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Originally published in 1987, Joel Sternfeld's now-classic view of America is here remastered, redesigned, and reprinted at a larger, brighter, truer scale. Finally, photography and offset printing techniques have caught up with Sternfeld's eye, and this new edition of American Prospects succeeds in presenting Sternfeld's most seminal work as it has always meant to be shown. A specially-commissioned essay by Kerry Brougher, Chief Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, considers the historical context in which Sternfeld was working and the pivotal role that American Prospects has played in the course of contemporary filmmaking and art photography. In American Prospects, a fireman shops for a pumpkin while a house burns in the background; a group of motorcyclists stop at the side of the road to take in a stunning, placid view of Bear Lake, Utah; the high-tech world headquarters of the Manville Corporation sits in picturesque Colorado, obscured by a defiant boulder; a lone basketball net stands in the desert near Lake Powell in Arizona; and a cookie-cutter suburban housing settlement rests squarely amongst rolling hills in Pendleton, Oregon. Sternfeld's photographic tour of America is a search for the truth of a country not just as it exists in a particular era but as it is in its ever-evolving essence. It is a sad poem, but also a funny and generous one, recognizing endurance, poignant beauty, and determination within its sometimes tense, often ironic juxtapositions of man and nature, technology and ruin.
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Rust Never Sleeps.......2007-02-08
What a refreshing twist on the usual coffee table photography book. Sternfeld's photographs of the natural and manmade environment are so interesting. They almost have an old-fashioned hand-colored postcard-feel to them, but the images are often startlingly futuristic. Great contrasts of the ugly and rusting and vacant with beautiful natural landscapes. The publishers did a wonderful job of cleanly presenting the photos to speak for themselves and putting all the verbiage up front.
Joel Sternfeld book American Prospects.......2007-01-18
JOEL IS A GOOD NAME AND THIS IS A FABOULOS WORK.This man is travelling a lot!!!I want only says that J.Sternfeld is able to meet people and discover particulary little object too that can be fundamental for go inside these pictures,he use colour in a cool way too,soft traditional in colours but in meanings is not really traditional expecially if we related his work in the world of landscape's photography.He use landscape like it was reportage.It is a way for put something else inside.That picture could be sometime strong somentime enchanting but always are intresting me.Put something strange in your picture and maybe that landscape could change his own value.
I like a lot
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a landmark poetic document recorded and built by a master.......2006-07-16
if you want to know where the comtemporary obsession with large format color "street" work came from, this is it. newer books, by artists like alec soth and other color documentary artists, are excellent, important books, but it must at least be noted that the true groundbreakers were working a generation ago, putting out these kinds of books before it was the accepted trend. and simply put, this work along with shore's 'uncommon places' and eggleston's 'guide', are still, in my opinion, unsurpassed.
on top of that, the size and reproduction quality of this book are mind-blowing. i can't imagine any photography fan not loving this book, or any serious student not wanting it (for a decent price, of course, which this actually is with the discount.)
American prospects.......2005-09-23
This a great photography book, but the parcel in which it was sent was not strong enough, and the book arrived a little bit damaged.
Essential American Art.......2004-11-16
He was there first -in color. If you didn't know that, you should, and "American Prospects" will show you where "there" is.
Great art and great artists have the power to bridge many a divide. Whether in the deep red states or the deep blue states, our great country has never looked so epic, as when it is seen though Mr. Sternfeld's great big view.
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In this controversial and compassionate book, the distinguished psychiatrist James Gilligan proposes a radically new way of thinking about violence and how to prevent it. Violence is most often addressed in moral and legal terms: "How evil is this action, and how much punishment does it deserve?" Unfortunately, this way of thinking, the basis for our legal and political institutions, does nothing to shed light on the causes of violence. Violent criminals have been Gilligan's teachers, and he has been their student. Prisons are microcosms of the societies in which they exist, and by examining them in detail, we can learn about society as a whole. Gilligan suggests treating violence as a public health problem. He advocates initiating radical social and economic change to attack the root causes of violence, focusing on those at increased risk of becoming violent, and dealing with those who are already violent as if they were in quarantine rather than in constraint for their punishment and for society's revenge. The twentieth century was steeped in violence. If we attempt to understand the violence of individuals, we may come to prevent the collective violence that threatens our future far more than all the individual crimes put together.
