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About the Author
Martin Oppenheimer is author of The State in Modern Society and The Urban Guerrilla
Reviews
Hate crimes are among our most difficult public policy issues. While all of us agree that violence motivated by group hatred should be condemned, few us have suggestions on how it should be addressed. Martin Oppenheimer has written a serious book. As important as its sobering substance, however, is the foundation it offers for developing effective remedies. -- Frank H. Wu, Dean, Wayne State University Law School
The greatness of the book is its combination of sophistication and accessibility, a formula which will be conducive to widespread course adoptions....SOCIOLOGICALLY, Oppenheimer provides well-grounded accounts of social stratification, of the modern state, of discrimination, and of intersection of race and class and gender and sex....Perhaps the most important promise of this book is that such people can be CALLED BACK to their humanity and decency, helped to understand that they are not attitudinally consolidated as "haters," as fearful people, as racists. They can be educated to understand how much they are actually like "the others," and how deep their commitments to democracy and freedom actually run. Creating the possibility of that recognition, that realization, is Marin Oppenheimer's great accomplishment here. -- Howard Winant, director, Center for New Racial Studies, University of California Santa Barbara; author, The World Is A Ghetto: Race and Democracy Since World War II
Book Information
ISBN 9780739110553
Author Martin Oppenheimer
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 200g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 166mm * 12mm