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Whiteness

Whiteness

Whiteness

by Martin Lund

ISBN: 9780262544191

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 4, 2022

The socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness: how it was created, how it changes, and how it protects and privileges people who are perceived as white.
The Right to Be Elected

The Right to Be Elected

The Right to Be Elected

100 Years Since Suffrage

Edited by Jennifer M. Piscopo and Shauna L. Shames

ISBN: 9781946511539

Publisher: Boston Review

Pub Date: July 7, 2020

What might happen if a woman's right to vote is seen as coequal with her right to be elected?
Carceral Capitalism

Carceral Capitalism

Carceral Capitalism

by Jackie Wang

ISBN: 9781635900026

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: February 23, 2018

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.
The Privacy Advocates

The Privacy Advocates

The Privacy Advocates

Resisting the Spread of Surveillance

by Colin J. Bennett

ISBN: 9780262514873

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 13, 2010

An analysis of the people and groups who have emerged to challenge the increasingly intrusive ways personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated.
Privacy on the Line

Privacy on the Line, updated and expanded edition

Privacy on the Line

The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption

by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau

ISBN: 9780262514002

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 26, 2010

A penetrating and insightful study of privacy and security in telecommunications for a post-9/11, post-Patriot Act world.
The Story of Cruel and Unusual

The Story of Cruel and Unusual

The Story of Cruel and Unusual

by Colin Dayan

ISBN: 9780262042390

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 16, 2007

A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment.
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