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The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, by Anthony Abraham Jack, from Harvard University Press

Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital, by Kimberly Clausing, from Harvard University Press

American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War, by Duncan Ryūken Williams, from Harvard University Press

The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West, by Payal Arora, from Harvard University Press

News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945, by Heidi J. S. Tworek, from Harvard University Press

Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal, by Marixa Lasso, from Harvard University Press

The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines, by Kara Dixon Vuic, from Harvard University Press

Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment, by Robert Zaretsky, from Harvard University Press

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Tony Jack, author of The Privileged Poor, explained to CBC Radio’s The Current how the U.S. college admissions scam reveals pervasive inequality in society; on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Central Time, he explicated how university and policy cultures do not impact all students equally; he also responded to the admissions scandal in discussions with CNN, the Huffington Post, MarketWatch, and Politico.
Rachel Elise Barkow, author of Prisoners of Politics, argued in the Washington Post that prosecutors handling episodes of police violence must start treating such events as a serious threat to public safety.
On the Slate Money podcast, Mehrsa Baradaran, author of The Color of Money, discussed with Felix Salmon the history behind the racial wealth gap—and whether “black banking” can fix the problem.
Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic, Against Race, and Darker than Blue, has been named winner of the 2019 Holberg Prize.

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February 14: Conceived in Freedom, Dedicated to Women’s History: An Appreciation of Anne Firor Scott: Historian and activist Anne Firor Scott, who helped pioneer and advance the field of women’s history, passed away on February 5. Susan Ware, whose forthcoming book Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote is dedicated to Anne, honors her dear friend…

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