Bøker av Todd M. Mealy

This weighty and engaging look at the English language's most explosive slur, described by scholars as the 'atomic bomb' of bigoted words, traces the N-word's journey through various music genres and across generations. The result is a reflective account of how the music industry has channeled linguistic and cultural movements across eras.

Reflects upon the role K-12 education has played in enabling America's enduring racial tensions. Combining historical analysis, personal experience, and a theoretical exploration of critical race pedagogy, this book calls for placing race at the centre of the pedagogical mission.

This first biography of W. Glenn Killinger highlights his tenure as a nine-time varsity letterman at Penn State, where he emerged as one of the best football, basketball and baseball players in the United States. Situating Killinger in his time and place, the author explores the ways in which home-front culture during World War I--focused on heroism, masculinity and sporting culture--created the demand for sports and sports icons and drove the ascent of college athletics in the first quarter of the 20th century.