Books: 'Belize City'

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Musa, Yasser. The Belize City poem. Belize City, Belize: Factory Books, 1996.

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Studies on Belize Conference (1st 1987 Belize City, Belize). Belize, ethnicity, and development: Papers presented at the First Annual Studies on Belize Conference, University Centre, May 25-26, 1987, Belize City, Belize, C.A. Belize City, Belize: [Society for the Promotion of Education and Research, 1987.

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Foster, Byron. The baymen's legacy: A portrait of Belize City. Benque Viejo del Carmen, Belize: Cubola Productions, 1987.

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Morter-Lewis, Corinth. Heritage: A poem read at the First Belize Black Summit, September 13-15, 2003 at the Biltmore Plaza Hotel, Belize City, Belize. Belmopan, Belize, C.A: University of Belize Press, 2004.

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Society for the Promotion of Education and Research (Belize). National Cross-Cultural Awareness Conference: 26-27th March, 1988 : University Centre, Belize City. [Belize City: SPEAR, 1988.

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Parks-Leslie, Marlene. The Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist: Through the ages, 1812-2012. 2nd ed. Ladyville, Belize, Central America: Heainsha Publishing, 2012.

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Iyo, Joe. An oral history of land, property, and real estate development in Belize City (1961-1997). Belize City [Belize]: University College of Belize Press, 1998.

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Guderjan, Thomas H. The nature of an ancient Maya city: Resources, interaction, and power at Blue Creek, Belize. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007.

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FAO/DANIDA/CFRAMP/WECAFC Regional Workshops on the Assessment of the Caribbean Spiny Lobster (Panulirus argus) (1997-1998 Belize City, Belize, and Merida, Mexico). Report on the FAO/DANIDA/CFRAMP/WECAFC Regional Workshops on the Assessment of the Caribbean Spiny Lobster (Panulirus argus): Belize City, Belize 21 April-2 May 1997, Merida, Mexico, 1-12 June 1998. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001.

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Luc´ia Gonz´alez. La Noche en Belice city. Monterrey, Nuevo Le´on: Oficio Ediciones, 2006.

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Faria, Rodrigo Santos de. Ribeirão Preto, uma cidade em construção: O discurso da higiene, beleza e disciplina na modernização Entre Rios (1895-1930). São Paulo, SP, Brasil: Annablume, 2010.

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Sex and the city: Geographies of prostitution in the urban West. Alsershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 1999.

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Albom, Mitch. Premier appel du paradis. Montréal]: Édito, 2014.

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Frederic, Harold. The damnaton of Theron Ware, or, Illumination. New York: Penguin, 1986.

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Frederic, Harold. The damnation of Theron Ware. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers, 1999.

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Frederic, Harold. The damnation of Theron Ware. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006.

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Frederic, Harold. The damnation of Theron Ware. Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books, 1997.

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Frederic, Harold. The damnation of Theron Ware. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006.

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Belize Cayes Including Belize City. Avalon Travel Publishing, 2009.

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The 2005 Economic and Product Market Databook for Belize City, Belize. Icon Group International, Inc., 2005.

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Parker, Philip M. The 2006 Economic and Product Market Databook for Belize City, Belize. ICON Group International, Inc., 2006.

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Ancient Maya City of Blue Creek, Belize: Wealth, Social Organization and Ritual. British Archaeological Reports Limited, 2016.

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H, Guderjan Thomas, Río Bravo Archaeological Project, and Maya Research Program, eds. Maya settlement in northwestern Belize: The 1988 and 1990 seasons of the Río Bravo Archaeological Project. San Antonio, Tex: Maya Research Program, 1991.

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Guderjan, Thomas H. The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory). University Alabama Press, 2007.

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The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory). University Alabama Press, 2007.

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Ancient Maya Cities of the Eastern Lowlands. University Press of Florida, 2016.

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(Firm), Geocart. Stedenatlas: Belgie & Luxemburg = City atlas : Belgium & Luxembourg. Geocart, 1998.

