CRSC Books

Migrants, Minorities, and the Media: Information, representations, and participation in the public sphere

Irene Bloemraad
Els De Graauw
2016

Edited by Erik Bleich, Irene Bloemraad, and Els De Graauw. The media inform the public, help political and social actors communicate with each other, influence perceptions of pressing issues, depict topics and people in particular ways, and may shape political views and participation. Given these critical functions that the media play in society, this book asks how the media represent migrants and minorities. What information do the media communicate about them? What are the implications of media coverage for participation in the public...

Japanese American Millennials: Rethinking Generation, Community, and Diversity

Michael Omi
Dana Y. Nakano
Jeffrey T. Yamashita
2019

Edited by Michael Omi, Dana Y. Nakano, and Jeffrey T. Yamashita - Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, this pioneering anthology, Japanese American Millennials, captures the experiences, perspectives, and aspirations of Asian Americans born between 1980 and 2000. The editors and contributors present multiple perspectives on who Japanese Americans are, how they think about notions of community and culture, and how they engage and negotiate...

Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life

William M. Banks
1996

By William M. Banks: Black Intellectuals offers a centuries-deep analysis of black life, beginning with the arrival of Africans as slaves, when medicine men and conjurers held ancient, powerful wisdom. Author William Banks goes on to discuss prominent figures ranging from black pioneers like Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass, and Anna Cooper to intellectuals of the modern age such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, E. Franklin Frazier, Toni Morrison, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. These and hundreds of other black scholars and artists -- many of...

Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement

S. Karthick Ramakrishnan
Irene Bloemraad
2011

Edited by Karthick Ramakrishnan and Irene BloemraadCivic Hopes and Political Realities shows that while immigrant organizations play an important role in the lives of members, their impact is often compromised by political marginalization and a severe lack of resources. S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Irene Bloemraad examine community organizations in six cities in California and find that even in areas with high rates of immigrant organizing, policymakers remain unaware of local ethnic organizations. Looking at new immigrant destinations, Kristi Andersen finds...

Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer

Loïc Wacquant
2021

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 among local fighters, amateur and professional. He learned the Sweet science of bruising, participating in all phases of the pugilist's strenuous preparation, from shadow-boxing drills to sparring to fighting in the Golden Gloves tournament. In this experimental ethnography of incandescent intensity,...

The Invention of the 'Underclass': A Study in the Politics of Knowledge

Loïc Wacquant
2022

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 racialized folk devil of the “underclass” in the long shadow of the ghetto riots of the 1960s. It draws out the implications of the strange career of this academic-journalistic-policy myth for the social epistemology of dispossessed and dishonored categories. It uses this case study to uncover the...

Voyage au pays des boxeurs

Loïc Wacquant
2022

By Loïc Wacquant.How can you be a professional boxer? A sociologist initiated into the art of striking, "Busy" Louie takes us to the land of the pugilists of the Chicago hyperghetto to taste the flavor and pain of the action between the ropes. Far from journalistic and literary clichés, he makes us feel the thread of the nagging daily work in the gym, an island of order and morality in an ocean of destruction and danger; share the boxers' devotion to the catechism of "sacrifice", an ascetic code of life which regulates their relationship to the secular world...

Misère de l’ethnographie de la misère

Loïc Wacquant
2023

By Loïc Wacquant.Misère de l’ethnographie de la misère (The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty, published by Raisons d’agir Éditions, “Cours et travaux,” 2023) is a book of ethnographic epistemology, theory, and advocacy: a critique of ethnographic reason. It recapitulates the three ages of “urban ethnography” over a hundred years to extract its roots in a philosophy of knowledge and action characterized as “moral empiricism” that turns out to be profoundly anti-sociological. The book makes a plea for an enactive, structural...

Jim Crow. Le terrorisme de caste en Amérique

Loïc Wacquant
2024

By Loïc Wacquant. We associate the notion of caste with Brahmanical India but, in the South of the United States between the 1890s and 1960s, blacks, descendants of slaves, were treated as a sub-caste, true “untouchables” in the country. cradle of democracy. Jim Crow is the name commonly given to the system of racial domination which held them in its ferocious grip and against which the Civil Rights Movement of Martin Luther King rose up. But what exactly did it consist of and how did it work?

Loïc Wacquant draws...

Men Educators of Color in U.S. Public Schools and Abroad

Ashley N. Woodson
Travis J. Bristol
2023

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 relationship between social identity and struggles for political and professional agency. The authors address race and race inequality in education and provide a strong theoretical foundation for filling the empirical gap on men teachers of color by engaging in questions such as:

How do critical...