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Emergency management leadership in 2030: Shaping the next generation meta-leader
Authors: Cwiak, JD, PhD Carol L. , Campbell, CEM, MEP Ronald , Cassavechia, MPS, EFO, CEM Matthew G. , Haynes, MS Chuck , Lloyd, MS, CEM Lanita A. , Brockway, BS Neil , Navarini, MA, CEM George O. , Piatt, MPA, CEM Byron E. , Senger, BS Mary
Published: September 2017

The complexities, interdependencies, and ambiguity that face next generation emergency management meta-leaders in an ever-evolving global community heighten the expectation and need for competencies that far exceed those common in practice today and necessitate the ability to move seamlessly through the dimensions of meta-leadership (ie, the person, the situation, and connectivity) while utilizing scientific-based evidence, information, resources, processes, and tools. The objective of this effort was to examine the recently developed next generation emergency management competencies through a meta-leadership lens by juxtaposing the competencies and the meta-leadership model. This resulted in a new framing of the skills and attributes within the meta-leadership model as they are relevant to each competency. Selected trends, drivers, and challenges were used to provide examples within each competency area of the utility of meta-leadership to next generation emergency management practice. This effort also offers training and education implications for next generation emergency management meta-leaders. The examination of the new framing created in this effort is intended to prompt dialog and research within the emergency management practice and academic communities that furthers the practice and study of emergency management.
Are you ready? Crisis leadership in a hyper-VUCA environment – Part 2
Authors: Alkhaldi, MD Khaldoon H. , Austin, MSPH, MA Meredith L. , Cura, MS, HSE Boris A. , Dantzler, PhD Darrell , Holland, MS Leslie , Maples, MBA David L. , Quarrelles, MPA, CEM Jamie C. , Weinkle Jr, MS, ACC Robert K. , Marcus, PhD Leonard J.
Published: September 2017

The current hyper-volatile, -uncertain, -complex, and -ambiguous (VUCA) threat environment demands a more cohesive support structure for crisis leaders who may be faced with crises of increasing magnitude and frequency and, in some instances, multiple crisis events simultaneously. The project team investigates the perceptions of crisis leaders regarding establishing a crisis leader advisor position for crisis leaders to benefit from their experience while prosecuting crisis response activities. The team linked hyper-VUCA crises, crisis response frameworks, meta-leadership, crisis leader attributes, and advisor attributes. The overall goal of the project is to increase the ability of the crisis leaders to more effectively and efficiently navigate crisis events resulting in more efficient and effective response and recovery. Three research questions were developed to assess the following: thoughts of integrating a crisis leader advisor position; development of a crisis leader advisor certification program; and attributes of crisis leader advisors. A qualitative research methodology using a phenomenological approach was employed. Forty-one participants were purposefully selected and administered a short, on-line survey consisting of 11 questions. Data were analyzed using percentage analysis, weighted sums, and inductive thematic analysis. The project team found an overwhelming support for the crisis leader advisor position and the crisis leader advisor certification program. Additionally, experience and trustworthiness ranked among the top sought after attributes of a crisis leader advisor. The team recommendations included (1) implement a crisis leaders advisor guide/framework; (2) create a formal crisis leader advisor position in national incident management system; (3) implement a crisis leader advisor certification framework; (4) benchmark established advisor programs; and (5) implement a framework tomatch leaders and advisors.
Nursing a disaster
Authors: Turner, EdD, MSN, RN Stephanie B.
Published: September 2017

Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore the needs of nurses predisaster and postdisaster.Design/Methods: This study involved an exploratory mixed methods approach, with semistructured in-depth interviews followed by a 10-item survey of resilience.Setting: The study took place in the PI's office in Tuscaloosa, AL.Subjects: Ten English speaking nurses from an area hospital who were on duty during the April 2011 tornado. Participant recruitment involved distribution of flyers in break areas and other well-populated areas within the hospital.Interventions: Each interview was audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. Interview transcripts were reviewed and analyzed for themes, which were categorized, coded, and thoroughly examined. The survey was administered to the participants at the conclusion of the interview.Main Outcome Measure: Study used an exploratory method; to gain an understanding of the needs of nurses predisaster and postdisaster. Findings: All 10 participants were found to have higher levels of resilience than the general population.  Results of the interviews included valid concerns for more disaster planning and education, as well as postdisaster counseling.Conclusions: Organizations have the responsibility to keep the nursing workforce happy and healthy. Because disaster response can be both emotionally and physically damaging, it is imperative to increase disaster training and education to those who have the potential to be involved in a disaster event. Postdisaster counseling is also needed to help nurses deal with the stress that occurs during and after a disaster.
Characteristics and treatment patterns of US commercially insured and Medicaid patients with opioid dependence or abuse
Authors: Wollschlaeger, MD, FAAFP, FASAM Bernd A. , Willson, PhD Tina M. , Montejano, MA, CCRP Leslie B. , Ronquest, PhD Naoko A. , Nadipelli, BPharm, MS Vijay R.
Published: September 2017

