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Anthropology and Law
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
An introduction to the anthropology of law that explores the connections between law, politics, and technology.
From legal responsibility for genocide to rectifying past injuries to indigenous people, the anthropology of law addresses some of the crucial ethical issues of our day. Over the...
Other Immigrants
The Global Origins of the American People
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians represent three of every four immigrants who arrived in the United States after 1970. Yet despite their large numbers and long history of movement to America, non-Europeans are conspicuously absent from many books about immigration.
In Other Immigrants, David M. Reimers...
Trust in Black America
Race, Discrimination, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The more citizens trust their government, the better democracy functions. However, African Americans have long suffered from the lack of equal protection by their government, and the racial discrimination they have faced breaks down their trust in democracy. Rather than promoting democracy, the United...
Wrong for All the Right Reasons
How White Liberals Have Been Undone by Race
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
There was a time, in this century, when liberals championed the working class, when Democrats were indisputably the party of those who worked rather than invested for a living. Today, however, most Americans have come to see liberals as drifting and aimless, somehow lacking in backbone and moral fiber,...
Science Studies
An Advanced Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Thrust into the public eye by the contentious "Science Wars"--played out most recently by physicist Alan Sokal's hoax--the nascent field of science studies takes on the political, historical, and cultural dimensions of technology and the sciences.
Science Studies is the first comprehensive...
Health in the City
Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women’s Health in New York City, 1915–1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Shortly after the dawn of the twentieth century, the New York City Department of Health decided to address what it perceived as the racial nature of health. It delivered heavily racialized care in different neighborhoods throughout the city: syphillis treatment among African Americans, tuberculosis...
Faithful Measures
New Methods in the Measurement of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A venture into the art and science of measuring religion in everyday life
In an era of rapid technological advances, the measures and methods used to generate data about religion have undergone remarkably little change. Faithful Measures pushes the study of religion into the 21st century by...
Neoconservative Politics and the Supreme Court
Law, Power, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
In this concise, timely book, constitutional law expert Stephen M. Feldman draws on neoconservative writings to explore the rise of the neocons and their influence on the Supreme Court. Neocons burst onto the political scene in the early 1980s via their assault on pluralist democracy’s ethical relativism,...
Social Death
Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies Association
Social Death tackles one of the core paradoxes of social justice struggles and scholarship—that the battle to end oppression shares the moral grammar that structures exploitation and sanctions state...
Just Medicine
A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Just Medicine offers us a new, effective, and innovative plan to regulate implicit biases and eliminate the inequalities they cause, and to save the lives they endanger.
Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities, the unfair, unjust, and avoidable...
Success Without Victory
Lost Legal Battles and the Long Road to Justice in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Winners and losers. Success and failure. Victory and defeat. American culture places an extremely high premium on success, and firmly equates it with winning. In politics, sports, business, and the courtroom, we have a passion to win and are terrified of losing.
Instead of viewing success and failure...
Compromise
NOMOS LIX
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
A distinguished group of scholars explores compromise in contemporary affairs
Do lawmakers have a greater ethical responsibility to compromise than ordinary citizens? How does one rectify what is at stake when lawmakers concede to compromise for the sake of reaching resolution? Is compromise...
The New Black Politician
Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
At the beginning of the Twenty-First Century, a vanguard of young, affluent black leadership has emerged, often clashing with older generations of black leadership for power. The 2002 Newark mayoral race, which featured a contentious battle between the young black challenger Cory Booker and the more...
by Oran P. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book
By championing the ideals of independence, evangelism, and conservism, the Southern Baptist Covention (SBC) has grown into the largest Protestant denomination in the country. The Convention's mass democratic form of church government, its influential annual...