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Criminology

Murder in New Orleans The Creation of Jim Crow Policing

Adler Jeffrey S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226643311, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings

New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city's homicide rate was six times that of New York City and twelve times that of Boston. Jeffrey S. Adler has explored every homicide recorded in New Orleans between 1925 and 1940 –...

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General

Patchwork City Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila

Garrido Marco Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780226643144, ISBN: HB: 9780226643007, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 3 line drawings

In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the privileged, creating the complex geopolitical pattern of Marco Z. Garrido's "patchwork city". Garrido d...

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Political Science

General

Authority Construction and Corrosion

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481982, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
235 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 tables

What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Coming Together The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male Life, 1945-1979

Powell Ryan

ISBN: PB: 9780226634371, ISBN: HB: 9780226634234, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

In "Coming Together", Ryan Powell captures the social and political vitality of the first wave of movies made by, for, and about male-desiring men in the United States between World War II and the 1980s. From the underground films of Kenneth Anger an...

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Anthropology

Gender Studies

Fada Boredom and Belonging in Niger

Masquelier Adeline

ISBN: PB: 9780226624341, ISBN: HB: 9780226624204, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

Landlocked and with an economy reliant on subsistence agriculture, Niger often comes into the public eye only as an example of deprivation and insecurity. Urban centers have become concentrated areas of unemployment filled with young men bored and id...

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Children's Books

Women Studies

Fighter in Velvet Gloves Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich

Boochever Annie, Peratrovich Jr. Roy

ISBN: PB: 9781602233706, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2019
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

"No Natives or Dogs Allowed", blared the storefront sign at Elizabeth Peratrovich, then a young Alaska Native Tlingit. The sting of those words would stay with her all her life. Years later, after becoming a seasoned fighter for equality, she would d...

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General

Architecture

City

Park Robert E., Burgess Ernest W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226636504, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

First published in 1925, "The City" is a trailblazing text in urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combination of ethnographic observation and social science theory epitomized the Chicago school of sociology. Robert E. Pa...

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General

Players and Pawns How Chess Builds Community and Culture

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226639864, ISBN: HB: 9780226264981, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account i...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Someone The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Herve Guibert

Lucey Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226606217, ISBN: HB: 9780226606187, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something? In "Someone", Michael Lucey conside...

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Gender Studies

Breaching the Citadel The India Papers

Butalia Urvashi

ISBN: HB: 9789384757786, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"Breaching the Citadel", part of the Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, puts India in focus, showcasing new and pathbreaking research on sexual violence and impunity....

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