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Trade Review"In a now vast literature Celia Lury's new edition stands out for its clarity and critical intelligence. In addition to offering a guide through the thicket of new and old approaches, this book provides readers with a map to explore how consumption shapes personal and group identities." -- Frank Trentmann * Birkbeck College, Director of the Cultures of Consumption Research Programme 200 *"Consumer Culture is a gem of a book. Celia Lury writes with insight, timeliness, and a thorough mastery of the subject. The general reader, the scholar, and the student will read Consumer Culture with the disturbing kind of satisfaction that comes from learning just how deeply consumerism has become a way of life." -- Charles Lemert * Wesleyan University *"Consumer culture is everywhere but we rarely see it. In second revised edition, Celia Lury takes a number of vivid scenes from our daily lives and provides helpful cultural grounding for questioning our ordinary experiences as consumers. Well organized and well written, the book provides an articulated picture of an increasingly fundamental aspect of contemporary cultures, stressing the role that ethics, subjectivity and difference have in shaping what consumer culture is today. Offering theoretical definitions and practical examples, this is a user-friendly book which will attract many readers and help them through the predicament of consumer choice and its increasingly relevant symbolic centrality for subjectivity constitution." -- Roberta Sassatelli * University of Milan *"A concise yet theoretically dense overview of the main issues that scholars and researchers of consumer culture will be focusing on for years to come. Essential." * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is Consumer Culture? 1. Material Culture and Consumer Culture 2. Exchanging Things: The Economy and Culture 3. Objects, Subjects and Signs 4. Capital, Class and Consumer Culture 5. Circuits of Culture and Economy: Gender, Race and Reflexivity 6. Brands: Markets, Media and Movement 7. Consuming Ethics, or What Goes Around, Comes Around 8. Consumer Culture, Identity and Politics: When Are You (Not) a Consumer? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIdentifies and explains the sources of stratification that differentiate colleges and universities in the United States. The authors use quantitative analysis to map the contours of this system. They then explain the mechanisms that sustain it and illustrate the ways in which rising institutional inequality has limited individual opportunity.Trade Review“Unequal Higher Education is well-conceptualized, rigorous, and thought-provoking—a welcome addition to higher education literature. This book is a must-read.” -- Michael S. Harris * author of How to Get Tenure: Strategies for Successfully Navigating the Process *“To reverse inequality, Taylor and Cantwell make the case for less – not more – competition in higher education. Their analysis is convincing and gives a much needed update to the literature." -- Nicholas W. Hillman * University of Wisconsin-Madison *"Pay rises for US faculty members remain low for third year in a row," by Chris Woolston * Nature *Science of Politics podcast interview with Brendan Cantwell * Science of Politics podcast *"More Diverse, Still Stratified: Colleges Fall Short on Offering 'Good Value' Spots" by Peter Monaghan * Chronicle of Higher Education *"‘Unequal Higher Education’ Authors discuss new book on inequities facing students and institutions," by Scott Jaschik * Inside Higher Education *"How Chasing Prestige Is Starting to Strain Some Elite Institutions" by Dan Bauman https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Chasing-Prestige-Is/247545 * Chronicle of Higher Education *"A well-researched, thoughtful, thorough, and convincing argument that not only adds to the current literature but calls for the current stewards and beneficiaries of higher education to take action to correct the climate and course of unequal higher education." * Teachers College Record *" Recommended." * Choice *"Can ‘White Resentment’ Help Explain Higher-Education Cuts?" by Eric Kelderman https://www.chronicle.com/article/Can-White-Resentment-/247921?utm_source=atutm_medium=encid=atsource=amssourceId=4906530 * Chronicle of Higher Education *“This book gives an in-depth description of the unique challenges and benefits associated with each type of institution, including the recent and detrimental emergence of Vulnerable institutions….a necessary read not only for higher education stakeholders, but also the general public.” * The Review of Higher Education *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Unequal Higher Education 1 The Roots of Unequal Higher Education 2 A Field Account of Unequal Higher Education 3 Mapping Unequal Higher Education 4 Unequal Public Higher Education: Stratification and Drift 5 Unequal Private Higher Education: Persistent Inequalities 6 Unequal Higher Education and Student Opportunity 7 Consequences of Unequal Higher Education: Student Success and Mortgaged Futures 8 Contesting Unequal Higher Education Appendix Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisIdentifies and explains the sources of stratification that differentiate colleges and universities in the United States. The authors use quantitative analysis to map the contours of this system. They then explain the mechanisms that sustain it and illustrate the ways in which rising institutional inequality has limited individual opportunity.Trade Review“Unequal Higher Education is well-conceptualized, rigorous, and thought-provoking—a welcome addition to higher education literature. This