Marriage Equality Eskridge, William N; Riano, Christopher R; Eskridge, William N., Jr
08/2020
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The definitive history of the marriage equality debate in
the United States, praised by Library Journal as
"beautifully and accessibly written. . . . .An essential
work." As a legal scholar who first ...argued in the early
1990s for a right to gay marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr. has been
on the front lines of the debate over same†'sex marriage for
decades. In this book, Eskridge and his coauthor, Christopher R.
Riano, offer a panoramic and definitive history of America's
marriage equality debate. The authors explore the deeply religious,
rabidly political, frequently administrative, and pervasively
constitutional features of the debate and consider all angles of
its dramatic history. While giving a full account of the legal and
political issues, the authors never lose sight of the personal
stories of the people involved, or of the central place the right
to marry holds in a person's ability to enjoy the dignity of full
citizenship. This is not a triumphalist or one†'sided book but a
thoughtful history of how the nation wrestled with an important
question of moral and legal equality.
Selected for Arab America's Best Arab American Books of
2020 list. It comes as little surprise that Hollywood
films have traditionally stereotyped Arab Americans, but how are
Arab Americans portrayed ...in Arab films, and just as importantly,
how are they portrayed in the works of Arab American filmmakers
themselves? In this innovative volume, Mahdi offers a comparative
analysis of three cinemas, yielding rich insights on the layers of
representation and the ways in which those representations are
challenged and disrupted. Hollywood films have fostered reductive
imagery of Arab Americans since the 1970s as either a national
security threat or a foreign policy concern, while Egyptian
filmmakers have used polarizing images of Arab Americans since the
1990s to convey their nationalist critiques of the United States.
Both portrayals are rooted in anxieties around globalization,
migration, and US-Arab geopolitics. In contrast, Arab American
cinema provides a more complex, realistic, and fluid representation
of Arab American citizenship and the nuances of a transnational
identity. Exploring a wide variety of films from each cinematic
site, Mahdi traces the competing narratives of Arab American
belonging-how and why they vary, and what's at stake in their
circulation.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) measures the rates at which Americans are victims of crimes, including rape and sexual assault, but there is concern ...that rape and sexual assault are undercounted on this survey. BJS asked the National Research Council to investigate this issue and recommend best practices for measuring rape and sexual assault on their household surveys. Estimating the Incidence of Rape and Sexual Assault concludes that it is likely that the NCVS is undercounting rape and sexual assault. The most accurate counts of rape and sexual assault cannot be achieved without measuring them separately from other victimizations, the report says. It recommends that BJS develop a separate survey for measuring rape and sexual assault. The new survey should more precisely define ambiguous words such as "rape," give more privacy to respondents, and take other steps that would improve the accuracy of responses. Estimating the Incidence of Rape and Sexual Assault takes a fresh look at the problem of measuring incidents of rape and sexual assault from the criminal justice perspective. This report examines issues such as the legal definitions in use by the states for these crimes, best methods for representing the definitions in survey instruments so that their meaning is clear to respondents, and best methods for obtaining as complete reporting as possible of these crimes in surveys, including methods whereby respondents may report anonymously.
Rape and sexual assault are among the most injurious crimes a person can inflict on another. The effects are devastating, extending beyond the initial victimization to consequences such as unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, sleep and eating disorders, and other emotional and physical problems. Understanding the frequency and context under which rape and sexual assault are committed is vital in directing resources for law enforcement and support for victims. These data can influence public health and mental health policies and help identify interventions that will reduce the risk of future attacks. Sadly, accurate information about the extent of sexual assault and rape is difficult to obtain because most of these crimes go unreported to police. Estimating the Incidence of Rape and Sexual Assault focuses on methodology and vehicles used to measure rape and sexual assaults, reviews potential sources of error within the NCVS survey, and assesses the training and monitoring of interviewers in an effort to improve reporting of these crimes.
The Limits of Libertychronicles the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border from the perspective of the "mobile peoples" who assisted in determining the international boundary from both sides in the ...mid-nineteenth century. In this historic and timely study, James David Nichols argues against the many top-down connotations that borders carry, noting that the state cannot entirely dominate the process of boundary marking. Even though there were many efforts on the part of the United States and Mexico to define the new international border as a limit, mobile peoples continued to transgress the border and cross it with impunity.Transborder migrants reimagined the dividing line as a gateway to opportunity rather than as a fence limiting their movement. Runaway slaves, Mexican debtpeones, and seminomadic Native Americans saw liberty on the other side of the line and crossed in search of greater opportunity. In doing so they devised their own border epistemology that clashed with official understandings of the boundary. These divergent understandings resulted in violence with the crossing of vigilantes, soldiers, and militias in search of fugitives and runaways.The Limits of Libertyexplores how the border attracted migrants from both sides and considers border-crossers together, whereas most treatments thus far have considered discrete social groups along the border. Mining Mexican archival sources, Nichols is one of the first scholars to explore the nuance of negotiation that took place between the state and mobile peoples in the formation of borders.
