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Africa

Best Laid Plans Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns

McDonnell Terence E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226382159, ISBN: HB: 9780226382012, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 1 line drawing

We see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive, expansive media campaigns. Designers painstakingly craft clear, resonant, and culturally sensitive messaging that will motivate peopl...

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Scenescapes How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life

Silver Daniel Aaron, Clark Terry Nichols

ISBN: PB: 9780226356990, ISBN: HB: 9780226356853, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 39 line drawings, 30 tables

Let's set the scene: there's a regular on his bar-stool, beer in hand. He's watching a young couple execute a complicated series of moves on the dance floor, while at the table in the corner the DJ adjusts his headphones and slips a new beat into the...

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When We Imagine Grace Black Men and Subject Making

Drake Simone C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226363974, ISBN: HB: 9780226363837, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Simone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she qui...

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Sport

Midnight Basketball Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy

Hartmann Douglas

ISBN: PB: 9780226374987, ISBN: HB: 9780226374840, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders – home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls – is where it first came to national prominence. And it's also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about...

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Culture Studies

New York's New Edge Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side

Halle David, Tiso Elisabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226379067, ISBN: HB: 9780226032405, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones, 6 figures, 1 table

The story of New York's west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it's a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York's most dominant neighb...

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Oil and Water Being Han in Xinjiang

Cliff Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226360133, ISBN: HB: 9780226359939, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 44 halftones, 1 table

For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, scholars of China have focused primarily on state actions and Uyghur efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. Th...

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Methods That Matter Integrating Mixed Methods for More Effective Social Science Research

Hay M. Cameron

ISBN: PB: 9780226328669, ISBN: HB: 9780226328522, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 15 figures, 10 tables

To do research that really makes a difference – the authors of this book argue – social scientists need questions and methods that reflect the complexity of the world. Bringing together a consortium of voices across a variety of fields, "Methods that...

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Seductions of Quantification Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking

Engle Merry Sally

ISBN: PB: 9780226261287, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Y...

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America

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Segregation A Global History of Divided Cities

Nightingale Carl H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226379715, ISBN: HB: 9780226580746, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
528 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 halftones

When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow – two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us i...

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America

Newark Frontier Community Action in the Great Society

Krasovic Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226352794, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

To many, Newark seems a profound symbol of postwar liberalism's failings: an impoverished, deeply divided city where commitments to integration and widespread economic security went up in flames during the 1967 riots. While it's true that these faili...

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