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Declining Significance of Race Blacks and Changing American Institutions (Third Edition)

Wilson William Julius

ISBN: PB: 9780226901411, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm

When first published in 1980, "The Declining Significance of Race" immediately sparked controversy with its contentious thesis that race was becoming less of a deciding factor in the life chances of black Americans than class. This new edition of the...

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Disciplining the Poor Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

Soss Joe, Fording Richard C., Schram Sanford F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226768779, ISBN: HB: 9780226768762, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 1 table, 45 line illus.

"Disciplining the Poor" lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance – how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pu...

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Doctors and Demonstrators How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada

Halfmann Drew

ISBN: PB: 9780226313436, ISBN: HB: 9780226313429, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 halftones

Since "Roe v. Wade", abortion has continued to be a divisive political issue in the United States. In contrast, it has remained primarily a medical issue in Britain and Canada despite the countries' shared heritage".Doctors and Demonstrators" looks b...

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Deaf and Disability Studies Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Burch Susan, Kafer Alison

ISBN: HB: 9781563684647, Gallaudet University Press, July 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

This collection presents 14 essays by renowned scholars on Deaf people, Deafhood, Deaf histories, and Deaf identity, but from different points of view on the Deaf/Disability compass. Editors Susan Burch and Alison Kafer have divided these works aro...

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Deadly Charm The Story of a Deaf Serial Killer

Vernon McCay, Vernon Marie

ISBN: PB: 9781563684432, Gallaudet University Press, May 2010
248 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

From the day he was born, Patrick McCullough faced hardships and reacted with untempered anger. His mother, a soon-to-be-divorced military wife, was late to realize that he was deaf and never learned how to handle his outbursts. Eventually, she aband...

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Debate of the "Romance of the Rose"

Pizan Christine

ISBN: PB: 9780226670133, ISBN: HB: 9780226670126, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
384 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular and widely read "Romance of the Rose" for its blatant and unwarran...

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Deaf History and Culture in Spain A Reader of Primary Documents

Fraser Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9781563684197, Gallaudet University Press, December 2009
260 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 photos

In this landmark reader, Benjamin Fraser offers in five parts 44 Spanish documents dating from 1417 to the present, translated for the first time to trace the turbulent history of Deaf culture in Spain. Part I: The Birth of Oralism and Deafness as Me...

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Deaf People Around the World Educational and Social Perspectives

Moores Donald F., Miller Margery S.

ISBN: HB: 9781563684104, Gallaudet University Press, May 2009
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 24 tables, 4 figures, 3 photos

In "Deaf People Around the World: Educational and Social Perspectives", the leading researchers in 30 nations describe the shared developmental, social, and educational issues facing deaf people filtered through the prism of unique national, regional...

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Deaf Learners Developments in Curriculum and Instruction

Moores Donald F., Martin David S.

ISBN: HB: 9781563682858, Gallaudet University Press, March 2006
216 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

This in-depth collection by 17 renowned international scholars that details a developmental framework to maximize academic success for deaf students from kindergarten through grade 12. Part One: The Context commences with an overview of the state of...

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Damned for Their Difference The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled

Branson Jan, Miller Don

ISBN: PB: 9781563681219, Gallaudet University Press, June 2002
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Damned for Their Difference" offers a well-founded explanation of how Deaf people became classified disparagingly worldwide as "disabled", through a discursive exploration of the cultural, social, and historical contexts of these attitudes and behav...

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