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The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994

by Stanley Crouch

In this brilliantly acerbic collection of essays--a New York Times Notable Book in 1995--Stanley Crouch confirms that he is one of the most eloquent and unpredictable commentators on race and culture in American...


Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture

by Shayne Lee

This book steers black sexual politics toward a more sex-positive trajectory, navigating the uncharted spaces where social constructionism, third-wave feminism, and black popular culture collide to locate a...


The Roads to Congress 2008

by Robert Dewhirst

The book offers lively and highly readable case studies of the most intriguing and important congressional races of 2008. Both House and Senate races are included and each case covers the same topics presented...


Criminal Justice Essentials

by Sue Titus Reid

Revised and updated to reflect recent research and statutory changes, the Ninth Edition of Sue Titus Reid's Criminal Justice Essentials provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the U.S. criminal justice...


God's Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right

by Michael Sean Winters

Falwell did not eliminate the divide between religion and politics. Nor did he blur it. He jumped over it, bringing millions of voters with him, and he never looked back.

—from the Introduction

Mounting concerns...


The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

by Eric Hoffer

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer -- the first and most famous of his books...


Ida: A Sword Among Lions

by Paula J. Giddings

In the tradition of towering biographies that tell us as much about America as they do about their subject, Ida: A Sword Among Lions is a sweepingnarrative about a country and a crusader embroiled in the struggle...


Growing Up Chicana/o

by Bill Adler, A Lopez & Tiffany A. Lopez

What Does It Mean To Grow Up Chicana/o?When I was growing up, I never read anything in school by anyone who had a "Z" in their last name. This anthology is, in many ways, a public gift to that child who was...


I Am a Woman Finding My Voice

by Janet Quinn

This celebration of womanhood, with a foreword by Dr. Joan Borysenko, delights in the joy of the feminine soul. In a time when it might not be politically correct to speak of such a uniquely feminine soul, Quinn...


The Undecided Voter's Guide to the Next President

by Mark Halperin

Who's ready for the oval office?

They call it a horse race, and in this election the candidates got out of the gate early. But it's still hard to tell them apart and make a choice. Mark Halperin, veteran reporter...


Voices from the Camps: A People's History of Palestinian Refugees in Jordan, 2006

by Nabil Marshood

This sociological study explores refugee camps in Jordan, where refugees of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict share their plight and narrative of the Nakbeh (Catastrophe) of 1948. This book does not propose solutions;...


Steadfast Movement around Micronesia: Satowan Enlargements beyond Migration

by Lola Quan Bautista

Steadfast Movement examines how people from Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) move about and their cultural interpretations of movement itself. Special consideration is made of movement...


Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community

by Steven Gregory

In Black Corona, Steven Gregory examines political culture and activism in an African-American neighborhood in New York City. Using historical and ethnographic research, he challenges the view that black urban...


An Essay on Liberation

by Herbert Marcuse

In this concise and startling book, the author of One-Dimensional Man argues that the time for utopian speculation has come. Marcuse argues that the traditional conceptions of human freedom have been rendered...


Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture

by Allison J. Pugh

Even as they see their wages go down and their buying power decrease, many parents are still putting their kids' material desires first. These parents struggle with how to handle children's consumer wants, which...


The Eastern Archaic, Historicized

by Kenneth E. Sassaman

This book explores the 8,000 years of hunter-gatherer life in eastern North America, reinterpreting the prehistory of the indigenous peoples living east of the Mississippi.


Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America (New in Paper)

by Paul Frymer

Uneasy Alliances is a powerful challenge to how we think about the relationship between race, political parties, and American democracy. While scholars frequently claim that the need to win elections makes government...


The Imperative of Integration

by Elizabeth Anderson

More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair...


1 | 2010 - Dossier | Afrique : 50 ans d’indépendance — Revue | Évolutions des politiques de développement - PolDev

by Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement

The Series comprises two distinct parts: Thematic Dossier | Africa: 50 years of independence While we celebrate the 50th anniversary of independence, authors of different origins offer their analyses of decolonisation....


2 | 2011 - Dossier | Energie et développement - Revue | Évolutions des politiques de développement - PolDev

by Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement

Energy constitutes one of the major challenges for development policy. The pursuit of a development path primarily feeding on abundant, cheap fossil fuels is at odds with diminishing reserves, rising prices...