Books in the Critical America series

Latinos are the fastest growing population in the United States. As a result, this book seeks to answer questions on the definition of racial and ethnic identity and examines the Latino identity as both fluid and situation-dependent.

Using the court records of every American colony that existed before 1700 and an analysis of over 1,200 seditious speech cases sifted from those records, this book shows how colonists experienced a dramatic expansion during the seventeenth century of their freedom to criticize government and its officials.

Offers discussion on legal ethics by introducing the historical and theoretical background and then connecting it to real world issues while addressing lawyers' ethical obligations to work for social justice. This book features differing critical approaches and opens up fresh avenues of ethical debate.

Includes essays that cover topics such as the legal construction of black male identity, domestic abuse in the black community, the enduring power of black machismo, the politics of black male/white female relationships, the role of black men in black women's quest for racial equality, and the heterosexist nature of black political engagement.

The United States, and the West in general, has always organized society along bipolar lines. We are either gay or straight, male or female, white or not, disabled or not. This book argues that our bipolar classification system obscures a genuine understanding of nature of subordination. It shows how categories can be improved for the good of all.

Examines one of the fastest growing social movements in the United States, the movement for environmental justice. Tracing the movement's roots, this book provides case studies of communities across the US - towns like Kettleman City, California; Chester, Pennsylvania; and Dilkon, Arizona - and their struggles against corporate polluters.

Why does the US offer $20,000 atonement money to Japanese Americans relocated to concentration camps during World War II, while not even apologizing to African Americans for 250 years of human bondage and another century of institutionalized discrimination? This collection of essays also includes the voices of the victims of these atrocities.

Title IX, a landmark federal statute enacted in 1972 to prohibit sex discrimination in education, has worked its way into American culture as few other laws have. The author assesses the statute's successes and failures. It provides a richer understanding and appreciation of what Title IX has accomplished, and where the law has fallen short.

Some sources rank Mexican Americans as one of the most poorly educated ethnic groups in the United States. This title offers a comprehensive look at this community's long-standing legal struggle for better schools and educational equality.

Focusing on the contemporary immigration debate, the war on terrorism, media portrayals of Middle Easterners, and the processes of creating racial stereotypes, in this book the author argues that, despite its many successes, the modern civil rights movement has not done enough to protect the liberties of Middle Eastern Americans.

Offers an alternative vision of how US borders might be reconfigured, grounded in moral, economic, and policy arguments for open borders. This book suggests that open borders are entirely consistent with efforts to prevent terrorism that have dominated immigration enforcement since the events of September 11, 2001.

Examines feminist critiques of medical knowledge and practice; and the legal regulation of pregnancy termination, conception and child-bearing, and behavior during pregnancy. This book demonstrates that the right to choice isn't an automatic guarantee of reproductive justice and gender equality.

Ranging from black market babies to exploitative sex trade operations to the marketing of race and culture, "Rethinking Commodification" presents an interdisciplinary collection of writings, including legal theory, case law, and original essays to re-examine the question: "To commodify or not to commodify?"

This anthology focuses on the legal rights of women of colour around the world. The essays discuss topical themes such as responses to white feminism, female genital mutilation and intersections of law, and the text addresses the role and status of women worldwide.

Explores the interaction of race and law enforcement in the controversial area of hate crime. Bell includes in her work the experiences of detectives who are women, Black, Latino, and Asian American, exploring the impact of the racial identity of both the hate crime victim and the officers' handling of bias crimes.

This analysis brings together the many perspectives that have shaped policy on the relationship between church and state. Contributors ranging from Stanley Fish to Richard John Neuhaus explore issues extending from religious morality and religious freedom to fundamentalism.

Examines how American law purports to reflect - and actively promotes - a laissez-faire capitalism that disproportionately benefits the entrepreneurial class. This title proposes that the quality of American life depends also on fairness and equality rather than simply the single-minded and formulaic pursuit of efficiency and utility.

Interweaving narratives and dramatic case studies, the author argues that persistent beliefs in a natural hierarchy of intelligence among humans have affected the way intelligence has been measured since the founding of the American republic. UP.

Introduces the diverse strands of feminist legal theory and the array of substantive legal issues relevant to women's and gender studies. This book centers on feminist legal theories - including equal treatment theory, cultural feminism, dominance theory, critical race feminism, lesbian feminism, postmodern feminism, and ecofeminism.

An examination of the legal relationship between U.S. and Puerto Rico.

With the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, John Jackson examines the scientific case launched in Brown's wake to try to dismantle the legislation. He focuses on the 1959 formation of the International Society for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics (IAAEE).

In one of the twentieth century's landmark Supreme Court cases, Brown v. Board of Education, social scientists such as Kenneth Clark helped to convince the justices of the debilitating psychological effects of racism and segregation. John P. Jackson, Jr.

Discusses how discrimination by default creates a situation in which disparate outcomes are expected, accepted, and taken for granted

Now in its second edition, the anthology "Critical Race Feminism" presents over 40 readings on the legal status of women of colour by leading authors and scholars such as Anita Hill, Lani Guinier, Kathleen Neal Cleaver, and Angela Harris.

Traces the reasoning employed by the courts in their efforts to justify the whiteness of some and the non-whiteness of others, and revealed the criteria that were used, often arbitrarily, to determine whiteness, and thus citizenship: skin color, facial features, national origin, language, culture, ancestry, scientific opinion, and more.

An anthology to treat the role that emotions play, don't play, and ought to play in the practice and conception of law and justice. It contributes to the efforts to humanize law and reveals how this previously unacknowledged aspect of decision-making exerts a much greater impact on justice and the practice of law than most tend, or like, to think.

Explores the tacit and subtle ways that deviance is systematically linked to people of colour

Including real-life cases, this book reveals the dynamics of the corporate governance process and the double standards that often characterize it. It suggests that women have been ill-advised by experts, who tend to teach females how to act like their male, executive counterparts.

Compares the First Amendment with free speech law in Japan, Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.