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Review: We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California, by Martin Rizzo-Martinez

Book Review| May 01 2023 Review: We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California, by Martin Rizzo-Martinez Martin Rizzo-Martinez. We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 536 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover $80.00. Natale Zappia Natale Zappia NATALE ZAPPIA is associate professor of history and director of the Institute for Sustainability at California State University, Northridge. His works include The Many Faces of Edward Sherriff Curtis: A Collection of Portraits and Stories from Native North America (with Steadman Upham, 2006); Traders and Raiders: The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin (2014); and Rez Metal (film and book, 2020). Zappia is also the associate project director of the Early California Cultural Atlas. He currently works with local tribal communities in Southern California on the Los Angeles Landscape History Mapping Project. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (2): 126–128. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.126 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Natale Zappia; Review: We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California, by Martin Rizzo-Martinez. California History 1 May 2023; 100 (2): 126–128. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.126 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search We Are Not Animals is a monumental volume exploring the Indigenous contours that shaped the colonial, Mexican, and American periods of Alta California. Hyperfocused on the intricate and continuous lineages, traditional ecological knowledge, and cultures of multiple communities within and around Santa Cruz (home of Mission Santa Cruz), Martin Rizzo nonetheless offers history on an epic scale. His study is enmeshed in deep time, ecologies, and practices, as well as meticulously engaged with underutilized or overlooked archival sources—particularly those originating from Indigenous archives. Weighing in at nearly five hundred pages and with close to fifty tables, maps, and figures, Rizzo’s work provides the most comprehensive and detailed account to date of the Ohlone experience in what is now the Santa Cruz coastline and mountain range. Although California is home to tech titans with global reach, Native Californians and their histories remain hidden in plain sight. Rizzo’s goal is to cast... You do not currently have access to this content.

Review: Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975, by Frank P. Barajas

Book Review| February 01 2023 Review: Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975, by Frank P. Barajas Frank P. Barajas. Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 288 pp. Photographs, illustrations, and map. Hardcover $60.00. Tomás F. Summers Sandoval, Jr. Tomás F. Summers Sandoval, Jr. TOMÁS F. SUMMERS SANDOVAL JR. is an associate professor of history and Chicanx-Latinx studies at Pomona College. He is the author of Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco (2013) and is currently president of the Oral History Association. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (1): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.109 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Tomás F. Summers Sandoval; Review: Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975, by Frank P. Barajas. California History 1 February 2023; 100 (1): 109–111. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.109 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search How did a multigenerational population of ethnic Mexicans in Ventura County express a collective politics in the mid-twentieth century? This question lies at the heart of the new book by Frank P. Barajas (California State University, Channel Islands), a thorough local history of the Chicano movement that also makes significant interventions in the broader historical understanding of the era. In Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975, Barajas outlines the postwar political efforts of Mexican Americans in the region, from movements “with increased fervor for an equal education” to those “in defense of a largely migrant-Mexicanist population of workers” (82, 139). The ethnic Mexican population at the center of the story was more variegated than homogeneous. While they built from a common ground, sharing a “farmworker provenance” and a sense of purpose and action, differences of generation, nativity, and even... You do not currently have access to this content.

About This Issue

About This Issue David J. Endres In the past decades, cultural and demographic shifts have significantly reshaped U.S. Catholic parish life. Thousands of parishes have been closed or consolidated, mostly in New England and the Great Lakes states. At the same time, new congregations have formed in the American South and Southwest, especially as immigration and regional relocation has brought new and larger populations. This theme issue explores parishes and the communities they serve. It is particularly attentive to the realities of growth and decline and the role of race and ethnicity in those shifts. Worth K. Hayes is associate professor of history and Director of Academic and Learning Outcomes at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. Joshua Alan Hoxmeier is a doctoral student in the department of history at the University of Illinois Chicago. Madeline Gambino is an adjunct professor of religious studies at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and the assistant director of the Moravian Historical Society in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Susan Bigelow Reynolds is assistant professor of Catholic Studies at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Tricia C. Bruce is a sociologist with the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. Copyright © 2023 The Catholic University of America Press

