Archive: Books
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New Book Series Emphasizes the Role of Class and Poverty in Psychology
Professor Fathali Moghaddam’s new book series, Progressive Psychology, highlights how social conditions, such as poverty and inequality, influence and affect the mind.
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Understanding the Psychology of Immigration Through an International Framework
A new book from Fathali Moghaddam and Margaret Hendricks explores the psychology underpinning extreme reactions to immigration.
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The International Order Benefits When America Plays Its Part, Georgetown Professor Argues in New Book
Robert Lieber’s new book, Indispensable Nation, argues the United States should play a stronger leadership role in the international order.
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The Untold Story of the Windy City: Georgetown Professor Paints New History of Mexican Americans in Chicago
Mike Amezcua’s new book, Making Mexican Chicago, tells the story of the Windy City as it was built by its Mexican and Mexican-American population, exploring the ways in which post-WWII federal policies, funding and priorities shaped the reality of urban lives in the second half of the 20th century.
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Can Dialogue Engender Solidarity? A New Book Invites Conversation and Action Between Blacks and Jews in America
GU Press is publishing Blacks and Jews in America by Terrence L. Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau. The book invites a dialogue and collective action between the Jewish and African American communities.
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Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism Linked to Climate Crisis: New Book Explores the Connection
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, reimagines what the reparations movements responding to Trans-Atlantic slavery and colonialism should look like and how they can function.
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Library Acquires Rare Logbook That Illustrates Life Aboard a Slave Ship
A recent gift to Georgetown University Library, now digitized and made available online, provides poignant and valuable insight into the Atlantic slave trade. “As historians, we need to find new ways to bring archival materials to life,” Prof. Adam Rothman says.
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Major Crises Can Turn Democracies Into Dictatorships, Book Claims
Crisis incidents have the potential to turn a democracy into a dictatorship, even in a country like America, Psychology professor Fathali Moghaddam contends in his latest book.
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New Book Examines Relationship Between R&B Culture, Black Aspirations
A new book by Robert Patterson (C’02), chair of the Department of African American Studies, examines how post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues culture articulates competing and conflicting political, social, familial and economic desires within African American communities.
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Benton-Cohen Teaches Immigration History in Japan Residency
Professor Katherine Benton-Cohen visited Japan last summer as part of an academic residency.
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