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An insider’s account of the secret bipartisan plot to oust a governor

CoupThe Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor, Put Republican Lamar Alexander in Office Early, and Stopped a Pardon ScandalK e e l h u n t

Foreword by J o h n l . S e i g e n t h a l e r

oup is the behind-the-scenes story of an abrupt political transition, unprecedented in US history. Based on 160 interviews, Hunt describes how collaborators came together from opposite sides of the political aisle and, in an extraordinary few hours, reached agreement that the corruption andmadness of the sitting Governor of Tennessee, Ray Blanton, must be stopped. The sudden transfer of power that caught Blanton un-awares was deemed necessary because of what one FBI agent called “the state’s most heinous political crime in half a century”—a scheme of selling pardons for cash.

On January 17, 1979, driven by new information that some of the worst crimi-nals in the state’s penitentiaries were about to be released (and fears that James Earl Ray might be one of them), a small bipar-tisan group chose to take charge. Senior Democratic leaders, friends of the sitting governor, together with the Republican governor-elect Lamar Alexander (now US Senator from Tennessee), agreed to oust Blanton from office before another night fell. It was a maneuver unique in American political history.

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In his early career, Keel hunt was a reporter, editorial writer, Washington correspondent, and City Editor for the Nashville Tennessean. He left the newspaper to join Lamar Alexander’s successful campaign for Governor of Tennessee. Following the 1978 election, he was appointed Special Assistant to the Governor, serving as a speechwriter and coordinator of the Governor’s Policy Group. Since 1986 he has been a speechwriter and public affairs consultant.

COUPThe Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor,

Put Republican Lamar Alexander in Office Early, and Stopped a Pardon Scandal

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The individual stories of those government officials involved in the coup—each account unique, but all of them intersecting—were scattered like disconnected pieces of a jigsaw puzzle on the table of history until the author conceived this book. Perhaps because it happened so quickly, and without major disagreement, protest, or dissent, this truly historic moment has been buried in the public mind. In unearthing the drama in gripping detail, Keel Hunt assures that the ‘dark day’ will be remembered as a bright one in which conflicted politicians came together in the public interest.”

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Intimate conversations with the lawyers who try, and too often fail, to prevent executions

“This is an important book. The death penalty’s impact is so much broader than we realize, and these attorneys are affected in ways that even I had not imagined. I am grateful to Susannah Sheffer for bringing these stories to light.” —Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and The Death of Innocents

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ow do attorneys who represent clients facing the death penalty cope with the stress and trauma of their work? Through conversations with twenty of the most expe-rienced and dedicated post-conviction capi-tal defenders in the United States, Fighting for Their Lives explores this emotional territory for the first time. What it is like for these capital defenders in their last visits or phone calls with clients who are about to be taken to the execution chamber? Or the next morn-ing, in their lives with their families, in their dreams and flashbacks and moments alone in the car? What is it like to do this work year after year? (These attorneys had, on average, spent nineteen years doing capital defense.)

Through vivid interviews amplified by the author’s responses and commentary, these attorneys reveal aspects of their inter-

Fighting for Their LivesInside the Experience of Capital Defense Attorneyssusannah sheffer

nal experience that they have never talked about until now. How do capital defenders manage the weight of the responsibility they carry? To what extent do they experi-ence symptoms of trauma in the aftermath of losing a client to execution or as a result of the cumulative effects of engaging in capital defense work? What motivates them and what do they draw upon in or-der to keep engaging in such emotionally demanding work? Have they considered practicing other types of law? What can we learn from capital defenders not only about the deep and long-term effects of the death penalty but also about broader human questions of hope, effectiveness, success, failure, strength, fragility, and perseverance?

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“At long last someone pierces the veil of insult, ignominy, and infamy that surrounds the capital defender, exposing the human being inside. In these pages Susannah Sheffer helps us see why educated, intelligent professionals willingly suffer the grinding horror of attempting to stop the dance of death; why caring people dedicate themselves to the defense of those deemed disposable.”

