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Take a Break When Necessary . . . So You Can Continue to Be Involved
Authors: Wicks Robert J.
Published: April 2022

One of the greatest gifts people can enjoy and share with others is a sense of one’s own inner peace, but people can’t share what they don’t have. This book offers a succinct list of essential elements for effectively mentoring oneself—especially during difficult times. They are designed to help shape the right attitude (clarity balanced with kindness) toward improving self-exploration and enhancing personal understanding. Following this, 50 brief lessons and illustrative stories are offered with the belief that it is not the amount of darkness in the world or people that is crucial; it is how people stand in that darkness (having a healthy perspective) that makes all the difference. The main topics include unlearning, preventing loss of emotional energy, self-forgiveness, toxic compassion, detachment, posttraumatic growth, the four types of friends needed in a strong interpersonal network, and inhabiting and modeling unpopular strengths. Underlying the contents and philosophy of the book is that vulnerability cannot, and should not, be ignored, avoided, or escaped. Instead, it needs to be psychologically inhabited with a spirit of humility because when one takes knowledge and adds humility, one gets wisdom. And, when one takes this very wisdom and adds it to compassion—including self-compassion—one gets the love that is at the heart of a rich and caring life.
The “Small Things” During a Crisis and Its Aftermath
Authors: Wicks Robert J.
Published: April 2022

One of the greatest gifts people can enjoy and share with others is a sense of one’s own inner peace, but people can’t share what they don’t have. This book offers a succinct list of essential elements for effectively mentoring oneself—especially during difficult times. They are designed to help shape the right attitude (clarity balanced with kindness) toward improving self-exploration and enhancing personal understanding. Following this, 50 brief lessons and illustrative stories are offered with the belief that it is not the amount of darkness in the world or people that is crucial; it is how people stand in that darkness (having a healthy perspective) that makes all the difference. The main topics include unlearning, preventing loss of emotional energy, self-forgiveness, toxic compassion, detachment, posttraumatic growth, the four types of friends needed in a strong interpersonal network, and inhabiting and modeling unpopular strengths. Underlying the contents and philosophy of the book is that vulnerability cannot, and should not, be ignored, avoided, or escaped. Instead, it needs to be psychologically inhabited with a spirit of humility because when one takes knowledge and adds humility, one gets wisdom. And, when one takes this very wisdom and adds it to compassion—including self-compassion—one gets the love that is at the heart of a rich and caring life.
Be Aware of the Dangers of  Toxic Compassion
Authors: Wicks Robert J.
Published: April 2022

One of the greatest gifts people can enjoy and share with others is a sense of one’s own inner peace, but people can’t share what they don’t have. This book offers a succinct list of essential elements for effectively mentoring oneself—especially during difficult times. They are designed to help shape the right attitude (clarity balanced with kindness) toward improving self-exploration and enhancing personal understanding. Following this, 50 brief lessons and illustrative stories are offered with the belief that it is not the amount of darkness in the world or people that is crucial; it is how people stand in that darkness (having a healthy perspective) that makes all the difference. The main topics include unlearning, preventing loss of emotional energy, self-forgiveness, toxic compassion, detachment, posttraumatic growth, the four types of friends needed in a strong interpersonal network, and inhabiting and modeling unpopular strengths. Underlying the contents and philosophy of the book is that vulnerability cannot, and should not, be ignored, avoided, or escaped. Instead, it needs to be psychologically inhabited with a spirit of humility because when one takes knowledge and adds humility, one gets wisdom. And, when one takes this very wisdom and adds it to compassion—including self-compassion—one gets the love that is at the heart of a rich and caring life.
An Unexpected Harvard Experience . . . Why Don’t You Try It as Well?
Authors: Wicks Robert J.
Published: April 2022

One of the greatest gifts people can enjoy and share with others is a sense of one’s own inner peace, but people can’t share what they don’t have. This book offers a succinct list of essential elements for effectively mentoring oneself—especially during difficult times. They are designed to help shape the right attitude (clarity balanced with kindness) toward improving self-exploration and enhancing personal understanding. Following this, 50 brief lessons and illustrative stories are offered with the belief that it is not the amount of darkness in the world or people that is crucial; it is how people stand in that darkness (having a healthy perspective) that makes all the difference. The main topics include unlearning, preventing loss of emotional energy, self-forgiveness, toxic compassion, detachment, posttraumatic growth, the four types of friends needed in a strong interpersonal network, and inhabiting and modeling unpopular strengths. Underlying the contents and philosophy of the book is that vulnerability cannot, and should not, be ignored, avoided, or escaped. Instead, it needs to be psychologically inhabited with a spirit of humility because when one takes knowledge and adds humility, one gets wisdom. And, when one takes this very wisdom and adds it to compassion—including self-compassion—one gets the love that is at the heart of a rich and caring life.
Avoid the Three Blind Alleys
Authors: Wicks Robert J.
Published: April 2022

