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Containment and Condemnation

Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor

By: David Ray Papke

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Containment and Condemnation

Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor

By: David Ray Papke

The populations of American cities have always included poor people, but the predicament of the urban poor has worsened over time. Their social capital, that is, the connections and organizations that traditionally enabled them to form communities, has shredded. Economically comfortable Americans have come to increasingly care less about the plight of the urban poor and to think of them in terms of “us and them.” Considered lazy paupers in the early nineteenth century, the urban poor came to be seen as a violent criminal “underclass” by the end of the twentieth. Living primarily in the nation’s deindustrialized inner cities and making up nearly 15 percent of the population, today’s urban poor are oppressed people living in the midst of American affluence. This book examines how law works for, against, and with regard to the urban poor, with “law” being understood broadly to include not only laws but also legal proceedings and institutions. Law is too complicated and variable to be seen as simply a club used to beat down the urban poor, but it does work largely in negative ways for them. An essential text for both law students and those drawn to areas of social justice, Containment and Condemnation shows how law helps create, expand, and perpetuate contemporary urban poverty.

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1628953527

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Heretics in the Temple

Americans Who Reject the Nation's Legal Faith

By: David Ray Papke

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Heretics in the Temple

Americans Who Reject the Nation's Legal Faith

By: David Ray Papke

Americans seem increasingly disenchanted with their legal system. In the wake of several high-profile trials, America's faith in legal authority appears profoundly shaken. And yet, as David Ray Papke shows in this dramatic and erudite tour of American history, many Americans have challenged and often rejected the rule of law since the earliest days of the country's founding. Papke traces the lineage of such legal heretics from nineteenth-century activists William Lloyd Garrison and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, through Eugene Debs, and up to more recent radicals, such as the Black Panther Party, anti-abortionists, and militia members. A tradition of American legal heresy clearly emerges—linked together by a body of shared references, idols, and commitments—that problematizes the American belief in legal neutrality and highlights the historical conflicts between law and justice. Questioning the legal faith both peculiar and essential to American mythology, this alternative tradition is in itself an overlooked feature of American history and culture.

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NYU Press

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0814768849

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9780814768846

The Color of Law

Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights

By: Dave Riddle,David Elsila,Steve Babson

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The Color of Law

Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights

By: Dave Riddle,David Elsila,Steve Babson

Biography of Ernie Goodman, a Detroit lawyer and political activist who played a key role in social justice cases. In a working life that spanned half a century, Ernie Goodman was one of the nation's preeminent defense attorneys for workers and the militant poor. His remarkable career put him at the center of the struggle for social justice in the twentieth century, from the sit-down strikes of the 1930s to the Red Scare of the 1950s to the freedom struggles, anti-war demonstrations, and ghetto rebellions of the 1960s and 1970s. The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights traces Goodman's journey through these tumultuous events and highlights the many moments when changing perceptions of social justice clashed with legal precedent. Authors Steve Babson, Dave Riddle, and David Elsila tell Goodman's life story, beginning with his formative years as the son of immigrant parents in Detroit's Jewish ghetto, to his early ambitions as a corporate lawyer, and his conversion to socialism and labor law during the Great Depression. From Detroit to Mississippi, Goodman saw police and other officials giving the "color of law" to actions that stifled freedom of speech and nullified the rights of workers and minorities. The authors highlight Goodman's landmark cases in defense of labor and civil rights and examine the complex relationships he developed along the way with individuals like Supreme Court Justice and former Michigan governor Frank Murphy, UAW president Walter Reuther, Detroit mayor Coleman Young, and congressman George Crockett. Drawing from a rich collection of letters, oral histories, court records, and press accounts, the authors re-create the compelling story of Goodman's life. The Color of Law demonstrates that the abuse of power is non-partisan and that individuals who oppose injustice can change the course of events.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814336388

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9780814336380

Endless Holocausts

Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire

By: David Michael Smith

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Endless Holocausts

Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire

By: David Michael Smith

An argument against the myth of "American exceptionalism" Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire helps us to come to terms with what we have long suspected: the rise of the U.S. Empire has relied upon an almost unimaginable loss of life, from its inception during the European colonial period, to the present. And yet, in the face of a series of endless holocausts at home and abroad, the doctrine of American exceptionalism has plagued the globe for over a century. However much the ruling class insists on U.S. superiority, we find ourselves in the midst of a sea change. Perpetual wars, deteriorating economic conditions, the resurgence of white supremacy, and the rise of the Far Right have led millions of people to abandon their illusions about this country. Never before have so many people rejected or questioned traditional platitudes about the United States. In Endless Holocausts author David Michael Smith demolishes the myth of exceptionalism by demonstrating that manifold forms of mass death, far from being unfortunate exceptions to an otherwise benign historical record, have been indispensable in the rise of the wealthiest and most powerful imperium in the history of the world. At the same time, Smith points to an extraordinary history of resistance by Indigenous peoples, people of African descent, people in other nations brutalized by U.S. imperialism, workers, and democratic-minded people around the world determined to fight for common dignity and the sake of the greater good.

