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A definitive study of the nature and causes of police misconduct

Discusses what actually happens when police question juveniles

Explores the cultural construction of ethnic economies and markets, the social dynamics of American race, and the fully transnational history of American wine

A study of undercover investigations of work and poverty in America, in which an award-winning historian examines how intellectuals were shaped by their experiences with the poor, and how despite their sympathy toward working-class people, they unintentionally helped to develop the contemporary concept of a degraded and other American underclass.

Challenges readers to alter their conceptual frameworks about Africans by looking at them as workers who, through the course of the Atlantic slave trade and plantation labor, shaped the development of the Americas

Reveals the complex and at times contradictory cultural and political processes through which Arabness is forged in the contemporary United States

Re-assesses the myths that have come to shape and limit our understanding of the Nazi genocide as well as totalitarianism's broader, constitutive, and recurrent features

Invites readers to enter the minds of 10 legal experts that in the late 20th century changed the way we understand and use theory in law today. It features conversations with legal intellectuals, interviewing them about their early lives as thinkers and scholars, their contributions to American legal theory, and more.

A frank exploration of how parents view their teen's sexuality

Examines over 50 years of research on juries and offers a "big picture" overview of the field

After 9/11, there was an increase in both the incidence of hate crimes and government policies that targeted Arabs and Muslims and the proliferation of sympathetic portrayals of Arabs and Muslims in the US media. This book examines this paradox and investigates the increase of sympathetic images of the enemy during the War on Terror.

A look at how the history of country and folk dancing in America is deeply intermeshed with that of political liberalism and the "old left"

Seeks to explain why law enforcement resists science

Describes the evolution of public health crises and solutions

Explores how conservative Christian ideology reproduces homophobic attitudes and shares how Bible Belt gays negotiate these attitudes in their daily lives

Probes the social, economic, and political organization of prostitution and sex trafficking

Examines the possibilities of a naturalistic ethics, the implications of behavioural morality for reform of the criminal law, the prospects for a bio-political science, and the relationship between nature, culture and social engineering

Addresses how radio creates possibilities for rethinking concepts such as culture, communication, community and collective agency

The definitive biography of David Dubinsky, one of the most controversial and influential labour leaders in 20th-century America

Expands the field of masculinities and develops new thinking about important issues in feminist and critical race theories

Provides a rare perspective on both the civil war and post-conflict development efforts in Sierra Leone

Illuminates the nuanced and layered realities of immigrants' lives, describing the varying complexities surrounding immigration, crime, law, and victimization

The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity. This book documents this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, while offering an explanation of the profound significance of idle practices for literary and cultural production.

Intervenes in debates about both reality television and audience research, offering the concept of the reflexive self to move these debates forward

Argues that in understanding the ways Jews construct scripture, we begin to understand the ways Jews construct themselves

From the selection of toys, clothes, and activities to styles of play and emotional expression, the family is ground zero for where children learn about gender. This book provides an account of how today's parents understand, enforce, and resist the gendering of their children.

Through a focus on their sexual agency, the author demonstrates that Latina girls' experiences with sexism, racism, homophobia and socioeconomic marginality inform how they engage and begin to rework their meanings and processes of gender and sexuality. It offers an important understanding of the sexual lives of a traditionally marginalized group.

A stirring street-level account of the growth of New York, growth made possible by the efforts of the cartmen and other unskilled labourers

Argues that the demands for personhood for those who, in the eyes of society, have little value, depend on capitalist and hetero-patriarchal measures of worth

Explores the deeper tension between the ideal of Puritan family life and its messy reality, complicating the way America has thought about its Puritan past