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Focusing primarily on domestic policy, these essays explain why...
Focusing primarily on domestic policy, these essays explain why Obama’s widely anticipated moment of change did not fully materialise. The Obama presidency navigated partisan and institutional obstacles, but quickly lost its 2008 momentum.
An edited anthology describing Latino and Latina American...
An edited anthology describing Latino and Latina American participation in sports in the United States, with an emphasis on Texas and the American Southwest
Dubbed the Lexington Six, the group’s resistance attracted...
Dubbed the Lexington Six, the group’s resistance attracted national attention, inspiring a nationwide movement in other minority communities. Like the iconic Stonewall demonstrations, this gripping story of spirited defiance has special resonance in today’s America.
The scientific knowledge derived from discarding and exploiting...
The scientific knowledge derived from discarding and exploiting human life is now the basis of our ability to protect humanity from epidemics.
Based on years of interviews and on-the-ground observation,...
Based on years of interviews and on-the-ground observation, Margulies argues that to save Olneyville and thousands of neighborhoods like it, we need to empower low-income residents by giving them ownership and control of neighborhood assets.
He argues that perhaps the most important contribution Confucian...
He argues that perhaps the most important contribution Confucian philosophy can make to contemporary ethical, social, and political discourse is the conception of focus-field, relationally constituted persons as a robust alternative to the ideology of individualism with single actors playing to win.
Through close-reading, Zavatta casts a new light on the ways in...
Through close-reading, Zavatta casts a new light on the ways in which Emerson’s work informed Nietzsche’s defining ideas of self-creation, the relation between fate and free will, overcoming morality of customs and achieving moral autonomy, and the “transvaluation” of such values as compassion andaltruism.
Drawing on an original Africa Leadership Change (ALC) dataset,...
Drawing on an original Africa Leadership Change (ALC) dataset, the book addresses these issues by empirically investigating the actual bearing of distinct leadership dynamics on development processes across the sub-Saharan region, for the entire 1960-2018 period. It shows how, as Africa changed its leaders and the way they reach power, the new leaders began to change Africa.
Every facet of American life is being overtaken by big platform...
Every facet of American life is being overtaken by big platform monopolists like Facebook, Google, and Bayer (which has merged with the former agricultural giant Monsanto), resulting in a greater concentration of wealth and power than we’ve seen since the Gilded Age.
Despite this early promise, Frederick Douglass, the...
Despite this early promise, Frederick Douglass, the country’s most influential Black leader, soon grew disillusioned with Johnson’s policies and increasingly doubted the president was sincere in supporting Black citizenship. In a dramatic and pivotal meeting between Johnson and a Black delegation at the White House, the president and Douglass came to verbal blows over the course of Reconstruction.
A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a...
A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy.
Mainstream economics, Coyle says, still assumes people are...
Mainstream economics, Coyle says, still assumes people are “cogs”–self-interested, calculating, independent agents interacting in defined contexts. But the digital economy is much more characterized by “monsters”–untethered, snowballing, and socially influenced unknowns.
Rather than taking a topics-based approach to masculinity,...
Rather than taking a topics-based approach to masculinity, Exploring Masculinities offers an innovative conceptual approach that enables students to study a given phenomenon from a variety of perspectives.
The gap represents an important explanation for voter choice,...
The gap represents an important explanation for voter choice, voter turnout, perceptions of personal and public safety, preferences for gun control policies, and support for the death penalty. Moreover, the 2016 presidential election witnessed the largest recorded gun gap in history.
Many believe the solution to ongoing crises in the news...
Many believe the solution to ongoing crises in the news industry–including profound financial instability and public distrust–is for journalists to improve their relationship with their audiences. This raises important questions: How do journalists conceptualize their audiences in the first place?
She campaigned alongside the country’s earliest feminists...
She campaigned alongside the country’s earliest feminists to publicly defy laws against distributing information about birth control, earning her notoriety as “one of the dangerous influences of the country” from President Woodrow Wilson.
An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the...
An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied them Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many.
Cuevas illuminates how the parents in her study engaged in...
Cuevas illuminates how the parents in her study engaged in supportive behaviors similar to those of middle and upper classes families despite the barriers they faced, such as low-income households, undocumented legal status, and single parenting.
What began as an outbreak against draft offices soon turned into...
What began as an outbreak against draft offices soon turned into a horrifying mob assault on upper-class houses and property, and on New York’s African American community. The draft riots drove thousands of blacks to the fringes of white society, hastening the formation of large ghettoes, including Harlem, in a once-integrated city.