Social groups, communities and identities

Al-Tanuki was a judge who was born in Basra and lived in Baghdad during the tenth century CE.

This book develops a theoretical approach to social stratification and applies it to the development of the official system of state honours in Britain.

Originally published in the 1930's, this book is a mocking expose of European dictators, comparing them to American gangsters like Al Capone.

Trumpism and the racially implied Islamophobia of the "e;travel ban"e;; Brexit and the yearning for Britain's past imperial grandeur; Black Lives Matter; the public backlash against Merkel's refugee policies in Germany.

"e;An exciting and dramatic episode.

This volume discusses recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in smart, internet-connected societies, highlighting three key focus areas.

For courses in Inequality, Social Stratification, and Social Problems.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is the centrepiece of international efforts to address racial discrimination, defined in broad terms to include discrimination based on skin colour, descent, ethnic, and national origin.

This book proposes the framework of gendered academic citizenship to capture the multidimensional and complex dynamics of power relations and everyday practices in the contemporary context of academic capitalism.

This book examines the fictional female bodies of four stylistically distinct comics artists in the United States-Chris Ware, Emil Ferris, Ebony Flowers, and Tillie Walden-whose work has attracted significant attention.

Die Verantwortung, die Eltern für die positive Entwicklung ihres Kindes zugewiesen wird, nimmt stetig zu.

This book examines the relationship between race and class and considers how these two concepts articulate to determine class relationships in British society.

Gender and Transitional Justice provides the first comprehensive feminist analysis of the role of international law in formal transitional justice mechanisms.

It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South.

An up-to-date, succinct and highly readable survey of a compelling subject, making accessible classic and recent research on Nazi Germany.

This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest.

Islam, as a philosophy, a way of life and of course as a faith, has served like a lighthouse for the whole world.

This book develops creative imagining of traditional doctrines.

Researchers in international development have long argued that the high costs of doing business harms prosperity in developing countries, a claim that invites the question of why governments impose these costs and why societies fail to enact reforms reducing them.

Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe is an edited collection with contributions by leading scholars brought together by a prolific author with expertise in eighteenth-century culture.

Environmental justice research and activism predominantly focus on openly conflictive situations; claims making is central.

This unique work presents an extraordinary breadth of contemporary and historical views on Asian America and Pacific Islanders, conveyed through the voices of the men and women who lived these experiences over more than 150 years.

Seventy years on from the liberation of Auschwitz, the contributions collected in this volume each attempt, in various ways and from various perspectives, to trace the relationship between Nazi-occupied spaces and Holocaust memory, considering the multitude of ways in which the passing of time impacts upon, or shapes, cultural constructions of space.

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era.

This book analyses the political transition in West Bengal, India, which witnessed longest democratically elected Left regime of the world.

Archival photos detailing the US Army division's efforts during WWII, featuring accounts of the T-26 Pershing tank and its first use in combat.

Over the course of World War II, guerrillas from across the Philippines opposed Imperial Japans occupation of the archipelago.

In Black Suffering, James Henry Harris explores the nexus of injustices, privations, and pains that contribute to the daily suffering seen and felt in the lives of Black folks.

How do performances of Shakespeare change the meanings of the plays?

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, gender scholars and activists have asked whether a reconcilliation between Zionism and feminism is possible in the current political landscape.

Globalization has presented new challenges for the realization of the goal of womens equality, the gender impact of which has not been systematically evaluated fully.

This is the first international handbook on Black community mental health, focussing on key issues including stereotypes in Mental health, misdiagnoses, and inequalities/discrimination around access, services and provisions.

Discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II.

A surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by their surrounding communities.

Shortlisted for the Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Non-FictionSurviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the fin-de-si cle and interwar periods both the renowned cultural luminaries and their many anonymous coreligionists all share a striking sartorial detail: the tailored suit.

Indian Muslims form the largest ethnic minority within Singapore's otherwise largely Malay Muslim community.

From the beginning, horror has been part of the cinema landscape.

'I believe that children who are questioning and exploring their gender are the gender bosses that we all so desperately need.

Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan provides a unique insight into the lived realities of the international intervention in Afghanistan and highlights the diversity, relationships, and interdependence of various groups including both external actors and Afghan communities.

In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "e;Okah Tubbee.

In the 1960s, feminists voiced their outrage about the health care system in the United States which routinely discriminated against women and, in so doing, literally jeopardized their health and well-being.

This lively and highly original study explores the link between visual culture and religion in terms of tales, memory and character.

Drawing interview material, together with extensive data from the authors' original social movement database, this book examines the development of social movements in resistance to perceived political "e;regression"e; and a growing right-wing backlash.

Eileen Spring presents a fresh interpretation of the history of inheritance among the English gentry and aristocracy.

At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have emerged since Becoming a Visible Man was first published in 2004, but the book remains a beloved resource for trans people and their allies.

Originally published in 1996 Religious Higher Education in the United States looks at the issue of higher education and a lack of a clearly articulated purpose, an issue particularly challenging to religiously-affiliated institutions.