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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1529, this work argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they have long been excluded.

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Book SynopsisExplores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. This book remains a study of a group still under represented in the academic and public spheres.Trade Review"This sensitive account of a Chicago South Side neighborhood and its residents gives readers an insiders' view of the community, bringing the issues and challenges that confront the black middle class to the forefront." (Black Enterprise) "An insightful look at the socioeconomic experiences of the black middle class.... Through the prism of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, the author shows the distinctly different reality middle-class blacks face as opposed to middle-class whites." (Ebony)"

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Book SynopsisIncluding documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the late-20th-century gay culture to emerge, this text aims to provide a definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the USA from 1940 to 1970.

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Book SynopsisHighlights how racial divides limited the life chances of blacks while providing opportunities for whites, and offers an insider's perspective on the social practices that doled out benefits and penalties based on race-despite attempts to integrate.Trade Review"Barr's gripping exploration of the divergent paths friends took away from a childhood snapshot combines the rigor of scholarship with the personal touch of memoir. I have rarely read a book that so effectively illustrates the persistence of racial disparities in the United States with unforgettable, wrenching life stories." (Amanda Seligman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)"

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Book SynopsisTo read the book is to appreciate the highly contingent, provisional, oblique, open-ended way in which people try to make sense of another culture.Resil B. Mojares, Philippine GraphicThis book is an interestingly complex ethnography that approaches the self-critical dialectical ethnography called for two decades ago....It is a welcome contribution to postmodernist theory and to the ethnography of the Visayas.Ronald Provencher, Journal of Asian Studies

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Book SynopsisAmericans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and more. How did we get here? This book presents four competing visions of the race problem and documents how an individualistic paradigm, which presented white attitudes as the source of racial injustice, gained traction.Trade Review"With its five institutional case studies, From Power to Prejudice offers a new interpretation of the rise and fall of anti-prejudice education in the United States. While others have emphasized the structural causes of racial inequality and discrimination in American life, Gordon highlights the ways in which an ideology of racial individualism-the notion that individuals are responsible for their own place in a racial order-came to shape American psychology, sociology, and ultimately education in the mid-twentieth century. The result is a refreshingly critical look at the relationship between social science and social reform." (Adam Relson, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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Book SynopsisWhat does diversity mean in contemporary America, and what are the effects of efforts to support it? The author explores the complicated, contradictory, and troubling meanings and uses of diversity as it is invoked by different groups for different, often symbolic ends.Trade Review"In this important book Berrey shows how the demands for inclusion of the racially oppressed during the Civil Rights Era were translated in universities, communities, and corporations into practices to keep the powerful in control. Berrey has deconstructed the symbolic politics of diversity and helped us understand the fundamental importance of substantive rather than formal diversity." (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University)

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Book SynopsisWhat does diversity mean in contemporary America, and what are the effects of efforts to support it? The author explores the complicated, contradictory, and even troubling meanings and uses of diversity as it is invoked by different groups for different, often symbolic ends.Trade Review"In this important book Berrey shows how the demands for inclusion of the racially oppressed during the Civil Rights Era were translated in universities, communities, and corporations into practices to keep the powerful in control. Berrey has deconstructed the symbolic politics of diversity and helped us understand the fundamental importance of substantive rather than formal diversity." (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University)

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Book SynopsisHow to handle affirmative action is one of the most intractable policy problems of our era, touching on controversial issues such as race-consciousness and social justice. Much has been written both for and against affirmative action policiesespecially within the realm of educational opportunity. In this book, philosopher Michele S. Moses offers a crucial new pathway for thinking about the debate surrounding educational affirmative action, one that holds up the debate itself as an important emblem of the democratic process. Central to Moses's analysis is the argument that we need to understand disagreements about affirmative action as inherently moral, products of conflicts between deeply held beliefs that shape differing opinions on what justice requires of education policy. As she shows, differing opinions on affirmative action result from different conceptual values, for instance, between being treated equally and being treated as an equal or between seeing race-consciousness as

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Book SynopsisAlthough inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the years, offset by improvements in health care and education, enhanced programs for social assistance, and increases in the minimum wage. The author argues that the resurgence of democracy in Latin America is key to this change.Trade Review"Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens have provided the most theoretically profound, empirically thorough, and wide-ranging work that advances the more optimistic view that democracy itself plays a crucial role in stimulating redistribution in Latin America and that the political left is the most important agent in effecting this change. Democracy and the Left is an important, major book that advances a powerful argument about a significant topic and substantiates it with an impressive range of research." (Kurt Weyland, University of Texas)"

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Book SynopsisAuthenticity is considered the best way to distinguish the real from the phony, the genuine from the fake. The author proposes a new model for thinking about these issues - racial sincerity. This book offers a kaleidoscope of subjects and stories that directly and indirectly address how race is negotiated in today's world.Trade Review"Expertly weaving theory with analysis, Jackson discovers that identities built around race and class in the quintessential black American neighborhood are far less monolithic than even Harlem residents believe." - Publishers Weekly "Jackson convincingly makes the case that precisely because race and class can be 'done to people,' his behavioural model is 'the only real grounding on which hierarchical notions of race in the United States can ultimately stand.' " - Mireille A. L. Djenno, Times Literary Supplement"

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Book SynopsisAuthenticity is considered the best way to distinguish the real from the phony, the genuine from the fake. The author proposes a new model for thinking about these issues - racial sincerity. This book offers a kaleidoscope of subjects and stories that directly and indirectly address how race is negotiated in today's world.Trade Review"Expertly weaving theory with analysis, Jackson discovers that identities built around race and class in the quintessential black American neighborhood are far less monolithic than even Harlem residents believe." - Publishers Weekly "Jackson convincingly makes the case that precisely because race and class can be 'done to people,' his behavioural model is 'the only real grounding on which hierarchical notions of race in the United States can ultimately stand.' " - Mireille A. L. Djenno, Times Literary Supplement"

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Book SynopsisAmericans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and the idea that we can challenge racial injustice by reducing white prejudice has long been a core component of this faith. How did we get here? In this first-rate intellectual history, Leah N. Gordon jumps into this and other big questions about race, power, and social justice. To answer these questions, From Power to Prejudice examines American academia both black and white in the 1940s and '50s. Gordon presents four competing visions of the race problem and documents how an individualistic paradigm, which presented white attitudes as the source of racial injustice, gained traction. A number of factors, Gordon shows, explain racial individualism's postwar influence: individuals were easier to measure than social forces; psychology was well funded; studying political economy was difficult amid McCarthyism; and individualism was useful in legal attacks on segregation. Highlighting vigorous midcentury debate over the meanings of racial justice and equality, From Power to Prejudice reveals how one particular vision of social justice won out among many contenders.

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Book SynopsisAn examination of American attitudes toward race and racial policies. This book shows that racial resentment powerfully affects white opinion on such issues as: welfare, affirmative action, school desegregation, and the plight of the inner city. The opinions of black Americans are also studied.

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Book SynopsisUsing a case study of a holistic health centre, Renewal, this book offers lessons on understanding the problems women face in organizations, the failure of social movements to live up to their ideals, and how it is possible for progressiveness to avoid perpetuating the inequalities it opposes.

