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The United States incarcerates nearly one quarter of the world's
prison population with only five percent of its total inhabitants,
in addition to a history of using internment camps and
reservations. An overreliance on incarceration has emphasized
long-standing and systemic racism in criminal justice systems and
reveals a need to critically examine current processes in an effort
to reform modern systems and provide the best practices for
successfully responding to deviance. Global Perspectives on People,
Process, and Practice in Criminal Justice is an essential scholarly
reference that focuses on incarceration and imprisonment and
reflects on the differences and alternatives to these policies in
various parts of the world. Covering subjects from criminology and
criminal justice to penology and prison studies, this book presents
chapters that examine processes and responses to deviance in
regions around the world including North America, Europe, the
Middle East, and Asia. Uniquely, this book presents chapters that
give a voice to those who are not always heard in debates about
incarceration and justice such as those who have been incarcerated,
family members of those incarcerated, and those who work within the
walls of the prison system. Investigating significant topics that
include carceral trauma, prisoner rights, recidivism, and
desistance, this book is critical for academicians, researchers,
policymakers, advocacy groups, students, government officials,
criminologists, and other practitioners interested in criminal
justice, penology, human rights, courts and law, victimology, and
criminology.
This monograph is a revised version of the D.Phil. thesis of the
first author, submitted in October 1990 to the University of
Oxford. This work investigates the problem of mobile robot
navigation using sonar. We view model-based navigation as a process
of tracking naturally occurring environment features, which we
refer to as "targets". Targets that have been predicted from the
environment map are tracked to provide that are observed, but not
predicted, vehicle position estimates. Targets represent unknown
environment features or obstacles, and cause new tracks to be
initiated, classified, and ultimately integrated into the map.
Chapter 1 presents a brief definition of the problem and a
discussion of the basic research issues involved. No attempt is
made to survey ex haustively the mobile robot navigation
literature-the reader is strongly encouraged to consult other
sources. The recent collection edited by Cox and Wilfong [34] is an
excellent starting point, as it contains many of the standard works
of the field. Also, we assume familiarity with the Kalman filter.
There are many well-known texts on the subject; our notation
derives from Bar-Shalom and Fortmann [7]. Chapter 2 provides a
detailed sonar sensor model. A good sensor model of our approach to
navigation, and is used both for is a crucial component predicting
expected observations and classifying unexpected observations.
Learn how to make decisions in the face of increasingly complex and
multifaceted challenges In A Symphony of Choices: How Mentorship
Taught a Manager Decision-Making, Project Management and Workplace
Engagement -- and Saved a Concert Season, workplace culture and
strategy expert Gerald Leonard delivers a fascinating narrative
following one Jerry Hall, the new Symphony Orchestra manager at a
prestigious symphony concerned about the challenging plans for an
upcoming season. In the book, you’ll watch Jerry connect with a
former college professor and learn the skills necessary to
successfully manage his way through these unprecedented times in
his business and personal life. Does he have all skills necessary
for effective decision-making and managing a major symphony’s
portfolio of projects? Will his fear of succumbing to daunting
challenges prevent him from succeeding? The author answers these
questions, and more. You’ll also find: Hands-on strategies for
decision-making and management you can implement today at your
organization Methods for navigating an increasingly complex and
interconnected environment Ways to apply subject-matter knowledge
to your management even in the face of extraordinary personal
challenges A necessary and hands-on resource for directors,
managers, executives, and other business leaders, A Symphony of
Choices will also earn a place on the bookshelves of practicing and
aspiring leaders in athletic, academic, military, and other
environments.
Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to
discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st
century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing
that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics
of new racism and dominant white racial frames. Contributors
discuss athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena Williams to
Freddy Adu and Shani Davis. Through dynamic case studies,
Commodified and Criminalized unpacks the conversation between black
athletes and colorblind discourse, while challenging the
assumptions of contemporary sports culture. The contributors in
this provocative collection push the conversation beyond the
playing field and beyond the racial landscape of sports culture to
explore the connections between sports representations and a
broader history of racialized violence.
