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31. Publications & Writing
Just Who Loses? Discrimination in the United States
Authored by DPDF 2010 Discrimination Studies co-director, Samuel R. Lucas In Just Who Loses? Samuel Roundfield Lucas continues his comprehensive assessment of sex and race discrimination in the United States that he began with Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prej…
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Leapfrogging into the knowledge economy: assessing the economic development strategies of the Gulf States
Publication by DPDF 2007 "The Political Economy of Redistribution" Fellow Michael Ewers. The oil-abundant, labour-deficient countries of the Persian Gulf are investing their wealth towards creating economic development beyond oil. At a minimum, these strategies are attempts to cr…
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Legacies of the Past
Written by DPDF 2010 Multiculturalism, Immigration, and Identity in Western Europe and the United States Research Director, Nancy Foner. Published in The Changing Face of World Cities, ed. Maurice Crul and John Mollenkopf.
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Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877-1929
Publication by 2013 DPDF "Public Finance and Society: The New Historical Fiscal Sociology" Research Director Ajay K. Mehrotra. Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the U.S. system of direct and progressive taxation. Ajay K. Mehrotra provides historical p…
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Making the connection: Latino immigrants and their cross-border ties
Publication by DPDF 2010 "Multiculturalism, Immigration and Identity in Western Europe and the United States" Fellow Thomas Soehl and Roger Waldinger. This paper uses the Pew Hispanic Center's 2006 National Survey of Latinos to study the everyday, routine cross-border activities…
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36. Publications & Writing
Megaproject: a Four Decade Perspective of the Gulf Development Model
Publication by Edward J. Malecki and DPDF 2007 "The Political Economy of Redistribution" Fellow Michael Ewers.
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37. Publications & Writing
Messy hectares: questions about the epistemology of land grabbing data
Publication by 2009 DPDF Critical Agrarian Studies Research Director Marc Edelman Recent research on land deals reports gigantic quantities of hectares seized, with relatively little regard for the solidity of the evidence or for considerations of scale other than area. This comm…
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"Mohammedan Religion Made It Necessary to Fire": Massacres on the American Imperial Frontier from South Dakota to the Southern Philippines
Publication by DPDF 2008 "Muslim Modernities" Fellow Joshua Gedacht.
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39. Publications & Writing
Monographic Impressions
Publication by DPDF 2007 "Visual Culture" Fellow Emerson Boyer.
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40. Publications & Writing
Narratives of violence: the white imagiNation and the making of black masculinity in City of God
Publication by DPDF 2009 "State Violence" Fellow Jamie Amparo-Alves. The article explores the regimes of representation of young Black men in the fi lm City of God. The main argument is that the movie deploys pathological scripts of Black men as criminal and deviant to dissemina…


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