Social classes Books

Book SynopsisSonia Blandford, CEO of award-winning charity Achievement for All, writes brilliantly and honestly about the facing up to the realities of the white working class and how to address social mobility from the inside. No-one in the UK is better placed than Sonia to write about the struggles of white working class pupils in our schools. She grew up on the Allied Estate in Hounslow and was the first member of her family to pursue education beyond the age of 14 and was also the first to attend university. Sonia lost her mother when she took an accidental overdose, when she couldn't read the doctor's prescription. This tragic failing served as one of the inspirations for her to set up the award-winning Achievement for All organisation, who work with thousands of schools to help close the attainment gap. Born to Fail? tackles head-on issues such as why education often doesn't matter to the working class; how education has failed to deliver for them; the importance of self-belief, action and confidence; and how the Early Years is the crucial time to build success from the start.Trade Review'Sonia Blandford's book hit me like a ducking in freezing water. My starting point was the opposite to hers - privileged and certain I could change the world. She says of the working class 'it isn't about rescuing them. It's about valuing them and allowing them to develop in their own way'. Written with great clarity and personal insight, this is a book which, if taken seriously, especially by educationists and policy makers, really could change the world and I personally wish I had had the benefits of its wisdom fifty years ago. It is a perfect read for anyone wanting to see a more equitable society in modern Britain.' -- Sir Stephen O'Brien CBE (Founding Chair Teach First; Founding CEO Business in the Community and London First) 'Blandford may be the first Professor to have failed her English qualification five times - but this heart-ripping, brain-provoking book uses words perfectly to explain why class is not the same as disadvantage, why social mobility isn't something well-educated teachers can hand to chosen children but is something every child must be helped to choose for themselves, and why something as simple as playing the cornet in a school musical can be life-changing. Practical, hard-hitting, and packed with evidence, this is a manifesto for looking again at how we really make schools work for everyone.' -- Laura McInerney, Editor of Schools Week 'This book offers a genuinely new and unique approach to the debate on social mobility by using the author's own experience of growing up and succeeding from a working class background. Sonia shows how we need to understand the impact of working class experience and values on learners if we are to successfully shape educational policy and interventions which really have a chance of success. Building on her own extensive experience of implementing life changing programmes in education she explores what needs to change in our system to turn around the fact that social mobility is going backwards. This is a must read analysis if you are interested in making a difference in this area.' -- Brian Lamb, OBE (Special Educational Needs and Disability policy expert and Government adviser)Sonia Blandford's book hit me like a ducking in freezing water. My starting point was the opposite to hers - privileged and certain I could change the world. She says of the working class 'it isn't about rescuing them. It's about valuing them and allowing them to develop in their own way'. Written with great clarity and personal insight, this is a book which, if taken seriously, especially by educationists and policy makers, really could change the world and I personally wish I had had the benefits of its wisdom fifty years ago. It is a perfect read for anyone wanting to see a more equitable society in modern Britain. Sir Stephen O'Brien CBE (Founding Chair Teach First; Founding CEO Business in the Community and London First Blandford may be the first Professor to have failed her English qualification five times - but this heart-ripping, brain-provoking book uses words perfectly to explain why class is not the same as disadvantage, why social mobility isn't something well-educated teachers can hand to chosen children but is something every child must be helped to choose for themselves, and why something as simple as playing the cornet in a school musical can be life-changing. Practical, hard-hitting, and packed with evidence, this is a manifesto for looking again at how we really make schools work for everyone Laura McInerney, Editor of Schools Week This book offers a genuinely new and unique approach to the debate on social mobility by using the author's own experience of growing up and succeeding from a working class background. Sonia shows how we need to understand the impact of working class experience and values on learners if we are to successfully shape educational policy and interventions which really have a chance of success. Building on her own extensive experience of implementing life changing programmes in education she explores what needs to change in our system to turn around the fact that social mobility is going backwards. This is a must read analysis if you are interested in making a difference in this area. Brian Lamb, OBE (Special Educational Needs and Disability policy expert and Government adviser)

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Book SynopsisHow an historic market town in middle England has entertained itself over 150 years, from 1800 to 1950. Lovely black and white photographs

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Book SynopsisIt is a great privilege to launch our series with A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief, by Alfred Temba Qabula, with a new Foreword by the original translator, BE Nzimande. Qabula was a central figure in the cultural movement among working people that emerged in and around Durban in the 1980s. It was an innovative attempt to draw on the oral poetry developed among the Nguni people over many centuries. Alfred Temba Qabula was a forklift driver in the Dunlop tyre factory in Durban at the time this book was developed. He used the art of telling stories to critique the exploitation of black workers and their oppression under apartheid.

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Book SynopsisSets out to determine when and why valedictorians end up at less selective schools, showing that social class makes all the difference. This title traces valedictorians' paths to college and presents damning evidence that high schools do not provide sufficient guidance on crucial factors affecting college selection.Trade Review"Top Student, Top School? is an important, well-conceived, and well-written study. The topic addressed is of critical importance. Higher education is meant to facilitate social mobility, but a large body of research suggests it instead reproduces inequality. Here Alexandria Walton Radford gives us a much better understanding of the mechanisms that prevent higher education from achieving this central goal." (Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation)"

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Book SynopsisA cruise along the streets of Chennai - or Silicon Valley - filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In this book, the author examine one particularly striking group who have taken part in this development.Trade Review"Tamil Brahmans is a solid, original work that makes a major contribution to our understanding of a vitally important part of the world and of a unique group of people whose numbers in the United States are growing year by year and who are becoming increasingly influential at the highest professional levels in medicine, law, academia, business, and government." (Sylvia J. Vatuk, University of Illinois at Chicago)"

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Book SynopsisOffers an ethnography of the culture of suburban drug dealers. This book shows that suburban drug dealers accord status to deliberate avoidance of conflict, which helps keep their drug markets more peaceful - and, consequently, less likely to be noticed by law enforcement.Trade Review"Code of the Suburb takes us into the world of young white suburban drug dealing and in doing so, provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war in poor, minority communities. To readers familiar with that context, the absence of police and prisons-indeed, of virtually any negative consequences for selling and using drugs-is quite striking." (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City)

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Book SynopsisThese seven essays on the structure of Chinese society are based on articles contributed by Fei to Chinese newspapers in 1947 and 1948. Six case histories from a study of the gentry by Yung-teh Chow are appended. The chief interest and charm of this book lie in the fact that it is not directed to the Western reader; these were studies written in Chinese, by an erudite Chinese, for a Chinese public. . . . Mrs. Redfield is to be complimented for her own careful research in preparing this translation for a non-Chinese public.Robert F. Spencer, American Anthropologist

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Book SynopsisRoger V. Gould argues that human conflict is more likely to occur in symmetrical relationships - among friends or social equals - than in hierarchical ones, wherein the difference of social rank between two individuals is already established.

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Book SynopsisOver a period of six years, at factory and warehouse, at the tavern across the road, in their homes and union meetings, on fishing trips and social outings, David Halle talked and listened to workers of an automated chemical plant in New Jersey's industrial heartland. He has emerged with an unusually comprehensive and convincingly realistic picture of blue-collar life in America. Throughout the book, Halle illustrates his analysis with excerpts of workers' views on everything from strikes, class consciousness, politics, job security, and toxic chemicals to marriage, betting on horses, God, home-ownership, drinking, adultery, the Super Bowl, and life after death. Halle challenges the stereotypes of the blue-collar mentality and argues that to understand American class consciousness we must shift our focus from the working class to be the working man.