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Other| January 01 2023 About the Contributors GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 153–155. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10144533 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation About the Contributors. GLQ 1 January 2023; 29 (1): 153–155. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10144533 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsGLQ Search Advanced Search Kadji Amin is associate professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory University. He is the recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sex from the University of Pennsylvania and a Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship from Stony Brook University. His book, Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History (2017), won an honorable mention for best book in LGBT studies from the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. He is currently at work on a second book, “Trans Materialism without Gender Identity.”Howard Chiang is associate professor of history at the University of California, Davis, and past chair of the Society of Sinophone Studies. He is the author of Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific (2021), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (2018), which received the International Convention of Asia Scholars Humanities Book Prize. Both books... Issue Section: Contributors You do not currently have access to this content.

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Editor's Note Nancy Baker Jones, Editor and Nancy Elizabeth Baker, Editor The new year is often an occasion for change and transition, and so it is at the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. With this issue, Nancy Baker Jones ends her editorship of the book reviews. She has held the post since the July 2016 issue, the beginning of the journal’s 120th volume. Her tenure has been marked by consistency, quality, and coverage of a more diverse assortment of books than had been the norm for our publication. One notable innovation Dr. Jones oversaw in her tenure was the review essay, which we began publishing in January 2021. Thank you, Nancy, for your exemplary service to the Quarterly. We welcome Nancy Elizabeth Baker as our new book review editor. Dr. Baker is associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University (SHSU). She earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University, and her research is on the history of gender, politics, and reform, focusing particularly on feminism and anti-feminism in the United States. Among her publications is the article “Hermine Tobolowsky: A Feminist’s Fight for Equal Rights,” which appeared in Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (University of Georgia Press, 2015), edited Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Stephanie Cole, and Rebecca Sharpless. The collection won the 2016 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women. Dr. Baker won SHSU’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015, and she is on the editorial board for the University of Oklahoma Press’s Women and the American West series. Copyright © 2022 The Texas State Historical Association

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Other| January 01 2023 Contributors Utah Historical Quarterly (2023) 91 (1): 79. https://doi.org/10.5406/26428652.91.1.07 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Contributors. Utah Historical Quarterly 1 January 2023; 91 (1): 79. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/26428652.91.1.07 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressUtah Historical Quarterly Search Advanced Search ROD DECKER's book, Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room, was published in July 2019 by Signature Books. He studied at the University of Utah, University of Chicago, and Harvard; was a soldier in Vietnam and a Utah political reporter; married the late Judge Christine Decker; and has three children and six grandchildren.ELIZA MCKINNEY is a graduate student at the University of Utah studying gender and sexuality in the twentieth-century United States. They live and work in Salt Lake City, Utah.WARREN METCALF, at the time this article was originally published, was an adjunct professor of history at Idaho State University. He is currently an Associate Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, where he specializes in the history of American Indians and the American West. His research interests include the intersections between American Indians and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a... You do not currently have access to this content.

Contesting the Constitution: Congress Debates the Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821 ed. by William S. Belko, and: A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200. Volume 1: Western Slavery, National Impasse ed. by Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond

Reviewed by: Contesting the Constitution: Congress Debates the Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821 ed. by William S. Belko, and: A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200. Volume 1: Western Slavery, National Impasse ed. by Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond Stuart Leibiger Contesting the Constitution: Congress Debates the Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821. Edited by William S. Belko. Studies in Constitutional Democracy. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2021. Pp. x, 225. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8262-2228-2.) A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200. Volume 1: Western Slavery, National Impasse. Edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond. Studies in Constitutional Democracy. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2021. Pp. xxvi, 414. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8262-2231-2.) Two new books in the University of Missouri Press series Studies in Constitutional Democracy mark the recent bicentennial of the Missouri Compromise. Contesting the Constitution: Congress Debates the Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821, edited by William S. Belko, executive director of the Missouri Humanities Council, closely examines congressional debates over the settlement. A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200, Volume 1: Western Slavery, National Impasse, edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley, a professor of history at the University of Missouri, and John Craig Hammond, an associate professor of history at Penn State University–New Kensington, explores the Missouri crisis in a context broader than the narrow congressional milieu in which it is usually studied. Between 1819 and 1821, a controversy over Missouri's admission to the Union deadlocked Congress. Antislavery restrictionists in the House of Representatives passed the Tallmadge Amendment, prohibiting Missouri's admission as a slave state, but proslavery antirestrictionists blocked the measure in the Senate. After a one-year deadlock, Congress admitted Missouri as a slave state. The settlement also provided that the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′ would be forever free of slavery. Later in 1820, controversy resurfaced when a clause in Missouri's state constitution banned free people of color from entering the state. A congressional resolution stating that the clause in question could not be used to violate the privileges and immunities clause of the federal Constitution resolved this second dispute, despite Missouri's continued refusal to admit free Black people. Each chapter of Contesting the Constitution perceptively analyzes how a specific clause in the U.S. Constitution was interpreted by restrictionists and antirestrictionists in the congressional debates over Missouri's bid for statehood. Christopher Childers's essay discusses how Missouri's ban on free Black people entering the state sparked a disagreement over the meaning of the privileges and immunities clause. Restrictionists argued that by denying free citizens of color access to the state, Missouri's constitution violated the clause in Article IV, Section 2, that states that "citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens of the several states" (Belko, p. 31). Antirestrictionists countered that Missouri's constitution did not violate the federal Constitution because Black people were not in fact U.S. citizens. A chapter by John Eastman (who supported Donald Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election) examines the debate over the guarantee clause. Restrictionists insisted that Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution, which guarantees "to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government," required Congress to deny Missouri's admission to the Union as a [End Page 763] slave state, because slavery clearly violated the principles of republicanism (Belko, p. 51). Antirestrictionists answered that the treaty between the United States and France creating the Louisiana Territory ensured that new states carved out of that territory must enter the Union on the same terms as the original states, including the option to have slavery. Chapter 8, one of three chapters by William S. Belko, illustrates how restrictionists refuted this claim by maintaining that the president and the Senate could not use a treaty to usurp the power of Congress to regulate the territories and admit new states. As John R. Van Atta's essay demonstrates, southern states vigorously denied that Congress possessed the power to prohibit slavery in new states (as opposed to in...

Review: Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture, by Adam M. Romero

Book Review| November 01 2022 Review: Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture, by Adam M. Romero Adam M. Romero. Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 270 pp. Paperback $29.95. Michelle Mart Michelle Mart MICHELLE MART is an associate professor of history at Penn State University, Berks, and author of Pesticides, A Love Story: America’s Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals (2015). She is currently at work on a study of the intersections of food, the environment, and culture. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2022) 99 (4): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2022.99.4.113 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Michelle Mart; Review: Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture, by Adam M. Romero. California History 1 November 2022; 99 (4): 113–115. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2022.99.4.113 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search Without meaning to, we often accept—unquestioningly—existing frameworks that organize our knowledge of the past. Unless or until there is the type of paradigm shift famously described by Thomas Kuhn, these frameworks blind us to other interpretations. Geographer Adam Romero offers readers the opportunity for a dramatic paradigm shift in regard to the growth of industrial agriculture from the nineteenth into the twentieth century. In Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture, he argues that the most important driver of agriculture’s chemicalization was not the need to grow more affordable food for a growing population, but the desire to find a use for otherwise unprofitable industrial wastes. Romero’s thesis is dramatic, but it is not simplistic. He does not argue that the only reason for the use of toxic inputs in agriculture was to dispose of waste from various industries. Instead, he describes increasing synergies between industrial... You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review: Xin Fan, World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Most Chinese officials and academics close to the government maintain that China is unique—indeed, superior to other civilizations. Therefore, the only history that counts is Chinese history. Yes, there have been recurring patterns in Chinese history, but they too are unique—not related to any global patterns, such as identified by British scholar Arnold Toynbee. Xin Fan, Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Fredonia, finds that national, Chinese history has gradually hijacked the dominant mode of thinking in Chinese historiography. This book examines how four generations of Chinese historians have tried to professionalize the practice of history in China. In the late Qing period, amateur historians working within the framework of neo-Confucianism explored Western ideas received mainly through Japan. Second, a generation of better trained historians in the 1920s and 1930s sought to temper Sino-centrism with greater objectivity, but the pressures resulting from the Japanese invasions pushed them away from objectivity.

