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This book is an exposé of a secret American operation during World War II to seize 4,000 Germans from Latin America and intern them in camps in the Texas desert. Rather than Nazi spies and saboteurs, they turned out to be a broad range of German immigrants, even Jewish refugees, most of whom posed no danger to national security. Research in seven countries reveals the diplomatic intrigues and human impact of a misguided policy that offers important lessons about US relations with Latin America, the failure to rescue victims of the Holocaust, and the treatment of civilians in wartime.
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Learning from the past.......2003-11-20
Nazis and Good Neighbors is a meticulously researched account of U.S. involvement in Latin America during World War II. It lucidly explains the motivation of the United States in arranging and financing the imprisonment and deportation of thousands of Axis citizens who were legal residents in Central and South America.
Max Paul Friedman combines historical facts with an engaging style. The result is riveting reading. The impact this secret program had on Latin American governments and the people involved is clear. The parallel to U.S. policies toward "enemy aliens"today, is unmistakable.
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Title: Nazis and Good Neighbors: the United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II.(Book Review)
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Volume: 91
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Title: Nazis and Good Neighbors: the United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II.(Book Review)
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Pedagogies of Resistance: Women Educator Activists, 1880-960.......2003-05-06
Pedagogies of Resistance: Women Educator Activists, 1880-1960. M.S. Crocco, P. Munro and K. Weiler. New York and London: Teacher College, 1999. 132 pp.
The period in which six extraordinary women educators were very active was a crucial one in the history of the United States. It happened in the preliminary development of feminism: women's club, suffrage and civil rights organization, teachers' associations, settlement houses and the suffrage, which eventually won the vote for white women. The book begins with the time during which women like Jane Addams and Ida B Wells developed their views of education as a wide-ranging endeavor that could be the basis for social change. Within public education, leaders like Elizabeth Almira Allen of New Jersey fought for public school women teachers' right to job security and pensions. Although they were well-educated, reflective, and articulate leaders, Wells and Marion Thompson Wright were constantly placed as both different and inferior because of their gender and race. Pedagogies of Resistance strand them on its key note as women of strength by portraying how they were both empowered by the possibilities of educational careers, but at the same time they were alienated and consistently demeaned, as their authority was continually undercut by their caste status. As for Wright, she also had to face the entrenched sexism of Howard University, where she taught. Crocco, Munro & Weiler, furthermore encompasses how "(Corrine) Seed's and (Helen) Heffernan's challenge to the established social order manifested itself not only in their advocacy of progressive and democratic schools of California, but also in their willingness to defend outsiders groups such as the children of migrant farm workers during the Depression or Japanese American children during the World War II relocation."
The authors accomplishes their purpose of illuminating and highlighting courageous lives and work of six activist women educators during 1880 to 1960, as educational leaders and professionals. They convey how these women's collective focus and vision of education developed a base for establishing lessons of democracy. Providing all members of society with the same sense of empowerment these six women themselves had found was in sharp contrast to dominant ideas of the elite intellects at the time. "Their advance ideas about democracy foreshadowed the arguments of the current multicultural education movement that democracy must be multiple, inclusive, and collective. This was a time of intense conflict over the shape and purpose of education, as radical unions and socialist organizations, intellectuals and teachers and academics influenced Deweyan ideas contested the growing dominance of conceptions of standardization and social efficiency (Crocco, Munro & Weiler, 1999, p.118). These women educators did not just implement other's ideas of progressive education, their contribution and work extended the provincial concept of what progressive education meant in domains not previously considered.
In conclusion, the reader will perceive that the book's central theme is set and accomplished with Munro's persuasive stance on page 21. She writes, "I contend that these collective efforts at building community were a form of democracy in action. Interactions among academics, women's clubs, and immigrants served an important educational function by providing a mechanism for people of various classes to `speak together' as a means for widening understanding of different communities and enlarging active involvement in the work of social change (Crocco, Munro & Weiler, 1999)." These network and organizations shaped women's culture and identity that was pivotal to America's social and political development. The authors build the book well on this social-political development in the early 20th century as it influenced educational reform and theories of curriculum to rethinking educational history from an alternate perspective.
