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Elusive Citizenship
Immigration, Asian Americans, and the Paradox of Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Since the late nineteenth century, federal and state rules governing immigration and naturalization have placed persons of Asian ancestry outside the boundaries of formal membership. A review of leading cases in American constitutional law regarding Asians would suggest that initially, Asian immigrants...
Strange Neighbors
The Role of States in Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Since its founding, the U.S. has struggled with
issues of federalism and states’ rights. In almost every area of law, from
abortion to zoning, conflicts arise between the states and the federal
government over which entity is best suited to create and enforce laws. In the
last decade, immigration...
Heart-Sick
The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, affects people from all walks of life, yet who lives and who dies from heart disease still depends on race, class, and gender. While scientists and clinicians understand and treat heart disease more effectively than ever before, and industrialized...
Punishing Immigrants
Policy, Politics, and Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Arizona’s controversial new immigration bill is just the latest of many steps in the new criminalization of immigrants. While many cite the presumed criminality of illegal aliens as an excuse for ever-harsher immigration policies, it has in fact been well-established that immigrants commit less...
The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration
Gender, Race, and Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
How the immigration policies and popular culture of the 1980's fused to shape modern views on democracy
In the 1980s, amid increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden, reflecting the democratic gains made by...
Sex, Men, and Babies
Stories of Awareness and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2002
Over the past 15 years much pioneering work has been done on the social demography of young men's sexual activities, contraceptive use, and fertility experiences. But how do men develop and manage their identities in these areas?
In Sex, Men, and Babies, William Marsiglio and Sally Hutchinson provide...
A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas
Bridging the Liberation Theology and Religious Studies Divide
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas argues that we cannot understand religion in the Americas without understanding its marginalized communities. Despite frequently voiced doubts among religious studies scholars, it makes the case that theology, and particularly liberation theology,...
Original Sin
Clarence Thomas and the Failure of the Constitutional Conservatives
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002
Originalism is the practice of reviewing constitutional cases by seeking to discern the framers' and ratifiers' intent. Original Sin argues that the "jurisprudence of original intent," represented on the current Supreme Court by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, has failed on...
Let Them Eat Prozac
The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Prozac. Paxil. Zoloft. Turn on your television and you are likely to see a commercial for one of the many selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) on the market. We hear a lot about them, but do we really understand how these drugs work and what risks are involved for anyone who uses them?
Let...
Victims in the War on Crime
The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Two phenomena have shaped American criminal law for the past thirty years: the war on crime and the victims' rights movement. As incapacitation has replaced rehabilitation as the dominant ideology of punishment, reflecting a shift from an identification with defendants to an identification with victims,...
Why Jury Duty Matters
A Citizens Guide to Constitutional Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
It’s easy to forget how important the jury really is to America. The right to be a juror is one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to all eligible citizens. The right to trial by jury helped spark the American Revolution, was quickly adopted at the Constitutional Convention, and is the only right...
Sorcerers' Apprentices
100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Law clerks have been a permanent fixture in the halls of the United States Supreme Court from its founding, but the relationship between clerks and their justices has generally been cloaked in secrecy. While the role of the justice is both public and formal, particularly in terms of the decisions...
We Dissent
Talking Back to the Rehnquist Court, Eight Cases That Subverted Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The lawyers and legal commentators who contribute to We Dissent unanimously agree that during Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s nineteen-year tenure, the Supreme Court failed to adequately protect civil liberties and civil rights. This is evident in majority opinions written for numerous cases heard...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
The Unpredictable Constitution brings together a distinguished group of U.S. Supreme Court Justices and U.S. Court of Appeals Judges, who are some of our most prominent legal scholars, to discuss an array of topics on civil liberties.
In thoughtful and incisive essays, the authors draw on decades...