Social discrimination and social justice

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This volume of essays explores the broad theme of the relationship between Jewish identity and patriotism in the period between the destruction of the First Temple and late antiquity, with special attention to the Graeco-Roman period.

The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis.

A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary freedoms of creation and circulation.

'Acutely smart' - Elizabeth Day, author of Magpie'Completely addictive' - Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones and the Six'Funny, sexy, unafraid, completely unputdownable' - India Knight, author of DarlingAn instantly addictive 'should-they, shouldn't they' romance set against the backdrop of New York during Trump's first presidential campaign.

Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II.

Covering key issues ranging from education to political mobilization to racial stratification, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the Obama Presidency.

In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands ofKanaka Maoli(Native Hawaiian) men left Hawai';i to work on ships at sea and inna';aina ';e(foreign lands)on the Arctic Oceanand throughout the Pacific Ocean, and in the equatorial islands and California.

Criminal justice practices such as policing and imprisonment are integral to the creation of racialized experiences in U.

Beyond the gilded gates of Google, little has been written about the suburban communities of Silicon Valley.

Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy.

On Forbes list of 10 Books To Help You Foster A More Diverse And Inclusive WorkplaceHow law, policy, and official state rhetoric have fueled the resurgence of Islamophobiawith a call to action on how to combat it.

Empire's Tracksboldly reframes the history of the transcontinentalrailroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants whotoiled on its path.

The Life of Paper offers a wholly original and inspiring analysis of how people facing systematic social dismantling have engaged letter correspondence to remake themselvesfrom bodily integrity to subjectivity and collective and spiritual being.

InBeyond Expectations,OnosoImoagenedelves into the multifaceted identities of second-generation Nigerian adults in the United States and Britain.

Young minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims of poverty and discrimination.

The subprime crash of 2008 revealed a fragile, unjust, and unsustainable economy built on retail consumption, low-wage jobs, and fictitious capital.

InStick Together and Come Back Home, Patrick Lopez-Aguado examines how what happens inside a prison affects what happens outside of it.

InThe Chosen Ones, sociologist and feminist scholar Nikki Jones shares the compelling story of a group of Black men living in San Francisco's historically Black neighborhood, the Fillmore.

Race and Ethnicity in America examines patterns and trends in racial and ethnic inequality over recent decades.

This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family.

Education in America provides an essential, comprehensive introduction to education in the U.

Beginning after World War I, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States.

Cut Adrift makes an important and original contribution to the national conversation about inequality and risk in American society.

Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail.

With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today.

Ain't No Trust explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the U.

Black and Brown in Los Angeles is a timely and wide-ranging, interdisciplinary foray into the complicated world of multiethnic Los Angeles.

With a Foreword by Bruce Springsteen In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S.

In Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity, Gaye Theresa Johnson examines interracial anti-racist alliances, divisions among aggrieved minority communities, and the cultural expressions and spatial politics that emerge from the mutual struggles of Blacks and Chicanos in Los Angeles from the 1940s to the present.

What is it like for a convicted murderer who has spent decades behind bars to suddenly find himself released into a world he barely recognizes?

Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body's most visible trait influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways.

Michael Omi and Howard Winant's Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race.

The StrategistsBest Books About Asian American Identity,New YorkMagazineThe pioneering Asian American labor organizer and writer's vision for intersectional and anti-racist activism.

Ancestral Pueblo farmers encountered the deep, well watered, and productive soils of the central Mesa Verde region of Southwest Colorado around A.

Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients.

American Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights.

Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn.

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What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America?

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What do Americans think "e;race"e; means?

Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children.

Reproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical setting.

This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption.

Signs of the Times traces the career of Jim Crow signs-simplified in cultural memory to the "e;colored/white"e; labels that demarcated the public spaces of the American South-from their intellectual and political origins in the second half of the nineteenth century through their dismantling by civil rights activists in the 1960s and '70s.