An American immigrant jazz buff expresses his gratitude to a supremely gifted critic who loved the music and loathed bullshit
Fifty years after his landmark book of essays on race, culture, and the ‘social science paradigm,’ the late, great critic and career Air Force officer Albert Murray speaks loudly to today’s divided United States
The Jewish ghetto haunts sociologist Mitchell Duneier’s new history of the American one
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