One of the greatest gifts people can enjoy and share with others is a sense of one’s own inner peace, but people can’t share what they don’t have. This book offers a succinct list of essential elements for effectively mentoring oneself—especially during difficult times. They are designed to help shape the right attitude (clarity balanced with kindness) toward improving self-exploration and enhancing personal understanding. Following this, 50 brief lessons and illustrative stories are offered with the belief that it is not the amount of darkness in the world or people that is crucial; it is how people stand in that darkness (having a healthy perspective) that makes all the difference. The main topics include unlearning, preventing loss of emotional energy, self-forgiveness, toxic compassion, detachment, posttraumatic growth, the four types of friends needed in a strong interpersonal network, and inhabiting and modeling unpopular strengths. Underlying the contents and philosophy of the book is that vulnerability cannot, and should not, be ignored, avoided, or escaped. Instead, it needs to be psychologically inhabited with a spirit of humility because when one takes knowledge and adds humility, one gets wisdom. And, when one takes this very wisdom and adds it to compassion—including self-compassion—one gets the love that is at the heart of a rich and caring life.
Being Friendly with Yourself
Authors: Wicks Robert J.
Published: April 2022

One of the greatest gifts people can enjoy and share with others is a sense of one’s own inner peace, but people can’t share what they don’t have. This book offers a succinct list of essential elements for effectively mentoring oneself—especially during difficult times. They are designed to help shape the right attitude (clarity balanced with kindness) toward improving self-exploration and enhancing personal understanding. Following this, 50 brief lessons and illustrative stories are offered with the belief that it is not the amount of darkness in the world or people that is crucial; it is how people stand in that darkness (having a healthy perspective) that makes all the difference. The main topics include unlearning, preventing loss of emotional energy, self-forgiveness, toxic compassion, detachment, posttraumatic growth, the four types of friends needed in a strong interpersonal network, and inhabiting and modeling unpopular strengths. Underlying the contents and philosophy of the book is that vulnerability cannot, and should not, be ignored, avoided, or escaped. Instead, it needs to be psychologically inhabited with a spirit of humility because when one takes knowledge and adds humility, one gets wisdom. And, when one takes this very wisdom and adds it to compassion—including self-compassion—one gets the love that is at the heart of a rich and caring life.
Strengthening the Strong
Authors: Wicks Robert J.
Published: April 2022

One of the greatest gifts people can enjoy and share with others is a sense of one’s own inner peace, but people can’t share what they don’t have. This book offers a succinct list of essential elements for effectively mentoring oneself—especially during difficult times. They are designed to help shape the right attitude (clarity balanced with kindness) toward improving self-exploration and enhancing personal understanding. Following this, 50 brief lessons and illustrative stories are offered with the belief that it is not the amount of darkness in the world or people that is crucial; it is how people stand in that darkness (having a healthy perspective) that makes all the difference. The main topics include unlearning, preventing loss of emotional energy, self-forgiveness, toxic compassion, detachment, posttraumatic growth, the four types of friends needed in a strong interpersonal network, and inhabiting and modeling unpopular strengths. Underlying the contents and philosophy of the book is that vulnerability cannot, and should not, be ignored, avoided, or escaped. Instead, it needs to be psychologically inhabited with a spirit of humility because when one takes knowledge and adds humility, one gets wisdom. And, when one takes this very wisdom and adds it to compassion—including self-compassion—one gets the love that is at the heart of a rich and caring life.
A Strange Tension
Authors: Wicks Robert J.
Published: April 2022

One of the greatest gifts people can enjoy and share with others is a sense of one’s own inner peace, but people can’t share what they don’t have. This book offers a succinct list of essential elements for effectively mentoring oneself—especially during difficult times. They are designed to help shape the right attitude (clarity balanced with kindness) toward improving self-exploration and enhancing personal understanding. Following this, 50 brief lessons and illustrative stories are offered with the belief that it is not the amount of darkness in the world or people that is crucial; it is how people stand in that darkness (having a healthy perspective) that makes all the difference. The main topics include unlearning, preventing loss of emotional energy, self-forgiveness, toxic compassion, detachment, posttraumatic growth, the four types of friends needed in a strong interpersonal network, and inhabiting and modeling unpopular strengths. Underlying the contents and philosophy of the book is that vulnerability cannot, and should not, be ignored, avoided, or escaped. Instead, it needs to be psychologically inhabited with a spirit of humility because when one takes knowledge and adds humility, one gets wisdom. And, when one takes this very wisdom and adds it to compassion—including self-compassion—one gets the love that is at the heart of a rich and caring life.
Friendship’s True Gift
Authors: Wicks Robert J.
Published: April 2022