book is a must-read.” -- Michael S. Harris * author of How to Get Tenure: Strategies for Successfully Navigating the Process *“To reverse inequality, Taylor and Cantwell make the case for less – not more – competition in higher education. Their analysis is convincing and gives a much needed update to the literature." -- Nicholas W. Hillman * University of Wisconsin-Madison *"Pay rises for US faculty members remain low for third year in a row," by Chris Woolston * Nature *Science of Politics podcast interview with Brendan Cantwell * Science of Politics podcast *"More Diverse, Still Stratified: Colleges Fall Short on Offering 'Good Value' Spots" by Peter Monaghan * Chronicle of Higher Education *"‘Unequal Higher Education’ Authors discuss new book on inequities facing students and institutions," by Scott Jaschik * Inside Higher Education *"How Chasing Prestige Is Starting to Strain Some Elite Institutions" by Dan Bauman https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Chasing-Prestige-Is/247545 * Chronicle of Higher Education *"A well-researched, thoughtful, thorough, and convincing argument that not only adds to the current literature but calls for the current stewards and beneficiaries of higher education to take action to correct the climate and course of unequal higher education." * Teachers College Record *" Recommended." * Choice *"Can ‘White Resentment’ Help Explain Higher-Education Cuts?" by Eric Kelderman https://www.chronicle.com/article/Can-White-Resentment-/247921?utm_source=atutm_medium=encid=atsource=amssourceId=4906530 * Chronicle of Higher Education *“This book gives an in-depth description of the unique challenges and benefits associated with each type of institution, including the recent and detrimental emergence of Vulnerable institutions….a necessary read not only for higher education stakeholders, but also the general public.” * The Review of Higher Education *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Unequal Higher Education 1 The Roots of Unequal Higher Education 2 A Field Account of Unequal Higher Education 3 Mapping Unequal Higher Education 4 Unequal Public Higher Education: Stratification and Drift 5 Unequal Private Higher Education: Persistent Inequalities 6 Unequal Higher Education and Student Opportunity 7 Consequences of Unequal Higher Education: Student Success and Mortgaged Futures 8 Contesting Unequal Higher Education Appendix Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisFinalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction One of Time Magazines''s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards, Best History & Biography 2020 Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book AwardsAn entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside. Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won't get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class. In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Deirdre Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and how Nazis haunt the streets of modern

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Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide . . . It takes a skillful journalist to weave data and anecdotes together so effectively. Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles TimesAn award-winning journalist investigates Amazon's impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States.In 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. He blasted the callousness of a company worth a billion dollars that underpaid its workers while forcing them to engage in repetitive and sometimes dangerous assembly-line labor. Eight decades later, the market capitalization of Amazon.com has exceeded $1.5 trillion, while the value of the Ford Motor Company hovers around $30 billion. We have entered the age of one-click Americaand as the coronavirus makes Americans more dependent on online sho

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Book SynopsisOne of The New York Times''s 100 notable books of 2021[George Packer''s] account of America's decline into destructive tribalism is always illuminating and often dazzling. William Galston, The Washington PostAcclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and dividesIn the year 2020, Americans suffered one rude blow after another to their health, livelihoods, and collective self-esteem. A ruthless pandemic, an inept and malign government response, polarizing protests, and an election marred by conspiracy theories left many citizens in despair about their country and its democratic experiment. With pitiless precision, the year exposed the nation's underlying conditionsdiscredited elites, weakened institutions, blatant inequalitiesand how difficult they are to remedy.In Last Best Hope, Ge

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Hillman Prize for Book JournalismA groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of dirty workthe work that society considers essential but morally compromisedDrone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the kill floors of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States' most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society's most ethically troubling jobs. As Press shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name.The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn unprecedented attention to essential workers, and to the health and safety risks to which workers in prisons and slaughterhouses are exposed. But Dirty Work examine

