Category - Social Science
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaime...
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Outliers: The Story of Success
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia, learn what sets high achievers apart—from Bill Gates to the Beatles—in this seminal work from "a...
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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our liv...
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Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Notes From Black ReadsSometimes we read something so fundamentally stirring that we find ourselves speechless in the face of so many tumbling th...
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Black ReadsSometimes we read something so fundamentally stirring that we find ourselves speechless in the face of so many tumbling th...
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Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first gay rights march, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement. “Martin Duberma...
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Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In Grandmothering While Black, sociologist LaShawnDa L. Pittman explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in ski...
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Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /In Grandmothering While Black, sociologist LaShawnDa L. Pittman explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in ski...
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The City After Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit
HardcoverOriginal price $107.95 - Original price $107.95Original price $107.95$127.99$127.99 - $127.99Current price $127.99| /In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit go...
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A Vulture Best Memoir of 2022 A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 A Bookforum Favorite Book of 2022 What happens when an entire social class ab...
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Gender(s)
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Why gender is strange, even when it's played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients.In this volume in the MIT ...
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Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /“The foundational text that gave me life-changing context, helping me to understand who I was and who came before me.”—Tourmaline, activist and f...
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Representing Modern Istanbul: Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoglu
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul would lose its position as capital yet remain a crucial urban centre in the new Turkish repu...
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The City After Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit go...
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Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary ...
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The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology
HardcoverOriginal price $190.00 - Original price $190.00Original price $190.00$216.99$216.99 - $216.99Current price $216.99| /Indigenous sociology makes visible what is meaningful in the Indigenous social world. This core premise is demonstrated here via the use of the con...
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Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Draws a direct line between redlining, incarceration, and gentrification in an American city. This book shows how a century of redlining, disinves...
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Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /In this unusually honest book of essays and other writings, Emily Bernard examines the complexities of interracial friendships: Latino and white, b...
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The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Do Prosperouse Blacks Still Have the Blues?
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A controversial and widely heralded look at the race-related pain and anger felt by the most respected, best educated, and wealthiest members of th...
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Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Join the fight for racially marginalized people with this pocket-sized guide filled with practical insights from one of the leading voices of the m...
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Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around Am...
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Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
PaperbackOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent...
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The Racial Order
PaperbackOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Proceeding from the bold and provocative claim that there never has been a comprehensive and systematic theory of race, Mustafa Emirbayer and Mat...
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Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor i...
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