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Celebrates the fluid media landscape and its possibilities

Over the last century, American Jews married outside their religion at increasing rates. By examining the intersection of intermarriage and gender across the twentieth century, this book describes the lives of Jewish women who intermarried while placing their decisions in historical context.

Argues that an understanding of clerks and clerking makes sense of the culture of capitalism in 19th Century America

Examines the role of the culture in shaping military institutions and military choices

A historical overview of Chicano literature and history from the 19th - 21st centuries

Since 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid 10-day pilgrimage-tour known as Birthright Israel. Based on seven years of first-hand observation in modern day Israel, the author provides an on-the-ground look at this hotly debated and widely emulated use of tourism to forge transnational ties.

Analyzes the babysitty, who embodies adult apprehension about girls' pursuit of autonomy and empowerment

An account of the social, political, and cultural forces undermining academic freedom. This book shows how the primary organization for faculty members nationwide has fought the culture wars, Cary Nelson, the current President of the American Association of University Professors, unveils struggles over governance and unionization and more.

First book-length treatment of the history of Sephardic Jews in America

Unpacks the politics and processes of commemoration

In this anthology drug policy expert David Musto chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of the most popular mind altering substances in the United States: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and opiates.

Explores the way historians have contested the meaning of the American Revolution

A stark exhibition of state repression of a minority faith

Suggests global models for bringing the oldest profession off the street

First examination of the Emerging Church movement

Shows how the concepts of childhood innocence fundamentally shaped the history of race in the US

Explores whether public policies' intended effects and actual effect on sex workers' lives match up

A haunting look inside the worlds of crack and rap

First comprehensive analysis of the dynamics linking the US, the EU, and Turkey

Explores basic concepts in criminology with pop culture references

Provides methodological and conceptual models for those interested in doing work with children

A heartbreaking look at the struggle for equality and ethnic identity

Reveals a novel thesis concerning slave resistence and the roots of abolitionism

From the first kiss to slow dancing in the nursing home, a revealing look at how sex changes over the course of a lifetime

One of the few books to detail what African-American ministers who claim a calling say they experience

Traces the expansive history of Filipino literature in the US from the early 20th century to today

Reveals the dark underside of environmental privilege

Discusses what happens when the most common way we participate in social activism is by buying something

Investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined

A sobering evaluation of a landmark case