Objective: To identify the demographic and clinical characteristics of commercially insured and Medicaid patients with a diagnosis of opioid dependence or abuse and to describe the pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments received by these patients.Design: This was a retrospective observational study using de-identified administrative claims data.Setting: The analysis included commercially insured and Medicaid patient data extracted from the Truven Health MarketScan® Commercial and Medicaid Databases.Patients: Patients with a diagnosis of opioid dependence or abuse from 2008 to 2014 (earliest diagnosis = index date) and a minimum of 6 months of pre-index and postindex continuous enrollment in the database.Main Outcome Measure(s): Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics, medication-assisted treatment (MAT), and treatment other than MAT received following diagnosis, and the clinical practice setting in which patients received any opioid dependence-related care were reported.Results: Data from commercially insured (N = 103,768) and Medicaid (N = 50,552) patients were analyzed. Common comorbid conditions included chronic pain (48.6 percent Commercial, 56.8 percent Medicaid), depressive disorder (24.0 percent Commercial, 32.8 percent Medicaid), and other substance abuse disorders (13.3 percent Commercial, 23.7 percent Medicaid). Nearly one third of both Commercial (31.6 percent) and Medicaid (33.6 percent) patients did not have any claims for psychosocial therapy or MAT during the follow-up period. Only 24.3 percent of Commercial patients and 20.4 percent of Medicaid patients had evidence of claims for both MAT and psychosocial treatment anytime following diagnosis.Conclusions: The results suggest that there are opportunities to improve care through comprehensive and coordinated treatment for opioid dependence/abuse. Policies aimed at improving treatment access may be warranted.
I Wish to Thank You for My Freedom
Authors: Rose Sarah F.
Published: September 2017

As Charles Bernstein demonstrated at New York’s Rome State Custodial Asylum, even the early twentieth century job market still allowed for a spectrum of ability, if carefully analyzed. Individual employers, in turn, and transition services could substitute for absent relatives. Chapter 3 explores how, during the 1910s and 1920s, Bernstein moved hundreds of people labeled “feeble-minded”—most of whom lacked families—into paid positions as farm laborers, domestic servants, laundresses, and seamstresses. The superintendents of dozens of other institutions for the feeble-minded across the nation copied his program, in part because it offered a means for addressing relentless pressure for new admissions and perpetual funding challenges. By providing what were, in effect, early group homes and astutely fitting people to appropriate positions, Bernstein managed to turn many, albeit not most, asylum inmates into wage workers living in mainstream society.
Saving the Human Wreckage Cast on the Industrial Scrap Heap
Authors: Rose Sarah F.
Published: September 2017

As workers with a wide array of both acquired and congenital disabilities lost access to the paid labor market, legislators and reformers began to search for a way to return people with disabilities to productivity and self-support. Influenced by the Protestant work ethic and the long-standing association of dependency with poor citizenship, rehabilitators tended to focus more on restoring their clients’ putatively damaged morality than on determining how to integrate disabled people into the wage labor market. Nevertheless, vocational rehabilitation programs did offer some disabled people and their families modest incomes during times of considerable stress. Chapter 6 traces the emergence of Goodwill Industries and the ways in which its sheltered workshops replicated mainstream employers’ use of piecework and concerns with efficiency—dynamics that led managers to exclude many disabled workers as too inefficient. Due to the complexity of disability and the ways that it intersected with age, gender, and family status, few clients moved into the outside labor force.
The Duty to Make Himself a Useful, Self-Supporting Citizen
Authors: Rose Sarah F.
Published: September 2017

As Chapter 7 shows, veterans and rehabilitators clashed over how to define disability and rehabilitation, in part because new tools of war caused so many injuries that led to chronic pain. Often, veterans found that their disabilities did not qualify them for training even when they could not find work, that rehabilitation did not meet their family’s economic needs, and that even after training they could not locate jobs in their fields. In effect, the ways in which policy makers had attempted to generalize disability failed to encompass its diversity, its mutability within and across individuals, how it was reshaped by the shifting economic context, and the ways that technological shifts produced unexpected new impairments. The program’s storied administrative dysfunction did not help. In the end, many disabled veterans, especially white ones, ultimately found employment—some equivalent to their prewar earnings. But much of their success was due to the fact that most employers were more willing to hire veterans with disabilities than disabled civilians. Significant numbers, moreover, struggled to manage chronic pain and other impairments and remained on the margins of the economy.
In a Flame
Authors: Winiarski Douglas L.
Published: September 2017