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Book SynopsisPresents an analysis of special education enrollment that has created fresh kinds of inequality. This book argues that this inequity in treatment is directly linked to the disparity in resources possessed by the students' parents.Trade Review"This is a timely book on the important issue of the role of social class differences in how parents cope with a special education diagnosis." - Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania"

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Book SynopsisUses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago's North Kenwood - Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America. This title explores the battles between haves and have-nots, home owners and apartment dwellers, and newcomers and old-timers.Trade Review"A century from now, when today's sociologists and journalists are dust and their books are too, those who want to understand what the hell happened to Chicago will be finding the answer in this one." - Chicago Reader "To see how diversity creates strange and sometimes awkward bedfellows... turn to Mary Pattillo's Black on the Block." - Boston Globe"

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Book SynopsisThis historical study of intellectuals asks, for every period, who they were, how important they were, and how they saw themselves in relation to other Americans. Lewis Perry considers intellectuals in their varied historical roles as learned gentlemen, as clergymen and public figures, as professionals, as freelance critics, and as a professoriate. Looking at the changing reputation of the intellect itself, Perry examines many forms of anti-intellectualism, showing that some of these were encouraged by intellectuals as surely as by their antagonists. This work is interpretative, critical, and highly provocative, and it provides what is all too often missing in the study of intellectualsa sense of historical orientation.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] fascinating and timely new book. . . .Strolovitch treats the term 'crisis' as a 'keyword': a type of word that has its meaning shaped by social and political processes as well as a word that’s political meaning imbues power. That power includes when it’s used as well as when it’s not." -- Heath Brown * 3Streams *"Strolovitch builds a strong case for how privileged communities use and usurp true crises in marginalized communities to gain resourced and power. This is a must read for students of economics, public policy, race relations, political science, and sociology." * Choice *“When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People provides an enlightening analysis of how the idea of crisis has been constructed, evolved, and deployed by actors from the elites at the center of our governing apparatus to activists pushing from the margins. In this important book, we recognize that the frame of crisis is another tool that must be accounted for when trying to understand the political and economic landscape that we face and some seek to change.” -- Cathy Cohen | author of "Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics""When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People is a powerful examination of crisis construction and of the ramifications of crisis politics for both advantaged and disadvantaged groups. Strolovitch brilliantly develops her distinctive vision for a more meaningful and just American democracy, while covering exciting new terrain that has been almost entirely ignored by political scientists." -- Paul Frymer | author of "Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion""Strolovitch’s study is a meticulous and timely reminder that crises are neither natural occurrences nor neutral in how they direct action in a context marked by longstanding inequalities. Crises, instead, are political constructions. From housing and unemployment to policing and public health, this groundbreaking book will transform our thinking about the crises that have dominated public attention over the last few decades.” -- Chloe Thurston | author of "At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination and the American State""This is a sharp and much needed intervention in how political science conceptualises and applies the idea of 'crisis' to moments of upheaval, uncertainty and transformation. As Strolovitch persuasively argues, a crisis is not quite what it seems. Those marganlized groups, for whom misfortune is a policy goal, do not necessarily experience crises. Instead, crisis, like much else in American political life, is reserved for those powerful groups who must be protected from life's vagaries." -- Akwugo Emejulu | author of "Fugitive Feminism"“Strolovitch conducts an exhaustive rhetorical analysis of crisis in well-selected print sources that incorporate both media and government, carving out distinctive territory in its direct focus on the rhetoric of crisis in politics.” -- Julie Novkov | University at Albany, SUNY“The evidence that Strolovitch marshalls is wide-ranging, spanning sources from newspapers to organizational players to congress and the presidency. The time span and grasp of history is extremely impressive with writing that is accessible and fluid.” -- Leslie McCall | The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Acknowledgments Introduction. Crisis Politics Part I Crisis and Non-Crisis in American Politics Chapter 1 Crisis as a Political Keyword Chapter 2 What We Talk about When We Talk about Crisis Chapter 3 Regressions, Reversals, and Red Herrings Part II Foreclosure Crises and Non-Crises Chapter 4 When Does a Crisis Begin? Chapter 5 How to Semantically Mask a Crisis Conclusion and Epilogue. Will These Crises Go to Waste? Appendices. Overview of Sources and Methods A Working with Textual Data: Caveats and Considerations B Sources, Methods, and Coding Protocols C List of Main Sources of Data and Evidence D Supplementary Figures and Tables Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe United States boasts scores of organizations that offer crucial representation for groups that are marginalized in national politics. This work explores the challenges and opportunities they face, as waning legal discrimination coincides with increasing political and economic inequalities within the populations they represent.Trade Review"Using impressive original data, Dara Strolovitch probes an important topic: the failure of interest groups that seek to represent the disadvantaged to advocate for the even more disadvantaged within their constituencies. This is a well-written and compelling work that will deepen our understanding of American democracy." - Kay Schlozman, Boston College"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] fascinating and timely new book. . . .Strolovitch treats the term 'crisis' as a 'keyword': a type of word that has its meaning shaped by social and political processes as well as a word that’s political meaning imbues power. That power includes when it’s used as well as when it’s not." -- Heath Brown * 3Streams *"Strolovitch builds a strong case for how privileged communities use and usurp true crises in marginalized communities to gain resourced and power. This is a must read for students of economics, public policy, race relations, political science, and sociology." * Choice *“When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People provides an enlightening analysis of how the idea of crisis has been constructed, evolved, and deployed by actors from the elites at the center of our governing apparatus to activists pushing from the margins. In this important book, we recognize that the frame of crisis is another tool that must be accounted for when trying to understand the political and economic landscape that we face and some seek to change.” -- Cathy Cohen | author of "Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics""When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People is a powerful examination of crisis construction and of the ramifications of crisis politics for both advantaged and disadvantaged groups. Strolovitch brilliantly develops her distinctive vision for a more meaningful and just American democracy, while covering exciting new terrain that has been almost entirely ignored by political scientists." -- Paul Frymer | author of "Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion""Strolovitch’s study is a meticulous and timely reminder that crises are neither natural occurrences nor neutral in how they direct action in a context marked by longstanding inequalities. Crises, instead, are political constructions. From housing and unemployment to policing and public health, this groundbreaking book will transform our thinking about the crises that have dominated public attention over the last few decades.” -- Chloe Thurston | author of "At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination and the American State""This is a sharp and much needed intervention in how political science conceptualises and applies the idea of 'crisis' to moments of upheaval, uncertainty and transformation. As Strolovitch persuasively argues, a crisis is not quite what it seems. Those marganlized groups, for whom misfortune is a policy goal, do not necessarily experience crises. Instead, crisis, like much else in American political life, is reserved for those powerful groups who must be protected from life's vagaries." -- Akwugo Emejulu | author of "Fugitive Feminism"“Strolovitch conducts an exhaustive rhetorical analysis of crisis in well-selected print sources that incorporate both media and government, carving out distinctive territory in its direct focus on the rhetoric of crisis in politics.” -- Julie Novkov | University at Albany, SUNY“The evidence that Strolovitch marshalls is wide-ranging, spanning sources from newspapers to organizational players to congress and the presidency. The time span and grasp of history is extremely impressive with writing that is accessible and fluid.” -- Leslie McCall | The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Acknowledgments Introduction. Crisis Politics Part I Crisis and Non-Crisis in American Politics Chapter 1 Crisis as a Political Keyword Chapter 2 What We Talk about When We Talk about Crisis Chapter 3 Regressions, Reversals, and Red Herrings Part II Foreclosure Crises and Non-Crises Chapter 4 When Does a Crisis Begin? Chapter 5 How to Semantically Mask a Crisis Conclusion and Epilogue. Will These Crises Go to Waste? Appendices. Overview of Sources and Methods A Working with Textual Data: Caveats and Considerations B Sources, Methods, and Coding Protocols C List of Main Sources of Data and Evidence D Supplementary Figures and Tables Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA thought-provoking challenge to our ideas about philanthropy, marking it as a deeply political activity that allows the wealthy to dictate more than we think.Trade Review"Private Virtues, Public Vices is essential reading for navigating our present-day collision course between widespread economic inequality and democratic governance." * The Review of Politics *"Ms. Saunders-Hastings, a political scientist at Ohio State University, believes that philanthropy is in tension with democracy—may even be harmful to it. Her critique is worth taking seriously. . ." * The Wall Street Journal *"In Private Virtues, Public Vices: Philanthropy and Democratic Equality, Emma Saunders-Hastings reminds us that contributing private wealth for the public good—by definition—has always been a political act. . . . the book is timely—and timeless, for it goes beyond calling for reforms to suggest a framework for thinking not only about philanthropy but also about democracy, equality, and justice." * Philanthropy News Digest *"Saunders-Hastings’ book is of great relevance, as it uncovers the fundamental interests behind most philanthropic giving, other than addressing widening inequality, escalating poverty, and other global concerns. . . . a must-read for all who have a keen interest in philanthropic work on a national and international level." * Voluntas *“The best philosophical illumination of the tension-ridden relationship between philanthropy and democracy. Better still, in exploring the institutional design of contemporary philanthropy, Saunders-Hastings makes original contributions to democratic theory itself, especially as concerns the relationship between ideal and non-ideal theory and the basis of objections to paternalism.” -- Rob Reich, Stanford University“Philanthropy is a hot topic these days. This crisply and clearly written book reframes the ethical discussion focused on rich people/countries’ debt to those less well-off and recasts practical concerns about effective giving to focus on the politics and power of giving. Private Virtues, Public Vices poses challenging questions in this age of global inequality. Saunders-Hastings couples precise arguments with thoughtfully chosen real-world examples to convey a strong sense of urgency.” -- Lisa Jane Disch, University of MichiganTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Donations and Deference Chapter 2. Equality and Philanthropic Relationships Chapter 3. Plutocratic Philanthropy Chapter 4. Philanthropic Paternalism Chapter 5. Ordinary Donors and Democratic Philanthropy Chapter 6. International Philanthropy Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGreat American City demonstrates the powerfully enduring impact of place. Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social science, Robert J. Sampson's Great American City presents the fruits of over a decade's research to support an argument that we all feel and experience every day: life is decisively shaped by your neighborhood. Engaging with the streets and neighborhoods of Chicago, Sampson, in this new edition, reflects on local and national changes that have transpired since his book's initial publication, including a surge in gun violence and novel forms of segregation despite an increase in diversity. New research, much of it a continuation of the influential discoveries in Great American City, has followed, and here, Sampson reflects on its meaning and future directions. Sampson invites readers to see the status of the research initiative that serves as the foundation of the first editionthe Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN)a

