CRSC Books

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

S. Karthick Ramakrishnan
Irene Bloemraad
2011

Edited by S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Irene Bloemraad - Civic 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...

The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us

Arlie R Hochschild
2012

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 Self, that is no longer the case: everything that was once part of private life―love, friendship, child rearing―is being transformed into packaged expertise to be sold back to confused, harried Americans.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews and original research, Hochschild
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Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal

Cybelle Fox
2012

Cybelle Fox - Three Worlds of Reliefexamines the role of race and immigration in the development of the American social welfare system by comparing how blacks, Mexicans, and European immigrants were treated by welfare policies during the Progressive Era and the New Deal. Taking readers from the turn of the twentieth century to the dark days of the Depression, Cybelle Fox finds that, despite rampant nativism, European immigrants received generous access to social welfare programs. The communities in which they lived invested heavily in relief....

The SAGE Handbook of Punishment and Society

Richard Sparks
Jonathan Simon
2012

Edited by Jonathan Simon and 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 disparate and expansive field of punishment and society into one compelling new volume.

Headed by two of the leading scholars in the field, Jonathan Simon and Richard Sparks have crafted a comprehensive and definitive resource that illuminates some of the...

Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality

David Card
Steven Raphael
2013

Edited by David Card and Steven Raphael - Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality rigorously explores shifts in population trends, labor market competition, and socioeconomic segregation to investigate how the recent rise in immigration affects economic disadvantage in the U.S. Giovanni Peri analyzes the changing skill composition of immigrants to the United States over the past two decades to assess their impact on the labor market outcomes of native-born workers. Despite concerns over labor market competition, he shows that the...

Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents

Deborah Gray White
Mia Bay
Waldo E. Martin Jr.
2020

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 the African American story into the larger context of US history.

Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers

Conra D. Gist
Travis Bristol
2022

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 just 19% of the teaching force. Yet research over decades has indicated their positive impact on student learning and social and emotional development, particularly for Students of Color and Indigenous Students. A first of its kind, the Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and...

Latino Politics

Lisa García Bedolla
2021

Lisa García Bedolla and Christian Hosam -Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this popular text provides students with a comprehensive introduction to Latino participation in US politics. Focusing on six Latino groups - Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Salvadorans, and Guatemalans - the book explores the migration history of each group and shows how that experience has been affected by US foreign policy and economic interests in each country of origin. The political status of Latinos on arrival in the United States, including their civil...

20 Questions and Answers on Dutch Slavery and its Legacy

Stephen Small
Sandew Hira
2015

By Stephen Small and Sandew Hira - Most people in the Netherlands think of slavery and the slave trade as something that happened a long time ago, did not affect many people, and have little relevance to Dutch society today. Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is that politics, economics, religion, architecture and art in Amsterdam, Middelburg and other cities across the nation are inseparable and inextricable from Dutch slavery and the slave trade. This book details the history and legacy of Dutch slavery and the slave trade in the...

The New Flagship University: Changing The Paradigm from Global Ranking to National Relevancy

John Aubrey Douglass
2015

John Douglass - The New Flagship University is an expansive vision for leading national universities and an alternative narrative to global rankings and World Class Universities. The Flagship model explores pathways for universities to re-shape their missions and operational features to expand their relevancy in the societies that gave them life and purpose.