New Releases by Teresa Sullivan

From the dawn of commercial radio to today''s digital realm of television, different sets of grown-ups have gathered in the various rooms where responsibility is negotiated to build what we have come to understand as American broadcasting''s standards and practices. Television standards and practices (S&P), then, helps define the role of the media and its impact on family roles and identities. The Grown-Ups in the Room: U.S. Television Standards and Practices and Parental Controls from the Dial to the Digital traces the history of broadcasting standards into the 21st century to capture the history of television censorship, responsibility, and the role of parents in content moderation as the medium evolved. This project excavates and maps the cultural, regulatory, and industry narratives of responsibility, self-regulation, public interest, and parenting to present the intertwined relationship between industry, policy, and family culture when it comes to children and media. My findings reveal how parents and caregivers, particularly mothers, fitfully responded from crisis to crisis, both resisting and reinforcing calls for parental responsibility that would absolve the industry and the government of any moral obligation. I argue that the concerns from U.S. federal regulators and politicians around protecting the public interest, family values, vulnerable children, and American ideals were much more than panics around cultural degradation or a collapse of social principles. They were about power. Emblems of 20th century broadcast standards and practices-from the language and rules first written by the early censors at the radio and television networks, the maturity ratings and content descriptors devised by television and film executives plus politicians and academics, definitions of Family Hour TV, and the establishment of a free market and free speech media culture-all intertwine to define and refine the allocations of responsibility in our 21st century media landscape.

Celebrating more than 150 years of history of the Denton area. This book is about our families and us. We hope you will enjoy the 150 book and find pleasure in your own history and that of Denton, Nebraska. I hope that you will also gain an understanding of Denton''s history and importance in Lancaster County''s early days. The book is only a part of the story. It introduces us to decades which until now have been only history. In this book, the history breathes with the life of love.

When Mikey is young, the Sullivans are a closely knit unit, all of them devoted to caring for her. But as Mikey grows older, she also grows increasingly violent. By the time she’s twelve, institutionalization is the only available option—and without the shared purpose of caring for Mikey, the family begins to unravel. As her family falls apart, Teresa searches for relief and connection during a time of sweeping cultural change. Lacking maturity or guidance, she makes choices that lead her down a sometimes-perilous path. But regardless of the circumstances at home and the tumult in their individual lives, the Sullivans are united in their love and concern for Mikey. In Mikey and Me, Teresa interweaves her exceptional sister’s journey with her own, affirming the grace and brutality of Mikey’s life, and its indelible effect on her family. Unflinching and insightful, this is a deep exploration of the relationship between two sisters—one blind, with profound developmental disabilities, unable to voice her own story, and the other with the heart and understanding to express it exquisitely for her.

Unemployment levels have received a great deal of attention and discussion in recent years. However, another labor category—underemployment—has virtually been ignored. Underutilized or underemployed workers are those who are experiencing inadequate hours of work, insufficient levels of income, and mismatch of occupation and skills. Marginal Workers, Marginal Jobs addresses two principal issues: how can we measure underemployment, and how can we explain its prevalence? To answer the first question, Teresa Sullivan examines yardsticks in use, demonstrates their inadequacy, and develops a different measure that is easy to interpret and is usable by both demographers and economists. In answering the second, she analyzes 1960 and 1970 census data to determine the relative effects of population composition and job structure on levels of employment. One of the important contributions of Sullivan''s study is to distinguish between marginal workers and marginal jobs in explaining underutilization. Previous explanations, including the widely used dual market theory, have not stressed this analytic distinction. In addition, her work accounts separately for the various types of marginality and seeks to show the condition of workers who are marginal on more than one count—for example, those who are both young and black, or old and female. A provocative study based on large samples of the U.S. population, this book raises important questions about a critical subject and makes a significant contribution to the theory of underutilization.

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