—Mike Farrell, President of Death Penalty Focus

“Capital defense attorneys, often at great cost to them-selves, engage in a moral struggle against an entire system, and in their commitment to fight to the very end, they demonstrate the power of relationship and restoration of human dignity. I couldn’t put this book down.” —Sandra L. Bloom, M.D., author of Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies, and Past-President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

“Susannah Sheffer is a gifted and deeply compassionate interviewer and she has written a beautiful, heart-breaking, and above all uplifting story that makes an essential contribution to literature on the death penalty.” —Richard Burr, death penalty defense attorney

“This is a book I could have wished into existence. It offers a rare look at the emotionally rich questions surrounding capital defense lawyering, and its conversational format opens up a vein of insight that even memoir would not.” —Susan A. Bandes, Professor of Law, DePaul University

“Some of the most courageous men and women in our midst are lawyers who defend those convicted of capital crimes, attempting to save clients from being murdered by the state. Fighting for Their Lives is the story of the heroic but ordinary bravery of these lawyers. Read it and be awed by their grace and intelligence. Read it and be furious at the needless miscarriages of justice. Read it and weep.” —Thomas Cahill, author of A Saint on Death Row


How conservative ideas rose to a position of dominance in law and politics

Michael Avery, Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School where he teaches constitutional law and evidence, is a former president of the National Lawyers Guild. From 1970 to 1998, he was in private practice, specializing in plaintiffs’ civil rights litigation and criminal defense.

Danielle McLaughlin, currently an Associate in the Boston office of Nixon Peabody LLP, clerked for the Honorable William Young in the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts and served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of High Technology Law at Suffolk University Law School.

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ver the last thirty years, the Federal Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected

conservative law students into an organiza-tion with extraordinary influence over Amer-ican law and politics. Although the organiza-tion is unknown to the average citizen, this group of intellectuals has managed to monop-olize the selection of federal judges, take over the Department of Justice, and control legal policy in the White House.

Today the Society claims that 45,000 con-servative lawyers and law students are involved in its activities. Four Supreme Court Justices—Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Rob-erts, and Samuel Alito—are current or former members. Every single federal judge appointed in the two Bush presidencies was either a Soci-ety member or approved by members. During the Bush years, young Federalist Society law-yers dominated the legal staffs of the Justice Department and other important government agencies.

The Society has lawyer chapters in every major city in the United States and student chapters in every accredited law school. Its membership includes economic conservatives, social conservatives, Christian conservatives, and libertarians, who differ with each other on significant issues, but who cooperate in advancing a broad conservative agenda.

How did this happen? How did this group of conservatives succeed in moving their theo-ries into the mainstream of legal thought?

The Federalist SocietyHow Conservatives Took the Law Back from LiberalsMichAeL Avery and DAnieLLe McLAughLin

What is the range of positions of those associated with the Federalist Society in areas of legal and political controversy? The authors survey these stances in sepa-rate chapters on

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“Michael Avery and Danielle McLaughlin have written a compelling book about how the Federalist Society came to prominence, its tremendous influence in Republican presidential administrations especially in the selection of judges, and its conservative ideology on major issues of constitutional law. It is a story of how ideas, money, and careful planning came together to change the legal land-scape. This well-written book is a must read for all who want to understand the conservative movement in law, its views and those advancing them.” —Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine School of Law

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Reckoning Day

Jacqueline Foertsch

The unexplored vision of an America free of racial strife—courtesy of Doomsday

oo often lost in our understanding of the American Cold War crisis, with its nuclear brinkmanship and global political chess game, is the simultaneous crisis on the nation’s racial front. Reckoning Day is the first book to examine the relationship of African Americans to the atom bomb in postwar America. It tells the wide-ranging story of African Americans’ response to the atomic threat in the postwar period. It examines the anti-nuclear writing and activism of major figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Rev. Dr. Mar-tin Luther King, Jr., and Lorraine Hansberry as well as the placement (or absence) of black characters in white-authored doomsday fiction and nonfiction. Author Jacqueline Foertsch analyzes the work of African Amer-ican thinkers, activists, writers, journalists, filmmakers, and musical performers in the “atomic” decades of 1945 to 1965 and beyond. Her book tells the dynamic story of commit-ment and interdependence, as these major figures spoke with force and eloquence for nuclear disarmament, just as they argued unassailably for racial equality on numerous other occasions.

