Compelling stories and striking photographs illustrate the challenges and highlights of Latino/a life in Portland, Maine.

The paradoxes of the American decadent movement in the 1890s and 1920s.

Collection of scholarly essays on the wildly popular Comedy Central show.

Juxtaposes the meteoric rise of Barack Obama with far-reaching—and disturbing—shifts in black leadership in post–Civil Rights America.

Contributors explore the relationship between food and the production of ideology.

Uses satirical parodies of screenplays and political blogs to reveal the cracks in our post-9/11 American psyche.

Essays on phenomenological encounters with the world.

An exploration of the voluntary simplicity movement including comments from simple livers and a look at class, race, and gender in this movement.

Explores the underlying assumptions of environmental studies and the need for a new paradigm for understanding our world.

Focusing on the more than one million Jewish children and adolescents living in the United States, this book questions the future of the Jewish community's next generation.

Illustrates how some Jews have created a new, hybrid form of Judaism, merging American values and behaviors with those from historical Jewish traditions.

Explores the contradiction between the Constitution's importance as a political document with its weakness as a symbol in American popular culture.

Focuses on affirmative action and its impact on colleges and universities since its inception in 1965. Suggests different perspectives on and approaches to affirmative action and offers and presents various voices on the impact and philosophical implications of affirmative action.

Examines broad shifts in American work values from their Calvinist origins to present controversies involving work, welfare, and affirmative action.

Viewing hip-hop as the postmodern successor to African American culture's Jazz modernism, this book examines hip-hop music's role in the history of the African-American experience.

What forces transformed a community in which industrial workers and other citizens exercised a real measure of power over their lives into a metropolis whose inhabitants were utterly dependent on Big ...