Part 2 reconstructs the theological and rhetorical strategies through which the popular Anglican evangelist George Whitefield and other itinerant preachers labored to persuade their audiences to repudiate the ideal of the godly walk. In its place, many New Englanders championed Whitefield’s "doctrine of the new birth," the instantaneous descent and implantation of God's Holy Spirit. Heady reports of dramatic preaching performances, such as Jonathan Edwards’s Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God, convinced many "New Converts" that they were witnessing an unprecedented outpouring of the Holy Spirit, or what people began to call a singular "Revival of Religion." Traditional outsiders to the Congregational establishment, especially native and African Americans, played key roles in revival accounts of new converts. Diaries, letters, sermon notes, church membership demographics, prayer bills, and even gravestone iconography registered an abrupt shift in lay piety, as New Englanders began to narrate their experiences of the new birth in the earliest evangelical conversion narratives.
Exercised Bodies, Impulsive Bibles
Authors: Winiarski Douglas L.
Published: September 2017

George Whitefield’s innovative doctrine of the Holy Spirit as an indwelling principle proved to be a perplexing issue for may Congregationalists. Part 3 tells the story of one man’s struggle to discern its presence in the body of a young Boston revival convert named Martha Robinson. Through a close inspection of physical signs and verbal utterances, Hartford magistrate Joseph Pitkin found that Robinson’s body had been alternately conscripted by Satan and the Holy Spirit. His surprising discovery positions the phenomenon of ecstatic Spirit possession at the heart of the Whitefieldian new birth experience. During the revivals of the 1740s, New Englanders learned to associate the descent of the Holy Spirit with exercised bodies, impulsive biblical texts, and unusual visionary phenomena.
Travels
Authors: Winiarski Douglas L.
Published: September 2017

During the next several decades, from the 1750s through the 1770s, Congregational ministers across New England struggled and frequently failed to corral the unruly religious experiences of their inspired parishioners. Part 5 recounts the strife that plagued not only well-established churches such as Jonathan Edwards’s Northampton, Massachusetts, congregation but also upstart separatist groups led by ardent revival proponents like Separate Baptist minister Isaac Backus. Radical sectarian communities, Perfectionist seekers set out on a ceaseless quest for spiritual purity that led many of them to question all institutions—churches, communities, and families—and to generate startling new conceptions of the body and sexuality; others sought shelter from the growing ecclesiastical maelstrom in the rational faith and orderly worship of the Anglican church. Thrust into a dizzying and unstable religious marketplace, godly walkers, Separate Congregationalists, Anglican conformists, immortalists, Shakers, and “Nothingarians” trafficked in and out of the churches of the standing order at a startling rate. By 1780, religious insurgents had shattered the Congregational establishment.
Epilogue
Authors: Winiarski Douglas L.
Published: September 2017

The Epilogue examines the transformation of eighteenth-century New England Congregationalism through the religious experiences of four generations of the Lane family of Stratham, New Hampshire.
Colored Travelers
Authors: Pryor Elizabeth Stordeur
Published: September 2017

Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically been a right reserved for whites. In this book, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor shows that African Americans fought obstructions to their mobility over 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. These were “colored travelers,” activists who relied on steamships, stagecoaches, and railroads to expand their networks and to fight slavery and racism. They refused to ride in "Jim Crow" railroad cars, fought for the right to hold a U.S. passport (and citizenship), and during their transatlantic voyages, demonstrated their radical abolitionism. By focusing on the myriad strategies of black protest, including the assertions of gendered freedom and citizenship, this book tells the story of how the basic act of traveling emerged as a front line in the battle for African American equal rights before the Civil War.
Drawing on exhaustive research from U.S. and British newspapers, journals, narratives, and letters, as well as firsthand accounts of such figures as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and William Wells Brown, Pryor illustrates how, in the quest for citizenship, colored travelers constructed ideas about respectability and challenged racist ideologies that made black mobility a crime.
Nigger and Home
Authors: Pryor Elizabeth Stordeur
Published: September 2017

Chapter 1 is an etymology of the word nigger. Colored travelers described the word and the ideology it represented as a constantly looming threat. White children chased free people of color down the street shouting the word. White satirists and performers repeated it in literary and theatrical blackface productions that often depicted black caricatures as being dangerous precisely because they freely traversed the nation. In the nominally free states, nigger threatened brutal reprisals and thus shaped the black experience of mobility. This chapter argues that the source of the word’s virulence resided in the fact that African Americans in antebellum America had long used the word nigger to describe themselves and others. Black laborers adopted the word into their own vocabularies to subvert white authority. Whites therefore very much understood the word as part of the black lexicon. In turn, they ventriloquized nigger to mock black speech, black mobility, and, ultimately, black freedom. Considering nigger not solely as a white antiblack epithet but also as a word rooted in African American cultural and protest traditions goes a long way toward solving the perennial American racial conundrum of why black people can say nigger and white people should not.
Activist Respectability and the Birth of the “Jim Crow Car”
Authors: Pryor Elizabeth Stordeur
Published: September 2017