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Book SynopsisIn 1980, the author's world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In the ensuing years, ninety thousand other area residents would also lose their jobs in the mills. In this book, she examines the fate of her family and that of blue-collar America at large.

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Book SynopsisIn Inequality in Canada Eric Sager considers one of the defining – but hardest to define – ideas of our era and traces its different meanings and contexts across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Trade Review"This is intellectual history at its best and Eric Sager is at the top of his game: confident, but never arrogant, comfortable with his sources, and critical, in the best sense of that word. Inequality in Canada is a masterful piece of scholarship." Donald Wright, University of New Brunswick"As we think about where we have been and where we want to be, one useful starting place is Eric Sager's Inequality in Canada, which offers a detailed account of how politicians, preachers, economists, and editorialists have articulated and debated the issue since colonial days. Sager's concluding chapter, "To Explore and to Know Again," is so passionate, wise, sad, and engaging that readers should try to stay with him to the end." Literary Review of Canada

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Book SynopsisHaving returned to Russia in 1990 after two decades, the writer known as Abram Tertz creates a vivid picture of today's Russian intelligentsia and its role as conscience and critic since the fall of communism, as well as a chilling portrait of economic and political stagnation under Yeltsin.Trade ReviewAn unflinching, passionate account of what has gone wrong in Russia since the collapse of the Bolshevik system-and of the complicity of the most privileged segment of the intelligentsia in the Yeltsin-era crimes and catastrophes--by a voice of incomparable moral authority, intelligence, and persuasiveness. Susan SontagTable of ContentsIntroduction Strolls with Pushkin A Journey to the River Black Remembering Cathy Nepomnyaschchy and Slava Yastremski Notes Notes on the Text

