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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...

By: Netta Avinerid and Patricia Baquedano-López

This innovative, interdisciplinary course textbook is designed to provide the who, what, where, when, why, and how of the intersections of language, inequality, and social justice in North America, using the applied linguistic anthropology (ALA) framework.

Written in accessible language and at a level equally legible for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this text connects theory and practice by sketching out relevant historical background, introducing theoretical and conceptual...

Edited by: Camilla Hawthorne, Jovan Scott Lewis

The contributors to The Black Geographic explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated. In studies that span from Oakland to the Alabama Black Belt to Senegal to Brazil, the contributors draw on ethnography, archival records, digital humanities, literary criticism, and art to show how understanding the spatial dimensions of Black life contributes to a broader understanding of race and space...

By: Elizabeth Brown and George Barganier

Criminal justice practices such as policing and imprisonment are integral to the creation of racialized experiences in U.S. society. Race as an important category of difference, however, did not arise here with the criminal justice system but rather with the advent of European colonial conquest and the birth of the U.S. racial state. Race and Crime examines how race became a defining feature of the system and why mass incarceration emerged as a new racial management strategy....