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New Books (Summer 2021)

Castañeda, Ernesto. 2021. Building Walls: Excluding Latin People in the United States. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498585651/Building-Walls-Excluding-Latin-People-in-the-United-States

Gonzales, Teresa Irene. 2021. Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment. New York: New York University Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479813568/building-a-better-chicago/

Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette and Manuel Pastor.  2021.  South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A. New York: New York University Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479807970/south-central-dreams/

Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth. 2021. Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America. New York: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/race-brokers-9780190063863

Montgomery, Alesia (2020). Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/greening-black-urban-regime

Stuber, Jenny. 2021. Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of Supergentrification. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520306608/aspen-and-the-american-dream

Taplin-Kaguru, Nora E. 2021. Grasping for the American Dream: Racial Segregation, Social Mobility, and Homeownership. New York, NY: Routledge.https://www.routledge.com/Grasping-for-the-American-Dream-Racial-Segregation-Social-Mobility-and/Taplin-Kaguru/p/book/9780367075941

Xu, Fang. 2021. Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China. Lanham: Lexington Books.            https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793635310/Silencing-Shanghai-Language-and-Identity-in-Urban-China

Membership Book Giveaway

Chocolate Cities

CUSS Members and Potential Members! We’re having a book giveaway, alongside our membership drive to reach 600 members, from now through September 30th. We’re giving away two copies of Chocolate Cities by Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson and two copies of Manufactured Insecurity by Esther Sullivan, the 2019 CUSS Book Award co-winners.  If you refer a person for section membership, and they become a member, both the referrer and new section member will be entered into a giveaway. However, there is no purchase necessary to win and the chance of winning cannot be increased by making a purchase or multiple referrals either. To participate, please fill out this short form or email Victoria Reyes (vreyes@ucr.edu), Membership Chair by September 30 [subject heading “CUSS Book Giveaway”] and indicate whether you are a new member, a referrer of a new member, and/or someone who wants to be entered into the drawing!