Contemporary Sociology-A Journal of Reviews

Papers
(The median citation count of Contemporary Sociology-A Journal of Reviews is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
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Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science, by DromiShai M.StablerSamuel D.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 239 pp. $27.23
Studying Immigration during Xenophobic Times8
Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America3
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam2
Index Of Reviews, Essays, Briefly Noted Books, And Comments For Volume 522
Measuring Culture2
The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements2
Successful Aging in a Rural Community in Japan1
Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution1
Flooded: Development, Democracy, and Brazil's Belo Monte Dam1
The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy1
Political Activist Ethnography: Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle Political Activist Ethnography: Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle, edited by DollAgnieszkaBisaillonLauraWalbyKevin1
Du Bois: A Critical Introduction1
Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy, by GhilarducciTeresa.Chicago: University of Chicago Press1
Regional Governance and the Politics of Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area1
Affective Capitalism in Academia: Revealing Public Secrets Affective Capitalism in Academia: Revealing Public Secrets, edited by NehringDanielBrunilaKristiina. Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2023. 256 pp.1
A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society1
Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality1
Teaching Fear: How We Learn to Fear Crime and Why It Matters1
Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music1
Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice1
Ageism, Generational Rhetoric, and the Rhetoric of “Generation”1
The Racialization of Sexism: Men, Women and Gender in the Populist Radical Right The Racialization of Sexism: Men, Women and Gender in the Populist Radical Right, by ScrinziFrancesca. New York: Routle1
Islam, Justice, and Democracy1
Reconsidering the Evidence of Evidence-Based Medicine in Trans Health Research1
Shape Shifters: Journeys across Terrains of Race and Identity1
Index of Reviews by Category1
Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future1
Fields of Gold: Financing the Global Land Rush1
Index of Reviews by Category1
Beyond the Case: The Logics and Practices of Comparative Ethnography1
Interpreting Contentious Memory: Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past Interpreting Contentious Memory: Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past, edited by DeGlomaThomasJacobsJa1
Screening Social Justice: Brave New Films and Documentary Activism1
Addicted to Lust: Pornography in the Lives of Conservative Protestants1
Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws against International Crimes0
Panic City: Crime and the Fear Industries in Johannesburg0
Sociology and the Holocaust: A Discipline Grapples with History Sociology and the Holocaust: A Discipline Grapples with History, by BergerRonald J.. New York: Routledge, 2024. 240 pp. $46.95 paper. IS0
Will Labor Unions Make a Comeback?0
Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-blackness in U.S. Society0
Crazy Fun or Crazy Exploitation? Cultural and Social Reproduction in the Elite Party Scene0
Why We Disagree about Inequality: Social Justice vs. Social Order0
Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West0
Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations: Revisioning Migrants and Mobilities through the Critique of Antiblackness Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations: Revisioning Migrants and Mobilities through 0
Living Worth: Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets0
The Social Side Effects of the Pill: “Gendered Compulsory Birth Control” and Reproductive Injustice0
Why Religion Is Good for American Democracy0
Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine0
Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream0
Contesting the Global Order: The Radical Political Economy of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein0
Advanced Introduction to Social Capital0
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition0
Tropes of Intolerance: Pride, Prejudice, and the Politics of Fear0
Youth Prospects in the Digital Society: Identities and Inequalities in an Unravelling Europe0
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States0
Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life0
Transnational Nationalism and Collective Identity among the American Irish0
The Economic Red Shift0
A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity, by GordonPeter E.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 320 pages. $400
Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education0
Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector0
Poverty as Subsistence: The World Bank and Pro-Poor Land Reform in Eurasia0
Xi Jinping's Anti-Corruption Campaign: The Politics of Revenge0
Index of Reviews and Essays for Volume 530
Handbook on Participatory Action Research and Community Development0
Revolution and Authoritarianism Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism, by LevitskyStevenWayLucan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. 638 pp. $39.950
Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt, by SaidAtef Shahat. Durham, NC:0
Precarious Protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the United States0
Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta, by ImmergluckDan. Oakland: University of Californ0
Drug Wars and Covert Netherworlds: The Transformations of Mexico’s Narco Cartels0
Love, Money and Obligation: Transnational Marriage in a Northeastern Thai Village0
Elites, Non-Elites, and Political Realism: Diminishing Futures for Western Societies0
GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding, by SchneiderhanErikLukkMartin. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 230 p0
Precarious Privilege: Race and the Middle-Class Immigrant Experience Precarious Privilege: Race and the Middle-Class Immigrant Experience, by BrowneIrene. New York: Russell Sage, 2024. 229 pp. $39.95 0
Borders of Belief: Religious Nationalism and the Formation of Identity in Ireland and Turkey0
Male Femininities0
There’s Downward Mobility among White People? Who Knew?!0
The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society0
Chasing the American Dream in China: Chinese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland0
In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South, by ValleFiruzeh Shokooh. Stan0
The Comparative Politics of Immigration: Policy Choices in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, and the United States0
Practical Symbolic Interactions in the Shrine of the South: Conversations with a Damn Yankee0
Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents0
An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi0
Publications Received0
A Sociology of Humankind: How We Are Formed by Culture, Cooperation, and Conflict A Sociology of Humankind: How We Are Formed by Culture, Cooperation, and Conflict, by BruggemanJeroen. New York: Routl0
The Rainbow after the Storm: Marriage Equality and Social Change in the U.S.0
The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance, by ToshSarah. New Y0
Misplacing Ogden, Utah: Race, Class, Immigration, and the Construction of Urban Reputations0
Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality, by GordonColin. New York: Russell0
From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies0
Court of Injustice: Law without Recognition in U.S. Immigration0
Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century0
Index of Reviews by Category0
Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology0
The Rise of Digital Sex Work The Rise of Digital Sex Work, by FowlerKurt. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023. 272 pp. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 9781479824205.0
Social Avalanche: Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets0
How Social Movements (Sometimes) Matter0
Something in These Hills: The Culture of Family Land in Southern Appalachia0
Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas0
Index of Reviews by Category0
Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship0
Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification0
States of Belonging: Immigration Policies, Attitudes, and Inclusion0
Who Needs Gay Bars? Bar-Hopping through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places0
Index of Reviews by Category0
Index of Reviews by Category0
The Immigrant Threat Narrative and the Politics of Resentment0
The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need, by SalmanSara. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 248 pp. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 90
Empires, Colonialism, and the Global South in Sociology0
Zar: Spirit Possession, Music, and Healing Rituals in Egypt0
The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London0
Immigration Policies and Real People: Deciphering the Consequences of Laws Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America, by ArriagaFelicia. Chapel Hill: University of North Ca0
On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography0
Stagnant Dreamers: How the Inner City Shapes the Integration of the Second Generation0
King of Hearts: Drag Kings in the American South0
Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Sociology0
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon0
After Globalization: Crisis and Disintegration0
Hope for Justice and Power: Broad-based Community Organizing in the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation0
America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census0
Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime0
Islam, Revival, and Reform: Redefining Tradition for the Twenty-First Century (Essays Inspired by John O. Voll)0
Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change0
Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers0
The Demise of Organized Labor and the Rise of Postindustrial Populism0
Unemployment: The Accumulation of Advantage and Disadvantage0
Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability, 20th Anniversary Edition, by BellMichae0
Grandmothers on Guard: Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the U.S.-Mexico Border0
Militarized Global Apartheid0
Making Their Days Happen: Paid Personal Assistance Services Supporting People with Disability Living in Their Homes and Communities0
The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals0
Masking in the Pandemic: Materiality, Interaction, and Moral Practice Masking in the Pandemic: Materiality, Interaction, and Moral Practice, by AbbottOwenMayVanessaWoodwardSophieMeckinRobertGilmanLeah0
