Social Discrimination & Inequality

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...

Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United...

This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. On July 23, 196...

Ain't No Trust explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the U.S.--at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and wit...

A black child born in the twilight of slavery, William Henry Ellis inhabited a world of fraught, ambiguous racial categories on the anarchic border...

After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained hotly contested territory. Over following decades, the United Sta...

In the personal and frank Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, Rodney A. Smolla offers an insider's view on the violent confrontations in Charlotte...