Drawing Liberalism is the first book-length critical
examination of the political and social impact of the political
cartoonist Herbert Block-popularly known as Herblock. Working for
the Washington ...Post , Herblock played a central role in
shaping, propagandizing, and defending the ideals of postwar
liberalism, a normative set of values and assumptions that
dominated American politics and culture after World War II.
Best remembered for his unrelenting opposition to and skewering
cartoons of Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon, Herblock introduced
the term "McCarthyism" into the American political lexicon. With
its unstinting and unapologetic support for the liberal agenda,
across a career spanning over fifty years at the Post ,
Herblock's work affords a unique lens through which to interpret
and understand the shifts and contours of twentieth-century
American political culture, from the postwar period through the
civil rights era into the Nixon presidency.
What does a culture of evidence really look like in higher education?The use of big data and the rapid acceleration of storage and analytics tools have led to a revolution of data use in higher ...education. Institutions have moved from relying largely on historical trends and descriptive data to the more widespread adoption of predictive and prescriptive analytics. Despite this rapid evolution of data technology and analytics tools, universities and colleges still face a number of obstacles in their data use. In How Colleges Use Data, Jonathan S. Gagliardi presents college and university leaders with an important resource to help cultivate, implement, and sustain a culture of evidence through the ethical and responsible use and adoption of data and analytics. Gagliardi provides a broad context for data use among colleges, including key concepts and use cases related to data and analytics. He also addresses the different dimensions of data use and highlights the promise and perils of the widespread adoption of data and analytics, in addition to important elements of implementing and scaling a culture of evidence.Demystifying data and analytics, the book helps faculty and administrators understand important topics, including:• How to define institutional aspirations using data• Equity and student success• Strategic finance and resource optimization• Academic quality and integrity• Data governance and utility• Implicit and explicit bias in data• Implementation and planning• How data will be used in the futureHow Colleges Use Data helps college and university leaders understand what a culture of evidence in higher education truly looks like.
The formation of a group identity has always been a major preoccupation of Mexican American political organizations, whether they seek to assimilate into the dominant Anglo society or to remain ...separate from it. Yet organizations that sought to represent a broad cross section of the Mexican American population, such as LULAC and the American G.I. Forum, have dwindled in membership and influence, while newer, more targeted political organizations are prospering—clearly suggesting that successful political organizing requires more than shared ethnicity and the experience of discrimination. This book sheds new light on the process of political identity formation through a study of the identity politics practiced by four major Mexican American political organizations—the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice, the Southwest Industrial Areas Foundation, the Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers of Commerce, and the Mexican American Women’s National Association (now known as MANA—A National Latina Organization). Through interviews with activists in each organization and research into their records, Benjamin Marquez clarifies the racial, class-based, and cultural factors that have caused these organizations to create widely differing political identities. He likewise demonstrates why their specific goals resonate only with particular segments of the Mexican American community.
How and why the idea of wellness holds such rhetorical—and harmful—power.In Why Wellness Sells, Colleen Derkatch examines why the concept of wellness holds such rhetorical power in contemporary ...culture. Public interest in wellness is driven by two opposing philosophies of health that cycle into and amplify each other: restoration, where people use natural health products to restore themselves to prior states of wellness; and enhancement, where people strive for maximum wellness by optimizing their body's systems and functions. Why Wellness Sells tracks the tension between these two ideas of wellness across a variety of sources, including interviews, popular and social media, advertising, and online activism. Derkatch examines how wellness manifests across multiple domains, where being well means different things, ranging from a state of pre-illness to an empowered act of good consumer-citizenship, from physical or moral purification to sustenance and care, and from harm reduction to optimization. Along the way, Derkatch demonstrates that the idea of wellness may promise access to the good life, but it serves primarily as a strategy for coping with a devastating and overwhelming present.Drawing on scholarship in the rhetoric of health and medicine, the health and medical humanities, and related fields, Derkatch offers a nuanced account of how language, belief, behavior, experience, and persuasion collide to produce and promote wellness, one of the most compelling—and harmful—concepts that govern contemporary Western life. She explains that wellness has become so pervasive in the United States and Canada because it is an ever-moving, and thus unachievable, goal. The concept of wellness entrenches an individualist model of health as a personal responsibility, when collectivist approaches would more readily serve the health and well-being of whole populations.
Growing political radicalization and polarization in American government has created a scarcity of civilian leadership, knowledge, expertise, and power. Political rivals and adversaries, too busy ...combating each other, have abandoned the helm of the ship of state, setting reason, compromise, intellectual curiosity, and effective governing adrift. A faction of exceptionally capable and influential guardians—America’s military elites—increasingly fill roles in civil society and government intended for competent, democratically elected or political appointed civilian leadership accountable to the American electorate.
Todd Schmidt demonstrates that US military elites play an exceptionally powerful role due to their extraordinary powerful role due to their extraordinary influence over policy process, outcome, and implementation. Through personal interviews with high-ranking national security experts across six presidential administrations, Schmidt concludes that nuanced relationships between military elites, the president, and Congress; decision-making in national security and foreign policy; and the balance of power in civil-military relations suggest a potential trend of praetorian behavior among military elites. A silent coup of the guardians has occurred, and professionals and citizens need to ask what should be done rebalance US civil-military relations.
