This volume contains a collection of essays dealing with the pressure put on academic freedom by the expansion of higher education. It includes considerations of academic freedom brought by the expansion of Western universities to illiberal societies, and by students coming from abroad to universities in the global north.
A Slow and Curvy Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century
Is the USA hospitable to the slow movement? The land of fast food, get-rich-quick schemes, and 24/7 news feeds? In Slow Culture and the American Dream: A Slow and Curvy Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century, Mary Caputi argues that the slow movement has much to teach the United States at this moment in time. Although the philosophy of slow is in ......
This book explores the impact that training has on officer decision-making during calls for service where an individual has a mental health disorder, from both an empirical and historical perspective.
Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from haircare to Nicki ......
The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children's classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Velazquez tells how ......
The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children's classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Velazquez tells how ......
Durante mas de cincuenta anos, Julia de Burgos ha evocado sentimientos de identidad y union entre puertorriquenos y latinos en Estados Unidos. Vanessa Perez-Rosario va mas alla del enfoque tragico de otras biografias de Burgos para examinar la vida de la artista considerando el trasfondo de la cultura puertorriquena y la compleja historia de la ......
Durante mas de cincuenta anos, Julia de Burgos ha evocado sentimientos de identidad y union entre puertorriquenos y latinos en Estados Unidos. Vanessa Perez-Rosario va mas alla del enfoque tragico de otras biografias de Burgos para examinar la vida de la artista considerando el trasfondo de la cultura puertorriquena y la compleja historia de la ......
Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives
Images of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. Elena Tajima Creef employs an Asian American feminist vantage point to examine ways of looking at indigenous Japanese Ainu women taking part in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition; Japanese immigrant picture brides of the ......
