This cross-cultural study of Los Angeles gangs identifies the social and economic factors that lead to gang membership and underscores their commonality across four ethnic groups--Chicano, African American, Vietnamese, and Salvadorian.
This final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series reflects upon the lessons of Hurricane Katrina and what they reveal about our society and current cultural climate.
Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the US-Mexico Border
by Jennifer Johnson
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477322758
Pub Date: May 18th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
An incisive portrait of nationalism in the United States, Grandmothers on Guard tells the story of older women who found meaning and community in the Minutemen, an anti-immigrant vigilante movement.
Latina/o Children, Texas Schools, and National Debates on Early Education
by Robert Crosnoe
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477322383
Pub Date: December 8th, 2020
Format: Hardcover
184 Pages
A deeply researched work that sheds light on growing income inequality in Texas and how early education programs, particularly among low-income Latina/o populations, result in varying degrees of success and failure.
Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace
by Matías Dewey
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477321058
Pub Date: June 9th, 2020
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
An examination of the vast counterfeit clothing marketplace in Buenos Aires known as La Salada, this book is the first ethnographic study to examine how aspirations shape behaviors of workers in an informal and illegal economy.
Drawing on the accounts of more than twenty-five hundred Katrina survivors, two researchers provide a rare longitudinal look at the hurricane’s financial, social, psychological, and physical impacts.
Women, Unpaid Labor, and Maternalism in Bolivarian Venezuela
by Rachel Elfenbein
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477319147
Pub Date: November 4th, 2019
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
The first in-depth study of the overlooked yet pivotal role played by maternalism, poor and working-class women’s unpaid labor, and unequal gender power relations in propelling and sustaining Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution.
Analyzing international data regarding food production and social inequality, especially in the NAFTA region, this book convincingly argues that neoliberal regimes, not individuals, have created the global obesity epidemic.
