Temple University Press: 180 books
Hip Hop Underground
The Integrity and Ethics of Racial Identification
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Hip Hop Underground is a vivid ethnography of the author's observations and experiences in the multiracial world of the San Francisco underground hip hop scene. While Anthony Kwame Harrison interviewed area hip hop artists for this entertaining and informative book, he also performed as the emcee...
"I Hear America Singing"
Folk Music and National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Folk music is more than an idealized reminder of a simper past. It reveals a great deal about present-day understandings of community and belonging. It celebrates the shared traditions that define a group or nation. In America, folk music--from African American spirituals to English ballads and protest...
by Sam Wineburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Since ancient times, the pundits have lamented young people's lack of historical knowledge and warned that ignorance of the past surely condemns humanity to repeating its mistakes. In the contemporary United States, this dire outlook drives a contentious debate about what key events, nations, and...
Behind the Backlash
Muslim Americans After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
As the nation tried to absorb the shock of the 9/11 attacks, Muslim Americans were caught up in an unprecedented wave of backlash violence. Public discussion revealed that widespread misunderstanding and misrepresentation of Islam persisted, despite the striking diversity of the Muslim community.
Letting...
by Sidney Axinn
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2008
In this new edition of the classic book on the moral conduct of war, Sidney Axinn provides a full-length treatment of the military conventions from a philosophical point of view. Axinn considers these basic ethical questions within the context of the laws of warfare: Should a good soldier ever disobey...
Material Law
A Jurisprudence of What's Real
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Law is part of the process by which people construct their views of the world. In Material Law, distinguished scholar John Brigham focuses on the places where law and material life intersect, and how law creates and alters our social reality. Brigham looks at an eclectic group of bodies and things—from...
by Paul Longmore
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race,...
On the Margins of Citizenship
Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
On the Margins of Citizenship provides a comprehensive, sociological history of the fight for civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities. Allison Carey, who has been active in disability advocacy and politics her entire life, draws upon a broad range of historical and legal documents as...
If You Tame Me
Understanding Our Connection With Animals
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
Nearly everyone who cares about them believes that dogs and cats have a sense of self that renders them unique. Traditional science and philosophy declare such notions about our pets to be irrational and anthropomorphic. Animals, they say, have only the crudest form of thought and no sense of self...
Criminology and Public Policy
Putting Theory to Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Crime policy ought to be guided by science rather than ideology, argue Hugh Barlow and Scott Decker in this incisive and original collection of essays. Establishing the value and importance of linking theory and practice, the contributors to Criminology and Public Policy provide a comprehensive treatment...
Lawn People
How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care is a cause of ecological anxiety. In Lawn People, author Paul Robbins, asks, "How did the needs of the grass come to be my own?" In his goal...
Seeking Mandela
Peacemaking Between Israelis And Palestinians
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
The ongoing violence, despair and paralysis among Israelis and Palestinians resemble the gloomy period in South Africa during the late 1980s. Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley show that these analogies with South Africa can be applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for two purposes: to showcase...
Asian American Panethnicity
Bridging Institutions and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
With different histories, cultures, languages, and identities, most Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese origin are lumped together and viewed by other Americans simply as Asian Americans. Since the mid 1960s, however, these different Asian American groups have come together...
Twenty-First Century Color Lines
Multiracial Change in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
The result of work initiated by the Harvard Civil Rights Project, this collection provides an excellent overview of the contemporary racial and ethnic terrain in the United States. The well-respected contributors to Twenty-First Century Color Lines combine theoretical and empirical perspectives, answering...