Eric Klinenberg is professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. His most recent book is Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (2018).Caitlin Zaloom is associate professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London (2006) and Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost (2019) and cofounder and coeditor in chief of Public Books.Sharon Marcus is Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (2007) and The Drama of Celebrity (2019) and cofounder and coeditor in chief of Public Books.
16 Ebooks von Douglas S. Massey
Eric Klinenberg & Sharon Marcus: Antidemocracy in America
On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental …
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Rafael Alarcon & Jorge Durand: Return to Aztlan
Return to Aztlan analyzes the social process of international migration through an intensive study of four carefully chosen Mexican communities. The book combines historical, anthropological, and sur …
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Douglas S. Massey: Return of the ‚L‘ Word
Somewhere in the 1970s liberals in the United States lost their way. After successes like the New Deal, they became arrogant. So argues Douglas Massey in Return of the ‚L‘ Word. Faced with the diffic …
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Camille Z. Charles & Mary J. Fischer: Taming the River
Building on their important findings in The Source of the River, the authors now probe even more deeply into minority underachievement at the college level. Taming the River examines the academic and …
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Douglas S. Massey & Camille Z. Charles: The Source of the River
African Americans and Latinos earn lower grades and drop out of college more often than whites or Asians. Yet thirty years after deliberate minority recruitment efforts began, we still don’t know why …
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Douglas S. Massey & Len Albright: Climbing Mount Laurel
A close look at the aftereffects of the Mount Laurel affordable housing decision Under the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are …
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Cecilia Menjivar & Havidan Rodriguez: Latinas/os in the United States
Clara E. Rodriguez As is befitting a book on Latinas/os at the start of the 21st century, the chapters in this volume reflect the contemporary panorama of Latinas/os in the United States. Today, Lati …
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€83.46
Jose V. Ciprut: Democratizations
A cross-disciplinary examination of democratization, as seen in different attempts at it across the globe.Democracy is not in steady state and democratizations are open-ended processes; they depend o …
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€102.17
Camille Z. Charles & Douglas S. Massey: Young, Gifted and Diverse
An in-depth look at the rising American generation entering the Black professional class Despite their diversity, Black Americans have long been studied as a uniformly disadvantaged group. Drawing fr …
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€42.99
Jorge Durand & Douglas S. Massey: Crossing the Border
Discussion of Mexican migration to the United States is often infused with ideological rhetoric, untested theories, and few facts. In Crossing the Border, editors Jorge Durand and Douglas Massey brin …
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Douglas S. Massey: Categorically Unequal
The United States holds the dubious distinction of having the most unequal income distribution of any advanced industrialized nation. While other developed countries face similar challenges from glob …
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€35.51
Douglas S. Massey: New Faces in New Places
Beginning in the 1990s, immigrants to the United States increasingly bypassed traditional gateway cites such as Los Angeles and New York to settle in smaller towns and cities throughout the nation. W …
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€43.60
Jorge Durand & Nolan J. Malone: Beyond Smoke and Mirrors
Migration between Mexico and the United States is part of a historical process of increasing North American integration. This process acquired new momentum with the passage of the North American Free …
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€33.27
Douglas S. Massey & Magaly Sanchez R.: Brokered Boundaries
Anti-immigrant sentiment reached a fever pitch after 9/11, but its origins go back much further. Public rhetoric aimed at exposing a so-called invasion of Latino immigrants has been gaining ground fo …
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€44.81
Stefanie Brodmann & Douglas S. Massey: Spheres of Influence
The black-white divide has long haunted the United States as a driving force behind social inequality. Yet, the civil rights movement, the increase in immigration, and the restructuring of the econom …
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Tod G. Hamilton: Immigration and the Remaking of Black America
Winner of the 2020 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social Demography Honorable Mention for the 2020 Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the International Migration Section of the …
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