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Shifting Borders

Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187

By: Kent A. Ono,John M. Sloop

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Shifting Borders

Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187

By: Kent A. Ono,John M. Sloop

Like articles representing the positions of proponents of the measure, those representing opponents construct the nation as potentially in danger as a result of undocumented immigration. How do we learn to recognize the damning effects of good rhetorical intentions? And where will we find arguments which escape this trap that permeates the liberal social policy world? Shifting Borders uses an evaluation of the debate over California Proposition 187 to demonstrate how this quandary is best understood by close interrogation of mainstream reports and debates and by bringing to the fore voices that are often left out of mediated discussions. It is these voices outside the mainstream, so called outlaw discourses, that hold the best possibilities for real social change. To illustrate their claim, the authors present dominant and outlaw discourses around Proposition 187, from television reports, internet chat sites, and religious discourse to coverage of the Los Angeles Times. Their critique ably demonstrates how difficult it is to maintain a position outside the mainstream, but also how important it is for the press, citizens, and scholars to actively search out such voices. The find

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Temple University Press

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1566399173

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The Cultural Prison

Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment

By: John M. Sloop

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The Cultural Prison

Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment

By: John M. Sloop

The Cultural Prison brings a new dimension to the study of prisoners and punishment by focusing on how the punishment of American offenders is represented and shaped in the mass media through public arguments.

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University of Alabama Press

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081735333X

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9780817353339

Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch

The Sport's Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics

By: John M. Sloop

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Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch

The Sport's Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics

By: John M. Sloop

American sports agnostics might raise an eyebrow at the idea that soccer represents a staging ground for progressive cultural, social, and political possibility within the United States. It is just another game, after all, in a society where mass-audience spectator sport largely avoids any political stance in other than a generic, corporate-friendly patriotism. But John Sloop picks up on the work of Laurent Dubois and others to see in American soccer-a sport that has achieved immense participation and popularity even as it struggles to establish major league status-a game that permits surprisingly diverse modes of thinking about national identity because of its marginality. As a rhetorician who engages with both critical theory and culture, John Sloop seeks to read soccer as the game intersects with gender, race, sexuality, class, and the logic of neoliberal values. The result of this engagement is a sense of both enormous possibility, and real constraint. If American soccer offers more possibility because of its marginality, looking at how these cultural, social, and political possibilities are closed off or constrained can provide valuable insights into American culture and values. In Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch, Sloop analyzes a host of soccer-adjacent case studies: the equal pay dispute between the US women's national team and the US Soccer Federation, the significance of hooligan literature, the introduction of English soccer to American TV audiences, the strange invisibility of the Mexican soccer league despite its consistent high TV ratings, and the reading of US national teams as "underdogs" despite the nation's quasi-imperial dominance of the Western hemisphere. While there is a growing bookshelf of titles on soccer and a growing number on American soccer, Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch is the first and only book-length analysis of soccer through a rhetorical lens. This book is a model for critical cultural work with sports, with appeal to not only sports studies, but cultural studies, communication, and even gender studies classrooms. It is, independent of its bona fides, an engaging and enjoyable read for the soccer fan and the soccer-curious"--

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University of Alabama Press

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0817361022

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9780817361020

Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat: A Guide to Essential Features, Handling, and Gear

By: John Vigor

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Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat: A Guide to Essential Features, Handling, and Gear

By: John Vigor

An invaluable resource. [Vigor's] practical wisdom gives you the know-how and confidence to prepare your boat for the sea."--Cruising World. Here is the book that answer the sailor's fundamental question--"Can my boat take me offshore safely?"--then shows how to make it happen.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071706070

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A New Dictionary of the Italian and English Languages

Vol. 2

By: Guglielmo Comelati,John Davenport

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A New Dictionary of the Italian and English Languages

Vol. 2

By: Guglielmo Comelati,John Davenport

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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338281482X

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Judgment Calls

By: John Sloop

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Judgment Calls

By: John Sloop

The concept of judgment has occupied a place of special importance in the tradition of Western thought. In antiquity and especially in the Enlightenment, judgment served as the rubric under which Western thinkers struggled to come to terms with how the world of human concerns is constituted in thought and, perhaps more important, how humans call for timely and appropriate actions. Recently, judgment has again emerged as a highly contestatory site for philosophical, rhetorical, and cultural reflection and inquiry.This book puts into contact a variety of responses to the question of judgment in a postmodern age, seeking out the question of how, once solid ground is pulled out from underneath the position of the judge, one continues to ?tread? judgment, to meet obligations while remaining afloat.The essays in this edited volume investigate judgment as a rhetorical problem to be discussed philosophically and examines the standards by which judgments are made and can be made in contemporary culture. The essays clarify the links between rhetoric and judgment as they are played out on public and meta-critical levels.

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Routledge

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0429979118

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Naval Courts Martial, 1793-1815

By: John D. Byrn

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Naval Courts Martial, 1793-1815

By: John D. Byrn

This collection of naval court martial transcripts and related documents from the time of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars contributes not only to our understanding of military jurisprudence in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries but also to our knowledge of Georgian and Regency criminal law in general. Each chapter presents transcripts relating to different groups of offences. Chapter one deals with procedural matters; Chapter Two covers trails arising from transgressions of the laws of Georgian and Regency society like drunkenness, theft, violence and homosexuality. Chapter Three is devoted to proceedings against types of naval offence, such a mutiny, insolence, desertion or loss of ship. Chapter Four treats of cases involving adjudications for multiple infractions. These transcripts are presented in their entirety and offer a unique window to the social conditions and behaviour aboard the King's ships at the time.

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1000340899

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John F. Kennedy and the Liberal Persuasion

By: John M. Murphy

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John F. Kennedy and the Liberal Persuasion

By: John M. Murphy

The first serious study of his discourse in nearly a quarter century, John F. Kennedy and the Liberal Persuasion examines the major speeches of Kennedy’s presidency, from his famed but controversial inaugural address to his belated but powerful demand for civil rights. It argues that his eloquence flowed from his capacity to imagine anew the American liberal tradition—Kennedy insisted on the intrinsic moral worth of each person, and his language sought to make that ideal real in public life. This book focuses on that language and argues that presidential words matter. Kennedy’s legacy rests in no small part on his rhetoric, and here Murphy maintains that Kennedy’s words made him a most consequential president. By grounding the study of these speeches both in the texts themselves and in their broader linguistic and historical contexts, the book draws a new portrait of President Kennedy, one that not only recognizes his rhetorical artistry but also places him in the midst of public debates with antagonists and allies, including Dwight Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Richard Russell, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert Kennedy. Ultimately this book demonstrates how Kennedy’s liberal persuasion defined the era in which he lived and offers a powerful model for Americans today.

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MSU Press

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1628953489

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Judgment Calls

By: John Sloop

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Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch

The Sport's Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics

By: John M. Sloop

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The Sport's Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics

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Shifting Borders

Shifting Borders

The Cultural Prison

The Cultural Prison

Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch

Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch

Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat: A Guide to Essential Features, Handling, and Gear

Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat: A Guide to Essential Features, Handling, and Gear

A New Dictionary of the Italian and English Languages

A New Dictionary of the Italian and English Languages

Judgment Calls

Judgment Calls

Naval Courts Martial, 1793-1815

Naval Courts Martial, 1793-1815

John F. Kennedy and the Liberal Persuasion

John F. Kennedy and the Liberal Persuasion

Judgment Calls

Judgment Calls

Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch

Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch

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