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Excellent!.......2007-02-23
Having read Dr. Gilligan's first book, I was very excited to see he had a sequel dealing with the prevention of violence. The first one changed my perspective on a number of things and this book expanded on that. I strongly recommend it to anyone wanting to understand the necessary factors for preventing violence.
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Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence--from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the modern centers of commerce (as well as dozens of black-and-white illustrations)--to show how the urban form has changed throughout human civilization. His tone is ultimately somewhat pessimistic: Mumford was deeply concerned with what he viewed as the dehumanizing aspects of the metropolitan trend, which he deemed "a world of professional illusionists and their credulous victims." (In another typically unrestrained criticism, he dubbed the Pentagon a Bronze Age monument to humanity's basest impulses, as well as an "effete and worthless baroque conceit.") Mumford hoped for a rediscovery of urban principles that emphasized humanity's organic relationship to its environment. The City in History remains a powerfully influential work, one that has shaped the agendas of urban planners, sociologists, and social critics since its publication in the 1960s.
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Too long, too clever, both by half.......2007-05-27
This is a canonical work, and perhaps deservedly so. By that I mean that it certainly covers a lot of ground, for which he deserves credit. Unfortunately, Mumford tries too hard to shove history into Karl Marx's neat little Hegelian theory and ultimately fails to bring his analysis close to a successful conclusion. And for something that pretends to be The History of The City, it certainly lacks the non-Western perspective, as if this was the work not of a world historian but of a well-traveled American or Englishman.
As an example of the first problem, his explanation of early cities leaves much to be desired. Here we have neolithic man living in villages and tending crops. Rather than simply offering a few suggestions as to how the city and king-based government came about, he forces the dialectic into the tale by bringing paleolithic man back and putting him in the place of the brutal warlord-king. Rex ex machina. It was truly bizarre and forces all of the explanations to be backwards from what is most likely the truth. Mumford seems to imply that the savage, paleolithic hunter-gatherers came back, built cities, and then forced the farmers to move into them when I suspect a much more organic process was involved in response to ... what? Marauding bands of warriors? What is the relevant scarcity that would have caused people to gradually transfer their own sovereignty to the king? Mumsford's treatment of the subject is unsophisticated.
As another reviewer has pointed out, he does seem to hit his stride when he comes to Classical Greece, has disdain for the Romans that makes you wonder whether he had been personally impacted by their city life, and then comes back into his stride when discussing the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. I actually found this to be an enlightening section of the book; it explains what I like about cities like Rothenburg, and what I dislike about Washington D.C. In fact, I think one could skip ahead to that part, and stop reading once you hit the early 19th century.
After that, the book becomes a one-sided discussion of the evils of capitalism. Once again, Mumford stops being a historian and tries to interpret everything through a Marxist lens. For a counterpoint to this, I would recommend some of the work of T. S. Ashton.
I tend, however, to agree with Mumford on his observations about the impact of the automobile, but not the cause of it. Capitalism, the belief that government should be confined to a night watchman role, is the opposite of a system which provides government subsidization of the automobile culture the way we do in the US. Prior to the railroads, many turnpikes were privately owned and operated, but Americans loved first the idea of the railroad and then the idea of a system that freed men from dependence on the railroad ... to which they had given birth just 60 years before. The result today is a system which we keep trying to control by ever larger public projects and programs.
In the end, Mumford fails to provide any substantive suggestion as to which way we should turn to create a more livable city. The suburbs and freeways, as unpopular as they are, seem to still be dominant, but I think a generation of people exposed to Mumford's description of the livable Medieval city are starting to do something about it. Unfortunately, the people who share Mumford's politics are now the defenders of the status quo, defending their own investments, opposing building, and forcing people to spend ever more time on the concrete-and-asphault shackles that bind our cities.
Mumford had a gift for writing, but this tome gets lofty.......2004-07-31
I'd agree with some of the other reviewers who found the first 3/4 of this book interesting and insightful and who were put off by the last portion. Mumford has a dexterous command of language and weaves prosaic citations and factual listings with poetic and metamorphic digestions. Though this book is an extremely long and at times a very dry 570 pages, I was rarely bored enough to put it down for too long. Mumford has a keen intellect and his pen touches on nearly every aspect of human development and interaction, even in contexts that one would think are not directly related to city life or urban growth. Here we see that city-man has cast an inescapable cultural legacy: religion, economics, epistemology/philosophy, politics & government and even biology are and have been in constant dialog with urban forces, dramatized by symbolic manifestations of rural and urban, man and woman, individual and communal, organic and mechanical. As a repository for cultural and historical development in the west, this book should have much more attention that it does nowadays.
