Social Discrimination & Inequality

A revealing look at the experiences of first generation students on elite campuses and the hidden curriculum they must master in order to succeedCo...

This book examines the national criminal justice system’s and the state of Tennessee criminal justice system’s policies in terms of how they balanc...

Mason Temple, the headquarters of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), looms large in the history of the Civil Rights Movement because of its conne...

By examining privileged and highly skilled Asian migrants, such as international students who acquire legal permanent residency in the United State...

In Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of BlackLiberation, Tony Gaskew guides readers through the phenomena of police...

The election of Donald Trump has called attention to the border wall and anti-Mexican discourses and policies, yet these issues are not new. Buildi...

Directors Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, and Spike Lee emerged as filmmakers toward the end of the 1960s, when the breakdown of the studio system pa...

Black Lives and Bathrooms: Racial and Gendered Reactions to Minority Rights Movements examines how people respond to minority movements in ways tha...

Becoming Transnational Youth Workers contests mainstream notions of adolescence with its study of a previously under-documented cross-section of Me...

Reformed American Dreams explores the experiences of low-income single mothers who pursued higher education while on welfare after the 1996 welfare...

Between 2000 and 2011, eight million immigrants became American citizens. In naturalization ceremonies large and small these new Americans pledged ...

Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K–12 ...

Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K–12 ...

The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees' visibility as Asia...

'This elegantly written, erudite book is essential reading for all of us, whatever our identifications' - Lynne Segal Antisemitism is one of the m...

From advertising to television and film, feminist media scholars have examined the changing nature of media representations form the 1990’s onwards...

Creative Justice examines issues of inequality and injustice in the cultural industries and cultural workplace. It first aims to ‘do justice’ to t...

Julie J. Park examines how losing racial diversity in a university affects the everyday lives of its students. She uses a student organization, the...

Radical Skin, Moderate Masks explores a voice trapped by the War on Terror. How can a Muslim speak about politics? And, in what tone can they argue...

Julie J. Park examines how losing racial diversity in a university affects the everyday lives of its students. She uses a student organization, the...

Freedom’s Ring begins with the question of how the American ideal of freedom, which so effectively defends a conservative agenda today, from global...

From the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, antichinismo --the politics of racism against Chinese Mexicans--found potent expression in Mexico. J...

Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States: Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities compares the formation of the ethni...

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

The Complexity and Progression of Black Representation in Film and Television examines the intricacies of race, representation, Black masculinity, ...

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and ...

In Because of Race, Mica Pollock tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools. Which denials of opportu...

The world of elite campuses is one of rarified social circles, as well as prestigious educational opportunities. W. Carson Byrd studied twenty-eigh...

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge it...

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge it...

Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent M. S. Campney explodes the notion of the Midwest as a so-c...

On the basis of direct personal observation in the classroom, systematically gathered data, and extensive reading in primary sources, the author pr...

How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween th...

In crafting racial visions of the modern world, European thinkers appropriated the Christian doctrine of providence, constructing the idea of Europ...