One of the greatest gifts people can enjoy and share with others is a sense of one’s own inner peace, but people can’t share what they don’t have. This book offers a succinct list of essential elements for effectively mentoring oneself—especially during difficult times. They are designed to help shape the right attitude (clarity balanced with kindness) toward improving self-exploration and enhancing personal understanding. Following this, 50 brief lessons and illustrative stories are offered with the belief that it is not the amount of darkness in the world or people that is crucial; it is how people stand in that darkness (having a healthy perspective) that makes all the difference. The main topics include unlearning, preventing loss of emotional energy, self-forgiveness, toxic compassion, detachment, posttraumatic growth, the four types of friends needed in a strong interpersonal network, and inhabiting and modeling unpopular strengths. Underlying the contents and philosophy of the book is that vulnerability cannot, and should not, be ignored, avoided, or escaped. Instead, it needs to be psychologically inhabited with a spirit of humility because when one takes knowledge and adds humility, one gets wisdom. And, when one takes this very wisdom and adds it to compassion—including self-compassion—one gets the love that is at the heart of a rich and caring life.
The Holocaust and the Joy of a Healthy Perspective
Authors: Wicks Robert J.
Published: April 2022

One of the greatest gifts people can enjoy and share with others is a sense of one’s own inner peace, but people can’t share what they don’t have. This book offers a succinct list of essential elements for effectively mentoring oneself—especially during difficult times. They are designed to help shape the right attitude (clarity balanced with kindness) toward improving self-exploration and enhancing personal understanding. Following this, 50 brief lessons and illustrative stories are offered with the belief that it is not the amount of darkness in the world or people that is crucial; it is how people stand in that darkness (having a healthy perspective) that makes all the difference. The main topics include unlearning, preventing loss of emotional energy, self-forgiveness, toxic compassion, detachment, posttraumatic growth, the four types of friends needed in a strong interpersonal network, and inhabiting and modeling unpopular strengths. Underlying the contents and philosophy of the book is that vulnerability cannot, and should not, be ignored, avoided, or escaped. Instead, it needs to be psychologically inhabited with a spirit of humility because when one takes knowledge and adds humility, one gets wisdom. And, when one takes this very wisdom and adds it to compassion—including self-compassion—one gets the love that is at the heart of a rich and caring life.
Simple Graciousness
Authors: Wicks Robert J.
Published: April 2022

One of the greatest gifts people can enjoy and share with others is a sense of one’s own inner peace, but people can’t share what they don’t have. This book offers a succinct list of essential elements for effectively mentoring oneself—especially during difficult times. They are designed to help shape the right attitude (clarity balanced with kindness) toward improving self-exploration and enhancing personal understanding. Following this, 50 brief lessons and illustrative stories are offered with the belief that it is not the amount of darkness in the world or people that is crucial; it is how people stand in that darkness (having a healthy perspective) that makes all the difference. The main topics include unlearning, preventing loss of emotional energy, self-forgiveness, toxic compassion, detachment, posttraumatic growth, the four types of friends needed in a strong interpersonal network, and inhabiting and modeling unpopular strengths. Underlying the contents and philosophy of the book is that vulnerability cannot, and should not, be ignored, avoided, or escaped. Instead, it needs to be psychologically inhabited with a spirit of humility because when one takes knowledge and adds humility, one gets wisdom. And, when one takes this very wisdom and adds it to compassion—including self-compassion—one gets the love that is at the heart of a rich and caring life.
The Historical Context
Authors: Carten Alma J.
Published: April 2022

In this chapter the historically black colleges and universities are defined and the considerable diversity among these institutions and those offering accredited social work programs is described. The Council on Social Work Education is introduced as the sole entity authorized to accredit social work education programs. Beginning as the British colony of Georgia, a historical overview is given that includes black enslavement and the forcible removal of Indians, injustices that together are considered the nation’s “original sin,” later justified in notions of white supremacy. The discussion covers events leading to the Civil War, the founding of the Freemen’s Bureau, the failures of Reconstruction, and the subsequent replacement of enslavement with the Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws. The chapter deals with concepts of cognitive dissonance theory, American exceptionalism, historical trauma, a conspiracy of silence, and revisionist tradition in historical literature relative to enslavement of blacks.
The Emergence of Atlanta University
Authors: Carten Alma J.
Published: April 2022

This chapter describes the founding of what would eventually become Atlanta University with the American Missionary Association’s first classes held for children of freedmen in the ruins of the city of Atlanta in the aftermath of the Civil War. The discussion covers the administrations of the first directors who fostered the School’s growth despite extensive racism, pushing back against state regulations against the co-education of the races and racist assumptions about the intellectual inferiority of the black race. The competing ideologies of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois are covered. These include Washington’s controversial speech known as the “Atlanta Compromise” and DuBois’s introduction of Atlanta University Studies and publication of the journal Phylon.
Crossing Over
Authors: Carten Alma J.
Published: April 2022

The new conservatism emerging in the late 1970s and 1980s accelerated the movement of social workers from agency-based practice and the public sector to independent practice. Among black social workers, this was the impetus for a strategic coming together, with a curriculum renewal reconnecting the School to its founding mission. The Black Task Force, supported by the Council on Social Work Education, brought together the social work faculties from Howard and Atlanta Universities to develop diversity content for integration into the social work curriculum. The National Association of Black Social Workers became the umbrella membership organization for black social workers, and a new cadre of scholars and black thought leaders emerged in academia on the East and West Coasts who were advancing an Afrocentric and black perspective in their scholarship and teaching.
Some One of Us Will Have It Good
Authors: Morales R. Isabela
Published: April 2022

