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A lawyer criticizes media portrayals of latino/as because it leads to unfair judgements in the court system.This is an important look at stereotyping in American culture.

Once dominated by black-white relations, discussions of race in the USA are increasingly informed by an awareness of strife between non-white racial groups. Combining race history, legal theory, theology, social psychology and anecdote, this work offers an examination of race and responsibility.

The popular image of America is of a deeply conservative nation, yet progressivism has long been a powerful force in the collective psyche. This book draws on the tradition of progressive thought to provide the left with practical ideas for regaining popular support and political influence.

Including real-life cases, this book reveals the dynamics of the corporate governance process and the double standards that often characterize it. It suggests that women have been ill-advised by experts, who tend to teach females how to act like their male, executive counterparts.

Focusing on the contemporary immigration debate, the war on terrorism, media portrayals of Middle Easterners, and the processes of creating racial stereotypes, in this book the author argues that, despite its many successes, the modern civil rights movement has not done enough to protect the liberties of Middle Eastern Americans.

Offers an alternative vision of how US borders might be reconfigured, grounded in moral, economic, and policy arguments for open borders. This book suggests that open borders are entirely consistent with efforts to prevent terrorism that have dominated immigration enforcement since the events of September 11, 2001.

Compares the First Amendment with free speech law in Japan, Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Discusses how discrimination by default creates a situation in which disparate outcomes are expected, accepted, and taken for granted

Introduces the diverse strands of feminist legal theory and the array of substantive legal issues relevant to women's and gender studies. This book centers on feminist legal theories - including equal treatment theory, cultural feminism, dominance theory, critical race feminism, lesbian feminism, postmodern feminism, and ecofeminism.

Traces the reasoning employed by the courts in their efforts to justify the whiteness of some and the non-whiteness of others, and revealed the criteria that were used, often arbitrarily, to determine whiteness, and thus citizenship: skin color, facial features, national origin, language, culture, ancestry, scientific opinion, and more.

Ranging from black market babies to exploitative sex trade operations to the marketing of race and culture, "Rethinking Commodification" presents an interdisciplinary collection of writings, including legal theory, case law, and original essays to re-examine the question: "To commodify or not to commodify?"

Explores the interaction of race and law enforcement in the controversial area of hate crime. Bell includes in her work the experiences of detectives who are women, Black, Latino, and Asian American, exploring the impact of the racial identity of both the hate crime victim and the officers' handling of bias crimes.

Argues that cultural conceptions of children ¿ and childhood ¿ played a key role in legalizing gay marriage Legally Straight offers a critical reading of the legal debates over lesbian and gay marriage in the United States. The book draws on key judicial opinions to trace how our understanding of heterosexuality and marriage has changed. Upon closer inspection, it seemed that the cultural value of marriage was becoming tarnished and the trouble appeared to center on one very specific issue: reproduction. As opponents of lesbian and gay marriage emphasized the link between marriage and accidental pregnancy, the evidence mounted, the arguments proliferated, and resistance began to turn against itself. Heterosexuality, it seemed for a moment, was little more than a set of palliative prescriptions for the worst of human behavior, and children became the victims. It thus became the province of the courts to reinforce the cultural value of marriage by resisting what came to be known as the ¿procreation argument,¿ the assertion that marriage exists primarily to regulate the unruly aspects of heterosexual reproduction. Cultural conceptions of children and childhood were being put at risk as gays and lesbians were denied marriage, so that writing lesbian and gay families into the marriage law became the better option.

Embraces reproductive justice for all women, but challenge mainstream legal and political solutions based on protecting free choice via neutral governmental policies, which frequently ignore or jeopardize the interests of women of color and the poor.

Piatt (law Texas Tech U.) make a case for cooperation among people the dominant culture calls nonwhite and pits against each other for jobs and other privileges of modern society. He talks about the shrinking labor market, the re-segregation of public schools, language barriers, gang warfare, and v

Destructive Messages argues that hate speech is not dangerous only when it poses an immediate threat of harm. It is also dangerous when it is systematically developed over time, becoming part of a culturally acceptable dialogue which can foster the persecution of minorities.

Papke (law and liberal arts, Indiana U.) traces the lineage of legal heretics from 19th-century activists up to more recent radicals and to the contemporary rejection of legal authority by various militia and anti-abortion movements. He illuminates a tradition of American legal heresy, linked by a

Offers a critical analysis of the "sense of justice": an overused concept in modern legal and political discourse. This work argues against simple categorization of the sense of justice. It defines the sense of justice in terms of empathy. It also explores the way it is invoked, considered, and used in the American criminal justice system.

Demonstrates how the Court often avoids socially sensitive cases, such as those involving racial and ethnic discrimination, gender inequalities, abortion restrictions, sexual orientation discrimination, and environmental abuses.

An examination of the legal relationship between U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Questions of religious freedom continue to excite passionate public debate. Proposals involving school prayer and the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools and courtrooms perennially spur controversy. The author argues that we must get over our presumption that all religions are equally true and virtuous and authentically American.

Looks at the way the federal government collects its revenue and exposes the bias at the heart of a system which claims to be objective and fair. Gathering together essays whose topics range from federal housing policy to environmental clean-up costs to tax treaty policy making, this title presents a philosophy that is as simple as it is radical.

Using the court records of every American colony that existed before 1700 and an analysis of over 1,200 seditious speech cases sifted from those records, this book shows how colonists experienced a dramatic expansion during the seventeenth century of their freedom to criticize government and its officials.

Wright (law, Samford U.) attacks the common American notion that the spread of commercialization is a natural manifestation of freedom and the pursuit of well-being. Topics include the constitutional arguments related to commercial free speech law, the influence of so-called controversial ads, the

Wright (law, Cumberland School of Law, Samford U.) traces the basic legal and political implications of life for the desperately poor, arguing that the law fails to recognize the special circumstances of the severely deprived. He explores the Constitution as it is applied to the poor in our society

An examination of how some legal issues are losing cases - but that's okay because advances are still possible.

This ground-breaking anthology examines the mixed race experience and the impact of law on mixed race citizens in America.

From antitrust and bankruptcy to tax and election law, this book contains essays that helps readers to reflect thoughtfully on socio-economic justice in the new century, and suggest that a lack of progressive reform in all areas of law may herald a form of undiagnosed class dominance reminiscent of America's Gilded Age.

Offers discussion on legal ethics by introducing the historical and theoretical background and then connecting it to real world issues while addressing lawyers' ethical obligations to work for social justice. This book features differing critical approaches and opens up fresh avenues of ethical debate.