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Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City

Hyra Derek S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226449531, ISBN: HB: 9780226449364, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 6 line drawings, 17 tables

For long-time residents of Washington, DC's Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city's most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers' market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Tough Enough Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil

Nelson Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780226457802, ISBN: HB: 9780226457772, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories....

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Varieties of Social Imagination

Celarent Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9780226433967, ISBN: HB: 9780226433820, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In July 2009, the "American Journal of Sociology" (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent's essays taken together provi...

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"Labor Is Not a Commodity!" The Movement to Shorten the Workday in Late Nineteenth-Century Berlin and New York

Reick Philipp

ISBN: PB: 9783593506272, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2017
237 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Analyzing the history of the movement to shorten the workday in late nineteenth-century New York City and Berlin, this book explores what Karl Polanyi has termed the "fictitious commodification" of labor. Despite the concept's significance for presen...

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Gender Studies

Visions of Sodom Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England, c. 1550-1850

Cocks H. G.

ISBN: HB: 9780226438665, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 5 line drawings

The book of Genesis records the fiery fate of Sodom and Gomorrah – a storm of fire and brimstone was sent from heaven and, for the wickedness of the people, God destroyed the cities "and all the plains, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that...

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Criminology

Education

Human Targets Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

Rios Victor M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226090993, ISBN: HB: 9780226090856, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings

At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target – flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a tea...

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Anthropology

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Affective Circuits African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration

Cole Jennifer, Groes Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780226405155, ISBN: HB: 9780226405018, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and the effects of armed conflict. But attention to such broad questions often obscures a funda...

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Criminology

Anthropology

Truth about Crime Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order

Comaroff Jean, Comaroff John L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226424910, ISBN: HB: 9780226424880, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves – it is by our crimes. Surveying...

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Criminology

Big House on the Prairie Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation

Eason John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226410340, ISBN: HB: 9780226410203, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 4 maps, 3 line drawings, 5 tables

For the past fifty years, America has been extraordinarily busy building prisons. Since 1970 we have tripled the total number of facilities, adding more than 1,200 new prisons to the landscape. This building boom has taken place across the country bu...

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Who Cleans the Park? Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City

Krinsky John, Simonet Maud

ISBN: PB: 9780226435589, ISBN: HB: 9780226435442, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 3 tables

America's public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars – both public and private – fund urban jewels like Manhattan's Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash m...

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