Social Discrimination & Inequality

For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book look...

For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book look...

In Challenging the Status Quo: Diversity, Democracy, and Equality in the 21st Century, David G. Embrick, Sharon M. Collins, and Michelle Dodson hav...

This collection of reports and essays (the first collaboration between Truthout and Haymarket Books) explores police violence against black, brown,...

Since 1866 the Ku Klux Klan has been a significant force in Mississippi, enduring repeated cycles of expansion and decline. Klansmen have rallied, ...

On 10 December 1869, the governor of Wyoming Territory signed the first full woman suffrage bill in the history of the United States. Suffragists i...

The New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother''s Hands surveys the deteriorating political climate and presents an urgent call for action...

This book uses a black/white interracial lens to examine the lives and careers of eight prominent American-born actresses from the silent age th...

Poet Alice Walker has described culture as something in which one should thrive; further, that healing means putting the heart, courage, and en...

The battle for equality in education during the civil rights era came at a cost to Black Americans on the frontlines. In 1964 when fourteen-year-ol...

Originally rooted in stereotypes about race and class, the modern norm of bodily odorlessness emerged amid 19th and early 20-century development...

On July 24, 1964, chaos erupted in Rochester, New York. Strike the Hammer examines the unrestrebellion by the city's Black community, rampant polic...

An accessible overview of the power of women in the economy and the obstacles they face Women are joining the workforce in increasing numbers, mak...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 19...

The Million Dollar Decision incisively diagnoses the causes of educational disadvantage in Ireland. From creche to university, we see how education...