Social Groups

As America has become more racially diverse and economic inequality has increased, American politics has also become more clearly divided by race a...

In White Kids, Mary Bucholtz investigates how white teenagers use language to display identities based on race and youth culture. Focusing on three...

The North-South global divide is as much about perception and prejudice as it is about economic disparities. Latin America is no less ruled by hege...

Jorge Luis Borges (18991986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which h...

Die rechtliche Gleichstellung ist weit gehend verwirklicht. Bis zur gelebten Chancengleichheit bleibt ein langer Weg. Um ihn zu gehen, braucht es b...

In den letzten Jahren hat die wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit Religion erheblich zugenommen. Sehr häufig fehlt den Forschenden jedoch das dafür...

Geschlechterforschung wird inzwischen international, in zahlreichen wissen­ schaftlichen Disziplinen und interdisziplinär betrieben. Die Geschlecht...

Why do men and women talk so differently? And how do these differences interfere with communication between the sexes? In search of an answer to th...

The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclai...

How were manorial lords in the twelfth and thirteenth century able to appropriate peasant labour? And what does this reveal about the changing atti...

Life in a castle isnt always a fairytale, as the Duchess of Rutland reveals in her charming, funny and eye-opening autobiography.Never in her wilde...

Science and faith are often seen as being in opposition. In this book, award-winning sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund questions this assumption ba...

For decades, psychoanalysis has provided essential concepts and methodologies for critical theory and the humanities and social sciences. But it is...

For decades, psychoanalysis has provided essential concepts and methodologies for critical theory and the humanities and social sciences. But it is...

Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirmi...

Situated at a crossroads of trade in the late nineteenth century, and later the economic capital of German East Africa, the thriving caravan and po...

Social workers, whatever their specialism, practise with people at the margins of society. It is therefore essential that all social work students ...

Social workers, whatever their specialism, practise with people at the margins of society. It is therefore essential that all social work students ...

Chinas modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Contemporary...

First-person narratives of refugees, immigrants, and generations-long residents in Appalachia, highlighting how spaces of belonging, home, and conn...

This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgend...