Social & Cultural History

Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017Americans are living longer and reinventing both work and retirement, but Hollywood movies barely hi...

Black ASL has long been recognized as a distinct variety of American Sign Language based on abundant anecdotal evidence. The Hidden Treasure of Bl...

The goals of achieving equal citizenship rights for African Americans and international respect for human rights inspired Charles H. Thompson to fo...

As the Great Depression gripped the United States in the early 1930s, the Hoover administration sought to preserve jobs for Anglo-Americans by targ...

When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as "Hong Kong on a bad day," he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of ...

As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hyb...

In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that co...

The most prominent story of nineteenth-century German and French Jewry has focused on Jewish adoption of liberal middle-class values. The Modernity...

Harrison Ford is known for such iconic roles as Hans Solo, Indiana Jones and Rick Deckard – but his career of fifty years (and counting) encompasse...

The year was 1945. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops poured into war-torn Japan and spread throughout the country. The effect of this influx o...

Evoking the pleasures of music as well as food, the word sabor signifies a rich essence that makes our mouths water or makes our bodies want to mov...

As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the stor...

Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Lang...

Combining methodological and theoretical approaches to migration and mobility studies with detailed analyses of historical, cultural, or social phe...

Honorable Mention, Rachel Carson Prize, given by the Society for the Social Studies of Science Finalist, 2023 ASAP Book Award, given by the Associ...

"Flawless . . . [Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."—Robert Fisk, The ...

2020 Second Place, Best Nonfiction Multi Author, International Latino Book AwardsCollecting the perspectives of scholars who reflect on their own r...

Explores how humanitarian aid workers help and hinder the care of unaccompanied children as they arrive in the United States Every year, tens of th...

The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipati...

Patricia O'Brien traces the creation and development of a modern prison system in nineteenth-century France. The study has three principal areas of...

How transnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to Asia Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia considers the role of bodily aestheti...

Uncovers the ways the United States government responds to natural and human-induced disasters in relation to race over the past eight decades When...

Winner, Diamond Anniversary Book Award, awarded by the National Communication Association Winner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Associat...

The Italian Americans: A Multicultural View exemplifies a meaningful attempt to inform readers about the Italian Americans’ various experiences in ...

Ronald Grigor Suny examines the Revolution in Baku, important provincial capital and oil center of the Russian empire. His study of Baku's national...

Judith Hallett illuminates a paradox of elite Roman society of the classical period: its members extolled female domesticity and imposed numerous f...

In Between Banat Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature,...

Set between the rise of the U.S. and Japan as Pacific imperial powers in the 1890s and the aftermath of the latter’s defeat in World War II, Strang...

A growing number of Jews identify themselves as secular or “somewhat secular.” Is this expansive definition of Jewishness a new phenomenon? What ar...

As the Great Depression gripped the United States in the early 1930s, the Hoover administration sought to preserve jobs for Anglo-Americans by targ...

Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged lives At a moment in U.S. history with repeated reminders ...

The essential guide to understanding how racism works and how racial inequality shapes black lives, ultimately offering a road-map for resistance f...

Provides an illuminating look at the diverse world of Black religious life in North America, focusing particularly outside of mainstream Christian ...

Provides an illuminating look at the diverse world of Black religious life in North America, focusing particularly outside of mainstream Christian ...

In her never-finished My Life’s Travels and Adventures, the eighteenth-century Polish doctor Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa plays a myriad of roles, in...

Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture makes a series of valuable contr...

The first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad. William Still: The Underground Rai...