Samuel Townsend’s son Charles Osborne enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, serving as a soldier and clerk in occupied Vicksburg, Mississippi. In the 1860s and ‘70s, Charles Osborne, along with his half-brother William Austin and other relatives, migrated to Colorado Territory, where members of the family worked as barbers and engaged in silver mining. Settling in Georgetown, Colorado, the Townsends found a community where they were able to participate in local politics and society on a level of equality with white residents. In Georgetown and Colorado more broadly, Native Americans and Chinese migrants were considered more “other” than African Americans, a racial hierarchy that benefited the Townsends. Charles Osborne came to consider his political and economic interests more closely aligned with white miners and settlers in the West than African Americans facing increasing repression in the South.
Who Hasn’t Yearned to Be Home?
Authors: Morales R. Isabela
Published: April 2022

Samuel Townsend’s son Thomas returned to northern Alabama in the late 1860s, where he purchased land and built a career as a teacher, journalist, and politician. In the 1880s, Thomas was elected one of Huntsville’s first African American aldermen. Thomas’s class status and performance of respectability allowed him to hold local political office and maintain alliances with influential white residents even after Reconstruction ended. As a leader in Huntsville’s Black community, Thomas promoted racial uplift through education and economic development. As the color line hardened at the end of the nineteenth century, however, local whites pushed Thomas out of politics and implemented voter suppression strategies intended to disenfranchise Black voters.
Epilogue
Authors: Morales R. Isabela
Published: April 2022

William Bolden Townsend, Wesley’s son and Samuel’s grandson, built a career as a lawyer and journalist in late nineteenth-century Leavenworth, Kansas. He defended African American men falsely accused of rape and other crimes and regularly faced threats of violence from local whites because of his outspokenness and activism. In his writing, William Bolden detailed the rise of Jim Crow in Kansas as well as the South and called for racial solidarity in the struggle for civil rights, rejecting intra-racial divisions based on color and class status. In 1901, he and his wife were forced to flee Kansas for Colorado after white residents burned his house and threatened his life. His commitment to solidarity and collective action foreshadowed civil rights activism throughout the twentieth century.
Transnational Wahhabism
Authors: Schulze Reinhard
Published: April 2022

Since the early 1960s, Wahhabi transnationalism has been embedded in a structure of a transnational Islamic network. The Islamic University of Medina (1961), the Muslim World League (1962), and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (1975) have been decisive in this regard, as they aim to achieve cultural hegemony through transnational representation. All organizations are linked to the domestic political processes in the kingdom and are subject to its reasons of state. They therefore re-enact the internal conflicts over Wahhabi doctrine and their power position and, as semi-state agencies, are forced to represent those interpretations of Islamic tradition that are loyal to the regime and its meandering politics. Wahhabi transnationalism had its heyday between 1972 and 1995, when it significantly influenced the development of the Islamic diaspora worldwide. For some years now, Wahhabi transnationalism has weakened in favor of a Saudi Islamic cultural policy. In the wake of the realignment of Saudi policy after 2012, the royal regime significantly limited the power of Wahhabi organizations and subjected them to its own Islamic policy.
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Authors: Gillain Anne
Published: April 2022

The style of this second full-length film contrasts sharply with the first. Adapted from a detective novel by David Goodis, it cultivates a jarring, disconnected, ironic narration. The protagonist appears as a split dual figure that will prove a recurrent theme in Truffaut’s work. Shot by shot analysis: The first scene of the long central flashback that marks the return of the repressed past triggered by a poster.
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Authors: Gillain Anne
Published: April 2022

In this adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s novel, Truffaut adopts the style of fairy tales with simplified but well-defined characters and a creative use of colors. The film can be read as a transposition, in a strikingly different style, of The 400 Blows. The hero like a child lost in a cold world discovers a magic object: the book. Verticality is once again pervasive with flames sending burning the paper high up into space a visual leitmotiv. Shot-by-shot analysis: At night, alone, the hero reads for the first time David Copperfield by Dickens, a novel that played a significant role in Truffaut’s childhood.
The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
Authors: Gillain Anne
Published: April 2022

Played by the same actor as in The Bride wore Black, this film depicts the routine of a womanizer who is undertaking to write his memoirs. Structured as a flashback, the narrative ties up past and present through an extensive use of the voice-over. It also draws analogies between the hero’s compulsion and his early relationship with his mother. An accurate description of the inner process that triggers fetishism, the narrative concentrates on its two vectors in the film: women’s legs and books. Shot-to-shot analysis: A chance encounter with a woman from the past and the portrayal of a relationship that eludes any pathological configuration. Leslie Caron plays the object of this past love in role evocative of Catherine Deneuve.
World of Wonders
Authors: Hiltebeitel Alf
Published: April 2022

