Product Description: A democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformation—the state of affairs the United States faces today, as this timely book makes painfully clear...read more

Product Description: The status of civil rights in the United States today is as volatile an issue as ever, with many Americans wondering if new laws, implemented after the events of September 11, restrict more people than they protect. How will efforts to eradicate racism, sexism, and xenophobia be affected by the measures our government takes in the name of protecting its citizens? Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures in the Critical Race Theory movement, addresses these problems with his latest book in the award-winning Rodrigo Chronicles...read more

Examines the issues facing public schools in America today in providing an equal opportunity education for its increasingly diverse population. (view table of contents)

Discusses racism and its negative effects, and suggests that equal opportunity is the only alternative to racial conflict.

Product Description: Successful social policies for children are critical to America's future. Yet the status of children in America suggests that the nation's policies may not be serving them well. Infant and child mortality rates in the U.S. remain high compared to other western industrialized nations; child poverty rates have worsened in the past decade; poor health care, child abuse, and inadequate schooling and child care persist...read more

Product Description: The search for equality has been an enduring one in the United States. Yet there has been little significant change in the distribution of wealth over the generations, while the political ideology of socialism has been rejected outright by most people...read more

Product Description: A provocative examination of school desegregation in America and how it does-and does not-succeed. "In this powerful tract on school desegregation, Jennifer Hochschild formulates the most searching challenge to the theory of incrementalism that I have come across in recent years...read more

Product Description: This book discusses various interpretations of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education and their implications for school desegregation policy; describes the demographic and political constraints on further desegregation; and identifies effective strategies for future efforts at desegregation...read more