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Crucibles of Black Empowerment Chicago's Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington

Helgeson Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780226130699, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The term "community organizer" was deployed repeatedly against Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a way to paint him as an inexperienced politician unfit for the presidency. The implication was that the job of a community organizer...

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On the Run Fugitive Life in an American City

Goffman Alice

ISBN: HB: 9780226136714, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillanc...

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Women Studies

Traffic in Women's Work East European Migration and the Making of Europe

Parvulescu Anca

ISBN: PB: 9780226118383, ISBN: HB: 9780226118246, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

"Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, Anca Parvulescu analyzes an important nich...

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AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria

Smith Daniel Jordan

ISBN: PB: 9780226108834, ISBN: HB: 9780226108667, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

AIDS and Africa are indelibly linked in popular consciousness, but despite widespread awareness of the epidemic, much of the story remains hidden beneath a superficial focus on condoms, sex workers, and antiretrovirals. Africa gets lost in this equat...

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Making Hispanics How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American

Mora G. Cristina

ISBN: PB: 9780226033839, ISBN: HB: 9780226033662, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 5 line drawings, 3 tables

How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as "Hispanics" and "Latinos" in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope...

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When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education

Posey-Maddox Linn

ISBN: PB: 9780226120218, ISBN: HB: 9780226120188, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to – and often end up becoming active in – urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn P...

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Psychology

Boys and Girls Superheroes in the Doll Corner

Gussin Paley Vivian

ISBN: PB: 9780226130101, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
144 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With the publication of "Boys and Girls" in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play – and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of...

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Anthropology

2001 and Counting Kubrick, Nietzsche, and Anthropology

Kapferer Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780984201051, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2014
100 pp., 17.7x11.5 cm, 2 halftones

Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" is widely recognized as a cult classic. Despite mixed critical reception, the dark and difficult movie mesmerized audiences at the time of its initial screening in 1968 and went on to become one the highest g...

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Culture Studies

Revisiting the Sixties Interdisciplinary Perspectives on America's Longest Decade

Bieger Laura, Lammert Christian

ISBN: PB: 9783593399904, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
343 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 22 halftones

The Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Summer of Love – the1960s were one of the most turbulent decades in US history. These years launched an unprecedented public debate over the meaning of "America", dividing...

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Unearthing the Nation Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China

Yen Shen Grace

ISBN: HB: 9780226090405, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
307 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nati...

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