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Torn at the Roots

The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America

By: Michael E. Staub

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Torn at the Roots

The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America

By: Michael E. Staub

When Jewish neoconservatives burst upon the political scene, many people were surprised. Conventional wisdom held that Jews were uniformly liberal. This book explodes the myth of a monolithic liberal Judaism. Michael Staub tells the story of the many fierce battles that raged in postwar America over what the authentically Jewish position ought to be on issues ranging from desegregation to Zionism, from Vietnam to gender relations, sexuality, and family life. Throughout the three decades after 1945, Michael Staub shows, American Jews debated the ways in which the political commitments of Jewish individuals and groups could or should be shaped by their Jewishness. Staub shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the liberal position was never the obvious winner in the contest. By the late 1960s left-wing Jews were often accused by their conservative counterparts of self-hatred or of being inadequately or improperly Jewish. They, in turn, insisted that right-wing Jews were deaf to the moral imperatives of both the Jewish prophetic tradition and Jewish historical experience, which obliged Jews to pursue social justice for the oppressed and the marginalized. Such declamations characterized disputes over a variety of topics: American anticommunism, activism on behalf of African American civil rights, imperatives of Jewish survival, Israel and Israeli-Palestinian relations, the 1960s counterculture, including the women's and gay and lesbian liberation movements, and the renaissance of Jewish ethnic pride and religious observance. Spanning these controversies, Staub presents not only a revelatory and clear-eyed prehistory of contemporary Jewish neoconservatism but also an important corrective to investigations of "identity politics" that have focused on interethnic contacts and conflicts while neglecting intraethnic ones. Revising standard assumptions about the timing of Holocaust awareness in postwar America, Staub charts how central arguments over the Holocaust's purported lessons were to intra-Jewish political conflict already in the first two decades after World War II. Revisiting forgotten artifacts of the postwar years, such as Jewish marriage manuals, satiric radical Zionist cartoons, and the 1970s sitcom about an intermarried couple entitled Bridget Loves Bernie, and incidents such as the firing of a Columbia University rabbi for supporting anti-Vietnam war protesters and the efforts of the Miami Beach Hotel Owners Association to cancel an African Methodist Episcopal Church convention, Torn at the Roots sheds new light on an era we thought we knew well.

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Columbia University Press

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0231506430

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9780231506434

The Mismeasure of Minds

Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve

By: Michael E. Staub

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Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve

By: Michael E. Staub

The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision required desegregation of America's schools, but it also set in motion an agonizing multidecade debate over race, class, and IQ. In this innovative book, Michael E. Staub investigates neuropsychological studies published between Brown and the controversial 1994 book The Bell Curve. In doing so, he illuminates how we came to view race and intelligence today. In tracing how research and experiments around such concepts as learned helplessness, deferred gratification, hyperactivity, and emotional intelligence migrated into popular culture and government policy, Staub reveals long-standing and widespread dissatisfaction—not least among middle-class whites—with the metric of IQ. He also documents the devastating consequences—above all for disadvantaged children of color—as efforts to undo discrimination and create enriched learning environments were recurrently repudiated and defunded. By connecting psychology, race, and public policy in a single narrative, Staub charts the paradoxes that have emerged and that continue to structure investigations of racism even into the era of contemporary neuroscientific research.

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UNC Press Books

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146964360X

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9781469643601

Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army

By: Kayla Williams,Michael E. Staub

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Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army

By: Kayla Williams,Michael E. Staub

An account of the experiences of women soldiers relates the author's decision to enlist, her relationship with a Palestinian boyfriend, her witness to the events of September 11 as portrayed on Arabic television, and her deployment to Iraq.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393329224

