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Richard Sparks - The project of interpreting contemporary forms of punishment means exploring the social, political, economic, and historical conditions in the society in which those forms arise. The SAGE Handbook of Punishment and Society draws together this...Read more about The SAGE Handbook of Punishment and Society

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...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

Nikki Jones - With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence.

Drawing on personal encounters, traditions of...Read more about Between Good and Ghetto African American Girls and Inner-City Violence

Harry Daniels - The book is a collection about cultural-historical activity theory as it has been developed and applied by Yrjo Engeström. The work of Engeström is both rooted in the legacy of Vygotsky and Leont’ev and focuses on current research concerns that are related...Read more about Learning and Expanding with Activity Theory

Steven Raphael - Do Prisons Make Us Safer? asks whether it makes sense to maintain such a large and costly prison system. The contributors expand the scope of previous analyses to include a number of underexplored dimensions, such as the fiscal impact on states,...Read more about Do Prisons Make Us Safer? The Benefits and Costs of the Prison Boom

Stephen Small - The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection penetrates the multifaceted Black presence in Europe, and,...Read more about Black Europe and the African Diaspora

Carolyn Chen - What does becoming American have to do with becoming religious? Many immigrants become more religious after coming to the United States. Taiwanese are no different. Like many Asian immigrants to the United States, Taiwanese frequently convert to Christianity...Read more about Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience

Kurt Organista - It is estimated that in just two generations, the United States will follow Mexico with the second largest Latino population in the world. Optimistic and timely, Solving Latino Psychosocial and Health Problems addresses the social welfare of this important...Read more about Solving Latino Psychosocial and Health Problems: Theory, Practice, and Populations 1st Edition