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Table of Contents

General Interest..............................2
Race, Class, and Gender....... 3-4
Immigration and
Transnationalism....................... 4-5
Culture................................................6
Science and Technology....... 7-8
Social Movements
and Politics................................ 8-10
Global Issues and
Economics....................................... 11
Law and Society.....................12-13
Education and Society....... 13-14
Also of Interest.............................14
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2 GENERAL INTEREST
The Lives and Deaths of Black Privilege Queer Palestine and the
Shelter Animals Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Empire of Critique
Credentials and Cash to Spend
Katja M. Guenther Sa’ed Atshan
Cassi Pittman Claytor
Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular Solidarity with Palestinians has
and grey, who is impounded in a Compared to other cities across become a salient domain of
large animal shelter in Los Angeles. the country, New York has one of global queer politics. Yet LGBTQ
Like many other dogs at the shelter, the largest populations of black Palestinians are themselves often
Monster is associated with mar- Americans, and a significant subjected to an “empire of critique”
ginalized humans and assumed to portion earn incomes that place that has led to an emphasis within
embody certain behaviors because them solidly in the middle-class. the movement on anti-imperialism
of his breed. And like approximately In Black Privilege, Cassi Pittman over the struggle against homopho-
1 million shelter animals each year, Claytor examines how this group bia. With this book, Atshan asks
Monster will be killed. of economically advantaged Blacks how social movements can balance
experience privilege, having struggles for liberation along more
The Lives and Deaths of Shelter credentials that grant them access than one axis. He explores critical
Animals, takes us inside one of the to elite spaces and luxuries, often junctures in Palestinian LGBTQ
country’s highest intake animal while confronting persistent activism, revealing a spirit of
shelters. Katja M. Guenther met anti-black bias and racial stigma. agency, defiance, and creativity,
countless animals, including Rich qualitative data and original despite daunting pressures and
Monster, and saw the dramatic analysis help account for this forces working to constrict it.
variance in the narratives assigned special kind of privilege Pittman Queer Palestine and the Empire of
them and, ultimately, their chances Claytor coins, and the entitlements Critique explores the necessity of
for survival. She argues that these it affords people—materially in connecting the struggles for
inequalities are powerfully linked terms of the clothes, homes, and Palestinian freedom with the
to human ideas about race, class, entertainment they consume, as struggle against homophobia.
gender, ability, and species. well as symbolically, as they strive
Unlocking the hidden world of “Sa’ed Atshan brilliantly weaves
to be unapologetically black in a together ethnography and personal
shelter politics, this book offers a racial consumer hierarchy.
radical rethinking of confinement experience in thoughtful, engaging,
“Black Privilege is an important and and emotionally captivating ways.
and death as it relates to the animals A tour de force and a remarkable
we claim as “best friends.” necessary addition to the literature
on consumption and inequality.” book for both its theoretical and
312 pages, August 2020 empirical contributions.”
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 Panic City Migranthood Pursuing Citizenship in
Crime and the Fear Industries Youth in a New Era of the Enforcement Era
in Johannesburg Deportation Ming Hsu Chen
Martin J. Murray Lauren Heidbrink Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforce-
Johannesburg remains haunted by Migranthood chronicles deporta- ment Era examines the everyday
its history of racial segregation and tion from the perspectives of perspectives of immigrants trying to
burdened by enduring inequalities. Indigenous youth who migrate integrate into American society when
Under these circumstances, the unaccompanied from Guatemala immigration policy is focused on
yawning gap between the ‘haves’ and to Mexico and the U.S. In com- enforcement and exclusion. The law
‘have-nots’ has fueled a turn toward munities of origin, zones of transit says that everyone who is not a citizen
redistribution through crime. Panic in Mexico, detention centers in is an alien, but Ming Hsu Chen argues
City is an exploration of urban fear the U.S., government facilities that the citizen/alien binary should be
and its impact on the city’s archi- receiving returned children in reframed as a spectrum of citizenship,
tecture, policing, and obsession Guatemala, and communities of emphasizing continuities between
with security. return, young people share how the otherwise distinct experiences of
392 pages, March 2020 they negotiate everyday violence membership and belonging for im-
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their families prioritize limited ing together theories of citizenship
Reclaiming Community
resources, make difficult decisions, with empirical data on integration
Race and the Uncertain Future
and how young people develop and analysis of contemporary policy,
of Youth Work
and sustain relationships over Chen argues that formal citizenship
Bianca J. Baldridge time and space. Lauren Heidbrink matters more than ever during times
Approximately 2.4 million Black uncovers the transnational effects of enforcement and that constructing
youth participate in after-school of the securitized responses to pathways to citizenship that enhance
programs, which offer a range migration management and both formal and substantive equality
of support, including academic development on individuals and of immigrants.
