Social Discrimination & Inequality

This book reviews research studies on the perceptions, discrimination and acceptance based on sexual orientation. The first chapter begins with an ...

The origins of discrimination against women date back to ancient times. Throughout history, women have been exploited sexually, physically, economi...

This volume brings together cutting edge research, critical commentary and candid, personal accounts in a rich array of fresh perspectives on the d...

This volume brings together cutting edge research, critical commentary and candid, personal accounts in a rich array of fresh perspectives on the d...

It's no secret that the 1%-the business elite that commands the largest corporations and the connected network of public and private institutions-e...

In this moving and insightful work, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia. Armed with an MBA fr...

Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United...

This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. On July 23, 196...

Ain't No Trust explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the U.S.--at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and wit...

A black child born in the twilight of slavery, William Henry Ellis inhabited a world of fraught, ambiguous racial categories on the anarchic border...

After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained hotly contested territory. Over following decades, the United Sta...

In the personal and frank Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, Rodney A. Smolla offers an insider's view on the violent confrontations in Charlotte...

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

Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country''s Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a n...

Ishmael Reed has devoted his life to uncovering the neglected cultural and historical record of the United States, no matter how ugly it might be. ...

Framed is a wake-up call for those who think that race does not matter in Canada. Combining an empirical analysis of print media with in-depth inte...

From Manifest Destiny to the White Man's Burden, Harold Macmillan to Tony Blair, and John F. Kennedy to Barack Obamathe historical development of r...

Imprisonment, homicide, non-lethal assault and other crime, chronic and infectious disease, substance abuse, suicide, and accidents all contribute ...

How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportuni...