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Movie Migrations
Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema
Prison and Social Death
Blaming the Poor
The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty
The Tragedy of the Commodity
Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
Beautiful Terrible Ruins
Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline
Our Caribbean Kin
Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles
Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India
The Bronx
The Ultimate Guide to New York City's Beautiful Borough
The Price of Nuclear Power
Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice
Taking the Heat
Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen
Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture
The Forgotten Men
Serving a Life without Parole Sentence
The Renewal of the Kibbutz
From Reform to Transformation
Sound
Dialogue, Music, and Effects
Shaky Foundations
The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America
Shaky Foundations provides the first extensive examination of a new patronage system for the social sciences that emerged in the early Cold War years and took more definite shape during the 1950s and early 1960s. Focusing on the defense department, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, Mark Solovey explores the struggles of these various funders to define what counted as legitimate social science and how their policies and programs helped to shape the goals, subject matter, methodologies, and social implications of academic social research in the nuclear age.