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Remapping Asian American History exemplifies the emerging trends in
the writing of Asian American history, and fills substantive gaps
in our knowledge about particular Asian ethnic groups. Edited by
noted scholar Sucheng Chan, the essays in this volume uses new
frameworks such as transnationalism, the political contexts of
international migrations, and a multipolar approach to the study of
contemporary U.S. race relations. These concerns, often ignored in
earlier studies that focused on social and economic aspects of
Asian American communities, challenge some long-held assumptions
about Asian American communities and point to new directions in
Asian American historiography. Historians, students, and teachers
of anthropology, Asian and Asian American Studies, race and ethnic
studies, U.S. immigration history, and American Studies will find
this collection invaluable.
Religion in Philanthropic Organizations explores the tensions
inherent in religious philanthropies across a variety of
organizations and examines the effect assumptions about
"professional, scientific, nonsectarian" philanthropy have had on
how religious philanthropies carry out their activities. The
organizations examined include the American Friends Service
Committee, the American Soviet Jewry Movement, Catholic Charities
USA, the Salvation Army, the World Council of Churches, and World
Vision (in global comparative context). The book also looks at
Robert Pierce, founder of World Vision and Samaritan's Purse, and
at matters not bounded by a single religious philanthropy:
philanthropy and Jewish identity, American Muslim philanthropy
since 9/11, and the complexities of the federal program that funds
faith-based initiatives. These essays shed light on how religion
and philanthropy function in American society, shaping and being
shaped by the culture and its notions of the "common good."
Among the many challenges confronting the liberal arts today is a
fundamental disconnect between the curricula that many institutions
offer and the training that many students need. Discipline-specific
models of teaching and learning can underprepare students for the
kinds of interdisciplinary collaboration that employers now expect.
Although aware of these expectations and the need for change, many
small colleges and universities have struggled to translate
interdisciplinarity into programs and curricula that better serve
today’s students. Written by faculty engaged in the design and
delivery of interdisciplinary courses, programs, and experiential
learning opportunities in the small college setting, The
Synergistic Classroom addresses the many ways faculty can
leverage their institutions' small size and openness to pedagogical
experimentation to overcome the challenges of limited institutional
resources and enrollment concerns and better prepare students for
life and work in the twenty-first century. Taken together, the
contributions in this volume invite reflection on a variety of
important issues that attend the work of small college faculty
committed to expanding student learning across disciplinary
boundaries.
Winner, John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer, Popular
Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2019 MPCA/ACA
Book Award, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American
Culture Association, 2020 Taking a multifaceted approach to
attitudes toward race through popular culture and the American
superhero, All New, All Different? explores a topic that until now
has only received more discrete examination. Considering Marvel,
DC, and lesser-known texts and heroes, this illuminating work
charts eighty years of evolution in the portrayal of race in comics
as well as in film and on television. Beginning with World War II,
the authors trace the vexed depictions in early superhero stories,
considering both Asian villains and nonwhite sidekicks. While the
emergence of Black Panther, Black Lightning, Luke Cage, Storm, and
other heroes in the 1960s and 1970s reflected a cultural
revolution, the book reveals how nonwhite superheroes nonetheless
remained grounded in outdated assumptions. Multiculturalism
encouraged further diversity, with 1980s superteams, the
minority-run company Milestone’s new characters in the 1990s, and
the arrival of Ms. Marvel, a Pakistani-American heroine, and a new
Latinx Spider-Man in the 2000s. Concluding with a discussion of
contemporary efforts to make both a profit and a positive impact on
society, All New, All Different? enriches our understanding of the
complex issues of racial representation in American popular
culture.
In the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the
systematic exile and incarceration of thousands of Japanese
Americans, the National Japanese American Student Relocation
Council was born. Created to facilitate the movement of Japanese
American college students from concentration camps to colleges away
from the West Coast, this privately organized and funded agency
helped more than four thousand incarcerated students pursue higher
education at more than six hundred schools during WWII.
Allan W. Austin’ s From Concentration Camp to Campus examines the
Council's work and the challenges it faced in an atmosphere of
pervasive wartime racism. Austin also reveals the voices of
students as they worked to construct their own meaning for wartime
experiences under pressure of forced and total assimilation. Austin
argues that the resettled students succeeded in reintegrating
themselves into the wider American society without sacrificing
their connections to community and their Japanese cultural
heritage.
Winner, John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer, Popular
Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2019 MPCA/ACA
Book Award, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American
Culture Association, 2020 Taking a multifaceted approach to
attitudes toward race through popular culture and the American
superhero, All New, All Different? explores a topic that until now
has only received more discrete examination. Considering Marvel,
DC, and lesser-known texts and heroes, this illuminating work
charts eighty years of evolution in the portrayal of race in comics
as well as in film and on television. Beginning with World War II,
the authors trace the vexed depictions in early superhero stories,
considering both Asian villains and nonwhite sidekicks. While the
emergence of Black Panther, Black Lightning, Luke Cage, Storm, and
other heroes in the 1960s and 1970s reflected a cultural
revolution, the book reveals how nonwhite superheroes nonetheless
remained grounded in outdated assumptions. Multiculturalism
encouraged further diversity, with 1980s superteams, the
minority-run company Milestone's new characters in the 1990s, and
the arrival of Ms. Marvel, a Pakistani-American heroine, and a new
Latinx Spider-Man in the 2000s. Concluding with a discussion of
contemporary efforts to make both a profit and a positive impact on
society, All New, All Different? enriches our understanding of the
complex issues of racial representation in American popular
culture.
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