Social Groups

In Among Women across Worlds, Suzy Kim explores the transnational connections between North Korean women and the global women's movement. Asian wom...

Thug Criminology combines the urgent and as yet silenced voices of former gang/street-involved peoples turned academics, alongside their allies, in...

An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. ...

In A Great Conspiracy against Our Race, Peter Vellon explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and swarthy race, assimilated into dominan...

In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensationpleasure, pain, or a combination t...

The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework fo...

An acclaimed history of Harlems journey from urban crisis to urban renaissanceWith its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, todays...

In easy-to-understand language and engaging images, this storybook shows children ages 37 the freedom that comes through confessing sin rather than...

Book Prize Winner of the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Musi...

The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, includ...

In highly unequal societies such as the UK, where the top 10% take a higher share of disposable income than in most other European countries, many ...

Shedding new light on how the histories of zainichi Koreans have been written, consumed, and discussed, this book addresses the roots of postwar de...

The pressures Asian Americans feel to be socially and economically exceptional include an unspoken mandate to always be healthy. Nowhere is this mo...

The definitive history of a cherished East Los Angeles institution over five decades of art making and community building.  Self Help Graphics at F...

Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through Americas haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.For countl...

The Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 ...

Scholars explore from many fresh angles the interweavings of two of the richest strands of human culture - music and esotericism - with examples f...

Reading across the disciplines of the mid-century university, this book argues that the political shift in postwar America from consensus liberalis...

2023 Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/ Dominican Republic section (LASA) After revolutionary cooperation between Dominican and Hait...

Mindy Thompson Fullilove presents ways to strengthen neighborhood connectivity and empower marginalized communities through investigation of urban ...