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  • South Street

    South Street is Barbara G. Mensch's evocative tribute to the lost world of Lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. For more than a century, a colorful, tightly knit community of fishmongers, many of them recent immigrants and children of immigrants, thrived under the base of the Brooklyn Bridge. Resistant to government regulations and corporate encroachment, these men lived in a closed, internally ... Leer más

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  • Fire Lover

    A True Story

    The hunt for the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century — in this Edgar Award–winning true crime story that's "stranger than fiction" ( The New York Times) .From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary story of the chase for the "Pillow Pyro," led by one ambi... ... Leer más

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  • Building Suburbia

    Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000

    A lively and provocative history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live.From rustic cottages reached by steamboat to big box stores at the exit ramps of eight-lane highways, Dolores Hayden defines seven eras of suburban development since 1820. An urban historian and architect, she portrays housewives and politicians as well as designers and builders making the ... Leer más

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  • Getting By

    Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain

    de Lisa Mckenzie ...
    While the 1% rule, poor neighbourhoods have become the subject of public concern and media scorn, blamed for society's ills. This unique book redresses the balance. Lisa Mckenzie lived on the St Ann’s estate in Nottingham for more than 20 years. Her ‘insider’ status enables us to hear the stories of its residents, often wary of outsiders. St Ann's has been stigmatised as a place where gangs, guns, ... Leer más

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  • Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight

    Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles

    de Eric Avila ...
    Series Libro 13 - American Crossroads
    Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of migrants who abandoned older American cities for Southern California's booming urban region. Eric Avila explores expressions of this new "white identity" in ... Leer más

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  • Black Picket Fences

    Privilege & Peril among the Black Middle Class

    de Mary Pattillo ...
    First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo's Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a group still underrepresented in the academic and public spheres. The result of living for three years in "Groveland," a black middle-class neighborhood ... Leer más

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  • Slipping into the Shadows

    Junkies, Prostitutes, Con Artists

    de Eugene Barron ...
    In every large city, there are marginal, criminal types who live on the fringes of the society. They are faceless, ignored or feared. The author had worked and lived in their East Harlem, New York neighborhood. Through a series of in-depth interviews he attempts to give them a human face.These are documentary stories, capturing not just the life style of addicts, prostitutes, con artists and ... Leer más

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  • What People Believe When They Say That People Believe

    Folk Sociology and the Nature of Group Intentions

    de Todd Jones ...
    In modern life, we often hear people say things like, "Catholics don't believe in using birth control." There are many reasons that we want to know what groups of people (such as Catholics) are thinking and doing. But it's hard to understand which social situations are being described by such statements. It's also difficult to understand what speakers believe when they make such statements (even ... Leer más

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  • Gendered Paradoxes

    Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador

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    Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women’s participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, ... Leer más

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  • Inner City Kids

    Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community

    Series Libro 4 - Qualitative Studies in Psychology
    Urban teens of color are often portrayed as welfare mothers, drop outs, drug addicts, and both victims and perpetrators of the many kinds of violence which can characterize life in urban areas. Although urban youth often live in contexts which include poverty, unemployment, and discrimination, they also live with the everydayness of school, friends, sex, television, music, and other elements of ... Leer más

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  • Diversities Old and New

    Migration and Socio-Spatial Patterns in New York, Singapore and Johannesburg

    Edición de S. Vertovec ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and Johannesburg are presented. ... Leer más

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  • Survival Math

    Notes on an All-American Family

    ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019ONE OF BUZZFEED’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019An electrifying, dazzlingly written reckoning and an essential addition to the national conversation about race and class, Survival Math takes its name from the calculations award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson made to survive the Portland, Oregon of his youth.... ... Leer más

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