Product Description: This book is the first in-depth examination of the 25 million Americans with the most intense hatred of President Obama―arguably the most Republican-friendly of recent Democratic presidents―and what the mindsets of these "Obama Haters" teach us about race and ethnicity in America today...read more

The best selling book for Introduction to American Government, AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS TODAY, THE ESSENTIALS helps students experience the excitement that comes from active, informed citizenship in a concisely organized package. Bardes, Schmidt, and Shelley's text is renowned nationwide for its balanced, unbiased, comprehensive, and up-to-date coverage of constitutional, governmental, political, social, and economic structures and processes. The overriding theme is the importance of informed active citizenship. The pedagogy underscores this theme by soliciting critical thinking about political issues and encouraging students to become involved the political process. With keen awareness of its audience, AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS TODAY, THE ESSENTIALS incorporates current examples, the Internet, and other media to stimulate learning and excitement about American government. This truly interactive text gives students more than reading material--it gives them tools to become good citizens. (view table of contents)

The author offers a fascinating revision of American history and culture, asking important questions such as 'has democracy every existed?' and 'why does our culture celebrate certain figures and ignore others?' Original.

Product Description: Martin Luther King's observation that 11 a.m. on Sunday is the most segregated hour of the week remains all too true.Christians addressing racism in American society must begin with a frank assessment of how race figures in the churches themselves, leading activist Joseph Barndt argues...read more

Product Description: Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the heart of higher education in the post-civil rights era. Although we think of "post-civil rights" as representing a colorblind or race transcendent triumphalism in national political discourse, Giroux argues that our present is shaped by persistent "raceless" racism at home and permanent civilizational war abroad...read more

The sixth edition of Schoell/Guiltinan will vastly improve student's comprehension of the subject by grabbing their attention, involving them, and generating excitement. The all new design, which places emphasis on visual learning, was based on research of student's learning and study habits as well as extensive class testing. Key concept graphics, current ads that capture student interest and student-oriented in-text examples all aid in visualizing and understanding concepts.

Product Description: "For those who haven't given much thought to race matters, this volume could serve as an inoculation against the twisted political siren song of the far-right, providing sufficient knowledge so as to weaken the appeal of those who would manipulate their racial fears, anxieties and insecurities, or try and deny the reality of racial inequality so as to push a colorblind – and therefore, injustice-blind – agenda...read more

Product Description: Systematically illustrates the inescapable racism of American conservatism. In this provocative, wide-ranging study, Robert C. Smith contends that ideological conservatism and racism are and always have been equivalent in the United States...read more

Product Description: Since its inception, public education in the United States has contributed to the reproduction of a socio-economic and political hierarchy with ingrained inequities and inequalities. The primary goals of public education have included socializing young people to become docile, patriotic citizens serving the nation-state, thus preparing them to fit into a corporate global economy...read more

Product Description: In my view, The Negro Problem in 2008 is part law, part politics, part oppression, part internalized oppression and part ideology. As America becomes more polarized into red states and blues states, into liberals and conservatives, into right, left, and even further into black and white, racism has become even more pronounced if not more difficult to identify...read more

Product Description: According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the U.S. is enjoying a post-racial age, thanks in part to Barack Obama's rise to the presidency. This high gloss of optimism fails, however, to recognize that racism remains ever present and alive, spread by channels of media and circulated even in colloquial speech in ways that can be difficult to analyze...read more

Product Description: A Decolonizing Encounter examines the effects of western colonialism on historically marginalized and colonized populations living both in the West and the «third world». Specifically, it explores crucial issues such as the decolonizing of schools and communities of color; the decentralization of power of the capitalist and colonial state; globalization; democracy; and struggle for political and economic justice for all peoples...read more