The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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Gabriela Polit Dueñłas and Maria Helena Rueda

"This volume includes contributions of scholars from various fields--the social sciences, journalism, the humanities and the arts--whose work offers insightful and innovative ways to understand the devastating and unprecedented forms of violence currently experienced in Latin America. As an interdisciplinary endeavor, it offers an array of perspectives that contribute to ongoing debates in the study of violence in the region"-- "This volume addresses a situation now perceived among the most pressing issues faced by Latin America in our times: the proliferation of increasingly complex forms of violence, a reality with multiple ramifications, marking the socio-political landscape of the region in decisive ways. With contributions by scholars from various fields (the social sciences, journalism, and the humanities), this book examines not only the manifestations and the effects of violence but also the social acts that surround it and make it meaningful. Violence appears here as a natural yet dramatic manifestation of how individuals organize themselves in contemporary Latin America"--

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Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis investigates the quiet civil servants managing our most complex, catastrophic national risks—from securing nuclear warheads to forecasting hurricanes—and what happens when government agencies are neglected.

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Matthew Desmond

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Sociologist Matthew Desmond follows eight impoverished Milwaukee families as they spend 70-80% of their incomes on substandard housing, exposing eviction as a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.

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Robert D. Putnam

Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam demonstrates how Americans have become increasingly disconnected from family, neighbors, and community institutions, measuring the steep decline of social capital in modern life.