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Book SynopsisA probing and provocative work of urban history with deep relevance for urban public schools today, Nelson's book reveals why equal educational opportunity remains such an elusive ideal.Trade Review"Nelson is breaking new ground by comparing different equity reforms in education against the background of local/federal relations. Historians of education and policy analysts will find The Elusive Ideal very illuminating." - David Tyack, author of Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society"

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Book SynopsisFrom the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country.Trade Review"Penetrating ethnographic study. . . . [A] fine-grained portrait of how systemic racism operates." * Publishers Weekly *“Anderson is a legendary sociologist whose high ascent into the Academy has always yielded profound insights into the precious Black people living and loving on the night side of the American Empire. This text is another masterpiece from his flaming pen!’” * Cornel West *“With creative concepts and phrases, Anderson builds on his previous ethnographic research to illuminate racial reactions in settings of recurrent intergroup contact. Black in White Space is a captivating book that is a must-read for anyone seeking a lucid discussion of American race relations.” * William Julius Wilson, Harvard University *“Black in White Space is an elegantly composed, brilliant, and intimate look at how Black people are seen in and navigate through predominantly white spaces. This will be an extremely useful text—particularly as we grapple with what diversity means in its substance as an aspiration.” * Imani Perry, Princeton University *“Explains how not just urban ghetto Blacks, but successful Blacks living elsewhere, share the need to manage the enduring stigma of being treated as inferiors. This is not Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ but the hypervisible Black person.” * Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania *“Rich in ethnographic detail and anchored in historical and sociological perspective, Black in White Space brilliantly informs us about the personal and social consequences of living in a society still stratified by racial inequality.” * Margaret L. Andersen, author of Getting Smart about Race: An American Conversation *“Anderson’s crowning masterpiece, Black in White Space is an incisive analysis of the iconic ghetto that illuminates the reality of white racism from police murders to everyday acts of disrespect.” * Fred Block, University of California, Davis *“With elegant prose, deep ethnography, and incisive theorizing, these essays demonstrate why Anderson is one of America’s ‘wise men.’ Black in White Space piercingly illuminates not only the chasm but also the crevasses that divide racial understandings in the United States.” * Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University *“Once again, Anderson demonstrates his clear mastery of the issue of race in America. This book is his gift to all of us who yearn for a nation of equality.” * The Honorable Rev. Dr. W. Wilson Goode, Sr., Former Mayor, City of Philadelphia *“Anderson is the Erving Goffman of race relations. He reveals the human realities behind the statistics and the everyday life behind the headlines.” * Randall Collins, author of Charisma: Micro-sociology of Power and Influence *“Black inWhite Space is a searing ethnographic depiction of everyday life in America. Anderson’s work has redefined sociology, especially our understanding of race and the history of anti-Blackness. Anderson explains what it means to be Black in America at this moment in history, offering powerful insights into the ways economic deprivation, anti-Black racism, and social marginalization shape the Black American experience. In short, Black in White Space is nothing less than an ethnographic portrait of America.” * Waverly Duck, author of 'Tacit Racism' *"Anderson grounds readers in what is essentially a theoretical and empirical study that explores why racism in America does not have an income cap. What follows is a compelling theoretical argument and Anderson’s quintessential style of ethnography, capturing the microinteractions that create the ongoing marginalization of the Black middle-class." * Symbolic Interaction *"[Black in White Space] adds a significant and important contribution to our understanding of how race, space and place intersect in a world where the colour line is always present but at times shifts, blurs or appears to be momentarily erased. Anderson’s [book] is momentous, trenchant and insightful contribution into race relations, specifically how white racism is forever recalibrating and morphing into something that ostensibly seems more benign and palatable to White folks’ sometimes naïve, oblivious or jaded racial sensibilities." * Ethnic and Race Studies *"Black in White Space provides an inside look at the everyday injustices that Black people face in white spaces in the US. During a time when mainstream white communities are intent on registering and responding to overt manifestations of racism and extreme white supremacists, this book helps create a more comprehensive picture of the workings of anti-Black racism by highlighting the small but pervasive ways in which white supremacy impacts the lives of Black people." * Choice *"In his latest opus, Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life, Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale, explores the contours of daily life for urban black folk as they navigate predominantly white spaces. A keen observer of human interaction and the human condition, Anderson combines his observational skills, penetrating storytelling, and sociological insights to probe and decode the social organization of city life." * Sociological Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Brief History of Anti-Black Racism in America Prologue Chapter 1: The White Space Chapter 2: The Iconic Ghetto Chapter 3: Living While Black: The Deficit of Credibility Chapter 4: A History of the Ghetto Chapter 5: A Portrait of the Ghetto Chapter 6: The Car Wash: A Racial Advertisement Chapter 7: The Ghetto Economy Chapter 8: Policing the Iconic Ghetto Chapter 9: The Black Class Structure Chapter 10: The Workplace: Of “Tokens,” “Toms,” and “the HNIC” Chapter 11: Social Mobility: A Foot in Two Worlds Chapter 12: Gentrification: Whites in Black Space Chapter 13: The Gym as a Staging Area Postscript: What Black Folk Know Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a concise compendium of America's sex laws, summarizing the laws regulating personal sexual activity; revealing gaps, anachronisms, anomalies, inequalities and irrationalities; and providing an empirical basis for studies of sexual regulation.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"?A noted literary critic, Samuels tells his story through a series of largely literary case studies, tracing competing literary representations of Jews from the 18th century to the present. As these case studies reveal, even supposedly philo-Semitic French advocates of Jewish integration and equality have often sounded suspiciously like dyed-in-the-wool anti-Semites."--David Bell, The Nation "This book's most valuable contribution is its inclusion of moments of both failure and success in France's universalist history and its focus on both 'high' and 'popular' culture, reminding the reader that ideologies permeate every aspect of society."--The French Review "Samuels presents a highly nuanced and sophisticated analysis of French universalism through the exploration of its various historical iterations as it has engaged with the Jews of France since the French Revolution. This superb study is a major contribution to the scholarship on the themes of assimilation, acculturation and minority distinctiveness, and diversity that continue to be vexed problems in France to this day."--Aron Rodrigue, author of Jews and Muslims: Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Modern Times "elegant...deftly written book."--Jeffrey Mehlman, Antisemitism Studies "Timely and thought-provoking, The Right to Difference will interest scholars and lay readers alike. Ambitious in scope, the book offers a broad survey of French universalism's multifaceted attitude toward the Jews since the eighteenth century. Just as importantly, it represents a much needed intervention in public discussions about the ambiguous legacy of the French Revolution, the politics of la cit , and debates over the assimilation of religious minorities in France today. At a time when France's Jews are in the news more than ever before, Samuels offers illuminating new ways of thinking about their position, and, through that analysis, about the politics of difference in modern France."--Lisa Moses Leff, author of The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust "The Right to Difference is a beautifully written, accessible book that is suitable for undergraduate teaching, while offering fruitful opportunities for engagement by specialists. . . .Samuels's argument unfolds in seven chapters in which he engages with current scholarship in Jewish studies and French history in textual readings that challenge long-settled scholarly consensus. His careful analyses elucidate the ways universalism has been understood since the eighteenth century to 'offer new possibilities for thinking through France's current social and political dilemmas--and perhaps some American ones as well'. . . . The Right to Difference persuasively demonstrates that the current political understanding of republican universalism is not the only version available for the French body politic."--Journal of Modern History "The Right to Difference is a timely and compelling study that urges us to rethink some rather widely held perceptions about universalism, secularism [la cit ], the French state, and modern European society in relation to religious minorities and ethnic communities. Maurice Samuels combines insightful and sometimes surprising reexaminations of historical sources with sharp analyses."--Jonathan Skolnik, University of Massachusetts Amherst "Particularism and Universalism: ever since St. Paul, the Jews have served as a stage upon which to act out the tension between these two ideals. That tension did not diminish with revolution, democracy, modernity, or secularization, nor did figures of Judaism lose their utility in these revolutions. Today Zionism and Israel continue to play a special role in fervent debates about the relationship between claims of universal justice and those of particularist, often minoritarian identities. The Right to Difference is a clear and critical guide through this history and these debates, a guide all of us who live in this age of increasingly passionate convictions should be grateful for."--David Nirenberg, author of Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today "The Right to Difference is a useful and clairvoyant book full of rigorously researched evidence that allows us to better grasp our relationship to universalism. From the years leading up to the Revolution to the rigid universalism of Finkelkraut and the universalism that Badiou calls an instrument of exclusion, Maurice Samuels charts a nuanced path that never seeks to reach a definitive, prescriptive conclusion. Because undertaking this archeology of universalism is not an attempt to establish a philosophy of history, a typology, or a user's guide, but rather to establish a global frame of reference that might even provide keys to understanding the present."--Nonfiction (France)

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Book SynopsisRace is a factor in government efforts to control dangerous drugs, but the precise ways that race affects drug laws remain difficult to pinpoint. Illuminating this relationship, this book lays out how decades of racism helped shape a punitive US drug policy whose onerous impact on racial minorities has been ignored by Congress and the courts.