Chapter 3 identifies the moment when colored travelers launched a movement in earnest. The movement took off in the late 1830s and early 1840s, when segregation on the Massachusetts railroad turned brutal. In part, this was because steam-powered passenger railroads were new. It was also because the president of one of the foremost Boston railroad lines created a novel invention, a separate car to carry black people and the poor. Rail road workers in Massachusetts dubbed the space the “Jim Crow car.” It was a method of racial control that institutionalized segregation as no method of transportation had before. In keeping with the criminalization of black mobility, the railroad directors not only insisted that people of color ride in the dirty, cramped spaces, but officials also employed conductors who served as enforcers and routinely beat, kicked, and ousted colored travelers who attempted to ride in the first-class car. To activists, standing up and risking white violence in the name of equality became a mark of black masculinity. In a strategy that continues to buttress civil rights protest today, colored travelers held the state accountable by turning to the courts for redress.
Epilogue
Authors: Pryor Elizabeth Stordeur
Published: September 2017

In late 1851, William and Ellen Craft arrived in England, and something visceral happened. They reflected, “It was not until we stepped upon the shore at Liverpool that we were free from every slavish fear.”1 When he traveled from New York to England in 1850, black abolitionist William Powell noticed a change so “sudden and unexpected” that he could “hardly believe [his] senses.”...
Introduction
Authors: Jaffary Nora E.
Published: September 2017

The introduction provides an overview of the historiography of midwifery and reproduction from which this book draws and presents the work’s central arguments: that ideals of sexual honor became imperative for an increased sector of Mexico’s female population as the nineteenth century progressed, that reproduction became a matter of public concern in republican Mexico that diverged from childbirth’s private nature in the colonial era, and that unlike in Anglo America or much of western Europe, in Mexico the professionalization of medicine did not involve the obliteration of midwifery or of pre-Columbian medical practices at least through the nineteenth century. The introduction also provides an overview of the extant statistical overview of changes in birth rates, neonatal mortality, and maternal mortality in Mexico across time, and discusses the sources, organizational logic, and methodological parameters of the book.
Conclusion
Authors: Jaffary Nora E.
Published: September 2017

The concluding chapter considers what insights Mexico’s reproductive history may have for a current readership. It argues that this history demonstrates that the relative autonomy with which Mexican women pursued reproductive choices in the colonial era serves as a check to the assumption that women in our contemporary period experience greater self-determination than they have ever done in the past. This history also reveals that colonial populations held different perceptions of both biological maters, like conception and amenorrhea, and idealizations of maternity from those we currently hold. These episodes which show dramatic change across time illustrate how changing national circumstances contribute to the construction of both medical knowledge and emotional ideals often considered natural and unchanging.
The Power of Paint
Authors: Van Horn Jennifer
Published: September 2017

Chapter 2 focuses on mid-century Philadelphia’s burgeoning art community through the figure of travelling English portrait painter John Wollaston, who visited the city in 1752 and 1758/9. Wollaston’s presence encouraged the young student Francis Hopkinson to write a poem about the artist in the new periodical the American Magazine. By tracing the aesthetic responses that Hopkinson and the fellow students in his circle (including Benjamin West) had to Wollaston’s portraits the chapter charts Philadelphians’ engagement with the aesthetic debates raging in London over the role of the artist and the power of the portrait to civilize. Hopkinson embraced the new model of connoisseurship being popularized in the British art capital of London but recast it to argue that the portrait could civilize the sitter. Reading Wollaston’s portraits through the model of physiognomy reveals how viewers understood his paintings to improve sitters’ civility and how his paintings forged social connections between sitters.
The Original Washington
Authors: Yarger Lisa
Published: September 2017

Lovie Shelton takes narrator Lisa Yarger on a driving tour of her town, Washington, North Carolina, also known as Little Washington and the original Washington. The tour includes a stop at Bill’s Hot Dogs, a Washington landmark.
Nurses on Horseback
Authors: Yarger Lisa
Published: September 2017

Lovie visits the world-famous Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), the first program in the United States to employ nurse-midwives. Founded in 1925 in a tri-county area of Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountains by Mary Breckinridge, a wealthy socialite and nurse, the FNS compiled a remarkable record and won the admiration of physicians and health professionals from around the country and the world. FNS midwives, originally recruited from the United Kingdom but later trained on site, rode horseback through creek beds and narrow coves to provide health care and deliver babies in remote mountain cabins. Lovie recounts how her three-month stint at the FNS sealed her interest in becoming a nurse-midwife.
I’m Doing This for Joy
Authors: Yarger Lisa
Published: September 2017

Lovie and narrator Lisa Yarger visit Joy and Kenny Mitchell in their Pantego (Beaufort County) home. Lovie gives Joy a prenatal exam (seemingly for Yarger’s benefit) and explains some of her requirements for a home birth. The Mitchells invite Yarger to accompany Lovie to the birth of their fourth child two months later.
Waiting
Authors: Yarger Lisa
Published: September 2017

