Black Rose Writing
Inside Voices
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- Jennifer M Miller
- Black Rose Writing
- Paperback
- 9781684332076
- 9.02 X 5.98 X 0.26 inches
- 0.39 pounds
- Biography & Autobiography > Criminals & Outlaws
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
This is a collection of essays, four of which are comprised (with permission from the correspondents) of personal communications with inmates serving life sentences in Arkansas.
This book developed from personal correspondence with four inmates serving life sentences in Arkansas. After touring two of the state prisons as a graduate student, Dr. Miller reached out to several inmates that had spoken to the tour groups and began to correspond regularly with the four of them. Friendships formed, and she, ultimately, asked them if she could publish their letters to her put together as individual narratives. They agreed and had final approval of their own narratives. These are in their words with a few short essays interspersed to provide context and background. The inmate narratives give first-person, humanized voices to people that are typically forgotten or, worse, demonized. These four men do not deny their guilt, nor do their crimes define them. They are intelligent, funny, and positive.
Author Bio
I am an assistant professor of history at Dartmouth College and a historian of the United States and the World, with a focus on the United States and the Asia-Pacific. My research examines the intersections between foreign policy and domestic ideas, ideologies, and political narratives. It explores how new interactions between America and East Asia after World War II transformed both American and Asian thinking about security, democratic order, citizenship, and economic growth.
My first book, entitled Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019), draws from American and Japanese archives to examine how democratic thinking and ideologies changed during World War II and the early Cold War. It explores how different visions of democracy, both American and Japanese, shaped the U.S.-Japanese relationship. Choice named Cold War Democracy an Outstanding Academic Title for 2019.
I also write about the contemporary relevance of the U.S.-Japanese relationship for American understandings of capitalism, globalization, international power, and hegemony. My most recent article explores neoconservative thinking about East Asian growth, the importance of tradition, and the nature of capitalism in the 1970s and 1980s. I have also written about the ways in which Japan’s economic rise in the 1970s and 1980s shaped President Donald Trump’s approach to international trade and globalization. This article was featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
At Dartmouth, I teach the introductory class on U.S. history, along with classes on the history of U.S. foreign relations, the Cold War, and the Asia-Pacific Wars of 1931 – 1945.
Education
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. Wesleyan University
Source: jennifermmiller.com and Dartmouth College
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