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The Invention of the “Underclass”: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge
Author:
Wacquant, Loïc
Department:
Sociology
Published:
2022
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About the author
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Back
Normalizing Inequality: How Californians Make Sense of the Growing Divide 
Racial Domination 
Everyday Futures: Language as Survival for Indigenous Youth in Diaspora 
Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States 
Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change 
Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American 
Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (Expanded Anniversary Edition) 
Trumpism and its Discontents 
Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong 
Misère de l’ethnographie de la misère 
Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory