"The question of whose interests the media protects - and how - has achieved holy-grail-like significance. Is media bias keeping us from getting the whole story? If so, who is at fault? Is it the liberals who are purported to be running the newsrooms, television and radio statio…
""A must read for every opponent of totalitarianism and partisan of a chastened or mature liberalism.""--The New Criterion
In this text, the authors consider the interface between gender as a social institution on one hand and Western medicine as a social institution on the other, and analyses issues of power and politics which pervade the study of both topics.
This text brings together interviews and essays representing Dyson's thinking on race and identity, covering topics such as seeing whiteness through a black eye, modernism and postmodernism in balck culture, and the emancipating role of black music from days of slavery to modern…
Greeley explores 12 essential questions of faith & grounds them in human experience. He contemplates questions at the heart of human life & reveals how the symbols, rituals, teachings & mysteries of Catholicism both shape and respond to these profound uncertainties.
Essayist June Jordan presents this collection that follows the more than 40-year span of her writing career, which includes political essays about the incomplete legacy of the civil rights movement as well as more personal essays about her experience as a single mother, and also…