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Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full
story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in
Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and
including much new information from early draft scripts and scores,
this book reveals how Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern created
Show Boat in the crucible of the Jazz Age to fit the talents of the
show's original 1927 cast. After showing how major figures such as
Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan defined the content of the show, the
book goes on to detail how Show Boat was altered by later
directors, choreographers, and performers up to the end of the
twentieth century. All the major New York productions are covered,
as are five important London productions and four Hollywood
versions.
Again and again, the story of Show Boat circles back to the power
of performers to remake the show, winning appreciative audiences
for over seven decades. Unlike most Broadway musicals, Show Boat
put black and white performers side by side. This book is the first
to take Show Boat's innovative interracial cast as the defining
feature of the show. From its beginnings, Show Boat juxtaposed the
talents of black and white performers and mixed the conventions of
white-cast operetta and the black-cast musical. Bringing black and
white onto the same stage--revealing the mixed-race roots of
musical comedy--Show Boat stimulated creative artists and
performers to renegotiate the color line as expressed in the
American musical. This tremendous longevity allowed Show Boat to
enter a creative dialogue with the full span of Broadway history.
Show Boat's voyage through the twentieth century offers a vantage
point on more than just the Broadway musical. It tells a complex
tale of interracial encounter performed in popular music and dance
on the national stage during a century of profound transformations.
The civil wars that brought down the Roman Republic were fought on
more than battlefields. Armed gangs infested the Italian
countryside, in the city of Rome mansions were besieged, and
bounty-hunters searched the streets for "public enemies." Among the
astonishing stories to survive from these years is that of a young
woman whose parents were killed, on the eve of her wedding, in the
violence engulfing Italy. While her future husband fought overseas,
she staved off a run on her father's estate. Despite an acute
currency shortage, she raised money to help her fiance in exile.
And when several years later, her husband, back in Rome, was
declared an outlaw, she successfully hid him, worked for his
pardon, and joined other Roman women in staging a public protest.
The wife's tale is known only because her husband had inscribed on
large slabs of marble the elaborate eulogy he gave at her funeral.
Though no name is given on the inscriptions, starting as early as
the seventeenth century, scholars saw saw similarities between the
contents of the inscription and the story, preserved in literary
sources, of one Turia, the wife of Quintus Lucretius. Although the
identification remains uncertain, and in spite of the other
substantial gaps in the text of the speech, the "Funeral Speech for
Turia" (Laudatio Turiae), as it is still conventionally called,
offers an extraordinary window into the life of a high-ranking
woman at a critical moment of Roman history. In this book Josiah
Osgood reconstructs the wife's life more fully than it has been
before by bringing in alongside the eulogy stories of other Roman
women who also contributed to their families' survival while
working to end civil war. He shows too how Turia's story sheds rare
light on the more hidden problems of everyday life for Romans,
including a high number of childless marriages. Written with a
general audience in mind, Turia: A Roman Woman's Civil War will
appeal to those interested in Roman history as well as war, and the
ways that war upsets society's power structures. Not only does the
study come to terms with the distinctive experience of a larger
group of Roman women, including the prudence they had to show to
succeed , but also introduces readers to an extraordinary tribute
to married love which, though from another world, speaks to us
today.
The Handbook of Research on Teacher Education was initiated to
ferment change in education based on solid evidence. The
publication of the First Edition was a signal event in 1990. While
the preparation of educators was then - and continues to be - the
topic of substantial discussion, there did not exist a codification
of the best that was known at the time about teacher education.
