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Amani C Morrison
A Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs

During the twentieth century's Great Migration, kitchenette apartments served as the primary homes for Black migrants to Chicago. These small one- and two-room units were often illegally converted from la…

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Larry Racioppo
Memorial '76

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Rachel Meade Smith
Search Work

It can be enervating, stressful and, occasionally, triumphal---looking for work has never been more of a roller coaster. Now, in compelling testimonies, Search Work shares that experience, giving voice to…

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Dylan Gottlieb
Yuppies

How the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.Yuppies may …

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Miriam Chaiken
Creative Ozone

A captivating portrait of Westbeth, the legendary artists' residence that shaped contemporary art, activism, and New York's cultural landscape for over fifty yearsIn 1970, the former Bell Telephone Labora…

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Andrew Alden,
Deep Oakland

Now in paperback: This San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and California Book Award finalist drills down into Oakland's geological history and its impacts on the city's urban present."This book has t…

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Amber N Wiley
Model Schools in the Model City

Access to educational resources has been a tool of liberation for Black Americans from the antebellum period to the present. With this book, Amber N. Wiley emphasizes the value of education as a means for…

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David Brown Morris
Ten Thousand Central Parks

A visionary look at Central Park's creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate actionClimate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and …

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Bernadette Atuahene
Plundered

Follows the lives of two Detroit grandfathers--one Black, the other white--and their grandchildren, while uncovering the effects of racist policies on their lives, how those policies take root, why they f…

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Daniella Gandolfo
A Day in the Hole

A single day in a semilegal market in Lima, Peru, reveals a social world that defies conventional economic logic.In the heart of Lima's historic center, the markets of El Hueco ("The Hole") and …

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Notes from Home

This beautifully illustrated volume weaves together personal stories, photographs, drawings, poems of students who have experienced insecurity during childhood into a tapestry of memories about the meanin…

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Alexandra Freidus
Unequal Lessons

Diversity and racial integration efforts are not sufficient to address educational inequality New York City schools are among the most segregated in the nation. Yet over seven decades after the Brown v. B…

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Sybil Derrible
The Infrastructure Book

"[A] penetrating analysis of urban infrastructure..." --- NatureClean water, paved roads, public transit, electricity and gas, sewers, waste processing, telecommunication, even the Internet -- a…

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Spaces of Creative Resistance

This edited volume brings together an exciting cross-regional inter-disciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists and others. Each chapter focuses on a different form of "creative resist…

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Spaces of Creative Resistance

This edited volume brings together an exciting cross-regional inter-disciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists and others. Each chapter focuses on a different form of "creative resist…

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Deborah N Archer
Dividing Lines

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Divi…

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Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, David Herzberg
Whiteout

The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis.In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white "new face" of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the …

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Roony Keefe
Grime

A special collectors edition, GRIME is packed with never-before-seen archival material, candid interviews with artists, and striking photography. Featuring some of the most important names to ever touch t…

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Dominic A Pacyga
Clout City

Unearths the religious and cultural roots of a powerful political machine that empowered some everyday Chicagoans but ruled all of the city for decades.In politics, clout is essential. Too often, it deter…

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Deborah N Archer
Dividing Lines

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Divi…

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