Books: Summer 2017

A SAMPLING OF NEW AND FORTHCOMING TITLES FROM OUR COLLEGE COMMUNITY:   The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco University of Pennsylvania Press, June 2017 By Cary...

Can We Talk?: Why Discourse is Dying in America

I’ll have to admit that I was a bit perplexed when I heard linguistic anthropologist Elizabeth Keating say, “There is a very strong preference for agreement in conversation in the U.S.” I couldn’t...

A Monumental Decision: What to do About Jefferson Davis and the Challenges of Commemoration?

Let’s talk about statues, or one statue in particular, and all of the trouble a cold, hard, unfeeling thing can cause. Imagine you are the president of a very large, prestigious institution, representative...