New Books in Critical Theory
Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison, “The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged” (Policy Press, 2019)
Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison
The Class Ceiling
Why it Pays to be Privileged
Policy Press, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network January 31, 2019 Dave O'Brien

Who gets in to top professions? In The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be privileged (Policy Press, 2019), Drs Sam Friedman, an associate professor of sociology at LSE, and Daniel Laurison, an assistant professor of sociology at Swarthmore College, explore the dominance of social elites in top professions. The book... Read More
Marcia Morgan, “Black Women Prison Employees: The Intersectionality of Gender and Race” (Edwin Mellen Press, 2018)
Marcia Morgan
Black Women Prison Employees
The Intersectionality of Gender and Race
Edwin Mellen Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network January 23, 2019 Kyle McMillen

With prison reform a topic of international conversation and debate, Marica Morgan’s Black Women Prison Employees: The Intersectionality of Gender and Race  offers an in-depth and unique analysis of a population largely lost in these debates and discussions: black women. By centering their experiences, Morgan offers and intersectional and psychodynamic... Read More
Katie Beswick, “Social Housing In Performance: The English Council Estate On and Off Stage” (Methuen Drama, 2018)
Katie Beswick
Social Housing In Performance
The English Council Estate On and Off Stage
Methuen Drama, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network January 22, 2019 Dave O'Brien

How has the council estate been represented on stage? In Social Housing In Performance: The English Council Estate On and Off Stage (Methuen Drama, 2018),  Dr. Katie Beswick, a lecturer in drama at the University of Exeter, explores this question using a mixture of dramatic and social theory, along with examples from... Read More
Arnika Fuhrmann, “Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema” (Duke UP, 2016)
Arnika Fuhrmann
Ghostly Desires
Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema
Duke University Press, 2016

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Buddhist StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in FilmNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network January 22, 2019 Patrick Jory

Since the late 1990s Thai cinema has come to global attention with movies like the famous ghost film, Nang Nak, and more recently the evocative films of director Aphichatpong Weerasethakul, who won a Palme D’Or award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. A perennially popular theme in Thai cinema is... Read More
Clarence Taylor, “Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City” (NYU Press, 2018)
Clarence Taylor
Fight the Power
African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City
NYU Press, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network January 18, 2019 Beth Harpaz

In his newest book, Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City (NYU Press, 2018), Clarence Taylor, dean of the history of the civil rights movement in New York, looks at black resistance to police brutality in the city, and institutional efforts to hold the NYPD... Read More

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