Latino
City Lit: The Serving Poor
Gina Neff |
A book review of No Shame in My Game, by Katherine S. Newman, Knopf and The Russell Sage Foundation, 1999, 400 pages, $27.95.
Bronx
City Lit: A Fruitful Searc
James DeFilippis |
A book review of Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modem Brooklyn, by Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias, University of Iowa Press, 1999, 512 pages, $32.95.
City Lit: Reformulaic
Billy Tashman |
A book review of Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform, by Frederick M. Hess, Brookings Institution Press, 1999, 228 pages, $39.95.
City Lit: Planet Wort
Gordon Mayer |
A book review of Global Squeeze: The Coming Crisis for First-World Nations, By Richard C. Longworth, Contemporary Books, 1998, 293 pages, $24.95.
City Lit: Import Exploit
Michael Hirsch |
A book review of Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor, by Peter Kwong, The New Press, 1998, 273 pages, $24.
Bill Clinton
City Lit: Nuts to Soup
Theresa Funiciello |
A book review of Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlements by Janet Poppendieck, Viking Press, 1998, 354 pages, $26.95.
City Lit: Marsh of Progress
Paul Parkhill |
A book review of The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City, by Robert Sullivan, Scribner, 1998, 220 pages, $23.
City Lit: Passive Progressive
Garland Yates |
A book review of Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy, by Ross Gittel and Avis Vidal, Sage Publications, 1998, 196 pages, $23.95.
City Lit: Women’s Works
Jacqueline Woodson |
A book review of Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women’s Lives, edited by Patricia Bell-Scott with Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Henry Holt, 1998, 231 pages, $22.
City Lit: Left Turn Signal
Andrew White |
A book review of The New Majority, edited by Stanley Greenberg and Theda Skocpol, Yale University Press, 1997, 298 pages, $30.
