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University of California Press Fruteros Street Vending Illegality and Ethnic
Book SynopsisThis book examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence and their work on street corners. Known as fruteros, they sell fruit salads out of pushcarts throughout Los Angeles and are part of the urban landscape. Drawing on six years of fieldwork, Rocío Rosales offers a compelling portrait of their day-to-day struggles. In the process, she examines how their paisano (hometown compatriot) social networks both help and exploit them. Much of the work on newly arrived Latino immigrants focuses on the ways in which their social networks allow them to survive. Rosales argues that this understanding of ethnic community simplifies the complicated ways in which social networks and social capital work. Fruteros sheds light on those complexities and offers the concept of the ethnic cage to explain both the promise and pain of community.Trade Review"Intimately and beautifully captures the lives of street vendors in Los Angeles." * Ethnic and Racial Studies * "Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles makes a great contribution to the literature of ethnic economies, social networks, labor movements, immigrant communities, transnational studies, and other fields of study." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. Becoming a Frutero 3. Managing Risk on the Street 4. Personal and Professional Entanglements 5. Ethnic Ties in Crisis 6. Dos Mundos Transformed 7. Conclusion Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix: A Personal Note on Research Notes References Index
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University of California Press Fruteros Street Vending Illegality and Ethnic
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Intimately and beautifully captures the lives of street vendors in Los Angeles." * Ethnic and Racial Studies * "Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles makes a great contribution to the literature of ethnic economies, social networks, labor movements, immigrant communities, transnational studies, and other fields of study." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. Becoming a Frutero 3. Managing Risk on the Street 4. Personal and Professional Entanglements 5. Ethnic Ties in Crisis 6. Dos Mundos Transformed 7. Conclusion Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix: A Personal Note on Research Notes References Index
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University of California Press Intellectuals Universities and the State in
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.
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University of California Press The Obsolete Self
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University of California Press American Roulette The Social Logic of Death
Book SynopsisAs the death penalty clings to life in many states and dies off in others, this first-of-its-kind ethnography takes readers inside capital trials across the United States. Sarah Beth Kaufman draws on years of ethnographic and documentary research, including hundreds of hours of courtroom observation in seven states, interviews with participants, and analyses of newspaper coverage to reveal how the American justice system decides who deserves the most extreme punishment. The super due process accorded capital sentencing by the United States Supreme Court is the system's best attempt at individuated sentencing. Resources not seen in most other parts of the criminal justice system, such as jurors and psychological experts, are required in capital trials, yet even these cannot create the conditions of morality or justice. Kaufman demonstrates that capital trials ultimately depend on performance and politics, resulting in the enactment of deep biases and utter capriciousness. American Roulette contends that the liberal, democratic ideals of criminal punishment cannot be enacted in the current criminal justice system, even under the most controlled circumstances. Trade Review"This important book, whose insights fill a gap in our understanding of the death penalty . . . will be of immense value not only to scholars and practitioners in the field, but to all potential 'punitive citizens.'" * Punishment & Society *"American Roulette is a very good book, smart, easy to read, and chock full of incisive ideas about the US death penalty in the twenty-first century." * Law & Society Review *"Kaufman offers a refreshing perspective that reveals novel insights and implications. A notable strength of the book is its appeal to a wide variety of audiences. It could be a required or supplement text for undergraduate or graduate courses, but it would also be digestible to a member of the public with an interest in the death penalty." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART I. THE SOCIAL LOGIC OF DEATH PENALTY CASES 1. Constructing Capital Homicide 2. Governing Capital Sentencing 3. The Capital Sentencing Field PART II. THE SOCIAL LOGIC OF DEATH PENALTY TRIALS 4. Performing Punitive Citizenship 5. Performing Mercy 6. Performing Danger 7. Mourners in the Court Conclusion Appendix A. Methodology Appendix B. Court Cases Cited Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
Book SynopsisNationally representative studies confirm that LGBTQ individuals are at an elevated risk of experiencing intimate partner violence. While many similarities exist between LGBTQ and heterosexual-cisgender intimate partner violence, research has illuminated a variety of unique aspects of LGBTQ intimate partner violence regarding the predictors of perpetration, the specific forms of abuse experienced, barriers to help-seeking for victims, and policy and intervention needs. This is the first book that systematically reviews the literature regarding LGBTQ intimate partner violence, draws key lessons for current practice and policy, and recommends research areas and enhanced methodologies.Trade Review"Messinger provides a meticulous examination of the challenges for studying LGBTQ IPV and offers keen recommendations for policy makers, practitioners, and researchers. A must-read for those interested in social work, counseling, and intimate relationships, as well as anyone working with LGBTQ populations." * CHOICE *"An insightful and detailed discussion of the institutional and legal obstacles to the integration of LGBTQ individuals into U.S. society, and how that impacts LGBTQ intimate partner abuse." * PsycCRITIQUES *"The author brings to light an often-overlooked problem and offers practical suggestions for increasing protections and improving service provision for LGBTQ people who are victimized by intimate partners... compelling." * American Society of Criminology, Division on Women and Crime *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Making the Invisible Visible 2. How Do We Know What We Know? 3. What Is LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)? 