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The Silicon Valley of Dreams

Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy

by David N. Pellow, Lisa Sun-Hee Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2002

Next to the nuclear industry, the largest producer of contaminants in the air, land, and water is the electronics industry. Silicon Valley hosts the highest density of Superfund sites anywhere in the nation and leads the country in the number of temporary workers per capita and in workforce gender...
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Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself

Latina Girls and Sexual Identity

by Lorena Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012

While Latina girls have high teen birth rates and are at increasing risk for contracting sexually transmitted infections, their sexual lives are much more complex than the negative stereotypes of them as “helpless” or “risky” (or worse) suggest. In Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself, Lorena...
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Mexican Americans Across Generations

Immigrant Families, Racial Realities

by Jessica M. Vasquez
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011

While newly arrived immigrants are often the focus of public concern and debate, many Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans have resided in the United States for generations. Latinos are the largest and fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States, and their racial identities change with each...
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Religion Out Loud

Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism

by Isaac Weiner
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013

For six months in 2004, controversy raged in Hamtramck, Michigan, as residents debated a proposed amendment that would exempt the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, from the citys anti-noise ordinance. The call to prayer functioned as a flashpoint in disputes about the integration of Muslims into this...
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Long Overdue

The Politics of Racial Reparations

by Charles P. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007

Ever since the unfulfilled promise of “forty acres and a mule,” America has consistently failed to confront the issue of racial injustice. Exploring why America has failed to compensate Black Americans for the wrongs of slavery, Long Overdue provides a history of the racial reparations movement...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017

Immigration, Emigration and Migration consists of essays written by distinguished scholars across the fields of law, political science, and philosophy that examine questions of travel and migration across national borders. Questions of immigration and border enforcement practices are particularly...
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The Rule of Law

Nomos XXXVI

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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995

From the sprawling remnants of the Soviet empire to the southern tip of Africa, attempts are underway to replace arbitrary political regimes with governments constrained by the rule of law. This ideal which subordinates the wills of individuals, social movements--and even, sometimes, democratically...
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Theory and Practice

Nomos XXXVII

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1995

With 16 original essays all published here for the first time, Theory and Practice focuses on the relationship between philosophical tradition and everyday life in the Western tradition. In this comprehensive volume, Ian Shapiro and Judith Wagner DeCew have gathered contributions from some of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998

Can individuals believe that they are acting with integrity, yet in disobedience to the dictates of their conscience? Can they retain fidelity to their conscience while ignoring a sense of what integrity requires? Integrity and conscience are often thought to be closely related, perhaps even different...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995

A state-of-the-art meditation on relations, theoretical and practical, among a familiar triad of themes: comunitarianism, liberalism, and democracy. --American Political Science Review A collection of distinguished contributors, from a wide range of disciplines, examine the implications of the resurgence...
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Divide and Deal

The Politics of Distribution in Democracies

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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008

Why are democracies so unequal? Despite the widespread expectation that democracy, via expansion of the franchise, would lead to redistribution in favor of the masses, in reality majorities regularly lose out in democracies. Taking a broad view of inequality as encompassing the distribution of wealth,...
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Political Contingency

Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen

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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007

History is replete with instances of what might, or might not, have been. By calling something contingent, at a minimum we are saying that it did not have to be as it is. Things could have been otherwise, and they would have been otherwise if something had happened differently. This collection of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000

As the principles and practices of democracy continue to spread ever more widely, it is hard to imagine a corner of the globe into which they will not eventually penetrate. But the euphoria of democratic revolutions is typically short-lived, and usually followed by disgruntlement and even cynicism...
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Musical ImagiNation

U.S-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom

by Maria Elena Cepeda
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Long associated with the pejorative clichés of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. In this pioneering study of the Miami music industry and Miami’s growing Colombian community, María Elena Cepeda boldly asserts that popular music...
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