Mumford's analysis of the development of western cities since the inception of agriculturally-based sedentary communities is for the most part highly critical of the social and organization manifestations of the cities of the ancient world. He waxes with a somewhat fair disposition on the democracy that gripped Athens in the 5th century, yet from then until the Middle Ages, he suggests a kind of downward spiral of avarice, destruction, homogeneity and inanity (i.e. Rome) A revival of his conception of beneficent communitas arises with the guild-guided Middle Age towns, but this is ultimately usurped by the emergence and domination of mercantilism and the contemporous rise of state politics and economies. The industrial revolution saw urban cityscapes that offered a cultural vibrance below even that of Rome. Today's cities according to Mumford are a cancerous legacy of these preceding few centuries, whose doom is intertwined with their insatiable appetite for growth through ecological imbalance and resource depletion.
One might think from the title and aim of this book that it would be a survey, yet Mumford's dissection of the most heinous eras in urban culture, Rome and the Modern Era (from c.1600) play into his deconstructionist framework which he uses to villify capitalism and industry and likewise acquaint the two with greed, luxury at the cost of inhuman exploitation. While this is fine, and he does make a number of interesting observations, it glosses over any contribution whatsoever these periods made to urban culture; the reader is given an unbalanced account of each era, and leads one to wonder if there were any positive contributions whatsoever.
Finally, Mumford's exhaustive treatise on the failures of civilization, the untapped creative potential of the human mind-which is basically what this book is about- in the end offers no real solid retort or solution. The two concepts he does point to for a model of regional civic interaction - the electrical grid and the interlibrary loan system do seem to have a modern syncrete in the Internet, a network of easily availble cultural capital. Mumford is undoubtably a humanist and several times yearns for cities to allow humans to unlock their full creative and biological faculties, followed by a stream of dreamy platitudes that do little to qualify what this kind of feeling or sentiment concretely would entail. This is perhaps the biggest disappointment in this otherwise well-written book.
Good Until the Last Hundred or So Pages.......2004-04-06
After two hundred pages I wanted to give this book five stars, but after finishing it, I was almost ready to give it three stars.
This book is what it says it is, "The City in History". Starting in the neolithic era, Mumford marches through all of recorded time and place (place being limited to the Near East, Greece, Rome, Europe and America) to bring, you, the reader, his thoughts on the role and "prospects" of the city.
In the beginning, it's an exhilerating ride. Mumford is not shy about advancing bold arguments. Although the book starts with sections on the city in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, he doesn't really get excited until he gets to Ancient Greece. I'd say it's clear from the text that Mumford is a fan of Ancient Greece, particularly Athens between the 7th and 6th century B.C.
Then it's off to Rome. Mumford is a harsh critic of Roman culture. His critique of the Roman method of burial (take bodies just outside city limits, dump, bury) contrains so much righteous indigination you might think the Romans were still pottering around when he wrote this book.
After Rome, we get an equally stirring defense of the Middle (don't call them "Dark" around Mumford) Ages. Mumford is a big fan of the city in the late middle ages. As an example, Mumford uses Amsterdam. Specifically, what Mumford likes about this time period is the community involvement by the ruling elites.
Like many other social critics, Mumford is not a huge fan of the impact that capitalism and industrialization have had on the modern city. Unlike some of the other reveiwers below, I don't really hold that against him. He was writing in the sixties, people!!!
However, I do admit that by the last hundred or so pages, when Mumford starts despairing of the future of the city, the whole tirade started to get tired.
I'm not sure I would recommend this for a general reader.
tricks.......2003-10-19
this book is fine. go get it from the library and learn the origins of the city. critique civilization and its facets with other books and never mind intellectual/acedemia. educate yourself. civilizations origins are the origins of humanity's current polarized state.
"Computers serve as much more efficient storage centers for knowledge than all the libraries in any city ever could and the Internet has made the entire World into an interlocking community."
you dont know how to hunt and gather do you? i wonder why he was so hellbent on technology when you sit here rambling off all the knowledge you assimilated from a urban system that taught you how to forget your genetic roots and what kept humanity alive for millions of years. nothing a computer will ever do or help regain. you know how to survive in the city and nothing more. you are tied to machinery like he stated. this is not community. you dont consider criminals part of your community yet civilization and urban wastelandscapes create them. jails are more efficient? farming is more efficent yet destroys how much top soil? at least you have 6 billion mouths to feed now. neo-luddistic? nope. just a solid fact.
