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How is it possible for an innocent man to come within nine days of execution? An Expendable Man answers that question through detailed analysis of the case of Earl Washington Jr., a mentally retarded, black farm hand who was convicted of the 1983 rape and murder of a 19-year-old mother of three in Culpeper, Virginia. He spent almost 18 years in Virginia prisons-9 1/2 of them on death row-for a murder he did not commit. This book reveals the relative ease with which individuals who live at society's margins can be wrongfully convicted, and the extraordinary difficulty of correcting such a wrong

In response to the riots of the mid-'60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that followed, he experienced first-hand the forces that had engineered East New York's dramatic decline and that continued to work against its successful revitalization. How East New York Became a Ghetto describes the shift of East New York from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to a largely black and Puerto Rican neighborhood and shows how the resulting racially biased policies caused the deterioration o.

What is the difference between animal rights and animal welfare? What inspires people to take on the different causes of non-human animals? How do people vary in their views on the rights of animals? Students will be encouraged to think critically as they discover there are no black and white answers to these and other questions. This fascinating collection of profiles is written by and about those who are actively involved in the pro/con aspects of the animal rights and animal welfare movements.||Over 35 individual stories written by those who are on the frontlines, fighting for what they bel

In this book, Sarah E. Chinn pulls together what seems to be opposite discourses--the information-driven languages of law and medicine and the subjective logics of racism--to examine how racial identity has been constructed in the United States over the past century. She examines a range of primary social case studies such as the American Red Cross' lamentable decision to segregate the blood of black and white donors during World War II, and its ramifications for American culture, and more recent examples that reveal the racist nature of criminology, such as the recent trial of O.J. Simpson. A

The growth of international trade and travel means that more species are being introduced to more places than ever before. This book represents the first concerted effort to understand the economic causes and consequences of biological invasions. The volume discusses the theoretical and methodological issues raised by invasion, including control strategies, modelling options, and a study of the economic, institutional and policy conditions that predispose countries to biological invasions. Also included are case studies of fisheries, agricultural systems, tropical forests and protected areas affected by invasive species in locations such as the Black Sea, Australia and Africa, and an evaluation of control programmes

This first-hand account tells the story of turbulent civil rights era Atlanta through the eyes of a white upper-class woman who became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial equality. As a privileged white woman who grew up in segregated Atlanta, Sara Mitchell Parsons was an unlikely candidate to become a civil rights agitator. After all, her only contacts with blacks were with those who helped raise her and those who later helped raise her children. As a young woman, she followed the conventional path expected of her, becoming the dutiful wife of a conservative husband, going to th.

In the 70 years between the Civil War and World War II, the women of Boston changed the city dramatically. From anti-spitting campaigns and demands for police mothers to patrol local parks, to calls for a decent wage and living quarters, women rich and poor, white and black, immigrant and native-born struggled to make a place for themselves in the city. Now, in Women and the City historian Sarah Deutsch tells this story for the first time, revealing how they changed not only the manners but also the physical layout of the modern city. Deutsch shows how the women of Boston turned the city from

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Archaeology, Descent, Emergence: American Mythology and East Asian Reality -- 2 East Wind, Rain Red Wind Black Rain: The United States-Japan War, Beginning and End -- 3 Colonial Formations and Deformations: Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam -- 4 Civil Society and Democracy in the United States and East Asia -- 5 Nuclear Imbalance of Terror: The American Surveillance Regime and North Korea's Nuclear Program -- 6 The World Shakes China -- 7 Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and International and Area Studies during and after the Cold War -- 8 East Asia and the United States: Double Vision and Hegemonic Emergence -- Notes -- Index

In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative "is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination of skill, cunning, and plain good luck that allowed him to win his freedom, write his story, and gain international prominence," writes Robert Reid-Pharr in his Introduction. "He alerts us to the very concerns that trouble modern intellectuals, black, white, and otherwise, on both sides of the Atlantic."

