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| 101. |  | Title: It did happen here: recollections of political repression in America Author: Schultz, Ruth Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | American Studies | United States History Publisher's Description: In this moving book, two skilled oral historians collect the words of Americans who have been victims of political repression in their own country. Disturbing and provocative, It Did Happen Here is must-reading for everyone who cares about protecting the rights and liberties upon which this country . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 102. |  | Title: Claims to fame: celebrity in contemporary America Author: Gamson, Joshua 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | Popular Culture | Media Studies Publisher's Description: Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture. In the first major academic work since the early 1940s to seriously analyze the meaning of fame in American life, Gamson begins with the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 103. |  | Title: Engaged surrender: African American women and Islam Author: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Religion | African American Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 104. |  | Title: Making sweatshops: the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry Author: Rosen, Ellen Israel Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | Anthropology | Politics | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. Ellen Israel Rosen, who has spent more than a decade investigating the problems of America's domest . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 105. |  | Title: Postindustrial possibilities: a critique of economic discourse Author: Block, Fred L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Labor Studies | Sociology | Labor Studies | Public Policy Publisher's Description: While it is often acknowledged that we live in a "postindustrial" age, our economic concepts have lagged far behind our postmodern sensibility. In this incisive new work, the well-known sociologist, Fred Block, sheds obsolete and shopworn economic analysis by presenting a bold, sweeping reconceptual . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 106. |  | Title: Cultures in conflict: social movements and the state in Peru Author: Stokes, Susan Carol Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Anthropology | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: In this vivid ethnography set in contemporary Peru, Susan Stokes provides a compelling analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. Her research strategy is multifaceted; through interviews, participant observation, and survey research she digs deeply into the pop . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 107. |  | Title: Between feminism and labor: the significance of the comparable worth movement  Author: Blum, Linda M Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: "Equal pay for equal work" has long been a forceful slogan of the feminist and labor movements. Now, however, as the American economy depends more and more on "women's work," it has become clear that this objective does not benefit the majority of women, who are employed in sex-segregated jobs. In B . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 108. |  | Title: At the dawn of modernity: biology, culture, and material life in Europe after the year 1000 Author: Levine, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | European History | European Studies Publisher's Description: Looking at a neglected period in the social history of modernization, David Levine investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. New commercial routines, new forms of agriculture, new methods of information technology, and increased population . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 109. |  | Title: Big money crime: fraud and politics in the savings and loan crisis Author: Calavita, Kitty Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | Economics and Business | Criminology Publisher's Description: At a cost of $500 billion to American taxpayers, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was the worst financial crisis of the twentieth century as well as a crime unparalleled in American history. Yet the vast majority of its perpetrators will never be prosecuted, and those who were have received . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 110. |  | Title: The language war Author: Lakoff, Robin Tolmach Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Language and Linguistics | Sociology | Literature | Media Studies Publisher's Description: Robin Lakoff gets to the heart of one of the most fascinating and pressing issues in American society today: who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. In a brilliant and vastly entertaining discussion of news events that have occupied an enormous amount of media space--political corr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 111. |  | Title: What it means to be 98% chimpanzee: apes, people, and their genes Author: Marks, Jonathan (Jonathan M.) 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Evolution | Physical Anthropology | Sociology | Medicine | Mammalogy Publisher's Description: The overwhelming similarity of human and ape genes is one of the best-known facts of modern genetic sciencenm. But what does this similarity mean? Does it, as many have suggested, have profound implications for understanding human nature? Well-known molecular anthropologist Jonathan Marks uses the h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 112. |  | Title: Mobilizing against nuclear energy: a comparison of Germany and the United States Author: Joppke, Christian Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Environmental Studies | German Studies | American Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: In the past two decades young people, environmentalists, church activists, leftists, and others have mobilized against nuclear energy. Anti-nuclear protest has been especially widespread and vocal in Western Europe and the United States. In this lucid, richly documented book, Christian Joppke compar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 113. |  | Title: Echoes of the past, epics of dissent: a South Korean social movement Author: Abelmann, Nancy Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Politics | Sociology | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent , the story of a South Korean social movement, offers a window to a decade of tumultuous social protest in a postcolonial, divided nation. Abelmann brings a dramatic chapter of modern Korean history to life - a period in which farmers, student activists, and orga . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 114. |  | Title: Down on their luck: a study of homeless street people Author: Snow, David A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | Politics | Ethnic Studies | Anthropology Similar Items |
| 115. |  | Title: Bodies out of bounds: fatness and transgression Author: Braziel, Jana Evans 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Ethnic Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Since World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something to lose. Bodies Out of Bounds challenges these dominant pe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 116. |  | Title: Busing and backlash: white against white in a California school district Lillian B. Rubin Author: Rubin, Lillian B Published: University of California Press, 1973 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | American Studies | African American Studies Similar Items |
| 117. |  | Title: Carried to the wall: American memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Author: Hass, Kristin Ann 1965- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies | United States History | Sociology Publisher's Description: On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades, and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. For Kristin Hass, this eclectic sampling represents an attempt by ordinary American . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 118. |  | Title: Inside organized racism: women in the hate movement Author: Blee, Kathleen M Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Social Problems | Public Policy | Christianity Publisher's Description: Kathleen M. Blee's disturbing and provocative look at the hidden world of organized racism focuses on women, the newest recruiting targets of racist groups and crucial to their campaign for racial supremacy. Through personal interviews with women active in the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi groups, Christia . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 119. |  | Title: Inventing the feeble mind: a history of mental retardation in the United States Author: Trent, James W Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | United States History | Sociology | American Studies | Psychiatry Publisher's Description: James W. Trent uses public documents, private letters, investigative reports, and rare photographs to explore our changing perceptions of mental retardation over the past 150 years. He contends that the economic vulnerability of mentally retarded people (and their families), more than the claims mad . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 120. |  | Title: Tangled memories: the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, and the politics of remembering Author: Sturken, Marita 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | Art | Media Studies | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Analyzing the ways U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, Marita Sturken argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and "American culture." She examines the relationship o . . . [more] Similar Items |