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Book SynopsisThe fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. This book focuses on this phenomenon by analyzing the unique experiences of transgender men - people designated female at birth whose gender identity is male - on the job.Trade Review"Truly innovative, courageous, and rigorous. Just One of the Guys? will spark a lot of dialogue and some contentious discussions. Kristen Schilt has taken an ethnographic and interview-based approach to understanding the workplace inequalities facing a highly understudied population, and the results are sobering and unexpected. This is an indubitably creative and original book." - Shari L. Dworkin, University of California, San Francisco"

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Book SynopsisThe fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. This book focuses on this phenomenon by analyzing the unique experiences of transgender men - people designated female at birth whose gender identity is male - on the job.Trade Review"Truly innovative, courageous, and rigorous. Just One of the Guys? will spark a lot of dialogue and some contentious discussions. Kristen Schilt has taken an ethnographic and interview-based approach to understanding the workplace inequalities facing a highly understudied population, and the results are sobering and unexpected. This is an indubitably creative and original book." - Shari L. Dworkin, University of California, San Francisco"

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Book SynopsisExplores the late-1990s debate surrounding the sources of racism in America. The essays represent three major approaches: the social psychological, the social structural and the non-racially inspired ideology. It assesses the issues on the role of racism in mass politics and public opinion.

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Book SynopsisThe 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institutional racism. But Ferguson was no aberration. As Colin Gordon shows in this urgent and timely book, the events in Ferguson exposed not only the deep racism of the local police department but also the ways in which decades of public policy effectively segregated people and curtailed citizenship not just in Ferguson but across the St. Louis suburbs. Citizen Brown uncovers half a century of private practices and public policies that resulted in bitter inequality and sustained segregation in Ferguson and beyond. Gordon shows how municipal and school district boundaries were pointedly drawn to contain or exclude African Americans and how local policies and servicesespecially policing, education, and urban renewalwere weaponized to maintain civic separation. He also makes it clear that the outcry that arose in Ferguson was no impulsive outburst but rather an explosion of pent-up rage against long-standing systems of segregation and inequalityof which a police force that viewed citizens not as subjects to serve and protect but as sources of revenue was only the most immediate example. Worse, Citizen Brown illustrates the fact that though the greater St. Louis area provides some extraordinarily clear examples of fraught racial dynamics, in this it is hardly alone among American cities and regions. Interactive maps and other companion resources toCitizen Brownare available at thebook website.Trade Review“Citizen Brown is an important contribution to the literatures on segregation, suburbanization, and local politics. Gordon creates a compelling and well-documented account of the ways in which local governments first refuse to provide services to certain neighborhoods and then use that lack of services as evidence of blight and grounds for slum clearance. He then offers an excellent, structural explanation for Michael Brown’s murder that is linked to this same connection between public services and local policy.” * Jessica Trounstine, author of Segregation by Design *“Citizen Brown arrives at a propitious moment, when many Americans are still trying to make sense of how and why one of the most explosive incidents in American race relations—the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri—occurred not in a center city, where so many of the nation’s best-known racial dramas have played out over the last fifty years, but in a suburb. What Gordon accomplishes here is a much needed, much deeper understanding of what happened there, even when Ferguson isn’t front and center. Citizen Brown is a pioneering foray into a larger, more complicated consideration of the recent history of race relations in American suburbs.” * Mark Krasovic, author of The Newark Frontier *"This innovative study is informed by the deep understanding of legal processes and familiarity with St. Louis’s unique geography that Gordon showed in his previous book Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (2008). Citizen Brown also benefits from being grounded in political theory about citizenship and its many meanings." * Missouri Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Maps and Figures Introduction One / Fragmenting Citizenship: Municipal Incorporation and Annexation Two / Segregating Citizenship: Schools, Safety, and Sewers Three / Bulldozing Citizenship: Renewal, Redevelopment, and Relocation Four / Arresting Citizenship: Segregation, Austerity, and Predatory Policing ConclusionAcknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn Hegel's Critique of Liberalism, Steven B. Smith examines Hegel's critique of rights-based liberalism and its relevance to contemporary political concerns. Smith argues that Hegel reformulated classic liberalism, preserving what was of value while rendering it more attentive to the dynamics of human history and the developmental structure of the moral personality. Hegel's goal, Smith suggests, was to find a way of incorporating both the ancient emphasis on the dignity and even architectonic character of political life with the modern concern for freedom, rights, and mutual recognition. Smith's insightful analysis reveals Hegel's relevance not only to contemporary political philosophers concerned with normative issues of liberal theory but also to political scientists who have urged a revival of the state as a centralconcept of political inquiry.

