Author: William H.Simo
Publisher: Duke University Pre
Keywords: new, social, policy, business, law, economic, development, movement, community
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0822328046
ISBN-13: 9780822328049

While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades. The new style is reflected in a panoply of Community Economic Development (ced) initiatives?efforts led by locally-based organizations to develop housing, jobs, and business opportunities in low-income neighborhoods.In this book William H. Simon provides the first comprehensive examination of the evolution of Community Economic Development, complete with an analysis of its operating premises and strategies. He describes the profusion of new institutional forms t

Author: Michael Barker
Publisher: Duke University Pre
Keywords: press, policy, studies, duke, development, state, local, economic, financing
Number of Pages: 507
Published: 1983-06-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0822305364
ISBN-13: 9780822305361

Author: Thomas D.Willett
Publisher: Duke University Pre
Keywords: political, duke, press, policy, studies, unemployment, inflation, business, cycles, economy, money
Number of Pages: 534
Published: 1988-09-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0822308428
ISBN-13: 9780822308423

Author: Imani Perry
Publisher: Duke University Pre
Keywords: hip, hop, poetics, politics, hood, prophets
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0822334461
ISBN-13: 9780822334460

At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here?criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and culture of hip hop through an analysis of song lyrics, the words of the prophets of the hood. Recognizing prevailing characterizations of hip hop, or rap, as a transnational musical form, Perry advances a powerful argument that hip hop is first and foremost black American music. At the same time, she c

Author: Judith Halberstam
Publisher: Duke University Pre
Keywords: masculinity, female
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822322439
ISBN-13: 9780822322436

Readers who have followed the postmodern gender debate in the university presses (ranging from Thais Morgan’s sedately twisted analyses of Victorian male lesbianism to Judith Butler’s acclaimed Gender Trouble) will delight in the latest little earthquake: Judith Halberstam’s deft separation of masculinity from the male body in Female Masculinity. If what we call "masculinity" is taken to be "a naturalized relation between maleness and power," Halberstam argues, "then it makes little sense to examine men for the contours of that masculinity’s social construction." We can

Authors:Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,  Michèle Aina Barale, J
Publisher: Duke University Pre
Keywords: performativity, series, pedagogy, affect, feeling, touching
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-02-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0822330156
ISBN-13: 9780822330158

A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick offers what she calls "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought," in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, and the Foucauldian "hermeneutics of suspicion." In prose sometimes somber, often high-spirited, and a

Author: Lauren Berlant
Publisher: Duke University Pre
Keywords: american, culture, sentimentality, business, complaint, unfinished, female
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-04-30
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822342022
ISBN-13: 9780822342021

The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural “intimate public” in the United States, a “women’s culture” distinguished by a view that women inevitably have something in common and are in need of a conversation that feels intimate and revelatory. As Berlant explains, “women’s” books, f