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Declining Significance of Race Blacks and Changing American Institutions (Third Edition)

Wilson William Julius

ISBN: PB: 9780226901411, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm

When first published in 1980, "The Declining Significance of Race" immediately sparked controversy with its contentious thesis that race was becoming less of a deciding factor in the life chances of black Americans than class. This new edition of the...

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Truly Disadvantaged The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (Second Edition)

Wilson William Julius

ISBN: PB: 9780226901268, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 tables, 13 line illus.

Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life i...

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Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

Yack Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780226944678, ISBN: HB: 9780226944661, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Nationalism is one of modern history's great surprises. How is it that the nation, a relatively old form of community, has risen to such prominence in an era so strongly identified with the individual? Bernard Yack argues that it is the inadequacy of...

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Street Therapists Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark

Ramos-Zayas Ana Y.

ISBN: PB: 9780226703626, ISBN: HB: 9780226703619, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm

Drawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, in "Street Therapists", examines how affect, emotion, and sentiment serve as waypoints for the naviga...

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Roots of Radicalism Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements

Calhoun Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780226090863, ISBN: HB: 9780226090849, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables

The story of the rise of radicalism in the early nineteenth century has often been simplified into a fable about progressive social change. The diverse social movements of the era – religious, political, regional, national, antislavery, and protemper...

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Living Faith Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty

Crawford Sullivan Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226781617, ISBN: HB: 9780226781600, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm

Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. These women's lives can be difficult as they go about searching for housing and decent jobs and struggling to care for their children while surviving on welfare...

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Urban Spaces after Socialism Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities

Darieva Tsypylma, Kaschuba Wolfgang, Krebs Melanie

ISBN: PB: 9783593393841, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
325 pp., 22x14 cm, 40 halftones

The two decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union brought great changes to the new nations on its periphery".Urban Spaces after Socialism" offers a detailed ethnographic look at one area of change: the use and understanding of public space i...

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Political Science

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Disciplining the Poor Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

Soss Joe, Fording Richard C., Schram Sanford F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226768779, ISBN: HB: 9780226768762, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 1 table, 45 line illus.

"Disciplining the Poor" lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance – how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pu...

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America

Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia, and Britain

Peel Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226653631, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
360 pp., 23x15 cm

Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, "Miss Cutler and the Case of the Res...

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Opting Out Losing the Potential of America's Young Black Elite

Beasley Maya A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226040141, ISBN: HB: 9780226040134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.

Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as s...

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