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  • - Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits Under American Law
    av Ruth Colker
    337,-

    The United States, and the West in general, has always organized society along bipolar lines. We are either gay or straight, male or female, white or not, disabled or not. This book argues that our bipolar classification system obscures a genuine understanding of nature of subordination. It shows how categories can be improved for the good of all.

  • - Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement
    av Luke W. Cole & Sheila R. Foster
    341 - 1 449,-

    Examines one of the fastest growing social movements in the United States, the movement for environmental justice. Tracing the movement's roots, this book provides case studies of communities across the US - towns like Kettleman City, California; Chester, Pennsylvania; and Dilkon, Arizona - and their struggles against corporate polluters.

  • - The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice
     
    348,-

    Why does the US offer $20,000 atonement money to Japanese Americans relocated to concentration camps during World War II, while not even apologizing to African Americans for 250 years of human bondage and another century of institutionalized discrimination? This collection of essays also includes the voices of the victims of these atrocities.

  • - Title IX and the Women's Sports Revolution
    av Deborah L. Brake
    341 - 421,-

    Title IX, a landmark federal statute enacted in 1972 to prohibit sex discrimination in education, has worked its way into American culture as few other laws have. The author assesses the statute's successes and failures. It provides a richer understanding and appreciation of what Title IX has accomplished, and where the law has fallen short.

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