SUNY Press new books for spring 2004 contents general interest / 1–11 anthropology / 47 asian studies / 44–46 communication / 50–52 cultural studies / 26–29 education / 53–57 environmental studies / 48 film studies / 29–30 history / 49 literature / 30–36 middle eastern studies / 48 now available / 12–13 philosophy / 36–44 political science / 14–20 psychology / 24–26 religious studies / 22–23 sociology / 20–21 author index / 69 backlist bestsellers / 71–inside back cover contributors and affiliations / 63–68 education backlist bestsellers / 57 order form / 59–61 ordering information / 62 State University sales representation / 58 of New York Press 90 State Street, Suite 700 title index / 70 Albany, NY 12207-1707 Phone: 518-472-5000 Cover and interior design by Michael R. Campochiaro Cover photographs (clockwise from top left): Fax: 518-472-5038 1. Dennis Hopper photograph by Chris Buck. Used with kind permission of the photogra- e-mail: [email protected] pher. From Bad by Murray Pomerance, p. 30. www.sunypress.edu 2. Times Square photograph by Hilary Neroni. From The End of Dissatisfaction? by Todd McGowan, p. 28. 3. Little Italy photograph by Renato Rotolo. From Leaving Little Italy by Fred L. Gardaphe, p. A proud member 27 4. Winding road photograph from Confronting Evil by Fred Emil Katz, p. 6. of the Association of 5. Aurora Bernardez photograph by Sara Facio. From Mothers, Lovers, and Others by American University Presses Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz, p. 36. The Semitica fonts used to create this work are © 1986-2003 Payne Loving Trust. They are available from Linguist’s Software, Inc., www.linguistsoftware.com, PO Box 580, Edmonds, WA 98020-0580 USA, tel (425) 775-1130. general interest LIFE IN THE WHITE HOUSE A Social History of the First Family and the President’s House Robert P. Watson, editor This unique perspective on the “Life in the White House is a White House, one of the most pleasure to read. In fact, I could readily identifiable structures in not put it down. It is filled with the world, brings together the anecdotal stories that range views of librarians, journalists, from funny to tragic. One gets political advisers, attorneys, a real sense of what it was like to researchers, and professors. live there. This book should be in Filled with anecdotes, little- every presidential library.” known facts, and scholarly — Anthony J. Eksterowicz, analysis, the book shows how coeditor of The Post-Cold “The People’s House” has been War Presidency Interdisciplinary essays on the shaped and molded both White House and the lives architecturally and philosophi- “This is a unique and interesting of first families. cally by the different administra- compilation that is carefully tions over the past 200 years. researched and written in an engaging and accessible style. May / 336 pages Erudite and entertaining, By focusing on both the struc- Illustrated: 5 b/w photographs, Life in the White House looks ture of the White House and its 17 tables at the social history of the many usages, the contributors $18.95/T pb ISBN 0-7914-6098-3 first family, the creation of give an unusually complete and $57.50 hc ISBN 0-7914-6097-5 the president’s home, and efforts comprehensive view of life at by first families to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” For a list of contributors, carve out a space for the — Mary Linehan, see page 63. important business of family, Spalding University while preserving the history of their famous residence. Robert P. Watson is Associate HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE This public museum and private Professor of Political Science residence, which began as the at Florida Atlantic University. result of a $500 Jefferson-era He has published several books, architectural design contest, including the coedited volume now symbolizes one of the (with Colton C. Campbell) world’s great superpowers. Campaigns and Elections: Issues, Concepts, Cases. For more information on this title please visit www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60933 www.sunypress.edu / 1 general interest THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE AND THE MAKING OF HISTORY Kass Fleisher At dawn on January 29, 1863, U.S. public, Kass Fleisher Union-affiliated troops chronicles the massacre itself, under the command of and investigates the National Col. Patrick Connor were Park Service’s proposal to create brought by Mormon guides a National Historic Site to to the banks of the Bear River, commemorate the massacre— where, with the tacit approval but not the rape. When she finds of Abraham Lincoln, they herself arguing with a Shoshoni attacked and slaughtered woman elder about whether nearly three hundred North- the rape actually occurred, Explores how a pivotal event in western Shoshoni men, women, Fleisher is forced to confront her U.S. history—the killing of nearly and children. Evidence suggests own role as a maker of this 300 Shoshoni men, women, that, in the hours after the conflicted history, and to exam- and children in 1863—has attack, the troops raped the ine the legacy of white women been contested, forgotten, surviving women—an act still “busybodies.” and remembered. denied by some historians and Shoshoni elders. In exploring Kass Fleisher is an Assistant why a seminal act of genocide Professor of English at Illinois April / 352 pages is still virtually unknown to the State University. Illustrated: 2 b/w photographs $23.95/T pb ISBN 0-7914-6064-9 $71.50 hc ISBN 0-7914-6063-0 NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES For more information on this title please visit http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60920 2 / www.sunypress.edu general interest “In this remarkable book, Fleisher exposes and analyzes perhaps the best concealed mass rape in the U.S. experience. Her probing analysis forces us to consider how racism and sexism have converged to silence victims, protect abusers of power, and advance the interests of colonialism.” — Maria Bevacqua, author of Rape on the Public Agenda: Feminism and the Politics of Sexual Assault “The most intriguing dimension is the thrust, from a fascinating variety of viewpoints, to achieve redemption—a great and signal effort encompassing and, however awkwardly, transcending race and ethnicity, religion and non-religion, tribal generations and tribal factions and, very basically, the skeletal hand of History.” — Hunter Gray, activist and author (as John R. Salter Jr.) of Jackson, Mississippi “This is a troubling book in the way that any stirring-up troubles surfaces, whether surface understandings, feelings, memories, or the wounds that mark the white space of conven- tional history like strangled words. These are stories you feel, which Fleisher has felt, stirrings and troublings that flow from the wounds of the raped and dead, over space and time, eventually becoming a dark blanket from which, again and again, a dreamer awakens and walks forth. We are the dreamer awakening, we are the massacred, ours are these stirring stories.” — Michael Joyce, author of Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions Illustrations by Thomas Quimby. For more information on this title please visit http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60920 www.sunypress.edu / 3 general interest WHEN THE MUSIC STOPPED Discovering My Mother Thomas J. Cottle This is the story of one woman’s a deft blend of passion and decision to forfeit a brilliant restraint, light and darkness, career for the sake of mother- pain and life-giving humor.” hood. Once a child prodigy, — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Gitta Gradova traveled the world author of Balm In Gilead: as an internationally acclaimed Journey of a Healer and Respect: concert pianist, performing An Exploration recitals as well as appearing with prominent orchestras of her era. “Thomas J. Cottle has written Her son Thomas J. Cottle uses a fascinating book about written records, interviews, and a remarkable woman. It couples personal reminiscence to recon- an intimate insight into the A son’s coming to terms with struct her life, as well as their artist’s life with a warm memoir his mother’s decision to abandon own mother-son relationship. He of a musician’s world ... Read this her career as a concert pianist is at times book for edification and sheer in order to raise her children. a storyteller, at times a psycholo- pleasure.” — Gary Graffman, gist, at times a son seeking to pianist and author of I Really uncover those aspects of his Should Be Practicing March / 320 pages mother’s life he could never Illustrated: 14 b/w photographs know, or perhaps, chose not “This book is a work of extraor- $20.50/T jacketed hc only ISBN 0-7914-5997-7 to know until it was too late. dinary brilliance. Cottle brings his mother to life mainly “After decades of listening, through the use of her dialogue, MEMOIR witnessing, and documenting including her colorful Yiddish the life stories of others— expressions ... he offers us with insight, empathy, a complex view of his mother, and grace—in When the Music one that incorporates psychody- Stopped, Thomas J. Cottle turns namic, cognitive, and familial the light and lens on himself and explanations. It is a story I will his family, producing his most never forget.” — Jeffrey Berman, beautiful and courageous work author of Risky Writing: yet. Balancing the voices of a Self-Disclosure and Self-Trans- fiercely loving son, a skeptical formation in the Classroom social scientist, and a masterful storyteller, Cottle captures the Thomas J. Cottle is a sociolo- remarkable life of his mother, gist, clinical psychologist, and Gitta Gradova, a world-re- Professor of Education at Boston nowned concert pianist. University who has written more His writing itself is music; than twenty-five books, pub- lished in several languages. For more information on this title please visit http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60884 4 / www.sunypress.edu general interest FUNNY, IT DOESN’T SOUND JEWISH How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Holly- wood Jack Gottlieb While numerous studies have “Jack Gottlieb knows how to explored the African roots and talk, knows what he’s talking wide influence of jazz and blues, about, and what he’s talking little has been written about the about is worth heeding ..