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Mea Culpa

Lessons on Law and Regret from U.S. History

by Steven W. Bender
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015

In Mea Culpa, Steven W. Bender examines how the United States’ collective shame about its past has shaped the evolution of law and behavior. We regret slavery and segregationist Jim Crow laws. We eventually apologize, while ignoring other oppressions, and our legal response to regret often fails...
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Tierra y Libertad

Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing

by Steven W. Bender
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010

One of the quintessential goals of the American Dream is to own land and a home, a place to raise one’s family and prove one’s prosperity. Particularly for immigrant families, home ownership is a way to assimilate into American culture and community. However, Latinos, who make up the country’s...
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Greasers and Gringos

Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination

by Steven W. Bender
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003

Although the origin of the term “greaser” is debated, its derogatory meaning never has been. From silent movies like The Greaser’s Revenge (1914) and The Girl and the Greaser (1913) with villainous title characters, to John Steinbeck's portrayals of Latinos as lazy, drunken, and shiftless in...
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Women of the Nation

Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam

by Jamillah Karim, Dawn-Marie Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014

With vocal public figures such as Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, and Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam often appears to be a male-centric religious movement, and over 60 years of scholarship have perpetuated that notion. Yet, women have been pivotal in the NOI's development, playing a major role in...
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Terrorism As Crime

From Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond

by Mark S. Hamm
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007

Car bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. In Terrorism as Crime Mark S. Hamm presents an understanding of terrorism from a criminological point of view, arguing that the most successful way to understand, detect, prosecute and deter...
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Religion and Progressive Activism

New Stories About Faith and Politics

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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017

New stories about religiously motivated progressive activism challenge common understandings of the American political landscape. To many mainstream-media saturated Americans, the terms “progressive” and “religious” may not seem to go hand-in-hand. As religion is usually tied to conservatism,...
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City of Disorder

How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics

by Alex S. Vitale
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008

2009 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket Design In the 1990s, improving the quality of life became a primary focus and a popular catchphrase of the governments of New York and many other American cities. Faced with high levels of homelessness and other disorders associated...
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Downsizing Prisons

How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration

by Michael Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005

Over two million people are incarcerated in America’s prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975. Mandatory minimum sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending people back to prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and other changes in the legal system have contributed to this spectacular...
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Understanding the 2000 Election

A Guide to the Legal Battles that Decided the Presidency

by Abner Greene
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001

Paperback Edition: Updated and with a New Foreword The nation will not soon forget the drama of the 2000 presidential election. For five weeks we were transfixed by the legal clashes that enveloped the country from election night to the Gore concession. It was instant history, and will be studied...
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Out of the Running

Why Millennials Reject Political Careers and Why It Matters

by Shauna L. Shames
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

An inside look into why Millennials are rejecting careers in politics, and what this means for the future of America's political system Millennials are often publically criticized for being apathetic about the American political process and their lack of interest in political careers. But what...
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This Time We Knew

Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996

We didn't know. For half a century, Western politicians and intellectuals have so explained away their inaction in the face of genocide in World War II. In stark contrast, Western observers today face a daily barrage of information and images, from CNN, the Internet, and newspapers about the parties...
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Emerging Evangelicals

Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity

by James S. Bielo
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

The Emerging Church movement developed in the mid-1990s among primarily white, urban, middle-class pastors and laity who were disenchanted with America’s conservative Evangelical sub-culture. It is a response to the increasing divide between conservative Evangelicals and concerned critics who strongly...
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Two Presidents Are Better Than One

The Case for a Bipartisan Executive Branch

by David Orentlicher
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013

“Many Americans are unsatisfied with politics. Simultaneously, we are hesitant to question the basic soundness of our constitutional system. In this refreshingly provocative book, David Orentlicher explains why it is due time for us to reconsider dominant ideas about the presidency, now arguably...
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Leg over Leg

Volumes One and Two

by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of “the Fariyaq,” alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native Lebanon...
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