A comparative analysis of cities.......2002-07-16
Lewis Mumford deftly explores the formation and development of the city from its early Mesopotamian and Egyptian roots to its modern day manifestations. It is the logical extension of his earlier works on the subject, in particular "The Culture of Cities," which has been partially absorbed into this volume. Of particular interest to meis his analysis of the walled versus open cities, and the sharply opposing world views of the progenitors of these cities.
Mumford was particularly drawn to the early Hellenic and later medieval town planning ideals. He noted how the early cities knew their limits, and established satellite communities, rather than continually extend their boundaries. Loose-knit federations were formed, which were much more democratic than were the Roman and Baroque regimental cities.
He charts the evolution of modern city planning ideals, very critical of Le Corbusier's "Radiant City" and other megalomaniac ideas which arose in the 20th century. Mumford favored the "garden city" ideals of Ebeneezer Howard, which recognized the destructive impact of industrialization on urban centers; rather than those schemes which extolled the industrial city as the city of the future.
Mumford is careful not to over reach, or at least let you know when he is forming suppositions. His annotated bibliography is immense, and probably the single most compelling aspect of this book for those who want to read more on the subject. The new Harcourt paperback edition, which came when I ordered this volume, has a more handsome cover than that shown in this listing.
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"..his wild eye spun in its socket like a lacquered lemon in a slot machine.".......2007-04-04
I you like the kind of writing we get from Kinky Friedman,Hunter S Thompson,that hilariously funny novel "Confederacy of Dunces",by John Kennedy Toole or the movies of Cheech and Chong;you will find this novel will entertain you and give you lots of laughs.
I was first introduced to T.C Boyle's novels a few years ago when I visited the folks who now live in the movie theatre,now their home,that was so prominent in the novel Riven Rock. After that visit,I read that novel and enjoyed it immensely. I have not read another of TCB's novels since;but I have been picking them up and now have about a dozen on my shelf. I finally got atound to reading this one and loved it.
Doyle's writing style flows easily and you can just sit back and waltz through it without laboring over words,hidden meanings or whatever. He doesn't beat around,but simply lays it right out for your enjoyment.If you're into the style and difficulty you get with James Joyce;don't look for it here. Boyle writes with such simplicity and directness;it is surprising that he has been inflicted with a PhD in British Literature.
Though the novel is delightful fiction,I somewhat wonder if Boyle is talking of personal experiences through Felix.
A couple of other reviewers have suggested that Boyle overuses metaphors.For my part,I loved them and the more the merrier.
I don't know if this novel was ever made into a movie or not;but if it were,it would sure be entertaining.
Chronically Good Read.......2006-12-14
Storytelling is the raison d'être of fiction, and T.C. Boyle's genius is his ability to make a fast-paced, character-driven story intelligent, even when describing less-than-intelligent behavior. The man has taken some hits for his free use of metaphor and simile, but that is one of the things that make me love his work. This isn't "lips red as a rose" stuff; he creates imagery that is tasty and apt and does what good metaphor does best: give us variety of little amuse bouches that tickle the literary tastebuds. He also pulls no punches with diction. Boyle must have consumed Roget's whole--he sent me to the dictionary a couple of times, and that is fine with me, because every word was ideal and kept the story intelligent amidst the bone-headed behavior of the principles.
I live in the great county of Humboldt and have spent more than a little time in Willits. Boyle's description of the town of Willits, when our intrepid farmers first drive through, is so spot on I nearly choked on my Lemon Zinger with laughing. Some of my best friends (and at least one family member) have been growers of the herb, and I'm sure some of the misadventures would ring all-too-true.
As other reviewers, I consumed Boyles' "Drop City" in what felt like a single breath, and "Budding Prospects" travels the same trajectory of hilarious, headfirst reading.
