Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City, Paperback - Andrew J. Diamond

Reducere. Heralded as America's quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars. Yet few hist...

Reducere. Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much ...

A unique collection examining the African urban experience, with a special focus on the causes, consequences and power dynamics of urban inequality...

In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed a Black teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Christopher...

Reducere. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Paris we know today was born, the vision of two extraordinary men: the endlessly ambitious Emperor Napol on III ...

DescriptionBuilding from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greate...

Reducere. Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling's tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy C...

AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. AIDS a...

Reducere. In the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, far from the hustle and noise of urban centers, lies a village made of mud and rock, barely discernible fro...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Destin JenkinsIllustration(s): 26 halftones, 10 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 20...

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This book analyses the behaviour of ethnic minority groups in China, using the first comprehensive national dataset dedicated to capturing the soci...

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The area of Los Angeles known as South Central is often overshadowed by dismal stereotypes, problematic racial stigmas, and its status as the home ...

Reducere. This book is about a way of return to one's own true life.In any society, ancient or modern, which has made busyness a virtue, lost itself in pursu...

It offers an original and powerful argument about Russian power and introduces and discusses the term 'mobilisation' as a central element of the Ru...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Stein RingenNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 228 x 14Cover type: Pa...

A literary history of walking From Dickens to Zizek There is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving aro...

In 1966, a year after the Voting Rights Act began liberating millions of southern blacks, New Yorkers challenged a political system that weakened t...

Proceeding from a synthetic critique of political economy, this book places welfare and inequality at the center of a more encompassing comparative...

Reducere. DescriptionAlthough Emmi has lived in Chicago for two years, she finds it hard to love her adopted city. As a German immigrant in the early 1870s, ...

A Chicago Tribune Book of 2019, Notable Chicago Reads A Booklist Top 10 Arts Book of 2019 A No Depression Top Music Book of 2019 Curtis Mayfield. T...

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Women and Inequality in the 21st Century examines the continued inequities navigated by women occupying marginalized social positions within a "nex...

Reducere. DescriptionAlthough Emmi has lived in Chicago for two years, she finds it hard to love her adopted city. As a German immigrant in the early 1870s, ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Stein RingenNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 236 x 22Cover type: Ha...

Reducere. Tatchell takes us on a tour of the city with an outlook that s part native, part critic, part wide-eyed traveler. The result is a truly original co...

Reducere. In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that ...

Publisher: Unity Print and Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Andrew WilsonIllustration(s): 300+ original photographs, 5 IllustrationsNumber of pages: 132Pub...

Publisher: Black Dog PressIllustration(s): 70 illustrations; 70 illustrationsNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 288 x 238 x 21Co...

DescriptionIn Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo--a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century--uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic ...