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  • THE LAW AND SOCIETY READER II
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    THE LAW AND SOCIETY READER II
    ERIK LARSON AND PATRICK SCHMIDT
    Law and society scholars challenge the common belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standards and resolves disputes. Decades of research shows how much the nature of communities, organizations, and the people inhabiting them affect how law works. Just as much, law shapes beliefs, behaviors, and wider social structures, but the connections are much more ...

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  • HEAVEN'S GATE
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    HEAVEN'S GATE
    BENJAMIN E. ZELLER
    2015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies Association The captivating story of the people of Heaven’s Gate, a religious group focused on transcending humanity and the Earth, and seeking salvation in the literal heavens on board a UFO In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To in...

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  • BLACK MOSAIC
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    BLACK MOSAIC
    CANDIS WATTS SMITH
    Historically, Black Americans have easily found common ground on political, social, and economic goals. Yet, there are signs of increasing variety of opinion among Blacks in the United States, due in large part to the influx of Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean, and African immigrants to the United States. In fact, the very definition of “African American” as well as who can self-ide...

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  • FORGOTTEN TRIALS OF THE HOLOCAUST
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    FORGOTTEN TRIALS OF THE HOLOCAUST
    MICHAEL J. BAZYLER / FRANK M. TUERKHEIMER
    In the wake of the Second World War, how were the Allies to respond to the enormous crime of the Holocaust? Even in an ideal world, it would have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial. Nevertheless, an attempt was made to prosecute some. This book uncovers ten “forgotten trials” of the Holocaust, selected from the many Nazi trials that have taken place over the...

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  • CHILDREN AND YOUTH DURING THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA
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    CHILDREN AND YOUTH DURING THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA
    JAMES MARTEN / PAULA S FASS
    In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a “search for order,” as famously described by historian Robert Wiebe. Most reformers agreed that one of the nation’s top priorities should b...

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  • THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED
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    THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED
    AMANDA LOTZ
    Go behind the TV screen to explore what is changing, why it is changing, and why the changes matters Many proclaimed the “end of television” in the early years of the twenty-first century, as capabilities and features of the boxes that occupied a central space in American living rooms for the preceding fifty years were radically remade. In this revised, second edition of her de...

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  • KIDS GONE WILD
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    KIDS GONE WILD
    JOEL BEST / KATHLEEN A. BOGLE
    The myths and truths of teen's sexual behavior. Winner of the 2015 Brian McConnell Book Award presented by the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research To hear mainstream media sources tell it, the sex lives of modern teenagers outpace even the smuttiest of cable television shows. Teen girls “sext” explicit photos to boys they like; they wear “sex bracelets” that ...

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  • WOMEN OF THE NATION
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    WOMEN OF THE NATION
    DAWN-MARIE GIBSON / JAMILLAH KARIM
    Presents oral histories and interviews of women who belong to Nation of Islam With vocal public figures such as Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, and Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam often appears to be a male-centric religious movement, and over 60 years of scholarship have perpetuated that notion. Yet, women have been pivotal in the NOI's development, playing a major role in cr...

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  • THE DELECTABLE NEGRO
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    THE DELECTABLE NEGRO
    VINCENT WOODARD
    Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Unearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture that has largely been ignored until now Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were c...

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  • THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION OF 1776
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    THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION OF 1776
    GERALD HORNE
    Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelud...

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  • VIOLENT ACCOUNTS
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    VIOLENT ACCOUNTS
    ROBERT N. KRAFT
    Violent Accounts presents a compelling study of how ordinary people commit extraordinary acts of violence and how perpetrators and victims manage in the aftermath. Grounded in extensive, qualitative analysis of perpetrator testimony, the volume reveals the individual experiences of perpetrators as well as general patterns of influence that lead to collective violence. Drawing o...

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  • PSYCHOPATHY
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    PSYCHOPATHY
    ADRIAN RAINE / ANDREA L. GLENN
    A concise overview of the neuropsychology of psychopathy, written in layman's terms The last two decades have seen tremendous growth in biological research on psychopathy, a mental disorder distinguished by traits including a lack of empathy or emotional response, egocentricity, impulsivity, and stimulation seeking. But how does a psychopath’s brain work? What makes a psychopat...

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  • MISSISSIPPI RIVER TRAGEDIES
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    MISSISSIPPI RIVER TRAGEDIES
    CHRISTINE A. KLEIN / SANDRA B. ZELLMER
    American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-cal...

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  • EVERYONE EATS
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    EVERYONE EATS
    E. N. ANDERSON
    Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons for why humans eat what they do, resulting in a unique cultural and...

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  • REPRODUCING RACISM
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    REPRODUCING RACISM
    DARIA ROITHMAYR
    Argues that racial inequality reproduces itself automatically over time because early unfair advantage for whites has paved the way for continuing advantage This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made...

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  • WHAT WORKS FOR WOMEN AT WORK
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    WHAT WORKS FOR WOMEN AT WORK
    JOAN C. WILLIAMS / RACHEL DEMPSEY
    Up-beat, pragmatic, and chock full of advice, What Works for Women at Work is an indispensable guide for working women. An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation’s most-cited experts on women and work, and her daughter...

