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Argues that after human rights violations have occurred, the realm of representation - actual and fictional - is precisely the ground upon which struggles for justice and peace are waged in legal, emotional, and cultural terms. This work also focuses on various narratives about abuses, including those in South Africa, Rwanda, and Iraq.

Explores the process of tribal self-definition. Focusing on architectural and interior designs, as well as performance styles, this book reveals how a complex and often surprising cultural dynamic is created when Native Americans create lavish displays for the public's participation and consumption.

Provides a clear, scientifically based explanation of what happens to all the major organ systems and bodily processes - such as the cardiovascular and digestive systems - as people age. Throughout the book, Gary F. Merrill weaves in personal anecdotes and stories that help clarify and reinforce the facts and principles of the underlying scientific processes and explanations.

Considers the alignment of genetic science with commercial trends in genealogy, with legal and forensic developments, and with pharmaceutical innovation to examine how these trends lend renewed authority to biological understandings of race and history. Essays by scholars across a wide range of disciplines explore the emerging and often contested connections among race, DNA, and history.

Considers the alignment of genetic science with commercial trends in genealogy, with legal and forensic developments, and with pharmaceutical innovation to examine how these trends lend renewed authority to biological understandings of race and history. Essays by scholars across a wide range of disciplines explore the emerging and often contested connections among race, DNA, and history.

Examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives. Scholars study how age and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, work together to influence the historical experience. Spanning a broad time frame from 1750 to the present, thematically-arranged essays and case studies illuminate the various continuities and differences in girls' lives across culture and region.

A collection of essays written by college instructors from many disciplines. Each of the 29 contributors addresses one central question: what are the challenges facing a college professor who believes that teaching responsibly requires an honest and searching examination of race?

In American Cinema of the 2000s, essays from ten top film scholars examine such popular series as the groundbreaking Matrix films and the gripping adventures of former CIA covert operative Jason Bourne; new, offbeat films like Juno; and the resurgence of documentaries like Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.

Many Americans were surprised following the attacks of 9/11 at how easily the United States embraced torture as well as the supposedly lesser evil of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Extraordinary rendition—sending people captured in the “war on terror” to nations long counted among the world’s worst human rights violators—hid from the public eye cruel and bloody interrogations. In Rendition to Torture, Alan W. Clarke explains how the United States adopted torture as a matter of official policy; how and why it turned to extraordinary rendition as a way to outsource more extreme, mutilating forms of torture; and outlines the steps the United States took to hide its abuses.

Brings an evolutionary perspective to bear on issues of women in the workplace: the ""glass ceiling"", the ""gender gap"" in pay, sexual harassment, and occupational segregation. While acknowledging the role of discrimination and sexist socialization, Browne suggests that until we factor real biological differences between men and women into the equation, the explanation remains incomplete.

Presenting an overview of how human civilization has altered the face of the Earth, particularly by the destruction of forests, this book details the startling consequences of these actions. It provides compelling reasons for government officials, economic leaders, and the public to support efforts to save threatened and endangered plants.

The 21st century has ushered in a world at the atomic edge. This book explains that the abolition of nuclear weapons is both essential and achievable, and reveals what we need to do to make it a reality. It explores the possible verification measures, enforcement mechanisms, and governance structures of a nuclear weapon-free world.

Explores the author own past as the daughter of Holocaust survivors to reflect on the nature of history and memory. Through her parents' experiences and the stories they recounted, this title defines her engagement as a historian and used these skills to understand her parents' lives.

Documents the rise and fall of industrial war. Examining how the mainstream press along with the writings of a select group of influential reformers and politicians framed strike news, this book argues that the Civil War, coming on the cusp of a revolution in industrial productivity, offered a gruesome, indelible model for national conflict.

Can a type of music be 'owned'? Examining how music is linked to racial constructs and how African American musicians and audiences reacted to white appropriation, this title shows the stakes when whites claim the right to play and live the blues. It highlights the performers and venues that represented changing racial politics.

Neurasthenic Nation investigates how the concept of neurasthenia, the ill effects of modern civilization such as insomnia or impotence, helped doctors and patients, men and women, and advertisers and consumers negotiate changes commonly associated with ï¿¿modernity.ï¿¿ Combining a survey of medical and popular literature on neurasthenia with original research into rare archives of personal letters, patient records, and corporate files, David Schuster charts the emergence of a ï¿¿neurasthenic nationï¿¿â€"a place where people saw their personal health as inextricably tied to the pitfalls and possibilities of a changing world.

Offers the first comprehensive overview of the history, people, films, and multiple functions of the festival world. From Sundance to Hong Kong, from the glitter of Cannes to edgier festivals that challenge boundaries or foster LGBTQ cultural production, film festivals celebrate art, promote business, bring cinema to diverse audiences, and raise key issues about how we see our world.

How do societies come to terms with the aftermath of genocide and mass violence, and how might the international community contribute to this process? This argues that, however well-intentioned, transitional justice needs to more deeply grapple with the complexities of global and transnational involvements and the local on-the-ground realities with which they intersect.

Traces the philosophy and historical development of the field of Chicana/o studies from precursor movements to the Civil Rights era to today, focusing its lens on the political machinations in higher education that sought to destroy the discipline.

This is the first book devoted to exploring the racial politics of college athletics, examining the history of African Americans on predominantly white college football teams from the 19th century through today.

Argues that the media have largely misrepresented the debate about modern masculinity and maleness. The author discusses Promise Keepers rallies, mythopoetic gatherings, white supremacists; accuses antifeminists as the real male bashers and questions the assertions that men suffer from domestic violence to the same degree as women.

Employing historical and contemporary data and case studies, this title examines tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, anxiety, and depression, and identify differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment.