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- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 464 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "Freedom is a central part of the American identity, "one of America's most cherished values." When it comes to what freedom entails, most Americans would agree that there are political, social, and economic dimensions. Most agree that in a free society there is a need for order, justice, security, opportunity, and fairness. There is a shared sense that freedom requires the absence of harm and undue interference. Most believe that freedom requires a variety of rights, including those related to speech, property, voting, religion, fair legal treatment, assembly, the press, and so on"--
- Uniform Title
- On inequality and freedom (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: Expanding the meaning of freedom / Lawrence M. Eppard and Henry A. Giroux -- Freedom has been weaponized / Raoul Martinez -- Structural violence and structural awareness / Bandy Lee -- Normalizing inequality in the age of COVID-19 / Henry Giroux -- A tale of two pandemics : freedom and environmental justice in a time of COVID 19 / Michael Mascarenhas -- We can see clearly now : inequality and the Covid-19 Pandemic / Michael Yates -- Inequality, violence, and freedom / Martin Daly and D.B. Krupp -- A structural vulnerability understanding of american poverty / Mark Rank -- Child poverty : Europe versus the U.S. / Jonathan Bradshaw -- Poverty and freedom / David Brady -- Poverty, politics, and perspective : a view of political failure from Appalachia / Jim White -- Identity, meritocracy, and the unique challenges of human freedom / Peter Callero -- White privileges and Black burdens / Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey -- The paradox, contradictions, interdependencies, and stark realities of inequality and freedom / Nancy DiTomaso -- Inequalities in the criminal justice system at the intersection of race and ethnicity / Carlos E. Rojas-Gaona and Arelys Madero-Hernandez -- Let me fight your battle / Hilarie Burton Morgan -- Women in the man-made city / Carla Corroto -- Grinding the gears of ideology : interpellation and gender in Us Weekly and The bell jar / Luke Ferretter -- The question of queer and trans positive freedom in the U.S. / Ecem E. Ece, Robert Baez, and K.L. Broad -- Truth and freedom : the debate over unauthorized immigrants and crime / Alex Nowrasteh, Andrew C. Forrester, and Michelangelo Landgrave -- Grievance media : how two sets of 'news' hampers democracy / Alison Dagnes -- Social media and the collapse of American public life / Yevgeny Simkin -- Disability, ableism and the production of inequality / Allison Carey -- The obsolescence of freedom? Inequality, symbolic violence and the ongoing dilemma of American education / Dan Schubert and Elizabeth C. Lewis -- Constituting, empowering, and stratifying individuals : education as an institution in modern world culture / David Monaghan -- Environmental justice : the struggle continues / Robert Cavazos -- Social welfare, democratic citizenship, and freedom / Deondra Rose -- On government, agency, and the violence of inaction / Lawrence Eppard with Noam Chomsky.
- LCCN
- 2021045581
- OCLC
- ssj0002549233
- Title
On inequality and freedom [electronic resource] / edited by Lawrence M. Eppard and Henry A. Giroux.
- Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Eppard, Lawrence M.
Giroux, Henry A.