Population & Demography

Charles N. Hunter, one of North Carolina's outstanding black reformers, was born a slave in Raleigh around 1851, and he lived there until his death...

The book explores the concepts of migration, space, memory and identification drawn from the experiences of Istanbulite Romiois/Greeks and through ...

Various forms of partnering – such as officially registered marriages, cohabiting relationships, and other kinds of relatively stable relationships...

This volume offers a new view on gender structuring in contemporary Slovenia and the persistence of the gender order – produced and reproduced thro...

This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at t...

Based on the biographies of some three hundred people in each city, this book shows how such distinguished Boston families as the Adamses, Cabots, ...

This collection of essays by American philosopher Alain Locke (1885-1954) makes readily available for the first time his important writings on cul...

This volume is a multidisciplinary approach to the subject of Indian international emigration and comprises contributions by demographers, economis...

Racial capitalism, invisible but threaded throughout the world, shapes our lives. Focusing on the experiences of white, Black, and Latinx residents...

This sharply argued book posits that urban revitalization—making "better" city living spaces from those that have been neglected due to racist city...

This dissertation is a historical investigation of the relationship between science and society through the comparative study of eugenics movements...

This timely volume chronicles and analyses the intersection of rice policies and the pandemic through case studies of a diverse range of Southeast ...

Racial capitalism, invisible but threaded throughout the world, shapes our lives. Focusing on the experiences of white, Black, and Latinx residents...

The expression “the New South” was introduced by Henry Grady, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, to a New York audience in 1886; every generation...

This sharply argued book posits that urban revitalization—making "better" city living spaces from those that have been neglected due to racist city...

This book attempts to document diaspora among neighbors. Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial desig...

This interdisciplinary book brings an empirical evidence that social capital is an important building block in the reintegration processes, migrati...

The field of biopolitics encompasses issues from health and hygiene, birth rates, fertility and sexuality, life expectancy and demography to eugeni...

The first generation of children born under China's one-child family policy is now reaching adulthood. What are these children like? What are their...

For centuries, human perfection has been a powerful goal, but only in the twentieth century were national states able to achieve the capacity to im...

For centuries, human perfection has been a powerful goal, but only in the twentieth century were national states able to achieve the capacity to im...

Between 1870 and 1942, successive generations of Asians and Asian Americans—predominantly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino—formed the predominant b...

With the collapse of Demographic Transition Theory, new theories of population must not just be explanations, but should be falsifiable theories wh...

Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City sheds new light on the literature of the early US by exploring how literature, theatre,...

This book explores the idea of Muslim diaspora in context of Muslim communities in the United Kingdom. It critically looks at the notion of ummah a...

Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this provocative, brilliant book proposes a theory of demographic equilibrium. The au...

International efforts to regulate fertility rates so that populations do not grow beyond the earth's capacity have included technical assistance an...

Despite rapidly decreasing rates of population growth caused by reduced fertility in the majority of world regions, demographers are predicting tha...

This reader provides information on population and development issues for those seeking the middle ground between technical and non-specialist mate...