In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison system, Danielle Allen seeks answers to what, for many years, felt unanswerable. Why? Why did her cousin, a precocious young man who dreamed of being a firefighter and a writer, end up dead? Why did he languish in prison? And why, at the age of fifteen, was he in an alley in South Central Los Angeles, holding a gun while trying to steal someone's car?
Cuz means both "cousin" and "because." In this searing...
In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the ...
Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focused on explanations for student and school success and failure, and the other philosophical, focused on education's value and purpose within the larger society. Rarely have these separate approaches been brought into the same conversation. "Education, Justice, and Democracy" does just that, offering an intensive discussion by highly respected scholars across empirical and philosophical disciplines. The contributors explore how the institutions...
Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focu...
Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that...
Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American demo...
How have online protestslike the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation s decision to defund Planned Parenthoodchanged the nature of political action? How do Facebook and other popular social media platforms shape the conversation around current political issues? The ways in which we gather information about current events and communicate it with others have been transformed by the rapid rise of digital media. The political is no longer confined to the institutional and electoral arenas, and that has profound implications for how we understand citizenship and political participation. ...
How have online protestslike the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation s decision to defund Planned Parenthoodchanged the nature of political actio...
How have online protests-like the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood-changed the nature of political action? How do Facebook and other popular social media platforms shape the conversation around current political issues? The ways in which we gather information about current events and communicate it with others have been transformed by the rapid rise of digital media. The political is no longer confined to the institutional and electoral arenas, and that has profound implications for how we understand citizenship and political participation. ...
How have online protests-like the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood-changed the nature of political act...
Roman Harper is known for being three things: A talented artist... A charismatic loner... And most notably, an unintentional heartbreaker. Even though he doesn't mean for women to fall in love with him, Roman Harper has left a string of broken hearts in his wake. But after a lie tore his world apart eight years ago, Roman doesn't let anyone get too close to him. Sex is sex and love is...completely out of the question. Using the past as motivation, Roman pours his heart out onto his canvas. His heartache inspires some of his best work. And at twenty-eight years old, his art is finally getting...
Roman Harper is known for being three things: A talented artist... A charismatic loner... And most notably, an unintentional heartbreaker. Even though...
After The One The insta-love. The perfect couple. The enchanted fairy tale. The concept of 'happily ever after' on reality TV is beautiful, but it's complete B.S. I mean, I get the appeal. The One is the most watched reality TV dating show because it sells the idea that two people "randomly" handpicked by producers will fall in love and ride off into the sunset. We are expected to believe that after having a group of women embarrass themselves for the affection of a man on national television, the bachelor and the chosen one fall in love and they live happily ever after. Let's be honest....
After The One The insta-love. The perfect couple. The enchanted fairy tale. The concept of 'happily ever after' on reality TV is beautiful, but it's c...
Nevermore ** contemporary romance meets Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" ** Love and loss. Passion and pain. I've always been a fan of Edgar Allan Poe because his work epitomized how one can be driven mad by the truth and freedom of those emotions. So, when I needed to put the finishing touches on my doctoral research on Poe, I returned to my hometown of Richmond, VA-a place Poe also considered home. In truth, I could've gone anywhere. But Jackson Parker was back in Richmond. Best friends since we were twelve, JP was my support system. Separated by life but connected by technology, our...
Nevermore ** contemporary romance meets Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" ** Love and loss. Passion and pain. I've always been a fan of Edgar Allan Poe be...
