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The United States of the United Races
Barack Obama’s historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, The United States of the United Races reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which has praised mixture as a means to create a new people, bring equality to all, and fulfill an American destiny. In this genealogy, Greg Carter re-envisions racial mixture as a vehicle for pride and a way for citizens to examine mixed America as a better America. Tracing the centuries-long conversation that began with Hector St. John de Crevecoeur’s Letters of an American Farmer in the 1780s thr...
Meetings Made Easy
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From Angels to Aliens
Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the Left Behind series are but the latest manifestations of American teenagers' longstanding fascination with the supernatural and the paranormal. In this groundbreaking book, Lynn Schofield Clark explores the implications of this fascination for contemporary religious and spiritual practices. Relying on stories gleaned from more than 250 in-depth interviews with teens and their families, Clark seeks to discover what today's teens really believe and why. She finds that as adherence to formal religious bodies declines, interest in alternative spiritualities as well as belief in "superstition" grow accordingly. Ironically, she argues, fundamentalist ...
The Dolphin Enigma
New Zealand in 1981 is a one-party state. The prime minister is holding secret talks with his Australian counterpart to create a new political Australasian Federation. Meanwhile, a group called the Tiger Moth Club wants to restore a more democratic form of government and remove the prime minister from office. The club is unknowingly receiving assistance from the Soviet KGB through a sleeper agent code named Dolphin. In a separate development, the Soviets wish to establish a greater presence in the Antarctic before a moratorium on further exploration is approved by the United Nations. They need a support base in New Zealand, but New Zealand's prime minister will not agree, causing the Politbu...
Annual Report
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