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Colonialism, Catholicism, and Contraception - Conrad Seipp - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Colonialism, Catholicism, and Contraception - Conrad Seipp - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Analyses the tortuous course that Puerto Rico has followed in evolving a population policy, highlighting the island's rapic economic growth, its role as a laboratory for testing different methods of birth control, and the inevitable conflicts between church and state. The strands of colonialism, catholicism, and contraception are woven into a background of profound social change.

DKK 518.00
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Legislating Privacy - Priscilla M. Regan - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Legislating Privacy - Priscilla M. Regan - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

While technological threats to personal privacy have proliferated rapidly, legislation designed to protect privacy has been slow and incremental. In this study of legislative attempts to reconcile privacy and technology, Priscilla Regan examines congressional policy making in three key areas: computerized databases, wiretapping, and polygraph testing. In each case, she argues, legislation has represented an unbalanced compromise benefiting those with a vested interest in new technology over those advocating privacy protection. Legislating Privacy explores the dynamics of congressional policy formulation and traces the limited response of legislators to the concept of privacy as a fundamental individual right. According to Regan, we will need an expanded understanding of the social value of privacy if we are to achieve greater protection from emerging technologies such as Caller ID and genetic testing. Specifically, she argues that a recognition of the social importance of privacy will shift both the terms of the policy debate and the patterns of interest-group action in future congressional activity on privacy issues.Originally published in 1995.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

DKK 518.00
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Nature's Civil War - Kathryn Shively Meier - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Nature's Civil War - Kathryn Shively Meier - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions - strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat - which contributed to escalating disease and diminished morale. Using soldiers' letters, diaries, and memoirs, plus a wealth of additional personal accounts, medical sources, newspapers, and government documents, Kathryn Shively Meier reveals how these soldiers strove to maintain their physical and mental health by combating their deadliest enemy - nature. Meier explores how soldiers forged informal networks of health care based on prewar civilian experience and adopted a universal set of self-care habits, including boiling water, altering camp terrain, eradicating insects, supplementing their diets with fruits and vegetables, constructing protective shelters, and most controversially, straggling. In order to improve their health, soldiers periodically had to adjust their ideas of manliness, class values, and race to the circumstances at hand. While self-care often proved superior to relying upon the inchoate military medical infrastructure, commanders chastised soldiers for testing army discipline, ultimately redrawing the boundaries of informal health care.

DKK 329.00
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The Experiential Caribbean - Pablo F. Gomez - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

The Experiential Caribbean - Pablo F. Gomez - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body and the natural world during the long seventeenth century. Gomez treats the early modern intellectual culture of these mostly black and free Caribbean communities on its own merits and not only as it relates to well-known frameworks for the study of science and medicine.Drawing on an array of governmental and ecclesiastical sources—notably Inquisition records—Gomez highlights more than one hundred black ritual practitioners regarded as masters of healing practices and as social and spiritual leaders. He shows how they developed evidence-based healing principles based on sensorial experience rather than on dogma. He elucidates how they nourished ideas about the universality of human bodies, which contributed to the rise of empirical testing of disease origins and cures. Both colonial authorities and Caribbean people of all conditions viewed this experiential knowledge as powerful and competitive. In some ways, it served to respond to the ills of slavery. Even more crucial, however, it demonstrates how the black Atlantic helped creatively to fashion the early modern world.

DKK 347.00
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The Tejano Diaspora - Marc Simon Rodriguez - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

The Tejano Diaspora - Marc Simon Rodriguez - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labour, and ideas, Tejanos established settlements in nearly all the places they travelled to for work, influencing concepts of Mexican Americanism in Texas, California, Wisconsin, Michigan, and elsewhere. In The Tejano Diaspora, Marc Simon Rodriguez examines how Chicano political and social movements developed at both ends of the migratory labour network that flowed between Crystal City, Texas, and Wisconsin during this period. Rodriguez argues that translocal Mexican American activism gained ground as young people, activists, and politicians united across the migrant stream. Crystal City, well known as a flash point of 1960s-era Mexican Americanism, was a classic migrant sending community, with over 80 percent of the population migrating each year in pursuit of farm work. Wisconsin, which had a long tradition of progressive labour politics, provided a testing ground for activism and ideas for young movement leaders. By providing a view of the Chicano movement beyond the Southwest, Rodriguez reveals an emergent ethnic identity, discovers an overlooked youth movement, and interrogates the meanings of American citizenship. Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, USA.

