Do You Teach Political Science?

You can search for books across this discipline through our course lists, which cover American Government and Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Introduction to Political Science, Public Policy & Public Administration, and more. American Government and Politics Comparative Politics International Relations Introduction to Political Science Public Policy and Public Administration

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A Comprehensive Syllabus for Black Women Taught Us by Jenn M. Jackson, PhD, Now Available

In Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism, Jenn M. Jackson, PhD, sets the record straight about Black women’s longtime movement organizing, theorizing, and coalition building in the name of racial, gender, and sexual justice in the United States and abroad. Based in part on a course they teach at Syracuse University,

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Edward Humes’ Total Garbage

Total Garbage is an investigative narrative that dives into the waste embedded in our daily lives—and shows how individuals and communities are making a real difference for health, prosperity, quality of life and the fight against climate change, by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Edward Humes.   1 Our Disposable Age The innocent question that

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. Access educator resources for the book at: endpovertyusa.org/#teaching-resources   Chapter 1 The Kind of Problem Poverty Is I

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Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond: Complimentary Slideshow for Classroom Use Now Available

We are pleased to share a new resource for Pulitzer Prize–winning sociologist Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America, out in paperback on March 26, 2024. Click here to access and download an extensive PowerPoint presentation, created to aid and enhance the teaching of the book and easily adaptable to meet educators’ course needs. In this landmark

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Revealing a Black Feminist History Long Erased — A Message from Author Jenn M. Jackson, PhD

Contributed by Jenn M. Jackson, PhD, author of Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism and an award-winning professor of political science at Syracuse University. I’ll never forget the way it felt when I first learned that there was no Black Feminist History course offered at my undergraduate university. This elite institution

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Kevin F. Alder and Donald W. Burnes’ When We Walk By

When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America is a must-read guide to understanding housing instability, supporting our unhoused neighbors, and reclaiming our humanity.   Not in My Backyard When most of us think about “the homeless,” we do not see the loneliness,

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s Tyranny of the Minority

From the authors of How Democracies Die, Tyranny of the Minority is a call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late. It’s a daunting task, but we have remade our country before—most notably, after the Civil War and during the Progressive Era. And now we are at a crossroads: America will either become

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Philippe Sands’The Last Colony

The Last Colony is the moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, and the extraordinary woman, a descendant of enslaved people, who dared to take on the Crown and the United Kingdom—and win a historic victory.   Part One 1945

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Nick McDonell’s Quiet Street

Quiet Street is a bold and moving exploration of the American elite that exposes how the ruling class perpetuates cycles of wealth, power, and injustice. Searing and precise yet always deeply human, Quiet Street examines the problem of America’s one-percenters, whose vision of a more just world never materializes. Who are these people, how do they hold

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