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Book SynopsisA landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood.Trade Review"Dawidoff's portrait of prison life, its pointless mix of boredom, sadness and stress, is an important corrective…[The Other Side of Prospect] has the oomph of a classic American novel, one that sucker-punches you every time you remember that it's all true." -- Mark Oppenheimer - Washington Post"The result of eight years of reporting, this deft chronicle delves into the story of Bobby…Dawidoff presents portraits of the individuals involved, juxtaposed with research on segregation, the Great Migration, and mass incarceration." -- New Yorker"Not unlike Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, this is a book as gripping and fast-paced as a bestselling fictional mystery." -- Michael Henry Adams - The Guardian"A powerful, poignant and profound account of deindustrialization, racial discrimination, inequality and mass incarceration." -- Glenn Altschuler - The Florida Courier"The Other Side of Prospect isn’t just a necessary American book, it’s an essential American book. By unraveling the long, profound story across generations that leads to one teenager twice confessing to a crime that he didn’t commit, Nicholas Dawidoff reveals just how pervasive the failures of our time can be. A child of intelligence and personal promise becomes a killer; an elderly grandfather is murdered; and an innocent boy suffers under the brutal weight of a nearly a decade in prison with memories no exoneration can erase. This is beyond the best book about the crisis of incarceration in America. It is also a book that reminds us indelibly that the Great Migration has tragically ended for many in not just the closing of factories and opportunities, but also the filling of graves and prison cells." -- Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of Felon"The Other Side of Prospect illuminates complex social issues—the Great Migration, mass incarceration, wrongful conviction, prisoner reentry—in deeply personal terms. This is a haunting, devastating, magnificent work of narrative nonfiction." -- James Forman Jr., Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Locking Up Our Own"This intricate book continues to grow like a tree in me—Bobby’s tender, persistent yearnings bound by the generations of contaminated soil that fear creates. Nicholas Dawidoff’s huge accomplishment is that he does the meticulous forensics of the crime of our fearing those in peril, and The Other Side of Prospect portrays the ongoing consequences of what we all continue to lose—all the knowledge lost, all the joy that’s stilled—when fear predominates. I finished reading his book with heartbreak and great gratitude. Its quest for broader justice pushes forward." -- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family"The Other Side of Prospect is an intimate and haunting recovery of lives both lost and found, potential both squandered and realized, and struggles both failed and furthered. It forces us to face the brutal injustice and inequality that defines our nation’s justice system as well as one of its richest and most prestigious cities, and to take a hard look at the deeper roots and wider resonances of that ugliness. The true gift of Nicholas Dawidoff’s powerful recovery of this wrongful conviction and the fight to have it overturned, however, is its ability to help us to see what is still irrevocably beautiful about this country, and thus what still may be possible for its future." -- Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Blood in the Water"The Other Side of Prospect is a riveting narrative that shows and tells the story of a deeply distressed Black ghetto neighborhood severely challenged by the ills of deindustrialization, racialized poverty, and random street crime and violence—a must-read for anyone wishing to understand." -- Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies, Yale University and author of Black in White Space"A searing portrait of injustice in America." -- Publishers Weekly"[A] rigorously reported, urgent book." -- Kirkus Reviews

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Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors'' ChoiceShortlisted for the 2018 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardA brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income—a stipend given to every citizen—and why it might be necessary in an age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology.   Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and hotly debated policy ideas of our time. Futurists, radicals, libertarians, socialists, union representatives, feminists, conservatives, Bernie supporters, development economists, child-care workers, welfare recipients, and politicians from India to Finland to Canada to Mexico—all are talking about UBI.   In this sparkling and provocative book, economics writer Annie Lowrey examines the UBI movement from many angles. She travels to Kenya to see how a UBI is lifting the poorest people on earth out of destitution, India to see how inefficient government programs are failing the poor, South Korea to interrogate UBI’s intellectual pedigree, and Silicon Valley to meet the tech titans financing UBI pilots in expectation of a world with advanced artificial intelligence and little need for human labor.   Lowrey explores the potential of such a sweeping policy and the challenges the movement faces, among them contradictory aims, uncomfortable costs, and, most powerfully, the entrenched belief that no one should get something for nothing. In the end, she shows how this arcane policy has the potential to solve some of our most intractable economic problems, while offering a new vision of citizenship and a firmer foundation for our society in this age of turbulence and marvels.