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Book SynopsisNo Country argues for a rethinking of the genre of working-class literature. Sonali Perera expands our understanding of of working-class fiction by considering a range of international and non-canonical texts, identifying textual, political, and historical linkages often overlooked by Eurocentric and postcolonial scholarship.Trade ReviewSonali Perera's No Country offers a powerful new theorizing of working-class literature in a global dimension. Gender inflections are given in unprecedented detail, through deeply learned and meticulously documented close readings of an astonishingly diversified collection of texts. Perera's readings of Marx are relevant to contemporary realities. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia UniversityA timely, intellectually ambitious, and original piece of work. It hopes both to reinvigorate critical interest in a complex genre/period category and, in the same movement, to provoke new thinking about such major categories as class, history, and literature itself. -- Ellen Rooney, Brown UniversityCaught in the stampede toward globalism, literary scholars have overlooked the rich archives of working-class internationalism. Sonali Perera's study is a bracing corrective to this trend, putting South Asian voices in dialogue with transcontinental interlocutors. Inspired by Raymond Williams, No Country leads us to a world literature that includes its many proletarian offshoots. -- Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University, author of Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan LanguageThis carefully argued book will interest scholars of contemporary transnational literature, Marxist approaches to literature, and African and South Asian literary studies; to my mind, however, its greatest impact will be on a younger generation of postcolonial critics, including graduate students, whose education has been so saturated with the theoretical truisms of postcolonial theory in its high phase that it is very difficult to imagine fresh readings of new and older texts outside of them. With such as the case I suspect that many younger scholars would rather give up on postcolonial studies altogether, dismissing it, as some have already done, as an outdated theoretical paradigm. This book challenges that claim. -- Ulka Anjaria * Contemporary Literature *Perera's critical and careful reading of literature is a challenge to all those who read literature politically, and seek to grapple with the larger questions of equality and justice in our uneven and unequal world. -- Ahilan Kadirgamar * Himal Southasian Magazine *A welcome addition and a worthwhile read. * South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies *Perera acknowledges a global workforce of peasants and coolies and garment workers stretching from India, Sri Lanka, and Botswana to the US, forged between the heyday of proletarian literature in the 1930s and contemporary collective forms of writing. . . . Global workingclass writing is at once deeply local (found in micro struggles over land or ethnicity that impel collectivity) and international (vectored through worker solidarity movements and transnational flows of capital, goods, and workers); moreover, according to Perera, its force comes within and through its aporia and interruptions, not in its discursive totality. Thus, working-class culture theorizes new subjects as it expresses them in varied literary forms—novels, poems, magazines, stories, reports. But read together with Marx and Williams, Perera finds that working-class culture describes the broken contours of a discontinuous field: “‘interruption’ [is] a structural, not aberrational, aspect of a specifically feminist aesthetic and ethic.” Discontinuous and in motion, the new working-class writing, like proletarian revolution, “come[s] back ...to begin it afresh.” It travels. -- Paula Rabinowitz * American Literary History *We can also see the future of Working-Class Studies in books like Sonali Perera’s No Country: Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization, which reads fiction from India, South Africa, and other colonialized regions of the English-speaking world alongside the work of Tillie Olsen. If nothing else, our increased awareness of the global working class should generate a more comparative, or at least a more contextualized, approach to the study of class. -- Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo * Journal of Working-Class Studies *Globalisation makes novels (especially traditional novels) hard to write. With national working-class publics constantly constituted only to be broken apart, jobs (or bodies) shipped around the globe, neither the room of one’s own nor the time presents itself for texts modelled on the great working-class novels of the last two centuries. This is one of the strongest implicit arguments in Perera’s book – and, I think, an essential point. -- Nicholas Hengen Fox * Race and Class *The book's primary enquiry is to examine how working-class writing can remain radical in a world of heightened globalisation where neoliberal capitalism pervades modes of reading and interpreting. In so doing, [Perera] aims to provide readings that challenge a sanitised view of world literature in which working-class positions remain marginalised and provincialised within a market-driven elite cosmopolitan literary culture. -- David Firth * Wasafiri *No Country could and should change the way that we conceptualize international working-class writing. -- Michelle M. Tokarczyk * Canadian Review of Comparative Literature *Through her analysis . . . Perera explores how to rethink working class literature, and No Country reevaluates the complex period genre category of working class writing. * Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: World Literature or Working-Class Literature in the Age of Globalization?1. Colonialism, Race, and Class: Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie as a Literary Representation of the Subaltern2. Postcolonial Sri Lanka and "Black Struggles for Socialism": Socialist Ethics in Ambalavaner Sivanandan's When Memory Dies3. Gender, Genre, and Globalization4. Socialized Labor and the Critique of Identity Politics: Bessie Head's A Question of PowerEpilogue: Working-Class Writing and the Social ImaginationNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA hard-edged guide to New York City swindles, street life, and culture, through direct interviews with con artists and hustlers.Trade ReviewPart sociology, part psychology, and always interesting history, The Con Men is a valuable tool in understanding how this small community, living in a gray market, manages to survive in a society that for the most part rejects and disdains them. -- Patrick O'Reilly, author of Undue Influence: Cons, Scams, and Mind Control The Con Men is a revealing portrait of a critical but little known element of city life: the urban hustler. Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton go deep and emerge with the goods, powerfully illuminating this subterranean world and the social lives of its inhabitants. At once timely, incisive, and poignant, this is a fascinating work of lasting importance. -- Elijah Anderson, author of Code of the Street and The Cosmopolitan Canopy Bold and illuminating... A thoroughly researched academic study accessible to general readers. Kirkus Reviews This terrific ethnography explains that cons and hustles are no longer the preserve of roguish proletarians in loud suits and painted ties. Everybody wants a bargain, and creative capitalism makes mugs of us all. -- Dick Hobbs Times Higher Education [Williams & Milton] bring the reader with them into places from Brooklyn to the Bronx that are supposed to be invisible to those not in the know... An engaging read. -- Malcolm Harris The New Republic A fascinating look at the New York underworld. Integrating history, social psychology and sociology, the authors provide an educated lens to examine some of the oldest cons in Manhattan, perpetuated by the hands of career schemers, counterfeiters, drug dealers and even the men and women in blue. It is an eye-opening initiation to the uninformed or the curious. -- Jeffrey S. Podoshen Consumption Markets & CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Alibi: Portrait of a Con Man 2. City Cons and Hustles 3. The Con Crew 4. The Con Game as Street Theater 5. Petty Street Hustles 6. Canal Street as Venus Flytrap 7. The Numbers Game 8. New York Tenant Hustles 9. A Drug Hustle: The Crack Game 10. NYPD and the Finest Cons 11. Wall Street Cons Epilogue Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Down the Up Staircase, Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch trace the social history of Harlem through the lens of one family across three generations, connecting their journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling three-story brownstone in Sugar Hill.Trade ReviewBruce D. Haynes's story is a classic American tale-which combines the big themes of history with the gritty reality of a single family's extraordinary story. -- Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker and senior legal analyst at CNN Haynes channels W. E. B. Du Bois to provide a rich sociological portrait of his "talented tenth" family. The lively writing conveys both universal family dramas of social mobility (up and down) as well as the particular context of Harlem across the twentieth century. A great read! -- Dalton Conley, author of Honky, Princeton University An utterly captivating work that shows off Haynes's brilliant sociological imagination on every page. He and Solovitch are masterful at linking the small personal details of everyday family and community life to social structure and history. Like Dalton Conley's Honky, this book will be seen as a significant contribution to the emerging literary form of sociological memoir. -- Mitchell Duneier, author of Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea, Princeton University Down the Up Staircase is a beautifully written, captivating, and absorbing book that connects seemingly private concerns with public policies and structures in clear and convincing fashion. It delineates vividly how poverty and downward mobility do not make people noble, resilient, and resourceful, but instead shatter social ties and self-esteem. This fast-paced book will likely be consumed by readers in one sitting, but its powerful and poignant stories will linger in the mind long afterwards. -- George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place Down the Up Staircase is a riveting narrative about three generations of a black family and their struggle to maintain inherited privilege. Written with elegance and penetrating insight, the book shines light on the precarity that all blacks confront, regardless of their social class and personal ambitions. -- Stephen Steinberg, author of Race Relations: A Critique, professor of urban sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York A candid and profoundly personal contribution to America's racial history. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) This masterful account begins as a portrait of a house that was a living, breathing extension of the family that lived in it both in hopeful times and in darker ones. But it soon reaches out into the larger social landscape of Harlem and then into the changing history and culture of an entire land. In doing so, it shifts seamlessly from a sensitive biography to a thoughtful ethnographic sketch of an important place in an important time, and then into a wise and compelling essay on the social history of our time. What we encounter on the printed page, of course, is written narrative, but it is conveyed to us in what might best be described as a rich and perceptive voice. In every way, a remarkable work. -- Kai Erikson, Yale University This thoughtful and sobering memoir weaves the beauty and tragedy of Haynes's family story into the complex history of Harlem... Like Harlem's story, the memoir is bittersweet, painting a full and complicated picture of black upper-class life over generations. Publishers Weekly Down the Up Staircase combines elements of memoir and sociology, culminating in an incredibly rich story. Bookish In this thoughtfully conceived and crafted memoir, the authors offer evocative, relentlessly honest portrayals without judgement. In doing so, they encourage the reader to ponder the variables in her own life, the tides and forces that help or hinder her pursuit of the sweet life. -- Elizabeth Dowling Taylor The New York Times Book Review [A] moving memoir. -- Georgia Rowe East Bay Times As Isabel Wilkerson did expertly in 'The Warmth of Other Suns' - the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic tale of the Great Migration - Haynes and Solovitch follow their relatives through decades, revealing the impact of public policy and social change on the family from generation to generation. -- Krissah Thompson Washington PostTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1. Mad Money 2. Not Alms but Opportunity 3. New Negroes 4. Soul Dollars 5. Stepping Out 6. Do for Yourself 7. Free Fall 8. Moving on Down 9. Keep on Keepin' on Notes

