Mark Neal: 20 books
The Surprising Imagination of C. S. Lewis
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Narnia, Perelandra—places of wonder and longing. The White Witch, Screwtape—personifications of evil. Aslan—a portrait of the divine. Like Turkish Delight, some of C.S. Lewis’s writing surprises and whets our appetite for more. But some of his works bite and nip at our heels. What enabled...
by Mark Neal
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
What exactly is Sexonomics? What do Captain Beefheart, Sylvia Plath and the Christian Brothers have in common? Young Ian Rochford wrestles with these questions as he careers around Liverpool in search of the multiform Alison, and faces his terror of crosswords, hermaphrodites and "the Strap"....
Looking for Leroy
Illegible Black Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Mark Anthony Neal’s Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. Neal argues that black men and boys are bound, in profound ways, to and by their legibility. The most...
New Black Man
Tenth Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Ten years ago, Mark Anthony Neal’s New Black Man put forth a revolutionary model of Black masculinity for the twenty-first century—one that moved beyond patriarchy to embrace feminism and combat homophobia. Now, Neal’s book is more vital than ever, urging us to imagine a New Black Man whose...
Soul Babies
Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In Soul Babies, Mark Anthony Neal explains the complexities and contradictions of black life and culture after the end of the Civil Rights era. He traces the emergence of what he calls a "post-soul aesthetic," a transformation of values that marked a profound change in African American thought...
The Constitution in Wartime
Beyond Alarmism and Complacency
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2005
Most recent discussion of the United States Constitution and war—both the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq—has been dominated by two diametrically opposed views: the alarmism of those who see many current policies as portending gross restrictions on American civil liberties, and the complacency...
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and...
by George Cotronis, Max Booth III, Tim Marquitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
It's the 1950s. There's always something good on the radio, cherry red Cadillacs cruise the streets and everything is always perfect. Marilyn is still alive and the War is over. America goes to bed, nuclear annihilation postponed another day.
Welcome to the American Nightmare.
Nuclear...
Free Speech, The People's Darling Privilege
Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2000
Modern ideas about the protection of free speech in the United States did not originate in twentieth-century Supreme Court cases, as many have thought. Free Speech, “The People’s Darling Privilege” refutes this misconception by examining popular struggles for free speech that stretch back through...
The Federal Appointments Process
A Constitutional and Historical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2001
Although the federal appointment of U.S. judges and executive branch officers has consistently engendered controversy, previous studies of the process have been limited to particular dramatic conflicts and have tended to view appointments in a vacuum without regard to other incidents in the process,...
What the Music Said
Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Beyond Repair?
America’s Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
Can the death penalty be administered in a just way—without executing the innocent, without regard to race, and without arbitrariness? How does capital punishment in the United States fit with international human rights law? These are among the questions that leading legal scholars and journalists...
Action Research for Teacher Candidates
Using Classroom Data to Enhance Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Teachers are the single most important element in helping every child succeed in school. Action Research for Teacher Candidates has been written in the hopes of equipping teachers-in-training with the skills needed for action research: a process that leads to focused, effective, and responsive strategies...
Constitutional Deliberation in Congress
The Impact of Judicial Review in a Separated System
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
In Constitutional Deliberation in Congress J. Mitchell Pickerill analyzes the impact of the Supreme Court’s constitutional decisions on Congressional debates and statutory language. Based on a thorough examination of how Congress responds to key Court rulings and strategizes in anticipation of them,...
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