Books published by Lexington Books

This book illustrates how Queen Sugar acts as an industry model for exemplary representation of Black women in television. The author demonstrates how the narrative can change when culturally sensitive and conscious women of color tell their own stories

Student teaching is widely considered to be the single most powerful learning experience in teacher preparation. The authors present a history of student teaching, theory, practice and policy; review the research literature, past and present; and present practical guidelines for reform that align with evidence.

This book analyzes the transnational, illicit traffic in conflict commodities, including the smuggling of precious gems, wildlife products, oil, and other high-value goods. It also elucidates the structure and operation of transnational criminal networks and details how illicit profits finance war, terrorism, and human rights abuses.

Combining interviews and sociological theory, Saad Ahmad Khan analyzes the phenomenon of radicalization of second-generation Pakistani-Canadians and argues that individual, social, national, and international factors need to be addressed to prevent radicalization of future generations.

Navigating Remarkable Communication Experiences of Sexual Minorities examines unique communication experiences of sexual minorities, including initial coming out, disclosing to heterosexual partners, negotiating relationship revelation with same-sex partners, and hiding from friends.

Using an in-depth ethnographic study and interviews, Home and Sense of Belonging among Iraqi Kurds in the UK explores how Iraqi Kurds living in the UK conceptualise their sense of home and belonging and analyzes the differences in generational and gendered perspectives within Kurdish communities.

The ancient Confucians developed a particular notion of ritual and placed it at the center of their moral cultivation program. This book examines the Confucian ritual method through the lens of modern developmental theory and creates a theoretical framework for deploying ritual as an invaluable tool in contemporary moral education pursuits.

This book evaluates the impact of the 1927 Great Mississippi Flood on the 1928 and 1932 presidential elections and what role disaster management plays in presidential elections.

Democracies across the globe are in crisis as authoritarian regimes rise and populist leaders emerge worldwide. Democracy in Crisis across the World weaves threads of history and politics in two parts to analyze how long this trend may last and what the future may bring.

The author argues that the European Union is under threat of collapse and that new international policy must tackle migration, the Euro, Brexit, and enlargement in order to avoid dissolution.

This book discusses existing problems with Black maternal health and the rhetorical implications of ethos in American society.

Advocating Heightened Education details a model of educational advocacy drawn from the histories and faculty stories of two unusual college campuses. It counters the impression of higher education as superficial and stagnant by showing academic routines to be inventive and mutable.

As the United States wants to see India establish itself as a rival power to China, this book examines the critical questions of how Modi is stepping up his efforts to counter Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative.

The first international book on antiracist discourse, Antiracist Discourse in Brazil examines the history of antislavery, abolition, and antiracist discourse in Brazil with a detailed discourse analysis of contemporary parliamentary debates on affirmative action.

Worldly Shame draws on the thought of Hannah Arendt to argue that shame can help us break free of oppressive regimes, draw us into collective action, give us the space for judgment, and finally, help us mourn and rebuild the world together.

For the American founding fathers, good character was not just important to the survival of liberty, it was the load bearing central pillar. Today this is no longer true. Good character doesn't matter. The author examines why and how this complete abandonment of the founders' value system came about.

In President Trump and the News Media Kuypers analyzes policy addresses by President Trump, comparing them with reporting through lenses of framing analysis and Moral Foundations Theory. Differences point to widespread journalistic bias. The effect of this bias on reportorial practices and the functioning of the American Republic is addressed.

This book analyzes the link between gender and technology to explain the mechanisms underlying specific genders that have been associated with literary genres. Ultimately, this book shows the ways in which contemporary Argentine society is creating inclusive spaces for women to participate in technological fields on the web and in real-time.

This book argues for the virtues of diversity in cities, organizations, development assistance, and human discourse. Much of the material is based on the author's decade in the World Bank whose policies were based on a narrow ideological vision that did not tolerate a diversity of approaches or even the open contestation of alternatives.

Harnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens, this book confronts the realities of how modern social structures, ideologies, and utopianisms affect one's ability to purpose existence with self-authored meaning.

This book explores the recovery of Socratic philosophy in 19th century political thought of G.W.F. Hegel, Soren Kierkegaard, John Stuart Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche. For Kierkegaard the Socratic indivdual in modern times is the person of faith, for Mill the idiosyncratic public intellectual, and for Nietzsche the Dionysian artist.

Arms, Revenue, and Entitlements: U.S. Deficits in the Cold War, 1945-1991 explores how defense, tax, and entitlement policies caused the U.S. government to become deficit normative during the Cold War era, arguing that only a comprehensive program can rein in deficits in the twenty-first century.

Political forces are seeking to stop progressive social, political, economic change by conspiring to impose authoritarianism to suppress the public's desire for just, democratic government. One means to obscure the ongoing conspiracy to impose outright dictatorship is to smear, malign critics of this conspiracy as guilty of conspiracy theory.

This book is a response to the growing concern by social critics that we are becoming a de-voiced society through our preferences for hyper-textual, image-based forms of electronic connectivity. It interrogates the relational losses we suffer when we forget the value of the enchanting voice within immediate ear-to-ear relations.