Using examples from both mainstream and niche media - from prime-time television series to specialty Christian media and audience interactions on social media, this book draws upon a variety of disciplines including communication studies, sociology, and cultural studies in order to understand emergent strategies for framing post-racial America.
Using examples from both mainstream and niche media - from prime-time television series to specialty Christian media and audience interactions on social media, this book draws upon a variety of disciplines including communication studies, sociology, and cultural studies in order to understand emergent strategies for framing post-racial America.
This timely and critical book takes on a new phenomenon facing the United States and poses the stark question: Will the United States be prepared by 2050, when its older population doubles and we become a majority-minority society? In the authors' response, scholars, policy leaders and the public are provided with the background and information ......
Finding local solutions when the nation cannot, or will not. This book cites many positive examples of how cities across the US have taken the lead in dealing creatively with their local problems - even while the national government too often was gripped in partisan gridlock. The authors call for a twenty-first century localism, one attuned to the ......
A New Framework for Telecommunications Policy for the 21st Century
The twenty-first-century telecommunications landscape is radically different from the one that prevailed as recently as the last decade of the twentieth century. This book presents the kind of fundamental rethinking needed to bring communications policy in line with technological advances.
How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders are stepping up and powering the nation forward. In The Metropolitan Revolution, Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley highlight success stories and the people ......
Dada, Data, and the Threshold of Electronic Literature
The Literature of Exclusion considers what effects the shift from a culture of language to a culture of digital code has on lived experience. While data offers a closed system, Dadaist literature of exclusion, he suggests, promises a future of open alternatives for self-narration.
This book examines the British Indian Army during the later colonial era, from the First Afghan War in 1839 to Indian independence in 1947. During this period, it developed from an internal policing force to a frontier army, and later to a conventional Western-style fighting force.
The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community
The complete story of Jewish Harlem and its significance in American Jewish history New York Times columnist David W. Dunlap wrote a decade ago that "on the map of the Jewish Diaspora, Harlem Is Atlantis. . . . A vibrant hub of industry, artistry and wealth is all but forgotten. It is as if Jewish Harlem sank 70 years ago beneath waves of memory ......
