Product Description: A large swath of literature on the civil rights movement exists in the United States. Much of that literature focuses on the dramatic events of the African American resistance to Jim Crow and oppression from the mid 1950s through the early 1970s...read more

Product Description: Racism and the Law is a text and casebook that provides an introduction about the close and complex relationships between race and law, legal institutions, and legal personnel. It is designed primarily for undergraduate students in several fields, including political science, history, African-American studies, public policy, sociology, and others...read more

Product Description: "Censorship is a casebook designed to help readers understand the complexities of censorship and expressive freedom in America during the past century. The cases and other materials presented in this volume reveal many of the high and low points in the continuing struggle between the promise of the First Amendment and the reality of intermittent censorship and government interference...read more

Product Description: This book analyzes and presents the works of fifteen major women artists working in the Los Angeles area. Combining the disciplines of social science, art history, and women's studies, the book focuses on how these artists use their paintings, prints, murals, masks, installations, and other art forms to comment critically on political and social themes from a feminist perspective...read more

Examines the development of the treatment of political and social issues in paintings, graphic arts, and documentary photographs ranging from the eighteenth century to the 1970s

An analysis of the art of social and political protest during the last two centuries, with emphasis on the twentieth century, considers the works of well-known artists, the drawings of prisoners in Nazi death camps, and examples of photojournalism