DKK 307.00
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Black Votes Count - Frank R. Parker - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Black Votes Count - Frank R. Parker - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Most Americans see the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the culmination of the civil rights movement. When the law was enacted, black voter registration in Mississippi soared. Few black candidates won office, however. In this book, Frank Parker describes black Mississippians' battle for meaningful voting rights, bringing the story up to 1986, when Mike Espy was elected as Mississippi's first black member of Congress in this century. To nullify the impact of the black vote, white Mississippi devised a political ""massive resistance"" strategy, adopting such disenfranchising devices as at-large elections, racial gerrymandering, making elective offices appointive, and revising the qualifications for candidates for public office. As legal challenges to these mechanisms mounted, Mississippi once again became the testing ground for deciding whether the promises of the Fifteenth Amendment would be fulfilled, and Parker describes the court battles that ensued until black voters obtained relief. |Most Americans see the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the culmination of the civil rights movement. When the law was enacted, black voter registration in Mississippi soared. Few black candidates won office, however. In this book, Frank Parker describes black Mississippians' battle for meaningful voting rights, bringing the story up to 1986, when Mike Espy was elected as Mississippi's first black member of Congress in this century.

DKK 424.00
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Integrating Schools in a Changing Society - - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Integrating Schools in a Changing Society - - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

As a result of tremendous social, legal, and political movements after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the South led the nation in school desegregation from the late 1960s through the beginning of the twenty-first century. However, following a series of court cases in the past two decades--including a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision that raised potentially strong barriers for districts wishing to pursue integration--public schools in the South and across the nation are now resegregating faster than ever. In this comprehensive volume, a roster of leading scholars in educational policy and related fields offer eighteen essays seeking to illuminate new ways for American public education to counter persistent racial and socioeconomic inequality in our society. Drawing on extensive research, the contributors reinforce the key benefits of racially integrated schools, examine remaining options to pursue multiracial integration, and discuss case examples that suggest how to build support for those efforts. Framed by the editors' introduction and a conclusion by Gary Orfield, these essays engage the heated debates over school reform and advance new arguments about the dangers of resegregation while offering practical, research-grounded solutions to one of the most pressing issues in American education. The contributors are: Courtney Bell, Educational Testing Service Robert Bifulco, Syracuse University John Charles Boger, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Casey D. Cobb, University of Connecticut Elizabeth DeBray, University of Georgia Sarah L. Diem, University of Missouri Jacquelyn Duran, Columbia University Erica Frankenberg, Pennsylvania State University Patricia Gandara, University of California, Los Angeles Ellen Goldring, Vanderbilt University Willis D. Hawley, Univer¬sity of Maryland Jennifer Jellison Holme, University of Texas at Austin Eric A. Houck, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Emory University Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation Chinh Q. Le, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights Katherine Cumings Mansfield, University of Texas at Austin Gary Orfield, University of California, Los Angeles Myron Orfield, University of Minnesota Douglas D. Ready, Columbia University Sean F. Reardon, Stanford University Lori Rhodes, Stanford University Janelle Scott, University of California, Berkeley Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, University of California, Los Angeles Megan R. Silander, Columbia University Claire Smrekar, Vanderbilt University Amy Stuart Wells, Columbia University Sheneka Williams, University of Georgia Terrenda White, Columbia University |In this comprehensive volume, a roster of leading scholars in educational policy and related fields offer eighteen essays seeking to illuminate new ways for American public education to counter persistent racial and socioeconomic inequality in our society. Drawing on extensive research, the contributors reinforce the key benefits of racially integrated schools, examine remaining options to pursue multiracial integration, and discuss case examples that suggest how to build support for those efforts.

DKK 397.00
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