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Book SynopsisIn Culture and Comfort Katherine C. Grier shows how the design and furnishings of the mid-nineteenth century parlor reflected the self-image of the Victorian middle class. Parlors provided public facades for formal occasions and represented an attempt to resolve the often opposing ideals of gentility and sincerity to which American culture aspired. The book traces the fortunes of the parlor and its upholstery from its early incarnations in “palace” hotels, railroad cars, steamships, and photographers'' studios; through its mid-century heyday, when even remote frontier homes could boast “suites” of red plush sofas and chairs; to its slow, uneven metamorphosis into the more versatile living room. The author argues that even as the home increasingly was seen as a haven from industralization and commercialization, its ties to industry and commerce—in the form of more affordable, machine-made furniture and drapery—became stronger.By the 1920s the parlor''s decline signaled both a blurring of the Victorian distinctions between public and private manners and the transfer of middle-class identity from the home to the automobile. Describing the deportment a parlor required, the activities it sheltered, and the marketing and manufacturing breakthroughs that made it available to all, Culture and Comfort reveals the full range of cultural messages conveyed by nineteenth-century parlor materials.

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Book SynopsisFor too long the study of impoverished Puerto Ricans living in the fifty states has been undermined by the use of broad generalizations. Puerto Ricans have been statistically grouped with all Latinos, studied with models developed for understanding African-American life, and written about as if New York's Puerto Rican community was the only such community worthy of detailed study. This book changes all that. In this important new work, Susan Baker looks beyond the traditional models and rewrites the origins, current state, and reasons behind Puerto Rican poverty.The book tells the story of how Puerto Ricans have left the Rustbelt cities to return to the island or to seek job opportunities elsewhere. Those left behind are predominantly poor women with dependents who live in segregated neighborhoods with little chance of finding low-skilled jobs because of competition from non-citizen, non-politicized workers.In her alternative explanation, the author presents data from across the country and puts forth an explanation that is grounded in Puerto Rican history and sensitive not only to the interconnectedness of the island and mainland population, but also the increasing distress faced by Puerto Rican women and the sad truth that Puerto Rican citizenship in this country is a second class one.Trade Review"This book greatly enhances our understanding of Puerto Ricans by describing their history, and social, and labor experiences in the South, Midwest, and West, as well as New York City. In doing so, it enriches our knowledge about Puerto Ricans across the U.S. in a way that no other book does. Baker effectively highlights how the Puerto Rican experience is different from that of other Hispanic Americans. It is worth noting that the book is one of the first to utilize the results from the 2000 Census."—Tony Carnes, Chair, Seminar on Contents and Methods in the Social Sciences, Columbia University, and director of the Research Institute for New Americans"Susan Baker has written a noteworthy volume. To her extensive personal experience she brings an academic perspective that is thorough and well thought out. Much has been written about the Puerto Rican Diaspora focusing on New York City. Baker contributes to our understanding by tackling internal migration and terms of incorporation that vary from place to place. She makes a further contribution by comparing this population to other Latinos, exploring the role of segregation (including a cogent discussion of the dissimilarity index), and the impact of the larger U.S. economic structure."—Alvaro L. Nieves, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Wheaton College (Ill.)"This illuminating examination of poverty within the Puerto Rican population in mainland U.S.A. provides a readable resource with many applications. Baker carefully employs a methodology to examine Puerto Ricans that acknowledges the regional, class, gender, and generational diversity that exists within this group, as well as emphasizing the necessity of studying all Latino groups individually and within their own particular contexts. This work is significant not only for scholars in Puerto Rican studies but also for anyone seeking a better understanding of the distinct Latino populations within the United States."—Edwin David Aponte, Assistant Professor of Christianity and Culture, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist UniversityTable of ContentsPrefacePart I: Viewing Puerto Ricans as Hispanic1. Hispanics in the United States2. The Journeys of Mexicans and Cubans3. The Puerto Rican journey4. How the Journeys EndPart II: Viewing Puerto Ricans Across the United States5. How Puerto Ricans Fore from Place to Place6. Infernal Migration, A Response?7. How Segregation Fits In8. Puerto Rican Women and the Labor ForcePart III: Viewing Puerto Ricans Within the US. Economic Structure9. Immigrant Incorporation into U.S. Economy10. Puerto Rican Incorporation into NEW York11. Puerto Rican Incorporation into Areas Other Than New York12. ConclusionAppendix A: Selected MSAs by RegionAppendix B: Dissimilarity Indexes for Selected MSAs 1990Works CitedIndex

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Book Synopsis"Engrossing, exciting [...] This book compels us to rethink our approaches to economics ..." —Literary Review of Canada"Thought-provoking and creative" — Julie Nelson, author of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics"Meme Wars is a Molotov cocktail tossed into the boardroom. "— Calgary HeraldFrom the editor and magazine that started and named the Occupy Wall Street movement, Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics is an articulation of what could be the next steps in rethinking and remaking our world that challenges and debunks many of the assumptions of neoclassical economics and brings to light a more ecological model. Meme Wars aims to accelerate the shift into this new paradigm that takes into account psychonomics, bionomics, and other aspects of our physical and mental environment that are often left out in discussions of economics. Like Adbusters, the book will be image heavy and full-color throughout. Lasn calls it "a textbook for the future" that provides the building blocks, in texts and visuals, for a new way of looking at and changing our world. Through an examination of alternative economies, Lasn hopes to spur students to become "barefoot economists" and to see that a humanization of economics is possible. Meme Wars will include contributions from Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Samuelson, George Akerlof, Lourdes Benería, Julie Matthaei, Manfred Max-Neef, David Orrell, Paul Gilding, Mathis Wackernagel and the father of ecological economics Herman Daly, among others.Based on ideas that were presented in a special issue of Adbusters entitled "Thought Control in Economics: Beyond the Growth Paradigm / An Activist Toolkit," Meme Wars will help move forward the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. Though the infant mortality rate overall has improved over the past century with public health interventions, racial disparities have not. Racism, poverty, lack of access to health care, and other causes of death have been identified, but not yet adequately addressed. The tragedy is twofold: it is undoubtedly tragic that babies die in their first year of life, and it is both tragic and unacceptable that most of these deaths are preventable. Despite the urgency of the problem, there has been little public discussion of infant loss. The question this book takes up is not why babies die; we already have many answers to this question. It is, rather, who cares that babies, mostly but not only Black and Native American babies, are dying before their first birthdays? More importantly, what are we willing to do about it? This book tracks social and cultural dimensions of infant death through 58 alphabetical entries, from Absence to ZIP Code. It centers women’s loss and grief, while also drawing attention to dimensions of infant death not often examined. It is simultaneously a sociological study of infant death, an archive of loss and grief, and a clarion call for social change.Trade Review“This is a moving, beautiful book. The composite effect is stunning, both an indictment of systemic racism and sexism, and a tender offering to those touched by baby loss... The text seamlessly weaves between the personal and the sociological, and is very accessible while also being nuanced and not sacrificing complexity.” -- Annie Menzel * Assistant professor of gender and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison *“This book contains entries that are robust in their exploration of intersecting concerns around infant mortality. It is important, timely, and innovative.” -- Dána-Ain Davis * Author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth *Clio Talks: Babylost: An Interview with Monica Casper by Lauren Freidenfelds * Nursing Clio *“This is a moving, beautiful book. The composite effect is stunning, both an indictment of systemic racism and sexism, and a tender offering to those touched by baby loss... The text seamlessly weaves between the personal and the sociological, and is very accessible while also being nuanced and not sacrificing complexity.” -- Annie Menzel * Assistant professor of gender and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison *“This book contains entries that are robust in their exploration of intersecting concerns around