4. Why Does LGBTQ IPV Happen? 5. How Can We Improve Nongovernmental Responses? 6. How Can We Improve Government Responses? 7. Conclusions: Where Do We Go from Here? Appendix: Book Methodology Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Anatomy of Racial Attitudes
Book SynopsisRacial tension divides American society. Racial equality remains a distant goal. Although the potion of Black Americans has improved in recent years, the widespread enthusiasm for the Civil Rights movement has waned. Why has progress slowed? What makes racial problems in America so difficult to solve?A principal cause, according to The Anatomy of Racial Attitudes, is the way in which white Americans explain, or account for, the social conditions in which most black Americans find themselves. A substantial proportion of whites believe that stereotypes that Black Americans are relatively less well off because blacks do not try hard enough to better themselves or because of the difference due to genertics or to God's plan. Whites who hold such views have relatively little sympathy for programs designed to improve the social conditions. In contrast, whites who believe that Black Americans are kept back either by deliberate discrimination or by the accumulated social results of past discrimination are much more receptive to policies designed to help blacks.Using qualitative and quantitive data, this book explores the variety and extent of these explanations for social differences; it also describes how each explanation--or combination of explanations--influences a person's views on policies designed to bring about greater racial equality.This study promises to influence not only the course of future academic research on race relations but also the formulation of public policy to deal with racial problems. It reveals that the resistance of many whites to policies favorable to racial equality are not isolated phenomenon but instead is part of a comprehensive view of how society works. If strides toward racial equality are to be made in the foreseeable future, the insights provided here must be considered seriously by policy makers and be incorporated into their strategies.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.
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University of California Press The Africanization of the Labor Market
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University of California Press The Obsolete Self
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University of California Press Prisms of Prejudice Mediating the Middle East
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 Prisms of Prejudice 2 Mapping the Middle East 3 Narrating the Middle East 4 Mediating the Middle East 5 Visioning from the US Prism Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Politics of Surviving
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book is beautifully written and a powerful demonstration of gendered governance in the field of domestic violence. It is a must-read for anyone interested in domestic violence, victimization, feminist anti-violence work, the shelter movement, professionalization processes, the trauma discourse, and medicalization of social problems." * Social Forces *"The Politics of Surviving is a brilliant contribution to sociology and the multidisciplinary field of feminist scholarship. It is a necessary text for scholars of violence, social movements, and gender and sexuality." * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *"A valuable resource for scholars and students of gender-based violence. . . . Sweet…helps us understand, viscerally, the implications of this trauma revolution." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction: Domestic Violence and the Politics of Trauma Part I Survivorhood 1. Building a Therapeutic Movement 2. The Trauma Revolution 3. Administering Trauma Part II Surviving 4. Becoming Legible 5. Gaslighting 6. Surviving Heterosexuality Conclusion: Traumatic Citizenship Methodological Appendix Notes References Index
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University of California Press In Too Deep Class and Mothering in a Flooded
Book SynopsisIn a small Texas neighborhood, an affluent group of mothers has been repeatedly rocked by catastrophic floodingthe 2015 Memorial Day flood, the 2016 Tax Day flood, and sixteen months later, Hurricane Harvey. Yet even after these disrupting events, almost all mothers in this neighborhood still believe there is only one place for them to live: Bayou Oaks. In Too Deep is a sociological exploration of what happens when climate change threatens the carefully curated family life of upper-middle-class mothers. Through in-depth interviews with thirty-six Bayou Oaks mothers whose homes flooded during Hurricane Harvey, Rachel Kimbro reveals why these mothers continued to stay in a place that was becoming more and more unstable. Rather than retreating, the mothers dug in and sustained the community they have chosen and nurtured, trying to keep social, emotional, and economic instability at bay. In Too Deep provides a glimpse into how class and place intersect in an unstable physical environment and underlines the price families pay for securing their futures.Trade Review“In Too Deep should help shape how community leaders can help less well-off residents improve their reactions and response to disasters. Additionally, it shines a light on why people stay in places they know are disaster-prone, which can offer food for thought for community planning in the future.” * Space City Weather *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Choosing Bayou Oaks Are We in Pleasantville? 2. Storm Preparations I Had It All Planned Out before It Even Happened 3. During the Storm Get These Babies Out of the Water 4. Storm Recovery You Can Feel Sorry for Yourself When the Work’s Done 5. Family Impacts This Past Year Has Really Been So Wretched 6. To Stay or Go Does Anyone Think This Is Crazy? Conclusion Methodological Appendix Notes References Index