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of how and why American city governments delegated the responsibility for solving urban inequality to the nonprofit sector. Nonprofits serving a range of municipal and cultural needs are now so ubiquitous in US cities, it can be difficult to envision a time when they were more limited in number, size, and influence. Turning back the clock, however, uncovers both an illuminating story of how the nonprofit sector became such a dominant force in American society, as well as a troubling one of why this growth occurred alongside persistent poverty and widening inequality. Claire Dunning's book connects these two stories in histories of race, democracy, and capitalism, revealing how the federal government funded and deputized nonprofits to help individuals in need, and in so doing avoided addressing the structural inequities that necessitated such action in the first place. Nonprofit Neighborhoods begins after World War II, when suburbanization, segregation, and deindustTrade Review“Illuminating. . . Dunning compels us to consider how promises of grassroots empowerment ended up maintaining the racialized and economic boundaries that imbricate the urban poor. . . . [She] leaves us with the dispiriting conclusion that the enlarged role of nonprofits has failed to mitigate and has even worsened urban inequality." * The Baffler *"Bold, powerful. . . [Dunning's] sober, carefully researched, and elegantly crafted book provides a salutary complication of the Tocquevillian myth that still colors much conventional thinking about the US nonprofit sector: that there is an easy and clearly intelligible congruence between democratic vitality in the United States and the nation’s rich associational life. It is difficult to read Nonprofit Neighborhoods without one’s faith in that congruence being permanently shaken." * Stanford Social Innovation Review *"Nonprofit Neighborhoods adds great value to the long-ongoing discussion and healthy debate about the best way to think of the relationship between civil society and the state. . . Dunning’s book generally and convincingly concludes that publicly funding locally based nonprofit groups to implement policy has, in the end, failed to achieve a more-inclusive government, to reduce urban poverty and inequality, and to dismantle racism." * Philanthropy Daily *"The lessons that Nonprofit Neighborhoods offers on missed opportunity after missed opportunity seem particularly valuable and relevant today." * Philanthropy News Digest *"Dunning’s history helps us see how the federal government’s administrative structure for anti-poverty programs—theorized by social science–driven philanthropists and established by public policymakers—ultimately served to perpetuate urban poverty." * Public Books *“Nonprofit Neighborhoods takes us to the frontlines of the government and philanthropic grantsmanship, municipal power brokering, and street-level protest that brought an evolving, multi-layered infrastructure of “public-private partnership” to Boston’s working-class communities of color starting in the 1960s—promising to resolve problems of poverty with improved social services in the face of widening structural divides. Persuasively argued and analytically nuanced, it tracks the continuities as well as the gradually unfolding transformations in urban policy, politics, and governance that link the social democratic aspirations of Great Society liberalism to the social austerity of our neoliberal age. Dunning provides important insights to all engaged in struggles against inequality—as scholars, policy advocates, practitioners, and activists.” * Alice O’Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara *“Nonprofit Neighborhoods is a revelation. Through a rich archival study of urban renewal in Boston, Dunning elegantly reconstructs how public projects came to be organized around grants and funding competitions. Decentralization and community participation were enhanced, but key decisions remained in the hands of city officials, foundation officers, and increasingly private lenders. The result is an eye-opening analysis of how policy reform transformed democratic governance.” * Elisabeth S. Clemens, University of Chicago *“Nonprofit Neighborhoods is a timely and original account of how the federal government has delegated urban policymaking, social service provision, and anti-poverty efforts to the private sector. This eye-opening book explains the proliferation of urban nonprofits —a distinctive feature of the American welfare state—and offers a sobering critique of the limitations of neighborhood-based solutions to persistent urban inequality.” * Thomas J. Sugrue, New York University *“Nonprofit Neighborhoods makes a paradigm-shifting contribution to the urban and policy history of the second half of the twentieth century. In her important interrogation into the nature of public-private partnerships, Dunning provides important insight into the changing nature of state power and the persistence of structural inequality. Lucidly written and deeply researched, this is an excellent book, poised to recast several scholarly fields.” * Lily Geismer, Claremont McKenna College *“Among the many intesting questions about the history of America’s cities, there are a few democracy-consequential questions whose answers literally define the future. In Nonprofit Neighborhoods, Dunning asks and answers morally uneasy and politically impolite questions such as: Why has the concentration of nonprofits in Black communities perpetuated not alleviated inequality? and How have these nonprofit neighborhoods become ‘spaces of inclusion and exclusion’? With precision, clarity, and subtly, Dunning tells a story of government and private power exerted upon and even undermining nonprofit neighborhoods. This sweeping history is a compelling cartography of power, cities, and race as well as a hopeful map for what America might be—if we but learned from the past.” * Cornell William Brooks, Harvard University *"An exceptional piece of scholarship. . . . scholars have long appreciated the fact that social welfare policy is implemented on the ground by formal nonprofit organizations. Nonprofits have, in turn, become institutionalized as providers of social services. However, Dunning breaks new ground by showing how these taken-for-granted arrangements developed over time, how a diverse group of institutions played a role in cementing them, and what the consequences have been for residents of disadvantaged neighborhoods." * Social Service Review *"Claire Dunning’s book, Nonprofit Neighborhoods, presents a thoughtful critique of the ability of neighborhood nonprofit organizations to address entrenched problems of racism, poverty, and inequality. Using Boston as the focus, Dunning brings a keen scholarly eye to that city’s various urban revitalization and community development initiatives, both locally initiated and funded through an array of federal programs. The book presents a thorough, well-written, and detailed descriptive history of Boston’s efforts, starting in the 1960s, that created a robust group of neighborhood nonprofit organizations." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"This case study of Boston and its environs focuses on a city often ranked among the 10 most segregated in the US. Dunning notes that nonprofit and community organizations have made significant efforts to ameliorate substandard housing in areas predominantly inhabited by Black and brown minorities . . . Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction. Neighborhood Nonprofits Chapter 1. The City Chapter 2. The Grantees Chapter 3. The Residents Chapter 4. The Bureaucrats Chapter 5. The Lenders Chapter 6. The Partners Chapter 7. The Coalitions Conclusion. Nonprofit Neighborhoods Acknowledgments Abbreviations Found in Notes Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Melnick’s even-handed approach to the school desegregation era offers insights into what went right and what went wrong on a very important set of policies. . .readers can take important lessons about how policymakers today can forge a better future that redeems the promise of Brown." * Education Next *"The Crucible of Desegregation offers a patchwork view of desegregation policy, revealing how administrators and judges in lower courts played a pivotal role, with remarkable achievements and setbacks alike. The book is a valuable and pragmatic resource for those interested in learning more about this history of desegregation and the court system in the US." * LSE Review of Books *"Melnick provides exhaustive evidence of American desegregation policy’s many shortcomings. . . Melnick is clear and convincing when showing how Southern de jure segregation was taken down only by a breathtaking rearrangement of institutional roles that disregarded the Constitution’s separation of powers." * The Claremont Review of Books *"The Crucible of Desegregation is tour-de-force analysis of the rise and fall of desegregation and integration. This is well-trodden terrain, but if you think you know everything worth knowing about the topic, think again. This meticulously researched, elegantly written, scrupulously fair-minded account achieves the rarity feat of reshaping our understanding of one of the epochal constitutional and social issues of our time." -- David Kirp | University of California-Berkeley | author of "Improbable Scholars""The Supreme Court is often praised for the clarity of its vision in Brown v. Board of Education, but its subsequent decisions are clouded with ambiguity. We still do not know whether the Constitution is color blind or conscientiously seeks to perfect the racial composition of the nation’s schools. Without guidance from above, lower courts wander in a maze, and the race question, rather than resolving itself, acquires ever more political intensity. Melnick narrates this story succinctly yet with felicity, balance, and appropriate irony." -- Paul Peterson | Harvard Kennedy School"This magisterial yet compelling and thoroughly readable volume by an eminent scholar unpacks the tangled, touchy saga of U.S. school 'desegregation' with all its confusion over goals and uncertainty concerning benchmarks." -- Chester E. Finn | Thomas B. Fordham InstituteTable of ContentsPreface 1 Why Desegregation Still Matters 2 The Great Debate 3 Critical Junctures 4 Breakthrough: The Reconstruction of Southern Education 5 Supreme Abdication 6 Left Adrift: Desegregation in the Lower Courts 7 Varieties of Desegregation Experiences 8 Termination without End 9 Looking Beyond Courts: ESEA and Title VI 10 What Have We Learned? Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the patchwork evolution of school desegregation policy. In 1954, the Supreme Court delivered the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Educationestablishing the right to attend a desegregated school as a national constitutional rightbut the decision contained fundamental ambiguities. The Supreme Court has never offered a clear definition of what desegregation means or laid out a framework for evaluating competing interpretations. In The Crucible of Desegregation, R. Shep Melnick examines the evolution of federal school desegregation policy from 1954 through the termination of desegregation orders in the first decades of the twenty-first century, combining legal analysis with a focus on institutional relations, particularly the interactions between federal judges and administrators. Melnick argues that years of ambiguous, inconsistent, and meandering Court decisions left lower court judges adrift, forced to apply contradictory Supreme Court precedents in a wide variety of hTrade Review"Melnick’s even-handed approach to the school desegregation era offers insights into what went right and what went wrong on a very important set of policies. . .readers can take important lessons about how policymakers today can forge a better future that redeems the promise of Brown." * Education Next *"The Crucible of Desegregation offers a patchwork view of desegregation policy, revealing how administrators and judges in lower courts played a pivotal role, with remarkable achievements and setbacks alike. The book is a valuable and pragmatic resource for those interested in learning more about this history of desegregation and the court system in the US." * LSE Review of Books *"Melnick provides exhaustive evidence of American desegregation policy’s many shortcomings. . . Melnick is clear and convincing when showing how Southern de jure segregation was taken down only by a breathtaking rearrangement of institutional roles that disregarded the Constitution’s separation of powers." * The Claremont Review of Books *"The Crucible of Desegregation is tour-de-force analysis of the rise and fall of desegregation and integration. This is well-trodden terrain, but if you think you know everything worth knowing about the topic, think again. This meticulously researched, elegantly written, scrupulously fair-minded account achieves the rarity feat of reshaping our understanding of one of the epochal constitutional and social issues of our time." -- David Kirp | University of California-Berkeley | author of "Improbable Scholars""The Supreme Court is often praised for the clarity of its vision in Brown v. Board of Education, but its subsequent decisions are clouded with ambiguity. We still do not know whether the Constitution is color blind or conscientiously seeks to perfect the racial composition of the nation’s schools. Without guidance from above, lower courts wander in a maze, and the race question, rather than resolving itself, acquires ever more political intensity. Melnick narrates this story succinctly yet with felicity, balance, and appropriate irony." -- Paul Peterson | Harvard Kennedy School"This magisterial yet compelling and thoroughly readable volume by an eminent scholar unpacks the tangled, touchy saga of U.S. school 'desegregation' with all its confusion over goals and uncertainty concerning benchmarks." -- Chester E. Finn | Thomas B. Fordham InstituteTable of ContentsPreface 1 Why Desegregation Still Matters 2 The Great Debate 3 Critical Junctures 4 Breakthrough: The Reconstruction of Southern Education 5 Supreme Abdication 6 Left Adrift: Desegregation in the Lower Courts 7 Varieties of Desegregation Experiences 8 Termination without End 9 Looking Beyond Courts: ESEA and Title VI 10 What Have We Learned? Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Penetrating ethnographic study. . . . [A] fine-grained portrait of how systemic racism operates." * Publishers Weekly *“Anderson is a legendary sociologist whose high ascent into the Academy has always yielded profound insights into the precious Black people living and loving on the night side of the American Empire. This text is another masterpiece from his flaming pen!’” * Cornel West *“With creative concepts and phrases, Anderson builds on his previous ethnographic research to illuminate racial reactions in settings of recurrent intergroup contact. Black in White Space is a captivating book that is a must-read for anyone seeking a lucid discussion of American race relations.” * William Julius Wilson, Harvard University *“Black in White Space is an elegantly composed, brilliant, and intimate look at how Black people are seen in and navigate through predominantly white spaces. This will be an extremely useful text—particularly as we grapple with what diversity means in its substance as an aspiration.” * Imani Perry, Princeton University *“Explains how not just urban ghetto Blacks, but successful Blacks living elsewhere, share the need to manage the enduring stigma of being treated as inferiors. This is not Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ but the hypervisible Black person.” * Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania *“Rich in ethnographic detail and anchored in historical and sociological perspective, Black in White Space brilliantly informs us about the personal and social consequences of living in a society still stratified by racial inequality.” * Margaret L. Andersen, author of Getting Smart about Race: An American Conversation *“Anderson’s crowning masterpiece, Black in White Space is an incisive analysis of the iconic ghetto that illuminates the reality of white racism from police murders to everyday acts of disrespect.” * Fred Block, University of California, Davis *“With elegant prose, deep ethnography, and incisive theorizing, these essays demonstrate why Anderson is one of America’s ‘wise men.’ Black in White Space piercingly illuminates not only the chasm but also the crevasses that divide racial understandings in the United States.” * Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University *“Once again, Anderson demonstrates his clear mastery of the issue of race in America. This book is his gift to all of us who yearn for a nation of equality.” * The Honorable Rev. Dr. W. Wilson Goode, Sr., Former Mayor, City of Philadelphia *“Anderson is the Erving Goffman of race relations. He reveals the human realities behind the statistics and the everyday life behind the headlines.” * Randall Collins, author of Charisma: Micro-sociology of Power and Influence *“Black inWhite Space is a searing ethnographic depiction of everyday life in America. Anderson’s work has redefined sociology, especially our understanding of race and the history of anti-Blackness. Anderson explains what it means to be Black in America at this moment in history, offering powerful insights into the ways economic deprivation, anti-Black racism, and social marginalization shape the Black American experience. In short, Black in White Space is nothing less than an ethnographic portrait of America.” * Waverly Duck, author of 'Tacit Racism' *"Anderson grounds readers in what is essentially a theoretical and empirical study that explores why racism in America does not have an income cap. What follows is a compelling theoretical argument and Anderson’s quintessential style of ethnography, capturing the microinteractions that create the ongoing marginalization of the Black middle-class." * Symbolic Interaction *"[Black in White Space] adds a significant and important contribution to our understanding of how race, space and place intersect in a world where the colour line is always present but at times shifts, blurs or appears to be momentarily erased. Anderson’s [book] is momentous, trenchant and insightful contribution into race relations, specifically how white racism is forever recalibrating and morphing into something that ostensibly seems more benign and palatable to White folks’ sometimes naïve, oblivious or jaded racial sensibilities." * Ethnic and Race Studies *"Black in White Space provides an inside look at the everyday injustices that Black people face in white spaces in the US. During a time when mainstream white communities are intent on registering and responding to overt manifestations of racism and extreme white supremacists, this book helps create a more comprehensive picture of the workings of anti-Black racism by highlighting the small but pervasive ways in which white supremacy impacts the lives of Black people." * Choice *"In his latest opus, Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life, Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale, explores the contours of daily life for urban black folk as they navigate predominantly white spaces. A keen observer of human interaction and the human condition, Anderson combines his observational skills, penetrating storytelling, and sociological insights to probe and decode the social organization of city life." * Sociological Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Brief History of Anti-Black Racism in America Prologue Chapter 1: The White Space Chapter 2: The Iconic Ghetto Chapter 3: Living While Black: The Deficit of Credibility Chapter 4: A History of the Ghetto Chapter 5: A Portrait of the Ghetto Chapter 6: The Car Wash: A Racial Advertisement Chapter 7: The Ghetto Economy Chapter 8: Policing the Iconic Ghetto Chapter 9: The Black Class Structure Chapter 10: The Workplace: Of “Tokens,” “Toms,” and “the HNIC” Chapter 11: Social Mobility: A Foot in Two Worlds Chapter 12: Gentrification: Whites in Black Space Chapter 13: The Gym as a Staging Area Postscript: What Black Folk Know Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisMany immigrants in Europe find marginalization, discrimination, and increasing segregation. In this book, the author shows how an excessive respect for "their culture" has been part of the problem. Culture has become a concept of race, sustaining ethnic identity politics that subvert human rights.