infant mortality. It is important, timely, and innovative.” -- Dána-Ain Davis * Author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth *Clio Talks: Babylost: An Interview with Monica Casper by Lauren Freidenfelds * Nursing Clio *Table of ContentsIntroductionAbsence Abuse Angel Babies AwarenessBabyland Black Infant Mortality Blame BreastfeedingChildren’s Rights CIA World Factbook Congressional Black Caucus CubaDads Deprivation Disability DoulasEmptiness Envy EpigeneticsFolic acid Fracking FrankensteinGrief GuiltHopeInfant Mortality Rate InfanticideJapanKangaroo CareLifeMaternal Mortality Medicaid Memphis Mother’s DayNeonatology NursesObstetric Violence OhioPlacenta Prematurity Prenatal CareQuietRacism Rainbow Baby Reproductive JusticeStillbirth SurvivalTahlequah TraumaUrgency VulnerabilityWashington, D.C. Weathering Women’s HealthXenophobia Y earning ZIP Code

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. Though the infant mortality rate overall has improved over the past century with public health interventions, racial disparities have not. Racism, poverty, lack of access to health care, and other causes of death have been identified, but not yet adequately addressed. The tragedy is twofold: it is undoubtedly tragic that babies die in their first year of life, and it is both tragic and unacceptable that most of these deaths are preventable. Despite the urgency of the problem, there has been little public discussion of infant loss. The question this book takes up is not why babies die; we already have many answers to this question. It is, rather, who cares that babies, mostly but not only Black and Native American babies, are dying before their first birthdays? More importantly, what are we willing to do about it? This book tracks social and cultural dimensions of infant death through 58 alphabetical entries, from Absence to ZIP Code. It centers women’s loss and grief, while also drawing attention to dimensions of infant death not often examined. It is simultaneously a sociological study of infant death, an archive of loss and grief, and a clarion call for social change.Trade Review“This is a moving, beautiful book. The composite effect is stunning, both an indictment of systemic racism and sexism, and a tender offering to those touched by baby loss... The text seamlessly weaves between the personal and the sociological, and is very accessible while also being nuanced and not sacrificing complexity.” -- Annie Menzel * Assistant professor of gender and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison *“This book contains entries that are robust in their exploration of intersecting concerns around infant mortality. It is important, timely, and innovative.” -- Dána-Ain Davis * Author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth *Clio Talks: Babylost: An Interview with Monica Casper by Lauren Freidenfelds * Nursing Clio *“This is a moving, beautiful book. The composite effect is stunning, both an indictment of systemic racism and sexism, and a tender offering to those touched by baby loss... The text seamlessly weaves between the personal and the sociological, and is very accessible while also being nuanced and not sacrificing complexity.” -- Annie Menzel * Assistant professor of gender and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison *“This book contains entries that are robust in their exploration of intersecting concerns around infant mortality. It is important, timely, and innovative.” -- Dána-Ain Davis * Author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth *Clio Talks: Babylost: An Interview with Monica Casper by Lauren Freidenfelds * Nursing Clio *Table of ContentsIntroductionAbsence Abuse Angel Babies AwarenessBabyland Black Infant Mortality Blame BreastfeedingChildren’s Rights CIA World Factbook Congressional Black Caucus CubaDads Deprivation Disability DoulasEmptiness Envy EpigeneticsFolic acid Fracking FrankensteinGrief GuiltHopeInfant Mortality Rate InfanticideJapanKangaroo CareLifeMaternal Mortality Medicaid Memphis Mother’s DayNeonatology NursesObstetric Violence OhioPlacenta Prematurity Prenatal CareQuietRacism Rainbow Baby Reproductive JusticeStillbirth SurvivalTahlequah TraumaUrgency VulnerabilityWashington, D.C. Weathering Women’s HealthXenophobia Y earning ZIP Code

