Archive: Books
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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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Summer Reading: David Edelstein's Over the Horizon
Georgetown College government professor and Vice Dean David Edelstein published a book last fall titled Over the Horizon, a historical analysis of the behavior of great powers in the face of growing competition.
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McNamer Book Wins MLA Award
Georgetown College English and medieval studies professor Sarah McNamer was awarded the 2017 Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies for her latest book, Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text.
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Sabat Flips the Script on Alzheimer's, Dementia
Steven Sabat, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology, has published Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: What Everyone Needs to Know, the latest in an Oxford series that engages experts to write easily accessible guides to their areas of expertise.
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