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United States of America
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Prisoners on Strike in the United States
by
Joël Charbit
&
Gwenola Ricordeau
, 15 October 2018
The Unionization Strategy Put to the Test
Review
The Long March for Equality
by
Ary Gordien
, 30 August 2018
About: Caroline Rolland-Diamond, Black America. Une histoire des luttes...
Review
Gender Boundaries, Race Boundaries
by
Sarah Mazouz
, 19 July 2018
About: R. Brubaker, Trans : Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled...
Articles
Review
Halal Cool
by
Leyla Arslan
, 12 July 2018
How to live one’s Muslim faith in a context of growing Islamophobia? John...
Review
Discreetly Ostentatious
by
Ève Sihra
, 28 June 2018
Traditionally, the dominant classes displayed their superiority by...
Essay
Narcotic Addiction in America
by
Irène Delcourt
, 30 April 2018
In the midst of the recent “opioids crisis”, President Trump has vowed to...
Review
Extraordinary Men
by
Nicolas Duvoux
, 26 February 2018
Philanthropy and Social Justice
Essay
Hyperincarcerated
by
Adèle Momméja
, 6 November 2017
Can journalism advance knowledge in the field of social science? Two...
Interview
Pinochet and the Chicago School
by
Ivan Jablonka
, 11 September 2017
An Interview with Manuel Gárate
Review
Desegregating the Understanding of Music
by
Gayle Murchison
, 26 June 2017
In this comprehensive study of music rooted in the Southern part of...
Review
The End of Modern Economic Growth as We Know It
by
Jean-Pierre Dormois
, 1 June 2017
Economic progress is behind us in the West, warns Robert J. Gordon in a 750...
Review
Going Wild
by
Matthieu Calame
, 11 May 2017
By studying key concepts of such as frontier, wilderness and rewilding in...
Essay
The Great American Plots
by
Donald Critchlow
, 8 May 2017
Our internet-driven world has given conspiracy theories a new lease of...
Review
The Idea of the Ghetto
by
Nicolas Duvoux
, 4 May 2017
The black ghetto has garnered much attention from researchers and American...
Review
Penal Policy and Racial Prejudice in the United States
by
Manon Veaudor
, 27 April 2017
After the war on poverty, the United States declared a war on crime. This...
Essay
The Rise of Transparency
by
Erik Neveu
, 26 January 2017
An in-depth study of the recent history of the right to know in the United...
Interview
Race and Counter-Cultures in the United States
by
Andrew J. Diamond
, 8 December 2016
An Interview with Jeff Chang
Review
Deplorable, yourself
by
Isaac William Martin
, 7 November 2016
Most analysts have portrayed Trump as the candidate of economically...
Essay
White Evangelicals for Trump
by
Jessamin Birdsall
, 3 November 2016
How have Evangelicals come to put their faith in Trump? Interviewing the...
Essay
Who Benefits from the Crime?
by
Bilel Benbouzid
, 31 October 2016
Can an algorithm predict crime? For several years, United States police...
Interview
Camus in America
by
Marie-Pierre Ulloa
, 17 October 2016
An Interview with Alice Kaplan & Tobias Wolff
Essay
Academia on the Run?
by
Isaac William Martin
, 19 September 2016
Two years ago Alice Goffman published On the Run: Fugitive Life in an...
Review
An American Jewish Resistance during World War
II
by
Laura Hobson Faure
, 4 July 2016
Against the widespread idea that the American population remained...
Review
An Ethnography of Evictions in the United States
by
Nicolas Duvoux
, 23 June 2016
In the United States, tenant evictions have become a mass phenomenon. The...
Essay
Schooling in the United States
by
Roberta Garner
, 25 April 2016
Reforming the Education System in the Neoliberal Era
Essay
Total Incarceration
by
Yasmine Bouagga
, 21 March 2016
Solitary Confinement in the United States in the Age of Mass Imprisonment
Review
In Praise of Impurity
by
Frédéric Sylvanise
, 7 March 2016
A book on the writings of author and trumpet player Ralph Ellison about...
Review
Mr. Bellow’s Planet
by
Benjamin Balint
, 1 February 2016
Marking the centenary of Saul Bellow’s birth, two new books show why the...
Essay
Caught in a Bad Romance: What America Means to Russia
by
Eliot Borenstein
, 15 October 2015
As pundits in the West comment on the rise of “anti-Americanism” in Russia,...
Review
Rethinking the New Deal
by
Jean-Christian Vinel
, 29 June 2015
Revisiting the history of the New Deal, Ira Katznelson argues that it was a...
Essay
American Wars, Barely Visible to Americans
by
Michael Sherry
, 30 March 2015
In 2001, the US launched a War on Terror the failures of which were not...
Review
“What a Show It Will Be!” Freak Shows and American Society
by
Elise Lantz
, 19 March 2015
At a time when “Disability Studies”—a multidisciplinary approach to physical...
Essay
Mobilizing People in Low-Income Neighbourhoods
by
Julien Talpin
, 22 January 2015
The Virtues and Ambiguities of Community Organizing
Review
Segregated Soldiers: African-Americans, Civil Rights and the
U.S.
Military
by
Olivier Burtin
, 19 January 2015
How can you fight for your country while being denied citizenship?...
Essay
Field Fright: Studying Urban Poverty in Boston
by
Nicolas Duvoux
, 5 January 2015
Lessons from an Ethnographic Case Study
Essay
Ferguson and the New Black Condition in the United States
by
François Bonnet
&
Clément Théry
, 24 November 2014
Michael Brown’s death and the Ferguson unrest signal a change in the...
Review
An Ideology of the Drone
by
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
, 6 November 2014
Is the American government’s drone warfare a radical kind of manhunting, or...
Review
The ‘Age of Nixon’ Reconsidered
by
Robert Mason
, 15 September 2014
Antoine Coppolani’s masterful biography offers a carefully constructed...
Review
Comparing Success
by
Dominique Merllié
, 17 July 2014
Through a comparative study of France, India and the United States, Jules...
Review
Invisible Public Policies & Inequalities
by
Gianfranco Poggi
, 19 May 2014
Focusing on the massive increase in socio-economic inequality of the last...
Review
Unionization for Everyone?
by
Jean Heffer
, 12 May 2014
Why has the right to workplace representation been historically denied to...
Review
Philip Roth’s Counterlives
by
Benjamin Balint
, 5 May 2014
Just one year after Philip Roth’s announcement that he was retiring from...
Essay
Once Upon a Time in America There was Michael Jackson
by
Sylvie Laurent
, 24 April 2014
Michael Jackson was a lot more than just a singer: Sylvie Laurent recounts...
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