Social discrimination and social justice

This book of twelve original essays will bring together two themes of American culture: law and race.

The role of race in politics, citizenship, and the state is one of the most perplexing puzzles of modernity.

We love freedom.

This study reinterprets a crucial period (1870s-1920s) in the history of women's rights, focusing attention on a core contradiction at the heart of early feminist theory.

On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta.

For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London--the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism--Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon.

In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America.

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Thomas Shapiro reveals how the lack of family assets--inheritance, home equity, stocks, bonds, savings accounts, and other investments-- along with continuing racial discrimination in crucial areas like homeownership dramatically impact the everyday lives of many black families, reversing gains earned in schools and on jobs, and perpetuating the cycle of poverty in which far too many find themselves trapped.

The 21st century has brought with it unparalleled levels of diversity in the classroom and the workforce.

Fire in the Heart uncovers the dynamic processes through which some white Americans become activists for racial justice.

Equal opportunity is a powerful idea, and one with extremely broad appeal in contemporary politics, political theory, and law.

Women now receive more college degrees than men, and enter the workforce with better job opportunities than ever before.

Poverty, increased inequality, and social exclusion are back on the political agenda, not only as a consequence of the Great Recession of 2008, but also because of a seemingly structural trend towards increased inequality in advanced industrial societies that has persisted since the 1970s.

How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison?

In an advanced society like the U.

In an advanced society like the U.

Despite recent progress against racial inequalities, American society continues to produce attitudes and outcomes that reinforce the racial divide.

Fire in the Heart uncovers the dynamic processes through which some white Americans become activists for racial justice.

What is the legacy of Brown vs.

In her first book, Shana Bernstein reinterprets U.

For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London--the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism--Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon.

In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America.

First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism.

First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism.

The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion in access to primary, secondary, and higher education in many nations around the world.

Discrimination in an Unequal World explores the relationship between discrimination and inequality by comparing and examining what effect globalization has had on discrimination.

Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O.

Drawing on a gold mine of primary documents--including letters, diary entries, personal narratives, political speeches, broadsides, trial transcripts, and contemporary newspaper articles--The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the past to life in a way few histories ever do.

Ashley Montagu, who first attacked the term "e;race"e; as a usable concept in his acclaimed work, Man's Most Dangerous Myth, offers here a devastating rebuttal to those who would claim any link between race and intelligence.

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Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v.

What is the legacy of Brown vs.

Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change.

In her first book, Shana Bernstein reinterprets U.

From the gene that causes people to age prematurely to the "e;bitter gene"e; that may spawn broccoli haters, this book explores a few of the more exotic locales on the human genome, highlighting some of the tragic and bizarre ways our bodies go wrong when genes fall prey to mutation and the curious ways in which genes have evolved for our survival.

Women now receive more college degrees than men, and enter the workforce with better job opportunities than ever before.

Attention to embodiment and the religious significance of bodies is one of the most significant shifts in contemporary theology.

Civil War officer, Reconstruction "e;carpetbagger,"e; best-selling novelist, and relentless champion of equal rights--Albion Tourgee battled his entire life for racial justice.

In Democracy's Reconstruction, the latest addition to Cathy Cohen and Fredrick Harris's Transgressing Boundaries series, noted political theorist Lawrie Balfour challenges a longstanding tendency in political theory: the disciplinary division that separates political theory proper from the study of black politics.

The explosive rise in the U.

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a longstanding problem that has increasingly come to the forefront of international and national policy debates and news: from the US reauthorization of the Violence against Women Act and a United Nations declaration to end sexual violence in war, to coverage of gang rapes in India, cyberstalking and "e;revenge porn"e;, honor killings, female genital mutilation, and international trafficking.

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a longstanding problem that has increasingly come to the forefront of international and national policy debates and news: from the US reauthorization of the Violence against Women Act and a United Nations declaration to end sexual violence in war, to coverage of gang rapes in India, cyberstalking and "e;revenge porn"e;, honor killings, female genital mutilation, and international trafficking.

What is anti-Semitism?

What is anti-Semitism?

Building on the successful outcomes of a five-year initiative undertaken in New York City, Alma Carten, Alan Siskind, and Mary Pender Greene bring together a national roster of leading practitioners, scholars, and advocates who draw upon extensive practice experiences and original research.

Building on the successful outcomes of a five-year initiative undertaken in New York City, Alma Carten, Alan Siskind, and Mary Pender Greene bring together a national roster of leading practitioners, scholars, and advocates who draw upon extensive practice experiences and original research.