JAMES W. RUSSELL
Connecticut State University Professor of Sociology
Eastern Connecticut State University
Willimantic, CT 06226
U.S.A.
860-465-4631
RussellJ@easternct.edu
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Class and Race Formation in North America. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Formerly published as After the Fifth Sun: Class and Race in North America. See below. Russell's meticulously researched and highly detailed book presents a critically important people's history of North America. For those interested in how class and race emerged and diverged among the three countries sharing this continent, this book provides rich insights and demonstrates the potential of comparative research to broaden our perspective. -Dan Zuberi, University of British Columbia, author of Defferences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada This comprehensive analysis of North American societies should be read by anyone interested in making sense of current social issues. It illustrates, through an examination of class and race, that today's conditions are the result of choices made over the last 500 years and that building better social structures in each country remains a choice today and in the future. -Carlos Salas, El Colegio de Tlaxcala |
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Double Standard: Social Policy in Europe and the United States. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, October 2006. French translated edition forthcoming by éditions du Sextant, Paris in 2008. Honorable mention, Humanist Sociology Best Book Award 2007. This is a wonderful book, erudite and sophisticated, yet lucid and to the point. Russell offers us a sweeping portrait of the development of social policy in Europe and America, and helps us to understand not only the differences between the European and American welfare states, but why those differences are so important. -Frances Fox Piven, President-elect, American Sociological Association and author of Regulating the Poor
Russell's tools are clear writing, tight argumentation, and impeccable logic. He uses them to calmly and surgically dismantle the myth of American superiority as he explains how and why Americans receive far fewer social welfare benefits than their European counterparts. A real eye-opener. -Levon Chorbajian, University of Massachusetts |
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Societies and Social Life: An Introduction to Sociology, second edition, 2009, 2005. Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY: Sloan Publishing. Formerly titled Introduction to Macrosociology, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, second edition 1996, original edition, 1992.. Russell introduces sociology as it was meant to be: relevant to the present, historical in its approach, empirically grounded, holistic, and critical. -Jerry Lembcke, Associate Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross and author of The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam and CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth Russell introduces students to the field in the way it ought to be done, with the emphasis on the key ideas of the most important classical figures and with a historical and comparative approach. He does not try to do everything or cover absolutely every topic like most of the monster introductory texts do these days. Rather, he emphasizes the most important and determining feature of social structure and change. -Donald A. Nielsen, Professor of Sociology, College of Charleston
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After the Fifth Sun: Class and Race in North America. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994.
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Después del Quinto Sol: Clase y Raza en América del Norte. Revised and updated translation of After the Fifth Sun: Class and Race in North America with a prologue by David Barkin. Mexico City: Ed. Miguel Angel Porrúa, 2006. |
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Modes of Production in World History. London: Routledge, 1989 |
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Marx-Engels Dictionary. Greenwood Press, 1981. |
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Clase y Sociedad en Estados Unidos. With Silvia Nuñez García. Mexico City: Ed. Universdad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1997 |
