Tales From Gulinger High Tale Eleven

Valentines Day is fraught with dangers. A mysterious gifter is sending Selena Davenport amazing tokens of his love--and it is up to Tom Brown to.... uh... save her by sabotage. Meanwhile a bewitched perfume entraps the vampire-bitten Troy, leaving others alone yet rendering him helpless. His friends must combine to figure out what's wrong and undo the magic before it is too late. After all, who uses magic that only affects people with a vampire bite? Vampires.

It is a dangerous thing to gaze skyward on Halloween night. One might spy the Halloween Highway--the parade of beasties and fairy folk of the Unseelie Court journeying across the world, and get wisked away... This is something Matthew Calamori wished he had known before he stepped out to get some air after partying hard at the Gulinger Private Academy's Halloween dance. Lucky for him, his best friend, Tom Brown, is a half imp, and an unofficial member of the Unseelie Court. Otherwise he, and the other mortals swept up, might not make it out alive... but get taken forever into the fairy mound. But the real question is, what kind of mortals do the Unseelie Court spirit away? Because not everyone looking up on Halloween night gets snatched, now do they?

There are those at Gulinger High who believe that Tom Brown leads a Ghoulie Mob and that he now runs the school through fear. So a Mafi mob was formed to counter that. . . yet kept secret from the ghoulies just in case. So when Rick Deacon is surprised by a letter on his bed asking for his help to deal with the Mob of mafis that runs the other half, he gets overwhelmed from the pressure. After all, as the heir to the major shareholder of the school and grandson of the founder it is up to him to solve this problem. . . . or is it? Gulinger High, where the haunted and unwanted go.

West End Prep, the daughter school to Gulinger High, wins again... at everything. At Academic Decathlon, at sports, and apparently at life. But that's only because they don't let the dangerous and psychic ghoulies participate. Cheaters--Tom insists. Finally fed up with the mysterious new private school for specially chosen ghoulies and mafis, Tom Brown decides to find out what West End Prep is really up to. After all, though they don't want werewolves and other extremely dangerous ghoulies, and they refuse to have psychics... but they are keeping an eye on them anyway. Tom sneaks off to find the truth. But the truth is scarier than even he could imagine. And it may affect his future forever.

Undermining Race rewrites the history of race, immigration, and labor in the copper industry in Arizona. The book focuses on the case of Italian immigrants in their relationships with Anglo, Mexican, and Spanish miners (and at times with blacks, Asian Americans, and Native Americans), requiring a reinterpretation of the way race was formed and figured across place and time. Phylis Martinelli argues that the case of Italians in Arizona provides insight into “in between” racial and ethnic categories, demonstrating that the categorizing of Italians varied from camp to camp depending on local conditions—such as management practices in structuring labor markets and workers’ housing, and the choices made by immigrants in forging communities of language and mutual support. Italians—even light-skinned northern Italians—were not considered completely “white” in Arizona at this historical moment, yet neither were they consistently racialized as non-white, and tactics used to control them ranged from micro to macro level violence. To make her argument, Martinelli looks closely at two “white camps” in Globe and Bisbee and at the Mexican camp of Clifton-Morenci. Comparing and contrasting the placement of Italians in these three camps shows how the usual binary system of race relations became complicated, which in turn affected the existing race-based labor hierarchy, especially during strikes. The book provides additional case studies to argue that the biracial stratification system in the United States was in fact triracial at times. According to Martinelli, this system determined the nature of the associations among laborers as well as the way Americans came to construct “whiteness.”