This is the first book in over a thousand years to approach the Mahābhārata and the Harivaṃśa via rasa theory. It argues that both texts put adbhutarasa, the “mood of wonder,” to work as their dominant rasa, in a way that takes readers from their heroes’ rollicking adventures to the text’s profoundest moments. Two Kashmiris, Ānandavardhana (ninth century) and Abhinavagupta (tenth century), launched such inquiry, claiming that the Mahābhārata’s dominant rasa was śāntarasa, the “mood of peace.” Both worked the Harivaṃśa as a related text into their argument, which emphasized peace along with dispassion and the quest for liberation. Their argument has remained the only serious contestant for rasic interpretation. This book disputes their claim. Some may cite the two Kashmiris’ view that adbhuta cannot sustain a major work. This book contests that by putting “the work of adbhutarasa” into its title and arguing for the hard work it does. Some may also be uncomfortable with a temporal incongruity the book poses in that the Mahābhārata and Harivaṃśa are probably four or five centuries earlier than the first text to explore rasas, the Nāṭyaśātra. Śāntarasa faced the same problem, but Ānandavardhana and Abhinavagupta, lacking a modern sense of the relative dates, overlooked it. The answer here goes to the heart of this book’s argument: our texts deploy the “proper terms” adbhuta, “wonder,” and vismaya, “surprise,” to work adbhutarasa through rich and contrasting textual strategies. They must have worked out their program with these terms before the śāstra.
Śāntarasa, Vīrarasa, and the Mahābhārata’s Two Recensions
Authors: Hiltebeitel Alf
Published: April 2022

Drawing on essays by Gary Tubb and two other recent scholars who favor śāntarasa, chapter 1 calls attention to ways that this counterintuitive position was an advance over vīrarasa, the mood of heroism, but was limited by its pertinence to the nonheroic later parts of the epic. Following the text-historical insights of Thennilapuram Mahadevan into the making of the Southern Recension, the chapter discusses its massive remake of the Umā-Maheśvara Saṃvāda as an early example of triumphalism already inflecting the epic. Also discussed is how the Southern Recension develops vīrarasa around notions that were later picked up in south Indian vernacular texts and in the Tamil Draupadī cult. Addendum 1 discusses adbhutam usages in the epic’s first chapter of textual front matter, the Anukramaṇī.
Rasas and Sthāyibhāvas, Wonders and Surprises
Authors: Hiltebeitel Alf
Published: April 2022

The heart of chapter 2 lies in a table of all usages of adbhutam-cluster terms (adbhutam, āścarya, vismaya) discussed in this book, followed by five questions: Q1, on how the Mahābhārata uses the “proper terms” (svaśabdas) adbhutam and vismaya; Q2, how the epic treats wonder-surprise pairs interactively, and whether there are stray surprises; Q3, on surprise, considered the briefest of all emotions, as a “stable emotion”; Q4, on the lack of a clear statement in the Naṭyaśāstra about the priority of rasas or sthāyibhāvas; and Q5, on the often-assumed frivolity of adbhutarasa among the other eight or nine rasas. That position is refuted by the thirteenth-century Orissan savant Nārāyaṇa, who regarded adbhutam as the essence of all rasas, particularly in endings that should be thrill after thrill, like the bunched-up hair at the end of a bushy cow’s tail. Returning to Q1, addendum 2 examines whether the circa sixth-century kāvya poet Bhāravi structured his Kiratārjunīya on Arjuna’s tapas with the epic’s svaśabdas practice in mind.
The Āśvamedhika- and Āśrāmavāsikaparvans
Authors: Hiltebeitel Alf
Published: April 2022

Books 14 and 15 are “great wonders” in the Parvasaṃgraha, but present different interpretative problems. It is unclear why the rambling Book 14 should be called a wonder. It is probably due to two units near its end: Kṛṣṇa’s revival of the stillborn baby Parikṣit (Janamejaya’s father), and its wonder-rich coda, the Nakula-Upākhyāna (“Mongoose’s Side Tale”), which again features gleaning. Book 15, however, reads compactly, like the author’s signature exemplar of a book about wonders. Everything is centered on Vyāsa’s three consecutive thaumaturgic wonders in the putradarśana (“viewing the sons”) sub-parvan. First he raises all the war’s dead from the Gaṅgā so that the living, including the blind Dhṛtarāṣṭra, can see, touch, and hear their sons and other loved ones. Then he invites the hundred Kauravas’ widows to jump into the river “quickly and unconfused” if they wish to rejoin their husbands. Janamejaya then gets Vyāsa to show him Parikṣit as he was in life. In treating the second wonder, which evokes satī by drowning, Hindu values are accented: Vyāsa’s concern as paterfamilias for the family he sired through Dhṛtarāṣṭra, the inviolability of Hindu marriage and inconceivability of divorce even after sixteen years of separation, and Janamejaya’s faith in Vyāsa.
Hale Smith, Three Brevities for Solo Flute, No. 2 (1969)
Authors: Straus Joseph N.
Published: April 2022

This piece for solo flute is based on an eighteen-note musical idea divided into four gesturally and intervallically distinct components: one is hexatonic; one is chromatic; one is octatonic; and one is a sort of fusion of the intervallic concerns of the others. Despite their evident contrast, the four components have subtle musical affinities that permit them to combine to form larger shapes, up to and including the piece as a whole.
Elisabeth Lutyens, Two Bagatelles, Op. 48, No. 1 (1962)
Authors: Straus Joseph N.
Published: April 2022

