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Tijuana Dreaming
Life and Art at the Global Border
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, Mexico. With many pieces translated from Spanish for the first time, the anthology features contributions by prominent scholars, journalists, bloggers, novelists, poets, curators,...
Sin City North
Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The early decades of the twentieth century sparked the Detroit-Windsor region's ascendancy as the busiest crossing point between Canada and the United States, setting the stage for socioeconomic developments that would link the border cities for years to come. As Holly M. Karibo shows, this border...
In Love and Struggle
The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Born and raised in Alabama, James Boggs came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union activist. Grace Lee was a Chinese...
Before the Fires
An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven into their heads over the years by the media. As Howard Cosell famously said during the 1977 World’s Series at Yankee Stadium, “There it is, ladies and...
The Mayan in the Mall
Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In The Mayan in the Mall, J. T. Way traces the creation of modern Guatemala from the 1920s to the present through a series of national and international development projects. Way shows that, far from being chronically underdeveloped, this nation of stark contrasts—where shopping malls and multinational...
Doing the Best I Can
Fatherhood in the Inner City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as "deadbeat dads." Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson examine...
Wood Quay
The Clash over Dublin's Viking Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
An urban archaeologist working anywhere in the world can imagine this scenario: armed with a small digging tool and a soft brush, the archaeologist stands at a freshly cut trench facing off a construction crew driving bulldozers. At stake is the past—the discovery and preservation of our history. Across...
Shadow Cities
A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
In almost every country of the developing world, the most active builders are squatters, creating complex local economies with high rises, shopping strips, banks, and self-government. As they invent new social structures, Neuwirth argues, squatters are at the forefront of the worldwide movement to...
Sword and Shield
A Practical Approach to Section 1983 Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Section 1983 claims are as
legally and factually complex as ever. Every official policy or conduct of state
government is potentially subject to a suit on some constitutional or statutory
theory of liability – such as tracing the lines of authority that set forth the
parameters for an illegal search...
Bulldozer
Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction. In order to clear space for new suburban tract housing, an ambitious system of interstate highways, and extensive urban...
Midnight Basketball
Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders—home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls—is where it first came to national prominence. And it’s also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about the audacious notion that organizing young men...
Asphalt Gods
An Oral History of the Rucker Tournament
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2003
The real basketball deal–the inside story of Harlem’s legendary tournament and the pros and playground legends who have made it world famous.
Earl “The Goat” Manigault. Herman “Helicopter” Knowings. Joe “The Destroyer” Hammond. Richard “Pee Wee” Kirkland. These and dozens...
Defragmenting India
Riding a Bullet through the Gathering Storm
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Defragmenting India is an account of the various fault lines of Indian society quivering in the temblors that the 2002 Hindu-Muslim communal riots of Gujarat sent across the nation. The riots form the dramatic backdrop to the travelogue narrative of a motorbike trip of the author and his friend.
The...
by Evan Weiner
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The Business & Politics of Sports, Second Edition by Evan Weiner.
Everybody in America is paying in some way for sports, whether it is through taxes, cable TV bills, tax breaks or incentives. In a selection of his columns spanning from 1998 to the present, award winning journalist Evan Weiner...