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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 10:27: Book Talk on two Books Dealing with Urban Politics; Beyond the Square” and “Zoned Out!”
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

10/27: “Beyond the Square” and “Zoned Out!”: New books on urban politics from Urban Research press “Beyond the Square” and “Zoned Out!”: New books on urban politics from Urban Research press October 27, 2016 5:30 – 7:00 pm Science Center, Room 4102, CUNY Graduate Center Speakers: Tom Angotti (Hunter College, Urban Policy and Planning), Sylvia Morse (urban planner), Deen Sharp (doctoral candidate, EES) & Claire Panetta (doctoral candidate, Anthropology), Moderated by Samuel Stein (graduate student, EES) Books: Zoned Out! Race, Displacement and City Planning in New York City (Urban Research, 2016) Gentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color are major issues in New York City and the city’s zoning policies are a major cause. Race matters but the city ignores it when shaping land use and housing policies. The city promises “affordable housing” that is not truly affordable. Zoned Out! shows how this has played in Williamsburg, Harlem and Chinatown, neighborhoods facing massive displacement of people of color. It looks at ways the city can address inequalities, promote authentic community-based planning and develop housing in the public domain. Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (Urban Research, 2016.) Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings focuses on the urban spatial dynamics of the mass protest movements that convulsed the Arab region since December 2010. The volume shifts attention away from public squares — and in particular Tahrir Square in Cairo — to consider the broader urban context in which the uprisings unfolded. The essays are topically and geographically diverse, exploring a range of sociospatial phenomena in countries that are at the heart of the Arab uprisings as well as those countries that appeared peripheral to the upheaval. This breadth of perspective highlights the centrality of space and spatial concerns to the ongoing political transformations in the region. In this way, the book provides a distinctive — and critical — analysis of one of the most significant political events of our time. This event is sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. It is free and open to the public.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 10/17: Book Launch | Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

Book Launch | Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas October 17, 2016 | 6-8pm Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute 20 Cooper Sq, Seventh Floor, New York, NY<https://goo.gl/maps/S2MXsoqUQpB2> NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for the launch event for Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas<http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520285958>, with editors Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. The editors will be in conversation with several contributors, including IPK Visiting Scholars Garnette Cadogan and Daniel Aldana Cohen. The program will include readings and Q&A with the audience, followed by a reception, during which books will be available for purchase and signing. Nonstop Metropolis, the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts-from linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalists-amplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. We are invited to travel through Manhattan's playgrounds, from polyglot Queens to many-faceted Brooklyn, and from the resilient Bronx to the mystical kung fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Island. The contributors to this exquisitely designed and gorgeously illustrated volume celebrate New York City's unique vitality, its incubation of the avant-garde, and its literary history, but they also critique its racial and economic inequality, environmental impact, and erasure of its past. Nonstop Metropolis allows us to excavate New York's buried layers, to scrutinize its political heft, and to discover the unexpected in one of the most iconic cities in the world. It is both a challenge and homage to how New Yorkers think of their city, and how the world sees this capital of capitalism, culture, immigration, and more. Contributors include: Sheerly Avni, Gaiutra Bahadur, Marshall Berman, Joe Boyd, Will Butler, Garnette Cadogan, Thomas J. Campanella, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Teju Cole, Joel Dinerstein, Paul La Farge, Francisco Goldman, Margo Jefferson, Lucy R. Lippard, Barry Lopez, Valeria Luiselli, Suketu Mehta, Emily Raboteau, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Luc Sante, Heather Smith, Jonathan Tarleton, Astra Taylor, Alexandra T. Vazquez, and Christina Zanfagna. Features interviews with: Valerie Capers, Peter Coyote, Grandmaster Caz, Grandwizzard Theodore, Melle Mel, RZA. Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, activist, and author of eighteen books about environment, landscape, community, art, politics, hope, and feminism, including two atlases, of San Francisco in 2010 and, New Orleans in 2013; Men Explain Things to Me; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's and frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose work has appeared in publications including The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Harper's, Artforum, and Transition, among many others. His upcoming book Island People: The Caribbean and the World, will be published by Knopf in November. More info and RSVP: http://ipk.nyu.edu/calendar/events/319-book-launch-nonstop-metropolis/

