Social Discrimination & Inequality

Many political figures insist that their anti-immigration sentiments have nothing to do with race and racism. Americans seem largely unconvinced, w...

The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory. Explori...

2021 ISSR Best Book Award (International Society for the Sociology of Religion) Transnational migration has contributed to the rise of religious di...

Winner of the 2019 Richard P. McCormick Prize from the New Jersey Historical Commission​Black New Jersey tells the rich and complex story of the Af...

A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban developmentWho makes decisions that shape the housing...

How clothing brands coded with racist and nationalist symbols are bringing extremism into the German mainstreamFar right politics and extremist vio...

Reshaping Beloved Community: The Experiences of Black Male Felons and Their Impact on Black Radical Traditions offers a reflexive interrogation on ...

Social justice rhetoric is prevalent in contemporary America, but are we as a nation ready to do the work to effect real change? Emily Allen Willia...

A critical reexamination of Carpeaux’s bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery images—this book interrogates the treatment...

This timely, readable text offers an authoritative and balanced analysis of how racially driven policies in America impact post release education a...

Despite its image as an epicenter of progressive social policy, New York City continues to have one of the nation's most segregated school systems....

This work analyzes the "New Ethnicity" of the 1970s as a way of understanding America's political turn to the right in that decade. An upsurge of v...

The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media: A Global Perspective provides a global analysis of the intersection of social inequalities, media, and co...

This book helps inject the Miami Times into the historical narrative of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida by highlighting its role in Rice v Arn...

Through the Hart-Celler Act of 1965, Islam in America underwent a dramatic transformation. In the city of Chicago, African American and immigrant M...

A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is...

The Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to...

What does it mean to practice radical generosity? What if the concept of “citizen” implied “world citizen?” Is cosmopolitanism possible? Ali Kashan...

“Why do they hate us?” The answer to a seemingly simple question made famous by U.S. President George W. Bush in the wake of 9/11 has become more c...

This is a biographical study of Alexander William Roberts, a Free Church of Scotland missionary educator who in 1883 was posted to the Lovedale Ins...

"The most critical dimension of desegregation in our region is found in the attitudes of members of the dominant white communities. Melvin Tumin, a...

Womanist thought remains of critical importance given contemporary issues of social justice and advocacy. Womanist Ethical Rhetoric centers discour...

Murguia explores food and foodways within institutions of incarceration. Food, like all resources within total institutions, is vulnerable to socia...

Healthcare in the U.S. faces two interpenetrating certainties. First, with over 66 racial and ethnic groupings, our “American Mosaic” of worldviews...

Healthcare in the U.S. faces two interpenetrating certainties. First, with over 66 racial and ethnic groupings, our “American Mosaic” of worldviews...

Contemporary scholars who study race and racism have emphasized that white complicity plays a role in perpetuating systemic racial injustice. Being...

This book recognizes that intense public battles are being waged in the U.S. over the rights of LGB people to form legally and culturally recognize...

Although the human genome exists apart from society, knowledge about it is produced through socially-created language and interactions. As such, ge...

For generations, historians believed that the study of the African-American experience centered on the questions about the processes and consequenc...

Since the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice in 1971, political philosophers in the English-speaking world have shared a broad consens...

The Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to...

White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism powerfully emphasizes the significance of humility, vulnerability, anxiety, questions of complicity, and ...