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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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Political Science

Fragile Middle Class Americans in Debt

Sullivan Teresa A., Warren Elizabeth, Westbrook Jay Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780300251890, Yale University Press, April 2020
400 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 20 black&white illus.

In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial security and...

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Europe

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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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Education

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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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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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Psychology

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Minds Make Societies How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

Boyer Pascal

ISBN: PB: 9780300248548, ISBN: HB: 9780300223453, Yale University Press, February 2020
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

"There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature". Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent in...

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Europe

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Migrant City A New History of London

Panayi Panikos

ISBN: HB: 9780300210972, Yale University Press, February 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.

London is now a global financial and multicultural hub in which over three hundred languages are spoken. But the history of London has always been a history of immigration. Panikos Panayi explores the rich and vibrant story of London– from its found...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Twilight of the Elites The Prosperous, the Periphery, and the Future of France

Guilluy Christophe, DeBevoise Malcolm

ISBN: PB: 9780300248425, ISBN: HB: 9780300233766, Yale University Press, January 2020
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" – one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France...

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