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Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars by Amy L. Best 9780814799307 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.18Bass booms from custom speakers, pick-up trucks boast lowered suspensions, chrome rims reflect stoplights, and bare arms dangle from open windows. Welcome to Santa Clara Street in San Jose,... -
The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans: Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childrearing, and Death by Howard Ball 9780814798621 [USED COPY]
RRP: $168.98Booksplease Price: $16.90Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 Personal rights, such as the right to procreate or not and the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps out the legal, political, and ethical... -
Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice by France Winddance Twine 9780814798546 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47A collection of international scholars and activists answer the questionshow does gender and region/nation play a defining role in how feminists engage in anti-racist practices? How has the... -
Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States by Jose Ramon Sanchez 9780814798478 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.18Where does power come from? Why does it sometimes disappear? How do groups, like the Puerto Rican community, become impoverished, lose social influence, and become marginal to the rest of society?... -
Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights by Rebecca E. Zietlow 9780814797075 [USED COPY]
RRP: $126.14Booksplease Price: $12.61In Enforcing Equality, Rebecca E. Zietlow assesses Congress's historical role in interpreting the Constitution and protecting the individual rights of citizens, provocatively challenging conventional... -
Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation in Post-Civil Rights America by Eric K. Yamamoto 9780814796740 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.18The United States in the twenty-first century will be a nation of so-called minorities. Shifts in the composition of the American populace necessitate a radical change in the ways we as a nation... -
Discrimination by Default: How Racism Becomes Routine by Lu-In Wang 9780814793794 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47Much as we "select" computer settings by default-reflexively, without thinking, and sometimes without realizing there are other options-we often discriminate by default as well. And just as default... -
How East New York Became a Ghetto by Walter Thabit 9780814782668 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47In response to the riots of the mid-'60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that... -
Media Reception Studies by Janet Staiger 9780814781340 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47A broad survey on how audiences make meaning out of mass media Media Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media... -
Sex and Sexuality in Early America by Merril D. Smith, Ph.D 9780814780671 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47What role did sexual assault play in the conquest of America? How did American attitudes toward female sexuality evolve, and how was sexuality regulated in the early Republic? Sex and sexuality... -
Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces by Juana Maria Rodriguez 9780814775493 [USED COPY]
RRP: $168.98Booksplease Price: $16.90An examination into queer identity in relation to Latino/a America According to the 2000 census, Latinos/as have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. Images of Latinos and... -
Voted Out: The Psychological Consequences of Anti-Gay Politics by Glenda M. Russell 9780814775431 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47When, in 1992, the citizens of Colorado ratified Amendment 2, effectively stripping lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals of protection from discrimination under the state's constitution, the vote divided... -
Money Talks: Speech, Economic Power, and the Values of Democracy by Martin H. Redish 9780814775387 [USED COPY]
RRP: $226.10Booksplease Price: $22.61Many have argued that soft money and special interests are destroying the American electoral system. And yet the clarion call for campaign finance reform only touches on the more general belief that... -
Living through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream by Reuben A. Buford May 9780814757291 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47A hopeful and inspiring treatise on the power of playing basketball When high school basketball player LeBron James was selected as the top pick in the National Basketball Association draft of 2003,... -
Mothers Who Kill Their Children: Understanding the Acts of Moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom" by Cheryl L. Meyer 9780814756430 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47An inside look into patterns and potential prevention plans for one of the most hotly sensationalized crimes A special kind of horror is reserved for mothers who kill their children. Cases such as... -
Original Sin: Clarence Thomas and the Failure of the Constitutional Conservatives by Samuel A. Marcosson 9780814756409 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47Originalism is the practice of reviewing constitutional cases by seeking to discern the framers' and ratifiers' intent. Original Sin argues that the "jurisprudence of original intent," represented on... -
Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths by Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater 9780814752128 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.18Urban Girls, published in 1996, was one of the first volumes to showcase the lives of girls growing up in contexts of urban poverty and sometimes racism and violence. It spoke directly to young women... -
Murder and the Reasonable Man: Passion and Fear in the Criminal Courtroom by Cynthia Lee 9780814751152 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47A man murders his wife after she has admitted her infidelity; another man kills an openly gay teammate after receiving a massage; a third man, white, goes for a jog in a "bad" neighborhood, carrying... -
Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood by Anna Kirkland 9780814748077 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.18Author Interview on The Brian Lehrer Show America is a weight-obsessed nation. Over the last decade, there's been an explosion of concern in the U.S. about people getting fatter. Plaintiffs are now... -
Presidential Powers by Harold J. Krent 9780814747827 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47Framed in Article II of the Constitution, presidential powers are dictated today by judicial as well as historical precedent. To understand the ways the president wields power as well as how this... -