Foertsch also examines the placement of African American characters in white-authored doomsday novels, science fiction,

Reckoning DayRace, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar AmericaJacqueline Foertsch

and survivalist nonfiction such as gov-ernment-sponsored forecasts regarding post-nuclear survival. In these, black characters are often displaced or absented entirely: in doomsday narratives they are excluded from executive decision-making and the stories’ often triumphant conclu-sions; in the nonfiction, they are rarely envisioned amongst the “typical Ameri-can” survivors charged with rebuilding US society. Throughout Reckoning Day, issues of placement and positioning provide the conceptual framework: abandoned at “ground zero” (America’s inner cities) during the height of the atomic threat, African Americans were figured in white-authored survival fiction as compliant servants aiding white victory over atomic adversity, while as historical figures theywere often perceived as “elsewhere” (in-different) to the atomic threat. In fact, African Americans’ “position” on the bomb was rarely one of silence or indif-ference. Ranging from appreciation to disdain to vigorous opposition, atomic-era African Americans developed diverse and meaningful positions on the bomb and made essential contributions to a remark-ably American dialogue.


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“Reckoning Day’s real strength is its fearless exploration of a wide range of ‘race-inflected’ responses to the discourses of nuclear disaster.” —Stephanie Brown, Ohio State University, author of The Postwar African American Novel

Jacqueline Foertsch is Professor of English at the University of North Texas. She is author of Bracing Accounts, American Culture in the 1940s, and Enemies Within.

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resident of Nashville whose work has been exhibited and collected interna- tionally, Jack Spencer alters the surfacesof his photographs with techniques sug-gestive of painting—rich patinas and lumi-nous colors, softly-focused or veiled forms, and traces of the artist’s hand: imperfec-tions, marks, and painterly textures. The exhibition catalog consists of an essay by Susan Edwards and 70 full-page color plates se-lected from such series as “Native Soil,” “Apariciones,” “This Land,” and “Portraits and Gestures” which exemplify the relationship between these compelling surfaces and Spencer’s inter-est in myth, mystery, and the ephemeral nature of existence that is implied by and beyond the surface.

Each of six sections includes works from various series in which the language of photography is expanded to convey narratives inspired by other art forms, especially literature and painting. “Por-traits and Figures” reveals Spencer’s capac-ity to define the psychological complexity of the people he photographs, who often occupy the periphery of society. Further exploring the theme of hidden narratives, but as suggested by the altered face, “Dis-guise/Perform” includes photographs—

Photographs of landscapes and people that suggest mysteries beyond the surface

Jack SpencerBeyond the SurfaceEdited by M a r k W. S c a l a

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Mark W. Scala is Chief Curator at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Exhibitions he has organized include Paint Made Flesh; Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination; and Creation Story: Gee’s Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial. Catalogs for these exhibits are also available from Vanderbilt University Press.

primarily taken in Mex-ico—featuring masked and painted figures often associated with ancient rituals and alternative life styles. “Beautiful Lies” includes new work in which the exposed skin of subjects has been painted

or otherwise altered by the artist and then photographed with luminous props and mysterious settings to underscore the sense of artifice, as if the body itself is shown to be an imaginative con-struction. “Day into

Night” continues Spencer’s consideration of transitions from one state of being to another, this time through the use of ephemeral plays of light and shadow, often suggesting dawn or dusk as signifiers of change. The final two sections focus on the symbolic meaning and phenomenological experiences of the landscape. Inspired by such regionalist painters as Grant Wood, “This Land” includes works that convey dreamlike views of rural and small-town America. “Color as Light” features land-scapes in which the limpid atmosphere merges land, trees, animals, and sky into a palpable gestalt—landscapes of the mind’s eye that evoke the limitless quality of Mark Rothko’s color-saturated canvases.