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 10/3: The Right to the City as a Human Right
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

The Right to the City as a Human Right October 3, 2016 | 6:30 - 8:00 pm 1 Washington Place, New York, NY RSVP HERE<http://nyu.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7e07141852d3e3ca4d58dd74&id=f…> Our planet is becoming one of city-dwellers. The boundaries between the "urban" and "not-urban" exist less in the present, in our lived experience, than in historical memory, literary invocation, and theoretical musings. Yet as cities and their populations expand at dramatic rates, neither urban infrastructures (such as electricity, sanitation, housing, and transit) nor political and legal systems (such as democratic inclusion and the protection of human rights) have kept the pace. Rather, our cities struggle with deepening poverty and inequality, ecological insecurity, and uneven economic development, all of which threaten our very existence. Building from Henri Lefebvre's concept of "right to the city," Balakrishnan Rajagopal argues that we need to look to international human rights discourse for a new language and approach to this critical moment. He also offers concrete examples of how this new orientation can work and how global social movements are offering visions for an inclusionary and sustainable urban future. Balakrishnan Rajagopal is Associate Professor of Law and Development at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and founding Director of the Program on Human Rights and Justice at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and the founder of the Displacement Research and Action Network. He is recognized as a leading participant in the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) Network of scholars and is one of its founders, and is recognized as a leading global commentator on issues concerning the global South. He has been a member of the Executive Council and Executive Committee of the American Society of International Law, and is currently on the Asia Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch, the International Advisory Committee of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights and the International Rights Advocates. He is a Faculty Associate at Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation and has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC, the Madras Institute of Development Studies and the Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University and a Visiting Professor at the UN University for Peace, University of Melbourne Law School and the Washington College of Law, the American University. Organized by Urban Democracy Lab & Gallatin Human Rights Initiative More info: urbandemos.nyu.edu/event/right-to-the-city-as-a-human-right/ <http://nyu.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7e07141852d3e3ca4d58dd74&id=f…> <http://nyu.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7e07141852d3e3ca4d58dd74&id=f…> <http://nyu.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7e07141852d3e3ca4d58dd74&id=f…> <http://nyu.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7e07141852d3e3ca4d58dd74&id=f…>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] TOMORROW Complicated Conversations Workshop: What Is "Black Lives Matter" and What Does It Have to Do with Me?
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

Complicated Conversations Workshop: What Is "Black Lives Matter" and What Does It Have to Do with Me? 4:45-6:45 pm, President's Conference Room 2, Rosenthal Library, fifth floor. All over the United States, communities of color are experiencing tragic acts of violence, leading to urgent calls to action from the Black Lives Matter movement and other social justice mobilizations. What does this mean for educators, researchers, and scholars? Join us for an evening of honest dialogue about hope, healing, and individual responsibility in our schools and communities. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Dean of Education, SEYS, ECP, and CERRU. Refreshments. Information: caraballo.QC.CUNY(a)gmail.com<mailto:caraballo.QC.CUNY@gmail.com>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 9/28: If You See Something, Say Something
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

If You See Something, Say Something: Bearing Witness in the Age of Ongoing Police Brutality with Kathleen Foster, Nabil Hassein, Ramsey Orta, Josmar Trujillo and Kazembe Balagun September 28th, 2016 6:30 to 9:00 PM Benefit for Ramsey Orta Location: Verso Books 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010 Brooklyn, NY To "bear witness" is to speak truth in the face of power. For many, the Black Lives Matter movement and moment have been defined by everyday folks who have used the tools of social media to document police brutality. These actions have sparked protests and demands of police accountability, while developing a visual record of violence faced by communities of color. In See Something, Say Something we take the advice of the MTA in asking how ordinary New Yorkers are using community patrols, documentaries and community mapping to make our hoods safer. This event is a benefit for Ramsey Orta, who videoed the police murder of Eric Garner, and is scheduled to go to jail October 3. Tonight's proceeds will go to Mr. Orta and his family. Sliding scale: $6 / $10 / $15 no one turned away for inability to pay More info: http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/civicrm/event/info?id=13784&reset=1

