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Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

Matthew Huber

Huber, professor of geography and the environment, focuses on the everyday material struggle of the working-class over access to energy, food, housing and transportation. Huber argues that these necessities are core industries that need to be decarbonized.

June 8, 2022

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The SAGE Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine

Edited by Susan C. Scrimshaw, Sandra D. Lane, Robert A. Rubinstein, Julian Fisher

Faculty members Robert Rubinstein and Sandra Lane are among the co-editors and contributors to this handbook, which investigates the social contexts of health—including food and nutrition, race, class, ethnicity, trauma, gender, mental illness and the environment—to explain the complicated nature of illness. 

June 2, 2022

Perceived Impacts of COVID-19 on Wellbeing among US Working-age Adults with ADL Difficulty

Claire B.Pendergrast, Shannon M.Monnat
This study compares perceived COVID-19 physical and mental health, social and financial impacts for US working-age adults with and without ADL difficulty.
June 1, 2022

Churn in the older adult SNAP population

Colleen Heflin, Leslie Hodges, Irma Arteaga, Chinedum O. Ojinnaka
June 1, 2022

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The Economics of COVID-19

Badi H. Baltagi
The threats and complexities from the COVID-19 pandemic shock are the core subject of this latest volume in the Contributions to Economic Analysis series.
June 1, 2022

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COVID-19 Negatively Impacted Health and Social Relationships among Working-Age Adults with Disabilities

Claire Pendergrast, Shannon M. Monnat
This research brief shows that working-age adults (18-64) with ADL difficulty faced worse health and social impacts than their peers without ADL difficulty during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
May 31, 2022

Plant-Centered Diets Among Older Adults: The Need for Improved Nutritional Health Messaging

Margaret Rose

One way aging adults may mitigate disease onset and progression is through increased consumption of plant-based foods.

May 24, 2022

Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader

Edited by Jordana Dym, Karl Offen
In Mapping Latin America,Jordana Dym and Karl Offen bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine and interpret more than five centuries of Latin American maps.
May 20, 2022

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The Awakening Coast

Karl Offen and Terry Rugeley, eds.

The Awakening Coast offers the first comprehensive English-language selection of the writings of the multinational missionaries who established the Moravian faith among the indigenous and Afro-descendant populations through the turbulent years of the Great Awakening of 1881 to 1882, when converts flocked to the church and the mission’s membership more than doubled.

May 20, 2022

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Do rights violations deter refugees?

Lamis Abdelaaty
May 19, 2022

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Nine Ways Grandparenting is Changing with the COVID-19 Pandemic

Madonna Harrington Meyer

This research brief describes these long-term sociodemographic changes and uses in-depth interviews conducted before the pandemic to illustrate nine specific ways grandparenting is shifting in the U.S.

May 17, 2022

COVID-19 Has Reduced the Latino Mortality Advantage among Older Adults

Marc A. Garcia , Rogelio Sáenz

This research brief examines Latino-white differences in COVID-19 mortality rates among older adults and describes how those disparities have reduced the Latino mortality advantage in this age group.

May 12, 2022

Civil Rights, Firearm Safety, and Environmental Protection Policies Predict Better Health among U.S. Midlife Adults

Blakelee R. Kemp, Jacob M. Grumbach, Jennifer Karas Montez

This research brief examines the association between several state policies and self-rated health among adults ages 45-64 from 1993 to 2016.

May 10, 2022

An Evaluation of the Residential Property Tax Equity in New York City

Christopher Berry

This report, by Christopher Berry, evaluates property tax regressivity and its causes in New York City.

May 6, 2022

Introduction: The Politics of the Migrant/Refugee Binary

Lamis Abdelaaty, Rebecca Hamlin

This article interrogates the categorization and labeling of border crossers, particularly the categories of migrant and refugee as they are used in distinction with one another.

May 4, 2022

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Social Infrastructure (“Third Places”) is Not Distributed Equally Across the U.S.

Danielle C. Rhubart, Yue Sun, Claire Pendergrast, Shannon M. Monnat

This data slice shows that third places are not evenly distributed across the U.S.

May 3, 2022

Tax Housing or Land? Distributional Effects of Property Taxation in Germany

Rafael Barbosa, Simon Skipka
Rafael Barbosa and Simon Skipka assess the distributional effects of replacing a housing tax with a Land Value Taxation.
April 29, 2022

Scientific Americans: Invention, Technology, and National Identity

Susan Branson

Bringing together scientific research and popular wonder, Branson charts how everything from mechanical clocks to steam engines informed the creation and expansion of the American nation.

April 28, 2022

Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975

Radha Kumar
Kumar argues that the colonial police deployed rigid notions of caste in their everyday tasks, refashioning rural identities in a process that has cast long postcolonial shadows.
April 28, 2022

See related: India

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