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  • A Sense of Inequality

    de Wendy Bottero ...
    Series series Transforming Capitalism
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  • Stratification

    Social Division and Inequality

    de Wendy Bottero ...
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  • The Working Poor

    Invisible in America

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  • Inside the Wire: An Alternative View of the Vietnam War

    de Tom Allemeier ...
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  • $pread

    The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution

    "A fascinating collection from a group of courageous women who created the first publication to explore sex work in a compelling and intelligent way." —Candida Royalle$pread, an Utne Award–winning magazine by and for sex workers, was independently published from 2005 to 2011. This collection features enduring essays about sex work around the world, first-person stories that range from deeply ... Leer más

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  • Silences

    de Tillie Olsen ...
    A landmark survey of disenfranchised literary voices and the forces that seek to silence them—from the influential activist and author of Tell Me a Riddle.With this groundbreaking work, Olsen revolutionized the study of literature by shedding critical light on the writings of marginalized women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors' letters and diaries, Olsen shows us ... Leer más

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  • Educating for Insurgency

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    de Jay Gillen ...
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  • The Cultural Revolution at the Margins

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    In America today, you can connect to your ethnic heritage in dozens of ways, or adopt an identity just for an evening. Our society is not a melting pot but a salad bar--a bazaar in which the purveyors of goods and services spend close to $2 billion a year marketing the foods, clothing, objects, vacations, and events that help people express their (and others') ethnic identities. This is a huge ... Leer más

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  • J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies

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  • Status in Classical Athens

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