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  • Visions of Poverty

    Welfare Policy and Political Imagination

    by Robert Asen ...
    Series series Rhetoric & Public Affairs
    Images of poverty shape the debate surrounding it. In 1996, then President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation repealing the principal federal program providing monetary assistance to poor families, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). With the president's signature this originally non-controversial program became the only title of the 1935 Social Security Act to be repealed. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • School Choice and the Betrayal of Democracy

    How Market-Based Education Reform Fails Our Communities

    by Robert Asen ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    Evidence shows that the increasing privatization of K–12 education siphons resources away from public schools, resulting in poorer learning conditions, underpaid teachers, and greater inequality. But, as Robert Asen reveals here, the damage that market-based education reform inflicts on society runs much deeper. At their core, these efforts are antidemocratic.Arguing that democratic communities ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Democracy, Deliberation, and Education

    by Robert Asen ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    The local school board is one of America’s enduring venues of lay democracy at work. In Democracy, Deliberation, and Education, Robert Asen takes the pulse of this democratic exemplar through an in-depth study of three local school boards in Wisconsin. In so doing, Asen identifies the broader democratic ideal in the most parochial of American settings.Conducted over two years across racial, ethnic ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness

    Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race

    Edited by Robert Asen, Casey Ryan Kelly ...
    Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness examines the interplay of rhetoric, whiteness, and economics—attending not only to how economic arrangements that sustain whiteness are rhetorically enacted and legitimated but also to how rhetoric itself operates as an economy to give identities exchange value. Case studies across the volume illustrate how economic and class structures incentivize adherence to ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Text + Field

    Innovations in Rhetorical Method

    Edited by Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, Robert Glenn Howard ...
    Rhetorical critics have long had a troubled relationship with method, viewing it as at times opening up provocative avenues of inquiry, and at other times as closing off paths toward meaningful engagement with texts. Text + Field shifts scholarly attention from this conflicted history, looking instead to the growing number of scholars who are supplementing text-based scholarship by venturing out ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Public Modalities

    by Daniel C. Brouwer, Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo, Robert Asen, Helene A. Shugart, Robert Glenn Howard, Joshua Gunn, John M. Sloop, Sara L. McKinnon, Radha S. Hegde0, Stephen P. Depoe1, Dale Martin Smith2, Eric King Watts, Ph.D.3 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A bold rethinking of public discourse, Public Modalities explores how people shape civic life through protest, media, and identity in an ever-evolving public sphere.This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of “the public” or “public life,” and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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    Democratic Education in a Conservative Age

    by Michael W. Apple ...
    This third edition of Official Knowledge, a classic text from one of education’s most distinguished scholars, challenges readers to critically examine how certain knowledge comes to be “official,” and whose agendas this knowledge represents. A probing and award-winning study, this new edition builds on the tradition of its predecessors to question the rightist resurgence in education while ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • Gay Priori

    A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform

    by Libby Adler ...
    Libby Adler offers a comprehensive critique of the mainstream LGBT legal agenda in the United States, showing how LGBT equal rights discourse drives legal advocates toward a narrow array of reform objectives that do little to help the lives of the most marginalized members of the LGBT community. ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Cancel Wars

    How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy

    by Sigal R. Ben-Porath ...
    An even-handed exploration of the polarized state of campus politics that suggests ways for schools and universities to encourage discourse across difference.College campuses have become flashpoints of the current culture war and, consequently, much ink has been spilled over the relationship between universities and the cultivation or coddling of young American minds. Philosopher Sigal R. Ben ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Everyday Forms of Whiteness

    Understanding Race in a 'Post-Racial' World

    by Melanie E. L. Bush ...
    Series series Perspectives on a Multiracial America
    The second edition of Melanie Bush's acclaimed Everyday Forms of Whiteness looks at the often-unseen ways racism impacts our lives. The author has interviewed and surveyed hundreds of college students and reveals that even though we talk as though we live in a "post-racial" world after the election of Barack Obama, racism is still very much a factor in everyday life. The second edition ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Marrying Kind?

    Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement

    Edited by Mary Bernstein, Verta Taylor ...
    As the fight for same-sex marriage rages across the United States and lesbian and gay couples rush to marriage license counters, the goal of marriage is still fiercely questioned within the LGBT movement. Rarely has an objective so central to a social movement’s political agenda been so controversial within the movement itself. While antigay forces work to restrict marriage to one man and one ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Paint the White House Black

    Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America

    by Michael P. Jeffries ...
    Barack Obama's election as the first black president in American history forced a reconsideration of racial reality and possibility. It also incited an outpouring of discussion and analysis of Obama's personal and political exploits. Paint the White House Black fills a significant void in Obama-themed debate, shifting the emphasis from the details of Obama's political career to an understanding of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD