scholarly journals Book Review: Crips and Bloods: A Guide to an American Subculture

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 324
Author(s):  
Lisa Presley
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Criminal Syndicate ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Hierarchical Features

The features of this slim volume include ten chapters that are arranged topically; in addition, there is a glossary, references section, and index. In the front matter, there is a very useful timeline that highlights some of the key events associated with the formation and history of the Crips and Bloods from the 1960s to 2005. In the introductory chapter, the author explains that “there is very little systematic research on the Bloods and Crips” (12), with limited and biased information being reported and published either by gang members in autobiographies or by law enforcement and government agencies. The author does a good job of offering a balanced viewpoint about these gangs (sets) by neither demonizing nor glorifying them. The author provides information about Crips’ and Bloods’ role in crime and drug dealing but rejects the notion that they are an organized criminal syndicate, due to their lack of hierarchical features.

scholarly journals Chapter 1 Introduction to the Jurassic Arabian Intrashelf Basin

10.1144/m53.1 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. O. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
General Setting ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Oil Reserves ◽  
Subsequent Chapter ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intrashelf Basin ◽  
Key Events

AbstractThe Jurassic Arabian Intrashelf Basin provides the setting for the world's greatest conventional oil reserves, including the world's largest oilfield, the supergiant Ghawar field. The stratigraphic interval corresponding to the development and infill of the Arabian Intrashelf Basin is from the uppermost Dhruma Formation to the top of the Hith Anhydrite Formation, spanning the late Bathonian–early Callovian to Tithonian. Many areas of the intrashelf basin have been well described in recent years and the stratigraphic succession has been defined in sequence concepts, but the regional development of the intrashelf basin has not been well synthesized. This Memoir builds on published data to give a regional interpretation of the geological evolution of the Arabian Intrashelf Basin. This introductory chapter reviews some of the earlier work, summarizes the key events and elements in the geological history of the Arabian Intrashelf Basin and gives a brief review of the history of petroleum exploration in this region. It is intended to serve as an extended abstract to introduce the general setting and summarize the contents of this Memoir, including some of the proposed revisions of depositional models, correlations and the sequence nomenclature, providing a context for considering and evaluating each subsequent chapter. The themes summarized in this chapter are documented and discussed in much greater detail in the subsequent chapters of this Memoir.

scholarly journals Book review

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffroy de Laforcade
Keyword(s):  
Black Power ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Caribbean Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Presence Africaine

Amzat Boukari-Yabara's portrait of Guyanese scholar and activist Walter Rodney (Walter Rodney: Un historien engagé, 1942-1980, Paris: Présence Africaine, 2018) is not a traditional biography, but rather a narrative of the context in which he deployed his work as an historian and a politically engaged contributor to African and Caribbean studies in the 1960s and 1970s. The author, like Rodney himself, believes that the history of African and Afro-diasporic peoples should be written from the Africas and the Americas themselves. Whether writing about the history of the slave trade, the African past, decolonization or black power, the biographer expertly conveys Rodney's erudition while directing students of these issues toward a broader retrospective, contextualization and actualization of his thought. More than any existing biography or chronicle of Rodney's life, it is a book that redefines and actualizes what it means to be an “historien engagé,” a politically and socially committed student of the past and its lessons for the present.

Introduction: A Quick History of the Present

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hopkin
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Racial Hatred ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The 1960S

This introductory chapter provides a background of anti-system politics. The term “anti-system” was coined by political scientist Giovanni Sartori in the 1960s to describe political parties that articulated opposition to the liberal democratic political order in Western democracies. The reasons for the rise in anti-system politics are structural, and have been a long time brewing. The success of anti-system parties forces us to ask fundamental questions about the nature of the political and economic system, and the way in which the twenty-first-century market economy affects people’s lives. Rather than dismissing anti-system politics as “populism,” driven by racial hatred, nebulous foreign conspiracies, or an irrational belief in “fake news,” people need to start by understanding what has gone wrong in the rich democracies to alienate so many citizens from those who govern them.

“Stones Run It”

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 911-932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Cooley
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Street Gangs ◽  
Gang Members ◽  
Know How ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

In the 1960s and 1970s African American “supergangs” emerged in Chicago. Many scholars have touted the “prosocial” goals of these gangs but fail to contextualize them in the larger history of black organized crime. Thus, they have overlooked how gang members sought to reclaim the underground economy in their neighborhoods. Yet even as gangs drove out white organized crime figures, they often lacked the know-how to reorganize the complex informal economy. Inexperienced gang members turned to extreme violence, excessive recruitment programs, and unforgiving extortion schemes to take power over criminal activities. These methods alienated black citizens and exacerbated tensions with law enforcement. In addition, the political shelter enjoyed by the previous generation of black criminals was turned into pervasive pressure to break up street gangs. Black street gangs fulfilled their narrow goal of community control of vice. Their interactions with their neighbors, however, remained contentious.

scholarly journals Book Review: Stories, Songs and Stretches: Creating Playful Storytimes with Yoga and Movement

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Jenny Foster Stenis
Keyword(s):  
Children And Families ◽  
Modern Yoga ◽  
History Of

Katie Scherrer, a well-known library consultant and a registered yoga teacher, has combined her expertise in these two fields to provide librarians with a manual to guide them on how to present yoga in storytime “to engage children and families through embodied play” (x). A brief introductory chapter gives a history of the development of modern yoga and explains the benefits of introducing yoga to children.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Clare Hutton
Keyword(s):  
Publication History ◽  
Genetic Significance ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Events

This introductory chapter introduces the key facts in the publication history of Ulysses, including the key events behind the serialization of the text in the Little Review between 1918 and 1920. It discusses the ways in which errors entered Joyce’s text and looks, briefly, at the editorial rationale and controversy of Hans Walter Gabler’s Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses (1984). This introductory chapter also provides a summary of the study’s four-chapter structure and states the key argument of the book: that the serialization of Ulysses is of critical, contextual, and genetic significance for the interpretation of the work as a whole.

scholarly journals Book Review: Human Medical Experimentation: From Smallpox Vaccines to Secret Government Programs

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Michael F. Bemis
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Government Programs ◽  
Medical Experimentation ◽  
Dark Ages ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Events

Tests involving the living human body is a topic with a long and troubling history, yet without these trials, we would all still be living in medical dark ages. In her “Preface,” editor Frankenburg states that “This encyclopedia covers some of the key events and people involved in the history of experimentation on humans. The goal is to provide a readable reference for those wanting to learn more about the experiments themselves as well as the researchers who explore health and illness by carrying out tests on human subjects” (xi).

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