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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “larry j walker”
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  • Examining the Consequences of the Dismantlement of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education

    Edited by Larry J. Walker, Tryan L. McMickens, Robert T. Palmer, Alonzo M. Flowers III, Amy E. French, Rosa M. Banda ...
    This urgently important volume examines the nuances of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in American higher education.Featuring contributions from a nationally recognized group of scholars at the forefront of addressing anti-DEI efforts, this book tackles the central question: “What is DEI in higher education?” The chapters establish a foundation for addressing myths and disinformation on the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • How the Obama Presidency Changed the Political Landscape

    Edited by Larry J. Walker, F. Erik Brooks, Ramon B. Goings ...
    Covering key issues ranging from education to political mobilization to racial stratification, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the Obama Presidency.President Barack Obama's election and subsequent reelection represent a critical paradigm shift in American political history. But are there lasting effects of the election of an African American to the highest office in the land in ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Graduate Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

    A Student Perspective

    Edited by Larry J. Walker, Ramon B. Goings, Charmaine Troy, Chaz T. Gipson, Felecia Commodore, Robert Palmer ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    Highlighting the voices and experiences of Black graduate students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), this book features the perspectives of students from a variety of academic backgrounds and institutional settings. Contributors discuss their motivation to attend an HBCU for graduate studies, their experiences, and how these helped prepare them for their career. To be ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Why We're Polarized

    by Ezra Klein ...
    **ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022One of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer,” this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched” (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us—and ... Read more

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  • Can We Talk about Race?

    And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation

    by Beverly Tatum, Theresa Perry ...
    Series series Race, Education, and Democracy
    **Major new reflections on race and schools—by the best-selling author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?“A Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education, and Democracy Series Book**Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged on the national scene in 1997 with “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?,“ a book that spoke to a wide audience about the ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Governance

    Edited by David Levi-Faur ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the social science literature on governance. The volume presents the core concepts and knowledge that have evolved in the study of governance in different levels and arenas of politics and policymaking. In doing so it establishes itself as the essential point of reference for all those studying ... Read more

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  • No Shortcuts

    Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

    by Jane F. McAlevey ...
    The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC (and capitols throughout the West), where they are outmatched and outspent by corporate interests. Labor unions now focus on the narrowest ... Read more

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    How Settlement Is Transforming the Practice of Law

    by Julie MacFarlane ...
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    Today’s justice system and the legal profession have rendered the “lawyer-warrior” notion outdated, shifting toward conflict resolution rather than protracted litigation. The new lawyer’s skills go beyond court battles to encompass negotiation, mediation, collaborative practice, and restorative justice. In The New Lawyer, Julie Macfarlane explores the evolving role of practitioners, articulating ... Read more

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  • Please Stop Helping Us

    How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

    by Jason L. Riley ...
    Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Economic Geography

    by Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy ...
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    An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future from Fredrik deBoer, “one of the sharpest and funniest writers on the internet” (The New York Times).In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, the United States was hit by a ripple of political ... Read more

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