44 Books in the Social Science / Sociology / Urban Category

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When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study Cornrows: My Hair, My Roots Our Stories, Our Voices: Black Men Speak Their Truth We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker The Message: A Word from the Black America You Forgot About From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America Making Rent in Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920 Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America Suburban Erasure: How the Suburbs Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey Buck: A Memoir Living and Dying in Brick City: An E.R. Doctor Returns Home The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race And Civility In Everyday Life The Condemnation Of Blackness: Race, Crime, And The Making Of Modern Urban America Against The Wall: Poor, Young, Black, And Male (The City In The Twenty-First Century) More Than Just Race: Being Black And Poor In The Inner City (Issues Of Our Time) There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America From Poverty To Power Moves Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity A Covenant With Color: Race And Social Power In Brooklyn In The Company Of Black Men: The African Influence On African American Culture In New York City Maurya’s Seed: Why Hope Lives Behind Project Walls Code Of The Street: Decency, Violence, And The Moral Life Of The Inner City Renaissance in Harlem Down These Mean Streets When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor Uprising Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City Fires in the Mirror Streetwise: Race, Class, And Change In An Urban Community