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The late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed a surge in the publication and popularity of autobiographical writings about childhood. Linking literary and cultural studies, Drawing on trauma and memory studies and theories of authorship and readership, this title offers commentary on the triumphs, trials, and tribulations that have shaped this genre.

Dr Mary Walker is recognized in the fields of literature, feminist and gender studies, history, psychology, and sociology. This biography showcases Walker as a Medal of Honor recipient, examining her work as an activist, author, and Civil War surgeon, along with the many nineteenth-century issues she championed.

Latina/os are one of the largest minority population in the United States. They are also one of the fastest growing. Gathering empirical work in the social and behavioral sciences, this reader offers us a critical lens through which to understand these images and the social context framing Latina/os and their sexualities.

Represents the changes occurring in Asian American communities and the world, changes that require a reconsideration of how the interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies is defined and taught. This anthology summarizes and defines the shape of this field, addressing topics such as transnationalism, US imperialism, racism and immigration.

Examines the context in which the nurse practitioner movement emerged, how large political and social movements influenced it, and how it contributed to the changing definition of medical care. This title describes how this evolution helped create a foundation for health policies that emerged at the end of the twentieth century.

Focuses on the intersection of religion and civic engagement among Miami's immigrant and minority groups. This work examines the role of religious organizations in developing social relationships and how these relationships affect the broader civic world.

Details collaborations between guruled devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. This book analyzes the operations of several high-profile religious orders that organize large-scale public blood-giving events.

Explores a tale of political corruption and repression and immigrants' struggles against dominant social codes of race, ethnicity, and class. This work tells the story of small lives merging into a movement for change and of the human struggle for freedom and dignity.

Evaluates the viability of public policy in the intimate affairs of marriage, and also explores how growing public discourse is causing men and women to rethink the meaning of marriage.

The 1960s are commonly considered to be the beginning of a distinct ""teenage culture"" in America. But did this highly visible era of free love and rock 'n' roll really mark the start of adolescent defiance? This title follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.

Presents a collection of representative historical texts that serve to trace and to illuminate the development of conceptions, policies, and treatments in public health from the dawn of Western civilization through the Progressive Era of the early twentieth century. This book provides annotated readings and biographical details.

Female drug addicts are often stereotyped either as promiscuous, lazy, and selfish, or as weak, scared, and trapped into addiction. This title presents a critical feminist analysis of the drug world. By shifting the discussion to one centered on women's agency and empowerment, it reveals the experiences and social relationships of women addicts.

The dawn of the 20th century in Japan witnessed the rise of a peculiar problem: the ""Woman Problem."" This book focuses on this female image as it was debated in popular newspapers and magazines in the 1910s as well as on the lives of a specific group of women - members of the feminist literary organization known as the Seitosha.

Examines the complex interplay between racial fears and anxieties and the political-visual cultures of suspicion and state terror. This work helps readers to consider how media technologies are ""haunted"" by the phantom of racial slavery. It is an exploration of the legacies of black visual culture and the political, deeply sexualized violence.

Focuses on the ways in which the comic persona is constructed and changes across media, from stand-up, to the small screen, to film. This title examines the comic televisual and cinematic personae of Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, Flip Wilson, and Richard Pryor and considers how these figures set the stage for black comedy.

Based on over one hundred interviews with individuals of diverse faith traditions, this book shows how prayer, meditation, and ritual provide foundations for activism. It argues that spirituality plays an important role in the making of activists and has the potential for changing the social order.

Draws on the author's daily observations of working children in Hanoi and argues that the youngsters are misunderstood by the majority of agencies that seek to support them. Looking at the experiences of children in contemporary Vietnam, she provides an analysis of how internationally led human rights agendas are often received on the local level.

Collectively urging scholars and educators to pay attention to the material conditions out of which literature arises, this book inaugurates a critical realism in American literary studies. It provides a crucial link in the growing need to merge theory and practice with the goal of reconnecting the ivory tower elite to the activists on the street.

Who Owns Culture? offers analysis of cultural authorship and appropriation within American law. From indigenous art to Linux, it takes the reader on a tour between law and culture and provides insights into communal authorship, cultural appropriation, intellectual property law, and the formation of American culture.

Generations after its demise, Ebbets Field remains the single most colorful and enduring image of a baseball park, with a treasured niche in the game's legacy and the American imagination. This book chronicles the ballpark's vibrant history from the drawing board to the wrecking ball, beginning with Charley Ebbets and the heralded opening in 1913.

What did it mean for people of colour to speak or writ ""white""? More specifically, how many and what kinds of meaning could such ""white"" writing carry? This work looks at how America has racialized language and aesthetic achievement.

Here, journalists can find the facts they need to cover complex and controversial environmental health stories accurately. It is also a resource for librarians, students, editors and anyone who wishes to better understand the who, what, where, why and how of the media reports on the environment.

This collection traces the development of the discipline of geography with its different institutional and political trajectories in the US and Great Britain. It is divided into four areas of geographic concern: time zones; commodities and exchanges; domestic fronts; and orientations.

This volume offers an approach to representing work in the lives of black women in the United States. Contributors from many fields explore an array of lives and activities, allowing the reader to see the importance of black women's labour in the aftermath of slavery.

Examines the work of contemporary African-American women artists, focusing on four ""problems"" that recur when these artists confront their histories: the documentation of truth; the status of the black female body; and the relationships between art and cultural contact, and art and black girlhood.

This text takes a balanced approach in analyzing the emotionally charged debate of euthanasia, viewing the dispute from public policy and international perspectives. The author offers an interdisciplinary study in medicine, law, religion and ethics.

This study examines the history of American thoroughbred racing, in particular the story behind the Jockey Club - formed in 1894 by the nation's richest and most powerful men - which still continues to exert a formidable influence on this ""sport of kings"".

This volume contains two collections of Mitsuye Yamada's poetry: """"Camp Notes and Other Writings"""" and """"Desert Run: Poems and Stories"""".

This study presents a broad analysis of the late-20th century political and social factors which the authors believe draw right wing radicals from both sides of the Atlantic closer together.