tutoring, college preparation, and families, across space, citizenship “As much critique as corrective vision,
space to develop strategies and status, and generation. Ming Chen’s powerful book brings us
tools for activism. Reclaiming “A must-read for anyone who cares revelatory conversations with immi-
Community shows that, with the about migrant youth, and a wake- grants seeking to become citizens.”
spread of neoliberal ideology and up call for policymakers recycling —Ian F. Haney López,
its reliance on racism these bastions failed immigration and develop- University of California, Berkeley
of community support are losing ment policies.” 232 pages, August 2020
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4 RACE, CLASS, AND IMMIGRATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM

GENDER
Here, There, and Elsewhere The Immigrant Rights Chinese Senior Migrants and the
The Making of Immigrant Identities Movement Globalization of Retirement
in a Globalized World The Battle over National
Nicole DeJong Newendorp
Tahseen Shams Citizenship
This book tells the story of Chinese-
Challenging the commonly held Walter J. Nicholls born senior migrants to the U.S., arguing
perception that immigrants’ lives are In the months leading up to that they demonstrate the significance
shaped exclusively by the sending the 2016 presidential election, of age as a mediating factor that is funda-
and receiving countries, Here, There, liberal outcry over Donald Trump’s mentally important for considering
and Elsewhere breaks new ground by ethnonationalist views espoused how migration is experienced.
showing how immigrants are vectors a notion deeply embedded in 232 pages, September 2020
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and experience the interconnectedness nation of immigrants. Given the
of societies—not only the societies pervasiveness of this rhetoric, it is Migrant Crossings
of origin and destination but also easy to overlook its genesis in the Witnessing Human Trafficking
societies in places beyond. Tahseen not-too-distant past. Indeed, before in the U.S.
Shams theorizes a new concept for 2010, there was no national im- Annie Isabel Fukushima
thinking about these places that are migrant rights movement equating
neither the immigrants’ homeland nor Migrant Crossings examines the experi-
immigrants to de facto Americans. ences and representations of Asian and
hostland—the “elsewhere.” Drawing This book tells the story of the
on rich ethnographic data, interviews, Latina/o migrants trafficked in the
movement’s grassroots origins, United States into informal economies
and analysis of social media activities through its meteoric rise to the
of South Asian Muslim Americans, and service industries.
national stage—and reveals tradeoffs
Shams uncovers how different made along the way. 272 pages, 2019
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and religious identities connect them “Theoretically rich and empirically
rigorous, the book will set the terms Borders of Belonging
to different elsewheres in places for the debate about the best way Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-
as far-ranging as the Middle East, forward for many years to come.” Status Immigrant Families
Europe, and Africa. Shams traces how —Kim Voss,
the homeland, hostland, and elsewhere University of California, Berkeley Heide Castañeda
combine to affect the ways in which Borders of Belonging investigates the
296 pages, August 2019
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understand themselves and are practices on undocumented migrants
understood by others. and their family members, some of
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 Giving Form to an Asian Giving Way Global Borderlands
and Latinx America Thoughts on Unappreciated Fantasy, Violence, and Empire
Dispositions in Subic Bay, Philippines
Long Le-Khac
Steven Connor Victoria Reyes
This book reveals the intertwined
story of contemporary Asian Ameri- In a world that promotes assertion, The U.S. military continues
cans and Latinxs through a shared agency, and empowerment, this to be an overt presence in the
literary aesthetic. Their transfictional book challenges us to revalue a Philippines, and a reminder of
literature creates expansive imagined range of actions and attitudes that the country’s colonial past. Using
worlds in which distinct stories have come to be disregarded or Subic Bay (a former U.S. military
coexist, offering artistic shape to dismissed as merely passive. Mercy, base, now a Freeport Zone) as a
their linked political and economic resignation, politeness, restraint, case study, Victoria Reyes argues
struggles. Read together, Asian gratitude, abstinence, losing well, that its defining feature is its
American and Latinx literatures apologizing, taking care: today, ability to elicit multiple meanings.