Reflecting the needs of educators today, the Third Edition takes a
new approach to achieving the same purpose. Beyond simply
conceptualizing the broad landscape of teacher education and
providing comprehensive reviews of the latest research for major
domains of practice, this edition: stimulates a broad conversation
about foundational issues; brings multiple perspectives to bear;
provides new specificity to topics that have been undifferentiated
in the past; and includes diverse voices in the conversation. The
Editors, with an Advisory Board, identified nine foundational
issues and translated them into a set of focal questions: What's
the Point?: The Purposes of Teacher Education What Should Teachers
Know? Teacher Capacities: Knowledge, Beliefs, Skills, and
Commitments Where Should Teachers Be Taught? Settings and Roles in
Teacher Education Who Teaches? Who Should Teach? Teacher
Recruitment, Selection, and Retention Does Difference Make a
Difference? Diversity and Teacher Education How Do People Learn to
Teach? Who's in Charge? Authority in Teacher Education How Do We
Know What We Know? Research and Teacher Education What Good is
Teacher Education? The Place of Teacher Education in Teachers'
Education Co-Published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group and
the Association of Teacher Educators. The Association ofTeacher
Educators (ATE) is an individual membership organization devoted
solely to the improvement of teacher education both for
school-based and post secondary teacher educators. For more
information on our organization and publications, please visit:
www.ate1.org/ .
In Making Things Better, A. David Napier demonstrates how
anthropological description of non-Western exchange practices and
beliefs can be a tonic for contemporary economic systems in which
our impersonal relationship to ''things'' transforms the animate
elements of social life into inanimate sets of commodities. Such a
fundamental transformation, Napier suggests, makes us automatons in
globally integrated social circuits that generate a cast of a
winners and losers engaged in hostile competition for wealth and
power. Our impersonal relations to ''things''-and to people as
well-are so ingrained in our being, we take them for granted as we
sleepwalk through routine life. Like the surrealist artists of the
1920s who, through their art, poetry, films, and photography,
fought a valiant battle against mind-numbing conformity, Napier
provides exercises and practica designed to shock the reader from
their wakeful sleep. These demonstrate powerfully the positively
integrative social effects of more socially entangled, non-Western
orientations to ''things'' and to ''people.'' His arguments also
have implications for the rights and legal status of indigenous
peoples, which are drawn out in the course of the book.
There is much controversy about the dangers of a free media when it
comes to children and adolescents. Many believe that this
constitutional right should be amended, altered, or revoked
entirely to prevent the young from being negatively influenced.
Graphic violence, sexual content, and the depiction of cigarette
smoking have all come under fire as being unacceptable in media
that is geared toward adolescents, from television and movies to
magazines and advertising. Yet not much has been written about the
developmental science behind these ideas, and what effects a free
media really has on adolescents.
This book presents a synthesis of all current knowledge about the
developmental effects of a free media on adolescents. Levesque
first presents a full analysis of research studies into the media's
effects on adolescents in four key areas: sexuality, violence,
smoking, and body image. All findings are assessed within the
context of normal adolescent development. Levesque then discusses
how this knowledge can be used to inform current standards for the
regulation of free speech with regard to adolescents. Both legal
restrictions and less formal regulatory bodies (schools, parent
groups, etc.) are reviewed to present a full picture of the ways in
which a free media is constrained to protect adolescent's
development.
The editors of Ethics at the Cinema invited a diverse group of
moral philosophers and philosophers of film to engage with ethical
issues raised within, or within the process of viewing, a single
film of each contributor's choice. The result is a unique
collection of considerable breadth. Discussions focus on both
classic and modern films, and topics range from problems of
traditional concern to philosophers (e.g. virtue, justice, and
ideals) to problems of traditional concern to filmmakers (e.g.
sexuality, social belonging, and cultural identity).
Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death
penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the
campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations.
Will this success spread to Asia, where over 95 percent of
executions now occur? Do Asian values and traditions support
capital punishment, or will development and democratization end
executions in the world's most rapidly developing region?
