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Desegregating Dixie : the Catholic Church in the South and desegregation, 1945-1992 / by Newman, Mark(Historian),author.(CARDINAL)612505;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-423) and index.Introduction: the Catholic Church and African Americans in the South and nation to 1944 -- Chapter one. An overview: Catholics in the South and desegregation, 1945-1970 -- Chapter two. The sociology of religion and Catholic desegregation in the South -- Chapter three. Catholic segregationist thought in the South -- Chapter four. Progressive white Catholics in the South and civil rights -- Chapter five. White Catholics in the South and secular desegregation, 1954-1970 -- Chapter six. Desegregation of southern Catholic institutions, 1945-1970 -- Chapter seven. African American Catholics in the South and desegregation, 1945-1970 -- Chapter eight. Southern Catholics and desegregation in denominational perspective, 1945-1971 -- Chapter nine. An overview: Catholics in the South and desegregation, 1971-1992 -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Catholic Archdioceses and Dioceses in the South, 1945-1992 -- Appendix 2. Ordinaries of Catholic Dioceses in the South, 1945-1992 -- Appendix 3. Major Catholic Diocesan newspapers in the South, 1945-1992 -- Appendix 4. The Catholic population in the South, 1945-1980 -- Appendix 5. The African American Catholic population in the South, 1945-1975."Mark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the first time the complex response of African American and white Catholics across the South to desegregation. In the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the southern Catholic Church contributed to segregation by confining Africans Americans to the back of white churches and to black-only schools and churches. However, in the twentieth century, papal adoption and dissemination of the doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ, pressure from some black and white Catholics, and secular change brought by the civil rights movement increasingly led the Church to address racial discrimination both inside and outside its walls. Far from monolithic, white Catholics in the South split between a moderate segregationist majority and minorities of hard-line segregationists and progressive racial egalitarians. While some bishops felt no discomfort with segregation, prelates appointed from the late 1940s onward tended to be more supportive of religious and secular change. Some bishops in the peripheral South began desegregation before or in anticipation of secular change while elsewhere, especially in the Deep South, they often tied changes in the Catholic churches to secular desegregation. African American Catholics were diverse and more active in the civil rights movement than has often been assumed. While some black Catholics challenged racism in the Church, many were conflicted about the manner of Catholic desegregation generally imposed by closing valued black institutions. Tracing its impact through the early 1990s, Newman reveals how desegregation shook congregations but seldom brought about genuine integration."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Catholic Church; African Americans; Catholics;
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Chan is missing [videorecording] / by Wang, Wayne,1949-; Moy, Wood.; Hayashi, Marc.; Chew, Laureen.; Kikuchi-Yngojo, Robert.; Koch Lorber Films.; KOCH Vision (Firm);
Cinematography, Michael Chin ; music, Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo.Wood Moy, Marc Hayashi, Laureen Chew, Peter Wang.Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest to figure out what happened to Chan and their missing cash leads them on a journey that illuminates the pitfalls of Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Feature films.; Film noir.; Films for the hearing impaired.; Chinese Americans; Assimilation (Sociology); Missing persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Floating city : a rogue sociologist lost and found in New York's underground economy / by Venkatesh, Sudhir,1966-;
When worlds collide -- New York, New York -- The shifting ground beneath your feet -- Moving on up -- Sex is a passport -- Adventures in role-playing -- Boundary issues -- Exit strategies.Based on Venkatesh's interviews with New York City prostitutes and socialites, immigrants and academics, high end drug bosses and street-level dealers, "Floating City" exposes the underground as the city's true engine of social transformation and economic prosperity--revealing a wholly unprecedented vision of New York. A remarkable memoir of sociological investigation.