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Ancient Maya Cities of the Eastern Lowlands. University Press of Florida, 2015.

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Warfield, Patrick. The Centennial City. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037795.003.0004.

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This chapter discusses John Philip Sousa's move from Washington to Philadelphia to prove himself as a violinist, arranger, and composer. Following his tours with Nobles, he “decided to go to Philadelphia and see the Centennial. It was a big event in the life of any young American and I believe the first event of its kind that the country had ever had.” It was in the Centennial City that Sousa earned his stripes writing songs and stage works, and it was also in Philadelphia that he began to plot a return to the capital. By the time he left Philadelphia in 1880, Sousa had orchestrated several complete operettas.

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Stock, Kathleen. Fiction, Belief, and ‘Imaginative Resistance’. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798347.003.0005.

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The chapter starts with a focus on the relation between fiction and the inculcation of justified belief via testimony. The claim, relied upon in Chapter 3, that fictions can be sources of testimony and so justified belief, is defended. Then the fact that fictive utterances can, effectively, instruct readers to have beliefs, is implicated in a new explanation of ‘imaginative resistance’. The author suggests that the right account of this phenomenon should cite the reader’s perception of an authorial intention that she believe a counterfactual, which in fact she cannot believe. This view is defended against several rivals, and distinguished from certain other views, including the influential view of Tamar Gendler. Finally there is a consideration of whether one can propositionally imagine what one believes to be conceptually impossible.

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Anabel, Ford, Ford Foundation, U.S. National Committee for Man and the Biosphere. Tropical Ecosystems Directorate., World Monuments Watch (Program), and United States. Dept. of State. Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs., eds. The f uture of El Pilar: The integrated research & development plan for the El Pilar Archaeological Reserve for Maya Flora and Fauna, Belize-Guatemala : results of the the Mesa Redonda El Pilar, Mexico City, January 1997 = Visión futura de El Pilar : plan integrado de investigación y desarrollo de la Reserva Arqueológica El Pilar para la Flora y Fauna Mayas, Belice-Guatemala : de acuerdo a la Mesa Redonda El Pilar, Ciudad de México, Enero 1997. [Washington, D.C.?]: Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, 1998.

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The future of El Pilar: The integrated research & development plan for the El Pilar Archaeological Reserve for Maya Flora and Fauna, Belize-Guatemala : results of the the Mesa Redonda El Pilar, Mexico City, January 1997 = Visión futura de El Pilar : plan integrado de investigación y desarrollo de la Reserva Arqueológica El Pilar para la Flora y Fauna Mayas, Belice-Guatemala : de acuerdo a la Mesa Redonda El Pilar, Ciudad de México, Enero 1997. [Washington, D.C.?]: Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, 1998.

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MacDonald, Ian Thomas, ed. Unions and the City. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501706547.001.0001.

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Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in major North American cities. As unions become more involved in the daily life of the city, they find themselves confronting the familiar dilemma of how to fold union priorities into broader campaigns that address non-union workers and the lives of union members beyond the workplace. If we are right to believe that the future of the labor movement is an urban one, union activists and staffers, urban policymakers, elected officials, and members of the public alike will require a fuller understanding of what impels unions to become involved in urban policy issues, what dilemmas structure the choices unions make, and what impact unions have on the lives of urban residents, beyond their members. This book serves as a road map toward both a stronger labor movement and a socially just urbanism. It presents the findings of a collaborative project which investigated how and why labor unions were becoming more involved in urban regulation and urban planning. It assesses the effectiveness of this involvement in terms of labor goals as well as broader social consequences of union strategies, such as expanding access to public services, improving employment equity, and making neighborhoods more affordable. Focusing on four key economic sectors (film, hospitality, green energy, and child care), the book reveals that unions can exert a surprising level of influence in various aspects of urban policymaking and that they can have a significant impact on how cities are changing and on the experiences of urban residents.

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Hardwick, Julie. Sex in an Old Regime City. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190945183.001.0001.

