Social discrimination and social justice

Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability.

Why so few African American and Latino/a students study computer science: updated edition of a book that reveals the dynamics of inequality in American schools.

Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor and how racism helped bring this about.

A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers"e;Walker has opened up a fresh way of thinking about the intellectual history of the South during the civil-rights movement.

How race as a category—reinforced by new discoveries in genetics—is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.

Take the next step to confronting racism in relationships and in everyday life.

Since 1993, crime in the United States has fallen to historic lows, seeming to legitimize the country's mix of welfare reform and mass incarceration.

How can activists strike a balance between fighting for a cause and sustaining relationships with family, friends, and neighbors?

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Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are two of the most prominent twenty-first-century social movements in the United States.

Legal Passing offers a nuanced look at how the lives of undocumented Mexicans in the US are constantly shaped by federal, state, and local immigration laws.

You Can't Stop the Revolution is a vivid participant ethnography conducted from inside of Ferguson protests as the Black Lives Matter movement catapulted onto the global stage.

As urban populations grow unprecedentedly, cities worldwide face pressures from rapid expansion, climate change, and social inequalities.

Die forschungsbasierte Perspektive auf das Thema FluchtFlucht ist eine globale Herausforderung, über die oft nur verkürzt berichtet wird.

Racial capitalism is and was not inevitable.

Are social classes meaningful to Americans?

This book explores the governance of smart cities from a holistic approach, arguing that the creation of smart cities must consider the specific circumstances of each country to improve the preservation, revitalisation, liveability, and sustainability of urban areas.

In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today.

In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today.

That the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia's effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans.

Tracing the expansion of South African business into other areas of Africa in the years after apartheid, Richard A.

Passed in 1965 during the height of the Civil Rights movement, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) changed the face of the American electorate, dramatically increasing minority voting, especially in the South.

In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J.

Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world.

The Metis of Senegal is a history of politics and society among an influential group of mixed-race people who settled in coastal Africa under French colonialism.

Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere.

In this deeply researched prequel to his 2006 study Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947, Michael J.

Raymond Cattell, the father of personality trait measurement, was one of the most influential psychologists in the twentieth century, the author of fifty-six books, more than five hundred journal articles and book chapters, and some thirty standardized instruments for assessing personality and intelligence in a professional career that spanned almost seventy years.

In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction.

Amid immigrant narratives of assimilation, Indian Accents focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television.

This innovative study examines the development of institutional childcare from 1878 to 1929, based on a comparison of two "e;sister"e; orphanages in Pittsburgh: the all-white United Presbyterian Orphan's Home and the all-black Home for Colored Children.

Barack Obama's campaign and electoral victory demonstrated the dynamic nature of American democracy.

The unfinished manuscript of literary and cultural theorist Lindon Barrett, this study offers a genealogy of how the development of racial blackness within the mercantile capitalist system of Euro-American colonial imperialism was constitutive of Western modernity.

Born shortly before the Civil War, activist and reformer Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) became one of the most prominent educated African American women of her generation.

Now in paperback, The Rural Face of White Supremacy presents a detailed study of the daily experiences of ordinary people in rural Hancock County, Georgia.

In the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the systematic exile and incarceration of thousands of Japanese Americans, the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council was born.

In Troubled Ground, Claude A.

African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation.

Few doubt the pro-Israel bias of the Western media.

On September 18, 1928, Myles Yutaka Fukunaga kidnapped and brutally murdered ten-year-old George Gill Jamieson in Waikiki.

We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre-Civil War period until the 1930s.

Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes.

Are social classes meaningful to Americans?

Native Landsanalyzes the role of visual and literary culture in contemporary Indigenouscampaigns for territorial rights.

Winner of the American Society of Criminologys Michael J.

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The tireless resistance of local communities fighting for ownership of America's third largest water system.

Bureaucracy and Race overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion.

How can activists strike a balance between fighting for a cause and sustaining relationships with family, friends, and neighbors?

Bending genre as a planetary body might bend spacetime, Bashirs poems live as music and film, as memoir, observation, and critique, as movement across both cosmic and poetic fields.