borderlands Media

    Cinema and Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants

    by David E. Toohey ...
    David E. Toohey’s Borderlands Media: Cinema and Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants is an in-depth analysis which explores the immigrant experience using a mixture of cinema, literary, and other artistic media spanning from 1958 onward.Toohey begins with Orson Welles’s 1958 Touch of Evil, which triggered a wave of protest resulting in Chicana/o filmmakers acting out against ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

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  • How to Choose a Leader

    Machiavelli's Advice to Citizens

    by Maurizio Viroli ...
    Twenty essential tips for picking great leaders from the father of modern politicsOne of the greatest political advisers of all time, Niccolò Machiavelli thought long and hard about how citizens could identify great leaders—ones capable of defending and enhancing the liberty, honor, and prosperity of their countries. Drawing on the full range of the Florentine's writings, acclaimed Machiavelli ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Straight State

    Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

    by Margot Canaday ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    How the government enforced sex and gender conformity and relegated gays to second-class citizenshipThe Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Racial Culture

    A Critique

    by Richard T. Ford ...
    What is black culture? Does it have an essence? What do we lose and gain by assuming that it does, and by building our laws accordingly? This bold and provocative book questions the common presumption of political multiculturalism that social categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality are defined by distinctive cultural practices.Richard Ford argues against law reform proposals that ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • ABC's of Human Survival

    A Paradigm for Global Citizenship

    by Arthur Clark ...
    Series series Global Peace Studies
    The ABCs of Human Survival examines the effect of militant nationalism and the lawlessness of powerful states on the well-being of individuals and local communities?and the essential role of global citizenship within that dynamic. Based on the analysis of world events, Dr. Arthur Clark presents militant nationalism as a pathological pattern of thinking that threatens our security, while ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Politics of Resentment

    A Genealogy

    by Jeremy Engels ...
    In the days and weeks following the tragic 2011 shooting of nineteen Arizonans, including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, there were a number of public discussions about the role that rhetoric might have played in this horrific event. In question was the use of violent and hateful rhetoric that has come to dominate American political discourse on television, on the radio, and at the podium. A ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Read My Lips

    Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes

    by Vanessa Williamson ...
    A surprising and revealing look at what Americans really believe about taxesConventional wisdom holds that Americans hate taxes. But the conventional wisdom is wrong. Bringing together national survey data with in-depth interviews, Read My Lips presents a surprising picture of tax attitudes in the United States. Vanessa Williamson demonstrates that Americans view taxpaying as a civic ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Citizenship, Democracies, and Media Engagement among Emerging Economies and Marginalized Communities

    Edited by Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume analyzes the contexts in which emerging economies in Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Middle East, and Asia can chart their socioeconomic futures through progressive democratic practices and media engagement. Using political and development communication, along with case studies from selected countries in these regions, the volume addresses human rights policies, ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Navajo Political Experience

    by David E. Wilkins ...
    Series series Spectrum Series: Race and Ethnicity in National and Global Politics
    Native nations, like the Navajo nation, have proven to be remarkably adept at retaining and exercising ever-increasing amounts of self-determination even when faced with powerful external constraints and limited resources. Now in this fourth edition of David E. Wilkins' The Navajo Political Experience, political developments of the last decade are discussed and analyzed comprehensively, and with ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • A History of Human Rights Society in Singapore

    1965-2015

    Edited by Jiyoung Song ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    To celebrate Singapore’s fiftieth anniversary for its independence from Malaysia in 2015, 35 students, academics and activists came together to discuss and write about pioneering Singaporean human rights activists and their under-reported stories in Singapore. The city-state is known for its remarkable economic success while having strict laws on individual freedom in the name of national security ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Constitutive Visions

    Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador

    by Christa J. Olson ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments—as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity—struggled to reconcile the presence of Ecuador’s large indigenous population with the dominance of a white-mestizo minority. Even as indigenous ... Read more

    $21.89 USD