Rural Education for the Twenty-First Century: Identity, Place, and Community in a Globalizing World edited by Kai A. Schafft and Alecia Youngblood Jackson. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. 328 pp. $29.95 (paper).

2012 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-251
Author(s):  
Kathleen Budge

Author(s):  
Gregory Rosenthal

This book’s epilogue considers how the story of the rise and fall of Hawaiʻi’s indigenous workers—and the diasporic, migratory nature of their experiences—revolutionizes what we think we know about the place of Hawaiʻi in the Pacific, and the place of the Pacific in the world. I also raise questions about what this story can contribute to twenty-first-century struggles over capitalism and colonialism in Hawaiʻi as well as across our globalizing world. The epilogue looks specifically at the twenty-first-century legacies of nineteenth-century practices and experiences of Hawaiian migrant labor, state labor discipline, indigenous land dispossession, policing and incarceration, and life in “perpetual diaspora.”



2020 ◽  
pp. 487-488

Although Appalachia and its authors resist political definition and economic category, one can say that twenty-first century Appalachian writers attempt to define what changes and what endures in a rapidly globalizing world. As Pulitzer Prize finalist Maurice Manning has noted, at the core of Appalachian literature is a tension between an appreciation of the region and an “anxiety for legitimacy”; this observation reflects the challenges facing authors from a region still often seen as “other” by the broader American culture. Some contemporary Appalachian authors explore which traditions are worth preserving and which ones should fall by the wayside, while others consider how to preserve and expand their Appalachian identity, a process that they sometimes connect with preservation and innovation in literary style. In short, many twentieth-century Appalachian authors cultivate in their readers an appreciation of Appalachian perspectives from a self-aware otherness that is sometimes tradition tethered yet is willing to go far beyond received notions about the region.



2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-225

Manufacturing Suburbs , by Robert Lewis ( ed. ). Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2004 . 304 pp . ISBN 1‐59213‐085‐2 ( cloth ) $68.50. ISBN 1‐59213‐086‐0 ( paper ) $24.95. Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism , by Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg . New York , NY : Verso , 2002 . 182 pp . ISBN 1‐85984‐363‐8 ( cloth ) $20.00 . Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles , by Eric Avila . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2004 . Volume 13 in the American Crossroads Series , edited by Earl Lewis, George Lipsitz, Peggy Pascoe, George Sánchez, and Dana Tagaki . 308 pp . ISBN 0‐520‐24121‐5 ( cloth ) $39.95 . Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty‐First Century , by David Brown and Louis Swanson ( eds .). State College , PA : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2003 . 513 pp ., NPL . Home Ownership and Social Inequality in Comparative Perspective , by Karin Kurz and Hans‐Peter Blossfeld ( eds. ). Stanford , California : Stanford University Press , 2004 . 385 pp . ISBN 0‐8047‐4851‐9 ( cloth ) $70.00 .



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