Christopher Bonastia is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Lehman College, City University of New York, and a former Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at the University of California, Berkeley Knocking on the Door is the first book-length work to analyze federal involvement in residential segregation from Reconstruction to the present. Providing a particularly detailed analysis of the period 1968 to 1973, the book...

Stories of the missing offer profound insights into the tension between how political systems see us and how we see each other. The search for people who go missing as a result of war, political violence, genocide, or natural disaster reveals how forms of governance that objectify the person are challenged. Contemporary political systems treat persons instrumentally, as objects to be administered rather than as singular beings: the apparatus of government...

This book is a very unique one in that it presents the attributes of a great leader, His Excellency Dr. Sam Nujoma, who has won great admiration of being an exemplary leader not only in Namibia but also on the entire African continent and beyond. It is the hope and belief of the writers of the various chapters that the book will inspire the youth as well as men and women to become committed leaders of Namibia, the African continent and the world at...

Una mujer cis huye y su rastro se pierde, una mujer trans no está porque el hombre que la mató también la ocultó, un joven pobre del conurbano quedó atrapado en las fronteras del sistema penal, un Far West donde la ley está suspendida, un niño no supo encontrar el camino de vuelta, una niña fue llevada lejos. No están en los que hasta ayer eran sus mundos. Quienes los buscan se desesperan y necesitan que los otros presten atención, miren,...

In this second volume of his nuclear weapon series, John Clearwater continues to investigate the presence of American nuclear weapons in Canada. In Canadian Nuclear Weapons, Clearwater told the story of nuclear weapons that were in the hands of Canadian forces during the Cold War. In U. S. Nuclear Weapons in Canada, he goes further, looking at nuclear weapons held by American forces on Canadian soil. His purpose is to bring together until-recently...

While the nation grieves over tragedies like the Parkland school shooting, the anti-gun lobby jumps into action. They exploit such tragedies to advance their political agenda. The gun grabbers-with the help of the mainstream media-trot out a few traumatized young survivors of the shootings and hail them as the brave leaders of a new anti-gun movement, speaking truth to power. It's a cynical ploy. And it works: the all-out campaign has put gun owners...

In the wake of Donald Trump's election and the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, (((Semitism))) is a powerful book that examines how we can fight anti-Semitism in America A San Francisco Chronicle Reader Recommendation The Washington Post: "Timely...[A] passionate call to arms." Jewish Book Council: "Could not be more important or timely." Bernard-Henri Lévy: "It would be wonderful if anti-Semitism was a European specialty and stopped at the border...

A globally recognized civil rights activist presents an unwavering history of American systemic racism, a first-hand view of what makes for effective activism today, and a vision for lasting, positive change. America's reckoning with its unmet promises on race and class is at a boiling point not seen since the 1960s. Drawing on a lifetime of frontline culture-shifting advocacy, organizing, and fighting for equal justice, Mallory demands change, and...

Documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. Though virtually forgotten today, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a household name in Black America during much of her lifetime (1863-1931) and was considered the equal of her well-known African American contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. Ida B. Wells:...

En Jackson, Misisipí, en 1962, tres mujeres se rebelan contra un orden social injusto y los prejuicios de una pequeña ciudad. Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.