Social Discrimination & Inequality

''Passionate and urgent.'' Guardian, Book of the Week ''A must-read for all.'' Stylist, best new books for 2020 ''Cogently argued and intensely p...

While sexual harassment of women in the workplace has been discussed for decades it is still a pervasive problem. This book looks at the history...

Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much ...

As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we cant afford the rich exposes...

Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door. In it, she and a dozen or so of her friends from the Chicago subu...

People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) experience subtle forms of discrimination, also known as microaggressions. Mic...

Coronavirus did not create the stark social, financial, and political inequalities that define life for so many people, but it has made them more s...

In 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the ...

From the very inception of the United States, few issues have been so divisive and defining as American slavery. Even as the U.S. was founded on...

A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is...

Martin Luther King Jr today is an uncontroversial figure, and we tend to see him as a saint whose legacy is entirely uncomplicated. But in 1968, Ki...

''Passionate and urgent.'' Guardian, Book of the Week ''A must-read for all.'' Stylist, best new books for 2020 ''Cogently argued and intensely p...

At a time when concepts of racial and ethnic identity increasingly define how we see ourselves and others, the ancestry of Melungeons--a Central...

The definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequalityIn Separate and Un...