Gun Control and Gun Rights: A Reader and Guide by Andrew J. McClurg 9780814747599 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.18View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. The second amendment is the most hotly debated and controversial right in the Constitution. In light of the recent surge of school shootings and... -
Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women In Prison by Paula Johnson 9780814742549 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47An intimate collection of African American women's voices on their lives in prison The rate of women entering prison has increased nearly 400 percent since 1980, with African American women... -
Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech by Kevin W. Saunders 9780814741443 [USED COPY]
RRP: $114.24Booksplease Price: $11.42Throughout history obscenity has not really been about sex but about degradation. Sexual depictions have been suppressed when they were seen as lowering the status of humans, furthering our distance... -
Muslim American Youth: Understanding Hyphenated Identities through Multiple Methods by Michelle Fine 9780814740392 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.18Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent "war on terror," growing up Muslim in the U.S. has become a far more challenging task for young people. They must contend with... -
Critical Cyberculture Studies by David Silver 9780814740231 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.18Starting in the early 1990s, journalists and scholars began responding to and trying to take account of new technologies and their impact on our lives. By the end of the decade, the full-fledged... -
Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations by Charles P. Henry 9780814736920 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47An investigation of America's failure to atone for the wrongs of slavery Ever since the unfulfilled promise of "forty acres and a mule" after the Civil War, America has consistently failed to... -
Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and Offending by Karen Heimer 9780814736746 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.18While rates of violent victimization have declined, women are still much more likely than men to be attacked by an intimate partner. Simultaneously, women's involvement in the criminal justice... -
Voicing Chicana Feminisms: Young Women Speak Out on Sexuality and Identity by Aida Hurtado 9780814735732 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.18Explores the relationship between Chicana feminism and the lived experiences of Chicanas Chicana voices are missing from the psychology of women. Though "Chicana feminisms" have only recently been... -
God is a Conservative: Religion, Politics, and Morality in Contemporary America by Kenneth J. Heineman 9780814735541 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47From Billy Graham and Ronald Regan to Newt Gingrich and William Bennett, God is a Conservative provides an important look at the role of religion in conservative politics in modern America. Kenneth J... -
Deconstruction Is/In America: A New Sense of the Political by Anselm Haverkamp 9780814735183 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47What impact has deconstruction had on the way we read American culture? And how is American culture itself peculiarly deconstructive? To address these questions, this volume brings together some of... -
South Asia by Sumit Ganguly 9780814731765 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47In recent years the world's focus on South Asia has increased dramatically. With the events of 9/11, the detonation of atomic weapons by both India and Pakistan, the discovery of an illicit nuclear... -
The Case Against Punishment: Retribution, Crime Prevention, and the Law by Deirdre Golash 9780814731581 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47What ends do we expect and hope to serve in punishing criminal wrongdoers? Does the punishment of offenders do more harm than good for American society? In The Case against Punishment, Deirdre Golash... -
Understanding the 2000 Election: A Guide to the Legal Battles that Decided the Presidency by Abner Greene 9780814731482 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47Paperback Edition: Updated and with a New Foreword The nation will not soon forget the drama of the 2000 presidential election. For five weeks we were transfixed by the legal clashes that enveloped... -
The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop by Kyra D. Gaunt 9780814731192 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.182007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist Explores how the traditions of black music are intertwined in the games black girls... -
Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure by Monique Guillory 9780814730843 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47No other word in the English language is more endemic to contemporary Black American culture and identity than "Soul". Since the 1960s Soul has been frequently used to market and sell music, food,... -
Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society by Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas 9780814727522 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.18A collection of leading voices on the study of Black women in religious life Womanist approaches to the study of religion and society have contributed much to our understanding of Black religious... -
Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action by Bryan K. Fair 9780814726518 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.18The Constitution of the United States, writes Bryan Fair, was a series of compromises between white male propertyholders: Southern planters and Northern merchants. At the heart of their deals was a... -
The Education of the Southern Belle: Higher Education and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South by Christie Anne Farnham 9780814726150 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47The American South before the Civil War was the site of an unprecedented social experiment in women's education. The South offered women an education explicitly designed to be equivalent to that of... -
An Expendable Man: The Near-Execution of Earl Washington, Jr. by Margaret Edds 9780814722220 [USED COPY]
RRP: $149.94Booksplease Price: $14.99How is it possible for an innocent man to come within nine days of execution? An Expendable Man answers that question through detailed analysis of the case of Earl Washington Jr., a mentally... -
Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers!: Demonization and the End of Civil Debate in American Politics by Tom De Luca 9780814719749 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.18The level of vitriol in American politics has been rising with no end in sight. Terms like "evildoer," "war on terror," and "axis of evil" have become commonplace in our discussion of international...