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Book SynopsisMaking Choices, Making Do is a comparative study of Black and white working-class women’s survival strategies during the Great Depression. Based on analysis of employment histories and Depression-era interviews of 1,340 women in Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and South Bend and letters from domestic workers, Lois Helmbold discovered that Black women lost work more rapidly and in greater proportions. The benefits that white women accrued because of structural racism meant they avoided the utter destitution that more commonly swallowed their Black peers. When let go from a job, a white woman was more successful in securing a less desirable job, while Black women, especially older Black women, were pushed out of the labor force entirely. Helmbold found that working-class women practiced the same strategies, but institutionalized racism in employment, housing, and relief assured that Black women worked harder, but fared worse. Making Choices, Making Do strives to fill the gap in the labor history of women, both Black and white. The book will challenge the limits of segregated histories and encourage more comparative analyses. Trade Review"Making Choices, Making Do is a remarkable study that recasts the 1930s working class through the lens of black and white women's experiences during the Great Depression. Analyzing how race, immigration, and gender shaped women's survival strategies, Helmbold opens up fresh interpretive possibilities and an intersectional, comparative, and feminist methodological approach to defining class." -- Keona Ervin * author of Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis *"Deeply researched in remarkably rich sources, this fine study takes us into the lives of working class women—their budgets, jobs, struggles, interactions with authorities, worries, and dreams. Full of insights regarding gender, immigration, and family, the book especially succeeds in its careful comparisons of women’s lives across the color line dividing African American and white women, capturing both common oppression and critical differences." -- David Roediger * author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History *"No one knows the social history of working-class women better than Lois Helmbold, and no one has written with more insight and sensitivity. By uncovering the everyday lives and struggles of working women, she manages to recast the story of the Depression-era labor upheavals in completely new light. Making Choices, Making Do ought to be required reading." -- Robin D. G. Kelley * author of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression *"Making Choices, Making Do is a remarkable study that recasts the 1930s working class through the lens of black and white women's experiences during the Great Depression. Analyzing how race, immigration, and gender shaped women's survival strategies, Helmbold opens up fresh interpretive possibilities and an intersectional, comparative, and feminist methodological approach to defining class." -- Keona Ervin * author of Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis *"Deeply researched in remarkably rich sources, this fine study takes us into the lives of working class women—their budgets, jobs, struggles, interactions with authorities, worries, and dreams. Full of insights regarding gender, immigration, and family, the book especially succeeds in its careful comparisons of women’s lives across the color line dividing African American and white women, capturing both common oppression and critical differences." -- David Roediger * author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History *"No one knows the social history of working-class women better than Lois Helmbold, and no one has written with more insight and sensitivity. By uncovering the everyday lives and struggles of working women, she manages to recast the story of the Depression-era labor upheavals in completely new light. Making Choices, Making Do ought to be required reading." -- Robin D. G. Kelley * author of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression *Table of ContentsPreface: My History and PositionalityAbbreviation in Text and NotesCitation ConventionsIntroduction1. Urban Working-Class Daily Lives and Work in the 1920s2. Job Deterioration and Unemployment: "You just can't depend on a steady job at all."3. Employment Strategies and their Consequences4. The Family Economy: Daily Survival and Management of Resources5. Interrupted Expectations: Loyalty and Conflict in the Family Economy6. Outside the Family Economy: “Most times I’d go to a friend.”7. Relief: "I never thought I would come to this. I am so willing and anxious to work."Conclusion: Working-Class Women’s Class and Race ConsciousnessAcknowledgementsAppendix 1: Interview SourcesAppendix 2: Women’s Bureau Social ScientistsAppendix 3: The CensusTablesEnd notes

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Book SynopsisIn rural northern Idaho in the winter of 2013-2014, Syringa Mobile Home Park’s water system was contaminated by sewage, resulting in residents’ water being shut off for 93 days. By summer 2018 Syringa had closed, forcing residents to relocate or face homelessness. Trailer Park America chronicles how residents dealt with regulatory agencies, frequent boil order notices, threats of closure, and class-based social stigma over this period. Despite all this, what was seen as a dysfunctional, ‘disorderly’ community by outsiders was instead a refuge where veterans, women heads of households, and people with disabilities or substance use disorders were supported and understood. The embattled Syringa community also organized to defend the rights and dignity of residents and served as a site for negotiating with local government, culminating in a class-action lawsuit that reached the federal level. The experiences Syringa residents faced in this conservative, predominately white region of the United States are emblematic of the growing national and global crisis in affordable housing and home ownership, with declining work conditions and incomes for the working-class.Trade Review“Trailer Park America is exceptionally well written, in clear, direct language, making vivid the real, human dramas at the heart of broad social systems, relationships and institutions. One of the best books I have read in decades.”