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News of the Week
April 26, 2013
CONTENTS:
Announcements
Reviews
Conferences
North Philly Notes
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Still Philadelphia authors at the Philadelphia History Museum
C.W. Anderson on WHYY's NewsWorks
 C.W. Anderson, author of Rebuilding the News, was a guest on NewsWorks on WHYY (90.1 FM, Philadelphia) on April 24 to discuss changes in Philadelphia journalism. Anderson was also a guest on WURD (900 AM, Philadelphia) on April 25.
Three more Rousso readings
 Harilyn Rousso, author of Don't Call Me Inspirational, spoke at the San Francisco State University on April 25. The event was sponsored by the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Persons with Disabilities, the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women, the Disability Resource Center, and the Department of Disability and Human Development.
Rousso also spoke at the University California, Berkeley on April 26. The event was sponsored by San Francisco State's Paul K. Longmore Institute, and co-sponsored by the Bay Area Disability Studies Consortium.
Rousso will also be at the University of California, Los Angeles on April 29 at 4:00 pm in Royce 306. The conversation is sponsored by the Disability Studies and Center for the Study of Women.
Adia Harvey Wingfield at University of Maryland, College Park
Susan Ostrander at Harvard Book Store
Carol Kelley at the Newburyport Literary Festival
REVIEWS Three Temple University Press titles were reviewed in American Studies, Vol. 52, No. 2
 The review of Oye Como Va! by Deborah Pacini Hernandez, read, "To take on the task of explicating or analyzing Latin popular music presents a difficult endeavor; with the hybrid nature of the Latin music and US adaptations and appropriations, one could easily get lost in the array of musical styles, genres, artists, and record labels. Yet, in her book Oye Como Va, Deborah Pacini Hernandez provides an organized, concise, and informative overview of Latin popular music, specifically in regards to the recording industry’s relationship to Latina/o musicians and audience in the United States....[T]his text offers valuable histories and perspectives on the performance, recording, and marketing of Latin popular music."
 The review of The Public and Its Possibilities by John Fairfield, read, "An ambitious work of scholarly synthesis, The Public and its Possibilities braids together descriptions of socioeconomic trends, cultural conflicts and political philosophy from the late colonial era to the present... Resting on vast historical scholarship, The Public and its Possibilities would provide a useful interpretive spine for an undergraduate history course, comparable in some ways to Eric Foner’s The Story of American Freedom."
 The review of To the City by Julia Foulkes, read, "As a collection of photographs To the City comprises a useful complement to the many anthologies emphasizing the FSA’s rural pictures."
Two Temple University Press titles were reviewed in the May 2013 issue of Contemporary Sociology
 The review of Troubling Gender, by Pablo Vila and Pablo Semán, read, "Anybody interested in gender, sexuality, and especially how music becomes part of the fabric of everyday life, should read Troubling Gender. The subtlety of its analysis makes the book a must for scholars of what is now called 'music sociology.'"
 The review of An Immigrant Neighborhood by Shirley Yee, read, "An Immigrant Neighborhood is an excellent addition to historical studies in community and urban racial and ethnic relations. It provides us with rich stories of individual daily lives in pre-1930 New York’s Lower Manhattan and with various analyses of class, ethnicity, race, and gender. It would be particularly useful for an advanced undergraduate course in American studies, ethnic studies, history, or sociology, and it would also be appropriate for a graduate course."
The Politics of State Feminism was reviewed in Australian Feminist Studies,
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 The Politics of State Feminism by Dorothy McBride and Amy Mazur was featured in a review essay in the September 2012 issue of Australian Feminist Studies. The review read, "This is the capstone book of a large-scale, even hugely ambitious, project led by the authors, which has compared ‘state feminism’ (women’s policy agencies) in 13 countries.... this book is extremely welcome.... it provides a toolkit for those researching the policy influence of women’s movements."
CONFERENCES
Massachusetts Library Association
American Educational Research Association conference
 April 27-May 1 in San Francisco, CA. Paradigm Publishers to display flyers for Critical Race Theory, 3rd edition, edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic.
North Philly Notes
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