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction· Alterity Politics: Toward an Ethics without Lack -- 1. Today; or, Between Emergence and Possibility: Foucault, Derrida, and Butler on Performative Identity -- 2. The Ethics of Dialogue: Bakhtin's Answerability and Levinas's Responsibility -- 3. "Junk" and the Other: Burroughs and Levinas on Drugs -- 4. Enjoy Your Chiasmus! Ethics, Failure, and the Performative in Ziiek and de Man -- 5. Is It the Shoes~ Otherness and Exemplarity in Jameson, Heidegger, and Derrida -- 6. Becoming-Black: Repetition and Difference in Baraka's Blues People and Reed's Mumbo Jumbo -- 7. White Male Anger: Failure, Resentment, and Performative Political Theory -- Conclusion· Choosing Ethics, Affirming Alterity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

part PART I Over load -- chapter The Information War -- part PART II Cyberotics -- chapter Theses on the Cyberotics of HIStory: Venus in Microsoft, remix -- chapter Coming Across the Future -- chapter All New Gen -- part PART III Cyberculture Singularities -- chapter Telepathy: Alphabetic Consciousness and the Age of Cyborg Illiteracy -- chapter Virtual Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason -- part PART IV Anarcho-materialism -- chapter Cybergothic -- chapter From Epidermal History to Speed Politics -- chapter Black Ice -- part PART V Post-human Pragmatism -- chapter Autogeddon -- chapter From Psycho-Body to Cyber-Systems: Images as Post-human Entities -- chapter Postscripts: Ground Zero.

In this penetrating critical analysis of Louis Farrakhan's ascent to national influence, Robert Singh argues that the minister's rise to prominence is a function of race and reaction in contemporary America. Singh probes the origins and significance of Farrakhan in American politics. Drawing on published and unpublished records, personal interviews, and Farrakhan's writings and speeches, Singh places Farrakhan expressly within the "paranoid style" of such reactionaries as Jesse Helms and Joseph McCarthy. Examining Farrakhan's biographical details, religious beliefs, political strategies and relative influence, Singh argues that Farrakhan is an extreme conservative who exploits both black-white divisions and conflicts within the African-American community for personal advancement

The legacy of the late sixties / Harvey C. Mansfield -- Feminism : where the spirit of the sixties lives on / Jeremy Rabkin -- Women in the sixties / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Whatever happened to children's rights? / Martha Minow -- The destructive sixties and postmodern conservatism / Sheldon Wolin -- The assault on the universities : then and now / Walter Berns -- Two cheers for professionalism : the 1960's, the university, and me / Alan Wolfe -- The half-life of integration / Anita LaFrance Allen -- Reflections on black power / Randall Kennedy -- What the civil rights movement was and wasn't : (with notes on Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X) / Cass R. Sunstein -- Afterword / Todd Gitlin

A compelling study of the origins of racial conflict and violence in America. "We'll just be hanging out, partying. And somebody will say, 'Hey, let's go on a mission.' That's when you go looking for people who don't belong in the neighborhood, and you beat 'em up. Sometimes we go out lookin' for blacks to jump. Sometimes we look for anybody who ain't supposed to be there." Sal, Avenue T BoysWhy are racial conflict and violence among the most enduring problems in American society? Why do some youths express racism violently while others develop tolerance and respect for those who are different

Introduction: postcolonialism and the angel of progress -- The lay of the land: genealogies of imperialism -- 'Massa' and maids: power and desire in the imperial metropolis -- Imperial leather: race, cross-dressing and the cult of domesticity -- Psychoanalysis, race and female fetishism -- Soft-soaping empire: commodity racism and imperial advertising -- The white family of man: colonial discourse and the reinvention of patriarchy -- Olive Schreiner: the limits of colonial feminism -- The scandal of hybridity: Black women's resistance and narrative ambiguity -- 'Azikwelwa' (we will not ride): cultural resistance in the desperate decades -- No longer in a future heaven: nationalism, gender and race -- Postscript: the angel of progress