This accessible sociological study of a 1995 heat wave in Chicago sees it as both a natural disaster and one charged with layers and layers of political and social significance. Over 700 people died. Who were they? Why so many? That many of them were elderly and living alone is one explanation--and Klinenberg starts there and further inquires as ...
Klinenberg offers a groundbreaking investigative work on the corporate takeover of local news and what it means for all Americans. He takes readers into the world of preprogrammed radio shows, empty television news stations, and copycat newspapers to show how corporate ownership and control of local media has remade American political and cultural ...
Bringing together essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, "The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness" presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness as an identity crosscut by race. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organisers, and anti-racist activists, the contributors are all ...
Digital technologies have reduced the barriers of time, space, and access that have heretofore constrained intellectual work. They have profoundly altered cultural production in fields ranging from journalism to gambling, social movements to marketing. The full extent and depth of these changes is contested, but a broad array of scholars in ...
Bringing together essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, "The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness" presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness as an identity crosscut by race. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organisers, and anti-racist activists, the contributors are all ...
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