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Book SynopsisIn this collection of articles, the various authors examine the interaction of gays and lesbians with the democratic process in regards to public policy, public opinion, and political representation.

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Book SynopsisEithne Quinn reveals how Hollywood catalyzed racial politics in the decade after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, through representation on screen as well as in battles over jobs and resources behind the scenes. Based on extensive archival research and detailed discussions of films, this book examines the limits of Hollywood liberalism.Trade ReviewQuinn’s conclusion provides the reader with two prescient, convincing, and well-earned macroscopic takeaways. -- AMIR KHAN, Dalian Maritime University, PRC * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *Well-written, meticulously researched, critical, and smart, A Piece of the Action may be the most important book on black American cinema in the last quarter century. Enjoyable and highly informative, this book will quickly emerge as a classic and must-read among those interested in film history, black cinema, race and popular culture, and the sociology of culture. -- S. Craig Watkins, author of Don't Knock the Hustle: Young Creatives, Tech Ingenuity, and the Making of a New Innovation EconomyA Piece of the Action is a story about the interconnections between white privilege, “colorblind” ideology, and Hollywood business-as-usual practices. With a historian’s nose for detail, Quinn reveals in sharp relief how an industry filled with self-proclaimed white progressives manages to reproduce⁠—to this very day⁠—its infamous legacy of racial exclusion and marginalization. This book is a must-read for anyone hoping to make sense of Hollywood’s integral role in the shaping of American racial politics. -- Darnell M. Hunt, author of Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in AmericaQuinn offers a revelatory account of resistance and reaction unfolding in Hollywood between In the Heat of the Night (1967) and Blue Collar (1978). She chronicles black creatives struggling to get black experiences on screen and black labor on the set. Powerful and richly insightful, A Piece of the Action details black filmmakers’ and their white allies’ attempts to counter liberal tokenism and colorblindness only to come up against the industry’s neoconservative retreat from racial and economic justice. -- Judith E. Smith, author of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public RadicalTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. “The Screen Speaks for Itself”: Institutional Discrimination and the Dawning of Hollywood Postracialism2. Racializing the Hollywood Renaissance: Black and White Symbol Creators in a Time of Crisis3. Challenging Jim Crow Crews: Federal Activism and Industry Reaction4. “Getting the Man’s Foot out of Our Collective Asses”: Black Left Film Producers and the Rise of the Hustler Creative5. Color-Blind Corporatism: The Black Film Wave and White RevivalConclusion: Race, Creative Labor, and Reflexivity in Post–Civil Rights HollywoodNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisKerwin Kaye offers an ethnographic account of drug courts and mandatory treatment centers as a system of coercion, demonstrating how the state uses notions of rehabilitation as a means of social regulation. Enforcing Freedom presents a critical perspective on the punitive side of criminal-justice reform and points toward alternative paths forward.Trade ReviewIn Enforcing Freedom, Kaye masterfully shows how drug courts and associated therapeutic communities update concepts of cultures of poverty and biological race with contemporary idioms of addiction as brain disease and welfare dependency. Blending political and historical analysis of U.S. drug war and rehabilitation ideologies with keen ethnographic observation, this book is a must-read to understand the seduction of drug courts as a false alternative to racialized mass incarceration. -- Helena Hansen, author of Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug MinistriesKaye has written an important, insightful, and nuanced ethnographic study of urban drug courts and, more unusually, the privatized therapeutic communities upon which they rely to deliver drug treatment services. His unique examination of the arms-length relationship between these somewhat mysterious private treatment providers and the formal court system is revelatory and spot on. While he provides a highly critical analysis, Kaye also makes a number of thoughtful ‘real world’ policy recommendations that build on and flow from his findings, and that will appeal to judicial and treatment policymakers. -- Michael Jacobson, author of Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass IncarcerationKerwin Kaye examines how American institutions that govern illegal drug use, especially drug courts and treatment programs, define and treat 'addiction.' This book offers new findings that show how efforts at drug control regulate citizenship and reflect racial and gender politics, ultimately revealing the intimate character of neoliberal state governance. -- Allison McKim, author of Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass IncarcerationKaye not only explodes the neoliberal mythology of the beneficence of drug courts and other diversion schemes but also lays bare their continuing coercive and even brutalizing potential. Supporters and skeptics of drug courts alike will find much to consider in this forceful ethnography. And all of us who are interested in envisioning a post–War on Drugs United States should seriously consider Kaye’s suggestions. -- Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr., author of Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of SegregationOffers new and vital insights into our understanding of the insidious ways that the criminal justice system oppresses people who use drugs. * Filter Magazine *Enforcing Freedom is so magnificent. Kaye’s years of research have paid off in a pioneering book whose intellectual gems make mining its tectonic depths more than worth the effort. Five stars. * LSE Review of Books *Kaye’s book is rich in theory and this may be off-putting to those looking for a more nuts and bolts discussion of drug courts or their role as an “evidence-based best practice,” but there is much for practitioners to learn from Kaye’s critical perspective. The book is also more appropriate for graduate students versus undergraduates. Overall, I consider Enforcing Freedom essential for those doing serious sociological work on drug control policy or new models of social control. * Social Forces *A passionate, well-articulated critique that offers a mix of theoretical exposition and ethnography-based critique. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Policing Addiction in a New Era of Therapeutic Jurisprudence2. Drug Court Paternalism and the Management of Threat3. Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life: Rehabilitative Practice Within Therapeutic Communities and the History of Synanon4. Control and Agency in Contemporary Therapeutic Communities5. Gender, Sexuality, and the Drugs Lifestyle6. Retrenchment and Reform in the War on DrugsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisKerwin Kaye offers an ethnographic account of drug courts and mandatory treatment centers as a system of coercion, demonstrating how the state uses notions of rehabilitation as a means of social regulation. Enforcing Freedom presents a critical perspective on the punitive side of criminal-justice reform and points toward alternative paths forward.Trade ReviewIn Enforcing Freedom, Kaye masterfully shows how drug courts and associated therapeutic communities update concepts of cultures of poverty and biological race with contemporary idioms of addiction as brain disease and welfare dependency. Blending political and historical analysis of U.S. drug war and rehabilitation ideologies with keen ethnographic observation, this book is a must-read to understand the seduction of drug courts as a false alternative to racialized mass incarceration. -- Helena Hansen, author of Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug MinistriesKaye has written an important, insightful, and nuanced ethnographic study of urban drug courts and, more unusually, the privatized therapeutic communities upon which they rely to deliver drug treatment services. His unique examination of the arms-length relationship between these somewhat mysterious private treatment providers and the formal court system is revelatory and spot on. While he provides a highly critical analysis, Kaye also makes a number of thoughtful ‘real world’ policy recommendations that build on and flow from his findings, and that will appeal to judicial and treatment policymakers. -- Michael Jacobson, author of Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass IncarcerationKerwin Kaye examines how American institutions that govern illegal drug use, especially drug courts and treatment programs, define and treat 'addiction.' This book offers new findings that show how efforts at drug control regulate citizenship and reflect racial and gender politics, ultimately revealing the intimate character of neoliberal state governance. -- Allison McKim, author of Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass IncarcerationKaye not only explodes the neoliberal mythology of the beneficence of drug courts and other diversion schemes but also lays bare their continuing coercive and even brutalizing potential. Supporters and skeptics of drug courts alike will find much to consider in this forceful ethnography. And all of us who are interested in envisioning a post–War on Drugs United States should seriously consider Kaye’s suggestions. -- Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr., author of Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of SegregationOffers new and vital insights into our understanding of the insidious ways that the criminal justice system oppresses people who use drugs. * Filter Magazine *Enforcing Freedom is so magnificent. Kaye’s years of research have paid off in a pioneering book whose intellectual gems make mining its tectonic depths more than worth the effort. Five stars. * LSE Review of Books *Kaye’s book is rich in theory and this may be off-putting to those looking for a more nuts and bolts discussion of drug courts or their role as an “evidence-based best practice,” but there is much for practitioners to learn from Kaye’s critical perspective. The book is also more appropriate for graduate students versus undergraduates. Overall, I consider Enforcing Freedom essential for those doing serious sociological work on drug control policy or new models of social control. * Social Forces *A passionate, well-articulated critique that offers a mix of theoretical exposition and ethnography-based critique. