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A major re-examination of who the delinquent girl is, the crimes she commits, and why she commits them

Bill Ong Hing is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis. He teaches Immigration Policy, Judicial Process, Negotiations, and Asian American History. Throughout his career, he has pursued social justice by combining community work, litigation, and scholarship.¿ His books include Deporting Our Souls-Values, Morality, and Immigration Policy, Defining America Through Immigration Policy (Temple), and Making and Remaking Asian Amer...

Zack Furness is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago and a member of the Bad Subjects collective.¿

Julia L. Foulkes¿is an Associate Professor of History at The New School and the author of¿Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey. She has served as an advisor for the PBS documentary¿Free to Dance, and was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Rockefeller Archive Center as well as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Potsdam University in Germany.

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A pragmatic inquiry into student speech, public schooling and the First Amendment

Other fascinating issues examined in this book include pre-racial conceptions of slavery, witchcraft trials and their connection to homosociality, and the highly sexualized nature of women's identity in the seventeenth century. Zack points out the link between elite bachelorhood, the profession of philosophy, and scientific pursuit as recreational activity. This book is a must for understanding the historical and philosophical precedents of mo...

Since the beginning of major league baseball, more than 12, 000 pitchers have thrown from the mound. Of them, only twenty have reached the ultimate goal of their profession: to be a 300-game winner. Rich Westcott, celebrated sports historian and journalist, offers in "Winningest Pitchers" profiles of each of those twenty pitchers, including Cy Young, Gaylord Perry, and Nolan Ryan. In small biographies, photographs, and stats, we gain a full pi...

In 1996, Congress passed expansive laws to control illegal immigration, imposing mandatory detention and deportation for even minor violations. Critics argued that such legislation violated civil liberties and human rights. This title offers recommendations for reform along with an understanding of immigration.

A book about understanding men's lives in the modern world

I didn't want to remain a hick from the mountains... In my cultural naivete I saw McDonald's as a place somehow where modern culture capital could be dispensed. Keeping these memories in mind as years later I monitored scores of conversations about the Golden Arches in the late 1990's, it became apparent that McDonald's is still considered a marker of a modern identity."So begins a complicated journey into the power of one of the most recogniz...

Like articles representing the positions of proponents of the measure, those representing opponents construct the nation as potentially in danger as a result of undocumented immigration."How do we learn to recognize the damning effects of good rhetorical intentions? And where will we find arguments which escape this trap that permeates the liberal social policy world? Shifting Borders uses an evaluation of the debate over California Propositio...

When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and called upon to defend the islands against invasion immediately after the attack. In a matter of weeks, however, the military government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them. In this book, Franklin Odo places the largely unfold story of the war-time experience of these young men in the context of the commun...

In this story of a highly successful nonprofit, Lori Holyfield (herself a recipient of a scholarship) draws upon the voices of single parents to consider the barriers and struggles faced as they attempt to obtain secondary education and change the lives of both themselves and their children. The help this program has brought to Arkansas residents is needed throughout the country.

In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African American ancestry has been considered black. Even as the twenty-first century opens, a racial hierarchy still prevents people of color, including individuals of mixed race, from enjoying the same privileges as Euro-Americans. In this book, G. Reginald Daniel argues that we are at a crossroads, with members of a new multiracial movement pointing the way toward equality. Tracing the centu...

Profiling Philadelphia area-born baseball stars, such as Reggie Jackson, Roy Campanella, Pat Kelly, Tommy Lasorda, Mike Piazza and many more--350 in all--Rich Westcott celebrates the careers of these "local heroes" and "native sons" who gave the sport of baseball a real taste of Philly flavor and made their hometown(s) proud.

Jane Goldenis Executive Director of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, the largest program of its kind in the United States. She graduated from Stanford University and holds an MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey. This is her first book. She lives in Philadelphia.Robin Rice is the senior art critic for the Philadelphia City Paper. She writes for a number of national and international magazin...

New York's metamorphosis from compact part to modern metropolis occurred during the mid-nineteenth century. "Empire City tells the story of the dreams that inspired the changes in the landscape and the problems that eluded solution. Author David Scobey paints a remarkable panorama of New York's uneven development, a city-building and speculative excess. Envisioning a new kind of national civilization, "bourgeois urbanists' attempted to make Ne...