What does it mean when a hit that knocks an American football
player unconscious is cheered by spectators? What are the
consequences of such violence for the participants of this sport
and for the entertainment culture in which it exists? This book
brings together scholars and sport commentators to examine the
relationship between American football, violence and the larger
relations of power within contemporary society. From high school
and college to the NFL, Football, Culture, and Power analyses the
social, political and cultural imprint of America's national
pastime. The NFL's participation in and production of hegemonic
masculinity, alongside its practices of racism, sexism,
heterosexism and ableism, provokes us to think deeply about the
historical and contemporary systems of violence we are invested in
and entertained by. This social scientific analysis of American
football considers both the positive and negative power of the
game, generating discussion and calling for accountability. It is
fascinating reading for all students and scholars of sports studies
with an interest in American football and the wider social impact
of sport.
Beyond Hate offers a critical ethnography of the virtual
communities established and discursive networks activated through
the online engagements of white separatists, white nationalists,
and white supremacists with various popular cultural texts,
including movies, music, television, sport, video games, and
kitsch. Outlining the ways in which advocates of white power
interpret popular cultural forms, and probing the emergent spaces
of white power popular culture, it examines the paradoxical
relationship that advocates of white supremacy have with popular
culture, as they finding it to be an irresistible and repugnant
reflection of social decay rooted in multiculturalism. Drawing on a
range of new media sources, including websites, chat rooms, blogs
and forums, this book explores the concerns expressed by advocates
of white power, with regard to racial hierarchy and social order,
the crisis of traditional American values, the perpetuation of
liberal, feminist, elitist ideas, the degradation of the family and
the fetishization of black men. What emerges is an understanding of
the instruments of power in white supremacist discourses, in which
a series of connections are drawn between popular culture,
multiculturalism, sexual politics and state functions, all of which
are seen to be working against white men. A richly illustrated
study of the intersections of white power and popular culture in
the contemporary U.S., and the use of use cyberspace by white
supremacists as an imagined site of resistance, Beyond Hate will
appeal to scholars of sociology and cultural studies with interests
in race and ethnicity, popular culture and the discourses of the
extreme right.
Beyond Hate offers a critical ethnography of the virtual
communities established and discursive networks activated through
the online engagements of white separatists, white nationalists,
and white supremacists with various popular cultural texts,
including movies, music, television, sport, video games, and
kitsch. Outlining the ways in which advocates of white power
interpret popular cultural forms, and probing the emergent spaces
of white power popular culture, it examines the paradoxical
relationship that advocates of white supremacy have with popular
culture, as they finding it to be an irresistible and repugnant
reflection of social decay rooted in multiculturalism. Drawing on a
range of new media sources, including websites, chat rooms, blogs
and forums, this book explores the concerns expressed by advocates
of white power, with regard to racial hierarchy and social order,
the crisis of traditional American values, the perpetuation of
liberal, feminist, elitist ideas, the degradation of the family and
the fetishization of black men. What emerges is an understanding of
the instruments of power in white supremacist discourses, in which
a series of connections are drawn between popular culture,
multiculturalism, sexual politics and state functions, all of which
are seen to be working against white men. A richly illustrated
study of the intersections of white power and popular culture in
the contemporary U.S., and the use of use cyberspace by white
supremacists as an imagined site of resistance, Beyond Hate will
appeal to scholars of sociology and cultural studies with interests
in race and ethnicity, popular culture and the discourses of the
extreme right.
