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Taha, Mahmoud Mohamed, 108, 133, 140
Taking Parenting Public (Hewlett and West), 187
Tanenhaus, Sam, 198
terrorism, 5, 11, 26, 29, 204
American, against blacks, 20–21, 51, 156
of Palestinian suicide bombers, 10, 110, 113, 115, 116, 119
September 11, 6–7, 8–10, 12–13, 20, 21, 40, 61, 202
Theodosius I, emperor of Rome, 147
Thirst (O’Neill), 87
Thrasymachus, 30, 207
Thucydides, 42, 211
Thurman, Howard, 145, 157
Tikkun, 112, 121
Tilghman, Shirley, 195
Till, Emmett, 20–21
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 25–26, 45–46, 192
Tom Joyner Morning Show, 188
Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America (Staub), 119–20
trade unionism, 40, 52–53, 152
tragicomic hope, 21, 41, 49, 50, 57, 79, 92, 141, 216–18
blues in, 16, 19–21, 216
“True Dat,” 179–80
Turkey, 56, 136–37, 142–43
Twain, Mark, 20, 67
Unger, Roberto Mangabeira, 63
Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 122–23
United Nations, 59, 137
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, 123
universities, 7, 186–200
academic freedom in, 197–99
role of, 198
technocratic management culture of, 189–90, 198, 199
youth culture in, 186–89
Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World (Majid), 140–41
USA PATRIOT Act, see Patriot Act
Vaughan, Sarah, 85, 91–92, 217
Vietnam War, 29, 57, 85, 154, 155, 174
voters, voting rights, 2, 3, 25, 33, 42, 49–50, 64, 65, 152, 203
Voting Rights Act, 84
Walker, David, 47–48, 155–56
Wallis, Jim, 168
War Against Parents, The (Hewlett and West), 187
Warren, Robert Penn, 87
Washington, George, 44
Waskow, Rabbi Arthur, 121, 122
Watson, Thomas, 53
wealth inequality, 4, 12, 61, 179, 204, 205
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 156, 217
Welty, Eudora, 20
West, Clifton, 185–86
westward expansion, 42
Native Americans and, 13, 14, 43, 44, 45, 50–51, 149
“Where Ya At?,” 182
white males, 33, 52, 53
white supremacy, 1, 14, 19, 20, 22, 40, 45, 49, 50, 53, 58, 67, 78, 81–82, 87, 158
Whitman, Walt, 22, 67, 77–78
Will, George, 195
Williams, Tennessee, 20, 92
Wilson, August, 102
Wilson, William Julius, 196
Wilson, Woodrow, 33, 53
Wolin, Sheldon S., 25–26, 206–7
women’s club movement, 156
World Bank, 59, 191, 196
World Council of Churches, 164, 165
World War I, 54, 109
World War II, 54, 55–57
Wright, Jeremiah, 168
Xenarchus, 210
Xenophon, 209
Yawar, Ghazi Ajil al-, 142
youth culture, 2, 4, 64–65, 92, 173–200, 203
addictions in, 176
author’s outreach to, 184–85, 187–89, 190, 199–200
democratic globalization movement and, 178–79
escapism in, 175–76
inflated egos of, 177
media and, 175–76, 187–88
moral outrage of, 177–78
nihilism of, 176–77
in universities, 186–89
see also hip-hop
Zuckerman, Mortimer, 123