Social Groups

Southwest of Italy is an ode to the deep value of the things that are out of our controlhistory, place, emotion, coincidence, the community of frie...

The human aspect plays an important role in the social sciences. The behavior of people has become a vital area of focus in the social sciences as ...

This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labor i...

Social Status in the City presents a scientific method for measuring social status in urban settings - the Index of Urban Status (IUS). The authors...

Recent critically and commercially acclaimed Latin American films such as XXY, Contracorriente, and Plan B create an affective and bodily connectio...

Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America addresses ...

About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pu...

Turkey's contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the spl...

This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labor i...

For roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called Shaligrams, has been an important part of Hindu and Buddhist ritu...

Gendered Commodity Chains is the first book to consider the fundamental role of gender in global commodity chains. It challenges long-held assumpti...

Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people seem to keep finding ways to talk about racefrom cele...

The nations Latina/o population has now reached over 50 million, or 15% of the estimated total U.S. population of 300 million, and a growing portio...

City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994. Martin J. Murray describes...

The origins of gentrification date back to World War Ionly it was sometimes known as remodeling then. Dennis Gales insightful book, TheMisunderstoo...

Africana Health Psychology: A Cultural Perspective consists of a discussion of health psychology among populations of African descent throughout th...

Barbara Burrell presents a comprehensive comparative examination of men's and womens candidacies for the U.S. House of Representatives in elections...

Despite recent progress in civil rights for sexual and gender minorities (SGM), ensuring SGM youth experience fairness, justice, inclusion, safety,...

Economy and Architecture addresses a timely, critical, and much-debated topic in both its historical and contemporary dimensions. From the Apple St...

Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of usthe infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived. Sasha VelourT...

Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality Linking African diasporic performance, disability studies, ...

Uncovers how the Civil Rights Movement and Vatican II affected African American Catholics in Atlanta The history and practices of African American...