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Whitewashed
America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Middle Easterners: Sometimes White, Sometimes Not - an article by John TehranianThe Middle Eastern question lies at the heart of the most pressing issues of our time: the war in Iraq and on terrorism, the growing tension between preservation of our national security and protection of our civil rights,...
Changing Race
Latinos, the Census and the History of Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
Latinos are the fastest growing population group in the United States.Through their language and popular music Latinos are making their mark on American culture as never before. As the United States becomes Latinized, how will Latinos fit into America's divided racial landscape and how will they define...
Chicano Students and the Courts
The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In 1925 Adolfo ‘Babe’ Romo, a Mexican American rancher in Tempe, Arizona, filed suit against his school district on behalf of his four young children, who were forced to attend a markedly low-quality segregated school, and won. But Romo v. Laird was just the beginning. Some sources rank Mexican...
Looking Like What You Are
Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Looks can be deceiving, and in a society where one's status and access to opportunity are largely attendant on physical appearance, the issue of how difference is constructed and interpreted, embraced or effaced, is of tremendous import.
Lisa Walker examines this issue with a focus on the questions...
American Karma
Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. Unlike previous generations, they are marked by a high degree of training as medical doctors, engineers, scientists, and university professors.
American Karma draws on participant observation and in-depth...
Drawdown
The American Way of Postwar
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Analyzes the cultural attitudes, political decisions, and institutions surrounding the maintenance of armed forces throughout American history
While traditionally, Americans view expensive military structure as a poor investment and a threat to liberty, they also require a guarantee of that...
Clipped Wings
The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1997
During World War II, all branches of the military had women's auxiliaries. Only the Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) program, however, was comprised entirely of women who flew dangerous missions more commonly associated with and desired by men.
Within military hierarchies, the World War II pilot...
The Right to Be Parents
LGBT Families and the Transformation of Parenthood
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
In 1975, California courts stripped a lesbian mother of her custody rights because she was living openly with another woman. Twenty years later, the Virginia Supreme Court did the same thing to another lesbian mother. In ordering that children be separated from their mothers, these courts ruled that...
Courting Change
Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Winner of the 2010 Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award
A lesbian couple rears a child together and, after the biological mother dies, the surviving partner loses custody to the child’s estranged biological father. Four days later, in a different court,...
Saints Under Siege
The Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In April 2008, state police and child protection authorities raided Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, a community of 800 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamist branch of the Mormons. State officials claimed that the raid, which was triggered...
White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition
The Legal Construction of Race
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2006
White by Law was published in 1996 to immense critical acclaim, and established Ian Haney López as one of the most exciting and talented young minds in the legal academy. The first book to fully explore the social and specifically legal construction of race, White by Law inspired a generation of...
by Murray N. Rothbard
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's classic The Ethics of Liberty stands as one of the most rigorous and philosophically sophisticated expositions of the...
No Escape
Freedom of Speech and the Paradox of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2002
Conventional legal and political scholarship places liberalism, which promotes and defends individual legal rights, in direct opposition to communitarianism, which focuses on the greater good of the social group. According to this mode of thought, liberals value legal rights for precisely the same...
Italian American
The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the "new immigration" from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A. J. Richards terms "nonvisibly" black.
The first study of its...