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The Fight for the Fox River Cleanup

P. David Allen II and Susan Campbell

The compelling true story of a hard-fought environmental win, set in motion by a tenacious government scientist and an unrelenting journalist—resulting in the polluting companies paying for the $1 billion, 20-year cleanup.

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Published: April 2023
ISBN: 9780814349588
$26.99
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Published: April 2023
ISBN: 9780814349595

American Television during a Television Presidency

Edited by Karen McNally

Explores the ways television documents, satirizes, and critiques the political era of the Trump presidency.

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Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814349359
$36.99
Hardcover
Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814349366
$94.99
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Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814349373

Representation and Citizenship

Edited by Richard Marback

Representation and Citizenship establishes the terms for engaging the meanings of citizenship in the world today by framing the issue as a pull between founding beliefs and multicultural trajectories.

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Published: October 2016
ISBN: 9780814342466
$39.99
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Published: October 2016
ISBN: 9780814342473

The Meaning of Citizenship

edited by Richard Marback and Marc W. Kruman

An interdisciplinary exploration of four key issues in the theory and practice of citizenship.

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Published: November 2015
ISBN: 9780814341308
$44.99
Ebook
Published: November 2015
ISBN: 9780814341315
$24.99

Generations

Rethinking Age and Citizenship

Edited by Richard Marback

A comprehensive examination of age, aging, and generational differences and the nature of citizenship.

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Published: February 2015
ISBN: 9780814340806
$39.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2015
ISBN: 9780814340813

The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young

Edited by Bill McGraw

New edition of the popular pocket-sized collection of former Detroit mayor Coleman Young’s most memorable quotes.

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Published: May 2005
ISBN: 9780814332603
$8.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2005
ISBN: 9780814335741

Caribbean Labor and Politics

Legacies of Cheddi Jagan and Michael Manley

edited by Alma H. Young and Perry Mars

A pioneering collection of studies linking the political and labor backgrounds of two distinguished and dynamic leaders of the Caribbean and the Third World.

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Published: May 2004
ISBN: 9780814332115
$28.99

Churches and Urban Government in Detroit and New York, 1895-1994

Henry J. Prattforeword by Annis Pratt, Faith Pratt Hopp, and Ronald Brown

This groundbreaking study analyzes the relationship between the two powerful forces -- church organizations and urban politics -- within New York City and Detroit during the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Published: February 2004
ISBN: 9780814331729
$28.99
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Published: February 2004
ISBN: 9780814336687
$28.99

White Nationalism, Black Interests

Conservative Public Policy and the Black Community

Ronald W. Walters

A study of the most racially conscious aspect of the Conservative movement and its impact on politics and current public policy.

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Published: August 2003
ISBN: 9780814330203
$24.99

The Politics of Black Empowerment

The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America

James Jennings

The Politics of Black Empowerment uses the experiences of grassroots activists to develop various conceptualizations and explanations of Black political behavior today.

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Published: August 2000
ISBN: 9780814323182
$21.99
Ebook
Published: August 2000
ISBN: 9780814336618
$19.99

Ideology and Change

The Transformation of the Caribbean Left

Perry Mars

Leftist political movements, organizations, and trends in the English-speaking Caribbean.

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Published: December 1998
ISBN: 9780814327692
$25.99
eBOOK
Published: December 1998
ISBN: 9780814338513

Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora

An Analysis of Modern Afrocentric Political Movements

Ronald W. Walters

Based on original materials gathered from extensive international travel, hundreds of interviews and empirical field research, and text studies Pan-African organizations and their political activities inside black communities.

Paperback
Published: May 1997
ISBN: 9780814321850
$34.99