Social Discrimination & Inequality

Robertson and Chaney examine how the early antecedents of police brutality like plantation overseers, the lynching of African American males, early...

This book examines the significance of Malcolm X as a social theorist. Though Malcolm X has been studied and written about extensively, this is the...

There are only a small handful of mass deaths in all of history that have been deemed, by consensus, a genocide. The tragedy of the Armenians is no...

At the conclusion of the twentieth century, the US economy was booming, but the gap between the rich and poor widened significantly in the 1990s, p...

Through a sociological analysis of Hmong former refugees’ grassroots movements in the United States between the 1990s and 2000s, Immigrant Agency s...

The essays in this book range broadly over different aspects of value theory and include contributions by Nicholas Rescher, Frances Kamm, Barry Smi...

Decentering Citizenship follows three groups of Filipina migrants' struggles to belong in South Korea: factory workers claiming rights as workers, ...

In this book, Robert Leslie Fisher contends that thanks to misguided university and government policies, we have created a science elite that does ...

Playing While White argues that whiteness matters in sports culture, both on and off the field. Offering critical analysis of athletic stars such a...

This study seeks to critically examine the field and function of social stratification, with emphasis on Africana phenomena. Phrased another way, t...

Death beyond Disavowal utilizes “difference” as theorized by women of color feminists to analyze works of cultural production by people of color as...

Decentering Citizenship follows three groups of Filipina migrants' struggles to belong in South Korea: factory workers claiming rights as workers, ...

How is it that recipients of white privilege deny the role they play in reproducing racial inequality? Racing for Innocence addresses this question...

The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants We Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 H...

How being “nice” in school and university settings works to reinforce racialized, gendered, and (dis)ability-related inequities in education and so...

From the Palestinian struggle against Israeli Apartheid, to First Nations' mass campaigns against pipeline construction in North America, Indigenou...

This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming “African...

The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump  The profound concentration of economic power in the United States in recent decades has...

How social status shapes our dreams of the future and inhibits the lives we envision for ourselvesMost of us understand that a person’s place in so...