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 9/26: Activism and Research Among Urban Social Movements in the United States
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

Ethnography Inside Out: Activism and Research Among Urban Social Movements in the United States by Ahmed Kanna "Beyond the Square" and "Zoned Out!": New books on urban politics from Urban Research Press September 26th, 2016 14:30-16:30 Room 6107 (space is limited to 20) CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016 In this informal roundtable, Ahmed Kanna will explore his latest research among Bay Area radical socialists organizing around issues of urban politics, workers' rights and empowerment, antiracism, and LGBTQ solidarity. More specifically, he will discuss how youth activists are getting radicalized to the left in the US, how this relates to US wars/foreign policy, and how becoming active in Marxist political organizing connects them to internationalism/international political issues. Of particular concern is the question of how to reconcile being both an organizer with an activist group and a scholar studying the group's work ethnographically. Author bio: Ahmed Kanna is an associate professor at the University of the Pacific and the author of Dubai, The City as Corporation. This event is sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. It is free and open to the public.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Job Opportunity: Child Center of NY's Parsons Community School is now hiring for the 2016-17 school year
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 23 Sep '16

23 Sep '16

Good evening, We currently have some school year openings that we're looking to immediately fill at the Child Center of NY's Parsons Community School and I'm hoping that reaching out to your office at Queens College will be mutually beneficial for both parties. Please let me know if you have any questions or if you require any additional information. The posting is below. The Child Center of NY's Parsons Community School 2016- 2017 After-School, Evening and Saturday programs are seeking passionate, highly-motivated, eager to learn Group Leaders and Activity Specialists to enthusiastically and actively supervise, engage and develop youth participants in grades ranging from 4-10. Candidates with experience, talent and passion teaching specific activities or theme-based clubs including: literacy, arts, science, technology, engineering, math, cooking, drama, dance, youth council, leadership, service-learning or sports are encouraged to apply and highlight those talents and experiences. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: · Actively monitor and engage participants during all program activities, including pick-up, snack, transitions, field trips, clubs, activities, and dismissal. · Create Project-Based Learning curricula with lesson plans for each group session. Utilize curricula and lesson plans to facilitate purposeful and engaging activities and on-going theme-based projects catered to the age, stage and interests of participants as well as the needs of the school community. · Assist participants with literacy; encourage academic effort and efficacy. · Collaborate with co-workers and program supervisors around effective program operations; uphold all safety and emergency standards and procedures. · Always demonstrate professional behavior. Serve as a positive role model for participants and maintain appropriate and professional boundaries with participants at all times. · Actively participate in training and professional development to continuously increase knowledge, principles and practices of child and youth development and actively use this knowledge to achieve the goals of the program. · Promote responsible and healthy decision-making among all participants. · Develop leadership skills, team-building, social emotional development and self-advocacy among all participants. · Promote an inclusive, welcoming, and respectful environment that embraces diversity. · Foster academic and non-academic skills and broaden participant horizons. · Maintain accurate daily attendance records for all assigned activities. Required Skills/Experience: · One year After-school work experience, one full summer camp work experience, or two years related experience. · Interest and experience in youth development and academic enrichment. · A genuine enthusiasm for developing professional skills through training opportunities, observation, coaching, and feedback. · Availability to work 10-27 hours per week. Operational hours are Mondays-Fridays between 1:45pm-6:00pm; 6:00pm - 9:30pm and Saturdays between 9:45am - 5pm. · Ability to communicate effectively and respectfully with a broad range of people including school staff, parents, co-workers and supervisors. · Ability to meet School Age Child Care (SACC) requirements and obtain clearances including: background checks, fingerprinting by NYC Dept of Health, fingerprinting by NYC Dept of Ed, annual medical clearance and annual TB test documentation. · Ability to effectively manage time and to demonstrate strong organizational skills. · Ability to obtain and submit educational documentation as well as three letters of reference. Location: Parsons Community School 158-40 76th Road Flushing, NY, 11366 Google Maps<http://maps.google.com/?q=158-40+76th+Road%2C+Flushing%2C+NY%2C+11366%2C+us> Public Transportation: Bus (Q25 or Q34 via the E train to Jamaica Center (or) Q25 or Q34 via the F train to Hillside Ave (or) Q46 via the E or F to Union Tpke) Start/End Date: 10/01/16- 06/30/17 Specific Days Needed: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday Minimum Hours/Week: 10 hours/week Maximum Hours/Week: 27 hours/week Interested applicants should send resumes and a cover letter to Oswald Araujo at oswaldaraujo(a)childcenterny.org<mailto:oswaldaraujo@childcenterny.org> and Talia Banks at taliabanks(a)childcenterny.org<mailto:taliabanks@childcenterny.org>. Cover letter should state why you think you would make a good candidate, including your specific skills, talents and experiences that would contribute to our team. Hourly Rate Commensurate with Experience; Internship Opportunities May Be Available Thank you! -- Oswald Araujo Director The Child Center of NY Parsons Community School 158-40 76th Road Flushing, New York 11366 Office: (718) 820-0760 www.childcenterny.org<http://www.childcenterny.org> [X] [http://childcenterny.org/images/ccny-logo-orange.png]<http://childcenterny.org/index.php> [http://s15.postimg.org/ur5t26rpz/Facebook.png]<http://facebook.com/childcenterny> [http://s15.postimg.org/q6jmn980n/Twitter.png] <http://twitter.com/childcenterny> [http://s15.postimg.org/4gaspz3yv/Instagram.png] <http://instagram.com/childcenterny> [http://s15.postimg.org/m7mf4fjdj/Linked_In.png] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-child-center-of-ny> IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail is meant only for the use of the intended recipient. It may contain confidential information which is legally privileged or otherwise protected by law. 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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fw: [Mon, Sept 26, 6 pm] Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 23 Sep '16