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  • NEW YORK AND AMSTERDAM
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    NEW YORK AND AMSTERDAM
    NANCY FONER / JAN RATH / JAN WILLEM DUYVENDAK / ROGIER VAN REEKUM
    Immigration is dramatically changing major cities throughout the world. Nowhere is this more so than in New York City and Amsterdam, which, after decades of large-scale immigration, now have populations that are more than a third foreign-born. These cities have had to deal with the challenge of incorporating hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose cultures, languages, religio...

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  • THE DIVIDED MIND OF THE BLACK CHURCH
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    THE DIVIDED MIND OF THE BLACK CHURCH
    RAPHAEL G. WARNOCK
    A revealing look at the identity and mission of the Black church What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at the center of an oppressed community’s fight for personhood a...

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  • THE NEW AMERICAN ZIONISM
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    THE NEW AMERICAN ZIONISM
    THEODORE SASSON
    In The New American Zionism, Theodore Sasson challenges the conventional view of waning American Jewish support for Israel. Instead, he shows that we are in the midst of a shift from a "mobilization" approach, which first emerged with the new state and focused on supporting Israel through big, centralized organizations, to an "engagement" approach marked by direct and personal ...

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  • IN THE SPIRIT OF A NEW PEOPLE
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    IN THE SPIRIT OF A NEW PEOPLE
    RANDY J. ONTIVEROS
    Reexamining the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, In the Spirit of a New People brings to light new insights about social activism in the twentieth-century and new lessons for progressive politics in the twenty-first. Randy J. Ontiveros explores the ways in which Chicano/a artists and activists used fiction, poetry, visual arts, theater, and other expressive...

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  • HANUKKAH IN AMERICA
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    HANUKKAH IN AMERICA
    DIANNE ASHTON
    Explores the ways American Jews have reshaped Hanukkah traditions across the country In New Orleans, Hanukkah means decorating your door with a menorah made of hominy grits. Latkes in Texas are seasoned with cilantro and cayenne pepper. Children in Cincinnati sing Hanukkah songs and eat oranges and ice cream. While each tradition springs from its own unique set of cultural refe...

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  • SERVANTS OF ALLAH
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    SERVANTS OF ALLAH
    SYLVIANE A. DIOUF
    Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought with them to the Americas was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu, as Sylvi...

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  • EATING ASIAN AMERICA
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    EATING ASIAN AMERICA
    ROBERT JI-SONG KU / MARTIN F MANALANSAN / ANITA MANNUR
    Examines the ways our conceptions of Asian American food have been shaped Chop suey. Sushi. Curry. Adobo. Kimchi. The deep associations Asians in the United States have with food have become ingrained in the American popular imagination. So much so that contentious notions of ethnic authenticity and authority are marked by and argued around images and ideas of food. Eating Asia...

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  • 1929
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    1929
    HASIA R DINER / GENNADY ESTRAIKH
    Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and Collections The year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as the crises endured by other Jews became part of the transnational Jewish consciousness. I...

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  • AN UNUSUAL RELATIONSHIP
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    AN UNUSUAL RELATIONSHIP
    YAAKOV ARIEL
    It is generally accepted that Jews and evangelical Christians have little in common. Yet special alliances developed between the two groups in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Evangelicals viewed Jews as both the rightful heirs of Israel and as a group who failed to recognize their true savior. Consequently, they set out to influence the course of Jewish life by attempti...

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  • CITIZENS OF ASIAN AMERICA
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    CITIZENS OF ASIAN AMERICA
    CINDY I-FEN CHENG
    Winner, 2013-2014 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Adult Non-Fiction presented by the Asian Pacific American Librarian Association During the Cold War, Soviet propaganda highlighted U.S. racism in order to undermine the credibility of U.S. democracy. In response, incorporating racial and ethnic minorities in order to affirm that America worked to ensure the rights o...

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  • A DEATH AT CROOKED CREEK
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    A DEATH AT CROOKED CREEK
    MARIANNE WESSON
    "This is an extraordinary and ground-breaking book, a wonderfully creative mix of fact and theory, imagination and drama. Anyone with an interest in law, history, or, for that matter, great storytelling will fall in love with A Death at Crooked Creek. The startling origin of the complex 'intention exception' to the hearsay evidence rule becomes canvas on which a grand and marve...

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  • BONDS OF CITIZENSHIP
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    BONDS OF CITIZENSHIP
    HOANG GIA PHAN
    In this study of literature and law from the Constitutional founding through the Civil War, Hoang Gia Phan demonstrates how American citizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the racialized material histories of free, enslaved, and indentured labor. Bonds of Citizenship illuminates the historical tensions between the legal paradigms of citizenship and contrac...

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  • WE WILL SHOOT BACK
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    WE WILL SHOOT BACK
    AKINYELE OMOWALE UMOJA
    Winner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award presented by the National Council of Black Studies Winner of the 2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature A bold and exciting historical narrative of the armed resistance of Black soldiers of the Mississippi Freedom Movement In We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Mov...

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  • ACROSS THE DIVIDE
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    ACROSS THE DIVIDE
    STEVEN J. RAMOLD
    Union soldiers left home in 1861 with expectations that the conflict would be short, the purpose of the war was clear, and public support back home was universal. As the war continued, however, Union soldiers began to perceive a great difference between what they expected and what was actually occurring. Their family relationships were evolving, the purpose of the war was chang...

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