A Review of Critical Disaster Studies

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Previous article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreJacob Collins is associate professor of history at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, where he teaches courses in modern European history. His first book is The Anthropological Turn: French Political Thought after 1968 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). He is a member of the New Left Review’s editorial board, and his current book project is an intellectual history of autobiography.Inés Escobar González is an anthropologist specializing in social, economic, and political transformation in Mexico and the Americas. She is a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her recent publications include “L’informalité de l’inclusion: Réforme, logement et finances dans les nouvelles périphéries de Mexique, le cas de Guadalajara” (L’Harmattan, 2021). She teaches courses on ethnographic methods, financialization, and the political economy of poverty in Latin America. She is currently writing a book on the afterlives of inclusion in Mexico.Trevor Jackson is assistant professor in the Department of History at George Washington University, where he teaches and researches the history of inequality, capitalism, and financial crisis, mostly but not exclusively in early modern Europe. His first book, Impunity and Capitalism: Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.Jaewoong Jeon is assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at New York University. His work is centered on the history of capitalism in East Asia and often takes the form of comparative macrohistory.Tad Skotnicki teaches and writes about the politics and culture of capitalism as well as social scientific reason. He is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and published The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture with Stanford University Press in 2021. His current research deals with futurelessness in capitalist societies, on the one hand, and the role of totalities in social scientific explanations, on the other.Matthew Soener is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches courses on social theory and political economy. His research centers on financialization, globalization, and inequality. More recently he has begun focusing on the political economy of climate change and fossil fuels. His work has been published in Socio-Economic Review, Economy and Society, New Political Economy, Sociological Forum, and Sociology Compass. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Historical Studies Volume 9, Number 2Fall 2022 Sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/721839 © 2022 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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Say Burgin is assistant professor of history at Dickinson College. Her publications have appeared in the Women's History Review, Journal of American Studies, Journal of International Women's Studies, The Nation, and elsewhere. Her first book project examines the myth that Black Power was “antiwhite” and the white fight for Black Power in Detroit. Say was a regular contributor to Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. She also co-created the educational website Rosa Parks's Biography: A Resource for Teaching Rosa Parks (https://rosaparksbiography.org/). Follow her on Twitter @sayburgin.Robert T. Chase is associate professor of history at Stony Brook University. His research and teaching interests include the history of mass incarceration and the construction of what historians call “the carceral state.” He is also the co-director of the national organization Historians Against Slavery (HAS). He is an expert in social justice, Latino/a, and civil rights movements, and political and African American history. He is the editor of the book Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance (2019). His book We are Not Slaves won the Best Book Award from the Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice, American Society of Criminology; the Hank Lacayo Best Labor-Themed Award from the International Latino Book Award; and honorable mention for the Betty and Alfred Lee McClung Award from the Association for Humanist Sociology.Simon Hall is professor of modern history at the University of Leeds, where his research and teaching focus on the civil rights–Black Power movements, the student radicalism of the long 1960s, and global protest during the Cold War. His previous books include 1956: The World in Revolt (2016) and Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s (2005).Brandon James Render is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include twentieth-century United States social and intellectual history, post-1945 social movements and “the culture wars,” and public policy. His dissertation, “Colorblind University,” traces the intellectual genealogy of race-neutral policies and practices in higher education through admissions policies, departmental structure, and curriculum design. In addition to service as a graduate research fellow at the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy in 2018–19, he is the 2021-22 Mitchem Dissertation Fellow at Marquette University.