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Shade-Grown Slavery

William C. Van norman, Jr.

The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba

Enslaved communities on the same island, worlds apart in experiences

ithin the world of Cuban slave-holding plantations, every enslaved person had to negotiate a life defined by forces beyond their control, and indeed beyond the control of their masters. Slaves on coffee farms survived in ways that allowed them to marry, have children, and maintain and redefine cultural practices that they pass on to their children. Slaves were an important factor in creating a nascent Afro-Cuban culture and identity.

In this broad, interdisciplinary study, William Van Norman describes how each type of plantation and the amount of manual labor it required directly influenced the na-ture of slave life in that community. Slaves on coffee plantations lived in a unique context

Shade-Grown SlaveryThe Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cubaw i l l i a m c . va n n o r m a n , j r .

in comparison to that of their fellow slaves on sugar plantations, one that gave them greater flexibility in cultural and artistic creativity. To gain a deeper understanding of plantation slavery in Cuba, Van Norman explores what life and labor was like for coffee slaves and how it was different from what sugar slaves experienced. Shade-Grown Slavery reconstructs their world and in turn deconstructs the picture we now have of Cuba in the late eighteenth and early nine-teenth centuries.

Ultimately, Shade-Grown Slavery reveals the lives of enslaved Africans on Cuban coffee plantations and shows how they were able to maintain and transform their cultural traditions in spite of slavery.

“The first study that specifically examines slavery on Cuban coffee plantations with a focus on slave everyday life and culture … cutting edge and a significant contribution to slavery studies in general, which I am certain other students of slavery will attempt to emulate in time.” —Theresa Singleton, editor of “I, Too, Am America”: Archaeological Studies of African-American Life

william c. van norman, jr. is assistant professor of history at James Madison University.

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“Coffee has been largely ignored by students of Cuban history. Shade-Grown Slavery forcefully opens a space for coffee and the socioeconomic realities it created.” —Luis Martínez-Fernández, author of Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean


entered on the former slaving port of Ouidah, Bénin, Dana Rush’s research extends through Togo to Ghana, a region where exchanges of histories, ideas, and belief systems are given material forms. This is a land where Shango, Jesus, and the Buddha are all gods of Vodun; where Hindu and Vodun deities co-exist in symbiosis; where the spirits of people enslaved 150 years ago are paid tribute by the children of their former masters; and where Haitian, Brazilian, and Cuban images, artists, and spirits remain relevant to contemporary West African practices.

Richly illustrated with color photographs of Vodun shrines, temple wall paintings, masquerades, and Hindu chromolithographs.

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Understanding Vodun’s cultural synthesis as an unfinished aesthetic that emphasizes process over product and efficacy over beauty

Vodun in Coastal Bénin

Dana Rush

Vodun in Coastal BéninUnfinished, Open-ended, GlObal

Vodun in Coastal BéninUnfinished, Open-Ended, Globald a n a r u s h

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dana rush, a Research Affiliate in the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois, is a consulting editor for African Arts and serves on the advisory board of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief.

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art credit: De Souza family Mami Wata masquerade at the beach, Ouidah, Bénin, October 1995.

art credit: Chromolithograph of the Hindu monkey-king Hanuman, adopted and adapted into Vodun practice. Collection of author.

“With her description and critical analyses of Vodun, Dana Rush reveals the art and philosophy of a religious culture that has become the dominant aesthetic for the Black Atlantic world, from Ouidah to Port-au-Prince to South Central L.A. Rush’s book will become a standard reference on Vodun/Vodou/Voodoo.” —Donald Consentino, Professor, World Arts and Cultures, UCLA, and Curator, “In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art”

“Rush constructs an elegant and convincing theoretical framework . . . supported by extensive ethnographic work in multiple sites. A rich and nuanced contribution to the literature on global Vodun in all its manifestations—from India to Brazil and the Caribbean, along with insights into slavery and its meanings in the Atlantic world—this book will be of great interest to students and practitioners of African-derived religions in Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and even North America. In this work Rush paradoxically moves us closer to understanding that which, she argues compellingly, cannot be understood.” —Edna G. Bay, professor of Interdisciplinary and African Studies, Emory University, and author of Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art

