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  • Haiti, History, and the Gods

    by Joan Dayan ...
    In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction and fact, text and ritual, discourse and practice. Dayan's ambitious project is a research tour de ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Materializing Democracy

    Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics

    by Donald E. Pease, Joan Dayan, Richard R. Flores ...
    Series series New Americanists
    For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achieved. Fifteen leading scholars challenge that stasis in Materializing Democracy. They aim to reinvigorate the idea of democracy by placing it in the midst of a contentious political and cultural fray, which, the volume’s editors argue, is exactly where ... Read more

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  • The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

    by Christopher Lasch ...
    "[A] passionate, compelling, and disturbing argument that the ills of democracy in the United States today arise from the default of its elites." —John Gray, New York Times Book Review (front-page review)In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote: "Political analysts have been poring over exit polls and precinct-level votes to gauge the meaning of last November's ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • How Propaganda Works

    by Jason Stanley ...
    How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies ... Read more

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  • Relativism

    Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air

    by Francis J. Beckwith, Gregory Koukl ...
    "An extremely well-researched, intellectual approach to the problem of relativism and its effect on education, public policy, and our everyday lives." --Youthworker ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Mark My Words

    Native Women Mapping Our Nations

    by Mishuana Goeman ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    Dominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its borders to incoming, often indigenous, immigrants.In Mark My Words, Mishuana Goeman traces settler colonialism as an enduring form of gendered spatial ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • White Reconstruction

    Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide

    by Dylan Rodriguez ...
    A "compelling study" of how the idea of white supremacy persists long after the Civil Rights Act—"as thoughtful as it is fierce" (David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History).We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and racial–colonial violence. Long before November 2016, white nationalism, white ... Read more

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  • Black Rights/White Wrongs

    The Critique of Racial Liberalism

    by Charles W. Mills ...
    Series series Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities
    Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons - yet liberalism has refused equality to those it saw as sub-persons. Liberalism is the creed of fairness - yet liberalism has been complicit with European imperialism and African slavery. Liberalism is the classic ideology of Enlightenment and political transparency - yet liberalism has cast a dark veil over its actual racist past and ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Contract and Domination

    by Carole Pateman, Charles Mills ...
    Contract and Domination offers a bold challenge to contemporary contract theory, arguing that it should either be fundamentally rethought or abandoned altogether. Since the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, contract theory has once again become central to the Western political tradition. But gender justice is neglected and racial justice almost completely ignored.Carole Pateman and ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Blackness Visible

    Essays on Philosophy and Race

    by Charles W. Mills ...
    "This is an important collection. Its organizing theme is that by analyzing the metaphysics of race-creating we can understand the importance of political analyses of the racial state. This claim is vital not only for understanding of contemporary racial problems, but also for enriching our understanding of philosophical anthropology."―Lewis R. Gordon, Brown UniversityCharles Mills makes visible ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • There's No Such Thing As Free Speech

    And It's a Good Thing, Too

    by Stanley Fish ...
    In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as "reactionary" and "fascist" are by the left--Stanley Fish would seem an unlikely lightning rod for controversy. A ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Law

    Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

    by A. Javier Trevino ...
    Series series Law and Society
    The purpose of this book is to introduce the sociology of law by providing a coherent organization to the general body of literature in that field. As such, the text gives a comprehensive overview of theoretical sociology of law. It deals with the broad expanse of the field and covers a vast amount of intellectual terrain. This volume is intended to fill a gap in the literature. Most textbooks in ... Read more

    $77.99 USD