Social Discrimination & Inequality

Stemming from the 2000 Census when respondents could indicate more than one racial category for the first time in census history, Structural Influe...

Robertson and Chaney examine how the early antecedents of police brutality like plantation overseers, the lynching of African American males, early...

This book examines multiculturalism, interculturalism, and the melting pot metaphor and explores how they emerged, evolved, and were implemented th...

Iranian Identity, American Experience: Philosophical Reflections on Race, Rights, Capabilities and Oppression is a multidisciplinary study, explori...

The family remains the most contested institution in American society. How Families Matter: Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and W...

This book explores and analyzes the ways fat acceptance activists have advocated through language and tactical action. Using Anthony Giddens’ conce...

For over a decade, Jeremy Rinker, Ph.D. has interacted, observed, and studied Dalit anti-caste social movements in India. In this critical comparat...

This volume examines the school-to-prison pipeline, a concept that has received growing attention over the past 10–15 years in the United States. T...

In 21st century America, personhood is under daily assault, sometimes with dire consequences. Scientist, ethicist, and ordained minister Craig C. M...

Winner of the 2019 AERA Division J Outstanding Publication Award and the 2019 ASHE Outstanding Book Award On April 22, 2015, Boston University prof...

'A powerful – even startling – book that challenges the shibboleths of 'white' anarchism'. Its analysis of police violence and the threat of fascis...

Race and Gender in the Classroom explores the paradoxes of education, race, and gender, as Laurie Cooper Stoll follows eighteen teachers carrying o...

Native American sports team mascots represent a contemporary problem for modern Native American people. The ideas embedded in the mascot representa...

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

Drawing broadly on decolonial studies, postcolonial feminist scholarship, and studies on identity, this interdisciplinary edited volume brings toge...

Despite domestic constitutional provisions and international treaty promises, Japan has no law against racial discrimination. Consequently, busines...

Marching against Gender Practice: Political Imaginings in the Basqueland begins with the question: why is it so problematic for the majority of peo...

Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop examines white American male literature for its social commentary on the construction of whi...

From computer support and hotel reservations to laboratory results and radiographic interpretations, it seems everything can be ‘outsourced’ in our...

Forty years have passed since the first UN-organized World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975. In that time, women’s rights, and later gend...

The book is a compilation of the best and still-most-relevant articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Res...