convey astonishing diversity and such behaviors are associated with These foreign-controlled, semi-
untapped possibilities for coalition negativity or lack. But the capacity autonomous zones of international
within the U.S.’s fastest-growing im- to give way is better understood exchange are what she calls global
migrant and minority communities. as positive action, at once intricate borderlands. This new unit of
As the U.S. population approaches and demanding. Moving from globalization provides a window
a minority-majority threshold, we intra-human common courtesies, into broader economic and political
urgently need methods that can look to human-animal relations, to the relations, the consequences of legal
across the divisions and unequal global civility of human-inhuman ambiguity, and the continuously
positions of the racial system. ecological awareness, the book’s reimagined identities of the people
Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx argument unfolds on progressively living there. Rejecting colonialism
America leads the way with a vision larger scales. At a time when it is as merely a historical backdrop,
for the future built on panethnic and on the wane, Giving Way offers a Reyes demonstrates how it is
cross-racial solidarity. powerful defense of civility, the omnipresent in our modern world.
versatile human capacity to deflect “Sociology needs more historical
“Long Le-Khac expertly demon-
strates how aesthetic form can reveal aggression into sociability and to ethnographies like this one.”
solidarities within and across ethnic exercise power over power itself.
—Julian Go,
and racial differences.” “This book gets to the root of what it author of Postcolonial Thought
and Social Theory
—Crystal Parikh, means to be an ethical human being.”
New York University Culture and Economic Life
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6 CULTURE
The Power of Deserts Regulating Human Research The Costs of Connection
Climate Change, the Middle East, IRBs from Peer Review to How Data Is Colonizing Human
and the Promise of a Post-Oil Era Compliance Bureaucracy Life and Appropriating It
Dan Rabinowitz Sarah Babb for Capitalism
Hotter and dryer than most parts Institutional review boards (IRBs) Nick Couldry and
of the world, the Middle East could are committees that protect Ulises A. Mejias
soon see climate change exacerbate human research subjects from Just about any social need is now
food and water shortages, ag- ethical abuses. Regulating Human met with an opportunity to “connect”
gravate social inequalities, and Research provides a fresh look at digitally. But this convenience
drive displacement and political these influential and sometimes is not free—it is purchased with
destabilization. Amidst these im- controversial boards, tracing their vast amounts of personal data
minent risks is a call to action for historic transformation from transferred through shadowy back
regional leaders. Could countries academic committees to compliance channels to corporations using
such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and bureaucracies: non-governmental it to generate profit. The Costs of
the United Arab Emirates harness offices where specialized staff Connection uncovers this process,
the region’s immense potential oversee, define, and apply ambiguous
called “data colonialism,” and its
for solar energy and emerge as federal regulations. In opening the
designs for controlling our lives—
vanguards of global climate action? black box of contemporary IRB
our ways of knowing; our means of
The Power of Deserts surveys decision-making, increasingly orga-
production; our political participa-
regional climate models and nized like an assembly line, author
tion. This book provides by far the
highlights a potentially brighter Sarah Babb argues that compliance
bureaucracy is an adaptive response most detailed and historically rich
future—a recent shift across the exploration to date of the colonial
Middle East toward renewable to the dynamics and dysfunctions
of American governance. Yet this dimensions of what is happening
energy. With his deep knowledge with data and capitalism, pushing
solution of outsourcing has unintended
of the region and knack for pre- current debates in a radical new
consequences, including the creation
senting scientific data with clarity, direction and offering a genuinely
of profitable compliance industries.