The triple crown of Oscars awarded to Denzel Washington, Halle
Berry, and Sidney Poitier on a single evening in 2002 seemed to
mark a turning point for African Americans in cinema. Certainly it
was hyped as such by the media, eager to overlook the nuances of
this sudden embrace. In this new study, author David Leonard uses
this event as a jumping-off point from which to discuss the current
state of African-American cinema and the various genres that
currently compose it. Looking at such recent films as Love and
Basketball, Antwone Fisher, Training Day, and the two Barbershop
films--all of which were directed by black artists, and most of
which starred and were written by blacks as well--Leonard examines
the issues of representation and opportunity in contemporary
cinema. In many cases, these films-which walk a line between
confronting racial stereotypes and trafficking in them-made a great
deal of money while hardly playing to white audiences at all. By
examining the ways in which they address the American Dream, racial
progress, racial difference, blackness, whiteness, class,
capitalism and a host of other issues, Leonard shows that while
certainly there are differences between the grotesque images of
years past and those that define today's era, the consistency of
images across genre and time reflects the lasting power of racism,
as well as the black community's response to it.
Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to
discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st
century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing
that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics
of new racism and dominant white racial frames. Contributors
discuss athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena Williams to
Freddy Adu and Shani Davis. Through dynamic case studies,
Commodified and Criminalized unpacks the conversation between black
athletes and colorblind discourse, while challenging the
assumptions of contemporary sports culture. The contributors in
this provocative collection push the conversation beyond the
playing field and beyond the racial landscape of sports culture to
explore the connections between sports representations and a
broader history of racialized violence.
InWhere Thousands Fell, Fr. William J. Leonard recounts his
experiences as a priest-professor who left his books and put on a
uniform so that fighting men might not be without the support of
religious faith and practice. He tells the story of indoctrination
in Chaplain School, of his first awkward beginnings in a stateside
camp, of life aboard a transport threatened by enemy submarines, of
heat and malarial mosquitoes and incessant rain in a rear-echelon
base deep in the jungles of New Guinea, of the bloody beach-head in
the Philippines and the immense effort to mount in Manila the
assault on the Japanese homeland, of peace at last and a grateful
return to civilian life.
Meeting the challenge of teaching multiculturalism
Students-and their teachers-encountering literature and arts from
unfamiliar cultures will welcome the special help this book
provides. Instructors who are unfamiliar with Asian Pacific
cultures are now being asked to explain a reference to the Year of
the Rat, Obon Season, or to interpret a haiku. When Amy Tan refers
to the Moon Lady or the Kitchen God, what does she mean? Is
Confucianism actually a religion? This book answers these and many
other questions, for students, teachers, and the librarians to whom
they turn for help.
Provides sound information on in-demand topics
The "Companion " presents lengthy articles-written specifically for
this book-on the topics that unlock the work of a number of
contemporary Asian Pacific American writers and artists, for
example: Asian naming systems, the "model minority" discourse,
Chinese diaspora, Filipino American values, the Confucian family
and its tensions, Japanese internment, Mao's Great Cultural
Revolution, the Korean alphabet, food and ethnic identity,
religious traditions, Fengshui and Chinese medicine, Filipino folk
religion, Hmong needlework, and reading Asian characters in
English, just to name a few.
Covers major contemporary writers
The articles are coupled with in-depth studies of the authors most
likely to be part of the multicultural curriculum during the next
decade, among them Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, Amy Tan,
Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Jessica Hagedorn, Lawson Fusao
Inada, Garret Hongo, David Henry Hwang, KimRonyoung, and Cathy
Song.
Expert contributors
This volume was created under the supervision of distinguished
Advisory Editors from the Asian Pacific American community. The
contributors, a Who's Who of Asian Pacific American humanistic
scholarship, are frequently the founders of their disciplines, and
most are from the ethnic group being written about.
Helps students understand arts and literature
Multicultural courses are generally taught by exposing students to
literature or arts, with reference to their political,
sociological, and historical contexts. This book is designed to
help students reading novels, watching films, and confronting
artworks with information needs quite different from those of
social scientists and historians.
Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists is a
history of the Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party -
the largest Maoist organization to arise in the US - from its
origins in the explosive year of 1968, its expansion into a
national organization in the early '70s, its extension into major
industry throughout the early part of that decade, and the
devastating schism in the aftermath of the death of Mao Tse-tung to
its ultimate decline as the 1970s turned into the 1980s. From its
beginnings the grouping was the focus of J. Edgar Hoover and other
top FBI officials for an unrelenting array of operations: Informant
penetration, setting organizations against each other, setting up
phony communist collectives for infiltration and disruption,
planting of phone taps and microphones in apartments, break-ins to
steal membership lists, the use of FBI 'friendly journalists' such
as Victor Riesel and Ed Montgomery to undermine the group, and much
more. It is the story of a sizable section of the radicalized youth
whose radicalism did not disappear at the end of the '60s, and of
the FBI's largest - and, up to now, untold - campaign against it.
Latinos are the fastest growing population in America today. This
two-volume encyclopedia traces the history of Latinos in the United
States from colonial times to the present, focusing on their impact
on the nation in its historical development and current culture.
"Latino History and Culture" covers the myriad ethnic groups that
make up the Latino population. It explores issues such as labor,
legal and illegal immigration, traditional and immigrant culture,
health, education, political activism, art, literature, and family,
as well as historical events and developments. A-Z entries cover
eras, individuals, organizations and institutions, critical events
in U.S. history and the impact of the Latino population,
communities and ethnic groups, and key cities and regions. Each
entry includes cross references and bibliographic citations, and a
comprehensive index and illustrations augment the text.
The Acts of the Apostles: Four Centuries of Baptist Interpretation
is a landmark work of research, containing examples of specific
ways that Baptists have used Acts in their confessions, sermons,
tracts, commentaries, monographs, devotional and denominational
literature, speeches, and hymns. Including the entirety of the Acts
as translated by Baptist luminary Helen Barrett Montgomery, this
commentary beautifully illustrates the diversity of Baptist
responses to this book of Scripture, and in so doing, a variety of
hermeneutical approaches within the Baptist tradition.
A comprehensive look at the history of African Americans on
television that discusses major trends in black TV and examines the
broader social implications of the relationship between race and
popular culture as well as race and representation. Previous
treatments of the history of African Americans in television have
largely lacked theoretical analysis of the relationship between
representations and social contexts. African Americans on
Television: Race-ing for Ratings fills the existing void by
supplying fundamental history with critical analyses of the racial
politics of television, documenting the considerable effect that
television has had on popular notions of black identity in America
since the inception of television. Covering a spectrum of
genres-comedy, drama, talk shows, television movies, variety shows,
and reality television, including shows such as Good Times, The
Oprah Winfrey Show, and Chappelle's Show-this insightful work
traces a cultural genealogy of African Americans in television. Its
chronological analysis provides an engaging historical account of
how African Americans entered the genre of television and have
continued to play a central role in the development of both the
medium and the industry. The book also tracks the shift in the
significance of African Americans in the television market and
industry, and the changing, but enduring, face of stereotypes and
racism in American television culture.
This two-volume encyclopedia explores representations of people of
color in American television. It includes overview essays on early,
classic, and contemporary television and the challenges for,
developments related to, and participation of minorities on and
behind the screen. Covering five decades, this encyclopedia
highlights how race has shaped television and how television has
shaped society. Offering critical analysis of moments and themes
throughout television history, Race in American Television shines a
spotlight on key artists of color, prominent shows, and the debates
that have defined television since the civil rights movement. This
book also examines the ways in which television has been a site for
both reproduction of stereotypes and resistance to them, providing
a basis for discussion about racial issues in the United States.
This set provides a significant resource for students and fans of
television alike, not only educating but also empowering readers
with the necessary tools to consume and watch the small screen and
explore its impact on the evolution of racial and ethnic
stereotypes in U.S. culture and beyond. Understanding the history
of American television contributes to deeper knowledge and
potentially helps us to better apprehend the plethora of diverse
shows and programs on Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and other platforms
today.