ABOUT THE SERIESThis book is the first publication in a new series called “Critical Investigations of the African Diaspora.” The series grows out of Issues in Critical Investigation, a

Vanderbilt initiative to assist junior scholars through critical feedback from senior faculty, annual symposia, and

prize competitions in the humanities and social sciences. Dana Rush’s Vodun in Coastal Bénin is the winner of the

inaugural Anna Julia Cooper Prize in the Humanities.


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Illness Is a Weapon

E I R I K S A E T H R E

Indigenous Identity and Enduring Afflictions

llness Is a Weapon presents an engaging portrayal of the everyday experience of disease in a remote Australian Aboriginal community. While chronic Aboriginal ill health has become an important national issue in Australia, Saethre breaks new ground by locating sickness within the daily lives of Indigenous people. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research in the Northern Territory, Saethre explores the factors structuring ill health, the tactics individuals use to negotiate these realities, and the ways in which dis-ease and medical narratives are employed to construct, manage, and challenge social relations. Reframing current debates, this

Illness Is a WeaponIndigenous Identity and Enduring Afflictionse i r i k s a e t h r e

book argues that disease and suffering have become powerful expressions of Indigenous identity. Through dialogues and interactions, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people engage in a reciprocal discussion about the past, present, and future of indigeneity.

Rarely is disease and suffering under-stood as a form of protest, and in Illness Is a Weapon, Saethre confronts the stark reality of the current contest between all parties in this struggle. As Saethre explains, “cursing at nurses, refusing to take medication, and accepting acute illness as unremarkable is simultaneously an act of defiance and a rejection of vulnerability.”

Health and disease as tools of power and resistance in Indigenous communities

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“This fine-grained analysis of an extremely remote Aboriginal settlement in the Northern Territory, Australia, documents the difficulties of improving Indigenous health through educational programs that improve the knowledge of patients and healthcare providers without addressing the underlying conditions fostering ill-health, health disparities, and social inequality. Public health and medical professionals who work with Indigenous people anywhere in the world will learn valuable lessons from this book.” —Jeffrey Collmann, Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University


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OF INDIGENOUS MEXICO

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Development programs that control reproduction and mothering practices while offering women empowerment

Shaping the Motherhood of Indigenous Mexicova n i a s m i t h - o k a

ainstream Mexican views of Indige- nous women center on them as problematic mothers, and develop-ment programs have included the goal of helping these women become “good moth-ers.” Economic incentives and conditional cash transfers are the vehicles for achieving this goal. With ethnographic immediacy, Shaping the Motherhood of Indigenous Mexico examines the dynamics among the various players—Indigenous mothers, clinicians, and representatives of develop-ment programs. The women’s voices lead the reader to understand the structures of dependency that paradoxically bind Indige-nous women within a program that calls for their empowerment.

The cash transfer program is Oportuni-dades, which enrolls more than a fifth of Mexico’s population. It expects mothers to become involved in their children’s lives at three nodes—health, nutrition, and edu-cation. If women do not comply with the standards of modern motherhood, they are dropped from the program and lose the bi-monthly cash payments. Smith-Oka ex-plores the everyday implementation of the program and its unintended consequences.

The mothers are often berated by clinicians for having too many children (Smith-Oka provides background on the history of eugenics and population con-trol in Mexico) and for other examples of their “backward” ways. An entire chapter focuses on the humor Indigenous women use to cope with disrespectful comments. Ironically, this form of resistance allows the women to accept the situation that controls their behavior.

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vania smith-oka is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and a Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.


Transforming Cities and Minds through the Scholarship of EngagementEconomy, Equity, and Environment

Edited by Lorlene Hoyt

Developing a new generation of engaged urban planners to revitalize US cities

Transforming Minds and Citiesthrough the Scholarship of EngagementEconomy, Equity, and EnvironmentEdited by LO R L E N E H O Y T

Lorlene Hoyt is Director of Programs and Research for the Talloires Network at Tufts University. She currently serves as strategic advisor for Urban Revitalizers, a women- and minority-owned consultancy she co-founded in 1998. Hoyt founded and led MIT@ Lawrence, a city-campus partnership.

