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  Theology and Protest Music

  Jonathan H. Harwell, Georgia College & State University and Heidi M. Altman, Georgia Southern University

  3-2023
  

  Songs of protest have been inspiring activists for millennia, and continue to be created, shared, and reworked across musical genres. From the prophet Habakkuk as proto-protest singer, through a broad spectrum of twentieth and twenty-first century artists and diverse faith traditions, Theology and Protest Music gathers compelling contributions that examine Brazilian eschatology, Black liberation and womanism, esoteric Islam in Five Percenter rap, heavy metal as anti-theology, Howard Thurman’s relevance to jazz, Cuban Santería priest Pedrito Martinez’ sacred Batá drumming, as well as theological reflections on Jay-Z, Funkadelic, Marvin Gaye, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and the social justice chorale movement. ... Read more

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  Trans Men in the South: Becoming Men

  Baker A. Rogers, Georgia Southern University

  1-2020
  

  Through the voices of 51 trans men, Baker A. Rogers analyzes what it means to be a trans man in the southeastern United States. Rogers argues that the common themes that pervade trans men’s experiences in the South are complicated by other intersecting identities, such as sexuality, religion, race, class, and place. This study explores the intersectionalities of a group of people who are often invisible, by choice or necessity, in broader culture. Rogers engages with debates about trans experiences of masculinity, ‘passing,’ and discrimination within LGTBQ spaces in order to provide a comprehensive study of trans men’s experiences.

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  Internet and Health in Brazil: Challenges and Trends

  Andre Pereira Neto, Escola Nacional De Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca and Matthew B. Flynn, Georgia Southern University

  2019
  

  The popularization of the Internet, due in larger part to the advent of multifunctional cell phones, poses new challenges for health professionals, patients, and caregivers as well as creates new possibilities for all of us. This comprehensive volume analyzes how this social phenomenon is transforming long-established healthcare practices and perceptions in a country with one of the highest numbers of Internet users: Brazil.

  The authors establish a critical and creative debate with international scholarship on the subject. This book is written in a direct and comprehensible way for professionals, researchers, students of communication and health, as well as for stakeholders ... Read more

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  Conditionally Accepted: Christians’ Perspectives on Homosexuality & Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights

  Baker A. Rogers, Georgia Southern University

  12-13-2019
  

  This book explores Mississippi Christians’ beliefs about homosexuality and gay and lesbian civil rights and whether having a gay or lesbian friend or family member influences those beliefs. Beliefs about homosexuality and gay and lesbian rights vary widely based on religious affiliation. Despite having gay or lesbian friends or family members, evangelical Protestants believe homosexuality is sinful and oppose gay and lesbian rights. Mainline Protestants are largely supportive of gay and lesbian rights and become more supportive after getting to know gay and lesbian people. Catholics describe a greater degree of uncertainty and a conditional acceptance of gay and lesbian ... Read more

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  Prejudice in the Press? Investigating Bias in Coverage of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Religion

  George Yancey, Baylor University and Alicia Brunson, Georgia Southern University

  11-13-2019
  

  Charges of “fake news” tend to be politically motivated whether made by Republicans or Democrats. Yet the potential for media bias is real and deserves an honest assessment.
  Using an audit technique—providing journalists with similar scenarios but altering key details—the authors evaluate whether reporters and editors write different narratives depending on the characteristics of the principle issues in the story. The results indicate that race, gender, sexuality and religion have little effect on whether a story will be covered, but do color the story that is written.
  Data suggest that news personnel may be operating in ways that promote progressive political leanings. ... Read more

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  Challenging Immigration Detention- Academic, Activists, and Policy-makers

  Michael J. Flynn, Global Detention Project and Matthew B. Flynn, Georgia Southern University

  2017
  

  Immigration detention is an important global phenomenon increasingly practiced by states across the world in which human rights violations are commonplace. Challenging Immigration Detention introduces readers to various disciplines that have addressed immigration detention in recent years and how these experts have sought to challenge underlying causes and justifications for detention regimes. Contributors provide an overview of the key issues addressed in their disciplines, discuss key points of contention, and seek out linkages and interactions with experts from other fields.

  Edited by Michael J. Flynn, Global Detention Project, Switzerland and Matthew B. Flynn, Georgia Southern University, US

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  Pharmaceutical Autonomy and Public Health in Latin America: State, Society, and Industry in Brazil’s AIDS Program

  Matthew Flynn, Georgia Southern University

  2015
  

  Brazil has occupied a central role in the access to medicines movement, especially with respect to drugs used to treat those with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). How and why Brazil succeeded in overcoming powerful political and economic interests, both at home and abroad, to roll-out and sustain treatment represents an intellectual puzzle.

  In this book, Matthew Flynn traces the numerous challenges Brazil faced in its efforts to provide essential medicines to all of its citizens. Using dependency theory, state theory, and moral underpinnings of markets, Flynn delves deeper into the salient ... Read more

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  Living Together, Living Apart Mixed Status Families and US Immigration Policy

  April M. Schueths, Georgia Southern University and Jodie Lawston, California State University, San Marcos

  11-2015
  

  Immigration reform remains one of the most contentious issues in the United States today. For mixed status families-families that include both citizens and noncitizens-this is more than a political issue: it's a deeply personal one. Undocumented family members and legal residents lack the rights and benefits of their family members who are US citizens, while family members and legal residents sometimes have their rights compromised by punitive immigration policies based on a strict "citizen/noncitizen" dichotomy.

  This collection of personal narratives and academic essays is the first to focus on the daily lives and experiences, as well as the broader social ... Read more

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  The Norton Mix: Sociology

  Nathan Palmer, Georgia Southern University; Tanya Gladney, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota; Erica Hunter, University at Albany, State University of New York; and Fernando I. Rivera, University of Central Florida

  1-1-2013
  
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  Eastern Cherokee Fishing

  Heidi M. Altman, Georgia Southern University

  2006
  

  Cherokee identity as revealed in fishing methods and materials.

  In Eastern Cherokee Fishing, life histories, folktales, and reminiscences about fish gathered from interviews with Cherokee and non-Cherokee people provide a clear and personal picture of the changes in the Qualla Boundary (Eastern Band of the) Cherokee in the last 75 years. Coupled with documentary research, these ethnographic histories illuminate changes in the language, culture, and environment (particularly, aquatic resources) since contact with Europeans and examine the role these changes have played in the traditions and lives of the contemporary Cherokees.

  Interviewees include a great range of informants, from native ... Read more

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  Irish Priests in the United States: A Vanishing Subculture

  William L. Smith, Georgia Southern University

  6-2004
  

  Four thousand Irish-born and Irish-seminary educated priests have served in the United States and nearly 1,250 are currently affiliated with American dioceses. The Irish-Catholic upbringing of these priests, along with their Irish education, immigrant status, and missionary spirit, distinguish them from American-born priests. These priests have left an indelible mark in the U.S. primarily by staffing Catholic parishes in the South, West, and Southwest. They are, however, a vanishing subculture due to an increasing mortality rate and the dearth of vocations to the priesthood in Ireland.
  
  This book is the beginning of a much-needed discussion about the experiences and beliefs of ... Read more

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  Families and Communes: An Examination of Nontraditional Lifestyles

  William L. Smith, Georgia Southern University

  8-27-1999
  

  This book focuses specifically on the role of the family in communal life. Communal groups are one type of nontraditional families, some communes are predisposed to families while others are not and some communal families can be replacements or substitutes for nuclear families. Historic communal groups such as Shakers, Oneida, Amana, and the Mormons are investigated as are contemporary rural and urban communal groups such as Twin Oaks, Jesus People USA, and the Hutterites.