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Based on extensive archival research, the extraordinary stories of ordinary people’s lives in this book explore many facets of young people’s intimacy from meeting to courtship to the many occasions when untimely pregnancies necessitated a range of strategies. These might include marriage but could also be efforts to induce abortions, arrangements for out-of-wedlock delivery, charging the father with custody, leaving the baby with a foundling hospital, or infanticide. Clergy, lawyers, social welfare officials, employers, midwives, wet-nurses, neighbors, family, and friends supported young women and held young men responsible for the reproductive consequences of their sexual activity. These practices of intimacy reframe our understanding of multiple aspects of the Old Regime. Young people’s intimate experiences challenge the belief that disciplining female sexuality was a critical early modern goal of state formation and religious reformation. They suggest rethinking the history of a sexual double standard in local and long contexts, the history of marriage, and the role of law in the politics of communities and institutions. The lives of young people also reshape many more specific debates, for instance, about the history of emotions, infanticide, attitudes to illegitimacy, pre-modern workplaces, and the body. The book reveals the important role of the young people’s working communities, where the norm was local management of intimacy with a heavy emphasis on pastoral care and pragmatic acceptance of the inevitability of out-of-wedlock pregnancy.

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Wilson, William Julius. Urban Poverty, Race, and Space. Edited by David Brady and Linda M. Burton. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199914050.013.18.

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This article examines the political, economic, and cultural factors that contributed to the emergence and persistence of concentrated poverty in black inner cities. It begins with a discussion of the political forces that adversely affected black inner-city neighborhoods, followed by an analysis of impersonal economic forces that accelerated neighborhood decline in the black inner city and increased disparities in race and income between cities and suburbs. It then considers two types of cultural forces that contribute to racial inequality: belief systems of the broader society that either explicitly or implicitly give rise to racial inequality; and cultural traits that emerge from patterns of intragroup interaction in settings created by racial segregation and discrimination. It also assesses the impact of the recent rise of immigration on areas of concentrated urban poverty before concluding with suggestions for a new agenda for America’s inner city poor.

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Davies, Aled. The City of London and the Politics of ‘Invisibles’. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198804116.003.0004.

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This chapter considers the resurgence of the City of London as an international financial centre in the late twentieth century. It highlights the role played by a campaign to promote the revival of the City as a post-sterling international financial centre. The Committee on Invisible Exports campaigned for the recognition of the City’s contribution to Britain’s balance of payments through its ‘invisible earnings’, and argued that this could be increased by reducing impediments on its activities. The invisibles campaign was a distinct product of the post-war preoccupation with the balance of payments, which challenged the fundamental belief, embedded in economic policy since the war, that the route to national prosperity was in expanding industrial production. The campaign sought to reconceptualize Britain as a historic commercial and financial, rather than industrial, economy. In doing so it undercut a core principle on which the social democratic political–economic project was based.

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Pfaller, Robert. What Reveals the Taste of the City: The Ethics of Urbanity. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422925.003.0008.

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Urbanity, a notion that originates in the discourses on rhetoric, designates an ethics proper to the city: a witty, distanced behaviour that replaces the authentic person by the playful enactment of a role. This involves - as every theatre - the presence of an illusion; a certain ‘as if’; a deception, yet one that does not deceive anybody. The belief in the illusion becomes interpassively delegated to a kind of virtual, naive observer. Postmodernity, with its obsession with questions of true identity, can be seen as the key enemy of this urban role-play. It thus contributes to the neoliberal privatization and destruction of urban, public space.

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Worthington, Ian. Athens After Empire. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190633981.001.0001.

