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Deaf Interpreters at Work International Insights

Adam Robert, Stone Christopher, Collins Steven D., Metzger Melanie

ISBN: HB: 9781563686092, Gallaudet University Press, June 2014
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Now, for the first time, a collection featuring 17 widely respected scholars depicts the everyday practices of deaf interpreters in their respective nations. Deaf Interpreters at Work: International Insights presents the history of Deaf translators a...

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Ecology

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Arcadian America The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition

Sachs Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780300205886, Yale University Press, April 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 black&white illus.

<p>Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought key elements of the countryside into rapidl...

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Law

Criminology

Pulled Over How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship

Epp Charles R., Maynard-Moody Steven, Haider-Markel Donald P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226113999, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line drawings, 13 tables

In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year, twelve percent of drivers in the United States are stopped by the police, and the figure is almost double among racial minorities. Police stops are among the m...

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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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American Lynching

Rushdy Ashraf H. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205879, Yale University Press, March 2014
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd, Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined in order to understand this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the U...

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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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Education

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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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