Social Groups

Ragged London describes life in the rookeries of London, where forty people would live together in one room. Although life was a constant struggle ...

Mapping the boundaries between ancient societies through studies of ethnicity, migration, or economic systems is of perennial interest to archaeolo...

Victorian Britain was the world's industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries supplied a global demand for manufactured goods. As Bri...

Since the publication of Michele Alexander's The New Jim Crow books on the criminal justice system have proliferated. In distinction from most of t...

In this important work of scholarship sure to reshape the landscape of critical social sciences, Raju Das offers a critique of many of the influent...

Since its inception, Development Studies has tended to restrict its critical enquiries to nations in the 'Third World.' The field's important studi...

Can beauty save the world? These days criticism of art--whether visual, musical, or literary--is often marked by a suspicion of beauty. What happe...

Social scientists who study religion generally believe that social networks play a central role in religious life. However, most studies draw on me...

A major new look at the work of one of Americas foremost self-taught artistsBill Traylor (ca. 18531949) came to art-making on his own and found his...

Previously unseen speeches, letters, autobiographies, and photographs of Frederick Douglass and his sons, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr. and Charles Re...