Lovie discusses the kinds of prenatal care she gives, most specifically when a woman reaches 34 weeks of pregnancy, and begins a narration of normal, typical births that runs parallel to the unfolding story of Joy Mitchell's labor and delivery. As Lovie and the narrator begin their wait on Joy's phone call, Lovie explains how she set her $40 delivery fee. Given Lovie’s health issues, the narrator wonders how Lovie will bear up during Joy’s delivery. Lovie speculates that because Joy is worn out as a mother of three young children, the upcoming delivery won’t be quick. Lovie spells out her philosophy of acceptable activities for a Sunday (“Jesus said it's all right to haul your oxen out of a ditch if they fall in”) and then proceeds to outline a full Sunday's worth of work for herself and the narrator, including swiping eggs from her geese to hatch in an incubator and to sell.
Walking a Chalk Line
Authors: Yarger Lisa
Published: September 2017

This chapter describes how midwife-attended home births declined dramatically as poor and minority women gain access to hospital birth with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the advent of Medicaid in 1965. With her clientele dwindling, Lovie returns to work at the Beaufort County Health Department, where she butts heads with a new generation of health officials not as supportive of her nurse-midwifery work as the previous generation had been and who expect her to adhere strictly to the letter of the granny law. Although Lovie employed a dual bag strategy to skirt the law, she maintains that she always strictly followed proper bag technique. She discusses problems she encountered with the health officer of Pitt County, problems that led her to deliver a handful of Pitt County women in her Beaufort County home.
Political Showdown
Authors: Yarger Lisa
Published: September 2017

This chapter explores the resurgence of interest in home birth and midwifery (primarily among college-educated white women) as a result of second-wave feminism. Midwives such as Ina May Gaskin begin challenging the physician-controlled model of birth seen by many women as oppressive. Midwife-attended home birth also becomes popular among conservative Christians, who provide a new client base for Lovie. This chapter examines the response of the medical establishment to women's demands for more personalized care and details the political showdown in the early 1980s in which the North Carolina Medical Society pressured legislators to oppose home birth, despite Midwifery Study Committee findings about the safety of planned, attended home births. House Bill 814, passed in 1983, recognizes certified nurse-midwives for the first time and ends the licensing system for lay midwives. The bill also provides a “grandmother clause” for midwives who have practiced at least ten years. Lovie is one of two women to benefit from the exemption: although trained as a nurse-midwife, she did not maintain membership in the American College of Midwifery or seek to fulfill updated membership requirements. The other, Lisa Goldstein, becomes legendary among a new generation of midwives who have no idea of Lovie’s existence.
It’s a Thing of Relationship
Authors: Yarger Lisa
Published: September 2017

Lovie describes the “high” she goes on after a birth and the close relationship she develops with the families she serves. Back at her house, Lovie and the narrator find that one of her geese has been hit by a car and is badly injured. Lovie confides to the narrator that Eli had been in the posterior position, which complicates labor and causes “misdirected force.” Lovie and the narrator discuss whether or not she should have shared this information with Joy during the birth.
A Scarcity of Great Men
Authors: Smith Christi M.
Published: September 2017

Chapter 6 explores the paths Howard and Oberlin took to attain elite status. The field of higher education increasingly emphasized liberal arts education for white elites and industrial training for blacks. Yet both Howard and Oberlin framed their students as having a unique capacity for leadership. Indeed, until the early 1900s, Howard was more likely than Oberlin to be linked in the press to the universities that have since been dubbed “the Ivy League” than to other predominantly black schools. Both Howard and Oberlin prioritized masculinity. While neither banned women, as did other universities, women were deprioritized in the colleges’ ascension to elite status.
When I Came Home
Authors: Rogoff Leonard
Published: September 2017

The Women's Club movement became the platform for Weil's social activism. Following her mother and aunt's footsteps as a leader of the Goldsboro Woman's Club, she rose in the hierarchy of the state organization, earning the sobriquet “Federation Gertie.” Eschewing marriage, she bonded with other women and remained loyal to her family while working to expand women's role beyond domesticity. An advocate of municipal housekeeping, she urged the women's movement to advocate for children and women exploited in the textile mills. Increasingly, she saw that reform would not progress without women achieving legal rights and pushed the federation to adopt suffrage resolutions.
The Terrible News in Each Morning’s Paper
Authors: Rogoff Leonard
Published: September 2017

Weil in the late 1930s confronted rising anti-Semitism in America as well as Europe. An advocate of world peace and disarmament, she saw the war effort as necessary to defeat Hitler. She remained close to her European cousins, who wrote her detailing Nazi persecutions, and worked assiduously to support their attempts to immigrate to America by providing affidavits, money, and sponsorships. She saved perhaps a dozen relatives, who fled Germany, although several were lost. In the camp town of Goldsboro Weil opened her home to Jewish soldiers and worked in the larger interfaith community to provide hospitality to those serving at local military bases.
The Drama
Authors: Denson Andrew
Published: September 2017

