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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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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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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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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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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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Rivalry and Reform Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics

Milkis Sidney M., Tichenor Daniel J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569390, ISBN: HB: 9780226569253, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Few relationships have proved more pivotal in changing the course of American politics than those between presidents and social movements. For all their differences, both presidents and social movements are driven by a desire to recast the political...

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Remnants of Partition 21 Objects from a Continent Divided

Malhrota Aanchal

ISBN: HB: 9781787381209, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
456 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! The emotion and trauma of the Partition are buried deep, but Aanchal Malhotra has found a way to recover them. Through the possessions saved by her own great-grandparents as they fled their homes, she discovers the unique power...

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Problem of Jobs Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia

McKee Guian A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598420, ISBN: HB: 9780226560120, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 3 maps, 2 tables

Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, "The Problem of Jobs" reveals that such efforts did not collapse after the New Deal but instead began to flourish at the local, rat...

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Gender Studies

Mobile Orientations An Intimate Autoethnography of Migration, Sex Work, and Humanitarian Borders

Mai Nicola

ISBN: PB: 9780226585000, ISBN: HB: 9780226584959, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Despite continued public and legislative concern about sex trafficking across international borders, the actual lives of the individuals involved – and, more importantly, the decisions that led them to sex work – are too often obscured or swept away...

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Education

Education in a New Society Renewing the Sociology of Education

Mehta Jal, Davies Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226517421, ISBN: HB: 9780226517391, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 tables

In recent decades, sociology of education has been dominated by quantitative analyses of race, class, and gender gaps in educational achievement. And while there's no question that such work is important, it leaves a lot of other fruitful areas of in...

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