David T. Johnson, an expert on law and society in Asia, and
Franklin E. Zimring, a senior authority on capital punishment,
combine detailed case studies of the death penalty in Asian nations
with cross-national comparisons to identify the critical factors
for the future of Asian death penalty policy. The clear trend is
away from reliance on state execution and many nations with death
penalties in their criminal codes rarely use it. Only the hard-line
authoritarian regimes of China, Vietnam, Singapore, and North Korea
execute with any frequency, and when authoritarian states
experience democratic reforms, the rate of executions drops
sharply, as in Taiwan and South Korea. Debunking the myth of "Asian
values," Johnson and Zimring demonstrate that politics, rather than
culture or tradition, is the major obstacle to the end of
executions. Carefully researched and full of valuable lessons, The
Next Frontier is the authoritative resource on the death penalty in
Asia for scholars, policymakers, and advocates around the
world.
Much has been made of the complex social arrangements that girls
and women navigate, but little scholarly or popular attention has
focused on what friendship means to men. Drawing on in-depth
interviews with nearly 400 men, therapist and researcher Geoffrey
L. Greif takes readers on a guided tour of male friendships,
explaining what makes them work, why they are vital to the health
of individuals and communities, and how to build the kinds of
friendships that can lead to longer and happier lives. Another 120
conversations with women help map the differences in what men and
women seek from friendships and what, if anything, men can learn
from women's relationships. The guiding feature of the book is
Greif's typology of male friendships: he dispels the myth that men
don't have friends, showing that men have must, trust, just,and
rust friends. A must friend is the best friend a man absolutely
must call with earthshaking news. A trust friend is liked and
trusted but not necessarily held as close as a must friend. Just
friends are casual acquaintances, while rust friends have a long
history together and can drift in and out of each other's lives,
essentially picking up where they last left off. Understanding the
role each of these types of friends play across men's lives reveals
fascinating developmental patterns, such as how men cope with
stress and conflict, how they seek and offer help, how notions of
masculinity shape their relationships (platonic and romantic), and
how their friends can keep them active and happy. Through the
lively words of men themselves, and detailed profiles of men from
their twenties to their nineties, readers may be surprised to find
what friendships offer men-as well as their families and
communities-and are sure to learn what makes their own
relationships tick.
Migration began with our origin as the human species and continues
today. Each chapter of world history features distinct types of
migration. The earliest migrations spread humans across the globe.
Over the centuries, as our cultures, societies, and technologies
evolved in different material environments, migrants conflicted,
merged, and cohabited with each other, creating, entering, and
leaving various city-states, kingdoms, empires, and nations. During
the early modern period, migrations reconnected the continents,
including through colonization and forced migrations of subject
peoples, while political concepts like "citizen" and "alien"
developed. In recent history, migrations changed their character as
nation-states and transnational unions sought in new ways to
control the peoples who migrated across their borders. This volume
will explore the process of migration chronologically and also at
several levels, from the illuminating example of the migration of a
individual community, to larger patterns of the collective
movements of major ethnic groups, to the more abstract study of the
processes of emigration, migration, and immigration. This book will
concentrate on substantial migrations covering long distances and
involving large numbers of people. It will intentionally balance
evidence from the now diverse people's of the world, for example,
by highlighting an exemplary migration for each of the six chapters
that highlights different trajectories and by keeping issues of
gender and socio-economic class salient wherever appropriate.
Further, as a major theme, the volume will consider how technology,
the environment, and various polities have historically shaped
human migration. Exciting new scholarship in the several fields
inherent in this topic make it a particularly valuable and timely
project. Each chapter will contain short individual examples, maps,
illustrations, and brief quotations from diverse types of primary
documents, all integrated with each other and analyzed engagingly
in the text.
