Sociology

I'm Glad I Look Like A Terrorist: Growing Up Arab In America: Humor and Reality in the Ethnic American Experience

Date: 
1996
Edition: 
First Edition
Abstract: 
Experiences of ethnic diversity and tolerance in America from the Arab perspective
Language: 
English
Format: 
Contributors: 
ISSN/ISBN: 
0965476103

African American Art in Chicago, 1900-1950

Our Chicago, Faces and Voices of the City

Catalog Number: 
Book, Richard Younker
Date: 
1987
Edition: 
First Edition
Abstract: 
This book is a series of candid portraits accompanied by poetry and monlogues given by the subjects. The words of some have been mixed and matched with others to tell new and differnt stories that still represent the collective Chicago Younker seeks to represent.
Language: 
English
Notes: 
The author was born and raised, and educated in Chicago. He had been working as a freelance photographer for thirteen years at the time of publication. His work appeared in the magazines of the Chicao-Sun TImes and Chicago Tribune Magazines respectively.
Format: 
Contributors: 
ISSN/ISBN: 
1556520220

Year; Mid-Century Edition: 1900-1950

Catalog Number: 
book
Date: 
1950
Edition: 
1
Abstract: 
"The dramatic story of 50 turbulent years in 2,000 pictures, 100,000 words...a permanent record of all the important national and world events..."
Language: 
English
Notes: 
Reads like a giant newspaper, touching on every war, fad, significant scientific and socio-political lurch, with tons and tons of pictures. However it came into CUL's posession, YEAR passed from Ceceila Chutw to Mike Pintozzi in 1998. While the publisher kept offices in Los Angeles, the book itself was printed and bound in Chicago by Lakeside Press, R.R. & Donnelly and Sons Company.
Series Title: 
Item Donor: 
unknown

Reclaiming the Inner City

Date: 
1886
Abstract: 
A study of urban revitalization focusing on Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project.
Language: 
English
Format: 
ISSN/ISBN: 
0940798050

Still Separate, Unequal: Race, Place, Policy and the State of Black Chicago

Date: 
April 2005
Abstract: 
An examination of Chicago history and policy as it relates to race inequality, particularly in regards to education, housing, and employment
Language: 
English
Format: 
Contributors: 

One Part Honor: Stories and Faces of Chicago's Olive Branch

Date: 
1993
Abstract: 
A collection of photographic portraits of and stories about guests at the Olive Branch Mission shelter and rehabilitation center.
Language: 
English
Format: 
ISSN/ISBN: 
1556521995

My Neighborhood: The Words and Pictures of Inner-City Children

Catalog Number: 
Book: My Neighborhood: The Words and Pictures of Innrer-City Children
Date: 
1993
Abstract: 
The drawings, essays and poems in this book are all written by children and young adults living in the inner-city housing projects of Chicago during the 1990s.
Language: 
English
Format: 
ISSN/ISBN: 
0963751700

On the Job: Behind the Stars of the Chicago Police Department

Catalog Number: 
Book, On the Job: Behind the Stars of the Chicago Police Department
Date: 
2008
Abstract: 
The Chicago Police Department is a mythical and legendary law enforcement unit as well as a closed-door society. This book reveals the officers and their personal stories. The author explores the juxtaposition of work and life for these men and women who don the Chicago Police Star.
Language: 
English
Format: 

Picture This! : A Guide to Over 300 Environmentally, Socially, and Politically Relevant Films and Videos

Catalog Number: 
Book Hiatt, Sky
Date: 
1992
Edition: 
1st
Abstract: 
A catalog and review of more than 300 motion pictures dealing with social and political issues
Language: 
English
Format: 
Publisher: 
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