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Integrations The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226786032, ISBN: HB: 9780226785981, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
The promise of a free, high quality public education is supposed to guarantee every child a shot at the American Dream. Yet, today many children of color do not have access to equal educational opportunities due primarily to white supremacy and class...
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£22,00
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Illiberal Politics and Religion in Europe and Beyond Concepts, Actors, and Identity Narratives
ISBN: PB: 9783593509976, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2021
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Despite the broadly assumed institutional separation of church and state in contemporary Western politics, there is a trend towards renewed alliances between illiberal interpretations of religion and right-wing populist politics that challenge libera...
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In Plain Sight Exploring the Field of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict
ISBN: HB: 9789385932816, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Although it is now well-known how pervasive sexual violence is in situations of war and peace, not enough has been done to work towards its prevention. Compiled by the international research group "Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict", this volume take...
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Idols of ISIS From Assyria to the Internet
ISBN: PB: 9780226737560, ISBN: HB: 9780226623535, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
In 2015, the Islamic State released a video of men smashing sculptures in Iraq's Mosul Museum as part of a mission to cleanse the world of idolatry. This book unpacks three key facets of that event: the status and power of images, the political impor...
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Intimate Disconnections Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan
ISBN: PB: 9780226700953, ISBN: HB: 9780226699653, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables
In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision – the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two people involved. But anyone who has gone through a divorce knows the additional public dimensions of brea...
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Indian Feminisms Individual and Collective Journeys
ISBN: HB: 9789385932021, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2019
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm
One of the most dynamic feminist movements in the world, Indian feminisms are seldom given the recognition they deserve, not only for the essential work they do but for the successes they've had. This collection of essays, written by well-known activ...
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I've Got to Make My Livin' Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
ISBN: PB: 9780226597584, ISBN: HB: 9780226055985, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 maps, 9 tables, 15 halftones
For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and cities have perked the ears of urban scholars, but until now the history of urban sex work has dealt only in passing with questions of race. In "I've Got to Make My Livin'", Cynthia Blair...
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India and Beyond The Selected Writings of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
ISBN: HB: 9789384757830, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
350 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman – a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discu...
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Inside the Enemy's Computer Identifying Cyber-Attackers
ISBN: HB: 9781849045544, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Attribution – tracing those responsible for a cyber attack – is of primary importance when classifying it as a criminal act, an act of war, or an act of terrorism. Three assumptions dominate current thinking: attribution is a t...
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Intersectional Inequality Race, Class, Test Scores, and Poverty
ISBN: PB: 9780226414409, ISBN: HB: 9780226414379, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 46 tables
For over twenty-five years, Charles C. Ragin has developed Qualitative Comparative Analysis and related set-analytic techniques as a means of bridging qualitative and quantitative methods of research. Now, with Peer C. Fiss, Ragin uses these impressi...
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