Call #: 305.23 WOR

AIDS, gang wars, family breakdown -- have American children ever had to face such tragedy? According to Richard Wormser, previous generations of children were equally threatened. Early death from disease, grueling child labor practices, families broken apart by poverty or death, slavery, & racial violence are just some of the hardships Wormser documents, demonstrating that American children have always had to overcome adversity. Wormser's unique study of childhood through the centuries gives us a new perspective on the age-old challenge of growing up & thriving in our diverse & complex society. Illustrated with drawings & black-&-white photos. 

Call #:  REF 303.372 AME

Contains twenty-two essays that provide opposing viewpoints on issues related to American values, and debates which values are important, whether the country is in a moral decline, how to define patriotism, and whether American values improve cultural relations. 

Call #: 364.973 CRI

A series of essays that provides varying perspectives on issues associated with crime, debating the treatment of criminals, prevention, and the reduction of recidivism rates. 

Call #: 306 CUL

Presents opposing viewpoints on issues related to cultural diversity, American education, cultural values, and the decay of American culture. 

Call #: 305.8 DIS

A collection of essays that provides varying perspectives on issues about discrimination, discussing whether middle-class African-Americans are discriminated against, the wage gap for women, opposition to same-sex marriage, racial profiling, health care disparities, affirmative action, anti-discrimination laws, sentencing guidelines, and Title IX.

Call #: 362.82 DOM

Examines the severity and prevalence of domestic violence and suggests ways that it can be prevented.  Opposing viewpoints series.

 

Call #: 346.7301 BOW

Describes the rights of people with disabilities in the areas of education, employment, housing, and transportation and the efforts being made to secure these rights.

 

Call #: 370.19 SAD

Examines how schools at every level fail girls and offers a solution to what must be done to serve children better. 

Call #: 306.85 RUB

Based on almost four hundred interviews with working-class men, women, and children of different races and ethnic groups, Dr. Rubin looks at the social, cultural, and economic changes of the 1800s and 1900s and explores their impact on family life. 

Call #: 362.7 DAV

Considers the reasons children enter foster care, conditions in foster homes, foster parents, caseworkers, laws governing foster care, and the controversies surrounding it. 

Call #: 306.84 GAY

Sixteen essays offer varying viewpoints on issues related to same-sex marriage, discussing whether or not same-sex marriage should be legalized and if it is a threat to society in any way. 

Call #: 323.3264 KAF

Explores the issue of gay rights, looking at the challenges faced by gay people as they attempt to marry and raise children, and discussing gay rights in schools and the workplace. Lists sources of additional information. 

Call #: 177 STE

Explains how parents and children can confront and conquer bias and encourage appreciation for ethnic, cultural, religious, and racial differences. 

Call #: 339.2 INC

Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications. 

Call #: 365 WAS

Observations about life in the New York state prison system written down by a man who was there. 

Call #: REF CRITICISM CRUCIBLE

A collection of eighteen essays that critically examine Arthur Miller's classic story of social injustice during the late seventeenth century.  Series: Social Issues in Literature 

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Call #: 796.082 BLU

Examines Title IX, the 1972 legislation which mandated that schools receiving federal funds could not discriminate on the basis of gender. and focuses on its effects in schools, politics, sports and the culture as a whole. 

Call #: 362.7 BER

Details the grave situation facing homeless children and their parents who live in shelters and welfare hotels. 

Call #: 306.483 MCD 

Athletic contests help define what we mean in America by "success." By keeping women from "playing with the boys" on the false assumption that they are inherently inferior, society relegates them to second-class citizens. In this forcefully argued book, Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano show in vivid detail how women have been unfairly excluded from participating in sports on an equal footing with men. Using dozens of powerful examples--girls and women breaking through in football, ice hockey, wrestling, and baseball, to name just a few--the authors show that sex differences are not sufficient to warrant exclusion in most sports, that success entails more than brute strength, and that sex segregation in sports does not simply reflect sex differences, but actively constructs and reinforces stereotypes about sex differences.

Call #: 324 POL

Contains twelve essays that provide varying perspectives on political activism, discussing government support through funding and policy, grassroots organizations, outsourced, Internet, and student activism, and other topics, and including contact information for organizations and a bibliography. 

