Social Discrimination & Inequality

Much has been written about the men and women who shaped the field of advertising, some of whom became legends in the industry. However, the contri...

Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels. Global cha...

Through its investigation of the underlying political economy of gender, caste and class in India, this book shows how changing historical geograph...

If you had just one wish for the study of human development, what would it be? How would it advance the field? And what would it take for your visi...

A university education has long been seen as the gateway to upward social mobility for individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and as a ...

Inequality is one of the most discussed topics of our times. Yet, we still do not know how to tackle the issue effectively. The book argues that th...

Originally published in 1997 Working for Women? examines the ways in which women's patterns of paid and unpaid work have been mediated by the polic...

Africans are not literally black, yet they are called black. Why? This book explores the genesis and evolution of the description of Africans as bl...

Based on a mixture of primary historical research and secondary sources, this book explores the reasons for the failure of the state in England dur...

The 2008 financial crisis led the whole world to ask questions of the financial industry. Why are wages in the financial industry so high? Are bonu...

Despite nearly two decades of advocacy for equal education and employment, women remain clustered in the lowest-paid, lowest-status jobs in clerica...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to Dalits in India from their origin to the present day. Despite a plethora of provisions for affirmative...

Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels. Global cha...

This book examines Zoombombing, the racist harassment and hate speech on Zoom.While most accounts refer to Zoombombing as simply a new style or pra...

Ageism: Past, Present, and Future presents perspectives for understanding ageism and puts ageism in the context of specific social institutions. Mc...

First published in 1997, this volume recognises the issue of gender inequality in Hong Kong housing. The invisibility of the housing problem is com...

Recent books have drawn attention to an unfinished gender revolution and the reversal of gender progress. However, this literature primarily focuse...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024THE STORY OF ONE MAN WHO CHANGED THE FACE OF CRICKET FOREVER.'Azeem's first legacy - a ...

Conceptually, Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader is a reflexive analysis of the editors space in higher education over the past thre...

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity. The book examines several L...

This book examines international aid in North Korea, in particular the ongoing policy of withholding aid, through the lens of the impact on the gen...

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity. As transitional healthcare be...

Discussing the civilizatory crisis and processes of refeudalization this volume brings into dialogue two of the most creative approaches, in Olaf K...

The edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing and researching Information and Communication T...

The edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing and researching Information and Communication T...

How a TED Talk Speaker Learned to Successfully Confront Bigotry, Prejudice, and RacismThis brilliant and well-researched book ought to be required ...

Primary audience is Canadian literature scholarsContributes directly to current conversations in both contemporary Canadian media and academic circ...

The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash w...

How a new woke elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and statuswithout helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has...

A Just Future addresses the precarious future of American higher education and diversity and inclusion initiatives along with it. From a global pan...

In Power Interrupted, Sylvanna M. Falcón redirects the conversation about UN-based feminist activism toward UN forums on racism. Her analysis of UN...

Institutional Racism explores the role of colonialism, truth, and knowledge in creating and maintaining institutional racism. It documents how the ...

How do you experience a public space? Do you feel safe? Seen? Represented? The response to these questions may differ based on factors including yo...

Human rights and economics are not often spoken about in the same breath. Yet increasingly, human rights actors are calling for a shift towards a r...

Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its empha...

Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its empha...

'All eight men and all eight stories stand as beautifully, pitifully, terribly true... This is fine, sound, good, honorable writing rich with insig...

'We women are roused. Now that we are roused, we will never be quiet again'Bringing together the voices of women who fought for equal rights and re...

Long before the widespread success of the 2018 book White Fragility: Why Its So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo was brea...

As the newly appointed minister of education in Sierra Leone, David Moinina Sengeh assumed that the administration he servednot to mention his fami...

Based on the authors teaching experience, this book examines why and how many progressive White people are stuck when it comes to race. By locating...

First published in 1967, Ernest Coles House of Bondage has been lauded as one of the most significant photobooks of the twentieth century, revealin...

Getting Real About Race is an edited collection of short essays that address the most common stereotypes and misconceptions about race held by stud...