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NYU Press

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1583679898

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The American Popular Novel After World War II

A Study of 25 Best Sellers, 1947-2000

By: David Willbern

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The American Popular Novel After World War II

A Study of 25 Best Sellers, 1947-2000

By: David Willbern

Through the perspectives of selected best-selling novels from the end of World War II to the end of the 20th century--including The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather, Jaws, Beloved, The Silence of the Lambs, and Jurassic Park--this book examines the crucial issues the U.S. was experiencing during those decades. These novels represent the voices of popular conversations, as Americans considered issues of family, class, racism and sexism, feminism, economic ambition, sexual violence, war, law, religion and science. Through the windows of fiction, the book surveys the Cold War and anti-communism, the prefeminist era of the 1950s and the sexual revolution of the 1970s, forms of corporate power in the 1960s and 1980s, the traumatic legacies of slavery and Vietnam, the American fascination with lawyers, cops and criminals, alternate styles of romance in the era of late capitalism, our abiding distrust of science, and our steadfast wonder about the Great Mysteries.

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McFarland

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1476602484

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9781476602486

Fashioning Adultery

Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660–1740

By: David M. Turner

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Fashioning Adultery

Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660–1740

By: David M. Turner

This 2002 book provides a major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide variety of literary and legal sources - including sermons, pamphlets, plays, diaries, periodicals, trial reports and the records of marital litigation - it documents a growing diversity in perceptions of marital infidelity in this period, against the backdrop of an explosion in print culture and a decline in the judicial regulation of sexual immorality. In general terms the book charts and explains a gradual transformation of ideas about extra-marital sex, whereby the powerfully established religious argument that adultery was universally a sin became increasingly open to challenge. The book charts significant developments in the idiom in which sexually transgressive behaviour was discussed, showing how evolving ideas of civility and social refinement and new thinking about gender difference influenced assessments of immoral behaviour.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139435558

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The Silicon Valley of Dreams

Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-tech Global Economy

By: David Pellow,Lisa Sun-Hee Park

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The Silicon Valley of Dreams

Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-tech Global Economy

By: David Pellow,Lisa Sun-Hee Park

Examines environmental inequality and racism in our globalized culture as evidenced by the social demographics of Silicon Valley.

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NYU Press

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0814767109

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The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus

By: David Burns

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The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus

By: David Burns

This unconventional cultural history explores the lifecycle of the radical historical Jesus, a construct created by the freethinkers, feminists, socialists and anarchists who used the findings of biblical criticism to mount a serious challenge to the authority of elite liberal divines during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

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Oxford University Press

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0199929505

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9780199929504

Heretics in the Temple

Americans who Reject the Nation's Legal Faith

By: David Ray Papke

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Heretics in the Temple

Americans who Reject the Nation's Legal Faith

By: David Ray Papke

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 body of shared references, idols, and commitments, that problematizes the American belief in legal neutrality and highlights the historical conflicts between law and justice. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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NYU Press

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0814766323

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The Book of Lists

By: Amy Wallace,David Wallechinsky,Irving Wallace

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The Book of Lists

By: Amy Wallace,David Wallechinsky,Irving Wallace

Thousands of facts are presented in lists grouped under such headings as "What's in a Name," "America the Beautiful," "Crime and Punishment," "Arty Facts," "From Head to Toe," "The Sporting Life," and "Coming Attractions.

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0688031838

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Containment and Condemnation

Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor

By: David Ray Papke

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Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor

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Narrative and the Legal Discourse

A Reader in Storytelling and the Law

By: David Ray Papke

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Narrative and the Legal Discourse

A Reader in Storytelling and the Law

By: David Ray Papke

A collection of leading articles relating to the narrative aspects of legal discourse. Supplemented by introductory comments, questions for discussion, suggestions for further reading and indices, this volume explores storytelling in legal education, legal practice and various legal forms, most notably the appellate opinion. A concluding section addresses the articulation of alternative legal narratives by lawbreakers, women, African-Americans and political radicals.

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0951379321

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Book's by David Ray Papke

Containment and Condemnation

Containment and Condemnation

Heretics in the Temple

Heretics in the Temple

The Color of Law

The Color of Law

Endless Holocausts

Endless Holocausts

The American Popular Novel After World War II

The American Popular Novel After World War II

Fashioning Adultery

Fashioning Adultery

The Silicon Valley of Dreams

The Silicon Valley of Dreams

The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus

The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus

Heretics in the Temple

Heretics in the Temple

The Book of Lists

The Book of Lists

Containment and Condemnation

Containment and Condemnation

Narrative and the Legal Discourse

Narrative and the Legal Discourse

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