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Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years. In this vividly detailed book, Tomás R. Jiménez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendents of Mexican immigrants, asking for the first time how this constant influx of immigrants from their ethnic homeland has shaped their assimilation. His nuanced investigation of this complex and little-studied phenomenon finds that continuous immigration has resulted in a vibrant ethnicity that later-generation Mexican Americans describe as both costly and beneficial. Replenished Ethnicity sheds new light on America's largest ethnic group, making it must reading for anyone interested in how immigration is changing the United States.

Mexican Americans --- Mexicans --- Ethnology --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Cultural assimilation. --- Race identity. --- Cultural assimilation --- Race identity --- United States --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects. --- american culture. --- american history. --- american society. --- anthropology. --- assimilation theory. --- assimilation. --- civic. --- demographic studies. --- ellis island. --- ethnic experiences. --- ethnic minorities. --- hispanic americans. --- historical. --- immigrants descendents. --- immigration policies. --- immigration. --- mexican americans. --- mexican immigrants. --- mexico. --- modern history. --- national identity. --- political. --- retrospective. --- social history. --- social science. --- social scientists. --- united states.

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In Guatemala City today, Christianity isn't just a belief system--it is a counterinsurgency. Amidst postwar efforts at democratization, multinational mega-churches have conquered street corners and kitchen tables, guiding the faithful to build a sanctified city brick by brick. Drawing on rich interviews and extensive fieldwork, Kevin Lewis O'Neill tracks the culture and politics of one such church, looking at how neo-Pentecostal Christian practices have become acts of citizenship in a new, politically relevant era for Protestantism. Focusing on everyday practices--praying for Guatemala, speaking in tongues for the soul of the nation, organizing prayer campaigns to combat unprecedented levels of crime--O'Neill finds that Christian citizenship has re-politicized the faithful as they struggle to understand what it means to be a believer in a desperately violent Central American city. Innovative, imaginative, conceptually rich, City of God reaches across disciplinary borders as it illuminates the highly charged, evolving relationship between religion, democracy, and the state in Latin America.

Evangelistic work --- Pentecostal churches --- Christianity and politics --- Pentecostal churches. --- Missions --- Guatemala (Guatemala) --- Religion. --- belief system. --- central america. --- christian charity. --- christian citizenship. --- christian soldier. --- christianity. --- christians. --- citizenship. --- counterinsurgency. --- crime. --- cultural studies. --- democracy. --- diaspora. --- god and religion. --- government and government. --- guatemala city. --- guatemala. --- guatemalan culture. --- latin american culture. --- mega churches. --- neo pentecostal christian practices. --- political studies. --- political. --- politics. --- postwar. --- prayer campaigns. --- prayer. --- protestantism. --- religion. --- religious studies. --- spiritual warfare. --- transnational studies.

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Signs of the Times traces the career of Jim Crow signs-simplified in cultural memory to the "colored/white" labels that demarcated the public spaces of the American South-from their intellectual and political origins in the second half of the nineteenth century through their dismantling by civil rights activists in the 1960's and '70s. In this beautifully written, meticulously researched book, Elizabeth Abel assembles a variegated archive of segregation signs and photographs that translated a set of regional practices into a national conversation about race. Abel also brilliantly investigates the semiotic system through which segregation worked to reveal how the signs functioned in particular spaces and contexts that shifted the grounds of race from the somatic to the social sphere.

African Americans --- Visual communication --- Signs and signboards --- Photography --- Racism in popular culture --- Segregation --- History --- Social aspects --- Southern States --- Race relations --- 1960s. --- 1970s. --- 19th century. --- african americans. --- america. --- american culture. --- american south. --- civil rights activists. --- cultural history. --- cultural memory. --- historians. --- jim crow laws. --- jim crow signs. --- nonfiction. --- political history. --- political tension. --- public spaces. --- racial issues. --- racism. --- regional history. --- regional practices. --- retrospective. --- segregation signs. --- semiotics. --- social history. --- social sphere. --- united states. --- us history. --- visual communication. --- visual politics.