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University of California Press Twenty Million Angry Men
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Not only is Twenty Million Angry Men, a quick read, but it is well written. The book reviews and contextualizes the most important scholarship that has been done on the subject of felon juror exclusion. . . . Much like the field of convict criminology, felon-juror research demonstrates how previously convicted people can make a positive contribution to understanding the subtleties of the criminal justice process that lay people often overlook." * British Journal of Criminology *"Scholars and activists need look no further than Binnall’s book for a powerful exposition of the flaws in felon-juror exclusions and compelling evidence that allowing felon-jurors to serve would enhance 'our purest form of civic engagement.'" * Law & Society Review *“Twenty Million Angry Men: The Case for Including Convicted Felons in Our Jury System is a powerful title, and gives a useful preview of some of the emphases of this important book. James Binnall demonstrates the broad scope of this form of jury exclusion, unearths fascinating new material about the emotions of those involved, presents a multi-tiered argument for change, and shows, through his upfront ownership of the word ‘felon,’ that he is not going to shy away from exposing and tackling stigmatizing labels in this area of the law.” * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"This book will interest students and scholars of American jurisprudence, sociology of law, and desistance studies." * CHOICE *"Well organized and…tightly argued." * Critical Criminology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • Framing the Issue 2 • Rotten to the Core? 3 • Honor Among Thieves 4 • Sequestering the Convicted: Part I 5 • Sequestering the Convicted: Part II 6 • Criminal-Desistance Summoned 7 • A Community Change Agent 8 • A Healthy Ambivalence Conclusion Epilogue Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes References Index
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University of California Press Intersecting Lives How Place Shapes Reentry
Book SynopsisFew would disagree that neighborhood and place are important dimensions of reentry from prison, but we have a less clear sense of why or how they matterand we rarely get a view of the lived social-interactional dynamics between people returning from incarceration and receiving communities. Intersecting Lives focuses on the processes by which neighborhood and place influence reentry experiences and how these shape community life. Through interviews and ethnographic observations, Andrea M. Leverentz brings readers into three very different Boston communities. These places and the interactions they foster shape reentry outcomes, including reoffending, surveillance, relationship formation, and access to opportunities. This book sheds crucial new light on the processes of reentry and desistance, tying them intimately to space and community, including dynamics around race, gender, gentrification, homelessness, and transportation.Trade Review"This book will hold great value not just for scholars focused on neighborhood and mobility outcomes after incarceration, but more broadly for scholars of stratification and inequality." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1 • Criminalizing Disadvantage: Race, Class, Gender, and Reentry in Boston 2 • Bouncing and the Black Box of Reentry’s Neighborhood Effects 3 • Dorchester: Returning to a “High-Crime” Neighborhood 4 • The South End: Returning to a “Gentrified” Neighborhood 5 • South Boston: Returning to a “White” Neighborhood 6 • Small Towns, Poverty, and Addiction Conclusion Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Research Participants Notes References Index
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University of California Press Borderland Circuitry Immigration Surveillance in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Borderland spaces, and the people who are navigating the violence of bordering processes within them, come alive in the pages of this worthwhile book." * Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) *"Borderland Circuitry’s strength is in Muñiz’s approach to detail and carefulness. . . . The book speaks to scholars and students interested in migration studies, digital surveillance studies, and ethnographical research on border and gang databases in the United States." * Border Criminologies *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations 1. The Land Gets Tangled in Walls and Circuitry 2. You Cross a Border and the Feds Build a Database 3. California Cops Become the Tip of the Spear 4. A Lawyer Watches a Wreck Unfold 5. ICE Rigs an Algorithm 6. We Make Our Own Maps 7. A Border Bleeds Out 8. A Hand Searches for a Root Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: I Demand Some Documents Acronyms Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Death by Prison The Emergence of Life without
