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This chapter situates Acts within debates concerning the Jews in Acts, Acts’ view of empire, and the possibility that Acts, along with canonical Luke chapters 1 and 2, are written in response to Marcion. It argues that the rhetorical method of Acts is to depict nonbelieving Jews as murderous and subversive and to underscore the compatibility of Christianity with the Roman Empire. It then refines arguments of Knox and Tyson concerning the role of Marcion in the final form of Acts, by offering an alternate model of heresy, thus making it possible to understand Luke-Acts as responding to “marcionite” ideas, without pinpointing them to the time of Marcion’s ministry in the East. Finally, by underscoring the martial imagery and rhetoric of vengeance that infuses Luke 1–2, it notes the perfect suitability of this Gospel preface in refuting marcionite associations of Gospel with mercy and peace.

Alan Tyson was a musicologist who made an outstanding contribution to understanding issues of authenticity and chronology in the works of Mozart and Beethoven often based on detailed study of the paper used in sketchbooks and manuscripts. Yet he had qualified as a psychoanalyst and clinical psychiatrist, and until 1969, when he obtained a visiting professorship at Columbia University, musicology was only a scholarly hobby. In 1971, Tyson was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College Oxford and thereafter pursued it as a full-time career. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1978. Obituary by Oliver Neighbour FBA.

This chapter examines the continued importance of this form of labor relations in the years since the 1960s, as South Texas has continued to serve as a model for employers elsewhere eager to avail themselves of poorly-paid workers who lack the ability to claim the basic rights of citizenship. The lessons learned in the fields of South Texas, in other words, were not only borrowed by agricultural employers. Instead, employers have increasingly sought to use the model of farmworker treatment and apply it to workers far removed from the fields. Industrial and service employers continue to try and emulate the enforced powerlessness of agricultural workers, even if they no longer consciously point to South Texas as their explicit model. The Epilogue examines the continued resonance and importance of this model of labor relations as it has moved beyond the agricultural realm and into service and industrial employment.

This chapter examines the impact that the migration of one company, specifically Tyson Foods, had on a community. It addresses the way the community of Wilkesboro, North Carolina, reacted to the merger of Holly Foods with Tyson Foods. It shows that as Tyson moved in so did an international low-wage labor force that many residents blamed for the migration of native residents and the disappearance of their community as they knew it.

This chapter explores the strategies of legal actors and the perceptions of high profile cases in the U.S. and analyzes the consequences of legal cases becoming conflated with social causes in provoking assaults. It focuses on several cases including the Central Park jogger, the murder of Yusef Hawkins, and the trials of William Kennedy Smith and Mike Tyson. This chapter examines the role of the legal system in these cases and how the law reacts once high-profile crime cases have mushroomed into provoking assaults.

This chapter examines the media coverage of several high profile cases in the U.S. including the cases of William Kennedy Smith, Mike Tyson, and O.J. Simpson. It suggests that while many journalists faithfully adhered to dominant journalistic principles the news coverage of these cases became increasingly diversified indicating that journalists' ability to believe in their own independence may have been shaken. This chapter also recounts gaps observed between journalists' statements about, and their actual practices of, story presentation and story selection.

This chapter considers the experiences of American whalers in the Inuit homeland of Cumberland Sound. Voyages from 1850-1880 are discussed, but the focus is on the booming years of the commercial bowhead whaling industry in the 1860s, when shiploads of Qallunaat (non-Inuit, non-Indigenous people) arrived each year and froze their ships in for the winter. Despite living next to Inuit communities, most American whalers struggled to see Cumberland Sound as anything approximating a home. Many were miserable, fell ill, and perished here. I consider why these American whalers legitimately experienced Cumberland Sound as a hard place to live, how this related more to their background and circumstances than to an inherently harsh environment, and what this can tell us about how Qallunaat have related to the Arctic and to Inuit. I also consider a few American whalers who returned to Cumberland Sound over and over again, and their relationships with this place and its people. This chapter is structured around six Inuit seasons, and looks at distinct events that occurred as these Arctic seasons turned: desertions, shipwrecks, loneliness, the experience of overwintering, scurvy, and whaling itself.

This chapter examines the Carthage, NC, childhood of African American inventor and entrepreneur Lucean Arthur Headen, with special attention paid to the social networks Headen’s family forged and to the mentors who inspired him to become an inventor. It describes the influence of former slave artisans, among them his grandfather, a wheelwright for the Tyson & Jones Buggy Company, and his great-uncle, a nationally known toolmaker, who schooled him in mechanics; his father, a sawmill owner, who sparked his entrepreneurial ambitions; and aunts and uncles active in the Presbyterian Church and Republican Party, who offered important social connections. Finally, it describes the economic strategy demonstrated for Headen by Rev. Henry D. Wood, who built a diverse coalition of supporters to finance the construction of John Hall Presbyterian Church and Dayton Academy (the church and school Headen attended). Headen later adapted this coalition-building model to finance his first inventions and business efforts.

