Bøger udgivet af Temple University Press,U.S.

Considers the many ways in which Chinese living in the United States during the exclusion era maintained ties with China through a constant flow of people, economic resources, as well as political and cultural ideas. This book describes the changing patterns of Chinese immigration and strategies for circumventing exclusion laws.

Compelling analysis of the persistent inability of the United States to meet the housing needs of a large portion of its people.

From 1946 until 1954, 'Art in Cinema' presented programs of independent film to audiences at the San Francisco Museum of Art and at the University of California, Berkeley. This book offers documentation of this film society and is intended for cineastes, students, teachers and scholars.

Examines the rich history and changing repertories of sabar drumming, including dance rhythms and bakks, musical phrases derived from spoken words. Highlight the virtuosity and musical skill of the percussionist, this work also considers the burgeoning popular music genre called mbalax. It is accompanied by a Compact Disc.

Examines the Latino impact on New England, a region perceived as a hub of civility and tolerance, but which has become a testing ground for public policies that challenge this progressive reputation. This book also examines the interactions between Latino sub-groups - in their community organizations, political projects, and cultural settings.

Planners and policy makers need to reformulate community economic development in ways that account for the particularities of different minority groups. This book considers these challenges by examining case studies of economic development and job creation in different physical and social settings across the nation.

Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 reflects America's aspirational belief that girls and boys, women and men, both deserve equal educational opportunities in athletics. This book shows how this ideal has been both implemented and thwarted over the years via actions in the legislature, executive and judicial branches of government.

Marvin Wachman's memoir centres on the experiences and events that prepared him to lead two distinguished universities.

Contests the dominance of materialist and cultural critiques in Asian American literary discourse by re-centering critical attention around issues of aesthetics and literary form.

Examines social capital across an array of social contexts and time periods within a single city, Philadelphia. This book explores the role of social networks in voter behaviour, large-scale cultural projects, park advocacy, education, economic development, neighbourhood life, church participation, and political activism.

Examines the impacts of electronics manufacturing on workers and local environments around the world. This book provides multidimensional perspectives on the science and the politics of environmental and social justice, documenting the efforts of community and labour activists, government agencies, and others.

Examines the world of communications as a space of mobility that overlaps uneasily with the world of sovereign, territorial nation-states. This book investigates specific policy problems encountered as international organizations try to "manage" a space that contradicts and supports existing systems of governance, identity, and technology.

An anthology that provides a prismatic look at the cross-fertilization between Chinese film and global popular culture. It explores how issues of immigration, class, race and economic displacement are viewed on a global level, providing an understanding of the impact of Chinese filmmaking at home and abroad.

Examines the world of workforce intermediaries - entrepreneurial partnerships that include businesses, unions, community colleges, and community organizations. This book also examines the development and effectiveness of these intermediaries.

Includes essays on the history of media arts, the Video Data Bank, video activism, experimental performance art, and the collection of the Data Bank, the On Art and Artists Collection.

Explores the relationship between the well-established practice of oral history and the burgeoning field of memory studies. This title explains the processes by which oral histories move beyond interviews with individual people to become articulated memories shared by others.

A collection of essays which examine the ways in which the colonial history of the Philippines has shaped Filipino American identity, culture, and community formation. It shows how an understanding of this history provides a foundation for theoretical frameworks for Filipino American studies.

Race matters in both national and international politics. Starting from this perspective, this work presents original essays from African American political scientists. These essays evaluate the discipline, its subfields, the quality of race-related research, and omissions in the literature.

As in most social science research, gender in medicalisation scholarship translates as females. In short, the male body in the study of gender, health, and medicalization largely has been ignored. This work considers what these scholarly traditions have missed by presenting research into the definition and regulation of masculinity by medicine.

Includes the essays that analyze Chicago by way of globalization and its impact on the contemporary city; economic restructuring; the evolution of machine-style politics into managerial politics; physical transformations of the central city and its suburbs; and, race relations in a multicultural era.

Takes us through the various aspects of our 'financialization'. This title examines how the shift in economic life arose not only from changes in culture, but also from new policy priorities that emphasize controlling inflation over promoting growth.

In 1996, Congress passed expansive laws to control illegal immigration, imposing mandatory detention and deportation for even minor violations. Critics argued that such legislation violated civil liberties and human rights. This title offers recommendations for reform along with an understanding of immigration.

An edition of the classic inspirational speech.

Written by two of the Philadelphia area's respected meteorologists, this book answers questions about this region's weather and climate, from the Poconos and Philadelphia to southern New Jersey and the Shore to Delaware. It also offers the history of the region's pivotal role in the development of weather science that goes back to colonial times.

Takes us on a tour through American sports. Offering profiles of the athletes we love, this title shows that sport, more than any other nationwide pastime, is the way we come to understand and alter race relations, gender, and how we communicate with each other in ways that are often given too little credit in the minds of intellectuals.

Single parent families in the United States have almost tripled in the past few decades. A huge majority of these families are female headed. This title focuses on the program, the Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund, which has since 1984 provided scholarships for single parents interested in obtaining their post-secondary education.

Tells the author's story of moral courage and commitment to social change. This memoir focuses on the formative experiences that made her an activist for social justice before her academic career began. Hers is a story about surviving hardship and summoning the courage to live according to one's convictions.

Covers the big-time teams and events and amateur and college sports of Philadelphia. This book helps readers relive the days of Penn football and Bobby Jones' completion of the Grand Slam at Merion, the Eagles' defeat of the Packers in the NFL championship game and the Phillies' World Series championship in 1980.

Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel has long opposed the silence of bystanders that allows atrocities like the Holocaust to occur. Nevertheless, since the 1980s, Wiesel has come under criticism for his refusal to speak out about the State of Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people.