The DREAMers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate
Author: Walter J. Nicholls File Type: pdf On May 17, 2010, four undocumented students occupied the Arizona office of Senator John McCain. Across the country a flurry of occupations, hunger strikes, demonstrations, and marches followed, calling for support of the DREAM Act that would allow these young people the legal right to stay in the United States. The highly public, confrontational nature of these actions marked a sharp departure from more subdued, anonymous forms of activism of years past. The DREAMers provides the first investigation of the youth movement that has transformed the national immigration debate, from its start in the early 2000s through the present day. Walter Nicholls draws on interviews, news stories, and firsthand encounters with activists to highlight the strategies and claims that have created this now-powerful voice in American politics. Facing high levels of anti-immigrant sentiment across the country, undocumented youths sought to increase support for their cause and change the terms of debate by arguing for their unique position?as culturally integrated, long term residents and most importantly as American youth sharing in core American values. Since 2010 undocumented activists have increasingly claimed their own space in the public sphere, asserting a right to recognition?a right to have rights. Ultimately, through the story of the undocumented youth movement, The DREAMers shows how a stigmatized group?whether immigrants or others?can gain a powerful voice in American political debate. **
Author: Samuel Cohen
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Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace was at the height of his creative powers when he committed suicide in 2008. In a sweeping portrait of Wallaces writing and thought and as a measure of his importance in literary history, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace gathers cutting-edge, field-defining scholarship by critics alongside remembrances by many of his writer friends, who include some of the worlds most influential authors. In this elegant volume, literary critics scrutinize the existing Wallace scholarship and at the same time pioneer new ways of understanding Wallaces fiction and journalism. In critical essays exploring a variety of topicsincluding Wallaces relationship to American literary history, his place in literary journalism, his complicated relationship to his postmodernist predecessors, the formal difficulties of his 1996 magnum opus Infinite Jest, his environmental imagination, and the social life of his fiction and nonfictioncontributors plumb sources as diverse as Amazon.com reader recommendations, professional book reviews, the 2009 Infinite Summer project, and the David Foster Wallace archive at the University of Texass Harry Ransom Center. The creative writersincluding Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, George Saunders, Rick Moody, Dave Eggers, and David Lipsky, and Wallaces Little, Brown editor, Michael Pietschreflect on the person behind the volumes of fiction and nonfiction created during the authors too-short life. All of the essays, critical and creative alike, are written in an accessible style that does not presume any background in Wallace criticism. Whether the reader is an expert in all things David Foster Wallace, a casual fan of his fiction and nonfiction, or completely new to Wallace, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace will reveal the power and innovation that defined his contribution to literary life and to self-understanding. This illuminating volume is destined to shape our understanding of Wallace, his writing, and his place in history.
Author: Jean Burgess
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YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video. In this timely and comprehensive introduction to how YouTube is being used and why it matters, Burgess and Green discuss the ways that it relates to wider transformations in culture, society and the economy. The book critically examines the public debates surrounding the site, demonstrating how it is central to struggles for authority and control in the new media environment. Drawing on a range of theoretical sources and empirical research, the authors discuss how YouTube is being used by the media industries, by audiences and amateur producers, and by particular communities of interest, and the ways in which these uses challenge existing ideas about cultural production and consumption. Rich with both concrete examples and featuring specially commissioned chapters by Henry Jenkins and John Hartley, the book is essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary and future implications of online media. It will be particularly valuable for students and scholars in media, communication and cultural studies. **
Author: Ana Maria Ortese
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A major inspiration for Elena Ferrante.The New York Times A riveting classic of European literature, this superb collection of fiction and reportage is set in Italys most vibrant and turbulent metropolisNaplesin the immediate aftermath of World War Two. These writings helped inspire Elena Ferrantes best-selling novels and she has expressed deep admiration for the author of this volume, originally edited in Italian by Italo Calvino. Goyaesque in its depiction of the widespread suffering and brutal desperation that plagued the city, it comprises a mix of masterful storytelling and piercing journalism. This book, with its unforgettable portrait of Naples high and low, is also a stunning literary companion to the great neorealist films of the era by directors such as Vittorio de Sica and Roberto Rossellini. Neapolitan Chronicles is exquisitely rendered in English by Ann Goldstein and Jenny McPhee, two of the leading translators working from Italian today. Included in the collection is A Pair of Eyeglasses, one of the most widely praised Italian short stories of the last century. Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) is one of the most celebrated and original Italian writers of the last century. Neapolitan Chronicles brought her widespread acclaim in her native country when it was first published in 1953 and won the prestigious Premio Viareggio. **
Author: Marilyn Hacker
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Longlisted for the National Book Award A selection of poems that addresses the quotidian and the global, from one of our most essential poets. Drawing on two decades worth of award-winning poetry, Marilyn Hackers generous selections in A Strangers Mirror include work from four previous volumes along with twenty-five new poems, ranging in locale from a solitary bedroom to a refugee camp. In a multiplicity of voices, Hacker engages with translations of French and Francophone poets. Her poems belong to an urban world of cafes, bookshops, bridges, traffic, demonstrations, conversations, and solitudes. From there, Hacker reaches out to other sites and personas a refugee camp on the TurkishSyrian border contrapuntal monologues of a Palestinian and an Israeli poet intimate and international exchanges abbreviated on Skypeperhaps with gunfire in the background. These poems course through sonnets and ghazals, through sapphics and syllabics, through every historic-organic pattern, from renga to rubaiyat to Hayden Carruths paragraph. Each is also an implicit conversation with the poets who came before, or who are writing as we read. A Strangers Mirror is not meant only for poets. These poems belong to anyone who has sought in language an expression and extension of his or her engagement with the worldfar off or up close as the mornings first cup of tea.
Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucaulds writings ever published in English, and includes the first complete translation of the Miscellaneous Reflections. A table of alternative maxim numbers and an index of topics help the reader to locate any maxim quickly. - Our virtues are, most often, only vices in disguise. Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucaulds shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behaviour have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle, Nietzsche, and Conan Doyle. The author gave himself the following advice The readers best policy is to assume that none of these maxims is directed at him, and that he is the sole exception...After that, I guarantee that he will be the first to subscribe to them. This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucaulds writings ever published in English, and includes the first complete translation of the R--eacute--flexions diverses (Miscellaneous Reflections). A table of alternative maxim numbers and an index of topics help the reader to locate any maxim quickly and to appreciate the full range of La Rochefoucaulds thought on any of his favourite themes, such as self-love, vice and virtue, love and jealousy, friendship and self-interest, passion and pride. - This superb publication of La Rouchefoucaulds seminal Maxims combines the erudition and comprehensiveness of a scholarly edition with the welcoming accessibility of a first-class textbook. - Kevin De Ornellas, University of Ulster
Author: John Morrow
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During the French wars (1793-1801, 1803-1815) the system of promotion to flag rank in the Royal Navy produced a cadre of admirals numbering more than two hundred at its peak. These officers competed vigorously for a limited number of appointments at sea and for the high honours and significant financial rewards open to successful naval commanders. When on active service admirals faced formidable challenges arising from the Navys critical role in a global conflict, from the extraordinary scope of their responsibilities, and from intense political, public and professional expectations. While a great deal has been written about admirals roles in naval operations, other aspects of their professional lives have not been explored systematically. British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815 considers the professional lives of well-known and more obscure admirals, vice-admirals and rear-admirals. It examines the demands of naval command, flag officers understanding of their authority and their approach to exercising it, their ambitions and failures, their professional interactions, and their lives afloat and onshore. In exploring these themes, it draws on a wide range of correspondence and other primary source material. By taking a broad thematic approach, this book provides a multi-faceted account of admirals professional lives that extends beyond the insights that are found in biographical studies of individual flag officers. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of British naval history. **Review The length of time, scale and geographical scope of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars at sea had an unprecedented impact on British society and future generations understanding of the Royal Navy. The performance and public personae of the flag officers as individuals and as a group were highlighted as never before. Morrow has done a first-rate job in taking us behind the events on the high seas to the factors that motivated or influenced the development and fortunes of this remarkable body of officers. Richard Harding, Professor of History, University of Westminster, UK About the Author John Morrow is Professor of Political Studies and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has been a Bye Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge, a visiting lecturer in the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge, and a visiting fellow at both the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.