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) has developed into a distinctive penal form in the United States, one firmly entrenched in US policy-making, judicial and prosecutorial decision-making, correctional practice, and public discourse. LWOP is now a routine practice, but how it came to be so remains in question. Fifty years ago, imprisonment of a person until death was an extraordinary punishment; today, it accounts for the sentences of an increasing number of prisoners in the United States. What explains the shifts in penal practice and social imagination by which we have become accustomed to imprisoning people until death without any reevaluation or expectation of release? Combining a wide historical lens with detailed state- and institutional-level research, Death by Prison offers a provocative new foundation for questioning this deeply problematic practice that has escaped close scrutiny for too long.Trade Review"Seeds does a masterful job of busting the myth of how [life without parole] replaced the death penalty." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Christopher Seeds’ Death by Prison is a comprehensive and compelling origin story of a sentence that is a crime against human decency. . . . This book is essential reading for all students of crime and punishment." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Part I Foundations 1. Perpetual Penal Confinement 2. Precursor and Prototype 3. The Phenomenon to Be Explained Part II Eruptions 4. The Complex Role of Death Penalty Abolition 5. The Collapse of a Penal Paradigm 6. Governors and Prisoners Part III Adaptation and Solidification 7. The US Supreme Court’s Ambivalent Crafting of LWOP 8. Abolition and the Alternative 9. Life Prisoners, Lifetime Prisons Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Punishing Places
Book SynopsisPunishing Places applies a unique spatial analysis to mass incarceration in the United States. It demonstrates that our highest imprisonment rates are now in small cities, suburbs, and rural areas. Jessica Simes argues that mass incarceration should be conceptualized as one of the legacies of U.S. racial residential segregation, but that a focus on large cities has diverted vital scholarly and policy attention away from communities affected most by mass incarceration today. This book presents novel measures for estimating the community-level effects of incarceration using spatial, quantitative, and qualitative methods. This analysis has broad and urgent implications for policy reforms aimed at ameliorating the community effects of mass incarceration and promoting alternatives to the carceral system.Trade Review"Simes’s careful engagement with…data builds to a compelling central argument. . . .Punishing Places contributes to a broader conversation within carceral studies that analyzes domestic policing as warfare." * Public Books *"Punishing Places contributes to a growing literature on the complex relationships between race, crime, and punishment." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"Simes’s emphasis on community is a compelling and hopeful one, and a link between sociology and efforts to restore that which mass imprisonment has destroyed." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • A Spatial View of Punishment 2 • The Urban Model 3 • Small Cities and Mass Incarceration 4 • Social Services Beyond the City: Isolation and Regional Inequity 5 • Race and Communities of Pervasive Incarceration 6 • Punishing Places 7 • Beyond Punishing Places: A Research and Reform Agenda Appendix: Data and Methodology Notes References Index
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University of California Press This Is Our Freedom Motherhood in the Shadow of
Book SynopsisFor the overwhelming majority of women leaving correctional institutions in the United States, there is one aspect of their identity that informs their needs, opportunities, hopes, and dreams: their roles as mothers. This Is Our Freedom provides an intimate and moving portrait of women's journeys prior to and after incarceration. In interviews with seventy formerly incarcerated mothers, Geniece Crawford Mondé captures how women reframe their marginalized identity and place themselves at the center of their own stories. With incisive analysis, Mondé reveals the complex ways that motherhood shapes post-incarceration life, while highlighting how the lasting legacy of mass incarceration continues to impact society's most vulnerable members.Trade Review"Mondé presents a ripe opportunity for criminology to develop life course theory and understand the complexities that exist when motherhood becomes intertwined with experiences of incarceration and marginalisation." * Journal of Criminology. *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Marginalized from the Beginning 2. Love, Baby, and Chaos 3. Crime, Agency, and Postcarceral Narratives 4. The Duality of Marginalized Motherhood 5. The Project of Rehabilitation: The Duality of Place and People Conclusion: The Unasked Question Appendix: Research Methods and Respondent Characteristics Notes References Index
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University of California Press Is That True
Book SynopsisAcross disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond. With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry humor, Best examines the ways in which sociologists engage in fuzzy thinking through bias, faddish cultural waves, spurious reasoning, and implicit bias. The short chapters cover: A general introduction to critical thinking and logic in the social sciencesSociology as an enterpriseKey issues in thinking critically about sociological researchChallenging questions that confront sociologists and a call for the discipline to meet those challenges. Students across disciplines will learn the building blocks of critical thinking in a sociological context and come away with key concepts to put into practice.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. What Is Critical Thinking? 2. The Basics: Arguments and Assumptions 3. Everyday Arguments Anecdotes • Ad Hominem Arguments • Myths • Folk Wisdom and Metaphors • Facts • Everyday Reasoning 4. The Logic of Social Science Patterns • Causality • Judging Social Scientific Claims • The Importance of Evidence 5. Authority and Social Science Arguments Challenges for Social Science • The Case of Sociology • Thinking about Sociology and Critical Thinking 6. Sociology as a Social World Camps • Envy • Sociology’s Subdivisions 7. Orientations Optimism and Pessimism • Team Culture and Team Structure • Insiders and Outsiders • Tragedy and Comedy • The Importance of Orientations Contents 8. Words Jargon • Word Fads • Definitions • Concept Creep 9. Questions and Measurements Sociological Questions • Empirical Questions • Measurement • What Is Being Measured? • Questioning Measurements 10. Variables and Comparison Variables • Issues with Comparison • Varieties of Comparative Findings • Replication • Comparison in Qualitative Research • Questioning Comparisons 11. Tendencies Patterned Tendencies • The Ecological Fallacy • The Modesty of Sociological Explanations • Thinking about Tendencies 12. Evidence Effective Evidence • Not-So-Effective Evidence • Questioning Evidence Choices • Questions about Research 13. Echo Chambers Recognizing and Addressing One’s Own Biases • Expectations and Sociologists • The Complications of Ideological Homogeneity • The Importance of Self-Criticism 14. Tough Topics Cultural Waves • Good Guys and Bad Guys • Taboos • Thinking about What’s Difficult Afterword: Why Critical Thinking Is Important Notes References Index
