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A RIVETING, GROUNDBREAKING ACCOUNT OF HOW THE WAR ON CRIME HASTORN APART INNER-CITY COMMUNITIESForty years in, the tough on crime turn in American politics has spurred a prison boom of historic proportions that disproportionately affects Black communities. It has also torn at the lives of those on the outside. As arrest quotas and high tech surveil...
Raul Pacheco-Vega
Apr 15, 2021Also recommended by
Alex BlumbergFeminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban worldWe live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrifica...
Raul Pacheco-Vega
Mar 18, 2021
Writing Anthropology
Essays on Craft and Commitment
In Writing Anthropology, fifty-two anthropologists reflect on scholarly writing as both craft and commitment. These short essays cover a wide range of territory, from ethnography, genre, and the politics of writing to affect, storytelling, authorship, and scholarly responsibility. Anthropological writing is more than just communicating findings: an...
Raul Pacheco-Vega
Mar 07, 2021
Interviewing in Social Science Research
A Relational Approach (Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods)
What is interviewing and when is this method useful? What does it mean to select rather than sample interviewees? Once the researcher has found people to interview, how does she build a working relationship with her interviewees? What should the dynamics of talking and listening in interviews be? How do researchers begin to analyze the narrative da...
Raul Pacheco-Vega
Feb 26, 2021The academy may claim to seek and value diversity in its professoriate, but reports from faculty of color around the country make clear that departments and administrators discriminate in ways that range from unintentional to malignant. Stories abound of scholars--despite impressive records of publication, excellent teaching evaluations, and exempl...
Raul Pacheco-Vega
Dec 04, 2020
Presumed Incompetent
The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia
Presumed Incompetent is a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color. Through personal narratives and qualitative empirical studies, more than 40 authors expose the daunting challenges faced by academic women of color as they navigate the often hostile terrain of higher e...
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Dec 04, 2020The Second Edition of Theoretical Frameworks in Qualitative Research, by Vincent A. Anfara, Jr. and Norma T. Mertz, brings together some of today's leading qualitative researchers to discuss the frameworks behind their published qualitative studies. They share how they found and chose a theoretical framework, from what discipline the framework was ...
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Nov 22, 2020Written in Johnny SaldaNa's elegant and accessible style, Thinking Qualitatively: Methods of Mind boldly pursues the challenge of teaching students not just how to collect and analyze data, but how to actively think about them. Each chapter presents one "method of mind" (thinking analytically, realistically, symbolically, ethically, multidisciplina...
Raul Pacheco-Vega
Nov 22, 2020Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of research from the positivist-centered training they receive. This book is an authoritative examinati...
Raul Pacheco-Vega
Nov 22, 2020
Braving the Street
The Anthropology of Homelessness (Public Issues in Anthropological Perspective (1))
As homelessness continues to plague North America and also becomes more widespread in Europe, anthropologists turn their attention to solving the puzzle of why people in some of the most advanced technological societies in the world are found huddled in a subway tunnel, squatting in a vacant building, living in a shelter, or camping out in an aband...
Raul Pacheco-Vega
Sep 19, 2020"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized...
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Sep 17, 2020Economical Writing, Third Edition by Deirdre N. McCloskey
The Writer's Practice by John Warner
France by Emile Chabal
How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
Down, Out, and Under Arrest by Forrest Stuart
Care for Sale by Ana P. Gutiérrez Garza
Who Killed Berta Caceres? by Nina Lakhani
Very Important People by Ashley Mears
Pricing Beauty by Ashley Mears
Writing in Social Spaces by Rowena Murray
They Say / I Say by Gerald Graff
Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences by Thad Dunning
A Future History of Water by Andrea Ballestero
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler
How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences by Scott R. Harris
Water and Politics by Veronica Herrera
Reassembling Rubbish by Josh Lepawsky
Clean and White by Carl A. Zimring
Waste Away by Joshua O. Reno
Beyond the Big Ditch by Ashley Carse
Picking Up by Robin Nagle
Just Water by Christiana Z. Peppard
Governing the Tap by Megan Mullin
Empirical Research and Writing by Leanne C. Powner
Fractivism by Sara Ann Wylie
The Only Academic Phrasebook You'll Ever Need by Luiz Otavio Barros
Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School by Adam Ruben
Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Becoming an Academic Writer by Patricia Goodson
Research & Evaluation for Busy Students and Practitioners 2e by Helen Kara
Industrial Ruination, Community and Place by Alice Mah