Sociology

Gay Rights at the Ballot Box Amy Stone 2012 Spring

From Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement’s fight against anti-gay ballot measures

Body and Soul The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination Alondra Nelson 2013 Fall

The legacy of the Black Panther Party’s commitment to community health care, a central aspect of its fight for social justice

Between Feminism and Islam Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco Zakia Salime 2011 Fall

How feminists and Islamists have constituted each other’s agendas in Morocco

Cape Town after Apartheid Crime and Governance in the Divided City Tony Roshan Samara 2011 Spring

Reveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa

Free Burma Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability John G. Dale 2011 Spring

How Burma’s pro-democracy movement transcends its borders

The City as Campus Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago Sharon Haar 2010 Fall

A social and design history of the urban campus

The Dallas Myth The Making and Unmaking of an American City Harvey J. Graff 2010 Fall

An unconventional—and critical—examination of ‘the city with no past’

Strategic Alliances Coalition Building and Social Movements Nella Van Dyke and Holly J. McCammon, Editors 2010 Fall

The best current thinking on the conditions leading to successful activist coalitions

Toward a Sociology of the Trace Herman Gray and Macarena Gómez-Barris, Editors 2010 Fall

Questions national identity by investigating the creation of memory and meaning

Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders Homeless in San Francisco Teresa Gowan 2010 Spring

A powerful ethnographic account of life on the streets in San Francisco

Making Life Work Freedom and Disability in a Community Group Home Jack Levinson 2010 Spring

Understanding how group home life is not so different from our own

The World Says No to War Demonstrations against the War on Iraq Stefaan Walgrave and Dieter Rucht, Editors 2010 Spring

Examining the 2003 global protest against the war on Iraq

Migrants for Export How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World Robyn Magalit Rodriguez 2010 Spring

How the Philippines transformed itself into the world’s leading labor brokerage state

Those Who Work, Those Who Don't Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America Jennifer Sherman 2009 Fall

Following the stories of economic collapse in a Northern California town and what they tell us about rural America

Little Saigons Staying Vietnamese in America Karin Aguilar–San Juan 2009 Fall

Explores how Vietnamese refugees and immigrants retain their identities in the United States

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