Race, Class, and Social Welfare: American Populism Since the New Deal, Hardcover - Erik J. Engstrom

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Reducere. Malcolm X, describing his childhood experience of "when the welfare people came" and introduced him to the US child protection system, called it "l...

Reducere. As a part of the New Deal that offered hope during the Great Depression, scores of public art projects were commissioned around the country. Now th...

Reducere. Description A history of the McCleskey v. Kemp Supreme Court ruling that effectively condoned racism in capital cases In 1978 Warren McCleskey, a b...

Draws on extensive archival research and oral history interviews to explore political history in Kentucky.Publisher: The University Press of Kentuc...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on F...

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A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunt...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): David J. ConnorNumber of pages: 412Collection: Disability Studies in EducationPublication date: 2007...

Contributor(s): Author: Barry C. FeldA major statement on the juvenile justice system by one of America's leading experts The juvenile court lies a...

Reducere. Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of th...

Reducere. American Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presidency is a careful exploration of the forces that led to the election of the 45th pre...

DescriptionPsychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully ...

Are Black people naturally mad at the world? Anissa Danielle Moore examines the experience of Blacks in America through a series of "mad" moments i...

In a time of increasing inequality, why has there been a recent surge of support for political parties who promote an anti-welfare message? Using a...

Reducere. This book provides the major economic, social, and psychological impacts associated with the siting of noxious facilities and their significance in...

DescriptionWhat is the Green New Deal and how can we afford it? To protect the future of life on earth, we need to do more than just reimagine the ...

Reducere. One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth ...

How do parents consider questions of race and class when they are choosing secondary schools for their children and does it differ from place to pl...

Reducere. "Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands."Michelle Alexander More than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the ...

Reducere. In this essential exploration of the American heartland, Kayleigh McEnany presents an eye-opening collection of interviews and stories about the po...

DescriptionYouth, Crime, and Justice is a comprehensive introduction to juvenile justice through a unique case-study approach. Each chapter opens w...

In response to the growing scope and popularity of wedding-related offerings and the media attention given to celebrity and royal weddings, this bo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Devon JohnsonEditor: Amy FarrellEditor: Patricia Y. WarrenThe murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin and the subsequent ...

This book describes Trumpism: the strong allegiance to former President Donald Trump that is in evidence among a sizable portion of the US populati...

This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and c...

Reducere. For over sixty years, Selma James has been organizing from the perspective of unwaged women who, with their biological and caring work, reproduce t...

Reducere. More than any other city in America, New York in the years after the Second World War carved out an idealistic and equitable path to the future. La...

Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and...

This textbook provides a contemporary and comprehensive introduction to the study of inequality. It introduces the theories and research methods us...

Reducere. How do social statuses intersect to shape our identities and produce inequalities? In the updated Third Edition of this bestseller, Susan Ferguson ...

DescriptionA major statement on the juvenile justice system by one of America's leading expertsThe juvenile court lies at the intersection of youth...

All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same -- a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neu...

Reducere. Considers such topics as Welty's uses of African American signifying in her short stories and her attention to public street performances interacti...

Reducere. Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors, David B. ...

Reducere. One of the most talked-about books in years, A Nation of Victims established Charles Sykes as a persuasive, witty, and controversial commentator on...

Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socia...

Reducere. "On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherently ""unequal"" and,...

The first archaeological study of the poor whites of Barbados, the descendants of seventeenth-century European indentured servants and small farmer...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tommy J. CurryTommy J. Curry's provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies. He posits that we sh...

Reducere. After 9/11, the United States government embarked on an unprecedented effort to protect America. The result has been calamitous: after ten years of...

Reducere. Developing life-changing drugs is risky and expensive--but that's not what makes them unaffordable. Drug pricing is a staple of every news cycle an...

Reducere. In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

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Reducere. The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous--and under-examined--biracial murders in A...