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By Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy: We now live in an “ordinal society.” Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy argue that technologies of information...Read more about The Ordinal Society

Edited by: Ashley N. Woodson, Travis J. Bristol

This book reflects the diversity and possibility of critical research in education, with an emphasis on the examination of the intersections of social identities for men teachers of color, and the...Read more about Men Educators of Color in U.S. Public Schools and Abroad

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 Loïc Wacquant - Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what...Read more about Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory

Edited by: Khatharya Um and Chiharu Takenaka

This book critically examines the impact of globalization, changing power dynamics, migration, and evolving rights regimes on regional order, discourse of national governance, state and society relations, and...Read more about Globalization and Civil Society in East Asia

By Conra D. Gist and Travis Bristol - Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers are underrepresented in public schools across the United States of America, with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color making up roughly 37% of the adult population and 50% of children, but...Read more about Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers

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 Loïc Wacquant. The Invention of the “Underclass”: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge (2022) is an exercise in epistemic reflexivity in the mold of Bachelard, Canguilhem, and Bourdieu. It charts the rise, metamorphoses, and fall of the...Read more about The Invention of the 'Underclass': A Study in the Politics of Knowledge

By Loïc Wacquant.When French sociologist Loïc Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself...Read more about Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer

By John Aubrey Douglass - Universities have long been at the forefront of both national development and global integration. But the political and policy world in which they operate is undergoing a transition, one that is reflective of a significant change in domestic politics...Read more about Neo-nationalism and Universities: Populists, Autocrats, and the Future of Higher Education

By Deborah Gray White, Mia Bay, and Waldo E. Martin, Jr. - Gain a clearer understanding of African American history from early slave trading in Africa through 1877 as Freedom on My Mind, Volume 1 uses historical narrative and primary resources to put...Read more about Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents