Jr. - Social & Cultural Studies 13

James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee • Winner of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award, Association of Black Sociologists • Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, the Society for the Study of Socia……続きを見る

This book is a collection of comprehensive background essays coupled with carefully edited Supreme Court case excerpts designed to explore constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court in its……続きを見る

Peacebuilding in Africa: The Post-Conflict State and Its Multidimensional Crises argues that building enduring peace in post-conflict states in Africa requires comprehensive, state-specific approach……続きを見る

Leading legal scholar John Witte, Jr. explores the role religion played in the development of rights in the Western legal tradition and traces the complex interplay between human rights and religiou……続きを見る

The science on race is clear. Common categories like “Black,” “white,” and “Asian” do not represent genetic differences among groups. But if race is a pernicious fiction according to natural science……続きを見る

Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It provided a passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the industrial age, it ……続きを見る

Once derided as senseless entertainment, movies have gradually assumed a place among the arts. Raymond Haberski's provocative and insightful book traces the trajectory of this evolution throughout t……続きを見る

This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical m……続きを見る

The great, pre-Civil War attempt of Protestant missionaries to Christianize Native Americans is found by Robert F. Berkofer, Jr. to be a significant point of contact with enduring lessons for Americ……続きを見る

On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearly killed the first police officer who tried to arrest him. An angry mob then hauled Wright out of ……続きを見る

The 1965 U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic remains a unique event: the only time the Organization of American States has intervened with force on a member state's territory. It is also a c……続きを見る

Spanning most of the years of the one-party South, the public career of Virginian Claude A. Swanson, congressman, governor, senator, and secretary of the navy, extended from the second administratio……続きを見る

Race, from the beginning and more than any other element, has shaped America's institutions, its economics, politics, laws, social structures, and political attitudes. Congressman Jackson considers ……続きを見る

The fascinating history of Eastern Europe includes highs of soaring cultural achievement and lows of almost unimaginable repression. But we in the West don't know much about Eastern Europe or its hi……続きを見る

In the twenty-first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed as an urban renaissance. From Detroit to Newark t……続きを見る

Let me offer an early disclaimer. I know exactly who the Founders were. I know exactly the crimes against humanity that they were responsible for and those they inherited and were not responsible fo……続きを見る

A look at the rise and decline of the Pinckney family whose members were present at every major point in Charleston's history. Charleston's greatest years paralleled the rise to influence, the heyda……続きを見る

The Law Officer’s Pocket Manual is a handy, pocket-sized, spiral-bound manual that highlights basic legal rules for quick reference and offers examples showing how those rules are applied. The manua……続きを見る

Esse livro é a impressão da tese de doutorado do autor, onde foi elaborada uma investigação sobre o Plano de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC) que teve início no segundo mandato de Lula e continuou em……続きを見る

An empowering memoir of courage and hope in the face of injusticeーand the basis for the ABC television show, For LifeーMarked for Life is the true story of Isaac Wright Jr.’s battle to win his free……続きを見る

The description for this book, Local Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain, will be forthcoming. 続きを見る

En este libro podrá encontrar claves para examinar el conflicto y la cooperación entre EE.UU., Canadá y México mediante la Teoría de los Complejos de Seguridad Regional y el enfoque conceptual de Id……続きを見る

A thriving fur trade post between 1830 and 1860, Fort Clark, in what is today western North Dakota, also served as a way station for artists, scientists, missionaries, soldiers, and other western ch……続きを見る

In his final work, the great and beloved Native American scholar Vine Deloria Jr. takes us into the realm of the spiritual and reveals through eyewitness accounts the immense power of medicine men. ……続きを見る

Este volume, População e Perfil Sanitário ー, analisa os determinantes sociais, econômicos e ambientais da Saúde, abordando o cenário sociodemográfico em 2022 e 2030, a distribuição territorial da p……続きを見る

With a Foreword by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe Available once again for a new generation of readers, the first volume in Arthur Ashe’s epic trilogy that chronicles the remarkable legacy of Black athlete……続きを見る

One bad decision or tragedy can change the direction of your life in an instant. How do you succeed when you feel like a failure? Have you lost hope? Is God there, and does He care? Will you ever ge……続きを見る

The book provides an assessment of BRICS cooperation, focusing on the new financing mechanisms created by the BRICS, the monetary fund and the development bank. It is shown that Brazil, Russia, Indi……続きを見る

In this collection, contributors analyze the depiction of scientists in a wide range of films and television programs that span across genres, including horror, science fiction, crime drama, comedy,……続きを見る

The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end……続きを見る