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ritten by engaged scholars and practitioners, Transforming Minds and Cities is an “instrument-for-action” on the problems faced by US cities that have suffered from decades of disinvest-ment. The book advocates the concept of reciprocal knowledge: real learning on both sides, campus and city, through a complex network of human relationships.

Across the country from Camden to Oakland, the contributors engaged with community partners—hospitals, churches,

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“Creative, refreshing and inspiring—Lorlene Hoyt has taken an often stodgy academic exercise, the master’s thesis, and transformed it into a vibrant, practical, and soulful tool. Hoyt and her students give “the scholarship of engagement” new meaning. Together they demonstrate the benefits of engaging not only with people in communities, but also with one another. The humanity of community members and the humanity of the writers are interwoven seamlessly into the narratives. An excellent volume to be used in courses in urban planning, economic development, sociology, environmental management, community development, and, of course, sustainability.” —Connie Ozawa, Director of Urban Studies and Planning, PortlandState University

contents

ForewordDayna Cunningham

Part I: Transforming Minds and CitiesChapter 1 IntroductionLorlene Hoyt

Part II: Engaging EconomyChapter 2 Strengthening Small Businesses: Strategies for Makin’ A Way Where There Is No Way in Camden, New JerseyGayle Christiansen

Chapter 3 Leveraging Rooted Institutions: A Strategy for Cooperative Economic Development in Cleveland, OhioNick Iuviene and Lily Song

Part III: Engaging EquityChapter 4 Concentrating Investment: A Strategy for Sustainable Development in Kansas City, MissouriLeila Bozorg

Chapter 5 Network Organizing: A Strategy for Manufacturing Recovery in Lawrence, MassachusettsMarianna Leavy-Sperounis

Part IV: Engaging EnvironmentChapter 6 City-Wide Retrofits: A Strategy for Creating Green Jobs in Oakland, CaliforniaBenjamin Brandin and Kate Levitt Brandin

Chapter 7 Community/Labor/Utility Partnerships: A Social-Movement Organizing Strategy for Energy Efficiency in MassachusettsEric Mackres and Lily Song

Part V: The Scholarship of EngagementChapter 8 ReflectionsLorlene Hoyt

“Scholars and practitioners from diverse academic disciplines and professional fields will appreciate this important work. By boldly redesigning the graduate experience with a small cadre of students in M.I.T.’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Hoyt and her collaborators provide an innovative approach for urban revitalization in ways which contribute to our understanding of issues of economy, equity and environment, while also advancing our work in the academy.” —Barry Checkoway, Professor of Social Work and Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan

“There are many powerful lessons for academic leaders in Transforming Minds and Cities, lessons about daunting challenges facing higher education and our urban communities and about the possibilities for new solutions. Perhaps the most important message is the need for colleges and universities to embrace bold and innovative change to create more socially responsive knowledge and to educate more effective scholars, practitioners, and citizens.” —John Saltmarsh, Co-Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education, University of Massachusetts, Boston


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Latin american icons Fame Across Borders

E d i t E d b y

Dianna c. niebylski Patrick o’connor

The faces of fame in Latin America—and the power they hold over the World.

Latin American IconsFame across BordersEdited by d i a n n a c . n i E b y l s k i and pat r i c k o ’c o n n o r

he faces of Che, Frida, Evita, Carmen Miranda, and other icons represent Latin America both to a global public that sees these faces constantly reproduced, and to Latin Americans themselves. They enter the circulation machines of Hollywood, or work as nostalgic definitions of a nation, or define a post-national condition. They become stereotypes as they go global, and the often melodramatic stories that cling to them give them a different sort of power than the one they had in their original contexts. The essays in Latin American Icons, from critics both in the United States and in Latin America, ask these faces questions; they describe the tech-nologies and propaganda machines, whether the newspapers of Revolutionary Mexico (or Paris and New York) or the movie studios of

