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Scripture in the African-American Christian Tradition
Chapter 16 from "Christian Theologies of Scripture" edited by Justin S. Holcomb. The book traces what the theological giants have said about scripture from the early days of Christianity until today. It incorporates diverse discussions about the nature of scripture, its authority, and its interpretation, providing a guide to the variety of views about the Bible throughout the Christian tradition. Preeminent scholars including Michael S. Horton, Graham Ward, and Pamela Bright offer chapters on major figures in the pre-modern, reformation, and early modern eras, from Origen and Aquinas to Luther and Calvin to Barth and Balthasar. They illuminate each thinker's understanding of the Christian scriptures and their views on interpreting the Bible. The book also includes overview chapters to orient readers to the key questions regarding scripture in each era, as well as chapters on scripture and feminism, scripture in the African American Christian tradition, and scripture and postmodernism.
Category:Religion & SpiritualityReads:199Uploaded:04 / 24 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionThe Tender Cut
Buy the book here! http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=3299 Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one’s own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture, The Tender Cut argues instead that self-injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of rebellion, converting unbearable emotional pain into manageable physical pain. Based on the largest, qualitative, non-clinical population of self-injurers ever gathered, noted ethnographers Patricia and Peter Adler draw on 150 interviews with self-injurers from all over the world, along with 30,000-40,000 internet posts in chat rooms and communiqués. Their 10-year longitudinal research follows the practice of self-injury from its early days when people engaged in it alone and did not know others, to the present, where a subculture has formed via cyberspace that shares similar norms, values, lore, vocabulary, and interests. An important portrait of a troubling behavior, The Tender Cut illuminates the meaning of self-injury in the 21st century, its effects on current and former users, and its future as a practice for self-discovery or a cry for help.
Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:1,720Uploaded:07 / 28 / 2011ShareAdd to collection"Haiti" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
From the new book "Black in Latin America", the companion to the PBS Series. Buy the book at NYU Press: http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=8265
Category:(not categorized)Reads:3,616Uploaded:07 / 27 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionCrossing the Border
In this funny, maddening, and moving excerpt from "The Maid's Daughter" by Mary Romero, we hear about the trials of the book's subject, Olivia, as she tries to get her uncle across the border from Mexico to see his dying nephew in the United States. Buy the book here: http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=5331 This is Olivia’s story. Born in Los Angeles, she is taken to Mexico to live with her extended family until the age of three. Olivia then returns to L.A. to live with her mother, Carmen, the live-in maid to a wealthy family. Mother and daughter sleep in the maid’s room, just off the kitchen. Olivia is raised alongside the other children of the family. She goes to school with them, eats meals with them, and is taken shopping for clothes with them. She is like a member of the family. Except she is not. Based on over twenty years of research, noted scholar Mary Romero brings Olivia’s remarkable story to life. We watch as she grows up among the children of privilege, struggles through adolescence, declares her independence and eventually goes off to college and becomes a successful professional. Much of this extraordinary story is told in Olivia’s voice and we hear of both her triumphs and setbacks. We come to understand the painful realization of wanting to claim a Mexican heritage that is in many ways not her own and of her constant struggle to come to terms with the great contradictions in her life. In The Maid’s Daughter, Mary Romero explores this complex story about belonging, identity, and resistance, illustrating Olivia’s challenge to establish her sense of identity, and the patterns of inclusion and exclusion in her life. Romero points to the hidden costs of paid domestic labor that are transferred to the families of private household workers and nannies, and shows how everyday routines are important in maintaining and assuring that various forms of privilege are passed on from one generation to another. Through Olivia’s story, Romero shows how mythologies of meritocracy, the land of opportunity, and the American dream remain firmly in place while simultaneously erasing injustices and the struggles of the working poor.
Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:627Uploaded:07 / 27 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionWelcome to the Sh*t Show
http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=6171 Most American college campuses are home to a vibrant drinking scene where students frequently get wasted, train-wrecked, obliterated, hammered, destroyed, and decimated. The terms that university students most commonly use to describe severe alcohol intoxication share a common theme: destruction, and even after repeated embarrassing, physically unpleasant, and even violent drinking episodes, students continue to go out drinking together. In Getting Wasted, Thomas Vander Ven provides a unique answer to the perennial question of why college students drink. Vander Ven argues that college students rely on “drunk support:” contrary to most accounts of alcohol abuse as being a solitary problem of one person drinking to excess, the college drinking scene is very much a social one where students support one another through nights of drinking games, rituals and rites of passage. Drawing on over 400 student accounts, 25 intensive interviews, and one hundred hours of field research, Vander Ven sheds light on the extremely social nature of college drinking. Giving voice to college drinkers as they speak in graphic and revealing terms about the complexity of the drinking scene, Vander Ven argues that college students continue to drink heavily, even after experiencing repeated bad experiences, because of the social support that they give to one another and due to the creative ways in which they reframe and recast violent, embarrassing, and regretful drunken behaviors. Provocatively, Getting Wasted shows that college itself, closed and seemingly secure, encourages these drinking patterns and is one more example of the dark side of campus life.
Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:1,205Uploaded:07 / 11 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionWill Marriage Change Gay People?
An Excerpt from M. V. Lee Badgett's classic "When Gay People Get Married" released in celebration of the historic legalization of gay marriage in New York.
Category:PoliticsReads:1,584Uploaded:06 / 28 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionNetworks and Social Imagination (from "The Net Effect" by Thomas Streeter)
or a limited time only, read an excerpt from Thomas Streeter's fascinating new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814741169?ie=UTF8&tag=np050-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0814741169">The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet (Critical Cultural Communication)</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=np050-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0814741169" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />, at Scribd.com.
Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:2,970Uploaded:12 / 13 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionThe Restroom Revolution: Unisex Toilets and Campus Politics
From the book <a href="http://www.nyupress.org/books/Toilet-products_id-11364.html">Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing,</a> edited by Harvey Molotch and Laura Noren. The history of the modern restroom has been a history of successive social groups proposing a right to access and a mode of toilet configuration fitting to their needs and desires.
Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:2,931Uploaded:11 / 19 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionSapphistries
From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. In beautiful prose, Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place.Leila J. Rupp reveals how, from the time of the very earliest societies, the possibility of love between women has been known, even when it is feared, ignored, or denied. We hear women in the sex-segregated spaces of convents and harems whispering words of love. We see women beginning to find each other on the streets of London and Amsterdam, in the aristocratic circles of Paris, in the factories of Shanghai. We find women’s desire and love for women meeting the light of day as Japanese schoolgirls fall in love, and lesbian bars and clubs spread from 1920s Berlin to 1950s Buffalo. And we encounter a world of difference in the twenty-first century, as transnational concepts and lesbian identities meet local understandings of how two women might love each other.Giving voice to words from the mouths and pens of women, and from men’s prohibitions, reports, literature, art, imaginings, pornography, and court cases, Rupp also creatively employs fiction to imagine possibilities when there is no historical evidence. Sapphistries combines lyrical narrative with meticulous historical research, providing an eminently readable and uniquely sweeping story of desire, love, and sex between women around the globe from the beginning of time to the present.
Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:4,924Uploaded:12 / 01 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionCow Boys and Cattle Men
Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman, owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing the class, gender, and labor histories of ranching in Texas during the second half of the nineteenth century.As working-class men, cowboys showed their masculinity through their skills at work as well as public displays in town. But what cowboys thought was manly behavior did not always match those ideas of the business-minded cattlemen, who largely absorbed middle-class masculine ideals of restraint. Real men, by these standards, had self-mastery over their impulses and didn’t fight, drink, gamble or consort with "unsavory" women. Moore explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans considered the most masculine.
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