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University of California Press Networked Feminism How Digital Media Makers
Book SynopsisNetworked Feminismtells the story of how activists have used media to reconfigure what feminist politics and organizing look like in the United States. Drawing on years spent participating in grassroots communities and observing viral campaigns, Rosemary Clark-Parsons argues that feminists engage in a do-it-ourselves feminism characterized by the use of everyday media technologies. Faced with an electoral system and a history of collective organizing that have failed to address complex systems of oppression, do-it-ourselves feminists do not rely on political organizations, institutions, or authorities. Instead, they use digital networks to build movements that reflect their values and meet the challenges of the current moment, all the while juggling the advantages and limitations of their media tools. Through its practitioner-centered approach, this book sheds light on feminist media activists' shared struggles and best practices at a time when collective organizing for social justice has become more important than ever.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1. Hope for a Feminist Future 2. Networked Feminist Organizing 3. Networked Feminist Visibility 4. Networked Feminist Communities 5. Strength in a Feminist Present Notes References Index
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University of California Press Retail Inequality Reframing the Food Desert
Book SynopsisRetail Inequality examines the failure of recent efforts to improve Americans' diets by increasing access to healthy food. Based on exhaustive research, this book by Kenneth H. Kolb documents the struggles of two Black neighborhoods in Greenville, South Carolina. For decades, outsiders ignored residents' complaints about the unsavory retail options on their side of townuntil the well-intentioned but flawed food desert concept took hold in popular discourse. Soon after, new allies arrived to help, believing that grocery stores and healthier options were the key to better health. These efforts, however, did not change neighborhood residents' food consumption practices. Retail Inequality explains why and also outlines the history of deindustrialization, urban public policy, and racism that are the cause of unequal access to food today. Kolb identifies retail inequality as the crucial concept to understanding today's debates over gentrification and community development. As this book makes clear, the battle over food deserts was never about foodit was about equality.Trade Review"Kolb helps dispel the food desert media frame that implies that food desert residents choose poor diets. Rather, the problem is racism." * Symbolic Interaction *"Kolb drives home an oft-ignored consideration: Low-income neighborhoods deserve the same food options as wealthy neighborhoods, regardless of whether that leads to healthier diets." * Civil Eats *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. What We Got Wrong 2. A Concept Catches Fire 3. Food Desert Realities: Perception, Money, and Transportation 4. Food Desert Realities: Social Capital, Household Dynamics, and Taste 5. The “Healthy Food” Frame 6. The Problem Solvers 7. A Path Forward Epilogue: Wins and Losses Appendix: Food Desert Media Database Notes References Index
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University of California Press Violent Differences The Importance of Race in
Book Synopsis2023 Honorable Mention for Outstanding Book Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Despite rising attention to sexual assault and sexual violence, queer men have been largely excluded from the discussion. Violent Differences is the first book of its kind to focus specifically on queer male survivors and to devote particular attention to Black queer men. Whereas previous scholarship on male survivors has emphasized the role of masculinity, Doug Meyer shows that race and sexuality should be regarded as equally foundational as gender. Instead of analyzing sexual assault against queer men in the abstract, this book draws attention to survivors' lived experiences. Meyer examines interview data from sixty queer men who have suffered sexual assault, highlighting their interactions with the police and their encounters with victim blaming. Violent Differences expands approaches to studying sexual assault by considering a new group of survivors and by revealing that race, gender, and sexuality all remain essential for understanding how this violence is experienced.Trade Review"Makes a tremendous contribution to the interdisciplinary scholarship on gender-based violence, a field that still suffers from lack of engagement with queer life and queer questions. Meyer’s work should give us hope that we can reimagine the field from a rigorously intersectional ground." * Social Forces *"Violent Differences provides an insightful examination of the unique experiences of queer men of color who have experienced sexual victimization." * Gender & Society *"The reader who is interested in better understanding the nuanced nature of violence against the LGBTQIA + community will not be disappointed in the skillful and thoughtful way Meyer presents his findings while defining and elaborating on the nomenclature associated with this issue." * Criminal Justice Review *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Understanding Sexual Assault against Queer Men through the Lens of Intersectionality 1 “Why Didn’t You Fight Back?”: Black Queer Male Survivors and Discourses of Blame 2 Queer Male Survivors and Police Interactions 3 Survivors’ Self-Blame and Differences within the Queer Umbrella 4 Racial Differences Regarding Emasculation 5 Constructing Hierarchies of Victimhood 6 Outing, Disclosing Marginalized Identities, and Navigating Multiple Stigmas Conclusion: Future Challenges and Possibilities Appendix: Methods Notes References Index