In 1950, the outdoor drama Unto These Hills debuted in Cherokee, North Carolina. The play, which became one of the most popular tourism attractions in southern Appalachia, depicted Cherokee history from the time of European contact through the mid-nineteenth century, paying particular attention to the Cherokee struggle against removal. This chapter examines Unto These Hills as an example of Cold War American culture, while placing the drama in the context of the termination policy, the federal government's campaign to remove the trust status of Indian lands and withdraw special federal services to Native American communities. While the memory of removal broadcast in Unto These Hills echoed some of the language of the termination campaign, it ultimately helped the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians avoid termination.
Sensual Knowledge
Authors: Gómez Pablo F.
Published: September 2017

This chapter proposes a novel approach to our understanding of sensing and being in the early modern Atlantic world. Early modern black Caribbean ritual practitioners intensely fashioned new “forms of being in the world.” There exist, after all, multiple manners of sensing and shaping an apparently stubborn reality. The chapter shows how black Mohanes fundamentally fashioned novel ways of sensing the early modern Caribbean world. In the absence of common linguistic and cultural grounds, the chapter shows, black Caribbean ritual practitioners became involved in a new sensorial imbrication of Atlantic threads of all origins. It was through this essential process that Caribbean Mohanes fashioned routes for making perceivable the spiritual and social landscapes of their new land. These paths and ways of sensing were fundamental for the modeling of the experiential revolution of the seventeenth-century Caribbean.
Conclusion
Authors: Gómez Pablo F.
Published: September 2017

Between July and September 1816, José Fernandez and a team of Spanish royal functionaries inventoried a large and precious set of boxes in Santa Fé de Bogotá.1 The 104 boxes contained thousands of paintings and descriptions of botanical, animal, and mineral specimens collected over twenty-five years by a team of natural historians, botanists, geographers, chemists, painters, royal functionaries, and hundreds of “empiric” women and men charged with exploring and recording the “harsh countryside” and “wild forests” of New Granada and Venezuela....
Children of Reunion
Authors: Varzally Allison
Published: September 2017

This book examines the migrations of Vietnamese adoptees and Amerasians since 1965 to answer questions about gendered power relations, obligations to refugees, and constructions of family during an era when U.S. immigration laws elevated the importance of family as a category of entry and anxieties about the consequences of U.S. global interventions intensified. A desire to redeem defeat in Vietnam, faith in conventional forms of kinship, and commitment to capitalism guided American efforts on behalf of Vietnamese children and young adults. However Vietnamese migrants countered these gestures, seeking and sometimes finding reunion with their children and thus pressing their claims as refugees in the United States. As Vietnamese and Americans debated the forms, duties, and privileges of family, they ultimately reworked ideas of responsibility and modes of belonging shattered by war.
Introduction
Authors: Varzally Allison
Published: September 2017

Born to an American man and Vietnamese woman in 1970, Trista immigrated to the United States and was adopted by a young American couple, Nancy and Chuck Kalan, in 1973 after she and her younger brother, Jeffrey, spent a year in the care of a Vietnamese foster family. Although Nancy would eagerly accept and manage the details of Trista’s adoption, her husband, a veteran of the Vietnam War, had initiated their plans. Trista recalled her fear and shyness on meeting her new parents. “When I first saw my father, I cried,” she explained, “because he had a full beard and I wasn’t used to the facial hair.” Moreover, as a four-year-old, “I still had memories of my family,” she related. These memories would become less vivid over time as Trista learned English, became acquainted with American foods, and integrated into the mostly white community of Feasterville, Pennsylvania, but she retained cultural, political, and familial ties to Vietnam through regular contact with Jeffrey, who was adopted into the household of Trista’s aunt and raised as her cousin, as well as her foster family, who departed Vietnam among a wave of refugees and resettled in the Kalans’ household in 1975. Despite relationships and exposure that could have reinforced a Vietnamese identity, she admitted, “I probably actually repressed any of my culture and heritage growing up because I just wanted to fit in.”...
After the Airlifts
Authors: Varzally Allison
Published: September 2017

This chapter focuses upon the aftermath of Operation Babylift, the mass airlift of Vietnamese children to the United states on the eve of the nation’s formal withdrawal. Arguably the most dramatic episode of the unfolding adoption and migration story, it received overwhelming media coverage, captured international attention, and pushed Vietnamese adoptees to the center of debates about the war’s end and aftermath. Although the architects of the airlift hoped it would improve the America’s reputation and benefit Vietnamese children, it stoked significant controversy among Americans and Vietnamese who accused the U.S. and Vietnamese governments of playing politics. The airlift and its controversy also displayed the creative ways in which Vietnamese families stretched across national boundaries an, demanded reunions, and disputed American efforts to contain and control the legacies of war.
A Quaint and Quixotic Group of Gentlemen
Authors: Ritterhouse Jennifer
Published: September 2017

