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Racism, Public Schooling, and the Entrenchment of White Supremacy

Demonstrates how ingrained ideas of race created and sustain the achievement gap in U. S. schools.

Coach

Edited by Andrew Blauner
Preface by David Duchovny
Foreword by Bill Bradley
Subjects: General Interest
Series: Excelsior Editions

Twenty-five celebrated writers share the encouraging words and timeless wisdom of the coaches who influenced their lives.

When Boxing Was a Jewish Sport

A vivid portrayal of the important role of Jews in American boxing history, and vice versa.

Sacred Play

Explores the significance of levity and humor in South Asian religious traditions.

Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, III

A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of dualism.

Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, II

A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of reductionism.

Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, I

A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of determinism.

Multicultural Geographies

Geographical perspectives on the changing patterns of race and ethnicity in the United States.

The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century

Offers important new perspectives on the African Diaspora in North America.

Imagining Black Womanhood

Examines how Black girls and women negotiate and resist dominant stereotypes in the context of an Afrocentric youth organization for at-risk girls in the Bay Area.

Integral Theory in Action

Edited by Sean Esbjörn-Hargens
Foreword by Roger Walsh
Afterword by Ken Wilber
Subjects: Psychology
Series: SUNY series in Integral Theory

Leading scholar-practitioners discuss the strengths, limits, and potential of Integral Theory and the AQAL model.

Toward Filipino Self-Determination

Examines the project of Filipino self-determination in the context of capitalist globalization.

Transporting Atlanta

Examines the dynamics of Atlanta’s transportation crisis.

Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt

Ethnographic study of textile factory workers in Alexandria, Egypt.

Spirit, the Family, and the Unconscious in Hegel's Philosophy

Investigates the role of family in Hegel’s phenomenology.

Latinos in Dixie

A look at the Latino experience in the American South using data from Richmond, Virginia.

Toward a Credible Pacifism

Argues that violence is no more reliable than any other means of conducting politics.

The Culture of Teenage Mothers

By Joanna Gregson
Subjects: Sociology

Explores teen mothers’ perceptions of their situations and the social stigma that affects them.

Radicalizing Levinas

Levinas ahead of his time--and himself--on politics, postcolonialism and globalization, animals and the environment, and science and technology.

Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice

Considers the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary fields motivated by concerns for social justice.

Ideologies of Forgetting

First book to study rape and sexual abuse of Vietnamese women by U. S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.

Governing the Female Body

A feminist and Foucauldian analysis of a variety of emerging gendered discourses.

Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis

Investigates the theory and practice of transnational feminist approaches to scholarship and activism.