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University of California Press Unsaid Analyzing Harmful Silences
Book SynopsisHarm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted.This book is a guide tounderstanding and uncovering what is left unsaidwhether concealed or silenced, presupposed or excluded. Drawing on a variety of real-world examples, narrative criminologist Lois Presser outlines how to determine what or who is excluded from textual materials. With strategies that can be added to the tool kits of social researchers and activists alike, Unsaidprovides a richly layered approach to analyzing and dismantling the power structures that both create and arise from what goes without saying.Trade Review"Presser concedes the impossibility of creating a comprehensive, all-inclusive text in which nothing is left unsaid as she advocates for honest and critical reflection to identify the unspoken assumptions and silenced viewpoints characteristic of all texts." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Kept Quiet 2. Too Little or Too Much Said 3. Figurative Expression 4. Missing Subjects 5. The Social Construction of Absences 6. Concluding Remarks: Boundless Texts, Better Worlds Appendix: A Word on Sampling Glossary Notes References Index
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University of California Press Social Movements and the Law
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University of California Press Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar Stories of Food
Book SynopsisThese sometimes harrowing, frequently funny, and always riveting stories about food and eating under extreme conditions feature the diverse voices of journalists who have reported from dangerous conflict zones around the world. A profile of the former chef to Kim Jong Ilof North Korea describes Kim's exacting standards for gourmet fare, which he gorges himself on while his country starves. A journalist becomes part of the inner circle of an IRA cell thanks to his drinking buddies. And a young, inexperienced female journalist shares mud crab in a foxhole with an equally young Hamid Karzai. Along with tales of deprivation and repression are stories of generosity and pleasure, sometimes overlapping. This memorable collection, introduced and edited by Matt McAllester, is seasoned by tragedy and violence, spiced with humor and good will, and fortified, in McAllester's words, with a little more humanity than we can usually slip into our newspapers and magazine stories.Trade Review“If breaking bread is key to our humanity, it is doubly so in a conflict zone. In this riveting collection, correspondents share war stories through the lens of food and drink. . . . The food rituals become a vehicle for tales of greed and pettiness, but also friendship and human dignity.” * Mother Jones *“If you're the type of person who is curious about lives lived under extreme circumstances and the journalists who cover them, you'll find stories to savor in Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar." * Los Angeles Times *“Though Ernest Hemingway was arguably the best food writer of his day, he was not alone in the trenches and deserts where he got his inspiration, and this splendid volume of reports by journalists who spent time smack in the middle of the action at Kandahar, Haiti, Pakistan, and other war zones will give you a greater appreciation of whatever it is you eat at your dinner table tonight. There's a lot of quirkiness to these stories—how could there not be when one is titled ‘How Harry Lost His Ear’?—and there are gristly tales of the horrors and deprivations of war. But it is in the ingenuity and the hunger pangs of people trying first to survive then not to starve that you find how important a meal, not just sustenance, is to the human spirit.” * Esquire *“It may not be the usual light holiday read, but it's a fascinating one. This compilation of food-centric stories from foreign correspondents around the world will put you at the table with well-fed dignitaries and on mountainsides in Afghanistan with soldiers digging through their MREs (meals ready to eat).” * San Francisco Chronicle *“Offers mindful stories about food and extreme eating from journalists in conflict zones around the world, including a profile of the former chef to deceased dictator Kim Jong-iI of North Korea and a young female journalist’s tale of sharing the mud crabs of the title, with a just-as-young Hamid Karzai (Afghan president) in a foxhole.” * Vancouver Sun *“These are no Bourdain-like reminiscences of exploring foreign cuisine. The authors share the realities of MREs, the eating habits of famous and infamous political figures, and the struggle of surviving for weeks on burned rice and filthy water. . . . A compelling and highly worthwhile read.” * Serious Eats *“An exceptional choice for those who enjoy finding out the hidden culinary lives of the people whom we read about in the daily press. . . . A pleasurable read such as this would be a great addition to a course on the subject of food and memory, or even as lightly intellectual fare for the food enthusiast. Highly recommended.” * Indiana Review *“By sharing memories of meals eaten with refugees, with soldiers, with friends made in unlikely war-torn places--and in one case, with their captors--the 18 journalists whose stories appear here provide an unusual tour of the wars of our time. . . . The reporters' locales, experiences and voices bring a variety of courses to the table.” * Shelf Awareness *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Name of the Third Chicken: Kosovo Matt McAllesterPart One: Survival Rations Night Light: El Salvador and Haiti Lee HockstaderA Diet for Dictators: North Korea Barbara DemickSiege Food: Bosnia Janine di GiovanniMiraculous Harvests: China Isabel HiltonPart Two: Insistent Hosts How Harry Lost His Ear: Northern Ireland Scott AndersonWeighed down by a Good Meal: Gaza and Israel Joshua HammerThe Price of Oranges: Pakistan Jason BurkeJeweled Rice: Iran Farnaz FassihiThe Oversize Helmsman of an Undersize Country: Israel Matt ReesPart Three: Food under Fire Same-Day Cow: Afghanistan Tim HetheringtonEau de Cadavre: Somalia and Rwanda Sam KileyEating Mud Crabs in Kandahar: Afghanistan Christina LambMunther Cannot Cook Your Turkey: Iraq Rajiv ChandrasekaranPart Four: Breaking Bread The Best Man I Ever Knew: Georgia Wendell SteavensonDinner with a Jester: Afghanistan Jon Lee AndersonSugarland: Haiti Amy WilentzMy Life in Pagans: Ossetia James MeekThe House of Bread: Bethlehem Charles M. SennottBiographies Acknowledgments Index