Dan Rabinowitz makes a sober yet global perspective on today’s
surprisingly optimistic investiga- “If you have time for only one piece struggles for human freedom.
tion of opportunity arising from a on IRBs—or indeed on responses
to federal regulation—this book “Challenging, urgent, and
looming crisis. should be your hands-down choice. bracingly original.”
Or you could just read it because —Naomi Klein,
S TA N F O R D B R I E F S it’s a fantastic and elegant piece Rutgers University
of scholarship.” Culture and Economic Life
152 pages, August 2020 —Carol A. Heimer,
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 7

 Equity in Science The Evolution of the Crisis!
Representation, Culture, and Chinese Internet When Political Parties Lose
the Dynamics of Change in Creative Visibility in the the Consent to Rule
Graduate Education Digital Public Cedric de Leon
Julie R. Posselt Shaohua Guo Cedric de Leon analyzes two pivotal
STEM disciplines are believed to be Despite the widespread consensus crises in the American two-party
founded on the idea of meritocracy; that China’s digital revolution system: the demise of the Whig party
recognition earned by the value of was sure to bring about massive and secession of eleven southern
the data, which is objective. Such democratic reforms, such changes states in 1861, and the present
disciplinary cultures resist concerns have not come to pass. While crisis splintering the Democratic
about implicit or structural biases, scholars and policy makers alternate and Republican parties and leading
and yet, year after year, scientists between predicting change and to the election of Donald Trump.
observe persistent gender and racial disparaging a stubbornly authoritar- Crisis! takes us beyond the common
inequalities in their labs, depart- ian regime, in this book Shaohua explanations of social determinants
ments, and programs. In Equity in Guo argues that this dichotomy to illuminate how political parties
Science, Julie Posselt makes the case misses the far more complex reality. actively shape national stability and
that understanding how field-specific The Evolution of the Chinese Internet breakdown. Just as the Civil War
cultures develop is a crucial step for traces the emergence and matura- meant the difference between the
bringing about real change. She ex- tion of one of the most creative survival of a slaveholding republic
amines existing equity, diversity, and digital cultures in the world, and the birth of liberal democracy,
inclusion efforts across astronomy, through four major technological what political elites and civil society
physics, chemistry, geology, and platforms that have marked trends organizations do today can mean
psychology. These ethnographic in internet use over the past two the difference between fascism
case studies reveal the subtle ways decades: the bulletin board system, and democracy.
that exclusion and power operate the blog, the microblog, and “A bold and convincing argument
in scientific organizations and, WeChat. Guo transcends typical about the sources of political crises
sometimes, within change efforts narratives, structured around the and popular disaffection: it is the
themselves. Ultimately this book is a binaries of freedom and control, to dynamics of the parties themselves,
call for academia to place equal value argue that Chinese internet culture rather than voters’ economic self-
on expertise and on those who do interest or cultural goals, that create
displays a uniquely sophisticated
the work of cultural translation. moments of political breakdown.”
interplay between multiple extremes,
—Ann Shola Orloff,
“An informative blend of theory and and that its vibrancy is dependent on Northwestern University
case study.” these complex negotiations.
