ISBN: HB: 9780857428530,
Seagull Books,
April 2021
144 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm
One might say that the womb of death – the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonization – gave birth to Black populations. Taking this observation as her point of departure, Nathalie Etoke examines Black existence today in her riveting new book, Shades...
ISBN: PB: 9780857427946,
Seagull Books,
March 2021
312 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm
A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment, professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its long history of working contemporary events into storylines and commenting upon cultural and military conflicts, profession...
ISBN: PB: 9780226700953,
ISBN: HB: 9780226699653,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2020
248 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables
In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision – the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two people involved. But anyone who has gone through a divorce knows the additional public dimensions of brea...
ISBN: HB: 9780300245912,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
320 pp.,
23.4x15.2 cm, 47 black&white illus.
Offering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark Bertness argues that human beings and their civilization are the products of the same self-organization, evolutionary adaptation, and na...
ISBN: PB: 9780226703695,
ISBN: HB: 9780226703558,
University of Chicago Press,
May 2020
248 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm
We need to talk about racism before it destroys our democracy. And that conversation needs to start with an acknowledgement that racism is coded into even the most ordinary interactions. Every time we interact with another human being, we unconscious...
ISBN: PB: 9780226703077,
ISBN: HB: 9780226702919,
University of Chicago Press,
May 2020
328 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 2 tables
For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy Chilean grapes in a Philadelphia supermarket in the middle of winter. Yet every piece of food represents...
Antisemitism emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century as a powerful political movement with broad popular appeal. It promoted a vision of the world in which a closely-knit tribe called "the Jews" conspired to dominate the globe through contro...
ISBN: PB: 9780300251890,
Yale University Press,
April 2020
400 pp.,
21.6x13.9 cm, 20 black&white illus.
In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial security and...
ISBN: PB: 9780226643939,
ISBN: HB: 9780226683638,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2020
200 pp.,
21.5x13.9 cm, 12 halftones
For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Academic writing is stressful, and even accomplished scholar...
ISBN: PB: 9780226526164,
ISBN: HB: 9780226526027,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2020
240 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing, 5 tables
"Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools".
That's how Eve L. Ewing opens "Ghosts in the Schoolyard": describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other sc...