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Other| June 01 2022 Contributors to This Issue Jazz and Culture (2022) 5 (1): 116–118. https://doi.org/10.5406/25784773.5.1.11 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Contributors to This Issue. Jazz and Culture 1 January 2022; 5 (1): 116–118. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/25784773.5.1.11 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJazz and Culture Search Advanced Search CISCO BRADLEY is associate professor of history at the Pratt Institute. He has published widely and is the author of two books, the most recent of which is Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker (Duke University Press, 2021). He is the founder of the Free Jazz Oral History Project that has recorded more than 120 interviews since 2016. He is also the editor of www.jazzrightnow.com, where he has published hundreds of interviews and music reviews since 2013. His current research focuses on music and migration in the United States and Africa.RASHIDA K. BRAGGS is an associate professor in Africana studies and affiliate faculty in comparative literature at Williams College. Her book Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music and Migration in Post-World War II Paris investigates the migratory experiences of African American jazz musicians in 1946–1963 Paris. Her work has been published in such journals as the Black... You do not currently have access to this content.

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David Arnold is Professor of History at Columbia Basin College where he teaches courses in US, Native American, and African American history. His first book, The Fishermen's Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska (University of Washington Press, 2008) is a social and environmental history of Indian and non-Indian fishermen from precontact to present.Matthew M. Babcock is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas at Dallas and author of Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule. He received his PhD at Southern Methodist University, and he focuses on the history of North American borderlands, American Indians, and the colonial Southwest.Rosie C. Bermudez is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Her research and teaching interests include Chicana grassroots activism, social movements, and women of color feminisms. Bermudez is currently writing a book about Chicana activist Alicia Escalante and the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization.Dea H. Boster is Associate Professor of History in the Humanities Department at Columbus State Community College in Columbus, Ohio. She has published several works on the history of American medicine and disability, including African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property, and Power in the Antebellum South (Routledge, 2012).Heather D. Curtis is the Warren S. Woodbridge Professor of Religion at Tufts University, where she also holds appointments in the Department of History and the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. Curtis received her doctorate in American Religion from Harvard University. Her research explores how religion has shaped responses to racial injustice, humanitarian disasters, and bodily illness from the late nineteenth century to the present.Justene Hill Edwards is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina (2021).David G. García earned his PhD in US History at UCLA and is Associate Professor in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. He is the author of the award-winning book Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality (University of California Press, 2018).Lyrianne E. González is a History PhD student minoring in Latino Studies at Cornell University. She is a mid-twentieth-century historian with focuses in US labor history, US foreign labor relations, US–Mexico relations, and im/migration. Her research investigates the racial and generational legacies of US agricultural guestworker programs.José G. Moreno is a full-time senior lecturer in ethnic studies and sociology and the Associate Director of the Ethnic Studies Program at Northern Arizona University. He has published various peer review articles, critical essays, and book reviews in academic publications.Mark Newman is a reader in history at the University of Edinburgh. He thanks the University of Edinburgh Development Trust Research Fund, the British Academy, the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, and the Leverhulme Trust for the financial support that made this article possible.Lucy E. Salyer is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Under the Starry Flag (Harvard University Press, 2018), Laws Harsh as Tigers (University of North Carolina Press, 1995), and numerous articles on the history of immigration and citizenship policy.Ryan E. Santos is a lecturer in the Social and Cultural Analysis of Education program at California State University, Long Beach and in the Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Department at California State University, Los Angeles. His research and teaching emphasize educational history with an emphasis on race, community resistance, and the law.Cameron Tardif is a PhD student who studies twentieth-century US history at Cornell University. His research focuses on how the relationship of slavery and freedom between the United States and Canada impacts the experiences of transnational black athletes. His work has been published in the Journal of Sport History.Lila Teeters is Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at Worcester State University. She received her PhD in American History from the University of New Hampshire in 2021. Her dissertation is entitled “Native Citizens: The Fight for and against Native American Citizenship, 1887–1924.”Tara J. Yosso is Professor in the Graduate School of Education at UC Riverside. Her research seeks to recover counter-narratives of race, schooling, inequality, and the law. Her extensively cited publications examine the ways people of color utilize community cultural wealth to survive and resist racism and other forms of subordination.Hao Zou is an independent scholar based in San Francisco. His research interests include Asian American history, immigration history, race and ethnicity, and the history of the American West.

