Social Discrimination & Inequality

The 1930s and 40s were tumultuous decades in South Africa's history. The economy declined sharply in the wake of the Wall Street crash, giving rise...

In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the No...

The number of women in positions of power and authority in Japanese companies has remained small despite the increase in the number of educated wom...

Today's urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape how we perceive and move through space. But are our digita...

A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised. A New Statesman Bo...

*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'A simply wonderful book' PHILIPPE SANDS'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' PANKAJ MISHRA'Incredibl...

Frederick Douglass called the martyred president emphatically the black man's president as well as the first who rose above the prejudice of his ti...

Police officers are obliged to give an account of every incident they are involved in. But what happened today will never be logged. Because thats ...

To many, the world appears to be in a state of dangerous change. News and fictional media alike report that these are dark times, and narratives...

A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature  There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a p...

Over the last five years, transgender people have seemed to burst into the public eye: Time declared 2014 a trans tipping point, while American Vog...

Powerful tools for spreading peace in your community Unfounded beliefs and hateful political and social divisions that can cascade into violence ar...

''Buy it for yourself, your husband or partner. Most importantly, buy it for your children'' Sunday Express ...

From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable tr...

Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forens...