While the concept of "sanctuary cities" is thousands of years old, the emergence of the "anti-sanctuary city" is a recent American phenomenon. This book explains the social, political, and racial underpinnings of this radical new movement and what members of targeted communities can do to counteract its corrosive effects.
Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape
In "This Is America": Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape, Katie Rios argues that prominent American artists and musicians build encoded gestures of resistance into their works and challenge the status quo. These artists offer both an interpretation and a critique of what "This Is America" means. Using Childish Gambino's ......
Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape
In "This Is America": Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape, Katie Rios argues that prominent American artists and musicians build encoded gestures of resistance into their works and challenge the status quo. These artists offer both an interpretation and a critique of what "This Is America" means. Using Childish Gambino's ......
Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period
Thus Speaks Ishtar is a collection of essays about prophets and prophecy in the ancient Near East during the “Neo-Assyrian Period.” This was the time when some of Israel’s greatest prophets emerged, and we also have from the same general period a number of prophetic texts found on the site of the ancient Assyrian city ......
Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education
"To Remain an Indian" traces the footprints of Indigenous education in what is now the United States. Native Peoples' educational systems are rooted in ways of knowing and being that have endured for millennia, despite the imposition of colonial schooling. In this second edition, the authors amplify their theoretical framework of settler colonial ......
Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education
"To Remain an Indian" traces the footprints of Indigenous education in what is now the United States. Native Peoples' educational systems are rooted in ways of knowing and being that have endured for millennia, despite the imposition of colonial schooling. In this second edition, the authors amplify their theoretical framework of settler colonial ......
Few phrases in Scripture have occasioned as much discussion as has the I am who I am of Exodus 3:14. What does this phrase mean? How does it relate to the divine name, YHWH? Is it an answer to Moses' question (v. 13), or an evasion of an answer?
The trend in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarly ......
We Are All Leaders'' describes a kind of union qualitatively different from the bureaucratic business unions that make up the AFL-CIO today. From African American nutpickers in St. Louis, chemical and rubber workers in Akron, textile workers in the South, and bootleg miners in Pennsylvania to tenant farmers in the Mississippi Delta, packinghouse ......
Using Billy Joel's music as a lens on history and culture, this volume introduces a variety of musicological approaches to one of the most popular entertainers of the past fifty years.