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Policing Addiction in a New Era of Therapeutic Jurisprudence2. Drug Court Paternalism and the Management of Threat3. Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life: Rehabilitative Practice Within Therapeutic Communities and the History of Synanon4. Control and Agency in Contemporary Therapeutic Communities5. Gender, Sexuality, and the Drugs Lifestyle6. Retrenchment and Reform in the War on DrugsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together an international group of scholars to discuss the ramifications of Heidegger's Black Notebooks for philosophy and the humanities. In contrast to both those who seek to exonerate Heidegger and those who simply condemn him, they urge careful reading and rereading of his work to turn Heideggerian thought against itself.Trade ReviewAn impressive collection that genuinely enriches the conversation on Heidegger's politics and philosophy. -- Gil Anidjar, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsEditors’ Introduction1. The Universal and Annihilation: Heidegger’s Being-Historical Anti-Semitism, by Peter Trawny2. Cosmopolitan Jews vs. Jewish Nomads: Sources of a Trope in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, by Sander L. Gilman3. Metaphysical Anti-Semitism and Worldlessness: On World Poorness, World Forming, and World Destroying, by Eduardo Mendieta4. “Sterben sie?”: The Problem of Dasein and “Animals” . . . of Various Kinds, by Bettina Bergo5. Inception, Downfall, and the Broken World: Heidegger Above the Sea of Fog, by Richard Polt6. The Other “Jewish Question”, by Michael Marder7. Heidegger and National Socialism: He Meant What He Said, by Martin Gessmann8. “The Supreme Will of the People”: What Do Heidegger’s Black Notebooks Reveal?, by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht9. Prolegomena to Any Future Destruction of Metaphysics: Heidegger and the Schwarze Hefte, by Peter E. Gordon10. Heidegger After Trawny: Philosophy or Worldview?, by Tom Rockmore11. Another Eisenmenger? On the Alleged Originality of Heidegger’s Antisemitism, by Robert Bernasconi12. The Persistence of Ontological Difference, by Slavoj ŽižekNotesContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed a Black teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Christopher Hayes examines the causes and consequences of the uprisings, providing a vivid portrait of postwar New York, a new perspective on the civil rights era, and a timely analysis of racial inequality.Trade ReviewAn immersive chronicle of the July 1964 uprising in New York City’s Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods over the police killing of a Black teenager . . . Hayes unpacks the causes and effects of the uprising in scrupulous detail, and makes salient connections to recent events. This scholarly history is a powerful reminder that it takes ‘great force’ to bend the moral arc of the universe toward justice. * Publishers Weekly *The Harlem Uprising offers a powerful narrative of the riots and upheaval in Harlem and other African American neighborhoods in New York City in the summer of 1964. Hayes’s vividly written book provides a stinging portrayal of midcentury New York from the perspective of Black New Yorkers and offers an important new historiography of the carceral state. -- Kim Phillips-Fein, author of Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity PoliticsSuch a needed study of New York's long history of racial inequality in housing, schools, jobs, and policing and the years of frustrated civil rights struggles that laid the ground for the 1964 Harlem uprising. Hayes examines Mayor Lindsay's decision to constitute a majority-civilian CCRB in its wake, the swift and successful police-led backlash that ended it, and the law and order politics that gained ascendancy in the city and the nation. -- Jeanne Theoharis, author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights HistoryThis is an exceptionally important and powerful book about white racism and police brutality in the Jim Crow North, especially New York City. That postwar urban crisis produced the 1964 Harlem and Brooklyn uprisings. This book’s argument is forceful and its grasp of historiography is masterful. -- Komozi Woodard, author of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power PoliticsThe Harlem Uprising is a welcome contribution to the intertwined histories of liberalism, policing, and urban rebellions in New York and, more broadly, the urban North. * Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York History *The Harlem Uprising refines our understanding of protest culture in America and reminds us once again that neither James Powell in 1964 nor George Floyd in 2020 fell victim to individual failure but a failing system. * H-Soz-Kult *In this gripping and detailed account, the book explores how those in power have refused to address structural racism, while also examining the limits of liberalism. * Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) *A highly readable and evocative rendering of the Harlem uprising of 1964, its causes, and its immediate policy aftermath. * History of Education Quarterly *The Harlem Uprising is deserving of a wide readership. Hayes’s clear and engaging prose makes the work accessible, while his historical insight and contributions will be of use and interest to historians of urban America, the civil rights movement, and police brutality. The work also recontextualizes the history of policing, violence, and the Black community in New York and makes important inferences about local practices of injustice that still plague the city and state. * New York History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Living2. Working3. Union Work4. Learning5. The New York City Police Department6. A Death and Protests7. Daybreak: Sunday, July 198. Spreading Anxiety: Monday, July 209. Day Four: Tuesday, July 2110. Day Five: Wednesday, July 2211. Day Six: Thursday, July 2312. After13. Reforming the Civilian Complaint Review Board14. A ReferendumEpilogue: Insufficient FundsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed a Black teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Christopher Hayes examines the causes and consequences of the uprisings, providing a vivid portrait of postwar New York, a new perspective on the civil rights era, and a timely analysis of racial inequality.Trade ReviewAn immersive chronicle of the July 1964 uprising in New York City’s Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods over the police killing of a Black teenager . . . Hayes unpacks the causes and effects of the uprising in scrupulous detail, and makes salient connections to recent events. This scholarly history is a powerful reminder that it takes ‘great force’ to bend the moral arc of the universe toward justice. * Publishers Weekly *The Harlem Uprising offers a powerful narrative of the riots and upheaval in Harlem and other African American neighborhoods in New York City in the summer of 1964. Hayes’s vividly written book provides a stinging portrayal of midcentury New York from the perspective of Black New Yorkers and offers an important new historiography of the carceral state. -- Kim Phillips-Fein, author of Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity PoliticsSuch a needed study of New York's long history of racial inequality in housing, schools, jobs, and policing and the years of frustrated civil rights struggles that laid the ground for the 1964 Harlem uprising. Hayes examines Mayor Lindsay's decision to constitute a majority-civilian CCRB in its wake, the swift and successful police-led backlash that ended it, and the law and order politics that gained ascendancy in the city and the nation. -- Jeanne Theoharis, author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights HistoryThis is an exceptionally important and powerful book about white racism and police brutality in the Jim Crow North, especially New York City. That postwar urban crisis produced the 1964 Harlem and Brooklyn uprisings. This book’s argument is forceful and its grasp of historiography is masterful. -- Komozi Woodard, author of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power PoliticsThe Harlem Uprising is a welcome contribution to the intertwined histories of liberalism, policing, and urban rebellions in New York and, more broadly, the urban North. * Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York History *The Harlem Uprising refines our understanding of protest culture in America and reminds us once again that neither James Powell in 1964 nor George Floyd in 2020 fell victim to individual failure but a failing system. * H-Soz-Kult *In this gripping and detailed account, the book explores how those in power have refused to address structural racism, while