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Conclusion
Conclusion
This concluding chapter presents a more general discussion of the interrelationships between ethnicity, organized crime, and social capital, especially as it may apply to the conte...
Benjamin Schreier, The Impossible Jew: Identity and Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 269 pp.
Benjamin Schreier, The Impossible Jew: Identity and Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 269 pp.
This chapter reviews the book The Impossible Jew: Identity and Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History (2015), by Benjamin Schreier. In The Impossible Jew, Schreier chal...
Introduction
Introduction
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore the emergence of the Italian Mafia in one particular setting. It examines a long-standing organizational ...
Were They Pushed?
Were They Pushed?
This chapter paints a picture of the major structural and cultural disadvantages the Italians in Chicago Heights faced in their struggle. In essence, it attempts to show how these ...
“A Lot of Investment, a Lot of Roots”
“A Lot of Investment, a Lot of Roots”
This chapter examines two neighborhood-based movements that challenged redevelopment: Morningside Heights and Cooper Square. It considers how the two areas became policy battlegrou...
The Argument Defended
The Argument Defended
This chapter defends the argument of Chapter 3, optimistic argument 1 (OA1), by focusing on eight objections: 1) the successor objection: is there not a successor problem to any so...
Impossibility
Impossibility
This chapter argues that the very prospect of witnessing in late modern public culture is defined by countervailing imperatives: the publicly lauded ideal that bearing witness to t...
Student-Athletes and Campus Bookies
Student-Athletes and Campus Bookies
This chapter reviews further basketball scandals from the 1980s and 1990s. As the professionalization and commercialization of college sports continued, gambling became increasingl...