This innovative text shows why ethics is so important for social
work practice, that it is not simply a way of defining and
understanding what is good in practice, but is a means by which
social work and other caring professions can actually achieve good
practice.'Professor Richard Hugman, University of NSW This book
integrates ethical theory and political philosophy into a clear yet
challenging framework for ethical action in social work. Firmly
grounded in practice examples, it will be of great interest both to
students and practitioners in the field.' Professor Sarah Banks,
Durham UniversityIn an increasingly fragmented and regulated world,
the authors of Ethical Practice in Social Work argue that social
work has become detached from its ethical roots. Their aim is to
reinstate ethics as the driving force of good social work and
welfare practice. Ethical Practice in Social Work provides the
tools to develop essential ethical decision-making and
problem-solving skills. Taking an applied approach with case
studies in each chapter, the authors demonstrate how ethical
principles can be used to transform practice into an effective,
inclusive and empowering process for both professionals and their
clients. They discuss the ethical principles social workers have
traditionally adhered to, the role of the good social worker' in
the contemporary context, professionalism, and the way in which
ethics can be used to reconcile the often differing demands of
employers, community groups, clients, the profession and their own
personal values. Ethical Practice in Social Work is a valuable
professional reference and student text.
Sociology gives us the tools we need to understand our life and the
lives of the people around us. It reveals that our commonsense view
of the world isn't always right, and enables us to find out what
actually shapes our experiences.In this widely used and very
readable introductory text, Judith Bessant and Rob Watts show us
how to develop a sociological perspective on what is happening in
Australia today. Rapid and far-reaching social changes are taking
place which affect us all: globalisation is impacting on our
economy and culture; technological developments increase the pace
of life; and many people worry about the decline of traditional
values and about environmental and personal security. Using a
sociological perspective we can explain why different groups of
people experience these changes as exciting, unsettling or
devastating.Sociology Australia is structured around six key
questions:* What is sociology?* Who are we and how do we come to be
who we are?* How do we know the world in which we live?* Can we
make our lives as we want them?* Who makes the decisions that shape
our society?* What changes are taking place in Australia
today?Sociology Australia is an ideal introduction to the
discipline of sociology and to the dynamics of Australian society
today. This third edition of Sociology Australia has been
substantially revised and updated, and includes new chapters on
religion, education and sustainability.
Children born out of wedlock were commonly stigmatized as
"bastards" in early modern France. Deprived of inheritance, they
were said to have neither kin nor kind, neither family nor nation.
But why was this the case? Gentler alternatives to "bastard"
existed in early modern French discourse, and many natural parents
voluntarily recognized and cared for their extramarital offspring.
Drawing upon a wide array of archival and published sources,
Matthew Gerber has reconstructed numerous disputes over the rights
and disabilities of children born out of wedlock in order to
illuminate the changing legal condition and practical treatment of
extramarital offspring over a period of two and half centuries. His
book reveals that the exclusion of extramarital offspring from the
family was perpetually contested in early modern France. Legal
debate over illegitimacy carried political implications for
France's dynastic monarchy. When Louis XIV, the Sun King, created a
political firestorm by declaring his own extramarital offspring to
be capable of inheriting the French crown, political theorists drew
upon precedents of private law to argue for or against the
exclusion of children born out of wedlock from the throne.
Conversely, lawyers and litigants frequently invoked political
interest in the course of private lawsuits involving extramarital
offspring. In tracing the evolution of early modern debates over
illegitimacy, Bastards offers a political history of the family
from the oblique perspective of those who were theoretically
excluded from it. With a cast of characters ranging from royal
bastards to foundlings, Bastards offers a broad exploration of the
relationship between social and political change in the early
modern era. It offers new insight into the changing nature of early
modern French law, revealing its evolving contribution to the
historical construction of both the family and the state.
Based on fieldwork in Malaysia, this book provides a critical
examination of the country's main urban region. The study first
provides a theoretical reworking of geographies of modernity and
details the emergence of a globally-oriented, 'high-tech' stage of
national development. The Multimedia Super Corridor is framed in
terms of a political vision of a 'fully developed' Malaysia before
the author traces an imagined trajectory through surrounding
landscapes in the late 1990s. As the first book length giving an
academic analysis of the development of Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan
Area and the construction of the Multimedia Super Corridor, this
work offers a situated, contextual account which will appeal to all
those with research interests in Asian Urban Studies and Asian
Sociology.
