Social Discrimination & Inequality

The first comprehensive understanding of Du Bois for social scientists The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois provides a comprehensive introduction to t...

Racialized women and girls often feel racial injustice before they have the words to name it. Sometimes they fight these feelings, and sometimes th...

For incarcerated fathers, prison rather than work mediates access to their families. Prison rules and staff regulate phone privileges, access to wr...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

As immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong. From language barrie...

For English-speaking readers, this book serves as an introduction to an important French intellectual whose work, especially on the issues of antis...

In this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by...

Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association Across the twentieth century, national controversies i...

Illuminates how recent shifts in demographics, policy, culture and thinking have changed how race is understood today The Complexities of Race illu...

What drives anti-immigrant bias—and how it can be mitigatedIn the aftermath of the refugee crisis caused by conflicts in the Middle East and an inc...

An exploration of how and why American city governments delegated the responsibility for solving urban inequality to the nonprofit sector.   Nonpro...

In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago’s Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry ...

What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are ...

What drives anti-immigrant bias—and how it can be mitigatedIn the aftermath of the refugee crisis caused by conflicts in the Middle East and an inc...