Social Groups

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...

Entrepreneurial Selves is an ethnography of neoliberalism. Bridging political economy and affect studies, Carla Freeman turns a spotlight on the en...

Winner, 2020 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, given by the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological Association Winner, 202...

In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant a...

Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and othe...

The struggles African American women and their adolescent daughters face in living healthy, active lives From heart disease and diabetes to HIV and...

Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the en...

In Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights, Javier García Oliva and Helen Hall coin the term constitutional culture to encapsulate the col...

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This book defines the processes used for delivering a range of food items to the city of Rome and its hinterland from the first century AD using mo...

Global Identitarianism is about the global spread of the new far-right ideology and social movement Identitarianism.Founded in France in 2003, Iden...

Mixed-race Asian American plays are often overlooked for their failure to fit smoothly into static racial categories, rendering mixed-race drama in...

The Olympic Games are a phenomenon of unparalleled global proportions. This book examines the rich and complex involvement of Latin America and the...

Cases of sexual violence against men have been documented in a great number of conflicts and wars, both ancient and contemporary. Despite this grow...

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind--a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and s...

In Sexuality and the Rise of China Travis S. K. Kong examines the changing meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures for young Chi...

In Sexuality and the Rise of China Travis S. K. Kong examines the changing meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures for young Chi...