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9780393329223

Madness Is Civilization

When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948–1980

By: Michael E. Staub

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Madness Is Civilization

When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948–1980

By: Michael E. Staub

In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America’s problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social conditions, psychiatrists were agents of repression, asylums were gulags for society’s undesirables, and mental illness was a concept with no medical basis. Madness Is Civilization explores the general consensus that societal ills—from dysfunctional marriage and family dynamics to the Vietnam War, racism, and sexism—were at the root of mental illness. Staub chronicles the surge in influence of socially attuned psychodynamic theories along with the rise of radical therapy and psychiatric survivors' movements. He shows how the theories of antipsychiatry held unprecedented sway over an enormous range of medical, social, and political debates until a bruising backlash against these theories—part of the reaction to the perceived excesses and self-absorptions of the 1960s—effectively distorted them into caricatures. Throughout, Staub reveals that at stake in these debates of psychiatry and politics was nothing less than how to think about the institution of the family, the nature of the self, and the prospects for, and limits of, social change. The first study to describe how social diagnostic thinking emerged, Madness Is Civilization casts new light on the politics of the postwar era.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226771490

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9780226771496

Torn at the Roots

The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America

By: Michael E. Staub

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The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America

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Psychology

An International Perspective

By: Michael W. Eysenck

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Psychology

An International Perspective

By: Michael W. Eysenck

In this book Michael Eysenck, one of the UK's most eminent and leading psychologists, provides a unique approach to Introductory Psychology.

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Taylor & Francis

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184169360X

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Moving Beyond Self-Interest

Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, and the Social Sciences

By: Stephanie L. Brown,R. Michael Brown,Louis A. Penner

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Moving Beyond Self-Interest

Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, and the Social Sciences

By: Stephanie L. Brown,R. Michael Brown,Louis A. Penner

In Moving Beyond Self-Interest, psychologists, neuroscientists, economists, and political scientists discuss and extend cutting-edge developments in the science of caring for and helping others. Their insights help readers appreciate the human capacity for engaging in altruistic acts, on both a small and large scale.

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Oxford University Press

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0199838305

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9780199838301

A2 Level Psychology

By: Michael W. Eysenck

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A2 Level Psychology

By: Michael W. Eysenck

This thoroughly updated edition of the bestselling Psychology for A2 Level has been written specifically for the new AQA-A Psychology A2-level specification for teaching from September 2009. It is the ideal follow-up to AS Level Psychology, 4th edition by the same author, but also to any AS-level textbook. This full-colour book, which builds on the ideas and insights explored at AS Level to promote a deeper understanding of psychology, is written in an engaging and accessible style by a highly experienced author. It incorporates contributions, advice and feedback from a host of A-Level teachers and psychologists including Philip Banyard, Evie Bentley, Clare Charles, Diana Dwyer, Mark Griffiths and Craig Roberts. At this level, students select options from a range of specified topics and this book includes chapters on all of the compulsory and optional topics that are on the new A2 syllabus in sufficient depth for the requirements of the course. It has a new focus on the nature and scope of psychology as a science with an emphasis on how science works, and guidance on how to engage students in practical scientific research activities. Presented in a clear, reader-friendly layout, the book is packed with advice on exam technique, hints and tips to give students the best chance possible of achieving the highest grade. The book is supported by our comprehensive package of online student and teacher resources, A2 Psychology Online. Student resources feature a wealth of multimedia materials to bring the subject to life, including our new A2 revision guide and A2 Workbook, multiple choice quizzes, revision question tips, interactive exercises and podcasts by key figures in psychology. Teacher resources include a teaching plan, chapter-by-chapter lecture presentations, and classroom exercises and activities.

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Psychology Press

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135122641X

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Madness Is Civilization

When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980

By: Michael E. Staub

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When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980

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The Mismeasure of Minds

Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve

By: Michael E. Staub

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Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve

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Torn at the Roots

Torn at the Roots

The Mismeasure of Minds

The Mismeasure of Minds

Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army

Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army

Madness Is Civilization

Madness Is Civilization

Torn at the Roots

Torn at the Roots

Psychology

Psychology

Moving Beyond Self-Interest

Moving Beyond Self-Interest

A2 Level Psychology

A2 Level Psychology

Madness Is Civilization

Madness Is Civilization

The Mismeasure of Minds

The Mismeasure of Minds

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