Salinas
Title | Salinas PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Lynn McKibben |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2022-01-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1503629929 |
An ambitious history of a California city that epitomizes the history of race relations in modern America. Although much has been written about the urban–rural divide in America, the city of Salinas, California, like so many other places in the state and nation whose economies are based on agriculture, is at once rural and urban. For generations, Salinas has been associated with migrant farmworkers from different racial and ethnic groups. This broad-ranging history of "the Salad Bowl of the World" tells a complex story of community-building in a multiracial, multiethnic city where diversity has been both a cornerstone of civic identity and, from the perspective of primarily white landowners and pragmatic agricultural industrialists, essential for maintaining the local workforce. Carol Lynn McKibben draws on extensive original research, including oral histories and never-before-seen archives of local business groups, tracing Salinas's ever-changing demographics and the challenges and triumphs of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and Mexican immigrants, as well as Depression-era Dust Bowl migrants and white ethnic Europeans. McKibben takes us from Salinas's nineteenth-century beginnings as the economic engine of California's Central Coast up through the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on communities of color today, especially farmworkers who already live on the margins. Throughout the century-plus of Salinas history that McKibben explores, she shows how the political and economic stability of Salinas rested on the ability of nonwhite minorities to achieve a measure of middle-class success and inclusion in the cultural life of the city, without overturning a system based in white supremacy. This timely book deepens our understanding of race relations, economic development, and the impact of changing demographics on regional politics in urban California and in the United States as a whole.
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora
Title | Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2021-05-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1478021462 |
In Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández challenges machismo—a shorthand for racialized and heteronormative Latinx men's misogyny—with nuanced portraits of Mexican men and masculinities along and across the US-Mexico border. Guidotti-Hernández foregrounds Mexican men's emotional vulnerabilities and intimacies in their diasporic communities. Highlighting how Enrique Flores Magón, an anarchist political leader and journalist, upended gender norms through sentimentality and emotional vulnerability that he performed publicly and expressed privately, Guidotti-Hernández documents compelling continuities between his expressions and those of men enrolled in the Bracero program. Braceros—more than 4.5 million Mexican men who traveled to the United States to work in temporary agricultural jobs from 1942 to 1964—forged domesticity and intimacy, sharing affection but also physical violence. Through these case studies that reexamine the diasporic male private sphere, Guidotti-Hernández formulates a theory of transnational Mexican masculinities rooted in emotional and physical intimacy that emerged from the experiences of being racial, political, and social outsiders in the United States.
Freud's Dream
Title | Freud's Dream PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Kitcher |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780262611152 |
Argues that Freud's scheme for psychoanalysis was in fact a blueprint for a complete interdisciplinary science of mind, that many of its strengths and weaknesses derived from this and that Freud's errors are instructive for current work in cognitive science.
Understanding Sleep and Dreaming
Title | Understanding Sleep and Dreaming PDF eBook |
Author | William H. Moorcroft |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2013-03-25 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1461464676 |
An updated edition of Moorcroft’s 2003 volume, this new work reflects recent scientific advances in the area of sleep and disorders. As in the previous book, Understanding Sleep and Dreaming, this new edition serves as a compact overview for now sleep experts, covering physiological sleep mechanisms, brain function, psychological ramifications of sleep, dimensions of dreaming, and clinical disorders associated with sleep. It is accessibly written with specially boxed material that enhances the text. It also offers a good foundation for those who will continue sleep studies, while at the same time offering enough information for those who will apply this knowledge in other ways such as clinicians private practices or researchers. It is an excellent text for courses on sleep at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The section on sleep labs will show how computers have replaced former models of data collection and storage; includes the new area of the genetics of sleep; add a new box on teen sleep; insert a new box on the emerging information about how technology use affects sleep; emphasize the controversy over rampart, wide-spread sleep deprivation; and include a new box covering the connection between sleep loss and weight gain. Additional inclusions might incorporate current “hot topics,” such as the effect of shift work on sleep, sleep problems in adolescents, and nightmare treatment for people suffering from PTSD.
The Philosophy of J. L. Austin
Title | The Philosophy of J. L. Austin PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Gustafsson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2011-12 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199219753 |
This is the first major study of J. L. Austin's philosophy in decades. Leading philosophers show the relevance of his work to current debates including scepticism and contextualism, the epistemology of testimony, and the semantics/pragmatics distinction. They demonstrate why Austin's work is of continuing value and interest to philosophers today
Modern Philosophy
Title | Modern Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Scruton |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 818 |
Release | 2012-11-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1448210518 |
Roger Scruton is one of the most widely respected philosophers of our time, whose often provocative views never fail to simulate debate. In Modern Philosophy he turns his attention to the whole of the field, from the philosophy of logic to aesthetics, and in so doing provides us with an essential and comprehensive guide to modern thinking.
Reason and Scepticism
Title | Reason and Scepticism PDF eBook |
Author | Michael A. Slote |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2014-02-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1317852885 |
First published in 2002. The present work is chiefly concerned with the task of overcoming certain forms of scepticism that have plagued and perplexed philosophers throughout the ages. Slote overcomes some of the major traditional forms of epistemological scepticism by showing the reasonableness of belief in an external world.