Social Discrimination & Inequality

Coronavirus did not create the stark social, financial, and political inequalities that define life for so many people, but it has made them more s...

In 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the ...

From the very inception of the United States, few issues have been so divisive and defining as American slavery. Even as the U.S. was founded on...

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

Martin Luther King Jr today is an uncontroversial figure, and we tend to see him as a saint whose legacy is entirely uncomplicated. But in 1968, Ki...

''Passionate and urgent.'' Guardian, Book of the Week ''A must-read for all.'' Stylist, best new books for 2020 ''Cogently argued and intensely p...

At a time when concepts of racial and ethnic identity increasingly define how we see ourselves and others, the ancestry of Melungeons--a Central...

The definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequalityIn Separate and Un...

According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its atte...

Upon encountering historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's quote, 'well-behaved women seldom make history', Malebo Sephodi knew that she was tired of eve...

NO JUSTICE tells the story of a young black man, Robbie Tolan, who was gunned down on his parents' front lawn simply because a white officer failed...

A groundbreaking - and terrifying - examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 inter...

Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door. In it, she and a dozen or so of her friends from the Chicago subu...

Is postraciality just around the corner? How realistic are the often-heard pronouncements that mixed-race identity is leading the United States to ...

We like to think that science always illuminates. But the disturbing persistence of the concept of biological determinism-the false idea that human...

Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how t...

This book contributes new perspectives from the Global South on the ways in which linguistic and discursive boundaries shape inequalities in educat...

Booklist Editors Choice Best Books of 2019 An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equal...

Creating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competitive edge over their urban counterparts. Joh...

The demonization, internment, and deportation of celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Dr. Karl Muck, finally told, and placed in the cont...

Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slav...

`Young shopworkers on Henry Street in Dublin, who in 1984 refused to handle the fruits of apartheid, provided me with great hope during my years of...

A stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, realized the error...

Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award, Section on Aging and the Life Course, American Sociological AssociationSenior citizens from all walks...