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Dangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960's and how it created national anxiety about dying, disabled, and "dangerous" babies. This epidemic would ultimately transform abortion politics, produce new science, and help build two of the most enduring social movements of the late twentieth century--the reproductive rights and the disability rights movements. At most a minor rash and fever for women, German measles (also known as rubella), if contracted during pregnancy, could result in miscarriages, infant deaths, and serious birth defects in the newborn. Award-winning writer Leslie J. Reagan chronicles for the first time the discoveries and dilemmas of this disease in a book full of intimate stories--including riveting courtroom testimony, secret investigations of women and doctors for abortion, and startling media portraits of children with disabilities. In exploring a disease that changed America, Dangerous Pregnancies powerfully illuminates social movements that still shape individual lives, pregnancy, medicine, law, and politics.

Abnormalities, Human --- Abortion --- Disability awareness --- Rubella in pregnancy --- Rubella --- Fourth disease --- German measles --- Measles, German --- Rosella --- Röteln --- Rubeola notha --- Three-day measles --- Togavirus infections --- Virus diseases in pregnancy --- Awareness --- Abortion, Induced --- Feticide --- Foeticide --- Induced abortion --- Pregnancy termination --- Termination of pregnancy --- Birth control --- Fetal death --- Obstetrics --- Reproductive rights --- Abnormalities --- Anomalies, Congenital --- Birth defects --- Congenital abnormalities --- Congenital anomalies --- Defects, Birth --- Deformities --- Developmental abnormalities --- Human abnormalities --- Malformations, Congenital --- Morphology --- Pathology --- Teratogenesis --- Teratology --- History. --- Surgery --- History --- Rubella - United States - History --- Rubella in pregnancy - United States - History --- Abortion - United States - History --- Abnormalities, Human - United States - History --- Disability awareness - United States - History --- 20th century american culture. --- 20th century american medical history. --- abortion politics. --- abortion. --- children with disabilities. --- courtroom testimony. --- dangerous babies. --- disability rights movement. --- disability. --- disabled babies. --- disease. --- doctor. --- dying babies. --- family. --- german measles epidemic. --- german measles. --- health. --- infant deaths. --- medicine. --- miscarriages. --- motherhood. --- mothers. --- national anxiety. --- newborn babies. --- parenthood. --- pregnancy. --- pregnant women. --- reproductive rights movement. --- rubella. --- science. --- serious birth defects. --- social movements.

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Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this innovative volume, editors Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman gather essays from nineteen leading ethnographers to create a unique portrait of an anxious country and to furnish valuable insights into the nation's possible future. With an incisive foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, the contributors draw on their deep knowledge of different facets of American life to map the impact of the new economy, the "war on terror," the "war on drugs," racial resentments, a fraying safety net, undocumented immigration, a health care system in crisis, and much more. In laying out a range of views on the forces that unsettle us, The Insecure American demonstrates the singular power of an anthropological perspective for grasping the impact of corporate profit on democratic life, charting the links between policy and vulnerability, and envisioning alternatives to life as an insecure American.

Security (Psychology) --- Nationalism --- Emotional insecurity --- Emotional security --- Insecurity (Psychology) --- Psychology, Applied --- United States --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- ZSA --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Америка (Republic) --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- САЩ --- Съединените щати --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- ولايات المتحدة --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- 미국 --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- Security (Psychology) -- United States.. --- Nationalism -- United States.. --- United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.. --- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century. --- États-Unis --- É.-U. --- ÉU --- american culture. --- american life. --- american society. --- americans. --- anthropology. --- anxious. --- debt levels. --- drug addiction. --- ethnography. --- gated communities. --- health care system. --- health insurance. --- immigration. --- insecure america. --- insecurity. --- job uncertainty. --- money. --- neoliberalism. --- new economy. --- policy. --- politics. --- poverty. --- punitive governance. --- race in america. --- racial resentments. --- racism. --- safety net. --- terrorism. --- terrorist attacks. --- undocumented immigration. --- united states of america. --- vulnerability. --- wal mart. --- war on drugs. --- war on terror. --- warmaking.