Subjects: Informal sector (Economics); Sociology, Urban;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Living the secular life : new answers to old questions / by Zuckerman, Phil,author.(CARDINAL)653325;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-262) and index.Morality -- The good society -- Irreligion rising -- Raising kids -- Creating community -- Trying times -- Don't fear the reaper -- Aweism.A sociology professor examines the demographic shift that has led more Americans than ever before to embrace a nonreligious life and highlights the inspirational stories and beliefs that empower modern-day secular culture.Over the last twenty-five years, "no religion" has become the fastest-growing religion in the United States. Around the world, hundreds of millions of people have turned away from the traditional faiths of the past and embraced a moral yet nonreligious--or secular--life, generating societies vastly less religious than at any other time in human history. Revealing the inspiring beliefs that empower secular culture--alongside real stories of nonreligious men and women based on extensive in-depth interviews from across the country. Zuckerman is a sociologist who in this groundbreaking book writes clearly, offers unobtrusive statistical support, and provides a persuasive and comprehensive look at the growing contemporary phenomenon of people who choose to live without religion, but with ethics and meaning in their lives.
Subjects: Secularism; Secularism;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 13
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The price of motherhood : why the most important job in the world is still the least valued / by Crittenden, Ann.(CARDINAL)194882;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Where we are now -- A conspiracy of silence -- How mothers' work was "disappeared" : the invention of the unproductive housewife -- The truly invisible hand -- The mommy tax -- The dark little secret of family life -- What is a wife worth? -- Who really owns the family wage? -- Who pays for the kids? -- The welfare state versus a caring state -- The toughest job you'll ever love -- An accident waiting to happen -- "It was her choice" -- Conclusion : how to bring children up without putting women down.In this book, Ann Crittenden argues that although women have been liberated, mothers have not. Drawing on hundreds of interviews from around the country, as well as the most current research in economics, sociology, history, child development and law, she shows how mothers are systematically disadvantaged and made dependent by a society that celebrates the labor of child-rearing but undervalues and even exploits those who perform it. The price of motherhood is everywhere apparent. College-educated women pay a "mommy tax" of more than a million dollars in lost income when they have a child. Family law deprives mothers of financial equality in marriage. Most child care is excluded from the gross domestic product, at-home mothers are not counted in the labor force, and the social safety net leaves them out. With passion and clarity, Crittenden dismantles the principal argument for the status quo: that it's a woman's "choice." She demonstrates, on the contrary, that if mothers had more resources and respect, everyone--including children--would be better off. The price of motherhood reveals the glaring disparity between the value created by mothers' work and the reward women receive for carrying out society's most important job.
Subjects: Motherhood; Motherhood; Mothers; Mothers; Motherhood.; Mothers.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Intersectional tech : Black users in digital gaming / by Gray, Kishonna L.,author.; Sarkeesian, Anita,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)803788;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword / by Anita Sarkeesian -- Introduction: Intersectional formations and transmediated methods -- The "problem" of intersectionality in digital gaming culture -- Historical narratives, contemporary games, racialized experiences -- Hypervisible blackness, invisible narratives : black gamers cocreating transmediated masculine identity -- #Me2, #Me4, black women, and misogynoir : transmediated gaming practices as intersectional counterpublics -- #TechFail : from intersectional (in)accessibility to inclusive design -- Queering intersectional narratives : claiming space and creating possibilities -- Conclusion: Resisting intersectional marginalization using transmediated technologies in the digital era."In "Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming," Kishonna L. Gray interrogates blackness in gaming at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. Situating her argument within the context of the concurrent, seemingly unrelated events of Gamergate and the Black Lives Matter movement, Gray highlights the inescapable chains that bind marginalized populations to stereotypical frames and limited narratives in video games. "Intersectional Tech" explores the ways that the multiple identities of black gamers-some obvious within the context of games, some more easily concealed-affect their experiences of gaming. The normalization of whiteness and masculinity in digital culture inevitably leads to isolation, exclusion, and punishment of marginalized people. Yet, Gray argues, we must also examine the individual struggles of prejudice, discrimination, and microaggressions within larger institutional practices that sustain the oppression. These "new" racisms and a complementary colorblind ideology are a kind of digital Jim Crow, a new mode of the same strategies of oppression that have targeted black communities throughout American history. Drawing on extensive interviews that engage critically with identity development and justice issues in gaming, Gray explores the capacity for gaming culture to foster critical consciousness, aid in participatory democracy, and effect social change. "Intersectional Tech" is rooted in concrete situations of marginalized members within gaming culture. It reveals that despite the truths articulated by those who expose the sexism, racism, misogyny, and homophobia that are commonplace within gaming communities, hegemonic narratives continue to be privileged. This text, in contrast, centers the perspectives that are often ignored and provides a critical corrective to notions of gaming as a predominantly white and male space"--
