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    Education and Society

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    Drawing on current scholarship, <I>Education and Society</I> takes students on a journey through the many roles that education plays in contemporary societies. Addressing students&rsquo; own experience of education before expanding to larger sociological conversations, <I>Education and Society </I>helps readers understand and engage with such topics as peer groups, gender and identity, social class, the racialization of achievement, the treatment of immigrant children, special education, school choice, accountability, discipline, global perspectives, and schooling as a social institution. The book prompts students to evaluate how schools organize our society and how society organizes our schools. Moving from students to schooling to social forces, <I>Education and Society</I> provides a lively and engaging introduction to theory and research and will serve as a cornerstone for courses such as sociology of education, foundations of education, critical issues in education, and school and society.

    Vulnerable Witness

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    Scholars and practitioners who witness violence and loss in human, animal, and ecological contexts are expected to have no emotional connection to the subjects they study. Yet is this possible? Following feminist traditions,&#160;<I>Vulnerable Witness</I>&#160;centers the researcher and challenges readers to reflect on how grieving is part of the research process and, by extension, is a political act. Through thirteen reflective essays the book theorizes the role of grief in the doing of research&mdash;from methodological choices, fieldwork and analysis, engagement with individuals, and places of study to the manner in which scholars write and talk about their subjects. Combining personal stories from early career scholars, advocates, and senior faculty, the book shares a breadth of emotional engagement at various career stages and explores the transformative possibilities that emerge from being enmeshed with one&#39;s own research.&#160;

    A Global History of Runaways

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    During global capitalism&#39;s&#160;long ascent from 1600&ndash;1850, workers of all kinds&mdash;slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors&mdash;repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. <I>A&#160;</I><I>G</I><I>l</I><I>oba</I><I>l&#160;</I><I>H</I><I>ist</I><I>o</I><I>ry&#160;</I><I>o</I><I>f</I><I> Runaways</I>, edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias van Rossum, compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these laborers challenged that order&mdash;from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth.<BR /> &#160;

    The Making of the Modern Mediterranean

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    Studies of the pivotal historic place of the Mediterranean have long been dominated by specialists of its northern shores, that is, by European historians. The seven leading authors in this groundbreaking volume challenge views of Mediterranean space as shaped by European trajectories, and in doing so, they challenge our comfortable notions. Drawing perspectives from the Mediterranean&rsquo;s&#160;eastern and southern shores, they ask anew: What is the Mediterranean? What are its borders, its defining characteristics? What forces of nature, politics, culture, or economics have made the Mediterranean, and how long have they or will they endure? Covering the sixteenth century to the twentieth, this&#160;timely volume brings the early modern world into conversation with the modern world in new ways, demonstrating&#160;that only recently can we differentiate the north and south into separate cultural and political zones. <I>The Making of the Modern Mediterranean: Views from the South</I>&#160;offers a blueprint for a new generation of readers to rethink the world we thought we knew.

    Seeing Race Again

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    Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines&rsquo; research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, and others. By the mid-twentieth century, education itself became a center in the struggle for social justice. Scholars mounted insurgent efforts to discredit some of the most odious intellectual defenses of white supremacy in academia, but the disciplines and their keepers remained unwilling to interrogate many of the racist foundations of their fields, instead embracing a framework of racial colorblindness as their default position.<BR /><BR /> This book challenges scholars and students to see race again. Examining the racial histories and colorblindness in fields as diverse as social psychology, the law, musicology, literary studies, sociology, and gender studies, <I>Seeing Race Again </I>documents the profoundly contradictory role of the academy in constructing, naturalizing, and reproducing racial hierarchy. It shows how colorblindness compromises the capacity of disciplines to effectively respond to the wide set of contemporary political, economic, and social crises marking public life today.<BR /> &#160;

