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James Unnever and Shaun L. Gabbidon, "A Theory of African American Offending: Race, Racism, and Crime" (Routledge, 2011)
Is comedian and cultural critic Bill Cosby right–that black youth suffer from a cultural pathology that leads them to commit more crimes than their white counterparts? Is the remedy to the high rate of offending by African American men the…
Robert Thurston, "Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective" (Ashgate, 2011)
It takes a brave historian to take on the orthodoxy regarding the rise and fall of lynching in the United States. That orthodoxy holds that lynching in the South was a ‘system of social control’ in which whites used organized…
Robert J. Corber, "Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema" (Duke University Press, 2011)
The study of non-heteronormative sexualities in the academy continues to be remarkably dynamic. Despite the usual attempts to harden the frame around this scholarship, it remains consistently exciting and surprising. Robert J.
Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, and Dru Pagliasotti, "Boy’s Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre" (McFarland, 2010)
Growing up in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indy-car racing offered my friends and me some very exciting heroes. As children, we played "Indy 500″ on our bikes in the cul-de-sac. As we became teenagers, the Indy-car drivers who descended on…
Robert Lane Greene, “You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws and the Politics of Identity” (Delacorte Press, 2011)
Isnât it odd how the golden age of correct language always seems to be around the time that its speaker was in high school, and that language has been going to the dogs ever since? Such is the anguish ofâ¦
Karen Sternheimer, "Celebrity Culture and the American Dream: Stardom and Social Mobility" (Routledge, 2010)
It is hard to dispute that today there’s a heightened fascination with celebrities and their personal lives. Who cheated on whom, who’s getting married and what celebrity checked into to rehab is the stuff of daily headlines that many of…
Carrie Pitzulo, "Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy" (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Playboy is having (another) moment. Since its fiftieth birthday in 2003, the brand’s relevance has risen after a period of decline. The Girls Next Door, a reality television show about the goings-on at Hugh Hefner’s Los Angeles mansion, was…
Peter Baehr, "Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences" (Stanford UP, 2010)
Contemporary research into illiberal governments draws much inspiration from the writings of Hannah Arendt. In her classic The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), Arendt claimed that Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia were not merely typical authoritaria...
Jonathan Metzl, "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease" (Beacon Press, 2010)
Schizophrenia is a real, frightening, debilitating disease. But what are we to make of the fact that several studies show that African Americans are two to three times more likely than white Americans to be diagnosed with this malady, and…
Francesco Duina, "Winning: Reflections on an American Obsession" (Princeton University Press, 2010)
"Winning is everything" is such a common phrase that we rarely question where it comes from and why we apply it to everyday experiences. One can win a little league game, an election, the lottery, a friendly competition at work…