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Tells the story of two developments in the 1950s: the decline of classical Hollywood cinema and the emergence of the American teenager. This book interprets teenpic film types such as clean teenpics. It examines films in light of their impact on the motion picture industry and in terms of their role in validating the teenage subculture.

Service learning has become an institutionalized practice in higher education. Students are sent out to disadvantaged communities to paint, tutor, feed, and help organize communities. This book explores the impact of service learning on a community, and considers the unequal relationship between the community and the academy.

A biography of Robert Kennedy. It shows him as a committed advocate for social justice and a savvy politician in his own right. It offers a detailed and nuanced account of how Robert was transformed from a seemingly unpromising youngster, unlikely to match the accomplishments of his older brother, to the forceful man who ran the family business '.

Cultural changes have led to a proliferation of new social movements in Europe and the United States. This book helps to redefine the field of social movements, and offer an understanding of them through cross-cultural research, comparison with older movements, and examine the dimensions of identity individual, collective, and melding of the two.

When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and called upon to defend the Hawaiian islands against invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military government disarmed them. This book tells the story of the wartime experience of these young men.

"What is the connection, if any, between the author's intentions in (while) writing a work of literature and the truth of interpretive statements about it?" This title introduces a literary debate that has been waged for the past four decades and is addressed by philosophers and literary theorists in Intention and Interpretation.

Offers a radical feminist perspective on the "political conditions of sexual love." Recognizing that "sexual life always exists in definite socioeconomic contexts," this book develops a theory that elucidates the question: Why does men's social and political power persist even in Western societies where women have socioeconomic equality?

The medical model of childbirth emphasizes the pathological potential of pregnancy and birth, while an alternative model focuses on the normalcy of pregnancy and its potential for health. This is an account of the forces that intersect over the issue of childbirth that explains the conceptual and philosophical differences between these models.

The Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia began in 1984 as a summer youth program with modest support from city government. Now three decades later, the Mural Arts Program has created more than 3,800 murals and public art projects that have made lasting imprints in every Philadelphia neighborhood. This book deals with this program.

Trumpeter Joe Wilder is distinguished for his achievements in both the jazz and classical worlds. He was a founding member of the Symphony of the New World, where he played first trumpet, and he performed as lead trumpet and soloist with Lionel Hampton, Jimmy Lunceford, Dizzy Gillespie, and Count Basie.

Provides original and critical analysis of the state of the social sciences and the humanities. This book examines the different disciplines that address human affairs - from sociology, philosophy, political science, and anthropology to the humanities in general - to understand their common ground.

Provides a critical overview of the key themes of this school of thought, which explains how phenomena and ways of thinking develop in their social contexts. This book traces the multiple roots of social constructionism, and shows how it has been used, critiqued, and refined within the social and human sciences.

Profiles of college athletes and teams that challenged the color line in America

How computer technologists developed an occupational identity that persists in cyberspace long after the dot-com bubble has burst

Makes an important contribution to the literature of risk research.

What freedom looked like for black Americans in the Civil War era

Reveals how four very different women seek a sense of belonging, identity and home through the lifelong process of immigration

A disabled woman confronts body image, sexuality, bias, discrimination and condescension as she fashions an independent and fulfilling life

On the historic 50th Anniversary, this reissued edition looks at the contemporary meanings and influences of images of the JFK assassination by filmmakers, photographers, and artists

Highlights the unique relationship between popular culture and international relations

The travails in the changing world of women as athletes and sports fans

From the author of the classic Black Feminist Thought, a book on the nature and value of the public intellectual

How people used popular culture between the world wars to articulate sexual identities and practices

Focuses on cinema in Eastern Europe in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc

How neoliberal politics appropriates sports for its own ends

Presents a theory of posttraumatic film based on the encounter between cinema and the Holocaust. This book focuses on a group of crucial documentary and fiction films that were pivotal to the spread of this cinematic form across different nations and genres.

Like rap in the United States, bachata began as a music of the poor and dispossessed. This book traces the impact of political upheaval and rural migrations on the development of bachata and the Dominican music industry. It also analyzes the changing attitudes about bachata and its principal musical competitor, merengue.

A memoir of a political prisoner from Mexico's "dirty war" of the 1970s. It provides an inside story of guerrilla activities and a tale of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Mexican government.

Asks why has the law failed to protect animals from exploitation? Exploring different facets of this issue, this title discusses the history of the treatment of animals, anticruelty statutes, vivisection, the Federal Animal Welfare Act, and specific cases such as the controversial injury of anaesthetized baboons at the University of Pennsylvania.

Exploring the limits of and contradictions of transitional justice