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ordered by best selling| More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (Issues of Our Time) | |||
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Author(s) : William Julius Julius Wilson | ||
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| Brief A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framewor...Read More |
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| When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (Vintage) | |||
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Author(s) : William Julius Wilson | ||
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| Brief Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson...Read More |
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| Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African American Family | |||
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Author(s) : Donna L. Franklin | ||
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| Brief There is a crisis today in the American family, and this crisis has been particularly severe in the African American community. Black women are more likely than ever to bear children as teenagers, to remain single, and to raise their children in poverty. As a result, a staggering number of African-A...Read More |
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| Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage (Labor In Crisis) | |||
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Author(s) : William DiFazio | ||
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| Brief At St. John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, over a thousand people line up for food five days a week. In this trenchant and groundbreaking work, author Bill DiFazio breathes life into the stories of the poor who have, in the wake of welfare reform and ...Read More |
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| There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meani ng for America (Vintage) | |||
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Author(s) : William Julius Wilson, Richard P. Taub | ||
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| Brief From one of America’s most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, There Goes the Neighborhood is a long-awaited look at how race, class, and ethnicity influence one of Americans’ most personal choices—where we choose to live. The result of a three-year study of four working- an...Read More |
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| The Bridge over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics (Wildavsky Forum Series) | |||
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Author(s) : William Julius Wilson | ||
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| Brief In a work that will significantly influence the political discussion with respect to race and class politics, one of the country's most influential sociologists focuses on the rising inequality in American society and the need for a progressive, multiracial political coalition to combat it. The culm...Read More |
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| The New Geography of Jobs | |||
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Author(s) : Enrico Moretti | ||
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| Brief From a rising young economist, an examination of innovation and success, and where to find them in America. An unprecedented redistribution of jobs, population, and wealth is under way in America, and it is likely to accelerate in the years to come. America’s new economic map shows growing dif...Read More |
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| If the Workers Took a Notion: The Right to Strike and American Political Development | |||
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Author(s) : Josiah Bartlett Lambert | ||
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| Brief Once a fundamental civic right, strikes are now constrained and contested. In an unusual and thought-provoking history, Josiah Bartlett Lambert shows how the ability to strike was transformed from a fundamental right that made the citizenship of working people possible into a conditional and commerc...Read More |
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| Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s | |||
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Author(s) : Ronald P. Formisano | ||
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| Brief Perhaps the most spectacular reaction to court-ordered busing in the 1970s occurred in Boston, where there was intense and protracted protest. Ron Formisano explores the sources of white opposition to school desegregation. Racism was a key factor, Formisano argues, but racial prejudice alone cannot ...Read More |
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| Running Steel, Running America : Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism | |||
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Author(s) : Judith Stein | ||
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| Brief The history of modern liberalism has been hotly debated in contemporary politics and the academy. Here, Judith Stein uses the steel industry—long considered fundamental to the U.S. economy—to examine liberal policies and priorities after World War II. In a provocative revision of postwar America...Read More |
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