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Thomas Chen is an assistant professor of Chinese at Lehigh University. His research focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film. He is the author of Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film, forthcoming from Columbia University Press.Xiuying Cheng is an associate professor with the Department of Public Administration and Policy at Renmin University of China. Her research area includes social theory, political sociology, and China studies.Erica Kanesaka is a postdoctoral research associate in gender studies at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. She will be starting as an assistant professor of Asian American literature and culture at Emory University in 2022. Her research has appeared in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Journal of Asian American Studies, Oxford Literary Review, and Victorian Studies.Wenqing Kang is an associate professor of history at Cleveland State University. He is author of Obsession: Male Same-Sex Relations in China, 1900–1950 (2009).Jihoon Kim is an associate professor of cinema and media studies at Chung-Ang University in South Korea. He is the author of Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary (2022) and Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-Media Age (2016). He is currently finalizing Post-verité Turns: Korean Documentary Cinema in the 21st Century, the first English-written scholarly monograph on the subject.Chungjae Lee is an assistant professor of military studies at the Republic of Korea Air Force Academy. He has published articles in European Journal of Political Theory, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Korean Aesthetics. He is currently working on a manuscript that examines the discourse of democratic transformation in early twentieth-century Imperial Japan and colonial Korea with an emphasis on the political thought of Minobe Tatsukichi (1873–1948) and Cho Soang (1887–1958).Jerry Won Lee is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where he also serves as faculty affiliate in the Departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies as well as core faculty in the Culture and Theory PhD program.Malcolm Thompson is a historian of China based in Vancouver, Canada.Max Ward is an associate professor of Japanese history at Middlebury College. He is the author of Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (2019) and coeditor of Transwar Asia: Ideology, Practices, and Institutions, 1920–1960 (2022) and Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy (2017). He is currently working on a new book project tentatively titled Police Power in Modern Japan, 1870–1970.

Samuel K Roberts: illuminating history, racial bias, and public health

In 2009, Samuel Kelton Roberts, Jr's first book, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation, was published. “The book itself is about how racialism is baked into the kernel of modern public health practice here in the USA. Some of the most foundational moments in public health sit adjacent to or are ones that play a role in our history of race and racialisation. Even the way we collected data in the 19th and early 20th century was not just racially biased, but often racialised in their methods. This is one reason why anyone doing historical epidemiology or attempting to track morbidity and mortality rates over decades must do so with great caution”, explains Roberts, who is Associate Professor of History and Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University's School of the Arts and Sciences and its Mailman School of Public Health and lead of the Research Cluster for the Historical Study of Race, Inequality and Health at the Columbia University Center for Science and Society, New York, NY, USA. During the COVID-19 pandemic the book has received renewed interest with, he says, “the idea of infectious disease as showing us something about structural violence” finding resonance in these times.

