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Rock This Way

Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy

By Mel Stanfill
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Law, Intellectual Property, African American Studies

What remixes, covers, mash-ups, and parodies say about the perceived legitimacy of music making

Bad Boys

Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

with a foreword by Pedro A. Noguera

By Ann Arnett Ferguson
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Law, Anthropology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

The classic ethnography on how implicit bias impacts black male students’ identities

The Congressional Black Caucus, Minority Voting Rights, and the U.S. Supreme Court

By Christina Rivers
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, American Politics, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, African American Studies

The U.S. Supreme Court and the Congressional Black Caucus disagree over how best to protect minority voting rights

Mark One or More

Civil Rights in Multiracial America

By Kim M. Williams
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, African American Studies, History, African American History, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Law, Law and Society, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Urban Politics, Public Policy
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

The little-known story of the struggle to include a multiracial category on the U.S. census, and the profound changes it wrought in the American political landscape

The Next Twenty-five Years

Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the United States and South Africa

By David Lee Featherman, Marvin Krislov, and Martin Hall
Subjects: Education, Higher Education, Political Science, Public Policy, American Politics, African American Studies, Law, African Studies

A must-read for anyone who cares about the future of higher education in diverse democracies

The Price of Racial Reconciliation

By Ronald Walters
Subjects: African American Studies, History, American History, Law, Political Science, Race and Politics, African Studies
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for Reparations in the United States

Parodies of Ownership

Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law

By Richard L. Schur
Subjects: Cultural Studies, African American Studies, Law, Music, Literary Studies

An intriguing interdisciplinary examination of hip hop aesthetics

Doing Time on the Outside

Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America

By Donald Braman
Subjects: Anthropology, African American Studies, Law, Sociology

A compelling account of the unintended social, financial, and personal consequences of incarceration on the families of prisoners

Philadelphia Freedom

Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer

By David Kairys
Subjects: History, American History, African American History, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Memoir, African American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Gender Studies

The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers

After the End of History

The Curious Fate of American Materialism

1st Edition

By Robert E. Lane
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, African American Studies, Anthropology, Law, Sociology
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

A creative presentation of Lane's career research as an ongoing conversation between two fictitious social scientists with opposing views

Defending Diversity

Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan

By Patricia Gurin, Jeffrey S. Lehman, Earl Lewis, Eric L. Dey, Sylvia Hurtado, and Gerald Gurin
Subjects: Education, Law, African American Studies, History, American History

The first major book to argue in favor of affirmative action in higher education since Bowen and Bok's The Shape of the River

Whispered Consolations

Law and Narrative in African American Life

By Jon-Christian Suggs
Subjects: African American Studies, Law, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Explores the relationship between African American literature and American law

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