Social discrimination and social justice

Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern.

A social epidemiologist looks at health inequalities in terms of the upstream factors that produced them.

A social epidemiologist looks at health inequalities in terms of the upstream factors that produced them.

There is a crisis today in the American family, and this crisis has been particularly severe in the African American community.

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 award-winning novel of resilience and hope, from the bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding VoiceSee what readers are saying about And So I Roar .

Feminist and critical race theorists alike have long acknowledged the "e;intersection"e; of gender and race difference; it is by now a truism that the ways we become boys and girls, men and women, cannot be disentangled from the ways we become white or Black men and women, Asian or Latino boys and girls.

A splendid account of the Supreme Court's rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights earned rave reviews and won the Bancroft Prize for History in 2005.

Body Battlegrounds explores the rich and complex lives of societys body outlawsindividuals from myriad social locations who oppose hegemonic norms, customs, and conventions about the body.

Today, the debate over reparations--whether African-Americans should be compensated for decades of racial subjugation--stands as the most racially divisive issue in American politics.

Affirmative action strikes at the heart of deeply held beliefs about employment and education, about the concepts of justice and fairness, and about the troubled history of race relations in America.

Of the seven deadly sins, pride is the only one with a virtuous side.

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What is the impact of an infant's diminished hearing on the infant and its parents?

Race and the Making of American Liberalism traces the roots of the contemporary crisis of progressive liberalism deep into the nation's racial past.

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.

When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's The Open Sore of a Continent appeared in 1996, it received rave reviews in the national media.

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Is antisemitism on the rise in America?

In The House I Live In, award-winning historian Robert J.

On the morning of August 9, 1757, British and colonial officers defending the besieged Fort William Henry surrendered to French forces, accepting the generous "e;parole of honor"e; offered by General Montcalm.

The Crucible of Race, a major reinterpretation of black-white relations in the South, was widely acclaimed on publication and compared favorably to two of the seminal books on Southern history: Wilbur J.

This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity.

School Social Work: National Perspectives on Practice in Schools aims to provide a contemporary understanding of school social work practice given the changing educational context.

Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement.

A 2025 James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee in Reference, History, and Scholarship and a Smithsonian Best Book of 2024 A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor.

Housing has emerged as a popular and central topic of research, mental health system development, and social and mental health policy in recent years.

The year 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment giving many women in the United States the right to vote.

While some social scientists may argue that we have always been networked, the increased visibility of networks today across economic, political, and social domains can hardly be disputed.

Members of Congress from racial minority groups often find themselves in a unique predicament.

Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons - yet liberalism has refused equality to those it saw as sub-persons.

Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons - yet liberalism has refused equality to those it saw as sub-persons.

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey.

Immigration has been deeply woven into the fabric of American nation building since the founding of the Republic.

An Equal Place is a monumental study of the role of lawyers in the movement to challenge economic inequality in one of America's most unequal cities: Los Angeles.

An Equal Place is a monumental study of the role of lawyers in the movement to challenge economic inequality in one of America's most unequal cities: Los Angeles.

Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement.

In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation.

To this day, churchgoing Mormons report that they hear from their fellow congregants in Sunday meetings that African-Americans are the accursed descendants of Cain whose spirits--due to their lack of spiritual mettle in a premortal existence--were destined to come to earth with a "e;curse"e; of black skin.

To this day, churchgoing Mormons report that they hear from their fellow congregants in Sunday meetings that African-Americans are the accursed descendants of Cain whose spirits--due to their lack of spiritual mettle in a premortal existence--were destined to come to earth with a "e;curse"e; of black skin.

A sweeping account of Southern political economy in the New Deal era.

A sweeping account of Southern political economy in the New Deal era.

An intimate, first-hand account of the emotional and physical experience of doing time in jail and the strategies for enduring it.

An intimate, first-hand account of the emotional and physical experience of doing time in jail and the strategies for enduring it.

Since the mid-1990s, there has been a seismic shift in attitudes toward gay and lesbian people, with a majority of Americans now supporting same-sex marriage and relations between same-sex, consenting adults.

Since the mid-1990s, there has been a seismic shift in attitudes toward gay and lesbian people, with a majority of Americans now supporting same-sex marriage and relations between same-sex, consenting adults.

How is it that America's cities remain almost as segregated as they were fifty years ago?

How is it that America's cities remain almost as segregated as they were fifty years ago?

The expectation for fathers to be more involved with parenting their children and pitching in at home are higher than ever, yet broad social, political, and economic changes have made it more difficult for low-income men to be fathers.

The expectation for fathers to be more involved with parenting their children and pitching in at home are higher than ever, yet broad social, political, and economic changes have made it more difficult for low-income men to be fathers.