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University of California Press Purgatory Citizenship Reentry Race and Abolition
Book SynopsisReentry after release from incarceration is often presented as a story of redemption. Unfortunately, this is not the reality. Those being released must navigate the reentry process with diminished legal rights and amplified social stigmas, in a journey that is often confusing, complex, and precarious. Making use oflife-history interviews, focus groups, and ethnographic fieldwork with low-income urban residents of color, primarily Black men, Calvin John Smiley finds that reentry requires the recently released to negotiate a web of disjointed and often contradictory systems that serveas an extension of the carceral system. No longer behind bars but not fully free, the recently released navigate a state of limbo that deprives them of opportunity and support while leaving them locked in a cycle of perpetual punishment. Warning of the dangers of reformist efforts that only serve to further entrench carceral systems,Purgatory Citizenshipadvocates for abolitionist solutions rooted in the visions of the people most affected.Trade Review"A vivid, microcosmic snapshot… It should be of great interest to scholars and students in sociology, criminology, legal and justice studies, those who work within the nonprofit and government sector, and the justice impacted." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Underdevelopment 2. Purgatory 3. Halfway 4. Body 5. Space 1 6. Abolition Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Refashioning Race How Global Cosmetic Surgery
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: From Standardization to Customization—Race in Cosmetic Surgery PART I GLOBAL EXPERT DISCOURSE 1. Standardizing Noses in Global Cosmetic Surgery 2. Standardizing Techniques: Asian Cosmetic Surgery and the Art and Science of Asian Difference PART II DISCUSSING CLINICAL PRACTICE IN THE U.S. AND MALAYSIA 3. “Looking Right”: Crafting Natural Looks in Cosmetic Surgery 4. Race and Customization in the Market for Cosmetic Surgery 5. Customizing Bodies: Seeing Race on the Body Conclusion: The Art and Science of Racial Difference in Global Cosmetic Surgery Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Big Brands Are Watching You
Book SynopsisHow is morality understood in the marketplace? Why do brands speak out about certain issues of injustice and not others? And what is influencer culture's role in social and political activism? Big Brands Are Watching You? investigates corporate culture, from the branding of companies and nations to television portrayals of big business and the workplace. Francesca Sobande analyzes media, interviews, survey responses, and ephemera from the history of advertising as well as exhibitions in London, brand stores in Amsterdam, a music festival in Las Vegas, and archives in Washington, DC, to illuminate the world of branding.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Preface: The Temperature of These Times Acknowledgments 1. Setting the Scene: Social Justice for Sale 2. The Politics of Morality and the Marketplace 3. The Business of Activism, Antagonism, and Aging 4. Forecasting the Future of Morality in the Marketplace References Index
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University of California Press Potholes in the Road Transition Problems for
Book SynopsisEducation has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the American Dream, and in this book Martín Sánchez-Jankowski uses extensive ethnographic research to explore the dynamics of the interrelated barriers that low-income students must surpass in order to make transitions successfully from high school to college.With rigor and compassion, and engaging in participant observation to examine how individual students confront the education system, Potholes in the Road shows how obstacles related to issues of structure, culture, and agency make achieving the American Dream through education particularly challenging.Table of ContentsContents Lists of Figures and Tables Preface Introduction 1 • The Politics of Educational Management 2 • The Interface of Family and School 3 • School Organization and Its Challenges 4 • The Impact of Cultural and Social Capital 5 • Social Tracking In the Educational Process Conclusion Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Black Apocalypse
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University of California Press Stolen Wealth Hidden Power The Case for
