Social Groups

Francis Pegahmagabow (18891952), an Ojibwe of the Caribou clan, was born in Shawanaga First Nation, Ontario. Enlisting at the onset of the First Wo...

The concept of 'vocation' has garnered significant attention as a means of speaking about purposeful living and the multiple responsibilities of ci...

On an otherwise ordinary Sunday morning in 1964, millions of Roman Catholics around the world experienced history. For the first time in centuries,...

Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila's dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormf...

Do you love someone enough to let them go?It was love at first sight when talented art student Felicity Flick Johnston-Hart and Jim MacDuffs worlds...

Divine Variations offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of scientific knowledge over t...

The distinguished historian R. R. Palmer compares the ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville and his father. Count Herve de Tocqueville. on the causes of t...

The distinguished historian R. R. Palmer compares the ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville and his father. Count Herve de Tocqueville. on the causes of t...

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

Winner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative NonfictionWinner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry CriticismOptic Subwoof is a collection of ta...

A groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of Chicago's AACM, a leader in the world of jazz and experimental music. Founded on Chicago's ...

Although previously denounced for their gender blindness in the past, private businesses have increasingly emerged as vocal proponents of womens em...

How do we represent the experience of being a gender and sexual outlaw? In Queer Forms, Ramzi Fawaz explores how the central values of 1970s movem...

Large numbers of people in urbanizing regions in the developing world live and work in unplanned settlements that grow through incremental processe...

Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's old...

Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists. They lived along riverbanks, nea...

There is a nuclear ghost in Minamisma. This is how one resident describes a mysterious experience following the 2011 nuclear fallout in coastal Fuk...

This book examines the use and culture of digital media in urban Chinese cities. By examining examples and data from Chinese and global social medi...

Explores how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism In 2004, the al-Islah Islamic Center in Hamtramck, Michigan, set off a cont...

In contemporary South Africa, power no longer maps neatly onto race. While white South Africans continue to enjoy considerable power at the top lev...