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  • Classified

    The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America

    by David E. Bernstein ...
    “The racial categories that the schools use are completely bonkers, an arbitrary mess mostly left over from the work of federal bureaucrats in the 1970s that can’t withstand the slightest scrutiny. The administrators who rely on these categories are beholden to senseless and unscientific distinctions—they aren’t even competent or rational racialists. Justice Samuel Alito raised this issue in the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lawless

    The Obama Administration's Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law

    by David E. Bernstein ...
    In Lawless, George Mason University law professor David E. Bernstein provides a lively, scholarly account of how the Obama administration has undermined the Constitution and the rule of law.Lawless documents how President Barack Obama has presided over one constitutional debacle after another-Obamacare; unauthorized wars in the Middle East; attempts to strip property owners, college students, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Only One Place of Redress

    African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal

    by David E. Bernstein, Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    In Only One Place of Redress David E. Bernstein offers a bold reinterpretation of American legal history: he argues that American labor and occupational laws, enacted by state and federal governments after the Civil War and into the twentieth century, benefited dominant groups in society to the detriment of those who lacked political power. Both intentionally and incidentally, claims Bernstein, ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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    Classified

    The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America

    by David E. Bernstein ...
    Narrated by John McLain ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 1 min

    A call for the separation of race and state, backed by a deep dive into the surreal world of racial classification in America.Americans are understandably squeamish about official racial and ethnic classifications. Nevertheless, they are ubiquitous in American life. Applying for a job, mortgage, university admission, citizenship, government contracts, and much more involves checking a box stating ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism

    by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò ...
    A pathbreaking book about world history, global justice, and the climate crisis—featuring a new preface by the author.“Coursing with moral urgency and propelled by brilliant prose, this is more than argument. It's how we build the power needed to win.”—Naomi KleinA clear, new case for reparations as a “constructive,” future-oriented project that responds to the weight of history’s injustices with ... Read more

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  • The Right to a Healthy Environment

    Revitalizing Canada's Constitution

    by David R. Boyd ...
    Series series Law and Society Series
    Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012), David R. Boyd describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could ... Read more

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  • Mobilizing for Human Rights

    International Law in Domestic Politics

    by Beth A. Simmons ...
    This volume argues that international human rights law has made a positive contribution to the realization of human rights in much of the world. Although governments sometimes ratify human rights treaties, gambling that they will experience little pressure to comply with them, this is not typically the case. Focusing on rights stakeholders rather than the United Nations or state pressure, Beth ... Read more

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  • The Great Demographic Illusion

    Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream

    by Richard Alba ...
    Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the country’s futureAmericans are under the spell of a distorted and polarizing story about their country’s future—the majority-minority narrative—which contends that inevitable demographic changes will create a society with a majority made up of minorities for the first time in the United States’s history. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • State of White Supremacy

    Racism, Governance, and the United States

    Edited by Moon-Kie Jung, João H. Costa Vargas, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva ...
    The deeply entrenched patterns of racial inequality in the United States simply do not square with the liberal notion of a nation-state of equal citizens. Uncovering the false promise of liberalism, State of White Supremacy reveals race to be a fundamental, if flexible, ruling logic that perpetually generates and legitimates racial hierarchy and privilege.Racial domination and violence in the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Schools for Misrule

    Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America

    by Walter Olson ...
    From Barack Obama (Harvard and Chicago) to Bill and Hillary Clinton (Yale), many of our current national leaders emerged from the rarefied air of the nation's top law schools. The ideas taught there in one generation often shape national policy in the next.The trouble is, Walter Olson reveals in Schools for Misrule, our elite law schools keep churning out ideas that are catastrophically bad for ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Making Race and Nation

    A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil

    by Anthony W. Marx ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Why and how has race become a central aspect of politics during this century? This book addresses this pressing question by comparing South African apartheid and resistance to it, the United States Jim Crow law and protests against it, and the myth of racial democracy in Brazil. Anthony Marx argues that these divergent experiences had roots in the history of slavery, colonialism, miscegenation and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Ethnic Project

    Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions

    by Vilna Bashi Treitler ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity
    Race is a known fiction—there is no genetic marker that indicates someone's race—yet the social stigma of race endures. In the United States, ethnicity is often positioned as a counterweight to race, and we celebrate our various hyphenated-American identities. But Vilna Bashi Treitler argues that we do so at a high cost: ethnic thinking simply perpetuates an underlying racism.In The Ethnic Project ... Read more

    $22.99 USD