A historical look at how activists influenced the adoption of more positive, inclusive, and sociopolitical views of disability.Disability activism has fundamentally changed American society for the ...better—and along with it, the views and practices of many clinical professionals. After 1945, disability self-advocates and family advocates pushed for the inclusion of more positive, inclusive, and sociopolitical perspectives on disability in clinical research, training, and practice. In Disability Dialogues, Andrew J. Hogan highlights the contributions of disabled people—along with their family members and other allies—in changing clinical understandings and approaches to disability.Hogan examines the evolving medical, social, and political engagement of three postwar professions—clinical psychology, pediatrics, and genetic counseling—with disability and disability-related advocacy. Professionals in these fields historically resisted adopting a more inclusive and accepting perspective on people with disabilities primarily due to concerns about professional role, identity, and prestige. In response to the work of disability activists, however, these attitudes gradually began to change. Disability Dialogues provides an important contribution to historical, sociological, and bioethical accounts of disability and clinical professionalization. Moving beyond advocacy alone, Hogan makes the case for why present-day clinical professional fields need to better recruit and support disabled practitioners. Disabled clinicians are uniquely positioned to combine biomedical expertise with their lived experiences of disability and encourage greater tolerance for disabilities among their colleagues, students, and institutions.
The formation of new states was an essential feature of US expansion throughout the long nineteenth century, and debates over statehood and states' rights were waged not only in legislative ...assemblies but also in newspapers, maps, land surveys, and other forms of print and visual culture. Assessing these texts and archives, Kathryn Walkiewicz theorizes the logics of federalism and states' rights in the production of US empire, revealing how they were used to imagine states into existence while clashing with relational forms of territoriality asserted by Indigenous and Black people. Walkiewicz centers her analysis on statehood movements to create the places now called Georgia, Florida, Kansas, Cuba, and Oklahoma. In each case she shows that Indigenous dispossession and anti-Blackness scaffolded the settler-colonial project of establishing states' rights. But dissent and contestation by Indigenous and Black people imagined alternative paths, even as their exclusion and removal reshaped and renamed territory. By recovering this tension, Walkiewicz argues we more fully understand the role of state-centered discourse as an expression of settler colonialism. We also come to see the possibilities for a territorial ethic that insists on thinking beyond the boundaries of the state.
This history reveals how radical threats to the United
States empire became seditious threats to national security and
exposes the antiradical and colonial origins of anti-Asian
racism. Menace to ...Empire transforms familiar
themes in American history. This profoundly ambitious history of
race and empire traces both the colonial violence and the
anticolonial rage that the United States spread across the Pacific
between the Philippine-American War and World War II. Moon-Ho Jung
argues that the US national security state as we know it was born
out of attempts to repress and silence anticolonial subjects, from
the Philippines and Hawaiʻi to California and beyond. Jung examines
how various revolutionary movements spanning the Pacific confronted
the US empire. In response, the US state closely monitored and
brutally suppressed those movements, exaggerating fears of
pan-Asian solidarities and sowing anti-Asian racism. Radicalized by
their opposition to the US empire and racialized as threats to US
security, peoples in and from Asia pursued a revolutionary politics
that engendered and haunted the national security state-the heart
and soul of the US empire ever since.
This social and cultural history of Civil War medicine and science sheds important light on the question of why and how anti-Black racism survived the destruction of slavery. During the war, white ...Northerners promoted ideas about Black inferiority under the guise of medical and scientific authority. In particular, the Sanitary Commission and Army medical personnel conducted wartime research aimed at proving Black medical and biological inferiority. They not only subjected Black soldiers and refugees from slavery to substandard health care but also scrutinized them as objects of study. This mistreatment of Black soldiers and civilians extended after life to include dissection, dismemberment, and disposal of the Black war dead in unmarked or mass graves and medical waste pits. Simultaneously, white medical and scientific investigators enhanced their professional standing by establishing their authority on the science of racial difference and hierarchy. Drawing on archives of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, recollections of Civil War soldiers and medical workers, and testimonies from Black Americans, Leslie A. Schwalm exposes the racist ideas and practices that shaped wartime medicine and science. Painstakingly researched and accessibly written, this book helps readers understand the persistence of anti-Black racism and health disparities during and after the war.
Presents a unique view of social problems and conflicts
over urban space from the cab of an
ambulance. While we imagine ambulances as a site for
critical care, the reality is far more complicated. ...Social
problems, like homelessness, substance abuse, and the health
consequences of poverty, are encountered every day by Emergency
Medical Services (EMS) workers. Written from the lens of a
sociologist who speaks with the fluency of a former Emergency
Medical Technician (EMT), Medicine at the Margins delves
deeply into the world of EMTs and paramedics in American cities, an
understudied element of our health care system. Like the public
hospital, the EMS system is a key but misunderstood part of our
system of last resort. Medicine at the Margins presents a
unique prism through which urban social problems, the health care
system, and the struggling social safety net refract and intersect
in largely unseen ways. Author Christopher Prener examines the
forms of marginality that capture the reality of urban EMS work and
showcases the unique view EMS providers have of American urban
life. The rise of neighborhood stigma and the consequences it holds
for patients who are assumed by providers to be malingering is
critical for understanding not just the phenomenon of non- or
sub-acute patient calls but also why they matter for all patients.
This sense of marginality is a defining feature of the experience
of EMS work and is a statement about the patient population whom
urban EMS providers care for daily. Prener argues that the
pre-hospital health care system needs to embrace its role in the
social safety net and how EMSs' future is in community practice of
paramedicine, a port of a broader mandate of pre-hospital health
care. By leaning into this work, EMS providers are uniquely
positioned to deliver on the promise of community medicine. At a
time when we are considering how to rely less on policing, the EMS
system is already tasked with treating many of the social problems
we think would benefit from less involvement with law involvement.
Medicine at the Margins underscores why the EMS system is
so necessary and the ways in which it can be expanded.
