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SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 LGBTQ NON-FICTION LAMMY AWARDThe coming out process for LGBTQIA+ adolescents can be a terrifying moment, not only for themselv...

A sweeping historical and political account of how our present-day policy debates around citizenship and equality came to be The landmark Supreme C...

Emergent U.S. Literatures introduces readers to the foundational writers and texts produced by four literary traditions associated with late-twenti...

On an average morning in the tree-lined parks, plazas, and play-areas of Manhattans Stuyvesant Town housing development, birds chirp as early riser...

In From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders, Norma Fuentes-Mayorga compares the immigration and integration experiences of Dominican an...

What is the role of the ambulance in the American city? The prevailing narrative provides a rather simple answer: saving and transporting the criti...

Surviving Poverty carefully examines the experiences of people living below the poverty level, looking in particular at the tension between social ...

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...

2012 Americo Paredes Book Award Winner for Non-Fiction presented by the Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College Selected as a 20...

Americans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either religion or freedom. Rather than resolve these debates, Finbar...

Love Offers No Safety: Nigerias Queer Men Speak is a raw and powerful collection of 25 first-person narratives that explore the diverse experience ...

International courts and tribunals hold the power to decide on questions involving sovereignty over territory, grave human rights violations, inter...

This book is about places - cities, suburbs and towns - and happiness of people living there. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Okulicz-Kozaryn...

Why were the European middle classes ready to acquiesce in neo-liberalism? This book argues that upward mobility, the growth of individual and fami...

Brazil has undertaken affirmative action in its universities on an unprecedented scale. An expert group of international scholars puts the new poli...

If you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about, this new series is for you. Ea...

Winner of the Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor's Book Award 2012!Winner of the 2011 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women i...

Katherine Mansfield had a career-long engagement with the literary marketplace from the age of eighteen. This book examines how she developed as a ...

Unequal opportunity sparked Jim Browns endeavors to encourage Black development while Billie Jean King fought so that women tennis players could ea...

The story of white masculinity in geek culture through a history of hobby gaming Geek culture has never been more mainstream than it is now, with t...

Our world is becoming more urban. More than fifty percent of the global population now lives in cities, which poses new challenges for sustainable ...