Sociology books: Education
Sociology books on sale, info on University of Minnesota Press, and more.
BOOKS ON SALE
All books below are 40% off using code MN89560. Code expires Nov. 1, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS:
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS // RACE AND ETHNICITY // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
HISTORY OF MEDICINE // HEALTH POLICY // DISABILITY STUDIES
CRIMINAL JUSTICE // EDUCATION // ENVIRONMENT // ANIMAL STUDIES
URBAN STUDIES // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // GLBT STUDIES
NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES // LITERATURE AND POETRY
THEORY // PHILOSOPHY // LABOR STUDIES
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The Unteachables Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education Keith A. Mayes 2022 Fall
- How special education used disability labels to marginalize Black students in public schools
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Break Point Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX Sheri Brenden 2022 Fall
- How two teenage girls in Minnesota jump-started a revolution in high school athletics
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A Voice but No Power Organizing for Social Justice in Minneapolis David Forrest 2022 Fall
- Examining the work of social justice groups in Minneapolis following the 2008 recession
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Algorithms of Education How Datafication and Artificial Intelligence Shape Policy Kalervo N. Gulson, Sam Sellar and P. Taylor Webb 2022 Spring
- A critique of what lies behind the use of data in contemporary education policy
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People, Practice, Power Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier, Editors 2021 Fall
- An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship
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Raising Ollie How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Tom Rademacher 2021 Fall
- The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child
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Curiosity Studies A New Ecology of Knowledge Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar, Editors 2020 Spring
- The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field
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Border Thinking Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship Andrea Dyrness 2020 Spring
- Rich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders
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Class Action Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools Rand Quinn 2019 Fall
- A compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco
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The Price of Nice How Good Intentions Maintain Educational Inequity Angelina E. Castagno, Editor 2019 Fall
- How being “nice” in school and university settings works to reinforce racialized, gendered, and (dis)ability-related inequities in education and society
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring
- The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
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Learning versus the Common Core Nicholas Tampio 2019 Spring
- An open challenge to Common Core’s drive for uniformity
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Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field Notes from the Field Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir, Editors 2019 Spring
- An interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global South
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A Contest without Winners How Students Experience Competitive School Choice Kate Phillippo 2019 Spring
- Seeing the consequences of competitive school choice policy through students’ eyes
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The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance Kenneth J. Saltman 2018 Fall
- How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance
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Black Boys Apart Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools Freeden Blume Oeur 2018 Fall
- How neoliberalism and the politics of respectability are transforming African American manhood
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Governance Feminism: An Introduction An Introduction Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir 2018 Spring
- Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state
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Youth Media Matters Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education Korina M. Jocson 2017 Fall
- How young people making media have potential to shape pedagogy, raise social awareness, and promote creative self-expression
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Inheriting Possibility Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román 2017 Fall
- Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association: From the SAT to social mobility statistics, examining quantitative measurements of human learning and development while rethinking their possibilities
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First Strike Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner 2016 Fall
- Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state
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For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State Erica R. Meiners 2016 Fall
- Centering on the child in the struggle to dismantle America’s carceral state
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The Uberfication of the University Gary Hall 2016 Fall
- The contemporary university’s implications for the future organization of labor
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A Good Investment? Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School Amy Brown 2015 Fall
- How privatized education funding reinforces race and class inequities
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Educated in Whiteness Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools Angelina E. Castagno 2014 Spring
- How well-meaning educators shape and enact diversity-related policies and practices that strengthen whiteness rather than educational equity or justice
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The Reorder of Things The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference Roderick A. Ferguson 2012 Fall
- A critical account of how academia and global capital appropriated the revolutionary fervor of the 1960s and 1970s