— Elaine Coburn, editor of More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom "Trailer Park America explores three critical crises of our day – economic inequality, ecological disaster, and housing insecurity – through deeply-engaged, collaborative research with impacted communities in one of our nation’s most overlooked, and most important, sources of affordable housing."— Esther Sullivan, author of Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place “Immersing herself in Syringa, Idaho, for more than five years, Leontina Hormel is clearly passionate about both the issue of housing and this community itself. Trailer Park America is a welcome contribution to the existing literature on low-income housing and mobile home residents in particular.”— Daisy Rooks, University of MontanaTable of ContentsFOREWORD BY DAWN TACHELL CHRONOLOGY INTRODUCTION Crisis 1 WHO BELONGS ON THE PALOUSE? 2 INVENTING WORKING-CLASS COMMUNITIES 3 MAKING A FUNCTIONAL COMMUNITY AMID DISORDER 4 VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE Flushing the Public Good 5 RED TAGS The Letter of the Law Kills 6 SYRINGA REFUGEES 7 DEATH OF A COMMUNITY 8 TRAILER PARK POLITICS Recognizing Working-Class People’s Knowledge and Mobilization 9 TRAILER PARK AMERICA Syringa Residents’ Lessons to the Public APPENDIX: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES REFERENCES INDEX

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Book SynopsisIn rural northern Idaho in the winter of 2013-2014, Syringa Mobile Home Park’s water system was contaminated by sewage, resulting in residents’ water being shut off for 93 days. By summer 2018 Syringa had closed, forcing residents to relocate or face homelessness. Trailer Park America chronicles how residents dealt with regulatory agencies, frequent boil order notices, threats of closure, and class-based social stigma over this period. Despite all this, what was seen as a dysfunctional, ‘disorderly’ community by outsiders was instead a refuge where veterans, women heads of households, and people with disabilities or substance use disorders were supported and understood. The embattled Syringa community also organized to defend the rights and dignity of residents and served as a site for negotiating with local government, culminating in a class-action lawsuit that reached the federal level. The experiences Syringa residents faced in this conservative, predominately white region of the United States are emblematic of the growing national and global crisis in affordable housing and home ownership, with declining work conditions and incomes for the working-class.Trade Review"Trailer Park America explores three critical crises of our day – economic inequality, ecological disaster, and housing insecurity – through deeply-engaged, collaborative research with impacted communities in one of our nation’s most overlooked, and most important, sources of affordable housing." -- Esther Sullivan * author of Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place *“Trailer Park America is exceptionally well written, in clear, direct language, making vivid the real, human dramas at the heart of broad social systems, relationships and institutions. One of the best books I have read in decades.” -- Elaine Coburn * editor of More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom *“Immersing herself in Syringa, Idaho, for more than five years, Leontina Hormel is clearly passionate about both the issue of housing and this community itself. Trailer Park America is a welcome contribution to the existing literature on low-income housing and mobile home residents in particular.” -- Daisy Rooks * University of Montana *Table of Contents FOREWORD BY DAWN TACHELL CHRONOLOGY INTRODUCTION Crisis 1 WHO BELONGS ON THE PALOUSE? 2 INVENTING WORKING-CLASS COMMUNITIES 3 MAKING A FUNCTIONAL COMMUNITY AMID DISORDER 4 VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE Flushing the Public Good 5 RED TAGS The Letter of the Law Kills 6 SYRINGA REFUGEES 7 DEATH OF A COMMUNITY 8 TRAILER PARK POLITICS Recognizing Working-Class People’s Knowledge and Mobilization 9 TRAILER PARK AMERICA Syringa Residents’ Lessons to the Public APPENDIX: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES REFERENCES INDEX

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