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  • Local Democracy Under Siege

    Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics

    by Dorothy Holland, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery ...
    2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book AwardComplete List of Authors:Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr.What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Arts of Leading

    Perspectives from the Humanities and the Liberal Arts

    by Joy Connolly, Edith Hall, Noah Lopez, Alan Mittleman, Tahera Qutbuddin, Marla Frederick, John Miles, Kristin Bezio, Paul Escott, Thavolia Glymph, David Lubin, Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw, Pegram Harrison, Melissa Jones Briggs, Corey Walker ...
    A deeply insightful approach to cultivating leaders of character centered on the arts and humanitiesWhat does it mean to lead? Whom do we consider to be leaders? And how might viewing leadership through the many lenses of the humanities expand our understanding of how it is imagined, represented, and enacted?Drawing on insights from eminent scholars in the classics, philosophy, religion, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Masquerade

    Scripturalizing Modernities through Black Flesh

    by Vincent L. Wimbush, Cécile Coquet-Mokoko, Marla Frederick, Miles P. Grier, Jacqueline Hidalgo, P. Kimberleigh Jordan, Velma E. Love, Carolyn M. Jones Medine, Rosetta Ross0, Rachel E. C. Beckley1, Shay Welch2 ...
    Series series Scripturalization: Discourse, Formation, Power
    Continuing his project of critical analysis of the scriptural formation of culture, Vincent L. Wimbush has gathered in this book essays by scholars of various backgrounds and orientations who focus in different registers on the theme of masquerade as the “play-element” in modern culture. Masquerade functions as a window onto the mimetic performances, dynamics, arrangements, psycho-logics, and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Colored Television

    American Religion Gone Global

    by Marla Frederick ...
    Series series RaceReligion
    The presence of women and African Americans not simply as viewers, but also as televangelists and station owners in their own right has dramatically changed the face of American religious broadcasting in recent decades. Colored Television looks at the influence of these ministries beyond the United States, where complex gospels of prosperity and gospels of sexual redemption mutually inform one ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • More than Just Race

    Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

    by William Julius Wilson ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Woke Racism

    How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

    by John McWhorter ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNew York Times bestselling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric.Americans of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question: how has the conversation on race in America gone so crazy? We’re ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel

    A History of the American Prosperity Gospel

    by Kate Bowler ...
    How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Claim It, or simply prosperity gospel come to dominate much of our contemporary religious landscape? Kate Bowler's Blessed is the first book to fully explore the origins, unifying ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Fall of the Faculty:The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters

    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Common as Air

    Revolution, Art, and Ownership

    by Lewis Hyde ...
    A stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past that continues to enrich our present.Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is "intellectual property," Lewis Hyde turns to America's founding fathers—men like John Adams, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson—in search of other ways to value the fruits of human wit and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • America's Original Sin

    Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America

    by Jim Wallis ...
    America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin."It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis. Fifty years ago, Wallis was driven away from his faith by a white church that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Our History Has Always Been Contraband

    In Defense of Black Studies

    Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    "The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We’re ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." —Colin KaepernickSince its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Truth About Same-Sex Marriage

    6 Things You Need to Know About What's Really at Stake

    by Erwin Lutzer ...
    HEADLINE: Is it really that big of a deal?A May 2009 Gallup poll revealed that fifty-seven percent of Americans oppose same-sex marriage, while only forty percent are in favor of it (down from forty-six percent in 2007). This short, easy-to-read book helps shed light on what so many people believe, and why they ought not be at a loss about what to do now.The headlines only tell part of the story. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook