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    Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, Loïc Wacquant shows that the involution of America's urban core after the ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2016

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    by Robert Atwan, Alexander Chee ...
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  • Race and Modern Architecture

    A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present

    Edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, Mabel O. Wilson ...
    Although race—a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination—has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race ... Read more

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