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Upsold Real Estate Agents, Prices, and Neighborhood Inequality

Besbris Max

ISBN: PB: 9780226721378, ISBN: HB: 9780226721231, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing, 5 tables

What do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years? Do your plans involve marriage, kids, a new job? These are the questions a real estate agent might ask in an attempt to unearth information they can employ to complete a sale, which as Upsold...

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Intimate Disconnections Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan

Alexy Allison

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...

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Tacit Racism

Warfield Rawls Anne, Duck Waverly

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...

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Problem with Feeding Cities The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America

Deener Andrew

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...

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Resistible Rise of Antisemitism Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland

Engelstein Laura

ISBN: PB: 9781684580095, ISBN: HB: 9781684580088, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2020
250 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

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...

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Writing for Social Scientists How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article (Third Edition)

Becker Howard S.

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...

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Ghosts in the Schoolyard Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side

Ewing Eve L.

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...

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Union by Law Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism

McCann Michael W., Lovell George I.

ISBN: PB: 9780226679907, ISBN: HB: 9780226679877, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

Laborers in American West Coast agricultural fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially segregated workplaces as well as subjected to vigilante violence and other forms of ethni...

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Spartakiads The Politics and Aesthetics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia

Petr Roubal

ISBN: PB: 9788024638515, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
350 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 35 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Every five years from 1955 to 1985, mass Czechoslovak gymnastic demonstrations and sporting parades called Spartakiads were held to mark the 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia. Featuring hu...

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America

Newcomers Gentrification and Its Discontents

Schuerman Matthew L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226476261, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Gentrification is transforming cities, small and large, across the country. Though it's easy to bemoan the diminished social diversity and transformation of commercial strips that often signify a gentrifying neighborhood, determining who actually ben...

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