—Meg Urry, 232 pages, 2019
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8 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

AND POLITICS
Queer Alliances Nobody’s People Dying to Serve
How Power Shapes Political Hierarchy as Hope in a Society Militarism, Affect, and the Politics
Movement Formation of Thieves of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army
Erin Mayo-Adam Anastasia Piliavsky Maria Rashid
Queer Alliances investigates coalition What if we could imagine hierarchy The Pakistan Army is a uniquely
formation among LGBTQ, im- not as a social ill, but as a source powerful and influential institution,
migrant, and labor rights activists of social creativity and hope? In with deep roots in the colonial
in the United States, revealing how Nobody’s People, Anastasia Piliavsky armed forces. It relies heavily on
these new alliances impact the inner takes us into the world of thieves, certain regions to supply its soldiers,
workings of each respective political the Kanjars, in the Indian state of especially parts of rural Punjab,
movement. Mayo-Adam examines Rajasthan. Introducing us to wily where men have served in the army
the extent to which grassroots groups policemen, quirky aristocrats, and for generations. In Dying to Serve,
bridged historic divisions based on resourceful goddesses, she shows Maria Rashid innovatively and
race, gender, class, and immigration that, locally, hierarchy is a potent sensitively addresses the question:
status through the development of normative idiom through which how does the military thrive when
coalitions around LGBTQ rights in Kanjars imagine better lives and so much of its work results in injury,
Washington State and immigrant and pursue social ambitions. Following debility, and death? Rashid argues
migrant rights in Arizona. Detailed, Kanjars on their journey between that “spectacles of mourning” are
in-depth interviews center local, death and hope, Piliavsky invites careful manipulations of affect, gen-
coalition-based mobilization across readers to see in hierarchy—not dered and structured by the military
and within multiple movements inequality—a viable ethical frame to reinforce its omnipotence. She
rather than national campaigns
instead of an archaic system of contends that understanding these
and court cases. Mayo-Adam
subjugation. Doing so, she suggests, affective technologies is crucial
examines the extent to which these
will help us understand not only to challenging the appeal of the
coalitions represent and serve
rural Rajasthan, but also much military institution globally.
intersectionally marginalized
of the world, including settings “This highly original study shows
communities—groups that are often
absent within contemporary accounts stridently committed to equality. that we can learn about the appeal
of social movement formation. Challenging egalo-normative of military service by engaging with
commitments, Piliavsky asks those who stand to lose the most from
“A must-read for anyone interested scholars across the disciplines its allure: the women whose sons and
in twenty-first century rights to consider hierarchy as a major husbands die in uniform.”
formation and the future of the
LGBTQ movement.” intellectual resource. —Vron Ware,
Kingston University
—Susan Burgess, South Asia in Motion
Ohio University South Asia in Motion
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 A New American Creed Politics of Empowerment Contested Embrace
The Eclipse of Citizenship and Disability Rights and the Cycle of Transborder Membership Politics
Rise of Populism American Policy Reform in Twentieth-Century Korea
David H. Kamens David Pettinicchio Jaeeun Kim
A new American creed has In Politics of Empowerment, David Contested Embrace explores how
reconstructed the social contract. Pettinicchio offers a historically a state relates to people it views
Generations from 1890 to 1940 grounded analysis of the singular case as “external members,” such as
took for granted that citizenship of U.S. disability policy, countering emigrants and diasporas. Jaeeun
entailed voting, volunteering, long-held views of progress that Kim analyzes disputes over the
religiosity, and civic conscious- privilege public demand as its pri- belonging of Koreans in Japan and
ness. Conspicuously, the WWII mary driver. Beginning in the 1970s, China, focusing on their contested
generation introduced collectivist a group of legislators and bureaucrats relationship with the colonial
notions of civic obligations—but came to act as “political entrepre- and postcolonial states in the
such obligations have since become neurs,” and were seen as experts Korean peninsula.
regarded as options. In this book, leading the movement within the Studies of the Walter H.
