In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates about citizenship. At the heart of these disputes stood African Americans and Koreans. Reinventing Citizenship offers a comparative study of African American welfare activism in Los Angeles and Koreans' campaigns for welfare rights in Kawasaki. In working-class and poor neighborhoods in both locations, African Americans and Koreans sought not only to be recognized as citizens but also to become legitimate constituting members of communities.
Local activists in...
In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates about citizenship. At the hear...
In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less obvious, far more elusive, is how we see such images, how witnessing military violence and suffering affects us. Distant Wars Visible brings a new perspective to such enduring questions about conflict photography and other forms of visual advocacy, whether in support of U.S. military objectives or in critique of the nation at war.
At the book's center is what author Wendy Kozol calls an analytic of ambivalence--a critical approach to the tensions between...
In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less obvious, far more elusive, is how w...
