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Readings in American Indian Law

Jo Carrillo

• Paperback | Engels
• Introduces selected topics in federal Indian law. This title covers issues of identity and tribal recognition; reparations for historic harms; the val... Lees meer

Power and Empowerment

Peter Bachrach

• Paperback | Engels
• Contends that working-class struggle should be encouraged as a way of promoting the realignment of political parties along class lines and expanding c... Lees meer

The Burden of Over-Representation

Grant Farred

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Burden of Over-representation artfully explores three curious racial moments in sport: Jackie Robinson's expletive at a Dodgers spring training ga... Lees meer

The Civil Rights Lobby

Shamira Gelbman

• Paperback | Engels
• As the lobbying arm of the civil rights movement, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR)--which has operated since the early 1950s--was inst... Lees meer

The Machinery of Whiteness

Steve Martinot

• Paperback | Engels
• In this follow up to his book, The Rule of Racialization --which considered the way class structure is formed in the U.S.--Steve Martinot now examines... Lees meer

Sins of the Parents

Brian Weiner

• Paperback | Engels | Politics History & Social Chan
• Focuses on whether the present-day United States government should apologize for past wrongs done in its name. Lees meer

La Merica

Michael La Sorte

• Paperback | Engels
• Presents a study of Italian immigration prior to World War I. This work traces the men's lives from their native villages across the Atlantic through ... Lees meer

Zora Neale Hurston

Tiffany Ruby Patterson

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Perspectives on the P
• A historian hoping to reconstruct the social world of all-black towns or the segregated black sections of other towns in the South finds only scant tr... Lees meer

Organizing in Hard Times

Louise Simmons

• Paperback | Engels | Labor and Social Change
• In 1990, Hartford, Connecticut, ranked as the eight poorest city in the country. The harsh economic times felt throughout the city's workplaces and ne... Lees meer

Untidy Gender

Gul Ozyegin

• Paperback | Engels | Women in the Political Economy
• Takes the reader into the interconnected worlds of Turkish maids and the women who employ them. The study is based on a survey of domestic workers, in... Lees meer

Letters of Charles Demuth

Bruce Kellner

• Hardcover | Engels
• This collection of the letters of Charles Demuth, American modernist, offers views of the arts and letters colonies in Provincetown, New York and Pari... Lees meer

Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Youth
• As we experience and manipulate time--be it as boredom or impatience--it becomes an object: something materialized and social, something that affects ... Lees meer

Bioethics in Social Context

Barry Hoffmaster

• Hardcover | Engels
• The problems of bioethics are embedded in people's lives and social worlds. They are shaped by individual biographies and relationships, by the ethos ... Lees meer

The First Suburban Chinatown

Timothy Fong

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• Monterey Park, California, was dubbed by the media as the First Suburban Chinatown. This book reports on how pervasive anti-Asian sentiment fueled a s... Lees meer

Wheelchair Warrior

Melvin Juette, Ronald J Berger

• Hardcover | Engels
• Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a gang-related shooting was OC both the worst and best thing that happenedOCO to him. The incident, ... Lees meer

The Scrapbook in American Life

• Paperback | Engels
• Scrapbooks bring pleasure in both the making and consuming - and are one of the most enduring cultural forms. This book explores the history of scrapb... Lees meer

Philadelphia

Carolyn Adams

• Paperback | Engels | Comparitive American Cities
• Presents a patchwork of Philadelphia's political and economic changes dating back to 1683. This book explores a range of issues impacting upon the cit... Lees meer

Bernie Sanders and the Boundaries of Reform

W Conroy

• Paperback | Engels | Conflicts in Urban & Regional
• Today, Bernie Sanders is a household name, a wildly popular presidential candidate and an icon for progressive Democrats in the United States. But bac... Lees meer

Broken Promise

James Gross

• Paperback | Engels | Labor and Social Change
• The Wagner Act of 1935 (later the Wagner-Taft-Hartley Act of 1947) was intended to democratize vast numbers of American workplaces: the federal govern... Lees meer

Japanese American Millennials

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, this pioneering anthology, Japanes... Lees meer

If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress

• Paperback | Engels
• Philadelphia has long been a crucial site for the development of Black politics across the nation. If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress provid... Lees meer

The Redskins Encyclopedia

Michael Richman

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Redskins Encyclopedia brings to light the team's history and tradition in the most comprehensive account ever written about the storied NFL franch... Lees meer

Women in Latin America

Christine Bose

• Paperback | Engels
• This volume provides a historical and international framework for understanding the changing role of women in the political economy of Latin America a... Lees meer

Classical Hindu Mythology

Cornelia Dimmitt

• Paperback | Engels, Sanskriet
• The Mahapuranas embody the received tradition of Hindu mythology. This anthology contains fresh translations of these myths, only a few of which have ... Lees meer