Temple University Press: 180 books
There Goes the Hood
Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
In this revealing book, Lance Freeman sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: how does gentrification actually affect residents of neighborhoods in transition? To find out, Freeman does what no scholar before him has done. He interviews the indigenous residents of two predominantly black neighborhoods...
The Change Election
Money, Mobilization, and Persuasion in the 2008 Federal Elections
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
The 2008 election was an extraordinary event that represented change at many levels. The candidates’ innovative campaigns changed how funds were raised, how voters were mobilized, and how messages were communicated through advertising and the internet. Parties and interest groups played their own...
Upon the Ruins of Liberty
Slavery, the President's House at Independence National Historical Park, and Public Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
The 2002 revelation that George Washington kept slaves in his executive mansion at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park in the 1790s prompted an eight-year controversy about the role of slavery in America's commemorative landscape. When the President's House installation opened in...
Mobilizing Science
Movements, Participation, and the Remaking of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Mobilizing Science theoretically and empirically explores the rise of a new kind of social movement—one that attempts to empower citizens through the use of expert scientific research. Sabrina McCormick advances theories of social movements, development, and science and technology studies by examining...
Hmong Means Free
Life in Laos and America
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
This collection of evocative personal testimonies by three generations of Hmong refugees is the first to describe their lives in Laos as slash-and-burn farmers, as refugees after a Communist government came to power in 1975, and as immigrants in the United States. Reflecting on the homes left behind,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's...
Savoring the Salt
The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
The extraordinary spirit of Toni Cade Bambara lives on in Savoring the Salt, a vibrant and appreciative recollection of the work and legacy of the multi-talented African American writer, teacher, filmmaker, and activist. Among the contributors who remember Bambara, reflect on her work, and examine...
Another Arabesque
Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
Offering a novel approach to the study of ethnicity in the neoliberal market, Another Arabesque is the first full-length book in English to focus on the estimated seven million Arabs in Brazil. With insights gained from interviews and fieldwork, John Tofik Karam examines how Brazilians of Syrian-Lebanese...
Desis In The House
Indian American Youth Culture In Nyc
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
She sports a nose-ring and duppata (a scarf worn by South Asian women) along with the latest fashion in slinky club wear; he's decked out in Tommy gear. Their moves on the crowded dance floor, blending Indian film dance with break-dancing, attract no particular attention. They are just two of the...
Deviance and Medicalization
From Badness to Sickness
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
This classic text on the nature of deviance, originally published in 1980, is now reissued with a new Afterword by the authors. In this new edition of their award-winning book, Conrad and Schneider investigate the origins and contemporary consequences of the medicalization of deviance. They examine...
Oye Como Va!
Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed "Oye Como Va!" in the 1960s, his popular song was called "Latin" even though it was a fusion of Afro-Cuban and New York Latino musical influences. A decade later, Carlos Santana, a Mexican immigrant, blended Puente’s tune...
Violent Belongings
Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Focusing on the historical and contemporary narration of the Partition of India, Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards. Spanning the Indian subcontinent and its diasporas in the United Kingdom and the United States, it asks how postcolonial/diasporic literature...
Outside the Paint
When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
This fascinating book reveals that Chinese Americans began “shooting hoops” nearly a century before Chinese superstar Yao Ming turned pro. Drawing on interviews with players and coaches, Outside the Paint takes readers back to San Francisco in the 1930s and 1940s, when young Chinese American men...
Resentment's Virtue
Jean Amery and the Refusal to Forgive
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Most current talk of forgiveness and reconciliation in the aftermath of collective violence proceeds from an assumption that forgiveness is always superior to resentment and refusal to forgive. Victims who demonstrate a willingness to forgive are often celebrated as virtuous moral models, while those...