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Soft Soil, Black Grapes

The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California

by Simone Cinotto
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Book Design From Ernest and Julio Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians have shaped the history of California wine. More than any other group, Italian immigrants and their families have made California viticulture one of...
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Getting Over Equality

A Critical Diagnosis of Religious Freedom in America

by Steven D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001

Questions of religious freedom continue to excite passionate public debate. Proposals involving school prayer and the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools and courtrooms perennially spur controversy. But there is also a sense that the prevailing discourse is exhausted, that no one seems to know...
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Bombs, Bugs, Drugs, and Thugs

Intelligence and America's Quest for Security

by Loch K. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002

Recent years have seen numerous books about the looming threat posed to Western society by biological and chemical terrorism, by narcoterrorists, and by the unpredictable leaders of rogue nations. Some of these works have been alarmist. Some have been sensible and measured. But none has been by Loch...
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God's Gangs

Barrio Ministry, Masculinity, and Gang Recovery

by Edward Orozco Flores
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013

Winner, 2014 Distinguished Contribution to Research Award presented by the Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association Los Angeles is the epicenter of the American gang problem. Rituals and customs from Los Angeles’ eastside gangs, including hand signals, graffiti,...
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We Are Not What We Seem

Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century

by Roderick D. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000

An "Indispensable" Book of The Black World Today website Much has been written about the Black Power movement in the United States. Most of this work, however, tends to focus on the personalities of the movement. In We Are Not What We Seem, Roderick D. Bush takes a fresh look at Black Power...
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White Kids

Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America

by Margaret A. Hagerman
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018

Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological Association Finalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems Riveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American...
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America's Jails

The Search for Human Dignity in an Age of Mass Incarceration

by Derek Jeffreys
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018

A look at the contemporary crisis in U.S. jails with recommendations for improving and protecting the dignity of inmates Twelve million Americans go through the U.S. jail system on an annual basis. Jails, which differ significantly from prisons, are designed to house inmates for short amounts...
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Stop and Frisk

The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic

by Michael D. White, Henry F. Fradella
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016

The first in-depth history and analysis of a much-abused policing policy No policing tactic has been more controversial than “stop and frisk,” whereby police officers stop, question and frisk ordinary citizens, who they may view as potential suspects, on the streets. As Michael White and...
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The Punishment Imperative

The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America

by Todd R. Clear, Natasha A. Frost
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Over the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented rate—five times larger than in the past and grossly out of scale with the rest of the world. In The Punishment Imperative, eminent criminologists Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost argue that America’s move to mass incarceration...
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Diasporic Africa

A Reader

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006

Diasporic Africa presents the most recent research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader shifts the discourse on the African diaspora...
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Water

Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity

by Jeremy J. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017

An intellectual history of America's water management philosophy Humans take more than their geological share of water, but they do not benefit from it equally. This imbalance has created an era of intense water scarcity that affects the security of individuals, states, and the global economy....
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Tours That Bind

Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism

by Shaul Kelner
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

Since 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid 10-day pilgrimage-tour known as Birthright Israel. The most elaborate of the state-supported homeland tours that are cropping up all over the world, this tour seeks to foster in the American Jewish diaspora...
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To Be An American

Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation

by Bill Ong Hing
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997

The impetus behind California's Proposition 187 clearly reflects the growing anti-immigrant sentiment in this country. Many Americans regard today's new immigrants as not truly American, as somehow less committed to the ideals on which the country was founded. In clear, precise terms, Bill Ong Hing...
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Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond

From Research Design to Analysis and Publication

by Anne Galletta
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond offers an in-depth and captivating step-by-step guide to the use of semi-structured interviews in qualitative research. By tracing the life of an actual research project–an exploration of a school district's effort over 40 years to address racial...
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