Stoned on metaphors.......2006-01-31
In the year 2006 "Budding Prospects" is almost a period piece, set in a very different time and place, back when we didn't have cellphones and the internet, and the cops didn't have more sophisticated dope-locating technology. Since that era there was also been a declining enthusiasm to the weed out pot (to excuse the pun) in the wake of the more dangerous drugs that have popped up over the past two decades. The pace in this book never really slackened and I found the characters very vivid. My favorite character was the poor guy who has diarized every single moment of his life, only to have it all go up in smoke. That hurt, reading that passage. My least favorite was the cut-out cop whose character was razor-thin. The main characters, however, were fun. I enjoyed the way these guys were so damned paranoid about what they were doing -- fuelled no doubt by the copious amounts of weed they partook throughout their summer camp -- and despite the illegality of it all, as a reader I was on tenterhooks fearing their arrest at any point along the way. However, I do agree with other reviewers here that by about half way through the book, T. Coraghessan Boyle was beginning to dull me with the sack of metaphors he was continually bashing over my head. I would have liked his editor to have sat him down and said "Listen, T., you don't need to go out of your way to prove yourself. Tone down the metaphors by half." One other criticism is the actual story. After a raucous, bumpy ride for 250 or so pages, everything seemed to peter out by the end. The evil police officer gets his comeuppance. The calendar is just a joke. Vogelsang is, as we guessed from the moment we met him, not on the line. Nevertheless I enjoyed this book. Knowing what goes into cultivating marijuana now, I will never look at a joint in a blithe fashion ever again.
In the top ten of funniest books of the 20th Century.......2006-01-10
Boyle's second novel is easily his funniest and one of his 3 or 4 best. If you can get through the first chapters without laughing out loud, you have no sense of humor. I initially avoided this book because I thought it would be Cheech & Chong stoner humor, but this is seriously intelligent stuff, with 4 or 5 indelible characters. The descriptions of the shack, bars and houses in this tale are clearer than any movie. Yes, the metaphors and similes are non-stop, but they are so f#cking funny that you have to surrender to the avalanche of talent. I agree with another reviewer, that if any of Boyle's characters deserve re-visiting, it's these guys. Drop City was a bit of a return to his generous, funny and character-based stories after some dark, depressing futuristic stuff and historical novels.
I recommend this along with Lolita, The Fan Man, The Sot-Weed Factor, Moon Palace, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Success and Swiss Family Perelman as some of the most intelligent and funniest books of the last century.
The funniest book I ever read.......2005-08-31
From the first sentence I was hooked. It was the first time in a long long time that I almost pissed myself laughing simply by reading a book. As soon as I finished, I went to the bookstore to buy up all his other books, and man, I was not disappointed. In my opinion, TC Boyle is the finest living writer, and one of the best ever. Most of the reviews I've read on his work focuses on the story and the characters, the loony, the obcessed, the psychotic - but they're missing the point. The writing is simply the finest construction of genius that you'll ever have the good fortune to witness. How does he do it? I don't know and frankly I don't care. I'm just happy to absorb.
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Fourteen scholars and experts on race and ethnicity reveal how race and ethnic differences have shaped America's cultural, historical, and political landscape. Each contributor examines the impact of racial differences on American society, from religion and politics to Southern history and sociobiology, and explains why biological racial differences are neither myth nor social invention, but significantly shape virtually every aspect of America's political, social, economic and cultural landscape. Race and the American Prospect punctures several "politically correct" myths about race. It refutes in meticulous detail the prevailing fallacies of racial egalitarian orthodoxy. The authors explore a range of important issues in which race is consistently absent in conventional parlance, topics such as differences in IQ, personality, temperament, violent crime rates, immigration patterns, demographic population trends, economic disparities, and the long-term national implications of uncontrolled multiculturalism and diversity. Edited by the late Sam Francis, award-winning national commentator, Race and the American Prospect sparkles with incisive, readable, original essays. Courageous, controversial, and provocatively thoughtful, Race and the American Prospect is the book for every American, Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal, interested in vindicating our country's past, reclaiming its present, and securing its future.
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Race realism.......2007-01-10
Race and the American Prospect should be required reading for U.S. college students. The essays are written by distinguished race realists who examine the subject from all points of view: biological,psychological/mental., anthropological, sociological,legal, economic and demographic. The reader unfamiliar with the subject or who has heard only equalitarian propaganda on race will be well grouded on the subject of race and racial differences after having read this book.