David H. Kamens takes this government. But as they increasingly Shorenstein Asia-Pacific
basic shift as his starting point faced obstacles, nascent disability Research Center
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American political culture from the cause to the American people, form-
1930s to the present day. Beyond ing the basis of the contemporary When Words Trump Politics
painting a comprehensive picture disability rights movement. Drawing Resisting a Hostile Regime
of our current political landscape, on extensive archival material, of Language
Kamens offers an invaluable Pettinicchio redefines the relationship
archive documenting the steps between grassroots advocacy and Adam Hodges
that got us here. institutional politics, revealing a cycle This book takes insights from linguis-
“This theoretically innovative and of progress and backlash embedded tic anthropology and related fields to
well-argued book is a must-read for in the American political system. provide non-expert readers with easily
anyone interested in the present and “This excellent addition to the policy digestible tools to resist the politics
future of American democracy.” feedbacks literature shows how federal of division and hate. Adam Hodges’
—Patricia Bromley, policy helped disabled activists be- short essays break down the specific
Stanford University come fully mobilized citizens.” linguistic techniques and processes
320 pages, 2019 —Andrea Louise Campbell, that make Trump’s rhetoric successful.
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of Technology S TA N F O R D B R I E F S

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Beauty Diplomacy Dark Finance Normalized Financial
Embodying an Emerging Nation Illiquidity and Authoritarianism Wrongdoing
Oluwakemi M. Balogun at the Margins of Europe How Re-regulating Markets Created
Fabio Mattioli Risks and Fostered Inequality
Even as beauty pageants have
been critiqued as misogynistic Dark Finance is one of the first Harland Prechel
and dated cultural vestiges of the ethnographic accounts of financial Widespread wrongdoing produced
past in the US and elsewhere, the expansion and its political impacts the 2008 financial crisis and under-
pageant industry is growing in in Eastern Europe. Following mined the “bad apples” theory of
popularity across the global south, workers, managers, and investors corporate malfeasance. In its place
and Nigeria is one the countries in the Macedonian construction arose new explanations, centered on
at the forefront of this trend. In a sector, Fabio Mattioli shows how the breakdown of corporate ethics.
country with over 1,000 reported financialization can empower In Normalized Financial Wrongdoing,
pageants, these events are more authoritarian regimes—not by Harland Prechel examines how
than superficial forms of entertain- making money accessible to every- social structural arrangements that
ment. Beauty Diplomacy takes one, but by allowing a small group extended corporate property rights
us inside the world of Nigerian of oligarchs to monopolize access and increased managerial control
beauty contests to see how they to international credit and promote opened the door for misconduct that
are transformed into contested a cascade of exploitative domestic contributed to high levels of inequality.
vehicles for promoting complex debt relations. His account adopts a multi-level
ideas about gender and power, approach that considers the political
Mattioli reveals how illiquidity
ethnicity and belonging, and a and legal landscapes in which cor-
stemmed from the reorganization
rapidly changing articulation of porations are embedded to answer
of the European project, and from
Nigerian nationhood. Oluwakemi two questions: First, how did banks
the postsocialist perversion of
M. Balogun critically examines and financial firms transition from
socialist financial practices. One
Nigerian pageants in the context being providers of capital to financial
bad deal at a time, Dark Finance
of major transitions within the market actors in their own right?
chronicles how Macedonia’s
nation-state, using these events Second, how did new organizational
authoritarian regime rode a wave
as a lens through which to under- structures cause market participants
of financial expansion to deepen
stand Nigerian national identity to engage in high-risk activities?
its reach into Macedonian society,
and international relations. After demonstrating that the roots
only to discover that, like other
Globalization in Everyday Life speculative bubbles, its domination of inequality lay in social structural
304 pages, March 2020 was always on the verge of collapsing. conditions, Prechel considers societal
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 Trading Life Court of Injustice The Color of Creatorship
Organ Trafficking, Illicit Networks, Law Without Recognition in Intellectual Property, Race, and
and Exploitation U.S. Immigration the Making of Americans
Seán Columb J.C. Salyer Anjali Vats
Drawing on the experiences of Court of Injustice reveals how im- The Color of Creatorship examines
African migrants, Trading Life migration lawyers work to achieve how copyright, trademark, and
brings together five years of field- just results for their clients in a patent discourses work together to
work charting the development of system that has long denigrated the form American ideals around race,
the organ trade from an informal rights of those they serve. J.C. Salyer’s citizenship, and property.
economic activity into a structured ethnography specifically investigates
Working through key moments in
criminal network operating within immigration enforcement in New
intellectual property history since
and between Egypt, Libya, Sudan, York City, following individual mi-
1790, Anjali Vats reveals that even
Eritrea, and Europe. Ground-level grants, their lawyers, and the NGOs
as they have seemingly evolved,
analysis provides new insight into that serve them into the immigration
American understandings of who
the operation of organ trading courtrooms that decide their cases.
is a creator and who is an infringer
networks and the impact of current Combining anthropological and
have remained remarkably racially
legal and policy measures in legal analysis, Salyer demonstrates
conservative and consistent over
response to the organ trade. the economic, historical, political,
time. Vats argues that once anti-
Columb reveals how investing and social elements that go into
racist activists grapple with the
financial and administrative constructing inequity under law for
underlying racial structures of
resources into law enforcement millions of non-citizens who live
intellectual property law, they can
and border securitization at the and work in the U.S. Salyer provides
better advocate for strategies that
expense of social services has led to a new perspective to the study of
resist the underlying drivers of
the convergence of illicit smuggling migration by focusing specifically on
racially disparate copyright, patent,
and organ trading networks in the the laws, courts, and people involved
and trademark policy.
informal economy and the devel- in U.S. immigration law.
opment of organized crime. “Anjali Vats elevates the conversation
“This book is a unique, essential, to important new registers, including
“A compelling and powerful look at urgent read for anyone who cares concerns of equitable distribution
how law generates violence.” about immigration and and post-racial identity claims.”
immigrants today.”
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Skimmed Transforming Comparative Education and Intergenera-
Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice Education tional Social Mobility in
Andrea Freeman Fifty Years of Theory Building Europe and the United States
at Stanford
Born into a tenant farming family Edited by Richard Breen and
in North Carolina in 1946, Mary Martin Carnoy Walter Müller
Louise, Mary Ann, Mary Alice, Over the past fifty years, new theo- This volume examines the role of
and Mary Catherine were medi- retical approaches to comparative and education in shaping rates and
cal miracles. Annie Mae Fultz, a international education have trans- patterns of intergenerational social
Black-Cherokee woman, became the formed it as an academic field. We mobility among men and women
mother of America’s first surviving know that fields of research are often during the twentieth century. Focus-
set of identical quadruplets. Their shaped by “collectives” of researchers ing on the relationship between
White doctor sold the rights to use and students converging at auspicious a person’s social class and the
the sisters for marketing purposes times throughout history. Part social class of his or her parents,
to the highest-bidding formula institutional memoir and part each chapter looks at a different
company. The girls lived in pov- intellectual history, Transforming
country—the United States, Sweden,
erty, while Pet Milk’s profits from a Comparative Education takes the
Germany, France, the Netherlands,
previously untapped market of Black Stanford “collective” as a framework
Italy, Spain, and Switzerland.
families skyrocketed. for discussing major trends and
Contributors examine change in
contributions to the field from the
Today, baby formula is a seventy- absolute and relative mobility and
early 1960s to the present day, and
billion-dollar industry and Black beyond. Carnoy draws on interviews in education across birth cohorts
mothers have the lowest breastfeed- with researchers at Stanford to present born between the first decade of
ing rates in the country. Skimmed the genesis of their key theoretical the twentieth century and the
tells the riveting story of the Fultz findings in their own words. Mov- early 1970s. This volume uncovers
quadruplets while uncovering how ing through them chronologically, the factors that drove these shifts,
feeding America’s youngest citizens Carnoy situates each work within its revealing education as significant in
is awash in social, legal, and cultural historical context, and argues that promoting social openness.
inequalities. Freeman highlights the comparative education is strongly “This book is a must-read for anyone
making of a modern public health influenced by its economic and interested in educational policy and
crisis, the four extraordinary girls political environment.  social mobility.”
whose stories encapsulate a nation- —Yossi Shavit
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 NOW IN PAPERBACK The Last Years of Karl Marx The Nonprofit Sector
Research Universities and An Intellectual Biography A Research Handbook,
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