Book SynopsisA meticulous and exhaustive accounting of the total economic devastation wreaked on Black communities by mass incarceration with an action guide for vital reparations. Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power is a staggering account of the destruction wrought by mass incarceration. Finding that the economic value of the damages to Black individuals, families, and communities totals $7.16 trillionroughly 86 percent of the current BlackWhite wealth gapthis compelling and exhaustive analysis puts unprecedented empirical heft behind an urgent call for reparations. Much of the damage of mass incarceration, Tasseli McKay finds, has been silently absorbed by families and communities of the incarceratedwhere it is often compensated for by women's invisible labor. Four decades of state-sponsored violence have destroyed the health, economic potential, and political power of Black Americans across generations. Grounded in principles of transitional justice that have guided other nations in moving past eras of state violence, Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power presents a comprehensive framework for how to begin intensive individual and institutional reparations. The extent of mass incarceration's racialized harms, estimated here with new rigor and scope, points to the urgency of this work and the possibilities that lie beyond it. Trade Review"An eloquent and impressively detailed argument for repairing a grave injustice." * Publishers Weekly *"The case for reparations is not about guilt or blame but a shared morality about justice for the sins and harms the US inflicted through government actions, including enslavement, redlining, eminent domain, and racial discrimination. McKay makes a convincing case." * CHOICE *"A phenomenal read for those in privilege and those in peril." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Disremembered and Unaccounted For 2. “Institutionalized”: The Hyperregulation of Childhood Challenges 3. “More than a Shell”: Perpetual Imprisonment 4. “I Always Put the Burden on Her Shoulders”:The Invisible Weight of Mass Incarceration 5. “They Needed Me There”: The Mass Removal of Parents 6. “Systematic Deconstruction”: The Collective Effects of Mass Incarceration 7. Dreaming an America beyond Mass Incarceration Appendix: Research Methods Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Black Networked Resistance
Book SynopsisBlack Networked Resistance? explores the creative range of Black digital users and their responses to varying forms of oppression, utilizing cultural, communicative, political, and technological threads both on and offline. Raven Maragh-Lloyd demonstrates how Black users strategically rearticulate their responses to oppression in ways that highlight Black publics' historically rich traditions and reveal the shifting nature of both dominance and resistance, particularly in the digital age. Through case studies and interviews, Maragh-Lloyd reveals the malleable ways resistance can take shape and the ways Black users artfully demonstrate such modifications of resistance through strategies of survival, reprieve, and community online. Each chapter grounds itself in a resistance strategy, such as Black humor, care, or archiving, to show the ways that Black publics reshape strategies of resistance over time and across media platforms. Linking singular digital resistance movements while arguinTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. “The Whole World Is Going to See You, Boo”: “Karens,” Black Humor, and Innocence 2. “Do It for the Culture”: Black Digital Historians Reimagining Access 3. Care as Resistance: Black Women Online 4. Cancel Culture and the Limits of Networked Resistance 5. “The Black Delegation”: Black Evergreen Networks and Futures of Resistance Conclusion Notes References Index
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University of California Press Wonder Foods
Book SynopsisBetween 1850 and 1950, experts and entrepreneurs in Britain and the United States forged new connections between the nutrition sciences and the commercial realm through their enthusiasm for new edible consumables. The resulting food products promised wondrous solutions for what seemed to be both individual and social ills. By examining creations such as Gail Borden's meat biscuit, Benger's Food, Kellogg's health foods, and Fleischmann's yeast, Wonder Foodsshows how new products dazzled with visions of modernity, efficiency, and scientific progress even as they perpetuated exclusionary views about who deserved to eat, thrive, and live. Drawing on extensive archival research, historian Lisa Haushofer reveals that the story of modern food and nutrition was not about innocuous technological advances or superior scientific insights, but rather about the powerful logic of exploitation and economization that undergirded colonial and industrial food projects. In the process, these wonder foods shaped both modern food regimes and how we think about food.Trade Review"Wonder Foods is well-written, clearly organized, and generously cited with reputable sources—an exemplary food history from the perspective of the history of science and medicine." * Journal of the History of Biology *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Introduction: Balloons over Indianapolis 1 • “Focussed Flesh” 2 • The Raw and the Civilized 3 • Digestive Economies 4 • A Physiology of Consumption 1 5 • The Brewer, the Baker, and the Health Food Maker Conclusion: Transparent Man on Man-Made Land Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Healthy Users The Governance of WellBeing on
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University of California Press Healthy Users The Governance of WellBeing on
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University of California Press Who Pays for Diversity Why Programs Fail at
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University of California Press Who Pays for Diversity Why Programs Fail at
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University of California Press Access Is Capture
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University of California Press Justice Lessons
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University of California Press Justice Lessons
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University of California Press Disreputable Women Black Sex Economies and the
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University of California Press Disreputable Women Black Sex Economies and the
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University of California Press Inside the Invisible Cage
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University of California Press The New Public Safety Police Reform and the
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University of California Press Spy Plane
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University of California Press Spy Plane
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University of California Press Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways Indigenous
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