This book examines the conflict surrounding the latest redevelopment frontier in Chicago: the city’s South Side blues clubs and blocks. Like Chicago, cities such as Cleveland, St. Louis, Boston, Washi
This fascinating book examines the 1990s rise of a new black ghetto in rust belt America, 'the global ghetto'. It uses the emergent perspective of 'racial economy' to delineate a fundamental propositi
This book explores the societal construction of "black-on-black violence" - referring to the 1980s when acts of aggression among African American perpetrators and victims increased. Massive job losse
The book integrates the lives of those who graduated from the school and what happened to them after leaving Chestnut and through the years. This is done through stories in the former students own wor
David Wilson looks at the way in which prison has to satisfy the demands of three interested parties: firstly, the public, including politicians, media commentators and the general public; secondly, p
David Wilson has been a gaucho, a teacher, an artist's agent, a documentary filmmaker and playwright, but above all, he has been a lifelong political activist. In the 60s he marched to Aldermaston. In
From the rolling Preseli Hills to its dramatic cliff-top coastline, Pembrokeshire both excites and enthralls with a sense of timeless beauty. And yet there is also a story to be told, one of meaning a
This is the first full-length biography of Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), the most important experimental physicist of his time, and probably the most ingenious since Faraday. It was Rutherford who di
