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The Un-Chosen Body
Publication Date: September 2025
For those interested in disability justice, gender, and creativity, Szobel illustrates how Israeli and Palestinian artists create new possibilities through their work.
The Civility Book
Publication Date: June 2025
This conversational, no-nonsense guide provides valuable lessons, a detailed curriculum, probing questions for consideration, and an extensive appendix of resources outlining ongoing efforts to curb unproductive contention and advance a more harmonious society.
Your Comrade, Avreml Broide
Publication Date: November 2024
Your Comrade, Avreml Broide offers an enticing mix of fact and fiction to demonstrate the personal risks, revolutionary dreams, and heartaches of Yiddish-speaking American Communists.
Paper Valley
Publication Date: April 2023
Allen and Campbell eloquently outline the problematic bureaucracy involved in environmental cleanup efforts and reveal tactics to compel corporate entities who would dodge accountability for decades worth of contamination.
Queering Anti-Zionism
Publication Date: November 2022
Blackmer shows how these LGBTQ intellectuals mobilize queer theory and intersectionality to support the BDS movement at the expense of academic freedom and open discourse.
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Publication Date: June 2022
As a tale of a man's reaction to oppression, it is universal.
Rescue, Relief, and Resistance
Publication Date: April 2021
Students and scholars of Holocaust and American studies will find this text vital to their continued studies.
Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Publication Date: March 2021
Readers with an interest in politics, history, facts, and perseverance will find kinship in this book.
Greening the Black Urban Regime
Publication Date: August 2020
Scholars and students in the social sciences, as well as general readers with social and environmental justice concerns, will find great value in this research.
The Jdc at 100
Publication Date: May 2019
It will appeal to readers with a more general interest in Jewish studies and refugee studies, Holocaust museum professionals, and those engaged in Jewish and other relief and resettlement programs.
The Forerunners
Publication Date: February 2018
He details the contributions and the leadership provided by the Dutch Jews and relates how they lost their "Dutchnessand their Orthodoxy within several generations of their arrival here and were absorbed into broader American Judaism.
Nazism, the Jews and American Zionism, 1933-1948
Publication Date: February 2018
In surveying the latest scholarship and responding o charges against American Jewry, Berman’s arguments are reasoned and reasonable.
Maurice Sugar
Publication Date: February 2018
Maurice Sugar represents a force in American life that bears recalling in these barren years of plant closings.
The Shaping of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth–Century France
Publication Date: February 2018
All in all, his emphasis on the intellectual history of French Jewry provides a new perspective on a significant chapter of Jewish history.
All-American Anarchist
Publication Date: December 2017
Including passages from Labadie's vast writings, poems, and letters, All-American Anarchist traces America's recurring anti-anarchist and anti-radical frenzy and repression, from the 1886 Haymarket bombing backlash to the Red Scares of the twentieth century.
"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"
Publication Date: December 2017
Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights documents this important shift in state level policy and makes clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced not only blacks but women, the elderly, native Americans, migrant workers, and the physically handicapped.
The Troubled Origins of the Italian Catholic Labor Movement, 1878–1914
Publication Date: December 2017
Sándor Agócs reveals precisely in what way Catholic social thought was inadequate to deal with the realities of unionization and why Catholics were unable to present a reasonable alternative.
Roads to Prosperity
Publication Date: November 2017
Those with an interest in urban planning and community development will find this monograph highly informative.
The Detroit Riot of 1967
Publication Date: July 2017
It has been fifty years since the riot and federal policies are needed now more than ever that will help to protect the future of urban America.
Detroit 1967
Publication Date: May 2017
Readers of Detroit history and urban studies will be drawn to and enlightened by these powerful essays.
Representation and Citizenship
Publication Date: October 2016
The audience for this book includes, but is not limited to, students and scholars in citizenship studies, history, law, political science, and social science, especially those interested in issues of patriotism and multiculturalism.
Adversity and Justice
Publication Date: June 2016
Anyone with an interest in bankruptcy, legal history, or the city of Detroit's bankruptcy case will be attracted to this thorough case study of this court.
Red Alert
Publication Date: May 2016
Scholars and students of film, science fiction, and Marxist culture will enjoy Red Alert.
A Fluid Frontier
Publication Date: February 2016
Scholars of the Underground Railroad as well as those in borderland studies will appreciate the interdisciplinary mix and unique contributions of this volume.
Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination
Publication Date: December 2015
Scholars of literary studies, cultural studies, and citizenship studies will be grateful for Tan's illuminating study.
Acts of Angry Writing
Publication Date: December 2015
Its rich discussion of performativity and speech acts theory bridges the gap between the fields of literary theory, law, and citizenship.
The Meaning of Citizenship
Publication Date: November 2015
Scholars of history, political science, sociology, and citizenship studies will appreciate this conversation about the full meaning of citizenship.
Vladimir Jabotinsky's Story of My Life
Publication Date: May 2015
As Jabotinsky is gaining a reputation for the quality of his fictional and semi-fictional writing in the field of Israel studies, this autobiography will help reading groups and students of Zionism, Jewish history, and political studies to gain a more complete picture of this famous leader.
Mapping Detroit
Publication Date: March 2015
Containing some of the leading voices on Detroit's history and future, Mapping Detroit will be informative reading for anyone interested in urban studies, geography, and recent American history.
Generations
Publication Date: February 2015
Teachers and students of citizenship studies, cultural studies, gerontology, sociology, and political science will enjoy this thought-provoking look at age, aging, and generational differences in relation to the concept and experience of citizenship.
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Publication Date: May 2014
Fans of the show and media history scholars will appreciate this thorough study.
The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s
Publication Date: March 2013
This volume will be interesting reading for enthusiasts of Detroit history and readers wanting to learn more about women and politics of the 1920s.
Revolution Detroit
Publication Date: March 2013
Readers interested in urban studies and recent Detroit history will appreciate this thoughtful assessment of the best practices and obvious errors when it comes to reinventing our cities.
Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook
Publication Date: March 2011
Readers interested in political and ideological struggles of the twentieth century will find Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook to be fascinating reading.
Reimagining Detroit
Publication Date: October 2010
Readers interested in urban studies and environmental issues will enjoy the fresh perspective of Reimagining Detroit.
Caribbean Labor and Politics
Publication Date: May 2004
The core contributions of these men are characterized in terms of their pivotal struggles towards the realization of what we term the "working class project."
Critical Evaluations of Economic Development Policies
Publication Date: April 2004
This dynamic collection proposes to stimulate discussion among scholars, developers, and urban administrators to build awareness of the ways to foster completely informed policies and evaluate their outcomes.
Community-Based Organizations
Publication Date: February 2004
Individual chapters present an array of theoretical arguments, empirical analysis, and applied case studies that are of interest to academics, practitioners, and activists in the community development field.
Churches and Urban Government in Detroit and New York, 1895-1994
Publication Date: February 2004
Pratt—with additional material from Ronald Brown—examines how immigration, the Great Depression, and the Civil Rights movement all nurtured this developing link between religion and politics, helping churches evolve into leadership roles within these metropolitan centers.
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Publication Date: August 2003
interest in international human rights as well as patterns and symptoms of genocidal tendencies, foreshadowing most notably the Nazi Holocaust.
White Nationalism, Black Interests
Publication Date: August 2003
Walters's analysis of contemporary racial politics is uniquely valuable to scholars and lay readers alike and is sure to spark further public debate.
Civic Culture and Urban Change
Publication Date: April 2003
Civic Culture and Urban Change summarizes the "solution setsDallas employs in dealing with major issues, and discusses the implications of those findings for the future of effective democracy in Dallas and other large cities.
For the Good of the Children
Publication Date: January 2003
Her book pays tribute to the Republic, a residential treatment center for both boys and girls since 1994, by sharing the stories of individuals determined to help children discover their potential to succeed.
Ideology and Change
Publication Date: December 1998
He identifies their role in Caribbean political culture and processes, the problems they face, and the strategies they employ toward political change within a hazardous political and social environment.
Bloody News from My Friend
Publication Date: November 1996
The translation by Balakian and Nevart Yaghlian allows readers to hear Siamanto's startling and arresting voice in a fresh, vernacular language.
"Gha-Ra-Bagh!"
Publication Date: November 1996
He documents the euphoria that marked the first large-scale demonstrations in February, the Kremlin's sobering rebukes in the summer, the tragedy of the December earthquake in northern Armenia, and escalating communal violence between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.
Theories of the Labor Movement
Publication Date: May 1987
Such groupings allow for ready comparison of divergent views of the origins, development, and future of the labor movement.