This monograph is a revised version of the D.Phil. thesis of the
first author, submitted in October 1990 to the University of
Oxford. This work investigates the problem of mobile robot
navigation using sonar. We view model-based navigation as a process
of tracking naturally occurring environment features, which we
refer to as "targets". Targets that have been predicted from the
environment map are tracked to provide that are observed, but not
predicted, vehicle position estimates. Targets represent unknown
environment features or obstacles, and cause new tracks to be
initiated, classified, and ultimately integrated into the map.
Chapter 1 presents a brief definition of the problem and a
discussion of the basic research issues involved. No attempt is
made to survey ex haustively the mobile robot navigation
literature-the reader is strongly encouraged to consult other
sources. The recent collection edited by Cox and Wilfong [34] is an
excellent starting point, as it contains many of the standard works
of the field. Also, we assume familiarity with the Kalman filter.
There are many well-known texts on the subject; our notation
derives from Bar-Shalom and Fortmann [7]. Chapter 2 provides a
detailed sonar sensor model. A good sensor model of our approach to
navigation, and is used both for is a crucial component predicting
expected observations and classifying unexpected observations.
What does it mean when a hit that knocks an American football
player unconscious is cheered by spectators? What are the
consequences of such violence for the participants of this sport
and for the entertainment culture in which it exists? This book
brings together scholars and sport commentators to examine the
relationship between American football, violence and the larger
relations of power within contemporary society. From high school
and college to the NFL, Football, Culture, and Power analyses the
social, political and cultural imprint of America's national
pastime. The NFL's participation in and production of hegemonic
masculinity, alongside its practices of racism, sexism,
heterosexism and ableism, provokes us to think deeply about the
historical and contemporary systems of violence we are invested in
and entertained by. This social scientific analysis of American
football considers both the positive and negative power of the
game, generating discussion and calling for accountability. It is
fascinating reading for all students and scholars of sports studies
with an interest in American football and the wider social impact
of sport.
In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed
platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its
replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part
of the same fan experience. Editors Robert Alan Brookey and Thomas
P. Oates trace this development back to the unexpected success of
Atari's Pong in the 1970s, which provoked a flood of sport
simulation games that have had an impact on every sector of the
electronic game market. From golf to football, basketball to step
aerobics, electronic sports games are as familiar in the American
household as the televised sporting events they simulate. This book
explores the points of convergence at which gaming and sports
culture merge.
In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed
platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its
replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part
of the same fan experience. Editors Robert Alan Brookey and Thomas
P. Oates trace this development back to the unexpected success of
Atari's Pong in the 1970s, which provoked a flood of sport
simulation games that have had an impact on every sector of the
electronic game market. From golf to football, basketball to step
aerobics, electronic sports games are as familiar in the American
household as the televised sporting events they simulate. This book
explores the points of convergence at which gaming and sports
culture merge.
Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich
history of the magnificent place they call home from "Colorado: A
History of the Centennial State". In the fifth edition, co-authors
Carl Abbott, Stephen J Leonard, and Thomas J Noel incorporate
recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an
accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy. The
new edition tells of conflicts, shifting alliances, and changing
ways of life as Hispanic, European, and African American settlers
flooded into a region that was already home to Native Americans.
Providing a balanced treatment of the entire states history -- from
Grand Junction to Lamar and from Trinidad to Craig -- the authors
also reveal how Denver and its surrounding communities developed
and gained influence. While continuing to elucidate the significant
impact of mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism on
Colorado, the fifth edition broadens and focuses its coverage by
consolidating material on Native Americans into one chapter and
adding a new chapter on sports history. The authors also expand
their discussion of the twentieth century with updated sections on
the environment, economy, politics, and recent cultural conflicts.
New illustrations, updated statistics, and an extensive
bibliography including Internet resources also enhance this
edition.
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