The author examines six signposts of American history - the settlements at Plymouth and Jamestown, the ratification of the Constitution, the Statue of Liberty, the cowboy, the "kitchen debate" between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"…
This book examines the politics of inclusion through an analysis of the policies, politics, and debates with regard to the strategies of the state in relation to lower castes and minorities.
The test score gap between blacks and whites - on vocabulary, reading, and math tests, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence - is large enough to have far-reaching social and economic consequences. In their introduction to this book, Chri…
While the rise in premature deaths among American working-class whites has become a national crisis, the authors tie the problem to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and to a health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages to the wealt…