23 Sep '16

Hi all, In case you have trouble with the image in this email, it is announcing an event coming up soon for the launch of the book Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprising on Monday Sept 26 from 6:00 to 7:30 PM sponsored by the Hagop Kavorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU. Speakers will include Deen Sharp (Earth and Environmental Science, CUNY Graduate Center), Claire Panetta (Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center), Ahmed Kanna (Anthropology, University of the Pacific), Julie Mehretu (Artist). The location of the event is Richard Ettinghausen Library at 255 Sullivan St. Best, Elan From: Earth and Environmental Sciences Mailing List <EES-L(a)GC.LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU<mailto:EES-L@GC.LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>> on behalf of Deen Sharp <deensharp(a)GMAIL.COM<mailto:deensharp@GMAIL.COM>> Reply-To: Earth and Environmental Sciences Mailing List <EES-L(a)GC.LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU<mailto:EES-L@GC.LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>> Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 1:41 PM To: Earth and Environmental Sciences Mailing List <EES-L(a)GC.LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU<mailto:EES-L@GC.LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>> Subject: Fwd: [Mon, Sept 26, 6 pm] Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings Dear Colleagues, Hope that you can join me on Monday, 6pm, at NYU to celebrate the launch of my co-edited book: Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.urpub.org_books_bey…>. The artist Julie Mehretu <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mariangoodman.com_artis…> will be in conversation with the anthropologist and urbanist, Ahmed Kanna. All the best, Deen View this email in your browser<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__us9.campaign-2Darchive2…> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/cbbf5b88af89f4a97561382b2/images/b389b5aa-560…]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nyu.us9.list-2Dmanage.c…> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/cbbf5b88af89f4a97561382b2/images/a2beda88-d99…]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nyu.us9.list-2Dmanage.c…> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/cbbf5b88af89f4a97561382b2/images/d440b234-50f…] [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/cbbf5b88af89f4a97561382b2/images/3fbfbd03-226…] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nyu.us9.list-2Dmanage1.…> : @nyuKEVO [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/cbbf5b88af89f4a97561382b2/images/cac641f5-4ac…]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nyu.us9.list-2Dmanage.c…> Our mailing address is: Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University 255 Sullivan Street/50 Washington Square South 4th Floor New York, NY 10012 Add us to your address book<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nyu.us9.list-2Dmanage.c…> Copyright © 2016 Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University, All rights reserved. Kevorkian Center Events unsubscribe from this list<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nyu.us9.list-2Dmanage.c…> update subscription preferences<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nyu.us9.list-2Dmanage.c…> [Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mailchimp.com_monke…> [http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/color-facebook-48.png]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nyu.us9.list-2Dmanage.c…> Share<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nyu.us9.list-2Dmanage.c…> [http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/color-forwardtofriend…]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__us9.forward-2Dto-2Dfrie…> Forward<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__us9.forward-2Dto-2Dfrie…> -- Graduate Center, CUNY PhD Candidate Earth and Environmental Sciences (Geography) Co-Editor of Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.urpub.org_books_bey…> (+1) 9175744533<tel:%28%2B1%29%209175744533> www.deensharp.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.deensharp.com_&d=Cw…> Use "FORWARD" to respond to send a personal response to the poster of this message. Use "REPLY" to post a response to the Listserv. <> If you wish to unsubscribe from the EES-L List, please send an E-mail to: "listserv(a)gc.listserv.cuny.edu"<mailto:>. Within the body of the text, only write the following: "SIGNOFF EES-L".