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When we think of ancient Athens, the image invariably coming to mind is of the Classical city, with monuments beautifying everywhere; the Agora swarming with people conducting business and discussing political affairs; and a flourishing intellectual, artistic, and literary life, with life anchored in the ideals of freedom, autonomy, and democracy. But in 338 that forever changed when Philip II of Macedonia defeated a Greek army at Chaeronea to impose Macedonian hegemony over Greece. The Greeks then remained under Macedonian rule until the new power of the Mediterranean world, Rome, annexed Macedonia and Greece into its empire. How did Athens fare in the Hellenistic and Roman periods? What was going on in the city, and how different was it from its Classical predecessor? There is a tendency to think of Athens remaining in decline in these eras, as its democracy was curtailed, the people were forced to suffer periods of autocratic rule, and especially under the Romans enforced building activity turned the city into a provincial one than the “School of Hellas” that Pericles had proudly proclaimed it to be, and the Athenians were forced to adopt the imperial cult and watch Athena share her home, the sacred Acropolis, with the goddess Roma. But this dreary picture of decline and fall belies reality, as my book argues. It helps us appreciate Hellenistic and Roman Athens and to show it was still a vibrant and influential city. A lot was still happening in the city, and its people were always resilient: they fought their Macedonian masters when they could, and later sided with foreign kings against Rome, always in the hope of regaining that most cherished ideal, freedom. Hellenistic Athens is far from being a postscript to its Classical predecessor, as is usually thought. It was simply different. Its rich and varied history continued, albeit in an altered political and military form, and its Classical self-lived on in literature and thought. In fact, it was its status as a cultural and intellectual juggernaut that enticed Romans to the city, some to visit, others to study. The Romans might have been the ones doing the conquering, but in adapting aspects of Hellenism for their own cultural and political needs, they were the ones, as the poet Horace claimed, who ended up being captured.

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Prestel, Joseph Ben. Emotional Cities. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797562.001.0001.

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Between 1860 and 1910, Berlin and Cairo went through a period of dynamic transformation. During this period, a growing number of contemporaries in both places made corresponding arguments about how urban change affected city dwellers’ emotions. In newspaper articles, scientific treatises, and pamphlets, shifting practices, such as nighttime leisure, were depicted as affecting feelings like love and disgust. Looking at the ways in which different urban dwellers, from psychologists to revelers, framed recent changes in terms of emotions, this book reveals the striking parallels between the histories of Berlin and Cairo. In both cities, various authors associated changes in the city with such phenomena as a loss of control over feelings or the need for a reform of emotions. The parallels in these arguments belie the assumed dissimilarity between European and Middle Eastern cities during the nineteenth century. Drawing on similar debates about emotions in Berlin and Cairo, the book provides a new argument about the regional compartmentalization of urban history. It highlights how the circulation of scientific knowledge, the expansion of empires, and global capital flows led to similarities in the pasts of these two cities. By combining urban history and the history of emotions, this book proposes an innovative perspective on the emergence of different, yet comparable cities at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Shaffer, Kirwin R. Anarchist Alliances, Government Repression. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037641.003.0004.

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This chapter explores how some anarchists aligned themselves with the emerging freethinkers' movement centered in the southern city of Ponce to address educational issues on the island. The Puerto Rican Left had been founding CESs since the end of the nineteenth century, which gave workers a source of radicalized education. While the freethinkers were mostly middle-class professionals, they shared with anarchists a fervent belief in free expression and freedom of speech. In addition, both anarchists and freethinkers condemned what they saw as the influence of religion on society, especially in education. As a result, both called for rationalist education modeled after the ideals and Modern Schools in Spain developed by Francisco Ferrer y Guardia.

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Harris, Andrea. Lincoln Kirstein’s Social Modernism and the Cultural Front. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199342235.003.0004.

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This chapter takes a biographical approach to Lincoln Kirstein’s creation of a modernist theory of ballet to situate its development in the 1930s cultural wing of the Popular Front and explore its evolution through and after World War II. Fueled by the cultural front’s belief in the role of the arts in social revolution, Kirstein seized the opportunity to decouple ballet from existing biases about its elitism and triviality, and formulate new ideas about its social relevance in the Depression period. After exploring the development of Kirstein’s social modernism in the cultural front, chapter 2 then turns to the challenges posed to the 1930s belief that art could be productively combined with politics through two major turning points in Kirstein’s life. These are his experiences in World War II, and the erosion of his own artistic role in the ballet company after the formation of the New York City Ballet and the ascendance of George Balanchine’s dance-for-dance-sake aesthetic in the late 1940s. The chapter illustrates Kirstein’s attempts to negotiate the social modernist aesthetic he crafted under the wing of the cultural front within the volatile political, economic, and artistic circumstances of World War II, anticommunism, and the Cold War.

