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Sex panic and the punitive state
One evening, while watching the news, Roger N. Lancaster was startled by a report that a friend, a gay male school teacher, had been arrested for a sexually based crime. The resulting hysteria threatened to ruin the life of an innocent man. In this passionate and provocative book, Lancaster blends astute analysis, robust polemic, ethnography, and personal narrative to delve into the complicated relationship between sexuality and punishment in our society. Drawing on classical social science, critical legal studies, and queer theory, he tracks the rise of a modern suburban culture of fear and develops new insights into the punitive logic that has put down deep roots in everyday American life.
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Conjured Bodies
Is Latinidad a racial or an ethnic designation? Both? Neither?
The increasing recognition of diversity within Latinx communities
and the well-known story of shifting census designations have cast
doubt on the idea that Latinidad is a race, akin to white or Black.
And the mainstream media constantly cover the \"browning\" of the
United States, as though the racial character of Latinidad were
self-evident.
Many scholars have argued that the uncertainty surrounding
Latinidad is emancipatory: by queering race-by upsetting
assumptions about categories of human difference-Latinidad
destabilizes the architecture of oppression. But Laura Grappo is
less sanguine. She draws on case studies including the San Antonio
Four (Latinas who were wrongfully accused of child sex abuse); the
football star Aaron Hernandez's incarceration and suicide; Lorena
Bobbitt, the headline-grabbing Ecuadorian domestic-abuse survivor;
and controversies over the racial identities of public Latinx
figures to show how media institutions and state authorities deploy
the ambiguities of Latinidad in ways that mystify the sources of
Latinx political and economic disadvantage. With Latinidad always
in a state of flux, it is all too easy for the powerful to conjure
whatever phantoms serve their interests.
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Left turn : how liberal media bias distorts the American mind
A leading professor in political science and economics provides scientific proof of media bias in this sure-to-be controversial book.
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Apprehending Politics
This groundbreaking book examines the significance of the news media for the political beliefs and behavior of contemporary Americans. Relying on original, in-depth interviews with members of the group known as Generation X, Marco Calavita analyzes the memories and understandings of these individuals' political development dating back to childhood. Specifically, he focuses on the developmental significance of news media engagement in the context of institutions and phenomena like family, peers, schooling, and popular culture. Calavita succeeds where others have failed at exploring the inevitably contextualized and ecological nature of individual political development, and the specific roles of news media in that development. Apprehending Politics illuminates the subtle but fundamental power of news media in who we are politically, and how we got that way.
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Between citizens and the state
This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating institution between citizens and the state.
Framed around the three major federal higher education policies of the twentieth century--the 1944 GI Bill, the 1958 National Defense Education Act, and the 1965 Higher Education Act--the book charts the federal government's various efforts to deploy education to ready citizens for the national, bureaucratized, and increasingly global world in which they lived. Loss details the myriad ways in which academic leaders and students shaped, and were shaped by, the state's shifting political agenda as it moved from a preoccupation with economic security during the Great Depression, to national security during World War II and the Cold War, to securing the rights of African Americans, women, and other previously marginalized groups during the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, Loss reappraises the origins of higher education's current-day diversity regime, the growth of identity group politics, and the privatization of citizenship at the close of the twentieth century.
At a time when people's faith in government and higher education is being sorely tested, this book sheds new light on the close relations between American higher education and politics.
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