The Galileos of our time invite you to peer into their telescope . . ........2006-09-05
The promotion of racial egalitarianism and "diversity" is the state religion of our time. So says Sam Francis in the Introduction to this magisterial and authoritative collection of essays written by some of America's leading dissidents. Egalitarianism and diversity are promoted by all the institutions of our society, which subject us to an all-encompassing and unceasing propaganda that the Medieval church and the Communists could only envy. Furthermore, dissent from the reigning orthodoxy is punished by social ostracism, the denial of employment, and even, in Canada and many countries in Europe, by legal prosecution. Yet, as the authors of this book prove, egalitarianism is a superstition and diversity is destructive. These views brand them as heretics, but they have their reasons, and they are presented here with clear prose, rigorous arguments, and exhaustive documentation.
I would summarize the message of this extraordinary book as follows. Distinct races exist in nature; they are not merely social constructs. The races are not equal and interchangeable, and because racial differences are real, not socially constructed, racial ineqalities cannot be changed by social policies. Therefore, multiracial (and multicultural) societies are inferior to racially and culturally homogenous ones.
The reasons for this are simple: racial and cultural difference means that different values and styles of life are appropriate to different peoples, and when they have to live in the same system, these differences inevitably produce conflict. Dominant groups, which set social standards appropriate to themselves, resent the disruptive and retarding presence of other groups that find these standards difficult or impossible to meet. The latter groups, in turn, resent the dominant group for imposing expactations and standards that chafe against the natures and values of the subordinates. At best, multiracial societies are peaceful--albeit with high "normal" rates of crime--but the quality of life is poisoned by tension, resentment, exploitation, and maddening inefficiency. At worst, they explode into chaos and bloodshed. Rather high a price to pay for authentic ethnic restaurants, which is the only concrete blessing of diversity that its advocates can cite. (It is a remarkably weak case, given that only a vanishingly small percent of non-White immigrants go into the restaurant business.)
Another important message of this book is that the prospects of America as a multiracial, majority non-White nation are very dim indeed. Since race is real and races unequal, the ongoing replacement of the White European people who created this country by a non-White majority, by means of massive non-White immigration (legal and illegal) and differential birthrates, must inevitably change America into something resembling the other majority non-White countries of the world, specifically the Third World. Those Whites who have a stake in the future, i.e., who have children or who simply feel ties of kinship to their extended racial family, should view this with alarm.
The final important message of this book is that, although present racial trends are ominous for the future of White America, these trends are not inevitable. They are the product of bad decisions made by our government, and they can be changed by good decisions. The longer we wait, however, the harder it will be to change course and the more radical will be the policies required.
The message of RACE AND THE AMERICAN PROSPECT is not unique. Other books have made the same arguments, but few make them so well. Indeed, this volume compares well with Wilmot Robertson's classic THE DISPOSSESSED MAJORITY but has one significant advantage: The last edition of THE DISPOSSESSED MAJORITY was published in 1981, and the present book takes into account the science and social trends the past 25 years, which immeasurably strengthen its case.
Sam Francis and the authors he has assembled are the Galileos of our time, and RACE AND THE AMERICAN PROSPECT is their telescope. Shame on you, if you refuse to look.
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First published in 1987 to widespread critical acclaim and hailed by People magazine as one of the ten best books of the 1980s, Joel Sternfeld's startling visual chronicle is at once funny and despairing, calmly beautiful and grim. Sternfeld may be America's greatest fineart color photographer, and here his luxuriant landscapes are full of sly surprises and deadpan wit: a renegade elephant lies exhausted on a road; beached whales daintily punctuate a majestic seascape; a fireman buys pumpkins while a house burns behind him. Now published in an exquisite paper-bound edition with a new preface, these pictures carry even more weight than when they were first seen; they have the poignance and resonance of an America uneasy about its past and uncertain of its future.
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This updated edition of the classic book Black Families at the Crossroads, offers a comprehensive examination of the diverse and complex issues surrounding Black families. Leanor Boulin Johnson and Robert Staples combine more than sixty years of writing and research on Black families to offer insights into the pre-slavery development of the Black middle class, internal processes that affect all class strata among Black American families, the impact of race on modern Black immigrant families, the interaction of external forces and internal norms at each stage of the Black family life cycle, and public policies that provide challenges and promising prospects for the continuing resilience of the Black family as an American institution. This thoroughly revised edition features new research, including empirical studies and theoretical applications, and a review of significant social polices and economic changes in the past decade and their impact on Black families.
