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Reading the Obscene : Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature
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ISBN: 150362949X Year: 2021 Publisher: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press,

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With Reading the Obscene, Jordan Carroll reveals new insights about the editors who fought the most famous anti-censorship battles of the twentieth century. While many critics have interpreted obscenity as a form of populist protest, Reading the Obscene shows that the editors who worked to dismantle censorship often catered to elite audiences composed primarily of white men in the professional-managerial class. As Carroll argues, transgressive editors, such as H. L. Mencken at the Smart Set and the American Mercury, William Gaines and Al Feldstein at EC Comics, Hugh Hefner at Playboy, Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books, and Barney Rosset at Grove Press, taught their readers to approach even the most scandalizing texts with the same cold calculation and professional reserve they employed in their occupations. Along the way, these editors kicked off a middle-class sexual revolution in which white-collar professionals imagined they could control sexuality through management science. Obscenity is often presented as self-shattering and subversive, but with this provocative work Carroll calls into question some of the most sensational claims about obscenity, suggesting that when transgression becomes a sign of class distinction, we must abandon the idea that obscenity always overturns hierarchies and disrupts social order.


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After the Protests Are Heard : Enacting Civic Engagement and Social Transformation
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ISBN: 1479840572 1479883646 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York : Baltimore, Md. : New York University Press, Project MUSE,

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From the Women's March in D.C. to #BlackLivesMatter rallies across the country, there has been a rising wave of protests and social activism. Yet, the struggle for social justice continues long after the posters and megaphones have been packed away. After the protests are heard, how can we continue to work toward lasting change?

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Democracy. --- Political participation. --- Social change. --- Social justice. --- Albert Bandura. --- B corporations. --- Carol Lee Sanchez. --- Craig Sieben. --- Engagement Scholarship Consortium. --- Erica Chenoweth. --- Gregory Dees. --- Iris Marion Young. --- J. K. Gibson-Graham. --- Jonathan Weiler. --- Just Living. --- Karen Stenner. --- Khanjan Mehta. --- Kwame Anthony Appiah. --- Leslie Marmon Silko. --- Marc Hetherington. --- Marc Lane. --- Maria Stephan. --- Michael Eric Dyson. --- Moral Foundations Theory. --- Nicolas Bourriard. --- Norman Ornstein. --- Patricia Hill Collins. --- Paul Hawken. --- President Barack Obama. --- Robin Wall Kimmerer. --- Social Enterprise Alliance. --- Ta-Nehisi Coates. --- Theaster Gates. --- Thomas Mann. --- Toni Preckwinkle. --- Van Jones. --- altermodern relational aesthetics. --- authoritarianism. --- civic engagement. --- community economies. --- criminal justice reform. --- democracy. --- ecology of opportunity. --- economic justice. --- environmental sustainability. --- equality. --- extractive capitalism. --- fascism. --- generative interdependence. --- green economy. --- honor codes. --- implicit bias. --- justice. --- moral disengagement. --- polarization. --- professional managerial class. --- racism. --- reparations. --- social engagement. --- social enterprise. --- social entrepreneurship. --- solutions journalism. --- strategic nonviolence. --- structural racism. --- sustainability. --- theology of liberation. --- white violence.

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