As the political climate of the United States moves rightward, effective and visionary voices from the left become both rarer and more essential. Here, scholar-

African American scholar-activist Joy James offers a stimulating and iconoclastic account of a world in which the United States functions as the political-polic

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New ethnographic data leads to insights into the widespread yet understudied phenomenon of criminal extortion in Latin America.