Social Groups

J. Williams Thorne (18161897) was an outspoken farmer who spent the first half-century of his remarkable life in Chester County, Pennsylvania, wher...

Por fin disponible en español, Ilegal es el aclamado libro de memorias de José Ángel N., un inmigrante indocumentado que se construyó una vida nuev...

Por fin disponible en español, Ilegal es el aclamado libro de memorias de José Ángel N., un inmigrante indocumentado que se construyó una vida nuev...

At a time when concepts of racial and ethnic identity increasingly define how we see ourselves and others, the ancestry of Melungeons--a Central...

Derived from the fifth edition of Joseph F. Healey's bestselling text Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class, the third edition of Diversity and Societ...

This is the amazing untold story of the Los Angeles sanctuary movement's champion, Father Luis Olivares (1934@1993), a Catholic priest and a charis...

Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door. In it, she and a dozen or so of her friends from the Chicago subu...

In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagin...

Is postraciality just around the corner? How realistic are the often-heard pronouncements that mixed-race identity is leading the United States to ...

Two of the largest minority groups in modern JapanKoreans, who emigrated to the metropole as colonial subjects, and a social minority known as the ...

Coronavirus did not create the stark social, financial, and political inequalities that define life for so many people, but it has made them more s...

Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slav...

This book focuses on the way Muslims and mainstream societies in the West, especially in America, Australia, and Europe, perceive each other. It fo...

Exodus is an insightful, expert foray into the explosive issue of immigration, from Paul Collier, award-winning economist and author of The Bottom ...

How have generations of Americans debated and shaped the constitutional meanings of liberty, equality, justice, and We, the people? What roles have...

An up-close look at the education arms race of after-school learning, academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even our best schools to ...

The American North's commitment to preventing a southern secession rooted in slaveholding suggests a society united in its opposition to slavery an...

As the most comprehensive edited volume to be published on perpetrators and perpetration of mass violence, the volume sets a new agenda for perpetr...

Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordons disturbing and markedly timely history of the r...

A stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, realized the error...

The Malay/Muslim community, comprising approximately 13% of Singapore's population, is an integral part of modern Singapore's formative years. The ...

The aim of this book is to highlight the role that the Black Consciousness Movement played in the transformation of South Africa from racial oppres...