Investing in America Fifty Years after the Kerner Report
Edited by Fred Harris and Alan Curtis
Examining inequality in America fifty years after the Kerner Report
488 pages
| 6 x 9
| 9 tables, 54 figures
Families, Markets, and the Color Line
Elizabeth Raleigh
Examines cross-race adoptions from the perspectives of adoption providers, showing how racial hierarchies and the supply and demand for children shape the process
250 pages
| 6 x 9
Mass Incarceration, Prisoner Abuse, and the New Neo-Slave Novel
Patrick Elliot Alexander
The first interdisciplinary study of mass incarceration to intersect the fields of literary studies, critical prison studies, and human rights
260 pages
| 6 x 9
| 5 halftones
Performative Assimilation in Law School
Yung-Yi Diana Pan
Examining racialization, inequality, and professional socialization
230 pages
| 6 x 9
| 11 tables, 6 line drawings
Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
Tommy J. Curry
Introduces the conceptual foundations for Black Male Studies, going beyond gender theories that cast the Black Male as a pathological aspiring patriarch
298 pages
| 6 x 9
Immigrant Incorporation in New Destinations
Stefanie Chambers
Examining the political, economic and social incorporation of Somali Americans in Minnesota’s Twin Cities and in Columbus, Ohio
250 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 12 tables, 6 figures
Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France
Crystal Marie Fleming
Revealing how the histories of slavery and colonialism are being resurrected and racialized in France today
292 pages
| 6 x 9
| 10 tables, 6 line drawings, 14 halftones
A Literary Approach
Werner Sollors
Essays that honor the achievement of African American writers from the Enlightenment to the present
296 pages
| 6 x 9
| 4 color photos, 1 line drawing, 8 halftones
The AFL, Black Players, and the Evolution of Modern Football
Charles K. Ross
Examining the black player experience in the American Football League
216 pages
| 6 x 9
| 8 halftones
Basketball and the Age of Obama
Alexander Wolff
The influence Barack Obama has had on basketball and vice versa, in essays and photographs
192 pages
| 10 x 8
| 108 color photos, 22 halftones
Race, Gender, and Immigration Politics in the Age of Security
Anna Sampaio
A comprehensive analysis of changes in immigration policy, politics, and enforcement since 9/11
236 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 table, 1 halftone
Darrel Wanzer-Serrano
A landmark history of the New York Young Lords, and what their activism tells us about contemporary Latino/a politics
248 pages
| 6 x 9
| 11 figures, 6 halftones
Rhetoric, Reverie, or Reality
Melanie E. L. Bush and Roderick D. Bush
The contradictions of the promise - and reality - of the American Dream
258 pages
| 6 x 9
| 13 tables
Slavery, the President's House at Independence National Historical Park, and Public Memory
Roger C. Aden
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of the memorial to slavery in Independence Mall
264 pages
| 6 x 9
| 3 tables, 5 line drawings, 6 halftones, 1 map
Linking Environmental Studies with Transforming Black Experiences
Rubin Patterson
Establishes the need to include Environmental Studies as part of the Africana Studies curriculum
242 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 28 tables, 3 figures, 3 halftones, 6 maps
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