This annual publication focuses on four interrelated urban
processes: population and employment location; political leadership
and policy outputs; bureaucratic processes and service delivery;
and citizen preferences and participatory activities. This special
volume concentrates on the city of Chicago.
Academic food ethics incorporates work from philosophy but also
anthropology, economics, the environmental sciences and other
natural sciences, geography, law, and sociology. Scholars from
these fields have been producing work for decades on the food
system, and on ethical, social, and policy issues connected to the
food system. Yet in the last several years, there has been a
notable increase in philosophical work on these issues-work that
draws on multiple literatures within practical ethics, normative
ethics and political philosophy. This handbook provides a sample of
that philosophical work across multiple areas of food ethics:
conventional agriculture and alternatives to it; animals;
consumption; food justice; food politics; food workers; and, food
and identity.
From the war on terror to the rise of China, this book unlocks the
major strategic themes and security challenges of the early
twenty-first century. Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific
provides the analytical frameworks needed to make sense of this
complex but exciting strategic universe. Offering a unique mix of
global strategic thinking and Asia-Pacific security analysis, this
book is for readers from Sydney to Seoul who want to put their own
local security challenges in a wider regional and global context.
It is also for North American and European readers requiring an
understanding of the dynamic security developments in the
Asia-Pacific region around which so much of global strategy is
increasingly based. The really vital questions facing the
international community are dealt with here: Why do governments and
groups still use armed force? Has warfare really changed in the
information age? Why should we be concerned about non-traditional
security challenges such as water shortages and the spread of
infectious disease? Is a great clash imminent between the United
States and China? What are the prospects for peace on the Korean
peninsula and between India and Pakistan? Can Southeast Asia
survive the challenges of transnational terrorism? What does
security mean for the Pacific island countries and for Australia
and New Zealand? With contributions from leading commentators and
analysts, Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific offers a
comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the field.
How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one
third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a
state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times
likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more
likely than whites to be stopped by the police, arrested,
prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned, and are much less likely to
have confidence in justice system officials, especially the police.
In Punishing Race, Michael Tonry demonstrates in lucid, accessible
language that these patterns result not from racial differences in
crime or drug use but primarily from drug and crime control
policies that disproportionately affect black Americans. These
policies in turn stem from a lack of white empathy for black
people, and from racial stereotypes and resentments provoked partly
by the Republican Southern Strategy of using coded "law and order"
appeals to race to gain support from white voters. White Americans,
Tonry observes, have a remarkable capacity to endure the suffering
of disadvantaged black and, increasingly, Hispanic men. Crime
policies are among a set of social policies enacted since the 1960s
that have maintained white dominance over black people despite the
end of legal discrimination. To redress these injustices, Tonry
offers a number of proposals: stop racial profiling by the police,
shift the emphasis of drug law enforcement to treatment and
prevention, eliminate mandatory sentencing laws, and change
sentencing guidelines to allow judges discretion to take account of
offenders' life circumstances. Those proposals are all attainable
and would all reduce unjustifiable racial disparities and the
collateral human and social harms they cause.
A damning indictment of decades of misguided criminal justice
policy, Punishing Race takes a crucial look at persisting racial
injustice in America.
How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education,
educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white
students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones?
In his important new book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart, James E.
