Social Groups

Microfinance has long been considered a development strategy that can correct the failure of the global credit market and address the financial nee...

This book asks the fundamental question of how new human rights issues emerge in the human rights debate. To answer this, the book focuses on nongo...

This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other c...

How middle-class women transformed Indias screen and exhibition industries Since the late 90s, multiplexes in India have almost always been located...

How middle-class women transformed Indias screen and exhibition industries Since the late 90s, multiplexes in India have almost always been located...

Landscape history is changing in content and style to address the issues of today. Experienced teachers and authors on the history of gardens and l...

Is traditional American religion doomed? Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of Ameri...

In A Sense of Arrival, Kevin Adonis Browne blends literary, visual, and material forms to present a narrative of Caribbean blackness. Arguing that ...

In A Sense of Arrival, Kevin Adonis Browne blends literary, visual, and material forms to present a narrative of Caribbean blackness. Arguing that ...

This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations.   A surge in interest in black reparations is ta...

Mapping the transformative effects of Americas urban solidarity economies Solidarity economies, characterized by diverse practices of cooperation a...

Mapping the transformative effects of Americas urban solidarity economies Solidarity economies, characterized by diverse practices of cooperation a...

In Theophanies, award-winning poet Sarah Ghazal Ali testifies to women's capacity for piercing and musical exegesis and asks: what more might a wom...

Seven years after the Arab uprisings, the social situation has deteriorated across the Middle East and North Africa. Political, economic and person...

Hannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation. In a Cri...

In Through Japanese Eyes, based on her thirty-year research at a senior center in upstate New York, anthropologist Yohko Tsuji describes old age in...

American higher education is often understood as a vehicle for social advancement. However, the institutions at which students enroll differ widely...

American higher education is often understood as a vehicle for social advancement. However, the institutions at which students enroll differ widely...

The San Francisco Bay Area is generally considered the most expensive regional housing market in the country. Because the region added jobs and res...

In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to...