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Cohn, Jr., Samuel K. Cholera’s First European Tour. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198819660.003.0008.

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This chapter discovers seventy-two cholera riots in the British Isles during the first thirteen-month cholera wave to strike the region in 1831–2. These show a variety of concerns with one distinctive characteristic that derived from new demands by anatomical schools to supply human cadavers for teaching. Overwhelmingly, the motives behind this cholera hate and violence, however, form a larger pattern seen from Asiatic Russia to New York City: fear of hospitals and the state induced by the belief that elites with physicians as their agents had invented the disease to cull populations of the poor. While impoverished women and children and recent immigrants composed crowds numbering as many as three thousand, the targets of the rioters were cholera vehicles, hospitals, and physicians. It was a class struggle but one which Marx, Engels, and later left-leaning historians have made little attempt to explain or even mention.

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Jiwa, Munir. Muslim Artists in America. Edited by Jane I. Smith and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199862634.013.027.

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This chapter draws on ethnographic fieldwork I conducted with Muslim artists in New York City. Working with artists allows us to think about Muslims in new ways that neither restricts them to theological belief nor locates them only at mosques. It allows us to rethink and remap the locations where we normatively find Muslims, to think about artistic practices and identity in different contexts, and to question and make more complex secular and religious divides. Focusing on the works of Zarina Hashmi, Shirin Neshat, Ghada Amer, and Shahzia Sikander, “celebrities” in the mainstream art worlds in the United States and internationally, provides us insight into the processes of art making and creative expression by Muslim artists in secular contexts. By looking at the landscapes of a wider range of Muslim artists and cultural producers, both within the art worlds and in Muslim communities in America, we are better able to appreciate the diversity of their commitments and practices, aesthetic and/or theological.

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Manne, Kate. Exonerating Men. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190604981.003.0007.

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The flipside of misogyny’s punishment of women is exonerating the privileged men who engage in misogyny. This chapter canvasses this phenomenon, along with the flow of sympathy up the social hierarchy, away from the female victims of misogyny toward its (again, privileged) male perpetrators. This is dubbed “himpathy.” These phenomena are connected to epistemic injustice and epistemic oppression, theorized by Miranda Fricker and Kristie Dotson, among others. As a contrast with the much-discussed Isla Vista killings, the chapter considers the far less publicized case of the serial rapist police officer in Oklahoma City, who preyed on black women who had criminal records, in the belief that these women would have no legal recourse. This is an instance of systemic “misogynoir”—Moya Bailey’s term for the distinctive, in some ways sui generis form of misogyny to which black women in the United States are subject, given misogyny’s interaction with racism and white supremacy.

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Harris, Andrea. Making an American Ballet Institution in the Cultural Cold War in Europe. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199342235.003.0008.

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Chapter 4 examines the circumstances leading to the final success of Lincoln Kirstein’s American ballet in 1963, when Ford Foundation philanthropy made George Balanchine’s neoclassicism a national institution and a national style. Examining the New York City Ballet’s cultural diplomacy activities, it illustrates the advantageous position that Balanchine attained within the alliances between the government, private and corporate foundations, and the arts that developed in the cultural Cold War. Yet the chapter stresses the complexity of the collaboration between the ballet company and the government, insisting that the artists often had very different political motivations than the state. A main concern is how the belief in the social efficacy of art, nurtured in the 1930s, was affected by the transformational shift in arts funding, organization, and management that arose during the Cold War. This chapter concludes by raising questions about the consequences of the post-WWII institutionalization of the arts for the political agendas of the 1930s-era modernists.

