Social Groups

As human beings, we have a great longing for community, to feel part of something. Despite this apparent need, the opposite tendency is evident eve...

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. A range of mainstream and independen...

What can planners do to restore equity to their craft? Drawing upon the perspectives of a diverse group of planning experts, Advancing Equity Plann...

Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental, diverging force in human development. According to this overly familiar sto...

In A Colony in a Nation, New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Awardwinning news anchor Chris Hayes upends the national conversation on polic...

America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measurewealth, unemployment, incarceration, school seg...

Despite the great changes that the twentieth century brought to the lives and roles of the women of rural Wales, there has been scant attention pai...

Residential motels have long been places of last resort for many vulnerable Americans-released prisoners, people with disabilities or mental illnes...

In this landmark work of photo-journalism, activist and photographer David Bacon documents the experiences of some of the hardest-working and most ...

Work on the miners' Lock-Out of 1926 tends to focus on the perspective of the National Union of Mineworkers, while nothing has been written which a...

What does the single life look like and does it have anything in common with what the media show? This question has caused much discussion on the I...

Shared sites, where members of distinct, or factionally opposed, religious communities interact-or fail to interact-is the focus of this volum...

In Urban Lowlands, Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville; Swede Hollow in St. Paul; and the ...

In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten had the dubious distinction of signing more death certificates in the city of Chicago--and, by inference, the state of...

Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left a Virginia county reeling, reporter Monica Hesse drove to Accomack to cover the trial of Charlie Smit...

The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didnt stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which buil...

Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the countrys future Americans are under the spell of a dis...

A leading-edge guide to thinking about and planning for twenty-first-century cities in all their social, political, and ecological complexity The ...

A must-read for anyone interested in solutions to Americas housing crisis.Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Evicted: Poverty and Pro...

What happens when your gender doesnt fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a...

Grieve well and you grow stronger. Anthropologist Rebecca Louise Carter heard this wisdom over and over while living in post-Katrina New Orleans, w...

Grieve well and you grow stronger. Anthropologist Rebecca Louise Carter heard this wisdom over and over while living in post-Katrina New Orleans, w...

This volume of Osiris integrates gender analysis with the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusi...

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, this collection - which gathers scholars in the fields of race, ethnicity, and humor - seems especially u...

Feelings at the Margins offers a uniquely interdisciplinary take on the contemporary phenomenon of marginalization in Indonesia and its emotional i...

?In this new book, the successor to the classic in the field Counseling Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Substance Abusers: Dual Identities ...

MasterfulAn indispensable warning for our own time.Samuel MoynMagisterialCovers this dark history with insight and skillA major intervention into o...

Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course...

And then I saw it. And once I had seen it, I saw it everywhere. Why are men still winning at work? If women have equal leadership ability, why are...

In a wide variety of pagan paths, many forms of modern magic and mystery hold an expectation that all parties are heterosexual, cisgender, and, in ...

In Killing Others, Matthew Lange explores why humans ruthlessly attack and kill people from other ethnic communities. Drawing on an array of cases ...

Straightening the Bell Curve offers a new way of looking at the distressingly persistent subject of intelligence research as it relates to race and...

With great rigour, yet an enviable lightness of touch, Susan Pickard has written an engaging and accessible book that students will love. - Rosali...

Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centurie...

As the world rapidly urbanizes, its cities sink themselves into the ground in sprawling tendons of tunnels - conduits for transport, utility, commu...