In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small town to a global city against the backdrop of the ...U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Gilded Age economics, and American empire. It is a far-reaching transnational history, chronicling how Los Angeles boosters transformed the borderlands through urban and imperial capitalism at the end of the nineteenth century and how the Mexican Revolution redefined those same capitalist networks into the twentieth.
Kim draws on archives in the United States and Mexico to argue that financial networks emerging from Los Angeles drove economic transformations in the borderlands, reshaped social relations across wide swaths of territory, and deployed racial hierarchies to advance investment projects across the border. However, the Mexican Revolution, with its implicit critique of imperialism, disrupted the networks of investment and exploitation that had structured the borderlands for sixty years, and reconfigured transnational systems of infrastructure and trade. Kim provides the first history to connect Los Angeles's urban expansionism with more continental and global currents, and what results is a rich account of real and imagined geographies of city, race, and empire.
The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, ...assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration policies incited this violence and how the violence, in turn, provoked new exclusionary policies. Ultimately, Lew-Williams argues, Chinese expulsion and exclusion produced the concept of the "alien" in modern America. The Chinese Must Go begins in the 1850s, before federal border control established strict divisions between citizens and aliens. Across decades of felling trees and laying tracks in the American West, Chinese workers faced escalating racial conflict and unrest. In response, Congress passed the Chinese Restriction Act of 1882 and made its first attempt to bar immigrants based on race and class. When this unprecedented experiment in federal border control failed to slow Chinese migration, vigilantes attempted to take the matter into their own hands. Fearing the spread of mob violence, U.S. policymakers redoubled their efforts to keep the Chinese out, overhauling U.S. immigration law and transforming diplomatic relations with China.By locating the origins of the modern American alien in this violent era, Lew-Williams recasts the significance of Chinese exclusion in U.S. history. As The Chinese Must Go makes clear, anti-Chinese law and violence continues to have consequences for today's immigrants. The present resurgence of xenophobia builds mightily upon past fears of the "heathen Chinaman."
This comparative study focuses on three groups often seen as antagonistic—Blacks, Jews, and Irish. Resolutely aware of past tensions, Bornstein argues that the pendulum has swung too far in that ...direction and that it is time to recover the history of lost connections and cooperation among the groups. The chronological range stretches from Frederick Douglass’s tour of Ireland during the Great Famine of the 1840s through the 1940s with the catastrophe of World War II. The study ends with the concept of the Righteous Gentile commemorated at the Israeli Holocaust Memorial, Yad Vashem--non-Jews who during the Holocaust risked their own lives to rescue Jews from the horror of the Holocaust. Bornstein expands the term here to include all those Irish, Jewish, or African American figures who fought against narrow identification only with their own group and instead championed a wider and more humane vision of a shared humanity that sees hybridity rather than purity and love rather than resentment. The identity politics and culture wars of recent decades often made recognizing those positive qualities problematic. But with the election of a mixed-race president who himself embodies mixture and mutual respect (and who famously described himself as a “mutt"), the shallow and arbitrary nature of narrow identity politics become evident. This study recuperates strong voices from the past of all three groups in order to let them speak for themselves.
An engrossing biography of one of the most influential
filmmakers in cinematic history Kubrick grew up in the
Bronx, a doctor's son. From a young age he was consumed by
photography, chess, and, above ...all else, movies. He was a
self†'taught filmmaker and self†'proclaimed outsider, and his films
exist in a unique world of their own outside the Hollywood
mainstream. Kubrick's Jewishness played a crucial role in his idea
of himself as an outsider. Obsessed with rebellion against
authority, war, and male violence, Kubrick was himself a calm,
coolly masterful creator and a talkative, ever†'curious polymath
immersed in friends and family. Drawing on interviews and new
archival material, Mikics for the first time explores the personal
side of Kubrick's films.
Marriage Equality Eskridge, William N; Riano, Christopher R; Eskridge, William N., Jr
08/2020
eBook
The definitive history of the marriage equality debate in
the United States, praised by Library Journal as
"beautifully and accessibly written. . . . .An essential
work." As a legal scholar who first ...argued in the early
1990s for a right to gay marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr. has been
on the front lines of the debate over same†'sex marriage for
decades. In this book, Eskridge and his coauthor, Christopher R.
Riano, offer a panoramic and definitive history of America's
marriage equality debate. The authors explore the deeply religious,
rabidly political, frequently administrative, and pervasively
constitutional features of the debate and consider all angles of
its dramatic history. While giving a full account of the legal and
political issues, the authors never lose sight of the personal
stories of the people involved, or of the central place the right
to marry holds in a person's ability to enjoy the dignity of full
citizenship. This is not a triumphalist or one†'sided book but a
thoughtful history of how the nation wrestled with an important
question of moral and legal equality.
Selected for Arab America's Best Arab American Books of
2020 list. It comes as little surprise that Hollywood
films have traditionally stereotyped Arab Americans, but how are
Arab Americans portrayed ...in Arab films, and just as importantly,
how are they portrayed in the works of Arab American filmmakers
themselves? In this innovative volume, Mahdi offers a comparative
analysis of three cinemas, yielding rich insights on the layers of
representation and the ways in which those representations are
challenged and disrupted. Hollywood films have fostered reductive
imagery of Arab Americans since the 1970s as either a national
security threat or a foreign policy concern, while Egyptian
filmmakers have used polarizing images of Arab Americans since the
1990s to convey their nationalist critiques of the United States.