In response to denunciations of populism as undemocratic and
anti-intellectual, Intellectual Populism argues that
populism has contributed to a distinct and democratic intellectual
tradition in which ...ordinary people assume leading roles in the
pursuit of knowledge. Focusing on the Gilded Age and Progressive
Era, the decades that saw the birth of populism in the United
States, this book uses case studies of certain intellectual figures
to trace the key rhetorical appeals that proved capable of
resisting the status quo and building alternative communities of
inquiry. As this book shows, Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899), Mary
Baker Eddy (1821-1910), Thomas Davidson (1840-1900), Booker T.
Washington (1856-1915), and Zitkála-Šá (1876-1938) deployed
populist rhetoric to rally ordinary people as thinkers in new
intellectual efforts. Through these case studies, Intellectual
Populism demonstrates how orators and advocates can channel
the frustrations and energies of the American people toward
productive, democratic, intellectual ends.
From track and field to swimming and diving, and of course
basketball and soccer, Indiana University Olympians
celebrates over a century of Indiana University Olympic
competitors. Beginning in 1904, ...at the 3rd summer games in St.
Louis, IU's first Olympic medal went to pole vaulter LeRoy Samse
who earned a silver medal. In 2016, swimmer Lilly King rocketed
onto the world stage with two gold medals in the 31st Summer Games
in Rio de Janeiro.
Featuring profiles of 49 athletes who attended IU, Indiana
University Olympians includes the stories of well-known
figures like Milt Campbell, the first African American to win
decathlon gold and who went on to play pro football, and Mark
Spitz, winner of seven swimming gold medals. The book also
highlights fascinating anecdotes and the accomplishments of their
less well-known colleagues, including one athlete's humble
beginnings in a chicken house and another who earned a Silver Star
for heroism in the Vietnam War. Despite their different lives, they
share one key similarity-these remarkable athletes all called
Indiana University home.
A highly engaging account of the developments-not only legal, but also socioeconomic, political, and cultural-that gave rise to Americans' distinctively lawyer-driven legal cultureWhen Americans ...imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial trial-dominated by dueling larger-than-life lawyers undertaking grand public performances-that first comes to mind. But as award-winning author Amalia Kessler reveals in this engrossing history, it was only in the turbulent decades before the Civil War that adversarialism became a defining American practice and ideology, displacing alternative, more judge-driven approaches to procedure. By drawing on a broad range of methods and sources-and by recovering neglected influences (including from Europe)-the author shows how the emergence of the American adversarial legal culture was a product not only of developments internal to law, but also of wider socioeconomic, political, and cultural debates over whether and how to undertake market regulation and pursue racial equality. As a result, adversarialism came to play a key role in defining American legal institutions and practices, as well as national identity.
Examines the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.
From the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations to suppress freedom of speech and association of foreigners depicted as ...threatening to national security. Julia Rose Kraut provides the first history of the tensions between immigration law and the First Amendment.
The Civil War was a long and bloody affair that claimed the life of some 750,000 men. When it ended, former opponents worked to rebuild their common country - America - and move into the future ...together. Most modern Americans might find that hard to believe, especially in an era witnessing the tearing down or movement of Confederate monuments and desecration of cemeteries. In the unique and timely Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building of America after the Civil War, award-winning author Stephen M. Hood identifies more than 200 former Confederate soldiers, sailors, and government officials who reintegrated into American society and attained positions of authority and influence in the Federal government, United States military, academia, science, commerce, and industry. Their contributions had a long-lasting and positive influence on the country we have today.
Many of the facts and stories in Patriots Twice will come as a surprise to modern Americans. For example, ten postwar presidents appointed former Confederates to serve the reunited nation as Supreme Court justices, secretaries of the US Navy, attorneys general, and a secretary of the interior. Dozens of former Southern soldiers were named US ambassadors and consuls. Eight were appointed generals who commanded US Army troops during the Spanish-American War.
Former Confederates were elected mayors of such unlikely cities as Los Angeles, CA, Minneapolis, MN, Ogden, UT, and Santa Fe, NM, and served as governors of the non-Confederate states and territories of Colorado, West Virginia, Missouri, Utah, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Alaska, and the Panama Canal Zone.
Former Confederates became presidents of national professional societies, including the American Bar Association, the American Medical Association, the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society, the American Neurological Association, the American Surgical Association, and the American Public Health Association. In science and engineering, former Confederates led the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Geological Society of America. One former Confederate co-founded the environmental and preservation advocacy group Sierra Club, and another intellectual and scholar was president of the Society for Classical Studies (at that time named the American Philological Association).
Many former Confederates founded or co-founded many our nation's colleges and universities, some exclusively for women and newly freed African-Americans. Other former rebels served as presidents of prominent institutions including the University of California, Berkeley. Others taught at universities, not just in the American South but at Harvard, Yale, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Johns Hopkins, the University of San Francisco, and Amherst College. Many others served on the governing boards of the United States Military Academy at West Point and the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.
Today's United States benefitted greatly from the post-Civil War reconciliation that accepted the contributions of former Confederates. The men who fought the South forgave them and moved on together. It's an important lesson everyone today should learn.
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