A Tale about Women Activists.......2003-04-28
The authors of the book, Pedagogies of Resistance, tell a tale about six women educator activists from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Crocco, Munro, and Weiler tale a tell which depicts their struggles and triumphs, the pitfalls they encounter, to which one ultimately succumbs, the mountains they not only climb, but stand strong at the summit, reaching it with pride, dignity, and courage, and finally attempts to capture the souls of these women as they try to make a better world for us... one that puts education first. It's a tale recounting how reform was enacted, how it developed and how it evolved to transform schools, districts, government, education, and people. Women stood strong in their beliefs and fought to change the way society treated not only women, but also immigrants and migrant workers. For example, the Hull House, which was established by Jane Addams, "... was grounded in the understanding that meaningful learning and social action occurred only when education allowed learners to define their own needs and acknowledged women, immigrants, and migrants as creators of knowledge" (p. 9). The main belief and notion throughout this book stressed the importance of men not being the only successful activists within the American educational system. The authors noted that though these women were strong, the "... power remained in the hands of a small circle of males" (p. 51).
One person, however, detailed in the book is not notable or noteworthy in my opinion... Marion Thompson Wright. Though Ms. Wright was a scholar and an academician, she gave up her children, two husbands, and literally her life for a quest of equality within the university system. She fought to be a professor in a man's world... in a world where Black women were supposed to be subservient and ill educated. Wright believed that all people should be extended the right to an education and the right for social justice and equality. She "... trusted that the democratic process, through the energetic advocacy of individuals like herself, could fulfill its promise of social and racial justice for all citizens" (p. 70). Yes, she was a model of success within academia, but she had to lie to be able to achieve that success. The price for that lie... her family, her sanity, and her morality. Eventually, she paid the highest price possible and took her own life. Though her success professionally is noted, I do not consider her achievements noteworthy or admirable.
Though the stories the author's tell continue to perpetuate the idea that we did and continue to live in a patriarchal society, the also help show how women stand up and fight for their beliefs, values, and ideas. Most books recount the tales of men and how they triumph to create or establish new schools, ideologies, and laws... most books forget to mention the female activists who fought at the same time for those same rights for all people, regardless of race, gender or class. Crocoo, Munro, and Weiler enable others to gain insight into the lives, struggles, and achievements of six women, who for their time period, were ahead of the game.
A Tale about Women Activists.......2003-04-28
The authors of the book, Pedagogies of Resistance, tell a tale about six women educator activists from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Crocco, Munro, and Weiler tale a tell which depicts their struggles and triumphs, the pitfalls they encounter, to which one ultimately succumbs, the mountains they not only climb, but stand strong at the summit, reaching it with pride, dignity, and courage, and finally attempts to capture the souls of these women as they try to make a better world for us... one that puts education first. It's a tale recounting how reform was enacted, how it developed and how it evolved to transform schools, districts, government, education, and people. Women stood strong in their beliefs and fought to change the way society treated not only women, but also immigrants and migrant workers. For example, the Hull House, which was established by Jane Addams, "... was grounded in the understanding that meaningful learning and social action occurred only when education allowed learners to define their own needs and acknowledged women, immigrants, and migrants as creators of knowledge" (p. 9). The main belief and notion throughout this book stressed the importance of men not being the only successful activists within the American educational system. The authors noted that though these women were strong, the "... power remained in the hands of a small circle of males" (p. 51).
One person, however, detailed in the book is not notable or noteworthy in my opinion... Marion Thompson Wright. Though Ms. Wright was a scholar and an academician, she gave up her children, two husbands, and literally her life for a quest of equality within the university system. She fought to be a professor in a man's world... in a world where Black women were supposed to be subservient and ill educated. Wright believed that all people should be extended the right to an education and the right for social justice and equality. She "... trusted that the democratic process, through the energetic advocacy of individuals like herself, could fulfill its promise of social and racial justice for all citizens" (p. 70). Yes, she was a model of success within academia, but she had to lie to be able to achieve that success. The price for that lie... her family, her sanity, and her morality. Eventually, she paid the highest price possible and took her own life. Though her success professionally is noted, I do not consider her achievements noteworthy or admirable.