Call #: 342.73 GOT

Analyzes the controversial area of individual privacy with a focus on such issues as the confidentiality of medical and other personal information, the ethics of drug testing, the rights of the news media to intrude into private lives, and the need to balance law enforcement and privacy concerns.

Call #: 347.73 RAC

It was perhaps the most wretchedly aspersive race and gender scandal of recent times: the dramatic testimony of Anita Hill at the Senate hearings on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as Supreme Court Justice. Yet even as the televised proceedings shocked and galvanized viewers not only in this country but the world over, they cast a long shadow on essential issues that define America.

In Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power, Toni Morrison contributes an introduction and brings together eighteen provocative essays, all but one written especially for this book, by prominent and distinguished academicians—black and white, male and female. These writings powerfully elucidate not only the racial and sexual but also the historical, political, cultural, legal, psychological, and linguistic aspects of a signal and revelatory moment in American history. 

Call #: 305.8 RAC

Presents three narrative essay writing exercises, nine example essays that express different viewpoints on racism, and a final writing challenge, and provides supporting research material. 

Call #: 811 GIO

A collection of essays on affirmative action, the neglect of urban schools, the inequities of higher education and much more. 

Call #: REF CRITICISM TO KILL

Provides background on the life of American author Harper Lee and the influences that shaped her life, features twelve articles that explore racism as portrayed in her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," and examines the ongoing issue of racism in the early twenty-first century.  Series: Social Issues in Literature 

Call #: 355.4082 SHO

Presents both sides of the argument on the topic of women in combat, discussing issues of social equality, physical capabilities, ethics, the Combat Exclusion Law, and the status of women in combat roles, and includes a list of organizations to contact. 

Call #: 305.42 HAN

 Discusses the origins of unequal treatment of women, the history of the women's rights movement, and current issues facing women in the home, the workplace, and the justice system.

Call #: 364.36 BAI

Offers an overview of youth crime, explaining what it is, why it happens, what impact it has on society, how it can be prevented, and what happens to youths who commit a crime. 

Call #: 306.0973 FIN

Presents opposing viewpoints on nineteen controversial society issues, covering culture and values, sex roles, stratification, crime, and other topics. 

Call #: 362.83 LIE

Investigates and documents the patterns and routines of homeless women. 

Call #: 303.480973 

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of The Activist's Handbook, Randy Shaw's hard-hitting guide to winning social change, the author brings the strategic and tactical guidance of the prior edition into the age of Obama. Shaw details how activists can best use the Internet and social media, and analyzes the strategic strengths and weaknesses of rising 21st century movements for immigrant rights, marriage equality, and against climate change. Shaw also highlights increased student activism towards fostering greater social justice in the 21st century. 

Call #: REF CRITICISM TO KILL

Presents a brief history behind the classic novel "To Kill A Mockingbird," and describes how racism in the American South and the author's life influenced the theme of the novel. Series: History in Literature 

Call #: 796 NEL

Examination and insight of the collision of sports, sexuality, and gender relations in America. 

Call #: 331.2 WAG

Contains over twenty essays that offer varying perspectives on controversial issues related to the wage gap, such as whether it is narrowing, what causes it, and the effects of education on it. 

Call #: 362.556 SHA

Welfare politics have now been part of American life for four centuries. Beyond a persistent general idea that Americans have a collective obligation to provide for the poorest among us, there has been little common ground on which to forge political and philosophical consensus. Are poor people poor because of their own shortcomings and moral failings, or because of systemic societal and economic obstacles? That is, does poverty have individual or structural causes? This book demonstrates why neither of these two polemical stances has been able to prevail permanently over the other and explores the public policy―and real-life―consequences of the stalemate. Author Greg M. Shaw pays special attention to the outcome of the 1996 act that was heralded as ending welfare as we know it. 

Call #: 361.6 LEV

Discusses the history of the welfare system and gives current information on various programs and plans for reform. 

Call #: 364.973 OWE

Discusses various aspects of prison and the criminal justice system, how they evolved, whether they are effective, and what may lie in the future.

 

Call #: 305.23089 VOI

This critically acclaimed book features photographs, poems, and interviews with nine children who reveal the hardships and hopes of today's Mexican-American migrant farm workers and their families. 

Call #: 361.973 KRO

Examines the welfare system in the United States from its inception during the 1930s to the present, discussing its various programs, problems that have occurred, and efforts to reform it.