This chapter begins by contrasting Daniels's open-minded, documentary approach to his travels through the South with the staunch, conservative convictions of Nashville Agrarian Donald Davidson. The chapter provides an overview of Agrarian thought in I'll Take My Stand and subsequent writings, as well as an understanding of how the thinking of Howard Odum, Rupert Vance, and other southern Regionalists differed. The Southern Policy Committee, fostered by Francis Pickens Miller, brought the Agrarians and Regionalists into direct debate. By the late 1930s, the Agrarian group had disbanded, but Davidson kept the faith while becoming increasingly reactionary on racial issues. In 1955 he became the founding president of the Tennessee Federation for Constitutional Government, an organization dedicated to resisting the integration of public schools. Even by 1937, Daniels could sense that Davidson felt a deep sadness over the passing of his idealized, traditional South.
Arab Students and the Politics of Palestine
Authors: Pennock Pamela E.
Published: September 2017

This chapter discusses the role of the Organization of Arab Students (OAS) in fostering the radical Arab American movement in connection to the Third World New Left. It covers the organization’s history at American universities in the 1950s and 1960s. The chapter focuses on its pro-Palestinian activism in the late 1960s at several universities, with emphasis on Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
“Enemies Within”
Authors: Pennock Pamela E.
Published: September 2017

This chapter examines the federal government’s violations of Arab Americans’ civil liberties with attention to the Nixon administration’s program Operation Boulder, instituted after the murders by Palestinian commandos of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. The program instituted rigorous checks on Arab immigrants’ visas, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Immigration and Naturalization Service Arab American activists and Arab students for connections to terrorism.
Epilogue
Authors: Lambe Jennifer L.
Published: September 2017

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

—Italo Calvino, The Literature Machine (1987)

As history perhaps demanded, scandal would return to the Hospital Psiquiátrico with the force of inevitability postponed. In January 2010, four years after Ordaz passed away, news surfaced that twenty-six patients had passed away over the course of one cold night at the hospital. Two days after exile news blogs and ...
From Aggression to Crisis
Authors: Schmidt-Nowara Christopher
Published: September 2017

Spain is strangely neglected in most accounts of the international context of the American Civil War, but as Christopher Schmidt-Nowara shows in his essay, it played a major role in the crisis of the 1860s. Spain leapt to take advantage of the secession crisis, and sought to strengthen slavery and sovereignty in its Antillean colonies, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Its aggressive foreign policy in the Americas backfired, however, and by the end of the de cade, Spain confronted grave challenges to both slavery and sovereignty, like those that the United States faced earlier.
The Rebel Archive
Authors: Hernández Kelly Lytle
Published: September 2017

The documents below highlight the thoughts, analyses, and actions of rebels now battling elimination and incarceration in Los Angeles. These documents do not reflect every voice or organization at work in the city. Not by a long shot. But they do make one thing very clear: rebellion is far from over in the City of Inmates....
Consciousness beyond the Margin
Authors: Knapp Krister Dylan
Published: September 2017

Chapter six examines James's theory of the subliminal self and contextualizes that theory within three competing explanations of the unconscious: the German idealist, French pathology, and British materialist schools.
Latino City
Authors: Barber Llana
Published: September 2017

Latino City explores the transformation of Lawrence, Massachusetts, into New England’s first Latino-majority city. Like many industrial cities, Lawrence entered a downward economic spiral in the decades after World War II due to deindustrialization and suburbanization. The arrival of tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the late twentieth century brought new life to the struggling city, but settling in Lawrence was fraught with challenges. Facing hostility from their neighbors, exclusion from local governance, inadequate city services, and limited job prospects, Latinos fought and organized for the right to make a home in the city.
In this book, Llana Barber interweaves the histories of urban crisis in U.S. cities and imperial migration from Latin America. Pushed to migrate by political and economic circumstances shaped by the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America, poor and working-class Latinos then had to reckon with the segregation, joblessness, disinvestment, and profound stigma that plagued U.S. cities during the crisis era, particularly in the Rust Belt. For many Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, there was no “American Dream” awaiting them in Lawrence; instead, Latinos struggled to build lives for themselves in the ruins of industrial America.
Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens
Authors: Andrew Jr. Rod
Published: September 2017

