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February 24, 2024
Dying for Rights
“The things that are happening to North Korea are happening to all of us…they are part of the human community. To say that this is just a problem for …
June 29, 2020
You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer
What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession? Tsedale Melaku explores this question and more in her new book: You Don’t Loo…
May 15, 2020
Rapid Ethnographic Assessments
How can researchers gather information quickly, for instance in the times of COVID-19? In their new book, Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical …
May 13, 2020
Ballad of the Bullet
How do young men use drill music and social media to gain power? In his new book, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online In…
March 9, 2020
Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming
What can online social spaces like Reddit’s r/gaming reveal about gender attitudes, masculinized spaces, and turning points in gamer communities? In t…
February 24, 2020
The New Noir
How has the expansion of the Black American middle class and the increase in the number of Black immigrants among them since the Civil Rights period t…
January 30, 2020
You Can’t Stop the Revolution
“Black lives matter before death.” (p.132) In her powerful new book, You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguso…
December 9, 2019
Separated
What happens to families and communities after immigration raids? William D. Lopez answers this question and more in his new book Separated: Family &a…
October 29, 2019
Empathy Beyond US Borders
Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so? In his new book Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic…
October 21, 2019
Gathering Social Network Data
What is social network data and what are the issues associated with collecting it? In his new book Gathering Social Network Data (Sage, 2019), jimi ad…
June 28, 2019
Making Motherhood Work
Where in the world do working moms have it best? In her new book, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Princeton Universit…
December 27, 2018
The Gay Marriage Generation
How and why did public opinions about gay marriage shift? In his new book, The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Cu…
October 12, 2018
Seduction
How does the seduction, or “pick-up artist,” industry work? In her new book Seduction: Men, Masculinity, and Mediated Intimacy (Polity, 2018), Rachel …
September 24, 2018
Inequalities of Aging
How are the vulnerabilities of older adults in need of care and their care workers intertwined? In Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in…
September 17, 2018
Young Working-Class Men in Transition
How do young working-class men experience the transition to adulthood? In his new book Young Working-Class Men in Transition (Routledge, 2018), Steven…
September 13, 2018
Black Boys Apart
How do schools empower but also potentially emasculate young black men? In his new book, Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Mal…
August 13, 2018
Cannabis Discourse
What is the landscape of our cannabis knowledge? In his new book Jacob Levine author of the Cannabis Discourse: Facts and Opinions in Context (Jacob L…
August 8, 2018
Building the Prison State
How did prisons become a tool of racial inequality? Using historical data, Heather Schoenfeld’s new book Building the Prison State: Race and the Polit…
August 6, 2018
Retirements and its Discontents
How do different professionals experience retirement? Michelle Pannor Silver’s new book Retirements and its Discontents: Why We Won’t Stop Working, Ev…
July 26, 2018
Meltdown
How can we learn from large system failures? In their new book Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It (Penguin Press, 2018), Chris…
July 24, 2018
Keeping it Halal
What do the social worlds of teenage Muslim American boys look like? What issues do they grapple with and how do they think about issues that arise in…
July 17, 2018
Christians Under Covers
How do we conceptualize religious conservatives and their relationship with sex? And how do Christians use digital media for sexual knowledge and plea…
June 5, 2018
Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada
How do unions and ideas around labor compare between the U.S. and Canada? And how did they come to be as they are today? In his new book, Labor and th…
May 31, 2018
Stick Together and Come Back Home
How do systems of incarceration influence racial sorting inside and outside of prisons? And how do the social structures within prisons spill out into…