Ryan answers this question by tracing the fortunes of two schools
in Richmond, Virginia--one in the city and the other in the
suburbs. Ryan shows how court rulings in the 1970s, limiting the
scope of desegregation, laid the groundwork for the sharp
disparities between urban and suburban public schools that persist
to this day. The Supreme Court, in accord with the wishes of the
Nixon administration, allowed the suburbs to lock nonresidents out
of their school systems. City schools, whose student bodies were
becoming increasingly poor and black, simply received more funding,
a measure that has proven largely ineffective, while the
independence (and superiority) of suburban schools remained
sacrosanct. Weaving together court opinions, social science
research, and compelling interviews with students, teachers, and
principals, Ryan explains why all the major education reforms since
the 1970s--including school finance litigation, school choice, and
the No Child Left Behind Act--have failed to bridge the gap between
urban and suburban schools and have unintentionally entrenched
segregation by race and class. As long as that segregation
continues, Ryan forcefully argues, so too will educational
inequality. Ryan closes by suggesting innovative ways to promote
school integration, which would take advantage of unprecedented
demographic shifts and an embrace of diversity among young adults.
Exhaustively researched and elegantly written by one of the
nation's leading education law scholars, Five Miles Away, A World
Apart ties together, like no other book, a half-century's worth of
education law and politics into a coherent, if disturbing, whole.
It will be of interest to anyone who has ever wondered why our
schools are so unequal and whether there is anything to be done
about it.
When we catch a bus, visit a doctor, borrow a book from the library
or enrol in a course we benefit from the social policies of
government. Talking Policy explains how the myriad programs and
services we take for granted are developed and delivered, and how
this fits into the political process. There is a human and
political aspect to social policy-making; it's not all rational
solutions to measurable problems. The authors explain how issues
come to be defined as social problems, and offer an account of the
historical development of social policy and the welfare state in
Australia. They also outline the competing political and
philosophical ideas which influence the different ways in which
governments respond to social inequality and needs in the
community.With detailed case studies from variety of areas of
social policy making, Talking Policy is a valuable introduction to
this complex and important field. Talking Policy is an informative,
insightful book that is also absorbing and challenging.' Lois
Bryson, Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle With a
commitment to reinvigorate policy debate, the authors make a
convincing case that at its heart policy-making is about competing
ethical visions, that ideas count, and that words serve as tools in
this political and contested activity.'Associate Professor, Carol
Bacchi, University of Adelaide
Sex is bad. Unprotected sex is a problem. Having a baby would be a
disaster. Abortion is a sin. Teenagers in the United States hear
conflicting messages about sex from everyone around them. How do
teens understand these messages? In Mixed Messages, Stefanie
Mollborn examines how social norms and social control work through
in-depth interviews with college students and teen mothers and
fathers, revealing the tough conversations teeangers just can't
have with adults. Delving into teenagers' complicated social worlds
Mollborn argues that by creating informal social sanctions like
gossip and exclusion and formal communication such as sex
education, families, peers, schools, and communities strategize to
gain control over teens' behaviors. However, while teens strategize
to keep control, they resist the constraints of the norms,
revealing the variety of outcomes that occur beyond compliance or
deviance. By proving that the norms existing today around teen sex
are ineffective, failing to regulate sexual behavior, and instead
punishing teens that violate them, Mollborn calls for a more
thoughtful and consistent dialogue between teens and adults,
emphasizing messages that will lead to more positive health
outcomes.
The "Cheitharon Kumpapa "is the Court Chronicle of the Kings of
Manipur, a small formerly independent state situated on the Indian
border with Myanmar. The "Cheitharon Kumpapa "is a court account of
the state, which claims to record events from the founding of the
ruling dynasty in 33 CE. This dynasty continued until the abolition
of the monarchy after the merger of the state with India in 1949.
The document is thus probably the oldest chronicle in the region,
written on hand made "Meetei" (Manipuri) paper made from tree bark
in locally made ink with a quill or a bamboo pen. All in all it
comprises more than 3000 leaves. This volume contains a copy of the
original text of the "Cheitharon Kumpapa," which is authorized by
the Palace and the English translation from the original composed
in archaic Manipuri script ("Meetei Mayek"). Explanatory notes and
a glossary complement this interesting source of information.
Scholars working on East and South Asia willfind this volume
enlightening and the text will be useful for those readers engaged
in social anthropology, religious history, archaeology, human
geography and linguistics.
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