In honor of #UPWeek 2024, we are re-sharing this Q & A with Neil Gong, which speaks to how scholars #StepUP to shed light on
In his new book, The Policing Machine, Tony Cheng shares a revelatory look at how the New York Police Department has resisted change through strategic
We live in an era of veritable STEM obsession. Tech companies dominate American enterprise and economy and they’ve become the symbol of innovation in the
In the abstract, trust in both “expertise” and “the science” has been touted as panaceas to our ongoing crisis of misinformation and outright lies, but
August 14, 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of Egypt’s Rabaa Massacre, which sparked the beginning of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s reign of terror. Under el-Sisi’s command,
The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce that Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State by Elisabeth S. Clemens is
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Read an excerpt from the preface of ‘Race at the Top, an exciting new book by sociologist Natasha Warikoo.
The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce that Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side by Eve Ewing
In Believing in South Central, Pamela J. Prickett takes a close look at the Los Angeles neighborhood of South Central—an area often overshadowed by stereotypes—and
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