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Black for a Day

White Fantasies of Race and Empathy

By: Alisha Gaines

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Black for a Day

White Fantasies of Race and Empathy

By: Alisha Gaines

In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously "became" black as well, traveling the American South in search of a certain kind of racial understanding. Contemporary history is littered with the surprisingly complex stories of white people passing as black, and here Alisha Gaines constructs a unique genealogy of "empathetic racial impersonation--white liberals walking in the fantasy of black skin under the alibi of cross-racial empathy. At the end of their experiments in "blackness," Gaines argues, these debatably well-meaning white impersonators arrived at little more than false consciousness. Complicating the histories of black-to-white passing and blackface minstrelsy, Gaines uses an interdisciplinary approach rooted in literary studies, race theory, and cultural studies to reveal these sometimes maddening, and often absurd, experiments of racial impersonation. By examining this history of modern racial impersonation, Gaines shows that there was, and still is, a faulty cultural logic that places enormous faith in the idea that empathy is all that white Americans need to make a significant difference in how to racially navigate our society.

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UNC Press Books

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1469632845

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9781469632841

The Poison Trials

Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science

By: Alisha Rankin

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The Poison Trials

Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science

By: Alisha Rankin

In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived—the other died in agony. In sixteenth-century Europe, this and more than a dozen other accounts of poison trials were committed to writing. Alisha Rankin tells their little-known story. At a time when poison was widely feared, the urgent need for effective cures provoked intense excitement about new drugs. As doctors created, performed, and evaluated poison trials, they devoted careful attention to method, wrote detailed experimental reports, and engaged with the problem of using human subjects for fatal tests. In reconstructing this history, Rankin reveals how the antidote trials generated extensive engagement with “experimental thinking” long before the great experimental boom of the seventeenth century and investigates how competition with lower-class healers spurred on this trend. The Poison Trials sheds welcome and timely light on the intertwined nature of medical innovations, professional rivalries, and political power.

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338

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University of Chicago Press

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022674499X

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9780226744995

The Trauma of Racism

Exploring the Systems and People Fear Built

By: Alisha Moreland-Capuia

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The Trauma of Racism

Exploring the Systems and People Fear Built

By: Alisha Moreland-Capuia

This book provides in-depth analysis of the historical, philosophical, anthropological, political and neurobiological reinforcements of fear and the role of fear-on-fear interactions in the construction and maintenance of systems. This text will help systems appreciate the profound, pervasive and deleterious role fear has played in the establishment of laws, policies and practices, and explore what systems can do to reduce fear and prioritize safety and healing. Right now we are dealing with hard truths: human suffering runs deep and is universal; trauma is ubiquitous and widespread; racism is real and has profound psychological, physical, political, social and economic implications; and the world is hurting and needs healing. Many are curious about where and when healing will commence, who will facilitate it and what it will look and feel like. Healing comes in this order: safety, truth and then reconciliation. When we know better, we can (or should) certainly do better. This book offers a framework for how to effectively begin to deconstruct systemic fear, prioritize safety, reduce needless suffering and move toward optimal healing and sustained change.

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179

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Springer Nature

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3030734366

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9783030734367

Presenteeism Behaviour

Current Research, Theory and Future Directions

By: Alisha McGregor,Peter Caputi

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Presenteeism Behaviour

Current Research, Theory and Future Directions

By: Alisha McGregor,Peter Caputi

This book presents a concise and contemporary account of theory and research on presenteeism. It thoroughly discusses the definition and measurement of presenteeism, followed by an overview of the presenteeism literature focusing on key areas such as the prevalence, causes, consequences, costs and benefits of presenteeism. It reviews the models of presenteeism, and how they have been used to explain presenteeism behavior in the workplace. The authors offer an overview of presenteeism interventions and suggestions for future interventions, as well as recommendations for future research studies on presenteeism.

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113

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Springer Nature

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3030972666

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9783030972660

Oregon Military

By: Warren W. Aney and Alisha Hamel

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Oregon Military

By: Warren W. Aney and Alisha Hamel

Aney and Hamel draw on service with the Oregon Army National Guard, including years spent as organizational historians to gather images culled from the Oregon Historical Society, the Oregon Military Museum, county historical societies, regional and national collections and their own personal collections illustrating distinctive stories from the past that shape our modern communities.

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128

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467116580

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9781467116589

The First Steps

By: Brad Crawford,Alisha Crawford

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The First Steps

By: Brad Crawford,Alisha Crawford

You suspect your child is suffering from autism- but aren't sure where to start? Written by parents for parents, this book serves as a roadmap for navigating those early days. As we draw upon our own journey we address the need of knowing what to do and what to expect at the beginning. It's our hope and prayer that this book helps you set the ground work for many successful years of therapy, with the ultimate hope of recovering your child. The recipe section in the back of the book will also give you a great start on tackling the special dietary requirements most kids with autism struggle with. After six years of dealing with our own child's very restricted diet, the recipes included in this book will give you a variety of options to start with. Brad & Alisha Crawford are the parents of three boys, Brodie (age 8), Jonah (age 6) and Graysen (age 5). They discovered their oldest son Brodie had autism at 17 months of age. This discovery began an all-intensive battle and race against time to draw their son out of the complex and reclusive world he was living in. Now, over six years later and with Brodie's amazing story of success, the Crawford's want to share what they've learned. This book is one they wish they would have had at the start of their long journey. Brad has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from UC Davis. Alisha has a B.A. in Early Childhood Education from UC Davis and a teaching credential and M.A. in Education from Southern Oregon University. The Crawfords' currently live in Kampala, Uganda serving with Engineering Ministries International's East Africa office (www.emiea.org) as missionaries.

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256

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Xulon Press

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161579784X

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9781615797844

Book's by Alisha Crawford

Black for a Day

Black for a Day

The Poison Trials

The Poison Trials

The Trauma of Racism

The Trauma of Racism

Presenteeism Behaviour

Presenteeism Behaviour

Oregon Military

Oregon Military

The First Steps

The First Steps

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