Toppling the Melting Pot
Title | Toppling the Melting Pot PDF eBook |
Author | José-Antonio Orosco |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2016-10-17 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 025302322X |
The catalyst for much of classical pragmatist political thought was the great waves of migration to the United States in the early twentieth century. José-Antonio Orosco examines the work of several pragmatist social thinkers, including John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Josiah Royce, and Jane Addams, regarding the challenges large-scale immigration brings to American democracy. Orosco argues that the ideas of the classical pragmatists can help us understand the ways in which immigrants might strengthen the cultural foundations of the United States in order to achieve a more deliberative and participatory democracy. Like earlier pragmatists, Orosco begins with a critique of the melting pot in favor of finding new ways to imagine the civic role of our immigrant population. He concludes that by applying the insights of American pragmatism, we can find guidance through controversial contemporary issues such as undocumented immigration, multicultural education, and racialized conceptions of citizenship.
The International Thought of Alfred Zimmern
Title | The International Thought of Alfred Zimmern PDF eBook |
Author | Tomohito Baji |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2021-03-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3030662144 |
This book is a comprehensive examination into the shifting international thought of Alfred Zimmern, a Grecophile intellectual, one of the most prominent liberal internationalists and the world’s first professor of IR. Identifying the writings of Burke and cultural Zionism as two important ideological sources that defined his project for empire and global order, this book argues that Zimmern can best be understood as an apostle of Commonwealth. It shows that while his proposals changed from cosmopolitan democracy to Euro-Atlanticism and to world federal government, they were constantly shaped by the organizing principles of a professedly universal British Commonwealth. It was the empire transhistorically chained to classical Athens.
Inside the Carnival
Title | Inside the Carnival PDF eBook |
Author | Wayne Parent |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2006-09-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0807161772 |
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I Am Morgan le Fay
Title | I Am Morgan le Fay PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Springer |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2002-09-16 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1101142626 |
Fans who love King Arthur's legend, Camelot, Merlin, and similar tales will love reading about Morgan le Fay. Morgan is a willful, mischievous girl with mismatched eyes of emerald and violet. A girl of magic, whose childhood ends when King Uther Pendragon murders her father and steals away her mother. Then Pendragon dies and, in a warring country with no one to claim the throne, there are many who want Morgan dead. But Morgan has power, and magic. She is able to change the course of history, to become other, to determine her own fate-and, thus the fate of Britain. She will become Morgan le Fay. "Springer wields language like a sword, and both blood and flowers spring to these pages in vivid hues." (Booklist, starred review)
To Be or Not To Be: Sudan at Crossroads
Title | To Be or Not To Be: Sudan at Crossroads PDF eBook |
Author | Hashim, M. Jalal |
Publisher | Mkuki na Nyota Publishers |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2019-02-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9987083765 |
To be or not to be is an analysis of linguistic, cultural, political, economic and social factors, which explain the intricate root causes of conflicts which have ravished Sudan. It stands in stark contrast to the dominant simplification and distortions which have come to typify presentations of the region. Central to the book is an unapologetic explanation of Arabization; which often is portrayed as individual choices of religious loyalty, but, in fact, masks an intentional power-system which viciously corrupts Afrikan identities. By highlighting the detrimental complexities of manipulation, geopolitics, identity confusion and cultural imperialism, Hashim has not only written an authoritative book about Sudan, but also presented a comprehensive case study that all of Afrika must learn from. Rarely are we presented with such a vigourous inside-view to an area of Afrika which once was held in the highest civilizational esteem, but has been reduced to an ideological field of Arab-led terror, massacres and disintegration.
That They Might Seek Him
Title | That They Might Seek Him PDF eBook |
Author | Steven B. Kern |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2021-05-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1725284243 |
While state governments determine the “Who?” “How many?” and “Under what conditions?” of immigration, God has determined the “Why?” He orchestrates the times and locations of the nations “that they might seek Him” (Acts 17:24–27). The sovereign God of the universe has redemptive purpose in the movements of the people. In many instances, the formerly “unreached” are moving “within reach.” In God’s plan, Christ-followers are instruments of compassion and ambassadors of hope. They are invited to respond. That They Might Seek Him: Introduction to Migration Ministry is written with this responsibility in mind. Targeting both students and practitioners, it informs, inspires, and equips. •Learn what the Bible says about migration . . . then and now. •Respond to factors at play in immigration policy development. •Embrace the challenges of message contextualization and migrant integration. •Identify tools for fruitful engagement. •Develop a strategy for fruitful ministry.
A Question of Voice
Title | A Question of Voice PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Scapp |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2020-12-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0472132199 |
A Question of Voice: Philosophy and the Search for Legitimacy offers an explicit and comprehensive consideration of voice as a complex of rethinking aspects of the history of philosophy through issues of power, as well as contemporary issues that include and involve the desire for and the dynamics of legitimacy, for individuals and communities. By identifying voice as a significant theme and means by which and through which we might better engage some important philosophical questions, Ron Scapp hopes to expand traditional philosophical discussion and discourse regarding questions about validity, legitimacy, empathy, and solidarity. He offers an innovative perspective that is informed and guided by multiculturalism, ethnic studies, queer studies, feminism, and thinkers and critics such as bell hooks, Barbara Christian, Angela Davis, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, among others. A Question of Voice is an American investigation, but also suggests questions that emanate from contemporary continental thought as well as issues that arise from transnational perspectives—an approach that is motived by doing philosophy in an age of multiculturalism.