A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric.
After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s.
The pivotal and troubling role of progressive-era economics in the shaping of modern American liberalismIn Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism.
The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "e;yellow peril"e; to "e;model minorities"e;--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century.
In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to understand why the gap between formal and real gender equality persists.
A historical overview of the census race question-and a bold proposal for eliminating itAmerica is preoccupied with race statistics-perhaps more than any other nation.
A close look at the aftereffects of the Mount Laurel affordable housing decisionUnder the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic opportunities for a fair share of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households.
A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar OaklandAs the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined.
Why race remains the central political issue in America todayWhy have American policies failed to reduce the racial inequalities still pervasive throughout the nation?
How southern members of Congress remade the United States in their own image after the Civil WarNo question has loomed larger in the American experience than the role of the South.
A powerful new argument for reviving the ideal of racial integrationMore than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
The lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political attitudes in the American SouthDespite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative.
A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroadFor the Many presents an inspiring look at how US women and their global allies pushed the nation and the world toward justice and greater equality for all.
How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and the United States.
A revealing look at the experiences of first generation students on elite campuses and the hidden curriculum they must master in order to succeedCollege has long been viewed as an opportunity for advancement and mobility for talented students regardless of background.
How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do?
A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservationBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face.
This meticulously edited collection presents the most prominent figures of the Women's suffrage movement in the United States of America and the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B.
«Les meves pràctiques pedagògiques han sorgit de la interacció il·luminadora de pedagogies anticolonials, crítiques i feministes; ha estat un punt de vista potent des del qual treballar.
"e;Women's Suffrage: History of a Great Movement"e;, by Millicent Garrett Fawcett compares the tactics of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in the United States of America and the Women's Social and Political Union in the UK.
In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death.
The reasons behind Detroit's persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "e;arsenal of democracy,"e; Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis.
An honest confrontation of systemic racism in faculty hiring-and what to do about itWhile colleges and universities have been lauded for increasing student diversity, these same institutions have failed to achieve any comparable diversity among their faculty.
Es ist der dritte Fall des Ermittlerteams um Carmen Siebert, diagnostizierte Autistin und Polizistin aus Überzeugung und mit Herzblut, und Bernadette Pohlmann.
A Legacy of Purpose offers an inspiring and timely exploration of how the Leadership Alliance has transformed academic diversity through its three-decade mission to support underrepresented students in pursuing research careers.
En Argentina la implementación de programas fundados en la educación inclusiva de estudiantes con discapacidad en los niveles de escolaridad obligatoria sigue siendo una deuda del sistema educativo.
¿Cómo es habitar Buenos Aires en lo que va del siglo XXI, en especial para sectores populares que no siempre tienen asegurado el acceso a una vivienda en condiciones ambientales sanas?
En los últimos años el estudio sobre las desigualdades se ha transformado en uno de los temas centrales de la agenda de investigación de las ciencias sociales.
En los últimos quince años, América Latina mejoró en muchos aspectos, mediante la implementación de políticas públicas incluyentes que lograron disminuir la pobreza y ampliar las oportunidades de los sectores más postergados.
La intolerancia, asiento de fundamentalismos, recorre nuestro mundo, donde la marginación y el racismo potencian una cultura del miedo a la diferencia, de pavor por aquello que se percibe como distinto.
A través de un recorrido histórico rigurosamente documentado de las luchas del pueblo comechingón por los derechos sobre sus territorios, Tulián actualiza los reclamos y explica las diferencias de cosmovisión entre su pueblo y la civilización occidental.
Mark Whitaker ';writes with the eye of a journalist and ear of a poet' (The Boston Globe) to tell the story of the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identity, expressed in the slogan ';Black Power,' challenged the nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
En el texto subexámine se evidencian dos situaciones: 1) la especial sensibilidad del autor sobre la vida como hecho biológico y, sobre todo, por el ejercicio de ella, realizada por los seres humanos en un medio ambiente concreto; en efecto, pareciera que el autor concibe el vivir humano como experiencia histórica relacionada con otros seres vivos, tanto racionales como irracionales, en un entorno de regulación; es decir, en el texto estudiado se infiere, sin hesitación alguna, que el profesor Echeverry Restrepo es un defensor de la vida como hecho y como relación, pero, 2) objetivamente normativizada, conformado este último ejercicio como un medio para su propia conservación.
