Social Discrimination & Inequality

Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how t...

This book contributes new perspectives from the Global South on the ways in which linguistic and discursive boundaries shape inequalities in educat...

Booklist Editors Choice Best Books of 2019 An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equal...

Creating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competitive edge over their urban counterparts. Joh...

The demonization, internment, and deportation of celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Dr. Karl Muck, finally told, and placed in the cont...

Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slav...

`Young shopworkers on Henry Street in Dublin, who in 1984 refused to handle the fruits of apartheid, provided me with great hope during my years of...

A stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, realized the error...

Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award, Section on Aging and the Life Course, American Sociological AssociationSenior citizens from all walks...

This book reviews research studies on the perceptions, discrimination and acceptance based on sexual orientation. The first chapter begins with an ...

The origins of discrimination against women date back to ancient times. Throughout history, women have been exploited sexually, physically, economi...

This volume brings together cutting edge research, critical commentary and candid, personal accounts in a rich array of fresh perspectives on the d...

This volume brings together cutting edge research, critical commentary and candid, personal accounts in a rich array of fresh perspectives on the d...

It's no secret that the 1%-the business elite that commands the largest corporations and the connected network of public and private institutions-e...

In this moving and insightful work, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia. Armed with an MBA fr...