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By Arlie Russell Hochschild - When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential...Read more about Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

By Stephen Small and Sandew Hira - Most people in the Netherlands think of slavery and the slave trade as something that happened a long time ago, did not affect many people, and have little relevance to Dutch society today. Nothing could be further from...Read more about 20 Questions and Answers on Dutch Slavery and its Legacy

Michael Omi - Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with each chapter radically revised and rewritten by authors Michael...Read more about Racial Formation in the United States- 3rd Edition

G. Cristina Mora - How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as “Hispanics” and “Latinos” in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope of...Read more about Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American

Arlie Hochschild - In this new collection of thirteen essays, Arlie Russell Hochschild—author of the groundbreaking exploration of emotional labor, The Managed Heart and The Outsourced Self—focuses squarely on the impact of social forces on the emotional...Read more about So How's the Family?

Steven Raphael - Raphael and Stoll carefully evaluate changes in crime patterns, enforcement practices and sentencing laws to reach a sobering conclusion: So many Americans are in prison today because we have chosen, through our public policies, to put them there. They...Read more about Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?

David Montejano - Completing the story of the Mexican American struggle for inclusion and equal rights that he began in Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 and Quixote’s Soldiers, Montejano presents a rich ethnography of the street-level Chicano movement...Read more about Sancho's Journal: Exploring the Political Edge with the Brown Berets

Arlie Hochschild - The family has long been a haven in a heartless world, the one place immune to market forces and economic calculations, where the personal, the private, and the emotional hold sway. Yet as Arlie Russell Hochschild shows in The Outsourced Self...Read more about The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us

Stephen Small - This reader consists of 11 articles that focus on slavery and the legacy of slavery in Suriname and the Caribbean. Analysis of slavery in the Caribbean, including variations in the nature, functioning and legacies of slavery across territories with different...Read more about New Perspectives on Slavery and Colonialism in the Caribbean

Irene Bloemraad - From Alaska to Florida, millions of immigrants and their supporters took to the streets across the United States to rally for immigrant rights in the spring of 2006. The scope and size of their protests, rallies, and boycotts made these the most...Read more about Rallying for Immigrant Rights: The Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century America

David Montejano - In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang...Read more about Quixote's Soldiers A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981