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The Archival Turn in Feminism

The Archival Turn in Feminism
Outrage in Order
Eichhorn, Kate

A window into the preservation of contemporary feminist documents and artifacts and how this archival activism has advanced intergenerational political alliances

Mobilizing Communities

Mobilizing Communities
Asset Building as a Community Development Strategy
edited by Green, Gary Paul and Ann Goetting
New in Paperback!

Case studies from a variety of settings consider the asset-building approach to community development

Pushing Back the Gates

Pushing Back the Gates
Neighborhood Perspectives on University-Driven Revitalization in West Philadelphia
Etienne, Harley F.
New in Paperback!

A critical study of university-driven development from the neighborhood resident's perspective

Second Cities

Second Cities
Globalization and Local Politics in Manchester and Philadelphia
Hodos, Jerome I.
New in Paperback!

How Philadelphia and Manchester have successfully grappled with globalization, carving out a series of distinctive niche roles for themselves over time

Never Easy, Never Pretty

Never Easy, Never Pretty
A Fan, A City, A Championship Season
Smith, Dean Bartoli

The story of the Baltimore Ravens, 2012 Super Bowl Champions, as told through the cultural lens of a city with a rich football history

Jesus, Jobs, and Justice

Jesus, Jobs, and Justice
African American Women and Religion
Collier-Thomas, Bettye
Now in Paperback!

Now in paperback, an extraordinary history of African American women, and their struggle for gender and racial equality in the church and society

Atlanta Unbound

Atlanta Unbound
Enabling Sprawl through Policy and Planning
Basmajian, Carlton Wade

How metropolitan Atlanta's regional planning groups accelerated the sprawl they were trying to control

Philadelphia Freedoms

Philadelphia Freedoms
Black American Trauma, Memory, and Culture after King
Awkward, Michael

Tracing racial trauma through Philadelphia sports and cultural production in the four decades after King's assassination

How We Die Now

How We Die Now
Intimacy and the Work of Dying
Erickson, Karla A.

Insights from elders and their caregivers on the end of life

Savage Portrayals

Savage Portrayals
Race, Media, and the Central Park Jogger Story
Byfield, Natalie

How the media's racialized coverage of the Central Park Jogger case influenced the conviction of five young minority men accused of "wilding" and affected the American juvenile justice system

Family and Work in Everyday Ethnography

Family and Work in Everyday Ethnography
edited by Brown, Tamara Mose and Joanna Dreby

Negotiating the challenges—and fighting the myths—of parenthood and fieldwork

God Talk

God Talk
Experimenting with the Religious Causes of Public Opinion
Djupe, Paul A. and Brian R. Calfano

Explores religion's impact on political attitudes using a series of controlled experiments

Serial Fu Manchu

Serial Fu Manchu
The Chinese Supervillain and the Spread of Yellow Peril Ideology
Mayer, Ruth

How mass media serials featuring Fu Manchu reinforced the cultural notion of the Yellow Peril

Art, Politics, and Development

Art, Politics, and Development
How Linear Perspective Shaped Policies in the Western World
Lepenies, Philipp H.

A brilliant meditation on how the invention of linear perspective in art helped shape our perspectives on the developing world

Asian American Women's Popular Literature

Asian American Women's Popular Literature
Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging
Thoma, Pamela

How Asian American women writers mobilize popular genres of literature to imagine new forms of citizenship in a neoliberal society

The Risk Society Revisited

The Risk Society Revisited
Social Theory and Governance
Rosa, Eugene A., Ortwin Renn and Aaron M. McCright

How risk is a feature in all societies, and its connection to the challenges of sustainability

The Art of Play

The Art of Play
Recess and the Practice of Invention
Beresin, Anna R.

Play and recess seen from the eyes of children

Accessible Citizenships

Accessible Citizenships
Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico
Minich, Julie Avril

How disability provides a new perspective on our understanding of the nation and the citizen

Consuming Work

Consuming Work
Youth Labor in America
Besen-Cassino, Yasemin

The social meaning of work from youths' perspectives

Salsa World

Salsa World
A Global Dance in Local Contexts
edited by Hutchinson, Sydney

How an understanding of salsa dancing enhances our appreciation of salsa's global reach and meanings

Constructing Muslims in France

Constructing Muslims in France
Discourse, Public Identity, and the Politics of Citizenship
Fredette, Jennifer

A groundbreaking study that presents Muslims in France as a diverse social group rather than a monolithic religious group

Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality
Time Objectified
edited by Dalsgård, Anne Line, Martin Demant Frederiksen, Susanne Højlund and Lotte Meinert
Afterword by Michael Flaherty

How time is both a material and temporal force in the lives of youth


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