• "We Live in the Shadow"
  Inner-City Kids Tell Their Stories through Photographs
  Elaine Bell Kaplan
  

  "Kaplan gives a group of preteens from South Central L.A. the chance to document their lives in this moving work. After telling them to 'take pictures of anything you want to show me about your experiences,' Kaplan uses the results to assemble a well-researched narrative examining how the subjects 'experience and react to the social problems associated with South Central,' their reflections on living there, and how they deal with daily challenges, including gang violence and drug warfare.... [Kaplan] interweaves her subjects’ stories and pieces from their photo essays with her research, reflections, and observations, confronting issues of class, race, and identity. Even casual anecdotes point to larger problems—teachers who don’t care and schools that don’t work." —Publishers Weekly

• Social Justice in Diverse Suburbs
  History, Politics, and Prospects
  edited by Christopher Niedt
  

  "Social Justice in Diverse Suburbs addresses the history and evolution of suburbs, suburban racial and ethnic discrimination and efforts to combat it, metropolitan sprawl, differentiation among suburbs, and the emerging problems of the inner suburbs. Niedt’s excellent introduction covers several engaging and interesting stories of organizing and conflict, and the essays illustrate the changing diversity of suburbs—from Latino issues, which deserve more attention, to resistance to housing mobility for the poor amidst the foreclosure crisis. This book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on suburbs." —W. Dennis Keating, Professor of Urban Studies at Cleveland State University

• Intimacy across Borders
  Race, Religion, and Migration in the U.S. Midwest
  Jane Juffer
  

  "Intimacy across Borders is a stimulating, original, and nuanced understanding of immigration, desire, and encounter. Juffer’s book has both a tone of urgency and a contemporary relevance that are compelling. She deftly uses the frameworks of personal experience and cultural studies to bring together theories of encounter with actual lived experience. Her anchoring the text in the Reformed Church communities of Iowa is sophisticated, and the religious and cultural material is well integrated. Intimacy across Borders will advance the understanding of intercultural encounters from a theological and philosophical as well as a sociological perspective." —Ann Hostetler, Professor of English at Goshen College

• "Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind"
  Contemporary Planning in New York City
  Scott Larson
  

  "In ‘Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind’ is a critical book because the Bloomberg administration's slick public relations have given him support and consensus across the political spectrum for his hugely unfair and unsustainable growth strategy. Larson unravels Bloomberg's skillful manipulation of the myths surrounding Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs." —Tom Angotti, author of New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate and The New Century of the Metropolis: Urban Enclaves and Orientalism

• Disability and Passing
  Blurring the Lines of Identity
  edited by Jeffrey A. Brune and Daniel J. Wilson
  

  "Disability and Passing, cuts to the heart of disability identity, revealing as never before the centrality of passing to how disabled people think about themselves. Brune and Wilson’s collection demands a spot on everyone's bookshelf." —Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan





• Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia
  Martin Demant Frederiksen
  

  "Riveting. Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia develops stimulating ideas about temporal disjunctures and marginalization and adds significantly to the literature on post-Soviet states while providing an important study of youth. Frederiksen’s interweaving of ethnographic narrative with ethnological analysis and interpretation is elegant and vivid, and his fresh approach provides new understanding." —Deborah Durham, Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at Sweet Briar College



• Justifiable Conduct
  Self-Vindication in Memoir
  Erich Goode
  

  "Erich Goode's Justifiable Conduct is a deeply considered and wildly fascinating look into the craft of memoir. This book should be required reading for those who read, write, love, or loathe memoir. This important contribution to a genre that has become a heated topic of debate, in both literary circles and popular culture, is a must read." —Emily Rapp, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design; member of the MFA faculty at the University of California, Riverside; and writer

• Celebrating Debutantes and Quinceañeras
  Coming of Age in American Ethnic Communities
  Evelyn Ibatan Rodriguez
  

  "Rodriguez presents a nuanced reading of the coming-of-age celebration in both Mexican and Filipino communities in her analysis of the two vis-à-vis larger issues of representation and situated identities. Her careful and insightful writing about issues that seem to lie beneath the surface of many of these celebrations includes extensive quotes from fieldwork that add depth and meaning to the analysis and discussion of the sexuality and complex social and economic networks inherent in these rituals." —Norma Elia Cantú, Professor of Latina/o Studies and English at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and author of Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera

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