In this video, sociologist Lynne Haney offers a sneak peek at her book, Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers. “Prisons of Debt is a compelling and devastating account and a must-read for …
Read More >UC Press is proud to call current ASA President Cecilia Menjívar a UC Press author. For the upcoming 2022 American Sociological Association conference, we interviewed Menjívar about her perspective on future directions …
Read More >By Ken Kolb, author of Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate The mass murder of ten Black residents in Buffalo on May 14th was a horrific act of racist terrorism. The …
Read More >Michaela Soyer is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and a first-generation scholar. Her current work focuses on delinquency, incarceration, recidivism and social theory. She has also conducted research about …
Read More >Now with a new foreword, this timely reissue features a remarkable collection of oral histories that trace three decades of turbulent race relations and social change in the United States for a …
Read More >By Jessica T. Simes, author of Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment Despite growing attention to the problem of mass incarceration, we are still only beginning to capture its far-reaching harms. …
Read More >By Andrea Leverentz, author of Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry In October 2014, a bridge that connected Long Island in Boston Harbor to Moon Island — as well as Squantum Peninsula …
Read More >By Leslie Paik, author of Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality The pandemic has exposed so clearly how families everywhere in this country struggle to …
Read More >A past ASA President and award-winning author, Christine Williams is one of the most influential sociologists researching gender inequality and work. In this interview, Christine discusses what she learned while writing her new book, …
Read More >Out today, The Trouble with Passion probes the ominous side of career advice to “follow your passion.” This data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, …
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