Temple University Press: 180 books
One Less Car
Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Although millions of people in the United States love to ride bicycles for exercise or leisure, statistics show that only 1% of the total U.S. population ride bicycles for transportation—and barely half as many use bikes to commute to work. In his original and exciting book, One Less Car, Zack...
Demanding Respect
The Evolution of the American Comic Book
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
How is it that comic books—the once reviled form of lowbrow popular culture—are now the rage for Hollywood blockbusters, the basis for bestselling video games, and the inspiration for literary graphic novels? In Demanding Respect, Paul Lopes immerses himself in the discourse and practices of this...
Surviving Mexico's Dirty War
A Political Prisoner's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
This is the first major, book-length memoir of a political prisoner from Mexico's "dirty war" of the 1970s. Written with the urgency of a first-person narrative, it is a unique work, providing an inside story of guerrilla activities and a gripping tale of imprisonment and torture at the...
Claiming the Oriental Gateway
Prewar Seattle and Japanese America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
In Claiming the Oriental Gateway, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee explores the various intersections of urbanization, ethnic identity, and internationalism in the experience of Japanese Americans in early twentieth-century Seattle. She examines the development and self-image of the city by documenting how U.S....
From Warism to Pacifism
A Moral Continuum
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Duane Cady views warism and pacifism as polar extremes on a continuum that embraces a full spectrum of ethical positions on the morality of war and peace. Realizing that he could not intellectually defend the notions of just-war theory, he found that he was a reluctant pacifist. In this new edition...
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites...
Flow
The Life and Times of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
The Schuylkill River-the name in Dutch means "hidden creek"-courses many miles, turning through Philadelphia before it yields to the Delaware. "I am this wide. I am this deep. A tad voluptuous, but only in places," writes Beth Kephart, capturing the voice of this natural resource...
Searching for Mr. Chin
Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
What do twentieth-century fictional images of the Chinese reveal about the construction of nationhood in the former West Indian colonies? In her groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Searching for Mr. Chin, Anne-Marie Lee-Loy seeks to map and understand a cultural process of identity formation: “Chineseness”...
by Michael E. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2008
In this fresh appraisal of communism and anti-communism, with an emphasis on the American case, respected scholar Michael E. Brown examines the methods, controversies and difficulties involved in writing the history of communism. Arguing that one important way of understanding communism—other than...
Unraveling the Real
The Fantastic in Spanish-American Ficciones
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
In literary and cinematic fictions, the fantastic blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. Lacking a consensus on definition, critics often describe the fantastic as supernatural, or similar to, but quite different from fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism.
In Unraveling the Real...
Afro-Caribbean Religions
An Introduction to Their Historical, Cultural, and Sacred Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Religion is one of the most important elements of Afro-Caribbean culture linking its people to their African past, from Haitian Vodou and Cuban Santeria—popular religions that have often been demonized in popular culture—to Rastafari in Jamaica and Orisha-Shango of Trinidad and Tobago. In Afro-Caribbean...
Global Philadelphia
Immigrant Communities Old and New
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
The racial and ethnic composition of Philadelphia continues to diversify as a new wave of immigrants—largely from Asia and Latin America—reshape the city’s demographic landscape. Moreover, in a globalized economy, immigration is the key to a city’s survival and competitiveness. The contributors...
by Kristin Esterberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
This book examines the stories of lesbian and bisexual women in a Northeast community who share who they are, how they have come to see themselves as lesbian or bisexual, and what those identities mean to them. Drawing on social constructionist approaches to identity, Kristin G. Esterberg argues...
To The City
Urban Photographs of the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
In the 1930s and 1940s, as the United States moved from a rural to an urban nation, the pull of the city was irrepressible. It was so strong that even a photographic mission designed to record the essence of rural America could not help but capture the energy of urbanization too. To the City showcases...