This short twelve-tone piece uses only three different forms of its series. The circle-of-fourths transformation relates the two hexachords of the series and provides a window onto the intervals and trichords that provide the work’s motivic substance.
Tan Dun, Intercourse of Fire and Water for solo cello (1996)
Authors: Straus Joseph N.
Published: April 2022

The three small phrases that comprise this passage are highly contrasting, in ways that are suggestive of the title of the work: one is slow, wavy, and watery; the other two are fiery and furious, loud and agitated. Both the watery and fiery music are based on pentatonic scales, organized as RI-chains, and with frequent reference to inversional symmetry. An underlying contrast between the natural hexachord and the complementary sharp hexachord further shapes the musical rhetoric. The progress of the piece can be traced on a space that consists of the traditional circle of fifths.
Shulamit Ran, Soliloquy for violin, cello, and piano (1997)
Authors: Straus Joseph N.
Published: April 2022

This passage begins on an A major triad and gradually adds notes until the aggregate of all twelve notes has been completed. Along the way, the music can be interpreted as a succession of major, minor, and augmented triads. These triads can be related via the familiar triadic transformations, and the progression can be mapped on a musical space called Cube Dances, in which large harmonic regions are defined by hexatonic and enneatonic collections.
Sofia Gubaidulina, Reflections on the Theme B–A–C–H (2002)
Authors: Straus Joseph N.
Published: April 2022

This passage contains three distinct musical materials: widely-spaced statements of (026), a chromatic melody within the very narrow compass of a whole tone, and a double canon in inversion in the style of J.S. Bach. Despite their obvious contrast, these three types of music have subtle affinities and suggest the possibility of a reconciliation toward which the work as a whole strives. The B–A–C–H musical cypher is implicit in the opening music and explicit in the final measures.
Thomas Adès, “Days,” from Four Quarters for string quartet (2010)
Authors: Straus Joseph N.
Published: April 2022

This passage is composed in three layers: an ostinato on C♯, a note-against-note duet, and an additional counterpoint. The duet consists of only seven different harmonic dyads (all perfect fourths or fifths), produced by each line moving along its own compound interval cycle, either <6, 4> or <8, 2>. Each line traverses one of the two whole-tone scales.
Suzanne Farrin, “Unico spirto,” from Dolce la morte (2016)
Authors: Straus Joseph N.
Published: April 2022

The harmonic progress of the music is shaped by shifting axes of inversion around which individual tones can be heard to seek their inversional partners. The harmonies are generally major or minor triads that are linked in chains by the familiar triadic transformations. The passage ends by pushing outside the musical boundaries (inversional axes; triadic chains) it initially set for itself.
From Hysteria to Justice
Authors: DePrince Anne P.
Published: April 2022

This chapter is a call to action to work together to end violence against women while addressing some of the most pressing problems of our time. Violence against women costs billions of dollars each year, contributing to widespread poverty even as economic uncertainty makes intimate partner abuse more likely. All the while, justice remains out of reach in today’s legal systems. The chapter provides a rationale and approach for change, drawing on community organizing and prevention science. Next, the author offers examples of areas for collaborative work that span promoting healthy relationships, advancing antipoverty action, trauma-informed education, engaging business in prevention, working for racial justice, and addressing environmental sustainability.
In Person and Online
Authors: Bowman Judith
Published: April 2022

This chapter summarizes the status of online learning as published in some recent national reports and the status of online learning in music as reported in a national survey of online courses in music. It offers an objective perspective on similarities and differences between face-to-face and online teaching and learning. It cites the “no significant difference” phenomenon while acknowledging the special challenges imposed on infrastructure by online music instruction. It highlights accreditation standards relevant to online music teaching and learning as well as quality standards for online education. It reviews some fundamental principles that apply to learning generally as well as to online learning in any discipline. Finally, it describes a theoretical framework for online learning that has implications for teaching personas and online pedagogy.
Music Appreciation
Authors: Bowman Judith
Published: April 2022

This chapter describes issues related to teaching music appreciation online and presents experiences with online music appreciation instruction in narratives provided by professors teaching music appreciation online. It provides background on music appreciation pedagogy, including significant conferences on music in general studies. It describes the nature of music appreciation study as rooted in the disciplines of music theory and musicology, lists accreditation standards for music in general studies, and explains its signature pedagogy. It reviews the state of the practice, including pedagogical innovations as reported in the literature and the status of online music appreciation instruction as reported in a national survey. It features two professors who describe their online teaching experiences: music appreciation online for a diverse audience and music appreciation online for adult learners. Each professor offers suggestions for prospective online music appreciation teachers, and the chapter concludes with some lessons drawn from the field.
The New Nationalism in America and Beyond
Authors: Schertzer Robert , Woods Eric Taylor
Published: April 2022

