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  • Redistricting: A Manual for Analysts, Practitioners, and Citizens

    de Peter A. Morrison, Thomas M. Bryan ...
    This comprehensive manual provides a user-oriented overview of U.S. Census data and demographic methods for redistricting applications. It addresses current issues and concerns accompanying the creation, adjustment, and evaluation of election districts and plans that incorporate them using 2020 Federal Census data. It meets the needs of local governments, citizen redistricting commissions, parties ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Los Angeles Riots

    Lessons For The Urban Future

    de Mark Baldassare, David O Sears, Edgar W Butler, Peter A Morrison ...
    The Los Angeles riots in the Spring of 1992 were among the most violent and destructive events in twentieth-century urban America. This collection of original essays by leading urban experts offers the first comprehensive analysis of the unrest that took place after a jury acquitted the police officers who were accused of using excessive force in t ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

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  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

    de Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    The author of Race for Profit carries out "[a] searching examination of the social, political and economic dimensions of the prevailing racial order" (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow).In this winner of the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize for an Especially Notable Book, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor "not only exposes the canard of color-blindness but reveals how structural racism and class ... Leer más

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  • Invitation to Law & Society

    An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

    de Kitty Calavita ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Research and real-life examples that "lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call 'the law'" ( Law and Politics Book Review).Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and ... Leer más

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  • Please Stop Helping Us

    How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

    The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

    de Elizabeth Hinton, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies and Professor of Law ...
    Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearA Publishers Weekly Favorite Book of the YearIn the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • American Poison

    How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise

    de Eduardo Porter ...
    A sweeping examination of how American racism has broken the country's social compact, eroded America's common goods, and damaged the lives of every American--and a heartfelt look at how these deep wounds might begin to heal.Compared to other industrialized nations, the United States is losing ground across nearly every indicator of social health. Its race problem, argues Eduardo Porter, is ... Leer más

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  • Governing Through Crime

    How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear

    de Jonathan Simon ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Across America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. Social problems ranging from welfare dependency to educational inequality have been reconceptualized as crimes, with an attendant focus on assigning fault and imposing consequences. Even before the recent terrorist attacks, non-citizen ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    de Morris P. Fiorina, Samuel J. Abrams ...
    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    Red states, blue states . . . are we no longer the United States? Morris P. Fiorina here examines today’s party system to reassess arguments about party polarization while offering a cogent overview of the American electorate.Building on the arguments of Fiorina’s acclaimed Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, this book explains how contemporary politics differs from that of previous eras ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Gradual

    The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age

    de Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox ...
    A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change. Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in thinking and policymaking. Calls for bold change are everywhere these days, particularly on social media, but is this actually the best way to make the world a better place? In Gradual, Greg Berman and ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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  • Freedom Is Not Enough

    The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle over Black Family Life -- from LBJ to Obama

    de James T. Patterson ...
    On June 4, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered what he and many others considered the greatest civil rights speech of his career. Proudly, Johnson hailed the new freedoms granted to African Americans due to the newly passed Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, but noted that "freedom is not enough." The next stage of the movement would be to secure racial equality "as a fact and a result. ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Front Porch Politics

    The Forgotten Heyday of American Activism in the 1970s and 1980s

    de Michael Stewart Foley ...
    "Reading this book revives the spirit of civic action today for those who are unjustifiably forlorn about overcoming injustice."— Ralph NaderAn on-the-ground history of ordinary Americans who took to the streets when political issues became personalThe 1960s are widely seen as the high tide of political activism in the United States. According to this view, Americans retreated to the private realm ... Leer más

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