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Reclaiming economics for future generations.
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ISBN: 1526159872 1526159856 Year: 2022 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press,

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Reclaiming economics for future generations argues that to build economies which serve people and the planet we need a diverse and decolonised curriculum. How does the global economy currently fail people and the planet, and why has mainstream economics knowledge inadequately addressed the pressing issues of today?.


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Vital and valuable : the relevance of HBCUs to American life and education
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ISBN: 0231557728 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York, New York : Columbia University Press,

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Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are a crucial element of higher education in the United States. In Vital and Valuable, two distinguished economists provide a groundbreaking empirical analysis of HBCUs and offer actionable policy recommendations.


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Nice is not enough : inequality and the limits of kindness at American high.
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ISBN: 9780520396753 Year: 2023 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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"Based on two years of research at American High, Nice Is Not Enough shares striking dispatches from one high school's 'regime of kindness' to underline how the culture operates as a band-aid on persistent inequalities. Through incisive storytelling and thoughtful engagement with students, this brilliant study by C.J. Pascoe exposes uncomfortable truths about American politics and our reliance on individual solutions instead of profound systemic change. Nice Is Not Enough brings readers into a middle- and working-class high school characterized by acceptance, connection, and kindness--a place where, a prominent sign states, 'there is no room for hate.' Here, inequality is narrowly understood as a problem of individual merit, meanness, effort, or emotion rather than a systemic issue requiring deeper intervention. Surface-level sensitivity allows American High to avoid 'political' topics related to social inequality based on race, sex, gender, or class. Being nice to each other, Pascoe reveals, does not serve these students or solve the broader issues we face; but a true politics of care just might"--


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Before Gentrification : The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap.
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ISBN: 0520391187 Year: 2023 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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"Draws a direct line between redlining, incarceration, and gentrification in an American city. This book shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. In Before Gentrification, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza tracks the cycles of state abandonment and punishment that have shaped the city, revealing how policies and policing work to displace and decimate the Black middle class. Through the stories of those who have lost their homes and livelihoods, Golash-Boza explores how DC came to be the nation's "Murder Capital" and incarceration capital, and why it is now a haven for wealthy White people. This troubling history makes clear that the choice to use prisons and policing to solve problems faced by Black communities in the twentieth century-instead of investing in schools, community centers, social services, health care, and violence prevention-is what made gentrification possible in the twenty-first. Before Gentrification unveils a pattern of anti-Blackness and racial capitalism in DC that has implications for all US cities"--


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Medical entanglements : rethinking feminist debates about healthcare
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ISBN: 1978806639 Year: 2020 Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press,

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"Medical Entanglements uses intersectional feminist, queer, and crip theory to move beyond "for or against" approaches to medical intervention. Using a series of case studies - sex-confirmation surgery, pharmaceutical treatments for sexual dissatisfaction, and weight loss interventions - the book argues that, because of systemic inequality, most mainstream medical interventions will simultaneously reinforce social inequality and alleviate some individual suffering. The book demonstrates that there is no way to think ourselves out of this conundrum as the contradictions are a product of unjust systems. Thus, Gupta argues that feminist activists and theorists should allow individuals to choose whether to use a particular intervention, while directing their social justice efforts at dismantling systems of oppression and at ensuring that all people, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, class, or ability, have access to the basic resources required to flourish."--Provided by vendor.

Durable inequality
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ISBN: 0520211715 0520221702 9786613291714 0520924223 1283291711 0585093180 9780520221703 9780520924222 9780585093185 9780520211711 9781283291712 6613291714 Year: 1998 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen/noncitizen, Tilly argues that the basic causes of these and similar inequalities greatly resemble one another. In contrast to contemporary analyses that explain inequality case by case, this account is one of process. Categorical distinctions arise, Tilly says, because they offer a solution to pressing organizational problems. Whatever the "organization" is-as small as a household or as large as a government-the resulting relationship of inequality persists because parties on both sides of the categorical divide come to depend on that solution, despite its drawbacks. Tilly illustrates the social mechanisms that create and maintain paired and unequal categories with a rich variety of cases, mapping out fertile territories for future relational study of durable inequality.


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A Guide to Civil Procedure : Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives
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ISBN: 1479805947 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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"This book represents our efforts, and the efforts of our contributors, to center questions of inequality in the teaching, learning, and practice of civil procedure by shining a light on the ways in which civil procedure may privilege-or silence-voices in our courts"--

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Civil procedure --- Critical legal studies --- Social aspects --- United States. --- Aggregation. --- Americans With Disabilities Act. --- Arbitration. --- Assimilation. --- Asymmetric decision-making. --- Bankruptcy. --- Bias. --- Child welfare. --- Children. --- Class action. --- Class actions. --- Class. --- Cognition and cognitive psychology. --- Critical feminist theory. --- Critical race theory. --- Critical. --- Deconstruction and reconstruction. --- Disability theory. --- Disability. --- Discovery. --- Disparate impact. --- Disruption. --- Domestic and “foreign” law. --- Dukes v. Wal-Mart. --- Efficiency. --- Empirical. --- Employment discrimination. --- Equality. --- Eviction. --- Excessive Force. --- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. --- Fees. --- Fines. --- Heuristics. --- Indian Child Welfare Act. --- Indian. --- Inferences. --- Interest Convergence. --- Intersectional. --- Intersectionality. --- Judges. --- LGBTQ+. --- Local rules. --- Marginalized. --- Motion to dismiss. --- Neutrality. --- Other-ing. --- Outsiders. --- Personal Jurisdiction. --- Pleading. --- Power dynamics. --- Prison litigation. --- Prisoner. --- Pro se. --- Procedural justice. --- Proposition 8. --- Queer theory. --- Race and gender bias. --- Racial Fortuity. --- Racism. --- Recusal. --- Summary judgment. --- Systemic inequality. --- Trans-substantive. --- Transsubtantivity. --- Violence. --- commonality. --- conflicts of interest. --- debt collection. --- implicit bias. --- judicial demographics. --- low-income litigants. --- poverty law. --- queer. --- same-sex marriage.

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