Across the West, there has been a resurgence of ethnic nationalism, populism, and anti-immigrant sentiment—a phenomenon that many commentators have called the “new nationalism.” This book seeks to understand why the bastions of liberalism are proving to be fertile ground for a decidedly illiberal ideology. To do so, it examines three of the most successful exemplars of the new nationalism: Donald Trump in the US, Marine Le Pen in France, and Brexit in the UK. To understand the success of these new nationalists, it looks at the role of white majorities, their cultures, and their histories. Through a careful analysis of the social media campaigns of Trump, Le Pen, and the Brexit campaigners, the book shows how today’s new nationalists are cultivating support from white majorities by drawing from long-standing myths and symbols to construct an image of the nation as an ethnic community. This multidisciplinary approach—combining elements of political science, sociology, history, and communication and media studies—shows how leaders today are updating the historical foundations of ethnic nationalism for the digital age. This analysis helps us see that the success of Trump, Le Pen, and Brexit are only puzzling if we accept the myth that America, France, and Britain are liberal, civic nations. As the book demonstrates, each of these political communities has long been defined by a tradition of ethnic nationalism that continues to shape politics today. In short, the new nationalism is not so new.
Ruptures and Continuities in Modern Islamic Thought
Authors: Mubarak Hadia
Published: April 2022

This chapter places four modern Qurʾanic commentators—Muḥammad ʿAbduh (1849–1905), Rashīd Riḍā (1865–1935), Sayyid Quṭb (1906–1966), and Muḥammad al-Ṭāhir ibn ʿĀshūr (1879–1973)—within broader typologies of modern Muslim thought: Islamic modernism, Reform-Salafism, Islamism, and neo-traditionalism. Avoiding the pitfalls of using labels, this chapter highlights the individual over the ideological by analyzing modern exegetes through the lens of their personal biographies. In order to accurately capture each commentator’s intellectual trajectory and vision for change, I revisit their personal biographies in light of broader political and structural developments in Egypt and Tunisia during the first half of the twentieth century. Due to the rapidly changing contexts of twentieth-century North Africa, I argue that each intellectual encountered a different mode of Arab modernity, which necessitated a different interaction with it. Whereas ʿAbduh and Riḍā encountered a modernity specifically associated with the West, Ibn ʿĀshūr and Quṭb encountered new realities of centralized Arab nation-states and the forging of new national identities, which shapes their vision and thought.
Rebellious Wives
Authors: Mubarak Hadia
Published: April 2022

No other verse in the Qurʾan has garnered as much controversy in the scholarly debate on women in the Qurʾan as Q. 4:34. Despite the proliferation of works on Q. 4:34, most of this literature does not interrogate the contributions of modern exegesis, as a genre, to interpretations of this verse. This chapter explores significant shifts in modern Qurʾanic commentaries on Q. 4:34 in contrast to five medieval interpretations. The new framing that modern exegetes bring to Q. 4:34 illustrates their engagement in a dialectic with contemporaneous debates on women in Islam. This chapter further brings attention to a neglected yet significant modern interpretation of Q. 4:34 that involves legal authorities in the adjudication of nushūz cases. By disrupting prevalent conceptions of the exegetical tradition as monolithic, this chapter carves a discursive space for the exegetical tradition in contemporary efforts to recover Islam’s egalitarian impulses.
Conclusion
Authors: Mubarak Hadia
Published: April 2022

Far from being monolithic, the Qurʾanic exegetical tradition has been marked by a diversity of methodology and interpretation. Unlike the assumptions made by a few scholars of the Qurʾan, this book’s findings demonstrate that exegetes gain authority for new interpretations not by repeating the conclusions of their predecessors but by grounding their opinions in recognized methodological precedents. While the exegetical tradition has been the bearer of interpretive authority over the Qurʾan’s meaning, this tradition is not a hermetically sealed box. All three modern Qurʾanic commentaries challenge the dominant interpretation of one of the four verses this book examines. Accordingly, an analysis of the Qurʾanic exegetical tradition creates new sites of engagement for Muslims who refuse to define tradition and egalitarianism as mutually exclusive pursuits. This finding suggests that we may want to reconsider dismissing this body of work as one that exhibits “intolerance” for radically new interpretations of women.
Never Stop Making Them Pay
Authors: Rivera Takeo
Published: April 2022

Chapter 4 turns to the 2006–2007 run of Marvel Comics’ Incredible Hulk penned by Korean American writer and filmmaker Greg Pak, entitled Planet Hulk and World War Hulk. In these two sequential storylines of superhero comics, Pak reinterprets the Hulk as a loose allegory of Asian American ressentiment who becomes a utopian revolutionary leader of other fellow abjected monsters, only for his own rage to bring everything to ruin. Yet, the Hulk opens greater political possibilities not through the moral economy of ressentiment, but through the embrace of his penetrability and pleasurable de-subjectification, that is to say, masochism. Pak’s Hulk demonstrates the crucial differences between ressentiment’s “politics of woundedness” and the pleasures of masochism, ultimately offering a contentiously optimistic vision of masochism as a potential dialectical corrective to contemporary Asian American cultural politics.
Asians Never Stare into Your Eyes
Authors: Rivera Takeo
Published: April 2022