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Book SynopsisIn Down the Up Staircase, Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch trace the social history of Harlem through the lens of one family across three generations, connecting their journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling three-story brownstone in Sugar Hill.Trade ReviewBruce D. Haynes's story is a classic American tale—which combines the big themes of history with the gritty reality of a single family's extraordinary story. -- Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker and senior legal analyst at CNNHaynes channels W. E. B. Du Bois to provide a rich sociological portrait of his "talented tenth" family. The lively writing conveys both universal family dramas of social mobility (up and down) as well as the particular context of Harlem across the twentieth century. A great read! -- Dalton Conley, author of Honky, Princeton UniversityAn utterly captivating work that shows off Haynes's brilliant sociological imagination on every page. He and Solovitch are masterful at linking the small personal details of everyday family and community life to social structure and history. Like Dalton Conley's Honky, this book will be seen as a significant contribution to the emerging literary form of sociological memoir. -- Mitchell Duneier, author of Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea, Princeton UniversityDown the Up Staircase is a beautifully written, captivating, and absorbing book that connects seemingly private concerns with public policies and structures in clear and convincing fashion. It delineates vividly how poverty and downward mobility do not make people noble, resilient, and resourceful, but instead shatter social ties and self-esteem. This fast-paced book will likely be consumed by readers in one sitting, but its powerful and poignant stories will linger in the mind long afterwards. -- George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes PlaceDown the Up Staircase is a riveting narrative about three generations of a black family and their struggle to maintain inherited privilege. Written with elegance and penetrating insight, the book shines light on the precarity that all blacks confront, regardless of their social class and personal ambitions. -- Stephen Steinberg, author of Race Relations: A Critique, professor of urban sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New YorkA candid and profoundly personal contribution to America's racial history. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *This masterful account begins as a portrait of a house that was a living, breathing extension of the family that lived in it both in hopeful times and in darker ones. But it soon reaches out into the larger social landscape of Harlem and then into the changing history and culture of an entire land. In doing so, it shifts seamlessly from a sensitive biography to a thoughtful ethnographic sketch of an important place in an important time, and then into a wise and compelling essay on the social history of our time. What we encounter on the printed page, of course, is written narrative, but it is conveyed to us in what might best be described as a rich and perceptive voice. In every way, a remarkable work. -- Kai Erikson, Yale UniversityThis thoughtful and sobering memoir weaves the beauty and tragedy of Haynes's family story into the complex history of Harlem.... Like Harlem's story, the memoir is bittersweet, painting a full and complicated picture of black upper-class life over generations. * Publishers Weekly *Down the Up Staircase combines elements of memoir and sociology, culminating in an incredibly rich story. * Bookish *In this thoughtfully conceived and crafted memoir, the authors offer evocative, relentlessly honest portrayals without judgment. In doing so, they encourage the reader to ponder the variables in her own life, the tides and forces that help or hinder her pursuit of the sweet life. -- Elizabeth Dowling Taylor * The New York Times Book Review *[A] moving memoir. -- Georgia Rowe * East Bay Times *As Isabel Wilkerson did expertly in 'The Warmth of Other Suns' — the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic tale of the Great Migration — Haynes and Solovitch follow their relatives through decades, revealing the impact of public policy and social change on the family from generation to generation. -- Krissah Thompson * Washington Post *Haynes and Solovitch weave memoir and sociology to document the shifting fortunes of the black middle-class family, and of Harlem itself, and illuminate the tenuous nature of status and success among the black middle class. * The Davis Enterprise *Interweaving a variety of sociological concepts and historical examinations with intimate portraits of this singular family, Down the Up Staircase takes readers on an entertaining and provocative tour of twentieth-century urban America. -- Richard E. Ocejo * New Books in Sociology *Down The Up Staircase is more than a story of a family, far more than the chronology of a home. And yet the entire tale — the story of the black experience in the 20th century—feels like it’s being very intimately told to you from the parlor. * The Bowery Boys *Like Harlem’s story, the memoir is bittersweet, painting a full and complicated picture of black upper-class life over generations. * Harlem World Magazine *In Down the Up Staircase: Three generations of a Harlem Family, Bruce D. Haynes (with his co-author, Syma Solovitch) gives us a poignant memoir of his own Uptown youth in the 60s, 70s and 80s, and also reaches further back to when his grandparents bought a townhouse in the Sugar Hill district in 1931. -- Benjamin George Friedman * Times Literary Supplement *Every sociologist—indeed everyone—interested in race, mobility, and the African American experience should read this book. It will motivate rethinking of the stakes and consequences for African Americans striving to get or stay ahead. For sociologists and other scholars of race and the urban experience, as well as lay readers who desire to understand more fully much of what black family life in urban America was all about during the past 100 years, it should be a required text. -- Alford A. Young, Jr. * Sociological Forum *Haynes and Syma Solovitch show a surprisingly complex account of black middle class life in a biographically and analytically novel way. . . . Down the Up Staircase adds an important lens to the numerous complexities of generational social mobility for African Americans in the United States. -- Edwin Grimsley * City & Community *Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family is at once a history of Black Harlem, Black social science in and beyond the academy, and the Black elite class. . . . In Haynes and Solovitch’s narrative hands, the book’s key characters – the three generations of the Haynes family, the Convent Avenue brownstone, and Harlem – do sweeping and personal historical work about race, class, and cities in twentieth century America. -- Zandria F. Robinson * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family, guides readers through the double glass doors of the Haynes family home as the tell the tale of Harlem's historical and social transformation using the family's crumbling three-story brownstone as the backdrop. Haynes and Solovitch pull back the proverbial curtains to document the tenuous nature of achievement, success, and status among the black middle class. * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. Mad Money2. Not Alms but Opportunity3. New Negroes4. Soul Dollars5. Stepping Out6. Do for Yourself7. Free Fall8. Moving on Down9. Keep on Keepin' onNotes

