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Polluted Promises
Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winner
Julian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up!
Over the past two decades, environmental racism has become the rallying cry for many communities as they discover the contaminations of toxic chemicals and industrial waste in their own backyards.
Living...
by James Darsey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
This expansive volume traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining such pivotal periods as the American Revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. At a time when social movements led by religious leaders, from Louis Farrakhan to Pat Buchanan, are playing...
The Sonic Color Line
Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear.
Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see “difference.” At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American...
Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts
Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Since World War II Americans’ attitudes towards shyness have changed. The women’s movement and the sexual revolution raised questions about communication, self-expression, intimacy, and personality, leading to new concerns about shyness. At the same time, the growth of psychotherapy and the mental...
American Behavioral History
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
From his founding of The Journal of Social History to his groundbreaking work on the history of emotions, weight, and parenting, Peter N. Stearns has pushed the boundaries of social history to new levels, presenting new insights into how people have lived and thought through the ages. Having established...
Selling Welfare Reform
Work-First and the New Common Sense of Employment
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The 1996 Welfare Reform Act promised to end welfare as we knew it. In Selling Welfare Reform, Frank Ridzi uses rich ethnographic detail to examine how new welfare-to-work policies, time limits, and citizenship documentation radically changed welfare, revealing what really goes on at the front lines...
The Modern Christmas in America
A Cultural History of Gift Giving
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
In days of old, Christmas was defined by the custom of exchanging simple handmade gifts. Today, it has become a multi-billion industry, synonymous with commercialism and consumption. How did this transformation occur?
In this incisive and engaging examination of how Christmas has evolved since 1880,...
Working the Skies
The Fast-Paced, Disorienting World of the Flight Attendant
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Get ready for takeoff. The life of the flight attendant, a.k.a., stewardess, was supposedly once one of glamour, exotic travel and sexual freedom, as recently depicted in such films as Catch Me If You Can and View From the Top. The nostalgia for the beautiful, carefree and ever helpful stewardess...
Greater America
A New Partnership in the Americas in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Can democracy develop in Latin America without United States assistance? Why should the United States care? Why is Latin America relevant to U.S. economic growth in global competition? In Greater America: A New Partnership for the Americas in the 21st Century L. Ronald Scheman argues that our future...
The Measure of Injury
Race, Gender, and Tort Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Tort law is the body of law governing negligence, intentional misconduct, and other wrongful acts for which civil actions can be brought. The conventional wisdom is that the rules, concepts, and structures of tort law are neutral and unbiased, free of considerations of gender and race.
In The Measure...
by Thomas Koenig, Michael Rustad
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Late night comedians and journalists eagerly seized upon the case of an elderly woman who sued McDonald’s when she spilled hot coffee in her lap as a prime example of frivolous litigation. But as Rustad and Koenig argue, cases such as these are an incomplete and misleading characterization of tort...
by Jennifer K. Robbennolt, Valerie P. Hans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Tort law regulates most human activities: from driving a car to using consumer products to providing or receiving medical care. Injuries caused by dog bites, slips and falls, fender benders, bridge collapses, adverse reactions to a medication, bar fights, oil spills, and more all implicate the law...
That Ever Loyal Island
Staten Island and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Of crucial strategic importance to both the British and the Continental Army, Staten Island was, for a good part of the American Revolution, a bastion of Loyalist support. With its military and political significance, Staten Island provides rich terrain for Phillip Papas's illuminating case study...
Red Seas
Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
During the heyday of the U.S. and international labor movements in the 1930s and 1940s, Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-born co-founder and second-in-command of the National Maritime Union (NMU), stands out as one of the most—if not the most—powerful black labor leaders in the United States. Smith’s...