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Seeks to recover the lives and words of former slaves in vivid detail

An active sociologist questions deeply seeded racism and codes that influence the US law enforcement.

A study of the changing nature of friendship between white middle-class women during the coming-of-age of modern America. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, the author sets out to uncover the complex and intricate links between social and cultural developments and female friendship.

An award-winning study of the psychological background to Bill Clinton's erratic presidency. Lending a new twist to the study of the political personality, Renton unfolds the extraordinary narrative of Clinton's rise to power.

The psychoanalyst dares to explore the most intimate recesses of the human soul, to throw open long-barred doors, and to confront the forbidden knowledge beneath the surface. In Freud and Forbidden Knowledge, nine exceptional essays use psychoanalysis to uncover the theme of forbidden knowledge in canonical works of the Western tradition, from the Bible to Hamlet. Psychoanalysis is a discipline that seeks to understand and alleviate human suffering. Its practice is therefore an inherently dangerous activity. The psychoanalyst dares to explore the most intimate recesses of the human soul, to throw open long-barred doors, and to confront the monsters that may lie in wait. In facilitating the patient's process of self- discovery, psychoanalysis concerns forbidden knowledge. Following Freud's lead, Rudnytsky and Spit approach works of art as constituting psychoanalytic knowledge. Divining that in literature we find the deposits of forbidden knowledge, this collection of nine exceptional essays pursues the theme of forbidden knowledge in canonical works of the Western tradition, from the Hebrew Bible to Boccaccio's The Decameron to Shakespeare's Hamlet. These papers pointedly address the canonical status of these works, positing that the canon must be re-visioned in order to recover the history of transgression. Freud and Forbidden Knowledge offers a series of wide-ranging meditations on the tragic dimensions of human experience; cumulatively, they invite reflection on the significance of forbidden knowledge to Freud.

Seeking to move away from the stereotypical views of the Italian Jew in the early modern period as Shylockian userer or mysterious astrologer, these papers address such topics as Italian Jewish preaching, the Kabbalah, Jewish historiography, messianic expectations, and Jewish ghetto culture.

Three out of four Broadway-bound musicals fail to get there, and many of those that do, ultimately fail. This title looks at the industry's successes and failures in an effort to understand the phenomenon of mass collaboration that is Broadway.

Situates the crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit.

Seeking to move away from the stereotypical views of the Italian Jew in the early modern period as Shylockian usurer or mysterious astrologer, these papers address such topics as Italian Jewish preaching, the Kabbalah, Jewish historiography, messianic expectations, and Jewish ghetto culture.

Takes a critical look at notions of human security and violence through a feminist lens.

An essential guide to understanding the intersection of queerness and Jewishness

This work unearths the ordinary roots of extraordinary change, showing the depth and breadth of black oppositional spirit and activity that preceded the civil rights movement. It shows the importance of historical memory and community building, and the impact of class and sexism.

Neither an argument for or against the practice of transracial adoption, this book seeks to counter the dominant public view of this practice as a panacea to illegitimacy and the misfortune of infertility among the middle c lass with a more nuanced view that gives voice to those involved.

Papke (law and liberal arts, Indiana U.) traces the lineage of legal heretics from 19th-century activists up to more recent radicals and to the contemporary rejection of legal authority by various militia and anti-abortion movements. He illuminates a tradition of American legal heresy, linked by a

This account of the development of Atlantic City and its conflict over the Sabbath brings to light an ongoing crisis in American society - the chasm between religion and mass culture. The book features historical photographs depicting the evolution of the resort's architecture and political scene.

African immigration to North America has been increasing. This title focuses on the understandings and insights concerning the presence and relevance of African immigrant religious communities in the US. It describes key social and historical aspects of African immigrant religion in the US and builds a conceptual framework for theory and analysis.

NEVER BEFORE ASSEMBLED IN A SINGLE VOLUME--the major writings on the Constitution from six critical traditions.

The story of the first year of the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team - as told from two very different points of view: from a star team player from California and a young man of the same age who grew up in the projects next to the stadium. This book looks at both the gains and loses to the community.

The canyon in central Mexico was ablaze with torches as hundreds of people filed in. So palpable was their shared shock and grief, they later said, that neither pastor nor priest was needed. This book looks at the dynamic relationship between religion, migration, and ethnicity across the US-Mexican border.

This text documents the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s to the present. It brings attention to larger political and cultural issues at stake in the interpretation of texts, offering a historical analysis of how literary theory was shaped.

Unearths the experiences of and attitudes about children and youth during the decades following the American Revolution

Examines various aspects of childhood in American colonies between the late sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. This title features essays that observe a diverse cross-section of children - from indigenous peoples of the east coast and Mexico to Dutch-born children of the Plymouth colony and African-born offspring of slaves in the Caribbean.

Argues that fears of immigrant crime are largely unfounded, as immigrants are themselves often more likely to be the victims of discrimination, stigmatization, and crime. This book covers a variety of immigrant groups - mainly from Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America - and topics, such as: victimization, racial conflict, drugs, gangs, and more.

Scholars explore this not-so-recent tv trend.

This work explores much of the history of Satanism from the origins of the Devil in pre-Christian theology through to the Inquisition and the life and times of Aleister Crowley, the psychology of the people who make the allegations and the legal and religious contexts in which they arise.

Seeks to answer why people take their own lives

In an attempt to engender a calm and effective response to the problem of AIDS, this work examines the many ways in which diseases, particularly catastrophic infectious and contagious diseases, are and have been biologically and socially defined.

The product of a collaboration between the New School for Social Research and five New York City Museums which addresses historical and contemporary meanings of home. Issues include renditions of home in art and propaganda; exile through the ages; slavery; and female discovery of personal freedom.