Social Discrimination & Inequality

This is a study of Black womens anger, its attempted silencing, and its cultural effects. It grounds the discussion of the political and cultural f...

In this book, we argue that authoritarian forces are working harder than ever to maintain, reinstate, and pass laws and policies that are antitheti...

Facing the reality of the social transformation in contemporary China, this book analyzes the structure, nature and influence of social classes in ...

In this book, we argue that authoritarian forces are working harder than ever to maintain, reinstate, and pass laws and policies that are antitheti...

In this memoir, Eric Newhall traces his life and political evolution with a particular focus on his time inside Lompoc Federal Correctional Inst...

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration  Prison ...

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration  Prison ...

Leading legal lights weigh in on key issues of race and the lawcollected in honor of one of the originators of critical race theory Penetrating ess...

The first major qualitative study of countering violent extremism in key U.S. cities  Suspect Communities is a powerful reassessment of the U.S. go...

While many non-Indigenous academic researchers have introduced the concept of reconciliation in their work, they have not adequately explored what ...

Beats Not Beatings: The Rise of Hip Hop Criminology is a powerful, radical, intersectional scholarly-activist collection of liberation-based articl...

Today the US and the UK are at a crossroads. Millions are out of work, millions (in the US) are still deprived of health care, millions have lost t...

Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color  The U.S. Bureau of Ju...

Society disables us more than autism ever could My brains still fizzing, my hearts still sore and Im already re-reading Sally Phillips Virginias ...

Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color  The U.S. Bureau of Ju...

A pipe bomb in Seattle . . . An armored car hijacking in California . . . The high-stepping stomp of slam-dancing skinheads in Dallas . . . and the...

In an investigation of the effects of racism on the American economy, Michael Reich evaluates the leading economic theories of racial inequality an...

Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today.Drawing on events from the killing of Trayvon M...

A compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco  The picture of school desegregation in the United States is often paint...

How the history of racism without visible differences between people challenges our understanding of the history of racial thinkingRacial divisions...

Compellingly argues that good health is as much social as it is biological, and that the racial health gap and the racial wealth gap are mutually c...

Compellingly argues that good health is as much social as it is biological, and that the racial health gap and the racial wealth gap are mutually c...

The challenge of developing forms of practice that are effective in tackling discrimination and oppression remains a major one. In Promoting Equali...

Firsthand accounts of COVID-19s devastating effects on working-class communities of color The first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled wi...

Firsthand accounts of COVID-19s devastating effects on working-class communities of color The first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled wi...

Since 1997, the US Department of Defense has transferred more than $7.2bn in military equipment to law enforcement agencies. Furthermore, the DOD i...

An honest confrontation of systemic racism in faculty hiringand what to do about itWhile colleges and universities have been lauded for increasing ...

'Not only a dazzling analysis of the workings of sexism, but a balm for the soul. It will teach you how to survive and how to transform the world' ...

Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirmi...

Never before have we lived in a time in which sport and gay identity are more visible, discussed, debatedand even celebrated. However, in an era in...

How Western nations have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim in the post-9/11 world  While much has been written about po...

How Western nations have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim in the post-9/11 world  While much has been written about po...

On the basis of direct personal observation in the classroom, systematically gathered data, and extensive reading in primary sources, the author pr...

Winner, Best Book in Humanities and Cultural Studies (Literary Studies), Association for Asian American Studies Upon signing the first U.S. arms ag...

An in-depth look at how employers today perceive and evaluate job applicants with nonstandard or precarious employment historiesMillions of workers...

In The Chosen Ones, sociologist and feminist scholar Nikki Jones shares the compelling story of a group of Black men living in San Franciscos histo...

First published in 1963, James Baldwins The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of Americas so-called Negro problem. As remarkable for its masterf...

Property is often seen as fundamentally inegalitarian, leading many to believe that a world without property would be a more equal one. Property La...

When can we move beyond representation to liberation? This question from a young Black girl moved New York Times #1 bestselling author Dr. Sonja Ch...

Smith argues that citizenship creation and expansion is a pivotal part of political contestation in Africa today. Citizenship is a powerful analyti...