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Book SynopsisLeader Communities is a study of Stockholm's suburb Djursholm and other similar places: privileged communities where elites choose to live, socialize with other elites, and raise their children into future elites. Mikael Holmqvist provides unparalleled insight into today's power elite and the social and political consequences of their aspirations.Trade ReviewOne of the very few extensive and penetrating ethnographic studies of an upper-class community, its culture, lifestyle, mentality, ideals, and norms, but also its problems and shortcomings, which contributes new empirical knowledge to a topic which has received much attention in mass media as well as in elite literature. -- Trygve Gulbrandsen, research professor at the Institute for Social Research (Norway) Sweden is mainly known to Americans as an advanced welfare state with equality bordering on socialism. This book presents another side of Sweden through its focus on its most exclusive suburb, Djursholm, situated just outside of Stockholm. This is where Sweden's one-percenters live and also where they do their utmost to ensure that their children will stay in that percent. A first rate social science study. -- Richard Swedberg, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsPreface1. A Shining City: The Emphasis on Aesthetics2. A Privileged World: Economic Power and Wealth3. Significant People and Winners4. Sporty Teenagers, Winsome Pensioners5. Fragrant, Sociable Personages6. Community and Social Partition7. Family Life8. A Lifestyle Under Threat9. Service Staff10. Becoming an Elite11. Judgment and Fear of Failure12. Tactics for Success13. The Rise of the “Consecracy” AcknowledgmentsLiteratureAppendix: The Ethnographic StudyNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisAgainst Happiness is a thorough and powerful critique of the “happiness agenda,” revealing the flaws of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on equality and justice.Trade ReviewHappiness studies started as an idealistic project but took shortcuts and so did not fulfill its ambitions. This important and trustworthy book takes us back to the drawing board to rebuild the foundations of this field. The new vision won’t make the science and policy of happiness easier, but it will make them more humane, more inclusive, and truer to life. -- Anna Alexandrova, author of A Philosophy of Science for Well-BeingReading this book made me happy, but more importantly, I learned a great deal from it. This book is a tour de force: written in a lively, accessible manner; well argued; and empirically well-informed. It is the best available critique of the ideology of the ‘happiness agenda,’ which confuses subjective positive mental states and reported life satisfaction with what really matters. -- Allen Buchanan, author of Our Moral Fate: Evolution and the Escape from TribalismHumankind has been preoccupied with happiness since we invented philosophy. We try to cultivate happiness with pithy little sayings, like 'Happiness is a journey, not a destination' and 'Happiness is a state of mind.' We regulate happiness with religion. We judge the quality of a life by the amount of happiness achieved, and the success of a country by the average happiness of its citizens. And yet, no one can agree on exactly what happiness is or what it's worth. Against Happiness masterfully reveals that happiness is not a single experience, physical condition, or unified state of meaning. It's a population of instances that vary across situations and cultures (as are all other categories of emotion). And each instance blooms from unexamined assumptions and preconceptions that likewise vary by situation and culture. This book is a must-read for anyone who has felt happy, hungered for more happiness, or pondered the emotional lives of humans and how happiness matters to the quality of a life. -- Lisa Feldman Barrett, author of How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the BrainIf you are happy read this book. If you are not happy read this book. Either way you will learn about the complexity of the very idea and how it is widely sprinkled throughout our mental space while still remaining an elusive reality. -- Michael Gazzaniga, author of Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of MindThis book is an attempt at doing cross-cultural and thus real philosophy in that it is the love of the wisdom of all peoples, rather than that of the WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) people. It is also an attempt at interdisciplinary works and thus grounded philosophy. While showing the relativity of happiness, it also insists on the universality of certain human goods, such as human rights and sustainable development goals. -- Bai Tongdong, author China: The Middle Way of the Middle KingdomAgainst Happiness moves beyond the one-dimensional and reductionist approaches that have hitherto limited our understanding of happiness to narrow aspects or have obliterated non-western, non-white, and marginalized experiences of well-being. The authors persuasively outline shortcomings of definitions of happiness across different disciplines and different cultural philosophical traditions, a crucial step for investigating more accurate, inclusive, and expansive definitions of happiness in the future. -- Liya Yu, author of Vulnerable Minds: The Neuropolitics of Divided SocietiesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Happiness Philosophy and Happiness Science1. Introduction: The Happiness Agenda2. Varieties of Theories and Measures of Well-Being and Happiness3. How Should We Think About the Emotion of Happiness Scientifically? Lessons from the Science of Fear4. Why Averaging Happiness Scores and Comparing Them Is a Terrible IdeaPart II: Culture and Happiness5. Positive and Negative Emotions: Culture, Content, and Context6. Happiness and Well-Being as Cultural Projects: Immigration, Biculturalism, Cultural Belonging7. Happiness and Well-Being in Contemporary ChinaPart III: Race, Racism, Resignation8. Happiness, Race, and Hermeneutical Justice: The Case of African American Mental Health9. Interpreting Self-Reports of Well-BeingPart IV: Conclusions10. Recommendations for Policy Use of Happiness Metrics11. Universal Rights, Sustainable Development, and Happiness: Two out of Three Ain’t BadPart V: Responses by Four Critics12. On Ersatz Happiness, by Jennifer A. Frey13. Why the Analysis and Assessment of Happiness Matters, by Hazel Rose Markus14. Three out of Three Is Better, by Jeffrey D. Sachs15. What the Gallup World Poll Could Do to Deepen Our Understanding of Happiness in Different Cultures, by Jeanne L. TsaiNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Recommended." --Choice"Impressive and highly engaging. Hits all the right notes as it takes up transnational migration, a shifting sense of home, and what Cristina Alcalde persuasively calls exclusionary cosmopolitanism among middle class Peruvians."--Florence E. Babb, author of The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories"A compelling ethnographic case study of middle- and upper-class Peruvian migration to the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde offers her readers a unique analysis of the gendered and sexuality-driven intricacies of return."--Ulla Berg, author of Mobile Selves: Migration, Race, and Belonging in Peru and the US

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Focusing on Vietnam’s labor export policy to Malaysia, Angie Trần shows us why gender and ethnic hierarchies matter in remaking the politics of control and dissent. Essential reading for all those interested in South-South labor brokerage and temporary migration." --Brenda S. A. Yeoh, coeditor of Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations"This book features workers describing their conditions as laborers in foreign countries. Often shining through is how workers turned adversities into triumphs, usually modest but still invigorating. Also significant is that the workers are from five ethnic groups within Vietnamese society." --Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet, author of Speaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party–Ruled NationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Contexts Matter: Historical, Economic, Cultural, Religious Practices of the Five Ethnic GroupsChapter 2. Transnational Labor Brokerage System and Its InfrastructureChapter 3. Labor Recruitment Process and IndebtednessChapter 4. Precarity and Coping MechanismsChapter 5. Physical Third Space EmpowermentChapter 6. Metaphorical Third Space EmpowermentChapter 7. Aspirations After MalaysiaConclusionAppendix 1. Descriptions of the SamplesAppendix 2. Land Issues for the Five Ethnic Groups in This StudyAppendix 3. Chronology of the Transnational Labor Brokerage State System, 1980s–2019Appendix 4. Legal Documentation of Labor Export PoliciesAppendix 5. List of OrganizationsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the mid-twentieth century, corporations consolidated control over agriculture on the backs of Mexican migrant laborers through a guestworker system called the Bracero Program. The National Agricultural Workers Union (NAWU) attempted to organize these workers but met with utter indifference from the AFL-CIO. Andrew J. Hazelton examines the NAWU''s opposition to the Bracero Program against the backdrop of Mexican migration and the transformation of North American agriculture. His analysis details growers’ abuse of the program to undercut organizing efforts, the NAWU''s subsequent mobilization of reformers concerned by those abuses, and grower opposition to any restrictions on worker control. Though the union''s organizing efforts failed, it nonetheless created effective strategies for pressuring growers and defending workers’ rights. These strategies contributed to the abandonment of the Bracero Program in 1964 and set the stage for victories by the United Farm Workers andTrade Review"A much-needed examination of two intertwined institutional histories: the effort to unionize farmworkers from the New Deal era to the eve of the UFW set alongside the growth and evolution of the Bracero Program. Labor’s Outcasts exhibits a remarkable depth of archival research into the actions of officials in the labor movement and the government."--John Weber, author of From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century"Why are farmworkers so poor? It’s not because they pick crops or get dirty, Andy Hazelton reveals in this important book. It’s because farmworkers--“Labor’s Outcasts”--were left out of the protections of American labor law. When farmworkers tried to organize anyway, they were crushed by a government-run labor supply system known as the Bracero Program. Long before Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers appeared on the scene, a fierce little farm labor union led by a southern socialist and a Mexican farmworker turned academic took on the agribusiness industry to battle the Bracero Program and organize farmworkers on both sides of the US-Mexican border. This is a story you don’t know and you won’t forget."--Cindy Hahamovitch, author of No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor"Labor's Outcasts shows how labor migration was a transnational phenomenon that benefitted growers and governments while it exploited the labor power of migrants and ignored the protests of citizen workers." --Pacific Historical Review