Author: Luis van Isschot
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Human rights activism is often associated with international organizations that try to affect the behavior of abusive states around the globe. In Barrancabermeja, Colombia, argues Luis van Isschot in The Social Origin of Human Rights, the struggle for rights has emerged more organically and locally, out of a long history of civil and social organizing. He offers deep insight into the lives of home-grown activists in a conflict zone, against the backdrop of major historical changes that shaped Latin America in the twentieth century. Built by Standard Oil in 1919, and home to the largest petroleum refinery in the country, Barrancabermeja has long been a critical battleground in Colombias armed conflict. One of the most militarized urban areas on earth, the city has been a regional base for the Colombian armed forces as well as for leftist guerrillas and a national paramilitary movement. In the midst of a dirty war in which the majority of victims were civilians, urban and rural social movements from Barrancabermeja and the surrounding area came together to establish a human rights movement. These frontline activists called upon the Colombian state to protect basic human rights and denounced the deeper socioeconomic inequalities they saw as sources of conflict. Through close study of the complex dynamics at work in Barrancabermeja, van Isschot shows how the efforts we describe as human rights activism derive in large part from these lived experiences of authoritarianism, war, poverty, and social exclusion. Through its social and historical approach, his analysis both complements and challenges the work of scholars who look at rights issues primarily through a legal lens. **
Author: Jean Hugard
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Based on a volume compiled by Dr. Wilhelm Von Deusen and Glenn G. Gravatt, this collection was thoroughly revised by Jean Hugard and completely rewritten. It is easily the finest single compendium of classic card tricks, and the clear style makes the instructions easy to follow. An indispensable book for the professional or amateur magician, it is a magnificent source for anyone who wants just the right tricks to mystify his friends or delight his children. Contents CHAPTER I MISCELLANEOUS IMPROMPTU CARD TRICKS CHAPTER II SPELLING EFFECTS IN CARD MAGIC CHAPTER III YOU DO AS I DO CHAPTER IV CARD SUBTLETIES UTILIZING KEY CARDS CHAPTER V SLICK PRINCIPLES IN CARD MAGIC CHAPTER VI CARD MYSTERIES EMPLOYING DIACHYLON CHAPTER VII DOUBLE BACK PRINCIPLES IN CARD MAGIC CHAPTER VIII MAGIC UTILIZING DOUBLE FACED CARDS CHAPTER IX CARD MYSTERIES USING A ONE-WAY BACK DESIGN O CHAPTER X REVERSED ORDINARY CARDS CHAPTER XI CALCULATION TRICKS WITH ORDINARY CARDS CHAPTER XII THE MYSTERIES OF A PREARRANGED PACK OF CARDS CHAPTER XIII MAGIC WITH A SVENGALI PACK OF CARDS CHAPTER XIV MAGIC WITH A MENE-TEKEL PACK OF CARDS CHAPTER XV MAGIC WITH A STRIPPER PACK OF CARDS CHAPTER XVI MAGICAL MYSTERIES WITH SPECIAL PACKS CHAPTER XVII THE USE OF SHORT CARDS IN MAGICAL EFFECTS CHAPTER XVIII MORE MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS CHAPTER XIX INDISPENSABLE SLEIGHTS CHAPTER XX THE NIKOLA CARD SYSTEM **