Social groups, communities and identities

One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground state in the fight for voting rights.

presented in the Introduction (Chapter 1).

This collection is the first of its kind, bringing together Holocaust educational researchers as well as school and museum educators from across the globe, to discuss the potentials of Holocaust education in relation to primary school children.

Conspicuously missing from narratives of the Lebanese Civil War are the stories of women who took part in daily social activism and political organizing during the tumultuous conflict.

An introduction to studying and editing texts in all forms, from manuscript to digital.

Many students find the leap between school and university level mathematics to be significantly greater than they expected.

Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present.

In Remembering Genocide an international group of scholars draw on current research from a range of disciplines to explore how communities throughout the world remember genocide.

One of the most significant developments within contemporary American Christianity, especially among younger evangelicals, is a groundswell of interest in the Reformed tradition.

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

Worldwide, men have more opportunities, privileges, and power, yet they also have shorter life expectancies than women.

Der Begleitband zu den Ausstellungen der Gedenkstätte Esterwegen präsentiert die Geschichte der Emslager in Bildern und Dokumenten.

Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film.

As a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests.

First published in 1988, He and She is about male attitudes to sex and gender in the 1980s.

The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to universal freedom, they forced anticolonial, antislavery, and antiracist ideals into modern political grammar.

In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class.

The Bakhtiyari are one of the most important nomadic societies in the Middle East but although this tribe has many powerful romantic associations it has also been the subject of much misunderstanding, even today.

This book provides a fresh look at one of the most enduring, absorbing, and universal questions human beings face: What happens to us after we die?

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights.

"e;The image of the Jew in English literature, as in the Western imagination, has at its base the figure of the Christ-killer.

The study of human reproduction has focused on reproductive 'success' and on the struggle to achieve this, rather than on the much more common experience of 'failure', or reproductive loss.

This compendium of fables in visual form features women negotiating different types of gender-based violence and inequity in various cultures worldwide.

Integration is a key challenge facing modern society today.

This book analyzes the industrialization process of Jianshanxia, a mountain village in Zhejiang Province, and its organizational changes since China's reform and opening-up.

Providing interdisciplinary and empirically grounded insights into the issues surrounding gender and migration into and within Europe, this work presents a comprehensive and critical overview of the historical, legal, policy and cultural framework underpinning different types of European migration.

This intriguing anthropological study investigates how the boatmen of Banaras have repositioned themselves within the traditional social organization and used their privileged position on the river to contest upper-caste and state domination.

Sie springen über Häuserschluchten, hangeln sich an Wänden entlang und überwinden scheinbar mühelos alle Hindernisse, die sich ihnen im Raum entgegenstellen.

This book diversifies the fields of digital religion studies and Africana religious studies by considering the nuanced intersections between digital technologies and the religious experiences of African Americans.

This book introduces a new theory on the substantial comorbidity that exists between many illnesses and disorders and concurrent symptoms such as pain, impaired sleep and fatigue.

This book closely examines the mother figure in six works by African American women at various times in American history: Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces, Nella Larsen's Passing, Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's Beloved.

In this new collection of thirteen essays, Arlie Russell Hochschild-author of the groundbreaking exploration of emotional labor, The Managed Heart and The Outsourced Self-focuses squarely on the impact of social forces on the emotional side of intimate life.

This book focuses on the ways in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representations have had on feminism as a political movement.

This book provides an intriguing look at the long history of the changing definitions of what it means to "e;be a man,"e; identifying both the continuity and disparity in these ideals and explaining the contemporary crisis of masculinity.

Shenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community of several thousand male and female Coptic monks in Upper Egypt, between approximately 395 and 465 C.

This book explores social constructionism and the language of mental distress.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of several national case studies on family violence between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, using court records as their main source.

A dynamic conversation on the power of women's spiritual leadership and its emerging patterns of transformation.

Drawing on oral-history interviews and other sources, this work provides fascinating accounts of how Soviets, Jews, and Roma fared in the Russian city of Smolensk under the 26-month Nazi occupation.

Contemporary children's literature in Bangla celebrates irreverent, defiant and deviant boys whose subversive doings critique the parenting and schooling they go through, while the girl child is neglected and marginalised.

The B-29 Superfortress was for many years a cornerstone of American military aviation.

The Battle of Britain (July to October 1940), one of World War II's turning points, as seen by the German attackers who ultimately lost the battle.

First published in 1971, The Economics of the Distributive Trades is a comprehensive analysis of all sectors of the British retailing sector, written by the then-head of the Research Department of the John Lewis Partnership.

This concise, content-rich volume provides an overview of women's roles in the Middle East and North Africa from the advent of Islam to the present.

There has been increasing Asian interest in Latin America in recent years, beginning with Japanese investment in the 1980s, and continuing into the present decade when there is growing investment by China.