GFP Alumni Books

Edited by William Ackah, Jualynne E. Dodson, R. Drew Smith. Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs continue to play a crucial role in the lives of people of...Read more about Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora

Edited by Gloria H. Cuadraz and Yolanda Flores. To offer testimonio is inherently political, a vehicle that counters the hegemony of the state and illuminates the repression and denial of human rights. Claiming Home, Shaping...Read more about Claiming Home, Shaping Community: Testimonios de los valles

By Keramet Reiter. In this brief, timely text, Keramet Reiter explores the least visible, but arguably most important, characteristics of mass incarceration in the United States: the systematic constriction of prisoners' constitutional rights; the treatment of the mentally ill...Read more about Mass Incarceration: Keynotes in Criminology and Criminal Justice Series

By Willow Lung-Amam. Beyond the gilded gates of Google, little has been written about the suburban communities of Silicon Valley. Over the past several decades, the region’s booming tech economy spurred rapid population growth, increased racial diversity, and...Read more about Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia

By Victor M. Rios. In Human Targets, Rios takes us to the streets of California, where we encounter young men who find themselves in much the same situation as fifteen-year-old Victor. We follow young gang members into schools, homes, community organizations, and detention...Read more about Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

By Katrinell M. Davis. Drawing on archival material and interviews with African American women transit workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Katrinell Davis grapples with our understanding of mobility as it intersects with race and gender in the postindustrial and post–...Read more about Hard Work In Not Enough: Gender and Racial Inequality In An Urban Workspace

By Jennifer M. Randles. "Fragile families"—unmarried parents who struggle emotionally and financially—are one of the primary targets of the Healthy Marriage Initiative, a federal policy that has funded marriage education programs in nearly every state. These programs,...Read more about Proposing Prosperity? Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America

By Phillip B. Gonzales. Política offers a stunning revisionist understanding of the early political incorporation of Mexican-origin peoples into the U.S. body politic in the nineteenth century. Historical sociologist Phillip B. Gonzales reexamines the fundamental issue...Read more about Política: Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821-1910

By Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin - This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially...Read more about Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

By Cid Gregory Martinez. South Los Angeles is often seen as ground zero for inter-racial conflict and violence in the United States. Since the 1940s, South LA has been predominantly a low-income African American neighborhood, and yet since the early 1990s Latino immigrants—...Read more about The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules: Latinos and African Americans in South Los Angeles

By Els De Graauw. More than half of the 41 million foreign-born individuals in the United States today are noncitizens, half have difficulty with English, a quarter are undocumented, and many are poor. As a result, most immigrants have few opportunities to make their voices...Read more about Making Immigrant Rights Real: Nonprofits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco