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Rebecca Jo Kinney
Mapping Asiatown Cleveland

Forthcoming Spring 2025This book examines the tensions that emerged between Asian American racial identity formation and the establishment of organized urban community in Cleveland. Moving from 1943 to th…

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Ross Perlin
Language City

From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible his…

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Dave Newhouse, Andy Dolich
Goodbye, Oakland

A fascinating tour of Oakland sports history and a look toward the future of professional sports in the East Bay.Oakland is a sports city like no other. It is the only city in America to be abandoned by t…

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Joe Kloc
Lost at Sea

"A deeply personal nine-year account of the lives of the "anchor-outs"--an unhoused community living off the California coast on abandoned boats--that explores the struggles and resilience …

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Christine Sargent
Making Down Syndrome

Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan draws on ethnographic research conducted primarily in Jordan's capital city of Amman to explore how the label and identity of Down synd…

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Stacy Torres
At Home in the City

"An instant classic. The best ethnography of the elderly since Barbara Myerhoff's 1978 classic Number Our Days."--Mitchell Duneier, Princeton University"A deeply affecting portrait of Ameri…

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Jennifer Mapes
The New American Small Town

What makes a sustainable city? When planners and politicians talk about making cities more sustainable, they often describe changes to large urban centers like New York City or Los Angeles. Yet when they …

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Maria John
Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Spaces

Statistics indicate that Indigenous people worldwide suffer disproportionately poor health outcomes. Since the mid-twentieth century, health activism has become increasingly central to expressions of Indi…

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Fran Tonkiss
Urban Inequalities

Urban Inequalities offers a masterful and critical introduction to key issues and processes shaping contemporary cities, drawing on a whole host of economic, social, spatial, legal, environmental, and pla…

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Fran Tonkiss
Urban Inequalities

Urban Inequalities offers a masterful and critical introduction to key issues and processes shaping contemporary cities, drawing on a whole host of economic, social, spatial, legal, environmental, and pla…

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Christine Sargent
Making Down Syndrome

Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan draws on ethnographic research conducted primarily in Jordan's capital city of Amman to explore how the label and identity of Down synd…

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Claudia Huang
Dancing for Their Lives

Dancing for Their Livesdelves into the world of retired Chinese "dancing grannies" who seek fulfillment amid broad social transformation. Based on ethnographic research, it challenges convention…

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Claudia Huang
Dancing for Their Lives

Dancing for Their Livesdelves into the world of retired Chinese "dancing grannies" who seek fulfillment amid broad social transformation. Based on ethnographic research, it challenges convention…

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The Social Genres of Comics

This book analyzes social research and genres of comics from cross-cultural perspectives. It disentangles the impact of comics in understanding social, cultural and political issues and considers the chal…

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Arianna Luisa Cavaliere
Capabilities, Learning, and Urban Quality of Life

What makes a neighborhood livable, and what do urban inhabitants need to learn in order to be able to use the city according to their needs, wishes, and aspirations? The empirical study presented in the b…

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