John Hartigan: 7 books

Book cover of Odd Tribes

Odd Tribes

Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People

by John Hartigan Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005

Odd Tribes challenges theories of whiteness and critical race studies by examining the tangles of privilege, debasement, power, and stigma that constitute white identity. Considering the relation of phantasmatic cultural forms such as the racial stereotype “white trash” to the actual social conditions...
Book cover of Care of the Species

Care of the Species

Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity

by John Hartigan Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

Across the globe, an expanding circle of care is encompassing a growing number of species through efforts targeting biodiversity, profoundly revising the line between humans and nonhumans. Care of the Species examines infrastructures of care—labs and gardens in Spain and Mexico—where plant scientists...
Book cover of What Can You Say?

What Can You Say?

America's National Conversation on Race

by John Hartigan Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010

We are in a transitional moment in our national conversation on race. "Despite optimistic predictions that Barack Obama's election would signal the end of race as an issue in America, the race-related news stories just keep coming. Race remains a political and polarizing issue, and the sprawling,...
Book cover of Aesop's Anthropology

Aesop's Anthropology

A Multispecies Approach

by John Hartigan Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014

Aesop’s Anthropology is a guide for thinking through the perplexing predicaments and encounters that arise as the line between human and nonhuman shifts in modern life. Recognizing that culture is not unique to humans, John Hartigan Jr. asks what we can learn about culture from other species. He...
Book cover of The Kaiser's Butterfly Part One: West of War
by John Hartigan Waldo
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

A Comic Suspense Historical Serial Novel, in which fiendish plots, foolish spies, incompetent detectives, millionaires, and vaudeville characters trip over each other in 1915 New York City. Sisters Mary & Ruth, take summer jobs working for the Steamship, the C.W. Morse, in New York City....
Book cover of The Human–Animal Boundary

The Human–Animal Boundary

Exploring the Line in Philosophy and Fiction

by Joshua A. Bergamin, Kristian Bjørkdahl, Gary Comstock
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018

Throughout the centuries philosophers and poets alike have defended an essential difference—rather than a porous transition—between the human and animal. Attempts to assign essential properties to humans (e.g., language, reason, or morality) often reflected ulterior aims to defend a privileged...
Book cover of The Power of Unreasonable People

The Power of Unreasonable People

How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World

by John Elkington, Pamela Hartigan
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008

Renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw once said "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." By this definition, some of today's entrepreneurs are decidedly...
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