The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, community assessment, and the power of the arts, the Internet, social media, and policy and media advocacy in such work. The use of participatory evaluation and strategies and tips on fundraising for community organizing also are presented, as are the ethical challenges that can arise in this work, and helpful tools for anticipating and addressing them. 

As they were not underrepresented, Asian American students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were denied minority student services. Over many decades, Asian American students fought to be seen and heard, challenging the university’s narrow view of minority students, and changing campus resources for Asian Americans.
 

This edited collection of more than one hundred primary sources from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s—including newspaper and magazine articles, popular culture materials, and government records—reveals how Americans debated their responsibility to respond to Nazism. It includes valuable resources for students and historians seeking to shed light on this dark era in world history.

This revised and expanded edition of Daniel Wolff’s classic study of Asbury Park, New Jersey tells the tale of the city’s first 150 years, guiding us through the development of its lavish amusement parks and bandstands, the decay of its working-class neighborhoods, the spread of its racially-segregated ghettos, and the effects of recent gentrification.

With examples taken from both the Golden Ages of DC and Marvel comics, as well as more recent superhero comics, films, television, and merchandising, this study provides a comprehensive look at the contradictory messages the superhero genre sends about love, sexuality, and gender.