Ethnomusicology, Queerness, Masculinity

This open access book explores the disciplinary, disciplined, and recent interdisciplinary sites and productions of ethnomusicology and queerness, arguing that both academic realms are founded upon a destructive masculinity—indissolubly linked to coloniality and epistemic hegemony—and marked by a monologic, ethnocentric silencing of embodied, same-sex desire. Ethnomusicology’s fetishizati…

'The Bell Curve' in Perspective

This open access book examines the implications of The Bell Curve for the social, economic, and political developments of the early 21st century. Following a review of the reception of The Bell Curve and its place in the campaign to end affirmative action, Professor Tucker analyses Herrnstein’s concept of the “meritocracy” in relation to earlier 20th century eugenics and the dramatic incr…

Tales of bohemia, taverns, and the underworld

THIS is a collection of yams from real life : yarns told on that undefined borderland known as Bohemia ; in the bars of town and country inns, and around those obscure sections of British and cosmopolitan capitals collectively and rather vaguely termed " The Underworld." They are stories retailed by men and women who lounge about to pass their leisure hours, watching life go by ; tales of famou…

Race, Incarceration, and American Values

"Based on the 2007 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford."Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate--at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising--is almost forty percent greater th…

Rule of law, misrule of men

This book is a passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not. Arguing that post-9/11 legislation and foreign policy severed the executive branch from the will of the people, Elaine Scarry in Rule of Law, Misrule of Men offers a fierce defense of the people's role as guarantor of our democracy. She begins with the groundswell of local resistance to the 200…

The Newgate calendar improved; being interesting memoirs of notorious charact…

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6 v. 22 cm

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