Differing Perspectives and Common-Sense Approaches to Firearms in Americ
Guns 360 takes a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and common-sense approach to some of the most difficult issues facing not only the criminal justice system but also society as a whole: firearm possession, regulation, and control.
A new generation of Afro-Brazilian media producers have emerged to challenge a mainstream that frequently excludes them. Reighan Gillam delves into the dynamic alternative media landscape developed by Afro-Brazilians in the twenty-first century. With works that confront racism and focus on Black characters, these artists and the visual media they ......
This volume contains a collection of essays dealing with the pressure put on academic freedom by the expansion of higher education. It includes considerations of academic freedom brought by the expansion of Western universities to illiberal societies, and by students coming from abroad to universities in the global north.
A Slow and Curvy Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century
Is the USA hospitable to the slow movement? The land of fast food, get-rich-quick schemes, and 24/7 news feeds? In Slow Culture and the American Dream: A Slow and Curvy Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century, Mary Caputi argues that the slow movement has much to teach the United States at this moment in time. Although the philosophy of slow is in ......
This book explores the impact that training has on officer decision-making during calls for service where an individual has a mental health disorder, from both an empirical and historical perspective.
Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from haircare to Nicki ......
Durante mas de cincuenta anos, Julia de Burgos ha evocado sentimientos de identidad y union entre puertorriquenos y latinos en Estados Unidos. Vanessa Perez-Rosario va mas alla del enfoque tragico de otras biografias de Burgos para examinar la vida de la artista considerando el trasfondo de la cultura puertorriquena y la compleja historia de la ......
The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children's classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Velazquez tells how ......
The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children's classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Velazquez tells how ......