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Hicks, Michael. “My Tabernacle ‘Mormon’ Choir”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039089.003.0003.

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This chapter discusses the activities of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir under the direction of its conductor, Evan Stephens. In 1890 Mormons outgrew two fads, one doctrinal, the other musical. First was the idea that the world would end between December 1890 and December 1891. This commonplace belief, which helped nurture Mormon ferocity in the face of anti-polygamy legislation, derived from a statement Joseph Smith had made in 1835. In musical terms, entering the mainstream meant full commitment to standard musical notation and a letting-go of the musical fad of the Tonic sol-fa method. In 1891, William D. Davies, Welsh cultural ambassador from the New York newspaper Y Drych, toured Utah, heard Stephens's Choir and pronounced it the best choir in the world. This chapter considers the controversies faced by the Choir during Stephens's term as well as its concerts, domestic tours, and the competitions it joined. It also examines how the Choir continued its mission of public visibility without even leaving Salt Lake City.

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Kraus, Joe. The Kosher Capones. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501747311.001.0001.

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This book tells the fascinating story of Chicago’s Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. The book traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin “Zukie the Bookie” Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate’s “Jewish wing.” These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicago Outfit that emerged from Al Capone’s criminal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, the book introduces us to the different models of organized crime they represented, a raft of largely forgotten Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago’s political corruption. Hard-to-believe anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads criminal operators spotlight the magnitude and importance of Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rule. With an eye for the dramatic, the book takes us deep inside a hidden society and offers glimpses of the men who ran the Jewish criminal community in Chicago for more than sixty years.

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Albom, Mitch. The first phone call from heaven. Sphere, 2013.

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Maldonado-Estrada, Alyssa. Lifeblood of the Parish. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479872244.001.0001.

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Each year the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, celebrates its annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola. The crowning event is the Dance of the Giglio, a devotional spectacle of strength and struggle in which men lift a four-ton, seventy-foot tower through the streets. This ethnographic study delves into this masculine world of devotion and the religious lives of lay Catholic men. It explores contemporary men’s devotion to the saints and the Catholic parish as an enduring venue for the pursuit of manhood and masculinity amid gentrification and neighborhood change in New York City. It explores the way laymen imagine themselves and their labor as high stakes, the very work of keeping their parish alive. In this Brooklyn church men, money, and devotion are intertwined. In the backstage spaces of the parish men enact their devotion through craft, manual labor, and fundraising. A rich exploration of embodiment and material religion, this book examines how men come to be part of religious community through material culture: costumes, clothing, objects, and tattoos. It argues that devotion is as much about skills, the body, and relationships between men as it is about belief.

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Henning, Tim. From a Rational Point of View. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797036.001.0001.

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When we discuss normative reasons, oughts, requirements of rationality, hypothetical imperatives (or “anankastic conditionals”), motivating reasons, or weakness and strength of will, we often use verbs like “believe” and “want” to capture a relevant subject’s perspective. According to the received view, what these verbs do is describe the subject’s mental states. Many puzzles concerning normative discourse have to do with the role that mental states consequently appear to play in this discourse. This book uses tools from formal semantics and the philosophy of language to develop an alternative account of sentences involving these verbs. According to this view, called parentheticalism in honour of J. O. Urmson, we very commonly use these verbs in a parenthetical sense. Clauses with these verbs thereby express backgrounded side-remarks on the contents they embed, and these latter, embedded contents constitute the at-issue contents of our utterances. Thus, instead of speaking about the subject’s mental states, we often use sentences involving “believe” and “want” to speak about the world in a way that, in the conversational background, relates our utterances to her point of view. This idea is made precise and used to solve various puzzles concerning normative discourse. The result is a new, unified understanding of normative discourse, which does not postulate conceptual breaks between objective and subjective normative reasons, or normative reasons and rationality, or indeed between the reasons we ascribe to an agent and the reasons she herself can be expected to cite.

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