GFP Alumni Books

by Jennifer Randles :

A revealing account of parenting in a country that neglects the needs of poor families—through the humble diaper.

Many of us take diapers for...Read more about Living Diaper to Diaper: The Hidden Crisis of Poverty and Motherhood

By Jennifer Jihye Chun and Ju Hui Judy Han: Across the world, protest has become a much-debated tactic in struggles against inequality, political corruption, and ecological disaster. In South Korea, protest is a ubiquitous and essential form of political expression. In 1987,...Read more about Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest

Edited by David Philoxene, Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon, Emma Haydée Fuentes: This volume highlights a case study of one diverse institution of higher education that was transformed to support faculty and students with varied cultures and identities.

...Read more about Crafting Homeplace in the Academic Borderlands: Humanizing Education, Research, and Relationships

By Caitlin Keliiaa: Traces young Native women’s lives and experiences as Bay Area domestic workers

In the early twentieth century, the Bay Area Outing Program coercively recruited over a thousand Native girls and women from boarding schools to labor as live-in...Read more about Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women's Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program

By Olivia Chilcote: An inside account of one Luiseño tribe's history and their efforts to be recognized by the United States

With the largest number of Native Americans as well as the most non-federally recognized tribes in the United States, the state of California...Read more about Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians

By Michael V Singh: The unintended consequences of youth empowerment programs for Latino boys

Educational research has long documented the politics of punishment for boys and young men of color in schools—but what about the politics of empowerment and inclusion? In ...Read more about Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools

By Dani Carrillo: From its inception, the public safety net in the United States has excluded many people because of their race, gendered roles, or other factors. As a result, they must prove their moral worthiness to get resources for themselves and their families...Read more about When Care is Conditional: Immigrants and the U.S. Safety Net

By Stephen Small. In the midst of calls for the removal of Confederate monuments across the South, tens of thousands of museums, buildings, and other historical sites currently comprise a tourist infrastructure of the southern heritage industry. Louisiana, one of the most...Read more about In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana

By Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Magdalena L. Barrera: In The Latinx Guide to Graduate School Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Magdalena L. Barrera provide prospective and current Latinx graduate students in the humanities and social sciences fields with a roadmap for surviving and...Read more about The Latinx Guide to Graduate School

By Stephen Small and Jimi Jagne. 1981 – Black Liverpool Past and Present provides insight into the history of Liverpool’s Black communities through the eyes of two Liverpudlians: Jimi Jagne and Stephen Small. Centred around the 1981 Uprising as a pinnacle...Read more about 1981 – Black Liverpool Past and Present

By Katrinell M. Davis: Urgent sociological assessment of Flint’s water crisis and environmental racism.

After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding...Read more about Tainted Tap: Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery