Books published by Temple University Press,U.S.

An anthology that provides a prismatic look at the cross-fertilization between Chinese film and global popular culture. It explores how issues of immigration, class, race and economic displacement are viewed on a global level, providing an understanding of the impact of Chinese filmmaking at home and abroad.

Argues that the disciplinary divisions of academia have trapped us in a paradigm that assumes knowledge is a certainty and that it can help us explain the social world. This work offers a fresh conception of the social sciences, one whose methodology allows for uncertainties.

Examines the world of workforce intermediaries - entrepreneurial partnerships that include businesses, unions, community colleges, and community organizations. This book also examines the development and effectiveness of these intermediaries.

Telling the story of the drive to create consumer capitalism abroad through political pressure, this book explains that the primary goal of the foreign and economic policies of the United States is a world which reflects their way of doing business. It shows how this drive for global hegemony is now backfiring.

Explores the relationship between the well-established practice of oral history and the burgeoning field of memory studies. This title explains the processes by which oral histories move beyond interviews with individual people to become articulated memories shared by others.

A collection of essays which examine the ways in which the colonial history of the Philippines has shaped Filipino American identity, culture, and community formation. It shows how an understanding of this history provides a foundation for theoretical frameworks for Filipino American studies.

Race matters in both national and international politics. Starting from this perspective, this work presents original essays from African American political scientists. These essays evaluate the discipline, its subfields, the quality of race-related research, and omissions in the literature.

Includes the essays that analyze Chicago by way of globalization and its impact on the contemporary city; economic restructuring; the evolution of machine-style politics into managerial politics; physical transformations of the central city and its suburbs; and, race relations in a multicultural era.

At St John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, over a thousand people line up for food five days a week. This title takes the reader through the years before and after welfare reform to show how poverty has become "ordinary," a fact of life to millions of Americans and to the thousands of social workers.

Takes us through the various aspects of our 'financialization'. This title examines how the shift in economic life arose not only from changes in culture, but also from new policy priorities that emphasize controlling inflation over promoting growth.

In 1996, Congress passed expansive laws to control illegal immigration, imposing mandatory detention and deportation for even minor violations. Critics argued that such legislation violated civil liberties and human rights. This title offers recommendations for reform along with an understanding of immigration.

An edition of the classic inspirational speech.

Written by two of the Philadelphia area's respected meteorologists, this book answers questions about this region's weather and climate, from the Poconos and Philadelphia to southern New Jersey and the Shore to Delaware. It also offers the history of the region's pivotal role in the development of weather science that goes back to colonial times.

Takes us on a tour through American sports. Offering profiles of the athletes we love, this title shows that sport, more than any other nationwide pastime, is the way we come to understand and alter race relations, gender, and how we communicate with each other in ways that are often given too little credit in the minds of intellectuals.

Single parent families in the United States have almost tripled in the past few decades. A huge majority of these families are female headed. This title focuses on the program, the Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund, which has since 1984 provided scholarships for single parents interested in obtaining their post-secondary education.

Tells the author's story of moral courage and commitment to social change. This memoir focuses on the formative experiences that made her an activist for social justice before her academic career began. Hers is a story about surviving hardship and summoning the courage to live according to one's convictions.

Covers the big-time teams and events and amateur and college sports of Philadelphia. This book helps readers relive the days of Penn football and Bobby Jones' completion of the Grand Slam at Merion, the Eagles' defeat of the Packers in the NFL championship game and the Phillies' World Series championship in 1980.

Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel has long opposed the silence of bystanders that allows atrocities like the Holocaust to occur. Nevertheless, since the 1980s, Wiesel has come under criticism for his refusal to speak out about the State of Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people.

Demonstrates that solutions emerge once we assume that both faculty and students still possess a mutual potential for learning when they meet in the college classroom. This title documents a process of pedagogical transformation. It is of use to people interested in making higher education more truly democratic, inclusive, and challenging.

Portrays the many-sided legacies of exclusion and discrimination. The stories, columns, essays, and commentaries in this title tackle such problems as media racism, criminality, inter-ethnic tensions, and political marginalization. As a group, they make a case for the centrality of the Asian American historical experiences in US race relations.

A biography of Florence Luscomb, it presents her story against the backdrop of Boston politics and struggles for social justice. It suggests that although women were excluded from the activities and sites associated with conventional politics, they did political work that gave purpose to their lives and affected political thinking.

Looks at Philadelphia government and politics, and the trials of a journalist trying to cover them. This book answers some nagging questions: why did the author leave for New York and why did he come back? What's the story behind the Bill Green lawsuit? Does he apply his own makeup? It talks about the strain of living life in the spotlight.

The Polo Grounds was the home of the New York Giants from John McGraw and Christy Mathewson to Carl Hubbell and Mel Ott to Willie Mays and Leo Durocher. This title tells the legendary events of the park and its legendary personalities.

In their day, from 1830 to 1930, members of the Sartain family of Philadelphia were widely known as printmakers, painters, art administrators, and educators. Since then, the accomplishments of three generations of Sartains have become obscure. This wide-ranging collection of essays aims to rectify that situation.

Tells the story of how a few thousand very talented young men obtain their extraordinary riches. This author illustrates salary negotiation with an imaginary case based on Roy Hobbs, star of The Natural. He leads the reader through the successes of agent Scott Boras to explain the intricacies of free agent negotiating.

Documents the social and cultural development of a people "without history," a people who have sometimes been dismissed as foreigners who merely perpetuate the culture of the homeland rather than becoming "truly" Caribbean. This book examines the distinctiveness of traditional Indo-Caribbean musical culture.

Includes profiles for the top 200 players and a synopsis of the careers of every team player, stories, statistics, and game-by-game accounts of every season (from the teams true beginning in 1882 as the St Louis Browns), and information on every manager. Employing photos and memorabilia, this book captures the history behind the team.

Tells the life story of Dora Yum Kim. In this title, the author reflects on how Dora's story relates to her own experience as a Korean-American who immigrated to this country as an adult - she carves around Dora's compelling and courageous life story, a story of her own and one of all Korean-Americans.

Including interviews with students, teachers, parents, and community leaders, as well as her own observations of exchanges among them inside and outside the classroom, the author explores the social positions, diverging constructions of history, and polarized understandings of contemporary racial/ethnic dynamics in Arnhem.

In the summer of 1966, in the middle of the Vietnam War, eighty young volunteers arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Parris Island, South Carolina, from all over the Eastern United States. For the next eight weeks, as Platoon 1005, they endured one of the most intense basic training programs ever devised.