Subjects: Video games; Race in video games.; Intersectionality (Sociology); African American video gamers.; Women video gamers.; African Americans; African Americans; Intersectionality.;
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Musical landscapes in color : conversations with Black American composers / by Banfield, William C.,1961-author.(CARDINAL)528773;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Now available in paperback, William C. Banfield's acclaimed collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists offers a candid self-portrait that explores areas from training and compositional techniques to working in an exclusive canon that has existed for a very long time. At the same time, Banfield draws on sociology, Western concepts of art and taste, and vernacular musical forms like blues and jazz to provide a frame for the artists' achievements and help to illuminate the ongoing progress and struggles against industry barriers. Expanded illustrations and a new preface by the author provide invaluable added context, making this new edition an essential companion for anyone interested in Black composers or contemporary classical music"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Interviews.; Music criticism and reviews.; Music.; African American composers; African Americans; Music;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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Kent State [videorecording] : the day the war came home / by Mucci, David.nrt; Triffo, Chris.drt; History Television.; Learning Channel (Firm); Partners in Motion (Firm); Single Spark Pictures (Firm);
MARCIVE 06/02/10Writer, Iain Maclean ; editor, Trevor Aikman.Narrator, David Mucci.Looks at the reasons for the attack on anti-Vietnam-war student demonstrators on the Kent State University campus on May 4, 1970 by National Guardsmen. Shows the build-up of the protest against the Vietnam War, and follows the stories of the four students who were killed at Kent State. Includes interviews with people who witnessed the events including a wounded student-activist, a now paralyzed student, three former National Guardsman, and a sociology professor.DVD-R.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Kent State University; Kent State University; College students; College students; Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970.; Vietnam War, 1961-1975;
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The science of hate : how prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it / by Williams, Matthew,1976-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: living with hate -- Introduction -- What it means to hate -- Hate counts -- The brain and hate -- My brain and hate -- Group threat and hate -- Trauma, containment and hate -- Trigger events and the ebb and flow of hate -- Subcultures of hate -- Rise of the bots and trolls -- Hate in word and deed -- The tipping point from prejudice to hate and how to prevent it.At what point does prejudice become hate crime? Hate crimes are spiraling to an all-time high on both sides of the Atlantic, with minorities experiencing the largest increase in hostility towards their race, nationality, sexuality and religion since records began. Whilst recent political turmoil could be a contributing factor to this spike, Professor Matthew Williams shows that there is nothing temporary about the hate that has been stirred up. Drawing on 20 years of experience as a criminologist studying and interviewing the victims and perpetrators of hate combining neuroscience, psychology, sociology, computer science and economics The Science of Hate examines the illusive 'tipping point' at the intersection of prejudice and hate, traversing the globe and reaching back through history, from our tribal ancestors in pre-history to artificial intelligence in the 21st century.
Subjects: Hate crimes; Hate; Prejudices; Hate crimes.;
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Death row [videorecording] : 400 Years of Capital Punishment in America / by Meyer, Ron;
Disc 1: 400 years of capital punishment in America -- Executing serical killers, parts 1 & 2.Disc 2: Most famous executions -- On federal death row -- Last means and last words.The death penalty in the United States is an old as the country itself with roots to the original European settlements. It is the ultimate punishment for murderers, terrorists, traitors and serial killers. During this time over 15,000 men and women have been executed spurring a heated debate about its moral and ethical use. Featuring interviews and commentary from leading criminal and sociology experts, this documentary takes an inside look at the origins of America's capital punishment laws, the methods of execution and the faces of evil who have received the death sentence. Also, get a glimpse into prison cells and learn about the last meals and words of those who have awaited their fate on death row.
Subjects: Documentaries.; Crime and punishment.; Death penalty.;
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