Analyzing flatness as an affective mode of techno-oriental racialization, Chapter 5 turns to two experimental works of literature: Tao Lin’s semiautobiographical novel Taipei (2013) and Tan Lin’s fictional memoir Insomnia and the Aunt (2011), texts that conceptualize Asianness itself as affective flatness accessible through technological mediation. In the ostensibly postracial Taipei, Tan Lin produces an aesthetic of flatness to demonstrate the Asian male protagonist’s interface with high technology and new media, although close examination of the text reveals that the means of accessing Asianness is precisely through becoming-machine. Meanwhile, Tan Lin’s Insomnia situates its narrator reflecting on his childhood with his Chinese aunt, with whom he watches television late into the night, portraying a complex relationship between affective flatness, becoming- machine, and Asian American subjectification. Together, these texts express a racial phenomenology inherited by the techno-orientalization elaborated in Chapters 1 and 2, suggesting that Asian American masculinity retains masochistic attachment to machineness.
Coda
Authors: Rivera Takeo
Published: April 2022

This short coda offers a short personal reflection from the author regarding his own relationship to model minority masochism, and the relevance of the manuscript’s polemic at the time of writing in the early 2020s. This conclusion takes a cautiously hopeful stance on masochism as a potential route to a radical Asian American political future, a means through which the model minority may actually unravel despite having sustained it.
Introduction
Authors: Palis Eleni
Published: April 2022

The introduction theorizes a new term, “film quotation” for the medium-specific re-framing, and re-viewing of preexisting films within subsequent films. This chapter theorizes film quotation as a visual corollary to literary quotation, drawing on the way humanities make meaning; the pull-quote, epigraph, and quotation remain the standard for citing evidence, invoking authority, or interrogating both literary and scholarly writing. This chapter theorizes film quotation as a specific manifestation within film intertextuality, in a specific historical frame. By focusing on film quotations of classical Hollywood film--mainstream American studio production, 1915-1950--as quoted in post-classical Hollywood, roughly 1960 to present, accesses a key turn in Hollywood and American cultural history, allowing post-classical cinema to visualize its own “belatedness,” its awareness of coming after a “classical” period. As a constitutive element of post-classical authorship, film quotations amass and manufacture “classical” Hollywood in retrospective, simultaneously creative and critical ways
Foreign and Domestic Film Quotation
Authors: Palis Eleni
Published: April 2022

Chapter 5 interrogates classical Hollywood’s “foreign policy,” unpacking foreign and domestic dichotomies in quotation to reveal their essential construction. Eat a Bowl of Tea (Wang, 1989) dramatizes how Hollywood projects imagined “foreign” and “domestic” people and places in anxious disavowal and conflict about American identity. Wang’s film juxtaposes the transnational movement of Hollywood film distribution and American immigrants, an ironic comparison of mutually informing mobilities: Hollywood Orientalisms fed domestic disenfranchisement and discrimination against Chinese American immigrants. Hollywood foreign policy appears most overtly in Eat a Bowl’s quotation of Frank Capra’s Orientalist epic Lost Horizon (1937). Wang’s quotations reveal how Lost Horizon, The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1947), and Holiday (Cukor, 1938) project imperial imaginaries, casting “foreign” spaces and people as exotic backdrop, dangerous adventures, or adversaries to externalize and disavow domestic anxieties. In critical, quotational opposition, Eat a Bowl forges new representational space, claiming a national, racial, and representational autonomy.
The “Market-Conforming Family” in the Era of Labor Recruitment
Authors: Stokes Lauren
Published: April 2022

This chapter examines the period of labor recruitment between 1955 and 1973, when West Germany encouraged the migration of family units as a way to discourage intermarriage between foreign workers and German nationals and to access female labor. Strong demand for female labor accelerated the formation of “foreign” families with children. Migrants subsequently brought extended family members with them, in part to provide child care while mothers worked. The 1973 “Spanish grandmother” case established that Article 6 of the Basic Law—“Marriage and the family shall enjoy the special protection of the state”—also applied to the foreign family. This era also saw the racialization of the foreign family. Arguments for family migration often rested on the idea that “Mediterranean” or “Southern” workers were uniquely dependent on their families. This stereotype enabled German officials to depoliticize migrant actions on behalf of families and to downplay the beginning of a long-term settlement process as a cultural peculiarity.
Farceur Cary
Authors: Naremore James
Published: April 2022

Grant’s early training was in the farce-related comedy of the Bob Pender troupe, a group of boy performers in Bristol, England, who did acrobatic stunts and skits. Nearly all his work is imbued with the spirit of that comic training, but nowhere more clearly than in the cycle of screwball comedies that helped make him a star and established him as an actor who could be sophisticated and at the same time as funny as Chaplin, Keaton, or Lloyd. This chapter examines three examples: The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), and His Girl Friday (1940), showing how Grant created three very different characters for these equally farcical films: a charming but wayward husband, an absent-minded professor, and an unscrupulous newspaper editor.