Both portrayals are rooted in anxieties around globalization,
migration, and US-Arab geopolitics. In contrast, Arab American
cinema provides a more complex, realistic, and fluid representation
of Arab American citizenship and the nuances of a transnational
identity. Exploring a wide variety of films from each cinematic
site, Mahdi traces the competing narratives of Arab American
belonging-how and why they vary, and what's at stake in their
circulation.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) measures the rates at which Americans are victims of crimes, including rape and sexual assault, but there is concern ...that rape and sexual assault are undercounted on this survey. BJS asked the National Research Council to investigate this issue and recommend best practices for measuring rape and sexual assault on their household surveys. Estimating the Incidence of Rape and Sexual Assault concludes that it is likely that the NCVS is undercounting rape and sexual assault. The most accurate counts of rape and sexual assault cannot be achieved without measuring them separately from other victimizations, the report says. It recommends that BJS develop a separate survey for measuring rape and sexual assault. The new survey should more precisely define ambiguous words such as "rape," give more privacy to respondents, and take other steps that would improve the accuracy of responses. Estimating the Incidence of Rape and Sexual Assault takes a fresh look at the problem of measuring incidents of rape and sexual assault from the criminal justice perspective. This report examines issues such as the legal definitions in use by the states for these crimes, best methods for representing the definitions in survey instruments so that their meaning is clear to respondents, and best methods for obtaining as complete reporting as possible of these crimes in surveys, including methods whereby respondents may report anonymously.
Rape and sexual assault are among the most injurious crimes a person can inflict on another. The effects are devastating, extending beyond the initial victimization to consequences such as unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, sleep and eating disorders, and other emotional and physical problems. Understanding the frequency and context under which rape and sexual assault are committed is vital in directing resources for law enforcement and support for victims. These data can influence public health and mental health policies and help identify interventions that will reduce the risk of future attacks. Sadly, accurate information about the extent of sexual assault and rape is difficult to obtain because most of these crimes go unreported to police. Estimating the Incidence of Rape and Sexual Assault focuses on methodology and vehicles used to measure rape and sexual assaults, reviews potential sources of error within the NCVS survey, and assesses the training and monitoring of interviewers in an effort to improve reporting of these crimes.
In response to denunciations of populism as undemocratic and
anti-intellectual, Intellectual Populism argues that
populism has contributed to a distinct and democratic intellectual
tradition in which ...ordinary people assume leading roles in the
pursuit of knowledge. Focusing on the Gilded Age and Progressive
Era, the decades that saw the birth of populism in the United
States, this book uses case studies of certain intellectual figures
to trace the key rhetorical appeals that proved capable of
resisting the status quo and building alternative communities of
inquiry. As this book shows, Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899), Mary
Baker Eddy (1821-1910), Thomas Davidson (1840-1900), Booker T.
Washington (1856-1915), and Zitkála-Šá (1876-1938) deployed
populist rhetoric to rally ordinary people as thinkers in new
intellectual efforts. Through these case studies, Intellectual
Populism demonstrates how orators and advocates can channel
the frustrations and energies of the American people toward
productive, democratic, intellectual ends.
From track and field to swimming and diving, and of course
basketball and soccer, Indiana University Olympians
celebrates over a century of Indiana University Olympic
competitors. Beginning in 1904, ...at the 3rd summer games in St.
Louis, IU's first Olympic medal went to pole vaulter LeRoy Samse
who earned a silver medal. In 2016, swimmer Lilly King rocketed
onto the world stage with two gold medals in the 31st Summer Games
in Rio de Janeiro.
Featuring profiles of 49 athletes who attended IU, Indiana
University Olympians includes the stories of well-known
figures like Milt Campbell, the first African American to win
decathlon gold and who went on to play pro football, and Mark
Spitz, winner of seven swimming gold medals. The book also
highlights fascinating anecdotes and the accomplishments of their
less well-known colleagues, including one athlete's humble
beginnings in a chicken house and another who earned a Silver Star
for heroism in the Vietnam War. Despite their different lives, they
share one key similarity-these remarkable athletes all called
Indiana University home.
The Limits of Libertychronicles the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border from the perspective of the "mobile peoples" who assisted in determining the international boundary from both sides in the ...mid-nineteenth century. In this historic and timely study, James David Nichols argues against the many top-down connotations that borders carry, noting that the state cannot entirely dominate the process of boundary marking. Even though there were many efforts on the part of the United States and Mexico to define the new international border as a limit, mobile peoples continued to transgress the border and cross it with impunity.Transborder migrants reimagined the dividing line as a gateway to opportunity rather than as a fence limiting their movement. Runaway slaves, Mexican debtpeones, and seminomadic Native Americans saw liberty on the other side of the line and crossed in search of greater opportunity. In doing so they devised their own border epistemology that clashed with official understandings of the boundary. These divergent understandings resulted in violence with the crossing of vigilantes, soldiers, and militias in search of fugitives and runaways.The Limits of Libertyexplores how the border attracted migrants from both sides and considers border-crossers together, whereas most treatments thus far have considered discrete social groups along the border. Mining Mexican archival sources, Nichols is one of the first scholars to explore the nuance of negotiation that took place between the state and mobile peoples in the formation of borders.
