Focusing on the political and social dimensions of the crisis, contributors examine changes in relationships between the world's richer and poorer countries, efforts to strengthen global institutions, and difficulties facing states trying to create stability for their citizens.
With the specter of prosecution after his term is over and the possibility of disbarment in Arkansas hanging over President Clinton, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the events that have followed it show no sign of abating. The question has become what to do, and how to think, about those eight months.
Highlights the gendered quality of the immigration process in the US, drawing on Census data and interviews
Explores ideas of race and culture through the lens of contemporary media and cultural commentary
An analysis of Asian American literature exploring second generation Asian American Women's sense of anger despite largely unremarkable upbringings
Shows how intercultural interactions between Europeans and indigenous people influenced military choices and strategic action. Ranging from the Muscovites on the western steppe to the French and English in North America, it analyzes how diplomatic and military systems were designed to accommodate the demands and expectations of local peoples.
Investigates whether tough punishments for sex offenders in America are undermining public safety
Challenges the believe that West Indian American girls are but assert agency in defining race through strategic consumption of popular culture
A reinterpretation of the early years of Marxist socialism in France.
A political history of African American literature
Investigates how effective good media coverage for American activists is during political campaigns
The first broad comparative examination of progressive religious activism in the United States
An exploration of the American Constitution in action through the lens of the American university
A journey deep into the underworld of graffiti artists
Explores globalized ideas of gendered constructions and contradictions though the transnational media
An exploration of the cultural legacy left by African slaves in the Caribbean and Latin America
Explores the ways that American writing between roughly 1850 and 1930 concerned itself, often intensely, with the racial implications of architectural space primarily, but not exclusively, through domestic architecture.
Addresses the impact of methamphetamine and, more generally, the war on drugs, on everyday life in the United States
An ethnographic investigation into the lives of street outreach workers and the homeless of New York City
A historical examination of the social culture of body image
An in-depth look at how aspirations are developed in public schools in Silicon Valley through emphasis of the region's success-driven culture and economic insecurities
An exploration of how the integration of immigrants affects subsequent generations in developed countries
An exploration of how the integration of immigrants affects subsequent generations in developed countries
An analysis of how notions of practice can inhibit urban legal service lawyers and their clients' pursuit of justice in the American legal system
An ethnographical examination of self harm in teenagers
Provides the first history of the origins of the Christian film industry
Considers the conditions of early America which shaped and were shaped by ideals of masculinity
Examines the historical and theoretical assumptions that have underpinned the discussion of capital punishment in the United States
New York is the oldest continually occupied city in America, with hundreds of place names offering a guide to the city's history. This book traces the origins of the names of Manhattan's streets, avenues, parks and corners, from it's life as a Dutch trading port to a modern, multicultural city.
Argues that health is a concept, a norm, and a set of bodily practices whose ideological work is often rendered invisible by the assumption that it is a monolithic, universal good
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