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The trouble with Black boys: And other reflections on race, equity, and the future of public education.

Pedro Noguera
2008

Pedro A. Noguera- For many years to come, race will continue to be a source of controversy and conflict in American society. For many of us it will continue to shape where we live, pray, go to school, and socialize. We cannot simply wish away the existence of race or racism, but we can take steps to lessen the ways in which the categories trap and confine us. Educators, who should be committed to helping young people realize their intellectual potential as they make their way toward adulthood, have a responsibility to help them find ways to expand...

Working For Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy

Joshua Bloom
2010

EDITED BY RUTH MILKMAN, JOSHUA BLOOM AND VICTOR NARRO- Working for Justice, which includes eleven case studies of recent low-wage worker organizing campaigns in Los Angeles, makes the case for a distinctive "L.A. Model" of union and worker center organizing. Networks linking advocates in worker centers and labor unions facilitate mutual learning and synergy and have generated a shared repertoire of economic justice strategies. The organized labor movement in Los Angeles has weathered the effects of deindustrialization and deregulation better than...

Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness

Nitasha Tamar Sharma
2010

Nitasha Tamar Sharma- Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Nitasha Tamar Sharma argues that through their lives and lyrics, young “hip hop desis” express a global race consciousness that reflects both their sense of connection with Blacks as racialized minorities in the United States and their diasporic sensibility as part of a global community of South Asians. She emphasizes the role of appropriation...

Epidemiology and the People's Health: Theory and Context

2011
Nancy Krieger The first comprehensive assessment of epidemiological theories concerning the major drivers of group differences in health by race, class, and place Provides a thorough history of the debates surrounding diverse epidemiologic theories, unearthing new insights Blends social, biological, political, and ecological factors into a multifaceted and comprehensive look at epidemiologic theory as a rich tapestry Illuminates various fascinating ancient cultural traditions from around the world and how they have led to the development of modern epidemiology

Pivotal Moments: How Educators Can Put All Students on the Path to College: Coaching and Mentoring: Developing Teachers and Leaders: Social Class on Campus: Theories and Manifestations

Robert
2014

Roberta Espinoza- For many students, making their way to higher education requires more than hard work and determination. Low-income minority students who overcome obstacles to achieve academic success have usually encountered at least one college-educated adult in their schooling who took the initiative to reach out to them and provide concrete academic guidance. In this book, sociologist Roberta Espinoza introduces the idea of "pivotal moments"--interventions that point the way toward college, particularly for students from working-class or...

I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty

Patricia Zavella
2011

By Patricia Zavella-

I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class Mexican Americans and migrants to California’s central coast struggle for agency amid the region’s deteriorating economic conditions and the rise of racial nativism in the United States. Zavella also examines tensions within the Mexican diaspora based on...

The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa

2011

Duana Fullwiley- In the 1980s, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several unique DNA sequences, or haplotypes, linked to sickle cell anemia in African populations. After casual observations of how patients managed this painful blood disorder, the researchers in question postulated that the Senegalese type was less severe. The Enculturated Gene traces how this genetic discourse has blotted from view the roles that Senegalese patients and doctors have played in...

Working-Class Minority Students' Routes to Higher Education

2015

Roberta Espinoza- While stories of working-class and minority students overcoming obstacles to attend and graduate from college tend to emphasize the individualistic and meritocratic aspect, this book - based in extensive empirical study of American high school classrooms, and in theories of social and cultural capital - examines the social relations that often underpin such successes, highlighting the significant formal and...

"We Live in the Shadow": Inner-City Kids Tell Their Stories through Photographs

2013

Elaine Bell Kaplan- Looking at their photo of railroad tracks, a group of preteen students in South Central Los Angeles see either "a way out of the ghetto," or a "dirty, bad environment." Such are the impressions expressed in the poignant "We Live in the Shadow": Inner-City Kids Tell Their Stories through Photographs. In Elaine Bell Kaplan's perceptive book, at-risk youth were given five-dollar cameras to tell stories about their world. Their photos and stories show us their response to negative inner-city teen images. We follow...

Small Cities USA: Growth, Diversity, and Inequality

norma
2013

JON R. NORMAN-While journalists document the decline of small-town America and scholars describe the ascent of such global cities as New York and Los Angeles, the fates of little cities remain a mystery. What about places like Providence, Rhode Island; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Laredo, Texas; and Salinas, California-the smaller cities that constitute much of America's urban landscape? InSmall Cities USA, Jon R. Norman examines how such places have fared in the wake of the large-scale economic, demographic, and social changes that occurred in the latter part of the...