The C. Wright Mills Award was presented at the SSSP Awards Banquet.

The 2008 C. Wright Mills winner is:


Martín Sánchez-Jankowski

Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods

University of California Press


Congratulations,  Martín!

 

Congratulations, also, to all of the 2008 C. Wright Mills Award Finalists


Xavier de Souza Briggs, Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe, MIT Press

Daniel Faber, Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice: The Polluter-Industrial Complex in the Age of Globalization, Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers, Inc.

John M. Hagedorn, A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture, University of Minnesota Press

Jody Miller, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality and Gendered Violence, New York University Press

Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods, University of California Press