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Seeing Silicon Valley Life inside a Fraying America

Meehan Mary Beth, Turner Fred

ISBN: PB: 9780226786483, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 67 colour plates

Acclaimed American photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world It's hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Val...

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Political Science

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No Longer Outsiders Black and Latino Interest Group Advocacy on Capitol Hill

Minta Michael D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226765273, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 9 tables

With the rise of Black Lives Matter and immigrant rights protests, critics have questioned whether mainstream black and Latino civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and UnidosUS are in touch with the needs of minorities – especially from young...

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Political Science

Professional Wrestling Politics and Populism

Mazer Sharon, Levi Heather, Laine Eero, Haynes Nell

ISBN: PB: 9780857427946, Seagull Books, March 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment, professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its long history of working contemporary events into storylines and commenting upon cultural and military conflicts, profession...

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Women Studies

Foot in the Door Dalit Women in Panchayati Raj in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu

Mangubhai Jayshree, Irudayam Aloysius S. J., Sydenham Emma

ISBN: HB: 9789385932939, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The culmination of research undertaken in the rural panchayats of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, A Foot in the Door brings the voices of Dalit women to the forefront of the ongoing conversation about their political oppression. The authors examine the patri...

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America

Women Studies

Groundbreakers, Rule-breakers & Rebels 50 Unstoppable St. Louis Women

Moon Katie J.

ISBN: PB: 9781883982980, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, November 2020
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates

The history of women's activism in St. Louis began long before 1920, when Missouri ratified the Nineteenth Amendment and gave women the right to vote. Women have always been a fundamental – but too often unfairly forgotten – part of what made St. Lou...

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Fire That Time Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation

Mohabir Nalini, Cummings Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9781551647371, ISBN: HB: 9781551647395, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1969, in one of the most significant black student protests in North American history, Caribbean students called out discriminatory pedagogical practices at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University), before occupying the computer c...

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Law

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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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Women Studies

Poetry

Mystic and the Lyric Four Women Poets from Kashmir

Mattoo Neerja

ISBN: HB: 9789385932717, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

For the first time, "The Mystic and the Lyric" brings together the classic work of four women poets from Kashmir who have shaped its literary imagination: Lalded, Habba Khatun, Arnimal, and Rupa Bhavani. These women inhabit not just the collective me...

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Women Studies

Of Mothers and Others Stories, Essays, Poems

Misra Jaishree

ISBN: HB: 9789381017869, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
284 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Taking care of our women and children builds not just a generation but the nation itself, writes the Indian film star Shabana Azmi in her introduction to this unique volume. We neglect mothers at our own peril, at the peril of society. If we are to l...

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Criminology

Linguistics

Discourse of Police Interviews

Mason Marianne, Rock Frances

ISBN: PB: 9780226647791, ISBN: HB: 9780226647654, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 line drawings, 3 tables

Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a growing field of scholarly and public interest. Yet books on the subject have predominantly been introductions to the field or aimed at summarizing its applications, often with a focus...

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