40 Collage of Books in the Social Science / Sociology / Urban Category — View a list.

Click for more detail about When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey
Click for more detail about Cornrows: My Hair, My Roots by Tamecca S. Rogers
Click for more detail about We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America by D. Watkins
Click for more detail about Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
Click for more detail about The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia by Clerge Orly
Click for more detail about The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil G. Muhammad
Click for more detail about Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker by Ron Howell
Click for more detail about The Message: A Word from the Black America You Forgot About by D. Watkins
Click for more detail about From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
Click for more detail about Making Rent in Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City by Brandon Harris
Click for more detail about Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Click for more detail about Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball by Onaje X. O. Woodbine
Click for more detail about Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change by Ruby M. Gourdine and Annie W. Brown
Click for more detail about The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation by Natalie Y. Moore
Click for more detail about Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York by Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, Teju Cole, John Freeman, and others…
Click for more detail about Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920 by Kevin McGruder
Click for more detail about Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy
Click for more detail about Buck: A Memoir by MK Asante
Click for more detail about Living and Dying in Brick City: An E.R. Doctor Returns Home  by Sampson Davi and Lisa Frazier Page
Click for more detail about The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson
Click for more detail about The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions by William Julius Wilson
Click for more detail about Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City by Natalie Hopkinson
Click for more detail about The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race And Civility In Everyday Life by Elijah Anderson
Click for more detail about The Condemnation Of Blackness: Race, Crime, And The Making Of Modern Urban America by Khalil G. Muhammad
Click for more detail about Against The Wall: Poor, Young, Black, And Male (The City In The Twenty-First Century) by Elijah Anderson
Click for more detail about More Than Just Race: Being Black And Poor In The Inner City (Issues Of Our Time) by William Julius Wilson
Click for more detail about There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America by William Julius Wilson
Click for more detail about From Poverty To Power Moves by Dashawn Taylor
Click for more detail about Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity by Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
Click for more detail about A Covenant With Color: Race And Social Power In Brooklyn by Craig Steven Wilder
Click for more detail about In The Company Of Black Men: The African Influence On African American Culture In New York City by Craig Wilder
Click for more detail about Maurya’s Seed: Why Hope Lives Behind Project Walls by Cathie Wright-Lewis
Click for more detail about Code Of The Street: Decency, Violence, And The Moral Life Of The Inner City by Elijah Anderson
Click for more detail about Renaissance in Harlem by Lionel C. Bascom
Click for more detail about Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Click for more detail about When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor by William Julius Wilson
Click for more detail about Uprising by Yusuf Jah
Click for more detail about Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton
Click for more detail about Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith
Click for more detail about Streetwise: Race, Class, And Change In An Urban Community by Elijah Anderson