Mapping the Monosexual Imaginary: Bi+ Identity, Community, and Politics Mapping the Monosexual Imaginary: Bi+ Identity, Community, and Politics, by MathersLain A. B.Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. 0
Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability, by ArcherMatthew. New York: New Yor0
Retirement Migration and Precarity in Later Life0
Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies0
Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families, by Kw0
Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs0
Segregation0
The Impact of College Diversity: Struggles and Successes at Age 300
A Wall Is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in the Twentieth-Century United States A Wall Is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in the Twentieth-Century United States, by HillyerRei0
Whiteness Interrupted: White Teachers and Racial Identity in Predominantly Black Schools0
Cultural Representations of the Second Wife: Literature, Stage, and Screen Cultural Representations of the Second Wife: Literature, Stage, and Screen, edited by ParnellJo. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books,0
Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America0
Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence0
Owning the Street: The Everyday Life of Property0
States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan, by MartínezJosé Ciro. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 0
Electric Mountains: Climate, Power, and Justice in an Energy Transition0
Democratic and Authoritarian Political Systems in 21st-Century World Society: Differentiation, Inclusion, Responsiveness0
Tacit Racism0
Surviving Solitary: Living and Working in Restricted Housing Units0
Publications Received0
Parenting in Privilege or Peril: How Social Inequality Enables or Derails the American Dream Parenting in Privilege or Peril: How Social Inequality Enables or Derails the American Dream, by BennettPam0
No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States0
Undoing Motherhood: Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity Undoing Motherhood: Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity, by John0
You’re Paid What You’re Worth, and Other Myths of the Modern Economy0
From Forest Farm to Sawmill: Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State From Forest Farm to Sawmill: Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State, by ZhouShuxuan. Seattle: University of Washin0
Fear, Justice, and Modern True Crime0
Critical Political Economy Meets Historical Institutionalism in the Study of Asian Precarity: Assets and Liabilities of a Methodological Hybrid0
Fútbol in the Park: Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties0
Seeking a Research-Ethics Covenant in the Social Sciences Seeking a Research-Ethics Covenant in the Social Sciences, by van den HoonaardWill C.. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2023. 146 pp. $40
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century0
When Care Is Conditional: Immigrants and the U.S. Safety Net When Care Is Conditional: Immigrants and the U.S. Safety Net, by CarrilloDani.New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2024. 195 pp. $35.00 paper0
Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State0
Monstrous Ontologies: Politics, Ethics, Materiality0
Capitalisms and Gay Identities0
The Politics of Crime Prevention: Race, Public Opinion, and the Meaning of Community Safety0
Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America0
The “Anti-Gender Movement,” Capitalism, and the Left0
Sandinista Narratives: Religion, Sandinismo, and Emotions in the Making of the Nicaraguan Insurrection and Revolution0
When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age0
Breaking Conventions: Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century0
Publications Received0
Webbed Connectivities: The Imperial Sociology of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality0
Blood, Powder, and Residue: How Crime Labs Translate Evidence into Proof0
The Color of Homeschooling: How Inequality Shapes School Choice The Color of Homeschooling: How Inequality Shapes School Choice, by StewartMahala Dyer. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 229 p0
Amateurs without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion0
Welfare Deservingness and Welfare Policy: Popular Deservingness Opinions and their Interaction with Welfare State Policies0
Gendered Power in Child Welfare: What’s Care Got to Do with It Gendered Power in Child Welfare: What’s Care Got to Do with It? by MooreChrista JaneGagn’Patricia. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. 2000
Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the U.S. West0
Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity0
Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range0
Publications Received0
Behind the Midwestern Curtain0
Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States0
Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration: Spousal Relationships among Somali Muslims in the United Kingdom0
Neoliberal Nationalism: Immigration and the Rise of the Populist Right0
Machine Habitus: Toward a Sociology of Algorithms0
Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age0
Doing Gender in Heavy Metal: Perceptions on Women in a Hypermasculine Subculture0
The Death of Idealism: Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps0
Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change0
