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“jungyun gill”

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  • Unequal Motherhoods and the Adoption of Asian Children

    Birth, Foster, and Adoptive Mothers

    by Jungyun Gill ...
    This book explores a deeply personal aspect of globalization: the adoption of Asian children by white Americans. It is based on dozens of interviews with adoptive mothers and adoption social workers, nearly two hundred letters and essays written by Korean birth mothers who put their children up for adoption, and field work at an adoption agency in South Korea. It also includes analyses and ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Social Problems and Social Movements

    by James DeFronzo, Jungyun Gill ...
    Intended as the primary text for a social problems course, DeFronzo and Gill’s Social Problems and Social Movements stresses the need for collective action and social movements to solve social problems. Both instructors and students will find this a useful framework in which to view today’s most pressing social issues.Chapter 1 introduces the topic of social problems. Chapter 2 explains how social ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Between Barack and a Hard Place

    Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama

    by Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama’s emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people, Obama’s rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasive social force; they point to Obama not only as a validation of the American ideology that anyone ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Own Worst Enemies

    America in the Age of Violent Populism

    by Robert A. Pape ...
    **The nation’s leading expert on political violence diagnoses the gravest threat to American democracy—and how to overcome it“One of the most prominent voices warning about the dangerous climate in the country.” —Vanity Fair**The January 6th riot, the attempted kidnapping of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the shootings of Minnesota legislators, the two attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, attacks on ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding America

    The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation

    Edited by James Q. Wilson, Peter H Schuck ...
    What is America? Is it a hegemonic superpower, composed of ruthlessly selfish capitalists? Or is it a land of hope and glory, a shelter for the huddled masses, and a beacon of freedom and enlightenment? The definition of this complex nation has been debated substantially, yet all seem to agree on one thing: it is unique. The idea of an exceptional America can be traced all the way back to Alexis ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Do Facts Matter?

    Information and Misinformation in American Politics

    by Katherine Levine Einstein, Jennifer L. Hochschild ...
    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    A democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformation—the state of affairs the United States faces today, as this timely book makes painfully clear. In Do Facts Matter? Jennifer L. Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein start with Thomas Jefferson’s ideal citizen, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • 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

    $36.09 USD

  • Global Governance and the UN

    An Unfinished Journey

    by Thomas G. Weiss, Ramesh Thakur ...
    Series series United Nations Intellectual History Project Series
    In the 21st century, the world is faced with threats of global scale that cannot be confronted without collective action. Although global government as such does not exist, formal and informal institutions, practices, and initiatives—together forming "global governance"—bring a greater measure of predictability, stability, and order to trans-border issues than might be expected. Yet, there are ... Read more

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  • Wicked Problems

    The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice

    Edited by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Ernesto Verdeja ...
    The ethics of changemaking and peacebuilding may appear straightforward: advance dignity, promote well-being, minimize suffering. Sounds simple, right? Actually acting ethically when it really matters is rarely straightforward. If someone engaged in change-oriented work sets out to "do good," how should we prioritize and evaluate whose good counts? And, how ought we act once we have decided whose ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Abolishing State Violence

    A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages

    by Ray Acheson ...
    ABOLISHING STATE VIOLENCE is an urgent and accessible analysis of the key structures of state violence in our world today, and a clarion call to action for their abolition.Connecting movements for social justice with ideas for how activists can support and build on this analysis and strategy, this book shows that there are many mutually supportive abolition movements, each enhanced by a shared ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Sociology

    by John E. Farley, Michael W. Flota ...
    This best-selling textbook returns for a seventh edition with material on the most fundamental and fascinating issues in sociology today. The authors continue their tradition of focusing on the big picture, with an emphasis on race, class, and gender in every chapter. The text continues to frame sociological debates around the major theoretical perspectives of sociology and focus on capturing ... Read more

    $120.00 USD