Books written by Don Mitchell
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They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California
Davis; minutes of meetings, January 16, 1947, March 6, 1947; April 3, 1947; May 1, 1947; June 5, 1947; Burke to Clayton, February 5, 1947; Burke to Warren, June 30, 1947, all in Warren Papers, fpc, File 735; Warren to Brannan, ...
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The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space
Rich Van Deusen and Clayton Rosati, who read through the whole manuscript in an effort—perhaps in vain—to improve my English and to keep me from making a fool of myself (Rich additionally tracked down illustrations); and Reecia Orzeck, ...
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Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader
Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader is an innovative collaboration between scholars, activists, artists, and students to explore the struggles against displacement, misrepresentation, and civil rights violations in Los Angeles’ Skid Row.
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The Freedom Summer Murders
At this time Jim Jordan said, “Save one for me.” He then got out of Price's car and got Chaney out. I remember Chaney backing up, facing the road, and standing on the bank on the other side of the ditch and Jordan stood in the middle of ...
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Revolting New York: How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City
Smith, “New City, New Frontier,” 65; Charyn, War Cries over Avenue C, 7; Joel Rose and Catherine Texier, eds., Between Avenues C & D: New Writing from the Lower East Side Fiction Magazine (New York: Penguin, 1988), xi; Carr, ...
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Food Across Borders
Immigrant workers have introduced new cuisines and ways of cooking that force the nation to question the boundaries between “us” and “them.” The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate ...
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The Lady Is a Spy: Virginia Hall, World War II Hero of the French Resistance (Scholastic Focus)
The Lady Is a Spy is the audacious and riveting true story of Virginia Hall, America's greatest spy and unsung hero, brought to vivid life by acclaimed author Don Mitchell.
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The Lady is a Spy: Virginia Hall, World War II's Most Dangerous Secret Agent
“A remarkable woman . ... Letter from Virginia Hall to Margaret Rossiter, February 2, 1978, Women in the Resistance papers, University of Michigan Library (Special Collections ... Part One: A Spy in Training “I must have liberty .
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The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape
Mitchell's analysis appropriates the best of studies of representation while critiquing their abstraction from material production. All this while capturing the role of migrant workers in the making of the California landscape.
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The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape
The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape
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The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space
Blending historical and geographical analysis, this book examines the vital relationship between struggles over public space and movements for social justice in the United States.
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The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space
Blending historical and geographical analysis, this book examines the vital relationship between struggles over public space and movements for social justice in the United States.
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Mean Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits of Capital
If I have done my job well, then the way in which mean streets—streets that are legally mean—have metastasized (as I put it) matters for how the class struggle will unfold in the future. If the commonality of the forces shaping public ...
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They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Bracero-era California
Bureaucrats tried to harness political power to meet the demands of, as one put it, “the people whom we serve.” Drawing on a deep well of empirical materials from archives up and down the state, Mitchell's account promises to be the ...
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They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Bracero-era California
Bureaucrats tried to harness political power to meet the demands of, as one put it, “the people whom we serve.” Drawing on a deep well of empirical materials from archives up and down the state, Mitchell's account promises to be the ...
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Shibai: Remembering Jane Britton's Murder
" In this uncategorizable work, Don Mitchell weaves together a fascinating meld of fiction and nonfiction, past and present, speculation and discovery that excavates layers of truth, of error . . . and of shibai
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Mean Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits of Capital
By updating and revisiting thirty years of research and thinking, Don Mitchell explores the conditions that produce and sustain homelessness, and how its persistence relates to the way capital works in the urban built environment.
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Driven: A Photobiography of Henry Ford
A biography of Henry Ford, the industrial visionary who changed the automobile from rich man's toy into affordable necessity.
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Liftoff: A Photobiography of John Glenn
Biography of John Glenn, with a special emphasis on his career as an astronaut.
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Revolting New York: How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City
Hard-hitting, revealing, and insightful, Revolting New York tells the story of New York's evolution through revolution, a story of near-continuous popular (and sometimes not-so-popular) uprising.