Argentina and Mexico, which gave them power in their local context; and they return their original histories to those faces that have become abstract symbols of The Rebel or The Spitfire or The Tor-tured Artist. In equal parts idolatry and iconoclasm, Latin American Icons recog-nizes and interrogates those Latin Amer-icans who have become larger than life. In trying to understand the meaning of iconic figures in modern Latin America, this volume ranges across every realm of political and cultural life—populist politi-cos, jet-setting ambassador-playboys, soc-cer players, and superstars—to examine the complex play at work in the making and re-making of celebrities within and across national borders.

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Introduction: Reflections on Iconicity, Celebrity and Cultural Crossings Patrick O’Connor and Dianna C. Niebylski

Pancho Villa: Icon of InsurgencyBrian Gollnick

Eva Perón: Excerpts from The Passion and the Exception Beatriz Sarlo

From Korda’s Guerrillero Heroico to Global Brand: Ernesto “Che” GuevaraJ.P. Spicer-Escalante

Joaquín Murrieta and Lola Casanova: Shapeshifting Icons of the Contact ZoneRobert McKee Irwin

Tango International: Carlos Gardel and the Breaking of Sound BarriersRielle Navitski

Lupe Vélez Before Hollywood: Mexico’s First Iconic “Modern Girl”Kristy Rawson

From Hollywood and Back: Dolores Del Río, a Trans(National) StarAna M. López

Carmen Miranda as Cultural IconDavid William Foster

Porfirio Rubirosa: Masculinity, Race, and the Jet-Setting Latin MaleLizabeth Paravasini-Gebert and Eva Woods-Peiró

dianna niebylski is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Humoring Resistance.

patrick o’connor is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College and author of Latin American Fictions and the Narratives of the Perverse.

“Marked by a solid group of essays pro-duced primarily by literary and film studies scholars, this volume offers some important opportunities to examine key representations of Latin American icons. Perhaps more significantly, it frames these representations within the context of the cults of celebrity that have so often over-determined our understandings of these individuals, both past and present.” —María Elena Cepeda, Williams College, author of Musical ImagiNation

“The icons under study—some familiar to us, others not—come alive on the pages.” —Kathryn Sloan, University of Arkansas,author of Women’s Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Face of a Nation: Norma Aleandro as Argentina’s Post-Dictatorial Middle Class IconJanis Breckenridge and Bécquer Medak-Seguín

The Neoliberal Stars: Salma Hayek, Gael García Bernal and the Post-Mexican Film IconIgnacio M. Sánchez Prado

Diego Armando Maradona: Life, Death and Resurrection (with One Act to Follow)Juan Villoro

Fetishizing FridaMargaret Lindauer

Afterword: The Afterlife of Icons and the Future of Iconology Patrick O’Connor and Dianna C. Niebylski


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The Secrets of the Hopewell BoxStolen Elections, Southern Politics, and a City’s Coming of Agej a m e s d. s q u i r e s

Lone Wolf Terrorand the Rise of LeaderlessResistanceg e o r g e m i c h a e l

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“His richly-textured narrative charts the Nashville machine’s rupture with the state’s top political boss, Edward Crump of Memphis, and traces the sweeping reforms that shattered rural white control of the state legislature. Squires dramatically reenacts the downfall of Nashville lawyer Tommy Osborne, convicted of jury tampering in 1964 after defending Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. He follows Nashville’s transformation into a crucible of the civil rights movement in this stirring chronicle of the South’s coming-of-age.” —Publisher’s Weekly

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james d. squires began his newspaper career at the Nashville Tennessean in 1961, and later served as Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune and as editor of the Orlando Sentinel. In 1992 he served as media adviser for Ross Perot’s presidential campaign. His next book is entitled Mink Slide.

“A sometimes eye-goggling history of political corruption in one corner of the postwar South.”—Kirkus Reviews

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Making Myselfat Home in aNursing Homes a n d r a j . g a f f n e y

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