Sociology 2020

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Black Privilege

Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend CASSI PITTMAN PITTMAN CLAYTOR

New York City is home to a steadily rising number of socioeconomically privileged blacks. Pittman Claytor examines how this economically advantaged group experiences privilege, having credentials that grant them access to elite spaces and resources with which they can purchase luxuries, while still confronting persistent anti-black bias and racial stigma. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Culture and Economic Life September 2020 240pp 9781503613171 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Self-Devouring Growth

A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa JULIE LIVINGSTON

Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective wellbeing. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumptiondriven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography September 2019 20 illus 176pp 9781478006398 £18.99 PB now £13.29

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Crimmigrant Nations

Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders EDITED BY ROBERT KOULISH & MAARTJE VAN DER WOUDE

Crimmigrant Nations examines the parallel rise of antiimmigrant sentiment and right-wing populism in both the United States and Europe to offer an unprecedented look at this issue on an international level. The contributors look beyond the local or the national to the relational dynamics between different actors on different levels and among different institutions. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2020 416pp 9780823287499 £26.99 PB now £18.89

White Kids

Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America MARGARET A. HAGERMAN

Illuminates how white racial socialization is much more dynamic, complex, and varied than previously recognized. A process that stretches beyond white parents’ explicit conversations with their white children and includes not only the choices parents make about neighborhoods, schools, peer groups, extracurricular activities, and media, but also the choices made by the kids themselves. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Critical Perspectives on Youth February 2020 5 b&w illus. 280pp 9781479802456 £14.99 PB now £10.49


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