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Book SynopsisVietnam annually sends a half million laborers to work at low-skill jobs abroad. Angie Ng?c Tr?n concentrates on ethnicity, class, and gender to examine how migrant workers belonging to the Kinh, Hoa, Hrê, Khmer, and Chãm ethnic groups challenge a transnational process that coerces and exploits them. Focusing on migrant laborers working in Malaysia, Tr?n looks at how they carve out a third space that allows them a socially accepted means of resistance to survive and even thrive at times. She also shows how the Vietnamese state uses Malaysia as a place to send poor workers, especially from ethnic minorities; how it manipulates its rural poor into accepting work in Malaysia; and the ways in which both countries benefit from the arrangement. A rare study of labor migration in the Global South, Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment answers essential questions about why nations export and import migrant workers and how the workers protect themselves not only within the system, but by circumventingTrade Review"Focusing on Vietnam’s labor export policy to Malaysia, Angie Trần shows us why gender and ethnic hierarchies matter in remaking the politics of control and dissent. Essential reading for all those interested in South-South labor brokerage and temporary migration." --Brenda S. A. Yeoh, coeditor of Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations "This book features workers describing their conditions as laborers in foreign countries. Often shining through is how workers turned adversities into triumphs, usually modest but still invigorating. Also significant is that the workers are from five ethnic groups within Vietnamese society." --Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet, author of Speaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party–Ruled NationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Contexts Matter: Historical, Economic, Cultural, Religious Practices of the Five Ethnic Groups Chapter 2. Transnational Labor Brokerage System and Its Infrastructure Chapter 3. Labor Recruitment Process and Indebtedness Chapter 4. Precarity and Coping Mechanisms Chapter 5. Physical Third Space Empowerment Chapter 6. Metaphorical Third Space Empowerment Chapter 7. Aspirations After Malaysia Conclusion Appendix 1. Descriptions of the Samples Appendix 2. Land Issues for the Five Ethnic Groups in This Study Appendix 3. Chronology of the Transnational Labor Brokerage State System, 1980s–2019 Appendix 4. Legal Documentation of Labor Export Policies Appendix 5. List of Organizations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Few scholars today explore racial (in)justice with as much depth and clarity, and with such fresh insight, as john powell. In these enlightening essays, powell challenges those of us who consider ourselves relatively evolved on issues of race and social justice to think far more critically about the basic assumptions and paradigms that frame our perspectives, animate our scholarship, and drive our advocacy. The central question he poses--"Can we stop focusing simply on transactional moves that we see as winnable and start working for the transformation of institutions that perpetuate suffering?"--is, perhaps, the most important and pressing question for racial justice advocates today." —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"A book that will provoke readers to rethink prevailing notions of race, racial identity, and racism... [and] what prevailing law does and does not consider in tackling persistent forms of racial inequality." —Rachel D. Godsil, Seton Hall University School of Law"Juxtaposing race, spirituality, self, and social justice, john powell reveals the poverty in contemporary policy debates and crafts a road map for building true democratic community. Read this book and tell a friend." —Stephanie M. Wildman, Center for Social Justice and Public Service, Santa Clara University School of Law"Infused by moral urgency, intellectual precision, sweeping command of history and of critical race theory, and an unequalled ability to situate race in concrete places, these linked essays take us into the mind of one of our greatest legal and social thinkers. They navigate tensions between law and justice with consummate skill and great passion." —David Roediger, coauthor of The Production of Difference"john a. powell is among the most original and important thinkers writing about politics, race and social change in America. He is a genuine genius whose work has been indispensable to thousands of activists and scholars. Finally, his critical work is gathered together in one place. If we succeed in changing in America--and we must do so--it will be in no small part because we have engaged deeply with the ideas, analysis and heart in this book. Racing to Justice is essential reading for everyone implicated by race in America--and that means everyone." —Deepak Bhargava, Center for Community Change"powell sets forth a powerful argument that... until we expand our sense of self, we will be unable to create the racially egalitarian and democratic society to which many progressives aspire.... A brilliantly original and provocative challenge to the current social order." —Michael Omi, co-author of Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990sTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Moving Beyond the Isolated SelfI. Race and Racialization1. Post-Racialism or Targeted Universalism?2. The Colorblind Multiracial Dilemma: Racial Categories Reconsidered3. The Racing of American Society: Race Functioning as a Verb Before Signifying as a NounII. White Privilege4. Whites Will Be Whites: The Failure to Interrogate Racial Privilege5. White Innocence and the Courts: Jurisprudential Devices that Obscure PrivilegeIII. The Racialized Self 6. Dreaming of a Self Beyond Whiteness and Isolation7. The Multiple Self: Implications for Law and Social JusticeIV. Engagement 8. Lessons from Suffering: How Social Justice Informs SpiritualityAfterwordReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisMary Montgomery examines why Moroccans so often talk about their domestic workers as daughters, what this means for workers and employers, and how this is changing in contemporary Morocco.Trade ReviewHighly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPart I: The Social Relations of Domestic Service.1. A City Quarter and the 'Popular' Ideal2. Mothers and Daughters3. A Civilizing Mission: Charity, Reward, and Gratitude4. Serving Neighbors, Serving Strangers: Markets and MarketplacesPart II: Domestic Workers in the Wider World5. Domestic Workers in the City6. Domestic Workers at Home7. Domestic Workers and the LawConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisMary Montgomery examines why Moroccans so often talk about their domestic workers as daughters, what this means for workers and employers, and how this is changing in contemporary Morocco.Trade ReviewHighly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPart I: The Social Relations of Domestic Service.1. A City Quarter and the 'Popular' Ideal2. Mothers and Daughters3. A Civilizing Mission: Charity, Reward, and Gratitude4. Serving Neighbors, Serving Strangers: Markets and MarketplacesPart II: Domestic Workers in the Wider World5. Domestic Workers in the City6. Domestic Workers at Home7. Domestic Workers and the LawConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisOverthrowing the Queen tackles perceptions of welfare recipients while proposing new approaches to the study of oral narrative that extends far beyond the study of welfare, poverty, and social justice.Trade ReviewMould brilliantly captures the importance of prejudices towards welfare and how these social misrepresentations can shape current policies on public assistance. -- Eric Gagnon Poulin * Ethic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsSection I: Welfare Legends: An American Tradition Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Welfare System and Narrative Scholarship Chapter 3: Birth in a NationSection II: Insider Views: Aid Recipients' Stories Chapter 4: Origin Stories Chapter 5: Challenge Stories Chapter 6: Making Ends Meet and Achieving Success StoriesSection III: Public Debates: Clash of Cultures Chapter 7: Symbols and Stereotypes Chapter 8: Hard Workers and the Worthy Poor Chapter 9: Welfare Lore in Social MediaSection IV: Re-Envisioning Legends Chapter 10: Context as Creator of Tradition Chapter 11: Truth and Doubt in Contemporary Tradition Chapter 12: Overthrowing the QueenEpilogueAppendixNotesSources Cited

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Book SynopsisOverthrowing the Queen tackles perceptions of welfare recipients while proposing new approaches to the study of oral narrative that extends far beyond the study of welfare, poverty, and social justice.Trade ReviewMould brilliantly captures the importance of prejudices towards welfare and how these social misrepresentations can shape current policies on public assistance. -- Eric Gagnon Poulin * Ethic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsSection I: Welfare Legends: An American Tradition Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Welfare System and Narrative Scholarship Chapter 3: Birth in a NationSection II: Insider Views: Aid Recipients' Stories Chapter 4: Origin Stories Chapter 5: Challenge Stories Chapter 6: Making Ends Meet and Achieving Success StoriesSection III: Public Debates: Clash of Cultures Chapter 7: Symbols and Stereotypes Chapter 8: Hard Workers and the Worthy Poor Chapter 9: Welfare Lore in Social MediaSection IV: Re-Envisioning Legends Chapter 10: Context as Creator of Tradition Chapter 11: Truth and Doubt in Contemporary Tradition Chapter 12: Overthrowing the QueenEpilogueAppendixNotesSources Cited