Interview with Milla Cozart Riggio, Angela Marino, and Paolo Vignolo

Emily Ruth Allen interviews Milla Cozart Riggio, Angela Marino, and Paolo Vignolo on Festive Devils of the Americas (2015). Interview date: Feb 4, 2021&#x0D; Milla Cozart Riggio is James J. Goodwin Professor of English Emerita at Trinity College. Angela Marino is Associate Professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California Berkeley. Paolo Vignolo is Associate Professor of History at the National University of Colombia, Bogota

The Whigs' America: Middle-Class Political Thought in the Age of Jackson and Clay by Joseph W. Pearson

Reviewed by: The Whigs' America: Middle-Class Political Thought in the Age of Jackson and Clay by Joseph W. Pearson Michael E. Woods (bio) The Whigs' America: Middle-Class Political Thought in the Age of Jackson and Clay. By Joseph W. Pearson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2020. Pp. 238. $35.00 cloth) The Whig and Democratic parties mobilized thousands of eager voters during the electoral battles of the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s. But what did these clashing political titans stand for, and how did Americans choose between them? Historians have argued over these questions almost as fiercely as antebellum partisans debated banking, tariffs, and internal improvements. A few scholars have found little substantive difference between the parties, viewing them merely as patronage-fueled electioneering machines. Many more historians have detected sharp partisan divergence, but disagree on whether it reflected struggles between regions, economic interests, or ethnocultural groups. Some researchers, including Daniel Walker Howe and Lawrence Frederick Kohl, delved even deeper and argued that antebellum partisanship reflected conflicting views of self and community. In The Whigs' America: Middle-Class Political Thought in the Age of Jackson and Clay, Joseph W. Pearson joins the latter historiographical camp, presenting a study of Whig thought that sheds light on Democrats as well. As Pearson puts it, The Whigs' America explores "underlying attitudes and worldview of society" to excavate the "deeply felt, shared cultural soil beneath Whig politics" (p. 1). Grounded in newspapers, periodicals, speeches, and other published texts, this approach reveals bedrock assumptions and principles that shaped Whigs' policy preferences. Whigs' zeal for publicly funded infrastructure, for instance, grew from their faith in the rewards of cooperation among far-flung American communities. Whigs' enthusiasm for temperance and public schools reflected their cautiously optimistic understanding of human nature: inherently flawed individuals could—and, to preserve well-ordered liberty, must—improve themselves through self-discipline and commitment to the common good. Whigs' sharp critique of Democrats' inclination to leave citizens to their own devices stemmed from a reading of history that warned against relapsing into barbarism. Pearson [End Page 73] argues that these perspectives on the individual, society, the state, the past, and the future coalesced into a "middle-class worldview" that made the Whigs "the first political party speaking for, to, and about America's rising middle class" (p. 2). For some readers, the middle-class theme will clarify Whigs' appeal; for others, it will muddy the waters. Pearson consciously avoids linking the term to social or economic status and posits that Americans of any background could embrace the virtues and values defined here as middle-class. This approach certainly elucidates how the Whig Party—which, like any major American political party, was a diverse coalition —attracted mass support. Whigs' worldview must have resonated widely, or they would have won precious few elections. But it also raises questions about context. Defining Whigs' ideas as middle class while disassociating both class and ideas from social and economic relations makes it difficult to explain patterns of party support. Why did these ideas—however we label them—appeal more to some groups of Americans more than others? Something more than personal idiosyncrasy must have been at work. Ideas are important, but they develop within a broader context, and one need not indulge in economic determinism to trace connections between Whigs' worldview and the era's rapidly changing social relationships and economic structures. Attention to this context would help explain, among other things, precisely why and how America's middle class was "rising" in this period. But many of this book's most intriguing findings have little to do with the middle-class label. Pearson teases out interesting areas in which Whig and Democratic ideas simultaneously overlapped and clashed. On issues ranging from mental health to infrastructure, Pearson shows that Whigs and Democrats presented views that were deeply divergent but not polar opposites. By delving into the antebellum era's plentiful print culture, Pearson has illuminated some important contours of partisan debate amid a time of wrenching change. [End Page 74] Michael E. Woods MICHAEL E. WOODS is associate professor of history and director of the Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is...