“Conley is a very successful sociologist. He has written a really great book called "Being Black, Living in the Red." Having enjoyed his academic writing, I was interested to know more about his life and to see how that life might have shaped his research. This book was quite rewarding. It is a short, easy read. But Conley manages to give you a very good sense of his early life. Like most sociologists he is interested in the structural factors that shape life chances and he does something...”

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