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"A profound and uplifting account of Robert F. Kennedy's brave
crusade for racial equality. This is narrative history at its
absolute finest, with RFK squarely at the center of the 1960s civil
rights movement along with Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin,
Cesar Chavez, and other fearless activists. Bare-knuckled, with a
golden heart, RFK was a visionary force to reckon with. This
towering biographical portrait will stand the test of time."
-Douglas Brinkley, author of Rosa Parks A leading civil rights
historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of
the movement for racial justice of the 1960s-and shows how many of
today's issues can be traced back to that pivotal time. History,
race, and politics converged in the 1960s in ways that indelibly
changed America. In Justice Rising, a landmark reconsideration of
Robert Kennedy's life and legacy, Patricia Sullivan draws on
government files, personal papers, and oral interviews to reveal
how he grasped the moment to emerge as a transformational leader.
When protests broke out across the South, the young attorney
general confronted escalating demands for racial justice. What
began as a political problem soon became a moral one. In the face
of vehement pushback from Southern Democrats bent on massive
resistance, he put the weight of the federal government behind
school desegregation and voter registration. Bobby Kennedy's
youthful energy, moral vision, and capacity to lead created a
momentum for change. He helped shape the 1964 Civil Rights Act but
knew no law would end racism. When the Watts uprising brought calls
for more aggressive policing, he pushed back, pointing to the root
causes of urban unrest: entrenched poverty, substandard schools,
and few job opportunities. RFK strongly opposed the military
buildup in Vietnam, but nothing was more important to him than "the
revolution within our gates, the struggle of the American Negro for
full equality and full freedom." On the night of Martin Luther
King's assassination, Kennedy's anguished appeal captured the hopes
of a turbulent decade: "In this difficult time for the United
States it is perhaps well to ask what kind of nation we are and
what direction we want to move in." It is a question that remains
urgent and unanswered.
Winner of the 2020 CCCC Research Impact Award Lean Technical
Communication: Toward Sustainable Program Innovation offers a
theoretically and empirically-grounded model for growing and
stewarding professional and technical communication programs under
diverse conditions. Through case studies of disruptive innovations,
this book presents a forward-looking, sustainable vision of program
administration that negotiates short-term resource deficits with
long-term resilience. It illustrates how to meet many of the newest
challenges facing technical communication programs, such as
building and maintaining change with limited resources, economic
shortfalls, technology deficits, and expanding/reimagining the role
of our programs in the 21st century university. Its insights
benefit those involved in the development of undergraduate and
graduate programs, including majors, service courses, minors,
specializations, and certificates.
Winner of the 2020 CCCC Research Impact Award Lean Technical
Communication: Toward Sustainable Program Innovation offers a
theoretically and empirically-grounded model for growing and
stewarding professional and technical communication programs under
diverse conditions. Through case studies of disruptive innovations,
this book presents a forward-looking, sustainable vision of program
administration that negotiates short-term resource deficits with
long-term resilience. It illustrates how to meet many of the newest
challenges facing technical communication programs, such as
building and maintaining change with limited resources, economic
shortfalls, technology deficits, and expanding/reimagining the role
of our programs in the 21st century university. Its insights
benefit those involved in the development of undergraduate and
graduate programs, including majors, service courses, minors,
specializations, and certificates.
In the 1930s and 1940s, a loose alliance of blacks and whites,
individuals and organizations, came together to offer a radical
alternative to southern conservative politics. In "Days of Hope,"
Patricia Sullivan traces the rise and fall of this movement. Using
oral interviews with participants in this movement as well as
documentary sources, she demonstrates that the New Deal era
inspired a coalition of liberals, black activists, labor
organizers, and Communist Party workers who sought to secure the
New Deal's social and economic reforms by broadening the base of
political participation in the South. From its origins in a
nationwide campaign to abolish the poll tax, the initiative to
expand democracy in the South developed into a regional drive to
register voters and elect liberals to Congress. The NAACP, the CIO
Political Action Committee, and the Southern Conference for Human
Welfare coordinated this effort, which combined local activism with
national strategic planning. Although it dramatically increased
black voter registration and led to some electoral successes, the
movement ultimately faltered, according to Sullivan, because the
anti-Communist fervor of the Cold War and a militant backlash from
segregationists fractured the coalition and marginalized southern
radicals. Nevertheless, the story of this campaign invites a fuller
consideration of the possibilities and constraints that have shaped
the struggle for racial democracy in America since the 1930s.
Despite their immense war-fighting capacity, the five most powerful
states in the international system have failed to attain their
primary political objective in almost 40% of their military
operations against weak state and non-state targets since 1945. Why
are states with tremendous military might so often unable to attain
their objectives when they use force against weaker adversaries?
More broadly, under what conditions can states use military force
to attain their political objectives and what conditions limit the
utility of military force as a policy instrument? Can we predict
the outcome of a war before the fighting begins?
Scholars and military leaders have argued that poor military
strategy choices, domestic political constraints on democratic
governments, or failure to commit sufficient resources to the war
effort can explain why strong states lose small wars. In contrast,
Who Wins? by Patricia L. Sullivan argues that the key to
understanding strategic success in war lies in the nature of the
political objectives states pursue through the use of military
force. Sullvian does not deny the importance of war-fighting
capacity, military strategies, or resolve as determinants of war
outcomes. But she provides both a coherent argument and substantial
empirical evidence that the effects of these factors are dependent
on the nature of the belligerents' political objectives.
The theory's predictions about the conditions under which states
are able to attain their political objectives through the use of
military force are tested against the most widely accepted
alternative explanations of war outcomes with an abundance of
historical data on violent conflicts. The results support
Sullivan's argument and challenge both existing theories and
conventional wisdom about the impact of factors like military
strength, resolve, regime type, and war-fighting strategies on war
outcomes.
This is an examination of writing technologies and critical
research practices. It discusses topics such as: articulating
methodology as praxis; postmodern mapping and methodological
interfaces; and the politics and ethics of studying writing with
computers.
This is an examination of writing technologies and critical
research practices. It discusses topics such as: articulating
methodology as praxis; postmodern mapping and methodological
interfaces; and the politics and ethics of studying writing with
computers.
The first major history of America's oldest civil rights
organisation is destined to become a classic in the field. When it
was founded in 1909, The National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People was an elite organisation of white reformers. By
1918, it had become a mass organisation with predominantly black
members. Sullivan unearths the little-known early decades of
NAACP's activism, telling startling stories of personal bravery,
legal brilliance and political manoeuvring, before moving on to the
critical post-war era.
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