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A Rabble in Arms: Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip's War (Book)

Kyle Zelner

ISBN:9780814797341

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Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality (Book)

Anna Kirkland

ISBN:9780814795927

You see someone smoking a cigarette and say,"Smoking is bad for your health," when what you mean is, "You are a bad person because you smoke." You encounter someone whose body size you deem excessive...more details
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Becoming Bicultural: Risk, Resilience, and Latino Youth (Book)

Paul Smokowski

ISBN:9780814740903

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Beyond El Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina O America (Book)

Frank Guridy

ISBN:9780814791295

Freighted with meaning, "el barrio" is both place and metaphor for Latino populations in the United States. Though it has symbolized both marginalization and robust and empowered communities...more details
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Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction (Book)

Thomas Lemke

ISBN:9780814752425

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Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt (Book)

Hasan Kwame Jeffries

ISBN:9780814743317

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Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America (Book)

James Salazar

ISBN:9780814741313

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Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America's Bloodiest Conflict (Book)

Susannah Ural

ISBN:9780814785690

At its core, the Civil War was a conflict over the meaning of citizenship. Most famously, it became a struggle over whether or not to grant rights to a group that stood outside the pale of civil-society: African Americans. But other groups--namely Jews...more details
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Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America's Bloodiest Conflict. Edited by Susannah Ural (Book)

Susannah Ural

ISBN:9780814785706

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Courting Change: Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law (Book)

Kimberly Richman

ISBN:9780814776988

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Dangerous or Endangered?: Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban America (Book)

Jennifer Tilton

ISBN:9780814783122

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Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech (Book)

Kevin Saunders

ISBN:9780814741443

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Digital Jesus: The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet (Book)

Robert Howard

ISBN:9780814773109

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Educating the Whole Child for the Whole World: The Ross School Model and Education for the Global Era (Book)

Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj

ISBN:9780814741405

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we are living in a global era, yet schooling systems remain generally reactive and slow to adapt to shifting economic...more details
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From Africa to America: Religion and Adaptation Among Ghanaian Immigrants in New York (Book)

Moses Biney

ISBN:9780814786390

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From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918 (Book)

Gunja Sengupta

ISBN:9780814741078

The racially charged stereotype of "welfare queen"--an allegedly promiscuous waster who uses her children as meal tickets funded by tax-payers--is a familiar icon in modern America...more details
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Is Breast Best?: Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood (Book)

Joan Wolf

ISBN:9780814794814

Since the invention of dextri-maltose and the subsequent rise of Similac in the early twentieth century, parents with access to clean drinking water have had a safe alternative to breast-milk. Use of formula spiked between the 1950s and 1970s...more details
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More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States (Book)

Imani Perry

ISBN:9780814767375

For a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial, we are still mired in the practices of racial inequality that plays out in law...more details
Format:Paperback Pages:248

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More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times (Book)

Constance Rosenblum

ISBN:9780814776544

What do Francine Prose, Suketu Mehta, and Edwidge Danticat have in common? Each suffers from an incurable love affair with the Big Apple, and each contributed to the canon of writing New York has inspired by way of the "New York Times City" Section...more details
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Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture (Book)

Christopher Bader

ISBN:9780814791349

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Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America (Book)

Helen Jun

ISBN:9780814742983

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Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community (Book)

Tamara Brown

ISBN:9780814791431

Stroll through any public park in Brooklyn on a weekday afternoon and you will see black women with white children at every turn. Many of these women are of Caribbean descent...more details
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Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas (Book)

Jessica Taft

ISBN:9780814783245

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Sanctuary Cinema: Origins of the Christian Film Industry (Book)

Terry Lindvall

ISBN:9780814752500

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Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work (Book)

Kim Price-Glynn

ISBN:9780814767610

In Strip Club, Kim Price‒Glynn takes us behind the scenes at a rundown club where women strip out of economic need, a place where strippers' stories are not glamorous or liberating...more details
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The Assemblies of God: Godly Love and the Revitalization of American Pentecostalism. Margaret Poloma and John Green (Book)

Margaret Poloma

ISBN:9780814767832

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The Measure of America, 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience (Book)

Kristen Lewis

ISBN:9780814783801

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The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet (Book)

Thomas Streeter

ISBN:9780814741160

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The Net Effect: Technology, Romanticism, Capitalism (Book)

Thomas Streeter

ISBN:9780814741153

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The School-To-Prison Pipeline: Structuring Legal Reform (Book)

Catherine Kim

ISBN:9780814748435

The "school-to-prison pipeline" is an emerging trend that pushes large numbers of at-risk youth--particularly children of color--out of classrooms and into the juvenile justice system. The policies and practices that contribute to this trend can be seen as a pipeline with many entry points...more details
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The Technology of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Control (Book)

Peter Manning

ISBN:9780814761366

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The Third Asiatic Invasion: Migration and Empire in Filipino America, 1898-1946 (Book)

Rick Baldoz

ISBN:9780814791097

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a wave of Filipino immigration to the United States, following in the footsteps of earlier Chinese and Japanese immigrants...more details
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The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (Book)

Susan Schweik

ISBN:9780814783610

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Tierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing (Book)

Steven Bender

ISBN:9780814791257

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Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing (Book)

Laura Noren

ISBN:9780814795880

So much happens in the public toilet that we never talk about. Finding the right door, waiting in line, and using the facilities are often undertaken with trepidation. Don't touch anything. Try not to smell. Avoid eye contact. And for men...more details
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