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction1. In the Manor House: A New Elite is Born2. The C(adre) Line: Consumer Habits3. Tradition and Innovation: the Hunt for Concordance4. Meetings Between the System and Its People5. Luxury: Public and Semi-Public Spaces6. Stain on the Blue Sofa: Luxury and the EliteAfterwordBibliography

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction1. In the Manor House: A New Elite is Born2. The C(adre) Line: Consumer Habits3. Tradition and Innovation: the Hunt for Concordance4. Meetings Between the System and Its People5. Luxury: Public and Semi-Public Spaces6. Stain on the Blue Sofa: Luxury and the EliteAfterwordBibliography

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Working Out Class and Nation in Edinburgh1. History, Heritage, and Politics in the Old TownInterlude 1: On Conservation, Community, and Class2. Depoliticizing Development: Neoliberal Urbanism and CaltongateInterlude 2: A Shop in the Canongate3. Saving the Old Town, One More Time: Ancient Concerns for Neoliberal TimesInterlude 3: Dumbiedykes4. The Politics of HomeInterlude 4: Doocots and Community Land Use in Glasgow5. Scottish Cosmopolitanism: From Neighborhood to NationConclusion: Urban Scotland, Working-Class Politics, and National FuturesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Working Out Class and Nation in Edinburgh1. History, Heritage, and Politics in the Old TownInterlude 1: On Conservation, Community, and Class2. Depoliticizing Development: Neoliberal Urbanism and CaltongateInterlude 2: A Shop in the Canongate3. Saving the Old Town, One More Time: Ancient Concerns for Neoliberal TimesInterlude 3: Dumbiedykes4. The Politics of HomeInterlude 4: Doocots and Community Land Use in Glasgow5. Scottish Cosmopolitanism: From Neighborhood to NationConclusion: Urban Scotland, Working-Class Politics, and National FuturesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Yountsville: The Rise and Decline of an Indiana Mill Town , Ronald Morris and collaborators examine the history and context of a rural Midwestern town, including family labor, working women, immigrants, and competing visions of the future. Combing perspectives from history, economics, and archeology, this exploration of a pioneering Midwestern company town highlights how interdisciplinary approaches can help recover forgotten communities.The Yount Woolen Mill was founded during the pioneer period by immigrants from Germany who employed workers from the surrounding area and from Great Britain who were seeking to start a life with their families. For three generations the mill prospered until it and its workers were faced with changing global trade and aging technology that could not keep pace with the rest of the world. Deindustrialization compelled some residents to use education to adapt, while others held on to their traditional skills and were forced to relocate.Trade Review“Yountsville: The Rise and Decline of an Indiana Mill Town will make a strong beginning to the Notre Dame regional archaeology line, providing a very rich and densely documented study of a rural Indiana community. The book has interesting primary data that has rarely received scholarly attention, and for the obsessive researcher interested in rural life in general and small-town Indiana in particular there are a lot of fascinating details.”—Paul R. Mullins, Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis"Ronald Morris’s study of Yountsville presents the fascinating and complicated interplay of the rapidly changing forces of industrialization and education and how they shaped the life and economy of rural communities. Quite importantly, Morris also builds a strong argument that extant historic places—such as Yount’s Mill—are more than adjunct to the written historical narrative in understanding our past." —Marsh Davis, Indiana Landmarks Center"In the Midwest, many stories exist about German immigrants working in urban areas, but there are few stories of immigrants as capitalists in rural areas. The story of the Yount family is one of an immigrant family who built an industry with talent, labor, and advantage. Unfortunately, deindustrialization, dislocation, adaptation, and reuse were familiar problems in the Midwest." —Midwest Book Review Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Education by Ronald V. Morris 2. The Growth of Industry by Ronald V. Morris and J.B. Bilbrey 3. Production History by Ronald V. Morris 4. The Yount Family by Ronald V. Morris 5. Lives of the Workers by Ronald V. Morris, J.B. Bilbrey, Jessica L. Clark, and Mark D. Groover 6. Landscape Reconstruction at Yount’s Mill by Ronald V. Morris, J.B. Bilbrey, Mark D. Groover, Colin Macleod, and Steven Lacey 7. Conclusions by Ronald V. Morris

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The significant impact of this book is that it has not only sharpened gender sensitivity but also heightened awareness of the immensely complex challenges of diversity management in India as a whole. . . . It will be a reference point for much future research." -- Vineeth Mathoor * South Asia Research *"Gupta adds to overall Dalit and global feminist scholarship a rich and dense analysis of texts and contexts to unpack the 'biopolitics of caste.' It is an engaging example of interdisciplinary work focused on close readings of print and popular culture representations from colonial India, including present-day representations, that construct, contest, revise, and influence narratives of gender and caste." -- Veena Deo * Journal of Asian Studies *"Charu Gupta has made her contribution in the field of historical research at the intersection of gender and caste in India widely acclaimed. . . .This book serves as a timely reminder for gender scholars working on colonial India that gendering is experienced by all bodies, and hence the time has come to question the central subjectivity of women in most works." -- Arpita Chakraborty, Dublin City University, Ireland * Religion and Gender *Table of ContentsAbbreviations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Gendering Dalits 1. Dirty “Other” Vamp: (Mis)Representing Dalit Women 2. Paradoxes of Victimhood: Iconographies of Suffering, Sympathy, and Subservience 3. Dalit Viranganas: (En)Gendering the Dalit Reinvention of 1857 4. Feminine, Criminal, or Manly? Imaging Dalit Masculinities 5. Intimate and Embodied Desires: Religious Conversions and Dalit Women 6. Goddesses and Women’s Songs: Negotiating Dalit Popular Religion and Culture 7. Caste, Indentured Women, and the Hindi Public Sphere Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This inter-disciplinary book draws on rare English and Marathi language sources — including novels, poems, and manifestoes — and contributes to debates in the fields of South Asian history, global Marxism, social anthropology, urban studies, labor studies, Dalit studies, and literature." * New Books in South Asia (NBN) *"Highlighting the nexus among caste, class, language, urban space, and the tensions within these categories, as well as how caste and class shaped the urban environment, this remarkable book contributes significantly to social/labor history and urban studies." * Choice *"[A] fascinating study of the politics of urban poor in the rapidly shifting landscape of twentieth-century Bombay city...it offers a glimpse of [the city] as it is lived, reshaped, and appropriated by its Dalit inhabitants, and makes a great contribution to the bourgeoning scholarship on Dalit labor and Bombay city." * The Middle Ground Journal *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This inter-disciplinary book draws on rare English and Marathi language sources — including novels, poems, and manifestoes — and contributes to debates in the fields of South Asian history, global Marxism, social anthropology, urban studies, labor studies, Dalit studies, and literature." * New Books in South Asia (NBN) *"Highlighting the nexus among caste, class, language, urban space, and the tensions within these categories, as well as how caste and class shaped the urban environment, this remarkable book contributes significantly to social/labor history and urban studies." * Choice *"[A] fascinating study of the politics of urban poor in the rapidly shifting landscape of twentieth-century Bombay city...it offers a glimpse of [the city] as it is lived, reshaped, and appropriated by its Dalit inhabitants, and makes a great contribution to the bourgeoning scholarship on Dalit labor and Bombay city." * The Middle Ground Journal *

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