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Extreme Punishment: Comparative Studies In Detention, Incarceration and Solitary Confinement

Keramet Reiter
Alexa Koenig
2015

Edited by Keramet Reiter and Alexa Koenig. This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention from criminal punishment. The contributors empirically demonstrate how the mentally ill, non-citizen immigrants, and enemy combatants are treated like criminals in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Proposing Prosperity? Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America

Jennifer M. Randles
2016

By Jennifer M. Randles. "Fragile families"—unmarried parents who struggle emotionally and financially—are one of the primary targets of the Healthy Marriage Initiative, a federal policy that has funded marriage education programs in nearly every state. These programs, which encourage marriage by teaching relationship skills, are predicated on the hope that married couples can provide a more emotionally and financially stable home for their children.

Healthy marriage policy promotes a pro-marriage culture in which two-parent married families are...

Beyond the Cubicle: Job Insecurity, Intimacy, and the Flexible Self

Allison J. Pugh
2016

Edited by Allison J. Pugh. How does the insecurity of work affect us? We know what job insecurity does to workers at work, the depressive effect it has on morale, productivity, and pay. We know less about the impact of job insecurity beyond the workplace, upon people's intimate relationships, their community life, their vision of the good self and a good life. This volume of essays explores the broader impacts of job precariousness on different groups in different contexts. From unemployed tech workers in Texas to single mothers in Russia, Japanese heirs to the iconic...

From Deportation To Prison: The Poplitics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America

Patrisia Macías-Rojas
2016

By Patrisia Macías-Rojas. Criminal prosecutions for immigration offenses have more than doubled over the last two decades, as national debates about immigration and criminal justice reforms became headline topics. What lies behind this unprecedented increase?

From Deportation to Prison unpacks how the incarceration of over two million people in the United States gave impetus to a federal immigration initiative—The Criminal Alien Program (CAP)—designed to purge non-citizens from dangerously overcrowded jails and prisons. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic and...

The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules: Latinos and African Americans in South Los Angeles

Cid Gregory Martinez
2016

By Cid Gregory Martinez. South Los Angeles is often seen as ground zero for inter-racial conflict and violence in the United States. Since the 1940s, South LA has been predominantly a low-income African American neighborhood, and yet since the early 1990s Latino immigrants—mostly from Mexico and many undocumented—have moved in record numbers to the area. Given that more than a quarter million people live in South LA and that poverty rates exceed 30 percent, inter-racial conflict and violence surprises no one. The real question is: why hasn't there been more? Through vivid...

Hard Work In Not Enough: Gender and Racial Inequality In An Urban Workspace

Katrinell M. Davis
2017

By Katrinell M. Davis. Drawing on archival material and interviews with African American women transit workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Katrinell Davis grapples with our understanding of mobility as it intersects with race and gender in the postindustrial and post–civil rights United States. Considering the consequences of declining working conditions within the public transit workplace of Alameda County, Davis illustrates how worker experience--on and off the job--has been undermined by workplace norms and administrative practices designed to address flagging...

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...

Making Immigrant Rights Real: Nonprofits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco

Els De Graauw
2016

By Els De Graauw. More than half of the 41 million foreign-born individuals in the United States today are noncitizens, half have difficulty with English, a quarter are undocumented, and many are poor. As a result, most immigrants have few opportunities to make their voices heard in the political process. Nonprofits in many cities have stepped into this gap to promote the integration of disadvantaged immigrants. They have done so despite notable constraints on their political activities, including limits on their lobbying and partisan electioneering, limited organizational...

Política: Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821-1910

Phillip B. Gonzales
2016

By Phillip B. Gonzales. Política offers a stunning revisionist understanding of the early political incorporation of Mexican-origin peoples into the U.S. body politic in the nineteenth century. Historical sociologist Phillip B. Gonzales reexamines the fundamental issue in New Mexico’s history, namely, the dramatic shift in national identities initiated by Nuevomexicanos when their province became ruled by the United States.

Gonzales provides an insightful, rigorous, and controversial interpretation of how Nuevomexicano political competition was woven into...

The New Latino Studies Reader: A Twenty-First Century Perspective

Tomás Almaguer
2016

Edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrezand Tomás Almaguer. The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multifaceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of essays that helps them gain a truer understanding of what it’s like to be a Latino in the United States.

With the reader, students explore the sociohistorical formation of Latinos as a distinct panethnic group in the...