Social Discrimination & Inequality

America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circu...

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solel...

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...