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This updated edition of the classic book Black Families at the Crossroads, offers a comprehensive examination of the diverse and complex issues surrounding Black families. Leanor Boulin Johnson and Robert Staples combine more than sixty years of writing and research on Black families to offer insights into the pre-slavery development of the Black middle class, internal processes that affect all class strata among Black American families, the impact of race on modern Black immigrant families, the interaction of external forces and internal norms at each stage of the Black family life cycle, and public policies that provide challenges and promising prospects for the continuing resilience of the Black family as an American institution. This thoroughly revised edition features new research, including empirical studies and theoretical applications, and a review of significant social polices and economic changes in the past decade and their impact on Black families.
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The History of the Family.......2001-05-09
I had to read this book for my African American Experience Class, it was a throughly awesome revelation of the effects of slavery has had on Black people. Not to say the effects it takes on the many generations now and to come, if one is not aware of how to break the cycle.
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It is estimated that there are 60,000 excess Black American deaths annually compared with White Americans. Not only do Black babies die earlier than White babies, but, in recent years, there are reports that while life expectancy for Whites has improved, for Blacks there has been a leveling off, if not a reduction. These are among the issues detailed in this important guide to the major causes of Black illness and death. Divided into 27 chapters, this handbook provides a mosaic of the conditions, issues, and policies related to Black American health. The more than 40 contributing authors, drawn from institutions across the country, are the premier scholars in their respective fields. The scope and multidisciplinary nature of the handbook makes it invaluable for those concerned with contemporary Black society, clinical medicine, epidemiology, health care administration, medical sociology, nursing, nutrition, public health, social work, and public policy.
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In the past decade, America has experienced an urban renaissance. Cities as varied as New York, Chicago and Boston are no longer seen as ungovernable and doomed to crime and blight. However, they still face formidable problems. Urban Policy Reconsidered is a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems facing our cities today and cover every important issue in urban affairs. What is poverty? What is economic development? What is education? What is crime? As well as covering all of these fundamental topics in-depth, the author propose a communitarian approach to addressing the many problems of our cities. This book will be the manual for anyone interested in understanding urban policy.
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What is the nature and scope of the American empire, and what are its prospects and challenges? In this timely and thought-provoking collection, leading scholars and observers consider the new reality of American power in the world and what consequences it may bring at home and abroad. First-rate...a most valuable collection. --Walter LaFeber
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Debating the American Empire.......2004-09-25
The debate on the American Empire takes place on several levels simultaneously: on one axis is the question of whether America is an empire, and if so, what kind of empire is it? It is obviously different from past empires because it is hardly territorial; but it still exerts its influence in ways that Rome or Britain would have found unimaginable. On another other axis rests the issue of the impact of the American imperium: is it a force for peace and stability or upheaval and destruction? Then, there is an issue of strategy: how should American policymakers conduct their affairs? What should citizens do?
These are some of the questions addressed in "The Imperial Tense," a book edited by Andrew Bacevich, a professor of International Relations at Boston University. Mr. Bacevich is no stranger to empire. His book, American Empire, was widely acclaimed; its central argument was that, however in denial, America's commitment to empire is not only real but also a central component of its foreign policy. He now brings that expertise in collecting some of the finest perspectives on the problems and prospects of the American Empire.
The selections are diverse just as they insightful; David Rieff carves out the problems of humanitarian intervention; Deepek Lal writes to defend Empires; Charles Krauthammer praises America's unipolar era; David North admonishes America's drive for world domination; Peter Bender, Andrew Bacevich, Jedediah Purdy, David Marquand, James Chance, Martin Walker, Victor Davis Hanson all explore America's position as a unique empire; Josh Milblank, Stanley Hoffman, G. John Ikenberry, Charles Maier, Stephen Peter Rosen debate America's imperial strategies; and Wendell Berry, Gabriel Ash and James Kurth speculate on America's future.
Not all the pieces are great; but they are widely representative of the breadth and depth of the debate taking place about America's role as a global empire. Although the authors are mostly American, this hardly diminishes those parts of the book which cast a skeptical eye on the imperial enterprise. In the end, "The Imperial Tense" is one of the best books to bring together some of the most thoughtful articles on the American imperium. For that, and for its reference value, it is sure to be widely read and used.
Invites debates and consideration of all sides.......2003-12-07
This collection of arguments on compelling problems of America provides a range of viewpoints, invites debates and consideration of all sides, and surveys issues important to humanitarian causes. From assessments of American global domination and imperialist purposes in the world to its quest for security and expanded world influence, this provides an essential source of particular recommendation to high school and college-level courses on social issues.
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