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Upbuilding Black Durham Upbuilding Black Durham Leslie Brown "In the 1910s, both W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization ha… OL11891726W
American Muslim women American Muslim women Jamillah Ashira Karim "Focusing on women, who sometimes move outside of their ethnic Muslim spaced and interact with other Muslim ethnic groups in search of gender justice, this ethnographic study of African American and … OL11989183W
Producing success Producing success Peter Demerath The result of four years at Midwestern "Wilton High," this book seeks to understand the merciless, competitive culture of an upper-middle-class American high school, showing the various things parent… OL13775304W
The color of politics The color of politics Michael Goldfield Discusses the problems of the working class in light of "the central role [of racism] at every historical turning point in American history, from the founding of the Republic to the contemporary era.… OL15816545W
Our kind of people Our kind of people Lawrence Graham "The first book written about the insular world of the black upper class by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group. A conservative network of families dating back to the first black millionaires of… OL15822126W
Anthropologists and the rediscovery of America, 1886-1965 Anthropologists and the rediscovery of America, 1886-1965 John S. Gilkeson "This book examines the intersection of cultural anthropology and American cultural nationalism from 1886, when Franz Boas left Germany for the United States, until 1965, when the National Endowment … OL16916215W
America America Bob Ehrlich Former politician and author Bob Ehrlich "explores the cause and remedies to the seven most difficult issues confronting (and confounding) our culture and country ... [presenting] an urgent call to a… OL18150638W
Creating an opportunity society Creating an opportunity society Ron Haskins "Presents facts and factors that contribute to economic opportunity, looking at how poor, middle class, and rich have fared in recent decades. Proposes a cost-effective agenda for increasing opportun… OL18640182W
Transcribing class and gender Transcribing class and gender Carole Srole viii, 324 p. : 24 cm OL18679548W
The hidden injuries of class The hidden injuries of class Richard Sennett,Jonathan Cobb This book deals with class not as a matter of dollars or statistics but as a matter of emotions. Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb isolate the “hidden signals of class” through which today’s blue-col… OL1870898W
America's growing inequality America's growing inequality Chester W. Hartman Compilation of the articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Research Action Council, from 2006 to the present. OL19979950W
Honky Honky Dalton Conley "This memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the de… OL1998365W
Hand to Mouth Hand to Mouth Linda Tirado "I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining… OL19988069W
Violence Against Queer People Violence Against Queer People Doug Meyer "Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of the LGBT community--white, middle class men--and larg… OL20027367W
On New Terrain On New Terrain Kim Moody 1 online resource (287 pages) : OL20201560W
The boundaries of American political culture in the Civil War era The boundaries of American political culture in the Civil War era Mark E. Neely Did preoccupations with family and work crowd out interest in politics in the nineteenth century, as some have argued? Arguing that social historians have gone too far in concluding that Americans we… OL20414733W
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt Chris Hedges,Joe Sacco "In the vein of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Chris Hedges and American Book Award winning cartoonist Joe Sacco bring us a searing on-the-ground report on… OL24138394W
Class and Party in American Politics (Transforming American Politics) Class and Party in American Politics (Transforming American Politics) Jeffrey M. Stonecash "This single volume work examines whether class political divisions have increased or decreased over time in America. Most studies have concluded that class differences have declined, and that Democr… OL3512093W
Class and Community Class and Community Alan Dawley "Dawley reflects on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, during the rise of industrialism in the early nineteenth centur… OL4613896W
Race, class, and the state in contemporary sociology Race, class, and the state in contemporary sociology Jack Niemonen "Focusing on the work legacy of William Julius Wilson and the arguments of his longstanding critics, Niemonen deftly illustrates the strengths, weakness, and influence of Wilson's work. His analysis … OL6215875W
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