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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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Garland of Bones Child Runaways in India

Steinberg Jonah

ISBN: HB: 9780300222807, Yale University Press, February 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

This intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India. Jonah Steinberg situates children's decisions to leave home and flee for the city in their larger cultural, social, and historical contexts, an...

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Grounds for Dreaming Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement

Flores Lori A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240146, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Known as "The Salad Bowl of the World", California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for the...

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Political Science

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Go Back to Where You Came From The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy

Polakow-Suransky Sasha

ISBN: HB: 9781849049092, Hurst Publishers, October 2017
376 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! From Europe to the United States and beyond, opportunistic politicians have exploited economic crisis, terrorist attacks and an influx of refugees to bring hateful and reactionary views from the margins of political discourse i...

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Going Public A Guide for Social Scientists

Stein Arlene, Daniels Jessie

ISBN: PB: 9780226364780, ISBN: HB: 9780226364643, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 1 table

At a time when policy discussions are dominated by "I feel" instead of "I know," it is more important than ever for social scientists to make themselves heard. When those who possess in-depth training and expertise are excluded from public debates ab...

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Get Out of My Room! A History of Teen Bedrooms in America

Reid Jason

ISBN: HB: 9780226409214, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Teenage life is tough. You're at the mercy of parents, teachers, and siblings, all of whom insist on continuing to treat you like a kid and refuse to leave you alone. So what do you do when it all gets to be too much? You retreat to your room (and ma...

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Women Studies

Gringo Gulch Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica

Rivers-Moore Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226373416, ISBN: HB: 9780226373386, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

The story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San Jose, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men – men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical ine...

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Green Victorians The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District

Albritton Vicky, Albritton Jonsson Fredrik

ISBN: HB: 9780226339986, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life – one without constant, environmentally damaging growth – might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the his...

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Getting Your Way Strategic Dilemmas in the Real World

Jasper James M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226394770, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Getting other people to do what we want is a useful skill for anyone. Whether you're seeking a job, negotiating a deal, or angling for that big promotion, you're engaged in strategic thought and action. In such moments, you imagine what might be goin...

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Generations and Collective Memory

Corning Amy, Schuman Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226282664, ISBN: HB: 9780226282527, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 34 line drawings, 15 tables

When discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuma...

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