Though the stories the author's tell continue to perpetuate the idea that we did and continue to live in a patriarchal society, the also help show how women stand up and fight for their beliefs, values, and ideas. Most books recount the tales of men and how they triumph to create or establish new schools, ideologies, and laws... most books forget to mention the female activists who fought at the same time for those same rights for all people, regardless of race, gender or class. Crocoo, Munro, and Weiler enable others to gain insight into the lives, struggles, and achievements of six women, who for their time period, were ahead of the game.
Pedagogies of Resistance.......2003-04-28
The book Pedagogies of Resisitance highlights the efforts of six accomplished female educators. The book portrays each woman effectively both in their personal life and their professional life. The accounts of the journeys that these women embarked on give us a true picture of what it means to be a progressive education activist in the Progressive Era and today. It also provides today's teachers with true accounts of how to be a maker of change. The women in this book were also forced to confront their own ideas of education and what it means to be a professional and to have a career.
In Jane Adams and Ida B. Wells, we meet two women whose work in settlement houses and women's clubs seek to promote a vision of education that was community based and directed toward social equality - an effort that was largely ignored by educational history. Marion Thompson Wright and Elizabeth Almira Allen enlisted others in their work that created a grass roots movement that collectively resisted centralized forms of education and supported a vision of education of social equality. For their work, they received less professional recognition than men in their field did. Their views created controversy and as a result, their personal lives remained scarred.
Helen Heffernan and Corinne Seeds were committed to social equality and saw public education as central to that task. For their accomplishments and struggles they have been rewarded by being forgotten, largely due to their gender.
From the stories of these women, we truly see how women struggled for a voice and for equality while instituting reform. "In complex and constrained cultural milieus, women have managed to create expressions of feminist agency shaped by their own historical specificity and human particularity."
Review of Pedagogies of Resistance.......2003-04-25
Book Review of Pedagogies of Resistance: Women Educator Activists, 1880-1960
By Margaret Smith Crocco
Petra Munro
Kathleen Weiler
This book portrays the lives of six women. Each fought for social justice and in some way influenced our educational system. Munro gave a different perspective of what an educator activist was by including Addams and Wells. They were known for women's clubs and settlement houses. The work of these ladies influenced education although the brunt of their activities did not occur in a school or as formal teachers.
Crocco shared the difficult lives of Elizabeth Allen and Marion Wright as they fought gendered norms of the time. Allen was involved in many associations and fought for issues such as tenure, pensions, and a disability system. The stress in Allen's life may have caused her death. Wright, an African American woman, is recognized for her dissertation. She gave up her children in order to continue to climb the educational ladder. She committed suicide possibly due to consequences of her struggles and guilt of leaving her children. Her life is an example of the price that women had to pay to break out of gendered (and racial) norms. However, the fact that she chose to pretend her children did not exist makes you feel less empathy for her and makes her harder to relate to.
Weiler told of the lives of Helen Heffernan and Corinne Seeds. Both women influenced education in California. They worked to educate teachers and progressively reform education. Weiler also shares how they worked to create a more egalitarian society through their work in education.
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My Favorite Book on the Finite Element Method.......2007-08-22
This book remains a great intellectual achievement, right up there with the works of Timoshenko. I've been able to write several quite useful programs using various element stiffness matrices spelled-out explicitly in this volume.
Other books that I've read on F.E.M. seem to banter around the subject in obtuse mathematical terms. Przemieniecki derives ever step - and most importantly - he gives complete element stiffness matrices! I have copied very large 12 x 12 element stiffness matrices from this book into space frame and plate analysis programs that I've written with excellent results.
The book derives stiffness and dynamic matrices properties, essentially using the principle of minimization of potential energy. The book does not go into other types of problems such as heat-flow, torsion or fluid flow. But for structural engineers, like myself, I think that it's best to learn first the solution of stiffness problems to get a grasp of what F.E.M. is about.
The best $10.95 I've spent on a book (when it was easily available in bookstores). If you are into writing F.E.M. programs and if you can find this book, get it!
It's Greate for Starting On It.......2000-04-12
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