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Reproducing Racism
How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws and now the inauguration of our first black president, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress?
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1996
Sigmund Freud's role in the history and development of psychoanalysis continues to be the standard by which others are judged. One of the most remarkable features of that history, however, is the exceptional caliber of the men and women Freud attracted as disciples and coworkers. One of the most influential,...
From Deportation to Prison
The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Winner, 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award
A thorough and captivating exploration of how mass incarceration and law and order policies of the past forty years have transformed immigration and border enforcement
Criminal prosecutions for immigration offenses have more than doubled over...
No Undocumented Child Left Behind
Plyler v. Doe and the Education of Undocumented Schoolchildren
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The 1982 U. S. Supreme Court case of Plyler v. Doe, which made it possible for undocumented children to enroll in Texas public schools, was a watershed moment for immigrant rights in the United States. The Court struck down both a state statute denying funding for education to undocumented children...
Priests of Our Democracy
The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Priests of Our
Democracy tells of the teachers and professors who
battled the anti-communist witch hunt of the 1950s. It traces the political fortunes
of academic freedom beginning in the late 19th century, both on
campus and in the courts. Combining political and legal history with wrenching
personal...
Unfit for Democracy
The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Asked if the country was governed by a republic or a monarchy, Benjamin Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Since its founding, Americans have worked hard to nurture and protect their hard-won democracy. And yet few consider the role of constitutional law in America’s...
Cut It Out
The C-Section Epidemic in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
“Engagingly written, rigorously researched, and compellingly argued, this book [is] a must-read not only for womens health advocates and scholars of reproduction, but also for those engaged in health care policy.”
Calling the Shots
Why Parents Reject Vaccines
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Winner, 2018 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association Medical Sociology Section.
Winner, 2018 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Pacific Sociology Association
Honorable Mention, 2017 ESS Mirra Komarovsky Book Award presented...
Beyond the Shadow of Camptown
Korean Military Brides in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Since the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, nearly 100,000 Korean women have immigrated to the United States as the wives of American soldiers. Based on extensive oral interviews and archival research, Beyond the Shadow of the Camptowns tells the stories of these women, from their presumed association...
Prosecution Complex
America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
American prosecutors are asked to play two roles within the criminal justice system: they are supposed to be ministers of justice whose only goals are to ensure fair trials, whatever the outcomes of those trials might be—and they are also advocates of the government whose success rates are measured...
The Importance of Being Honest
How Lying, Secrecy, and Hypocrisy Collide with Truth in Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Popular author Steven Lubet brings his signature blend of humor, advocacy, and legal ethics to The Importance of Being Honest, an incisive analysis of how honesty and law play out in current affairs and historical events. Drawing on original work as well as op-ed pieces and articles that have appeared...
In Pursuit of Right and Justice
Edward Weinfeld as Lawyer and Judge
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2004
In Pursuit of Right and Justice chronicles the life of the United States District Court's Judge Edward Weinfeld, from his humble Lower East Side origins to his distinction as one of the nation's most respected federal judges. Judge Edward Weinfeld's personal growth and socio-economic mobility provides...
Can Bacteria Cause Cancer?
Alternative Medicine Confronts Big Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Growing numbers of cancer patients are exploring diet, food supplements, herbs, and nontoxic immunotherapies like bacterial vaccines as a means of therapy. Yet most cancer research organizations refuse to even evaluate these alternatives. Can Bacteria Cause Cancer? argues convincingly that unless...
Mississippi River Tragedies
A Century of Unnatural Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
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American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river...