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Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! : Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement / by Costanza-Chock, Sasha, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Out of the Closets, Out of the Shadows, and Into the Streets: Pathways to Participation in DREAM Activist Networks…”
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Paper Money Men : Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Sphere in Antebellum America / by Anthony, David, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…"Sleepy hollow," gothic masculinity, and the panic of 1819 -- Shylock on Wall Street; or, the Jessica complex in antebellum sensationalism -- Banking on emotion: debt and male submission in the urban gothic -- Tabloid manhood, speculative femininity -- "Success" and race in the House of the seven gables.…”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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Mirage of Police Reform : Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy / by Worden, Robert E., McLean, Sarah J., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…The procedural justice model as reform -- Police departments as institutionalized organizations -- Police legitimacy -- Procedural justice in citizens' subjective experiences -- Citizens' dissatisfaction in their own words -- Procedural justice in police action -- Citizens' subjective experience and police action -- Procedural justice and management accountability -- Procedural justice and street-level sense-making -- Reflections on police reform -- Methodological appendix.…”
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The Grind : Black Women and Survival in the Inner City / by McCurn, Alexis S.

Table of Contents: “…"I Am Not a Prostitute": How Young Black Women Challenge Sexual Harassment on the Street -- 4. "Keeping It Fresh": Self-Representation and Challenging Controlling Images in the Inner City -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Field Research Methods in Urban Public Space -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author.…”
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Roman Fever : Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing / by Formichella Elsden, Annamaria, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: representation and copying in Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Notes in England and Italy -- Closing her lips with gentle hand : domesticated artists in Constance Fenimore Woolston's Miss Grief and The street of the hyacinth -- Roman fever revisited.…”
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Benedict Arnold a traitor in our midst / by Wilson, Barry, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 Young Trader, Canadian Connections 3 -- 2 The Rustle of Revolutionary Winds 18 -- 3 Arnold the Revolutionary 32 -- 4 Preparing to Invade Canada 42 -- 5 The March through Maine I 52 -- 6 The March through Maine II: America's Hannibal 62 -- 7 Quebec Awaits 78 -- 8 The Battle for Quebec loi -- 9 Siege and Retreat 111 -- 10 Heroics and Enemies Within 130 -- 11 Politics and Treason 145 -- 12 The Streets of Saint John 164 -- 13 Born-Again Trader 183 -- 14 Arnold vs the Lawyers 191 -- 15 After New Brunswick 217 -- Epilogue 237 -- Notes 239 -- Index 265.…”
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Doing Business in America : A Jewish History /

Table of Contents: “…American Jewish business : at the street level / Hasia R. Diner -- 2. Common fortunes : social and financial gains of Jewish and Christian partnerships in eighteenth-century Transatlantic trade / Allan M. …”
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Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film /

Table of Contents: “…Dixon / Caitlin McGrath -- 'Regardless of race, color, or creed': filming the Henry Street Settlement visiting Nurse Service, 1924-1933 / Tanya Goldman -- 'I'll see you in church': local films in African American communities, 1924-1962 / Martin L. …”
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Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces : Diversity and Free Expression in Education / by Palfrey, John, 1972-

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The Unheralded Triumph : City Government in America, 1870-1900 / by Teaford, Jon C.

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Creep: A Life, A Theory, An Apology by Alexander, Jonathan

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