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The Sword of Ambition
Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the concerns of this genre were more social and political than theological. Leaving no rhetorical stone unturned,...
Consorts of the Caliphs
Women and the Court of Baghdad
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume...
American Law in the Age of Hypercapitalism
The Worker, the Family, and the State
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Since the fall of communism, laissez-faire capitalism has experienced renewed popularity. Flush with victory, the United States has embraced a particularly narrow and single-minded definition of capitalism and aggressively exported it worldwide. The defining trait of this brand of capitalism is an...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
America is currently in the midst of a major racial and ethnic demographic shift. By the twenty-first century, the population of Hispanics and Asians will increase significantly, while the black population is expected to remain relatively stable. Non-Hispanic Whites will decrease to just over half...
Society without God
What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
“Silver” Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Religion Category
Before he began his recent travels, it seemed to Phil Zuckerman as if humans all over the globe were “getting religion”—praising deities, performing holy rites, and soberly defending the world...
Brothers Gonna Work It Out
Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Brothers Gonna Work It Out considers the political expression of rap artists within the historical tradition of black nationalism. Interweaving songs and personal interviews with hip-hop artists and activists including Chuck D of Public Enemy, KRS-One, Rosa Clemente, manager of dead prez, and Wise...
by Anthony B. Pinn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Black theology tends to be a theology about no-body. Though one might assume that black and womanist theology have already given significant attention to the nature and meaning of black bodies as a theological issue, this inquiry has primarily taken the form of a focus on issues relating to liberation,...
Daddy Grace
A Celebrity Preacher and His House of Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Charles Manuel “Sweet Daddy” Grace founded the United House of Prayer for All People in Wareham, Massachusetts, in 1919. This charismatic church has been regarded as one of the most extreme Pentecostal sects in the country. In addition to attention-getting maneuvers such as wearing purple suits...
by Michael Bérubé
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Bush’s belligerent response fractured the American left—partly by putting pressure on little-noticed fissures that had appeared a decade earlier.
In a masterful survey of the post-9/11 landscape, renowned scholar Michael Bérubé revisits and reinterprets the...
African & American
West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
African & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. Interrogating the complex role of post-colonialism in the recent history of black America, Marilyn Halter and Violet...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
In the winter of 1996, Steve Forbes--publisher, heir, and presidential candidate--captured the American imagination with his proposal for a flat tax. But while Mr. Forbes claimed that such a tax would level the economic playing field by eliminating countless loopholes and miles of red tape, his actual...
Making Habeas Work
A Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
A reconsideration of the writ of habeas corpus casts new light on a range of current issues
Habeas corpus, the storied Great Writ of Liberty, is a judicial order that requires government officials to produce a prisoner in court, persuade an independent judge of the correctness of their claimed...
The Tie That Binds
Identity and Political Attitudes in the Post-Civil Rights Generation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
What does it mean to be black in a nation increasingly infatuated with colorblindness? In The Tie That Binds, Andrea Y. Simpson seeks to answer this crucial question through the prism of ethnic and political identification.
Historically, African Americans have voted overwhelmingly Democratic in governmental...
The New Deportations Delirium
Interdisciplinary Responses
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Since 1996, when the deportation laws were hardened, millions of migrants to the U.S., including many long-term legal permanent residents with “green cards,” have experienced summary arrest, incarceration without bail, transfer to remote detention facilities, and deportation without counsel—a...