Social Groups

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...

All religions are experiencing rapid changes due to a confluence of social and economic global forces. The modern world threatens the foundations o...

Data Borders investigates entrenched and emerging borderland technology that ensnares all people in an intimate web of surveillance where data resi...

Following the pathways of imperial commerce, blackface minstrel troupes began to cross the globe in the mid-nineteenth century, popularizing Americ...

Turn Uncomfortable Conversations into Meaningful Dialogue If you believe that talking about race is impolite, or that colorblindness is the prefer...

Addressing one of the defining social issues of our time, The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America explores how and why Latin America, a cultu...

Data Borders investigates entrenched and emerging borderland technology that ensnares all people in an intimate web of surveillance where data resi...

The ubiquity of friendship in human culture contributes to the fallacy that ideas about friendship have not changed and remained consistent through...

The longevity of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, Texas, suggests that it is possible for a social change organization to sim...

The emergence into pop culture of quaint and simple Ozarks Mountaineersthrough the writings of Vance Randolph, Wayman Hogue, Charles Morrow Wilson,...

In this book, Hilda Lloréns offers a ground-breaking study of imagesphotographs, postcards, paintings, posters, and filmsabout Puerto Rico and Puer...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...