Andrew Pickens (1739–1817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces. In this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers an authoritative and comprehensive biography of Pickens the man, the general, the planter, and the diplomat. Andrew vividly depicts Pickens as he founds churches, acquires slaves, joins the Patriot cause, and struggles over Indian territorial boundaries on the southern frontier. Combining insights from military and social history, Andrew argues that while Pickens’s actions consistently reaffirmed the authority of white men, he was also determined to help found the new republic based on broader principles of morality and justice.
After the war, Pickens sought a peaceful and just relationship between his country and the southern Native American tribes and wrestled internally with the issue of slavery. Andrew suggests that Pickens’s rise to prominence, his stern character, and his sense of duty highlight the egalitarian ideals of his generation as well as its moral shortcomings--all of which still influence Americans’ understanding of themselves.
Introduction
Authors: Gargola Daniel J.
Published: September 2017

From as far in the past as we can see, Romans often made a simple and sharp distinction between the city and everything under its sway or within the reach of its armies and embassies. At different times and in different contexts, this dichotomy might be expressed in terms of a contrast between “at home” (...
Generic Navajo
Authors: Jacobsen Kristina M.
Published: September 2017

Chapter Two examines language and social authenticity as it relates to Navajo expressive culture. I argue that Diné language politics give us greater insight into the broader story of country music, belonging, and generational nostalgia, and I trace ethnographically how language—often portrayed as a key index of culture—is linked to a Navajo politics of difference through specific registers of speech and song. After an overview of Diné language politics, I turn to how a culturally intimate speech genre referred to as jaan or “jaan Navajo” is incorporated into Native band rehearsals and Navajo comedy, forming the bedrock onto which generational wordplay and humor are overlaid. I then interrogate the expectation that “full Navajos” should speak Navajo or need merely “activate” the Navajo language gene that resides within them. In these ways, perception of speaking the Navajo language shifts from being an index of Navajo identity to an icon of Navajoness itself.
Many Voices, One Nation
Authors: Jacobsen Kristina M.
Published: September 2017

The conclusion reflects on how a politics of difference and belonging—and the idea of indigenous social authenticity more broadly—is negotiated by Diné citizens. Focusing on the language fluency controversy in the most recent Navajo Presidential election with Presidential Candidate Christopher C. Deschene, I address what the stakes might be in reifying social difference through the lenses of linguistic knowledge and performance, place of residence, musical taste, and phenotype. I then examine language use and vitality in Navajo language immersion schools on the Navajo Nation. Bringing together ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropology and Critical Indigenous Studies, I examine the parts of Navajo identity that are either publicly celebrated or hidden from view, and I interrogate what these categories of difference mean for those that utilize—or refuse them—today.
“The Lights of Albuquerque”1
Authors: Jacobsen Kristina M.
Published: September 2017

The epilogue reflects on what has changed since the years when the fieldwork for the book was carried out, providing updates on key interlocutors and musicians in the book. This includes discussion of Chucki Begay and Mother Earth Blues Band, Candice Craig and the Wranglers, Native Country Band, and Re-Coil. I discuss the cover songs “Mississippi,” Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris’ version of “If I Could Only Win Your Love,” and Charley Pride’s “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone.” Epilogue concludes with a reflection on artists from the Navajo Nation visiting the author’s class at the University of New Mexico and Candice Craig’s performances of songs including “Redneck Woman” and “Okie from Muskogee.”
Zoning, Development, and Residential Access
Authors: Michney Todd M.
Published: September 2017

This chapter shifts focus to Cleveland’s far south-eastern corner to probe the origins of the Lee-Seville enclave, investigating several land development battles that materialized between and among black and white residents, as more upwardly mobile African American families moved to the vicinity after World War II. Despite being united in opposition to public housing, black homeowners fought to preserve vacant land for residential use, while whites attempted to hamper African American influx through zoning changes enabling industrial projects. The topics of black contractors and builders are covered, as well as the emergence by the late 1950s of white developers willing to build for African American clients, along with how African Americans successfully navigated white opposition to gain access to the quasi-suburban Lee-Harvard neighbourhood. The first black family’s move there in 1953 was effectively mediated by the city’s Community Relations Board and personally by the mayor himself – in contrast to Detroit and Chicago where city leaders deferred to white prejudice.
Urban Change and Reform Agendas in Cleveland’s Black Middle-Class Neighborhoods, 1950–1980
Authors: Michney Todd M.
Published: September 2017

This chapter looks at the ambitious reform agenda that black middle-class activist residents went on to mount in these outlying city neighbourhoods, encompassing housing upkeep, business revitalization, traffic safety, trash removal, and efforts to reduce liquor availability, juvenile delinquency, vice, and crime – all in an attempt to maintain what they considered an acceptable quality of life. Perhaps the most ambitious effort along these lines was a venture in which a group of African American investors purchased and renovated the Lee-Harvard Shopping Center, making it during its existence from 1972-1978 the “largest black-owned commercial complex in the nation.” Sometimes these reform efforts involved moralizing or exhibited an explicit class bias; upwardly mobile middle-class blacks did not always recognize that less well-off newcomers were motivated by similar concerns with liveability. In the end, however, their various attempts to take charge of their lives and communities contributed to the long-term vitality of these neighbourhoods and the city as a whole.