Drawing on qualitative studies conducted between 1998 and 2001, the authors of the book provide important information on historic and current trends in assisted living systems serving African Americans.
How African-American mayors of major cities from Los Angeles to New York and Detroit to New Orleans met the post-election challenges of decaying inner cities, white flight, entrenched local power structures, and multiple demands from their diverse constituencies.On November 7, 1967, the voters of Cleveland, Ohio, and Gary, Indiana, elected the ......
Using Honduras as a case study, Jeffrey T. Jackson illuminates the processes by which wealthy western countries target countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for political economic construction, or nation building. In the process, he draws a provocative connection between the efforts of international development workers and ......
The practice of female genital cutting, sometimes referred to as female circumcision and common in a number of African states, has attracted increasing attention in recent years and mobilized strong international opposition. While it typically produces a visceral response of horror and revulsion in Westerners, the practice is widely regarded in ......
In Middle Woodland times (ch. 100 B.C.-A.D.300) the lower Illinois Valley was a cradle of Hopewellian cultural development. This volume assembles and reprints all fifteen of the published seminal pioneer archeological studies of this era and for the first time publishes two important never-before-seen pioneer mound excavation manuscripts.
American Indians urbanized more quickly in the second half of the twentieth century than any other racial or ethnic group in the country. This dynamic social history focuses on Chicago during a thirty year period of remarkable demographic growth that saw the city's American Indian population increase by twentyfold. More than an outgrowth of public ......
In Defense of Asian American Studies amounts to tales from the trenches on the origins and evolution of the field of Asian American studies, as told by one of its founders and most highly regarded scholars. With great intellectual energy, critical acumen, and a sly sense of humor, Sucheng Chan discusses her experiences on three campuses within the ......
B. F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities
In Walden Two, behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner describes one of the most controversial fictional utopias of the twentieth century. During the 1960s and 70s, this novel went on to inspire approximately three dozen actual communities, which are entertainingly examined in Hilke Kuhlmann's Living Walden Two.In the novel, behavioral engineers use ......
Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880-1950
In the late nineteenth century, midwifery was transformed into a new woman's profession as part of Japan's modernizing quest for empire. With the rise of Japanese immigration to the United States, Japanese midwives (sanba) served as cultural brokers as well as birth attendants for Issei women. They actively participated in the creation of Japanese ......