Making the Immigrant Soldier: How Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender Intersect in the U.S. Military0
America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice0
The Social Significance of Dining Out: A Study of Continuity and Change0
The Current Economy: Electricity Markets and Techno-Economics0
How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism0
Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea0
Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation, by AndrewsAbigail. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 216 pp. $0
The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic0
The Promise of Youth Anti-Citizenship: Race and Revolt in Education The Promise of Youth Anti-Citizenship: Race and Revolt in Education, edited by ClayKevin L.HenryKevin LawrenceJr. Minneapolis: Unive0
The New White Nationalism in Politics and Higher Education: The Nostalgia Spectrum0
Experts, Social Scientists, and Techniques of Prognosis in Cold War America0
How China Is Governed0
What Capitalism Needs: Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists0
Race in the Machine: A Novel Account0
Naturalizing Inequality: Water, Race, and Biopolitics in South Africa Naturalizing Inequality: Water, Race, and Biopolitics in South Africa, by MarcatelliMichela. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 0
Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity, by GiuffreKatherine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 210 pp. $26.00 paper. ISBN: 97815030
Around the Day in Eighty Worlds: Politics of the Pluriverse0
The Hinge: Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the Power of Local Commitments0
Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price, by JackAnthony Abraham. Princeton, NJ: Princeto0
Sociology in Post-Normal Times0
Gangs on Trial: Challenging Stereotypes and Demonization in the Courts0
Gender Replay: On Kids, Schools, and Feminism Gender Replay: On Kids, Schools, and Feminism, edited by OeurFreeden BlumePascoeC. J.. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 288 pp. $30.00 paper. IS0
Sex Tourism in Thailand: Inside Asia’s Premier Erotic Playground Sex Tourism in Thailand: Inside Asia’s Premier Erotic Playground, by WeitzerRonald. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 352 pp. 0
Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden0
Author’s Response0
Automation Is a Myth0
From Residency to Retirement: Physicians’ Careers over a Professional Lifetime0
The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin0
Overcoming the Odds: The Benefits of Completing College for Unlikely Graduates Overcoming the Odds: The Benefits of Completing College for Unlikely Graduates, by BrandJennie E.New York: Russell Sage F0
Feminism in Coalition: Thinking with U.S. Women of Color Feminism0
School Zone: A Problem Analysis of Student Offending and Victimization0
The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools0
Time Work: Studies of Temporal Agency0
A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio, by Korver-GlennElizabethMayorgaSarah. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,0
Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era0
Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism, by HallNatalie-Anne. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. 234 pp. $100.00 cloth. ISBN: 970
Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades0
Cultivating Livability: Food, Class, and the Urban Future in Bengaluru Cultivating Livability: Food, Class, and the Urban Future in Bengaluru, by FrazierCamille. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota P0
Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy0
Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis0
Rebellion in America: Citizen Uprisings, the News Media, and the Politics of Plutocracy0
How Slavoj Became Žižek: The Digital Making of a Public Intellectual0
A Birthright to Belong? (Non)Citizenship, Identity, Family, and Belonging in Restrictionist America Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigration Times, by RodriguezCassaundra. New Yo0
Modern Day Mary Poppins: The Unintended Consequences of Nanny Work0
After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology, edited by WilsonNicholas HooverMayrlDamon. New York: Colu0
Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy0
Reform Nation: The First Step Act and the Movement to End Mass Incarceration Reform Nation: The First Step Act and the Movement to End Mass Incarceration, by ErenColleen P.. Stanford, CA: Stanford Uni0
Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life0
Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America0
What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic, by StraussClaudia. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 2024. 372 pp. $35.95 paper. ISBN: 9781501775512.0
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property0
Untangling the Ties That Bind0
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China0
Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-Income Countries0
Identity Investments: Middle-Class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile0
Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles0
Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves, by GalsterGeorge C.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 413 pp. $40.00 paper. ISBN: 9780226829395.0
Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems, by BannerFrancine. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024. 272 pp. $0
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