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 10/8: October Family Meeting
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

Hello all, Join Families For Freedom for a Family meeting to say farewell to the summer. Come check in with one another, and talk about where we will be heading as we get into the autumn. [X] When: Saturday October 8, 2016 Families For Freedom Membership Meeting 1pm 35 West 31 St. #702 New York, NY 10001 Bring your family. Bring a friend. Bring your children! * *Childcare will be provided* Contact: info(a)familiesforfreedom.org<mailto:info@familiesforfreedom.org> 35 West 31st St, #702 New York, NY 10001 United States Founded in September 2002, Families for Freedom is a New York-based multi-ethnic human rights organization by and for families facing and fighting deportation. We are immigrant prisoners (detainees), former immigrant prisoners, their loved ones, or individuals at risk of deportation. We come from dozens of countries, across continents. FFF seeks to repeal the laws that are tearing apart our homes and neighborhoods; and to build the power of immigrant communities as communities of color, to provide a guiding voice in the growing movement for immigrant rights as human rights. FFF has evolved into an organizing center against deportation. We are source of support, education, and campaigns for directly affected families and communities -- locally and nationally. More info: http://familiesforfreedom.org/

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 9/26: A Dream Denied
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

Book Launch | A Dream Denied September 26, 2016 | 6-8pm Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Sq, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10003, USA<https://goo.gl/maps/S2MXsoqUQpB2> The Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us in celebrating the release of A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America<http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520290457> by sociologist Michaela Soyer. The author will be in discussion with Ruth Horowitz and Jamie Fader. Young men of color are often portrayed in the media as victims of poverty and discrimination. In A Dream Denied, Soyer delves deeper, investigating the social and cultural implications of the 'American dream' narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice systems in Boston and Chicago. The book connects young male offenders' cycles of desistance and recidivism with normative assumptions about success and failure in American society, exposing a tragic disconnect between structural and juvenile justice policy. This book challenges us to reconsider how American society relates to its most vulnerable members, how it responds to their personal failures, and how it promises them a better future. ________________________________ Michaela Soyer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, CUNY. Her work on the subjects of delinquency and incarceration, resistance to oppression, research methods, and social theory has been published in Mobilization, The Journal of Classical Sociology, The British Journal of Criminology, and other journals. Dr. Soyer's new research is focused on inmate networks and their significance for reentry and recidivism. Jamie Fader is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University and an expert on urban social inequality, crime, corrections, and juvenile justice, transitions to adulthood, and qualitative research methods. Dr. Fader is the author of Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood Among Urban Youth, and numerous articles and book chapters. Ruth Horowitz is Professor of Sociology at New York University. An exemplary and award winning public sociologist, her work has focused on social control, urban and medical sociology, and research methods. Dr. Horowitz is the author of Honor and the American Dream, Street Kids, Street Drugs, Street Crime, Teen Mothers: Citizens or Dependents?, and, most recently, In the Public Interest: Medical Licensing and the Disciplinary Process. Her current research concerns the careers and career transitions of ballet dancers. More information: http://ipk.nyu.edu/calendar/events/314-book-launch-a-dream-denied/

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