    Relational Formations of Race

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    Relational Formations of Race brings African American, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian American, and Native American studies together in a single volume, enabling readers to consider the racialization and formation of subordinated groups in relation to one another. These essays conceptualize racialization as a dynamic and interactive process; group-based racial constructions are formed not only in relation to whiteness, but also in relation to other devalued and marginalized groups. The chapters offer explicit guides to understanding race as relational across all disciplines, time periods, regions, and social groups. By studying race relationally, and through a shared context of meaning and power, students will draw connections among subordinated groups and will better comprehend the logic that underpins the forms of inclusion and dispossession such groups face. As the United States shifts toward a minority-majority nation, Relational Formations of Race offers crucial tools for understanding today&rsquo;s shifting race dynamics. &#160;

    A Global History of Gold Rushes

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    Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies.&#160;<I>A Global History of Gold Rushes</I>&#160;brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.

    Learning from Each Other

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    Learning from Each Other includes 20 original chapters written by well-known experts in the field of teaching and learning. Conceived for both new and experienced faculty at community colleges, four-year institutions, and research-intensive universities, the volume also addresses the interests of faculty and graduate students in programs designed to prepare future faculty and campus individuals responsible for faculty professional development. With the aim of cultivating engagement amongst students and deepening their understanding of the content, topics covered in this edited volume include:employing the science of learning in a social science contextunderstanding the effects of a flipped classroom on student successpedagogical techniques to create a community of inquiry in online learning environmentsthe risks and rewards of co-teachingreaching and teaching &quot;non-traditional&quot; studentsfacilitating learning and leadership in student team projectsconnecting students with the community through researchissues of assessment, including backward design, developing and using rubrics, and defining and implementing the scholarship of teaching and learning Through&#160;Learning&#160;from&#160;Each&#160;Other,&#160;all faculty who care about their teaching, but especially&#160;faculty in the social sciences, can successfully employ curricular innovations, classroom techniques, and advances in assessment to create better&#160;learning&#160;environments for their students. &#160;

    Humanitarianism and Mass Migration

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    The world is witnessing a rapid rise in the number of victims of human trafficking and of migrants&mdash;voluntary and involuntary, internal and international, authorized and unauthorized. In the first two decades of this century alone, more than 65 million people have been forced to escape home into the unknown. The slow-motion disintegration of failing states with feeble institutions, war and terror, demographic imbalances, unchecked climate change, and cataclysmic environmental disruptions have contributed to the catastrophic migrations that are placing millions of human beings at grave risk.<BR /> &#160;<BR /><I>Humanitarianism and Mass Migration</I> fills a scholarly gap by examining the uncharted contours of mass migration. Exceptionally curated, it contains contributions from Jacqueline Bhabha, Richard Mollica, Irina Bokova, Pedro Noguera, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, James A. Banks, Mary Waters, and many others. The volume&rsquo;s interdisciplinary and comparative approach showcases new research that reveals how current structures of health, mental health, and education are anachronistic and out of touch with the new cartographies of mass migrations. Envisioning a hopeful and realistic future, this book provides clear and concrete recommendations for what must be done to mine the inherent agency, cultural resources, resilience, and capacity for self-healing that will help forcefully displaced populations.<BR /> &#160;<BR />

    The War of Words

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    When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated &ldquo;Motivorum&rdquo; project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become canonical theoretical documents. &#160;A Rhetoric of Motives was originally intended to be a two-part book. Here, at last, is the second volume, the until-now unpublished War of Words, where Burke brilliantly exposes the rhetorical devices that sponsor war in the name of peace. Discouraging militarism during the Cold War even as it catalogues belligerent persuasive strategies and tactics that remain in use today, The War of Words reveals how popular news media outlets can, wittingly or not, foment international tensions and armaments during tumultuous political periods. This authoritative edition includes an introduction from the editors explaining the compositional history and cultural contexts of both The War of Words and A Rhetoric of Motives. The War of Words illuminates the study of modern rhetoric even as it deepens our understanding of post&ndash;World War II politics. &#160;