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Booklog: April 2010 (American Apartheid)

In the spirit of completeness, let me look back to April of this year… The only book I read was Massey’s classic “American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass” which looked at the scale, mechanisms, and destructive effects … Continue reading

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“The Other” By Ryszard Kapuscinski

I’m usually a bit wary of the “lecture repackaged as book” genre.  For the most part, we readers are simply missing too much information, as these lectures were never intended to stand on their own (although I suppose that in … Continue reading

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Catching Up: March and April 2009

The trouble with this kind of endeavor is that when you fall behind, you tend to fall way behind! I’ll blame Sudhir Venkatesh’s “Off The Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor“ for getting me behind on this project.  … Continue reading

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First Take: Paul Tough on Geoffrey Canada in “Whatever it Takes…”

I bought a copy of Paul Tough’s “Whatever it Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America” for a very specific reason.  The level of seriousness of the discussion about a Chicago neighborhood applying for one of President Obama’s … Continue reading

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William Julius Wilson

I got the opportunity to hear William Julius Wilson speak at the University of Chicago this week (on the topic of “Race in the Age of Obama”).  Back in the day, as an undergrad sociologist at UCHICAGO, I read quite … Continue reading

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