By Jacqueline Hidalgo, Associate Professor of Latinx Studies and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan US, August 2016. Hidalgo’s book examines the “spiritual” rhetoric and practices of the Chicano movement, making the case that peoples, for whom historical memories of displacement loom large, engage scripture in order to make and contest homes. Continue reading »
By Charles Dew ’58, Ephraim Williams Professor of American History. Dew’s wish with this book is to show how the South of his childhood came into being, poisoning the minds even of honorable people, and to answer the question put to him by Illinois Browning Culver, the African American woman… Continue reading »
By Eric Joseph & Eva Ungar Grudin, Senior Lecturer in Art, Emerita. Hargrove Press, May 2016. Adam and Sarah had planned to get married in high school but ultimately called it off. Now in their late 60s, they reconnect before their 50th high school reunion, but… Continue reading »
Co-authored by Jon Bakija, Professor of Economics. University of California Press. May 2016. The size of government is arguably the most controversial discussion in United States politics, and this issue won’t fade from prominence any time soon. There must surely be a tipping point beyond which more government… Continue reading »
By Alan Hirsch, Lecturer in Humanities, Chair of Justice and Law Studies. Counterpoint Press, April 2016. An account of both the most famous art heist in British history and of how the author’s research, 50 years later, led to the solving of the crime. Continue reading »
By Zachary Wadsworth, Assistant Professor of Music. Bridge Records, Inc., April 2016. The centerpiece of the CD is the title track, a cantata that features the poetry of Tim Dlugos, a New York poet who died of AIDS in 1990 while studying to become a priest. Continue reading »
By Cassandra Cleghorn, Chair and Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English. Marick Press, April 2016. Available on Amazon. Let’s consider wind a force as internal as it is external, that there is a spiritual wind as surely as there is an elemental one. Thinking so… Continue reading »
With contributions by Neil Roberts, chair of religion and associate professor of Africana studies. Rowman & Littlefield International. April 2016. An exploration of the scholarship of Paget Henry, current Brown University professor, who has contributed heavily to the study of Caribbean political science, philosophy and critical theory. Continue reading »
By James L. Nolan, Jr., Professor of Sociology. This book compares the insights of Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton and Sayyid Qutb, who all traveled to the United States between 1830 and 1950. Nolan uses these writers’ perspectives to highlight aspects of American culture that have persisted over time—individualism… Continue reading »
By Gage McWeeney, Professor of English. Oxford University Press, February 2016. Focusing on the ways that both Victorian literature and modern social thought responded to an emergent “society of strangers,” The Comfort of Strangers argues for a new relation between literary form and the socially dense environments… Continue reading »
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