Social groups, communities and identities

The follow-up to the critically acclaimed collection Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South (Georgia, 2004), Southern Masculinity explores the contours of southern male identity from Reconstruction to the present.

In Uneven Development, a classic in its field, Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development, entwining theories of space and nature with a critique of capitalist development.

The end of slavery left millions of former slaves destitute in a South as unsettled as they were.

On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men-including traders, soldiers, and government agents-sometimes married Native women.

In this broadly conceived exploration of how people represent identity in the Americas, Suzanne Bost argues that mixture has been central to the definition of race in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean since the nineteenth century.

In the years leading up to the Civil War, southern evangelical denominations moved from the fringes to the mainstream of the American South.

For better or worse, representations abound of Native Americans as a people with an innate and special connection to the earth.

Young people are transforming the global landscape.

This book provides a richer understanding of democratic local politics in Indonesia after the implementation of local direct elections in 2005.

This book presents new perspectives on gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa.

Sounds American provides new perspectives on the relationship between nationalism and cultural production by examining how Americans grappled with musical diversity in the early national and antebellum eras.

Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation.

Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus.

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from "e;regional backwater"e; to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now.

The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle.

The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent.

In The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home, John Cullen Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations.

"e;As a man of color, our image and reputation is everything.

This book presents current scholarship designed to decolonize, reform and confront the Euro-centric dominance in social work education and practice.

This book interrogates the relationship between gender, sexual citizenship and epistemic injustice as it relates to the experiences of LGBTQ persons in the Commonwealth Caribbean.

This book takes a critical macro-level political sociological perspective to understanding South African politics and society.

Assaults on religious liberty and traditional morality are growing fiercer.

This book illuminates how the profound challenges faced by contemporary societies over the past few decades, encompassing climate change and other environmental risks, global health threats, warfare, and mass migration, manifest themselves in European cities.

This book explores problems generated by the abandonment of mountain villages, which also represented strategic sites for guarding against environmental hazards, and proposes a process of regeneration and upgrade of the built environment, with a view to a circular economy and social and economic development.

This book explores the construction of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) identity as a social group in Georgia, framed through Tajfel and Turner's Social Identity Theory.

The book explores the evolving relationships between parents and children, the significance of the Jewish school in their lives, how young people think about religious practices, and their lives in the UK.

This volume considers the most appropriate criminal jurisdiction to prosecute aggravated sex trafficking of the kind associated with northern Albanian crime groups.

This book tells the story of Iranian women's accomplishments and struggles over the course of history, spanning from ancient Elam to the present day.

In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St.

This book tells the story of Iranian women's accomplishments and struggles over the course of history, spanning from ancient Elam to the present day.

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Age into Race is a socio-anthropological essay on the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic on the cultural status of the old.

Taking the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan) as a theoretical framework, this book examines shrinking Japan from a regional variation perspective by municipality along the ancient Sannyodo, which comprises eight provinces and four prefectures today.

The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle.

In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, "e;Man's warfare on the trees is terrible.

Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "e;adult"e; labor of humanities scholarship.

In The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home, John Cullen Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations.

In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L.

At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change.

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from "e;regional backwater"e; to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now.

Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare-an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly.

The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent.

"e;We're seeing people that we didn't know exist,"e; the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them.

In 1906 a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall argued a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court demanding the racial integration of juries.

Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotia-tion used by free blacks in the aftermath of the "e;Year of the Lash"e;-a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next two decades.