also examining the limits of liberalism. * Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) *A highly readable and evocative rendering of the Harlem uprising of 1964, its causes, and its immediate policy aftermath. * History of Education Quarterly *The Harlem Uprising is deserving of a wide readership. Hayes’s clear and engaging prose makes the work accessible, while his historical insight and contributions will be of use and interest to historians of urban America, the civil rights movement, and police brutality. The work also recontextualizes the history of policing, violence, and the Black community in New York and makes important inferences about local practices of injustice that still plague the city and state. * New York History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Living2. Working3. Union Work4. Learning5. The New York City Police Department6. A Death and Protests7. Daybreak: Sunday, July 198. Spreading Anxiety: Monday, July 209. Day Four: Tuesday, July 2110. Day Five: Wednesday, July 2211. Day Six: Thursday, July 2312. After13. Reforming the Civilian Complaint Review Board14. A ReferendumEpilogue: Insufficient FundsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Dream Revisited brings together a range of expert viewpoints on the causes and consequences of the nation’s separate and unequal living patterns. Leading scholars and practitioners, including civil rights advocates, affordable housing developers, elected officials, and fair housing lawyers, discuss responses to residential segregation.Trade Review[The Dream Revisited] is probably the most intelligent and thoughtful read on segregation in recent years. Despite highlighting so many debates and differences, I consider it a hopeful and useful policy tool. -- Anne B. Shlay, Georgia State University * Journal of Urban Affairs *This well-organized book makes a significant contribution to recent research on housing segregation in the US. * Choice *This book would be a great supplementary text for courses in planning, housing, sociology or geography. Not only does the book help us to understand the complexities of segregation and ways to deal with it, but just as important, Ellen and Steil show us how much we can learn from conversations with people with different viewpoints. -- David P. Varady, University of Cincinnati * Journal of Housing and the Built Environment *Likely to be the leading reference point for discussion and action for years to come, this must-read volume offers pointed debate among a who’s who of scholars and practitioners. One would need a small library to cover so much critical terrain half as well. More importantly, the dozens of diverse contributors are willing to squarely face fundamental questions about whether racial and economic integration is, in fact, worthwhile for America and, if so, how it can be achieved at a time of dramatic social and technological change. -- Xavier de Souza Briggs, Vice President, Inclusive Economies and Markets, Ford FoundationThe deep engagement and spirited debate found in The Dream Revisited make it a must-read for political leaders, housing advocates, and researchers seeking to understand the causes and consequences of segregation in America. Segregation anchors our nation’s schools, neighborhoods, and families in inequality. Through a wide range of perspectives penned by top scholars, Ellen and Steil’s volume helps us understand not only how we are divided but how we might finally address one of America’s most vexing problems. -- Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityFifty-five years since Martin Luther King’s speech, racial and economic segregation persist. Why? The Dream Revisited is a compelling compilation of the most up-to-date research and policy debate on the most crucial question of our day: how to produce racial and economic equality. It is both a wonderful introduction to these intersecting fields and a great resource for scholars and students of these topics. -- Wendell E. Pritchett, Presidential Professor of Law and Education, University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Meaning of SegregationIntroductionDiscussion 1: Why Integration?Discussion 2: Comparative Perspectives on SegregationDiscussion 3: Neighborhood Income SegregationDiscussion 4: Suburban Poverty and SegregationDiscussion 5: The Relationship Between Residential and School SegregationPart II: Causes of Contemporary Racial SegregationIntroductionDiscussion 6: Ending Segregation: Our Progress TodayDiscussion 7: The Stubborn Persistence of Racial SegregationDiscussion 8: Implicit Bias and SegregationPart III: Consequences of SegregationIntroductionDiscussion 9: Explaining Ferguson Through Place and RaceDiscussion 10: Segregation and Law EnforcementDiscussion 11: Segregation and HealthDiscussion 12: Segregation and the Financial CrisisDiscussion 13: Segregation and PoliticsPart IV: Policy ImplicationsIntroductionDiscussion 14: The Future of the Fair Housing ActDiscussion 15: Affirmatively Furthering Fair HousingDiscussion 16: Balancing Investments in People and PlaceDiscussion 17: Addressing Neighborhood DisinvestmentDiscussion 18: Place-Based Affirmative ActionDiscussion 19: Selecting Neighborhoods for Low-Income Housing Tax Credit DevelopmentsDiscussion 20: Public Housing and Deconcentrating PovertyDiscussion 21: Creating Mixed-Income Housing Through Inclusionary ZoningDiscussion 22: Neighborhoods, Opportunities, and the Housing Choice Voucher ProgramDiscussion 23: Making Vouchers More MobileDiscussion 24: Gentrification and the Promise of IntegrationDiscussion 25: Community Preferences and Fair HousingConclusionContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisJonathan Kahn argues that an uncritical embrace of implicit bias, to the exclusion of power relations and structural racism, undermines wider civic responsibility for addressing racial inequality by turning it over to experts. Race on the Brain challenges us to engage more democratically in the difficult task of promoting racial justice.Trade ReviewRace on the Brain offers a provocative examination of contemporary discussions of race, racism, and law. Kahn carefully assesses the scientific framework of implicit bias, highlighting its laudable intent and aspirations while revealing hidden challenges. This is a thoughtful and timely contribution that will surely enrich ongoing conversations on race and human cognition and their socio-legal significance. -- Osagie K. Obasogie, author of Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the BlindTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Rethinking Implicit Bias—the Limits to Science as a Tool of Racial Justice1. Defining and Measuring Implicit Bias2. The Uptake of Implicit Social Cognition by the Legal Academy3. Accepting Conservative Frames: Time, Color Blindness, Diversity, and Intent4. Behavioral Realism in Action5. Deracinating the Legal Subject6. Obscuring Power7. Recreational Antiracism and the Power of Positive Nudging8. Seeking a Technical Fix to Racism9. Biologizing Racism: The Ultimate Technical FixConclusion: Contesting the Common Sense of RacismNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisDexter R. Voisin provides a compelling and social-justice-oriented analysis of current trends in neighborhood violence in light of the historical and structural factors that have reproduced entrenched patterns of racial and economic inequality. He features the powerful voices and insights of black youth in Chicago and their parents and communities.Trade ReviewVoisin (Univ. of Toronto, Canada) has written a robust and captivating book detailing the impacts of neighborhood violence on the lives of impoverished black youth . . . The book is excellent in its overview of the problems at hand and the ways to address them . . . Highly recommended. -- J. A. Beicken, Rocky Mountain College * Choice *Based on years of study, Dexter Voisin has written an unusually thoughtful, sensitive, and astute meditation on violence—what it means, how it comes about, how it affects people, and how the media choose to write about it. The book’s critical yet sober stance means the author’s clear and unmistakable sense of urgency is coupled with a subtle, sophisticated sense of the many-faceted consequences of violence. A consistently enlightening work. -- Mario L. Small, author of Someone to Talk ToVoisin powerfully shows that the violence that Chicago’s black youth experience is rooted in the nation as a whole. He untangles these complex systems and offers clear and effective solutions. This book will be illuminating for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners alike. -- Mary Pattillo, author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the CityDexter Voisin writes with conviction, clarity, and conscience in connecting the dots between big ideas (racism, violence, resilience) and daily life through his personal story and those of the folks he has interviewed. America the Beautiful and Violent will help you understand how African American youth can not only survive, but thrive. -- Lois Takahashi, University of Southern CaliforniaMost discussions of violence focus on its horrors and have the tendency to portray perpetrators in a stereotypical manner. This book, on the other hand, has the potential to deepen our understanding of violence and shed light on solutions. -- Pedro Noguera, University of California, Los AngelesTable of Contents1. The Beginning2. The Tale of Two Americas3. Not All Violence Is the Same: Race- and Place-Based Violence4. The Road to Concentrated Poverty and Neighborhood Violence5. The Scars of Violence6. When Violence and Sex Are Entangled7. Living and Parenting in the Presence of Everyday Dangers8. Joining the Broken Pieces: Practice and Policy Solutions and Systems Integration9. Making a Difference: Rebuilding the VillageNotesIndex

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