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Tainted Tap: Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery

Katrinell Davis
2021

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 action from their city and state officials. Complaints from the city’s predominantly African American residents were ignored until independent researchers confirmed dangerously elevated blood lead levels among Flint children and in the city’s tap water. Despite a 2017 federal court ruling in favor of...

The Latinx Guide to Graduate School

Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales
2023

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 thriving in advanced-degree programs. They document the unwritten rules of graduate education that impact Latinx students, demystifying and clarifying the essential requirements for navigating graduate school that Latinx students may not know because they are often the first in their families to...

Code Work: Hacking across the US/México Techno-Borderlands

Héctor Beltrán
2023

By Héctor Beltrán: In Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code worlds to their lived experiences, deploying batches, loose coupling, iterative processing (looping), hacking, prototyping, and full-stack development in their daily social interactions—at home, in the workplace, on the dating scene, and in their understanding of the economy, culture, and geopolitics. Merging...

Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care

Mimi E. Kim
2024

Edited by Mimi E. Kim, Cameron Rasmussen, and Durrell M. Washington: A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities.

Within social work—a profession that has been intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state—abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis are shifting the field. Critical scholarship and organizing have helped to name and examine the realities of...

When Care is Conditional: Immigrants and the U.S. Safety Net

Dani Carrillo
2024

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. In When Care Is Conditional, sociologist Dani Carrillo reveals the ramifications of this conditional safety net by focusing on one particularly vulnerable population: undocumented immigrants.

Through in-depth interviews with Latinx immigrants in northern California, Carrillo examines...

Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools

Michael V Singh
2024

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 Good Boys, Bad Hombres, Michael V. Singh focuses on this aspect of youth control in schools, asking on whose terms a positive Latino manhood gets to be envisioned.


Based on two years of ethnographic research in an urban school district in California, Good Boys, Bad Hombresexamines Latino...

The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge

Willow S Lung-Amam
2024

By Willow S Lung-Amam:In recent decades, American suburbs have undergone a so-called renaissance as multiple forces have transformed them into denser urban landscapes. Yet at the same time, suburban racial diversity, immigration, and poverty rates have surged. The Right to Suburbia investigates how marginalized communities in the suburbs of Washington, DC—one of the most intensely gentrifying metropolitan regions in the United States—have battled the uneven costs and benefits of redevelopment.

Willow Lung-Amam narrates...

Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians

Olivia Chilcote
2024

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 is a key site for sovereignty struggles, including federal recognition. In Unrecognized in California, Olivia M. Chilcote, member of the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians of San Diego County, demonstrates how the state's colonial history is foundational to the ongoing crisis over...

Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women's Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program

Caitlin Keliiaa
2024

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 domestic workers across the San Francisco Bay Area. Outing removed Native people from their communities and transferred them to white homes, farms, and businesses to work as menial laborers. In exchange for room, board, and meager pay, Native women and girls as young as twelve cooked, cleaned, and lived...

Crafting Homeplace in the Academic Borderlands: Humanizing Education, Research, and Relationships

David Philoxene
2024

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.

Increasingly, faculty with intersectional perspectives are challenging many aspects of higher education and urging a radical reimagination of the institution itself. This volume explores the successful strategies and contradictions of working within, against, and beyond a university with the goal of...