Chapter 7 provides a look behind the scenes of a post-World War II Ozarks. In the postwar years the region joined many other rural areas of the nation in a mad rush to attract factories, a rush aided by the demise of the family farm and a large surplus labor supply. Many other Ozarkers took to the highways as migrant agricultural workers. Meanwhile, those who stayed on the farm turned to cattle and poultry as the primary agricultural commodities. The processing of the latter exercised great demographic and cultural changes for parts of the region beginning in the 1990s.

This chapter examines race as a factor in the performance of a sports celebrity, using Mike Tyson as a focus. It contends that black athletes were often represented as villains in sport, as shown in the case of Muhammad Ali, Jack Johnson, and Barry Bonds. It shows that Tyson’s reputation originated in the aftermath of black athletes’ struggles in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Food Environment encompasses how food is produced and processed, how and to where it is transported, and where and how it is sold and consumed. The chapter evaluates the environmental issues along each of these food system pathways. These include the shifting patterns of agriculture in Los Angeles (and California), Hong Kong, and Mainland China; the rise of food retail as a central force in the food system; and the changing patterns of consumption, including the rise of a fast food culture. It also explores the search for alternatives through such initiatives as farm to school and community supported agriculture and the cultural and ethnic traditions and food culture that have survived the rise of industrial food and fast food. It examines the problems of food safety and food insecurity and the increasingly global character of the food system, including the global food production and retail companies.

Historian Tim Tyson shares his memories of working with Larry Goodwyn in the 1980s and 1990s as they shared an office at Duke. Tyson learned how ordinary people have tried to change history and sometimes succeeded, if a movement continues to recruit, it will ultimately be able to create a new society more in line with its values. Movement culture then spreads throughout society.

Historian Marsha Tyson Darling calls forward an essay in the spirit of Goodwyn’s lifelong quest for a more democratic nation for activist organizing and civic engagement. She reviews the twentieth century’s democratic gains and looks at the elite forces toward retrenchment of their power in the last three decades. She concludes that we must create opportunities to promote democracy as a social development tool, affirming the core values of grassroots participation in civil society, the defense of human rights and the building of a new society based on non-violence and intergenerational justice.

The chapter considers the cast of interview subjects in Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (1993) and analyses the interviews themselves, first asking what the function is of each in terms of the unfolding plot and/or the argument underlying the film as a whole. It then considers the interview from five poetic categories: the presence of the filmmaker, the perspective established through setting and camera position, the pictorial context established by the preceding and the following sequences, the performance of those interviewed, and the polyvalence of the overall effect the interview contributes to the film. The chapter argues that Barbara Kopple maintains a delicate balance between portraying Tyson as a victimized ghetto refugee and a brutal fighter through her approach to the interviews in the film.

This chapter charts the Community Action Program’s arrival and first few years in Newark, which was among the first cities to submit an antipoverty grant proposal to the federal Office of Economic Opportunity. Leading the local effort was Newark’s independent community action agency, the United Community Corporation (UCC), which was established as independent of City Hall. When the UCC pioneered the use of neighborhood antipoverty boards, it helped foster political dissidence and protest within the city. Much of this chapter concerns the attacks leveled at the UCC by the city council and the administration of Mayor Hugh Addonizio.

This chapter shows how, during the eighteenth century, the orangutan began to appear in plays and novels, and later in short stories. Most of the early authors had not seen an orangutan, even in captivity, but the writings of travelers such as Daniel Beeckman and of scientists such as Edward Tyson were so widely circulated, the illustrations of Jacobus Bontius and Nicolaes Tulp so often redrawn, and public displays of orangutan-like creatures so common that a knowledge of the term “orangutan” and a sense of what it stood for was widespread within the literate elite of western Europe by the second half of the eighteenth century.

This chapter discusses the public discourse around the integration process of immigrant Latino workers in Emporia, Kansas. It employs aggregate statistical analysis, media-content analysis, and key-informant interviews to examine how the public discourse has changed over time. Particular attention is given to the arrival of the Somali refugee workers that subsequently altered the discourse on immigrant-worker integration. Findings show that the community perception of Latin Americans shifted significantly once a culturally and ethnically less similar group arrived in town. The discussion includes the role of local actors in immigrant integration with an emphasis on their main employer, Tyson Foods. Contrary to the general challenges of immigrant integration, revolving largely around unauthorized migrants, in this case the difficulty had to do with integrating legal immigrants who had racial and religious differences from not only the mainstream community but from the dominant minority as well.

Cicely Tyson became a superstar in the 1970s, with award‐winning roles in the film Sounder (1972), the television special The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), and the television miniseries Roots (1976). All three were set in the past, suggesting that the right kind of resistance had yielded success. This chapter looks at the significance of Tyson to this process of history making in popular culture, in contrast to blaxploitation films and to Claudine (1974), starring Diahann Carroll as a single black mother living in Harlem. Tyson insisted on portraying black women as dignified and respectable. Her heroines affirmed female strength and challenged definitions of beauty associated with whiteness and images of black families as dysfunctional. However, productions in which she starred also reinforced traditional gender relations. They cordoned off black power politics beyond the American South; despite ongoing activism, they suggested that the civil rights movement was “over.”