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Globalization and America
Race, Human Rights, and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
As globalization expands, more than goods and information are traded between the countries of the world. Hattery, Embrick, and Smith present a collection of essays that explore the ways in which issues of human rights and social inequality are shared globally. The editors focus on the United States'...
Sociology and Social Policy
Essays on Community, Economy, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This collection of recent essays by the influential sociologist Herbert J. Gans brings together the many themes of Gans’s wide-ranging career to make the case for a policy-oriented vision for sociology. Sociology and Social Policy explicates and helps solve social problems by presenting a range...
Enforcing Normalcy
Disability, Deafness, and the Body
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against “ableist” discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself.
Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of...
Grenfell Tower
Preparedness, Race and Disaster Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
The Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017 is one of the most tragic political events in British history. This book argues that preparedness for disasters has always been designed in the interests of the State and Capital rather than citizens. This was exemplified by the ‘stay put’ strategy at Grenfell...
Collaborating against Human Trafficking
Cross-Sector Challenges and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
In the fight against human trafficking, cross-sector collaboration is vital—but often, systemic tensions undermine the effectiveness of these alliances. Kirsten Foot explores the most potent sources of such difficulties, offering insights and tools that leaders in every sector can use to re-think...
Ouidah
The Social History of a West African Slaving Port, 1727–1892
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Ouidah, an African town in the Republic of Benin, was the principal precolonial commercial center of its region and the second-most-important town of the Dahomey kingdom. It served as a major outlet for the transatlantic slave trade. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, Ouidah was...
Adolescence, Girlhood, and Media Migration
US Teens' Use of Social Media to Negotiate Offline Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Adolescence, Girlhood, and Media Migration: US Teens' Use of Social Media to Negotiate Offline Struggles considers teens’ social media use as a lens through which to more clearly see American adolescence, girlhood, and marginality in the twenty-first century. Detailing a year-long ethnography following...
by Melina Pappademos
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
While it was not until 1871 that slavery in Cuba was finally abolished, African-descended people had high hopes for legal, social, and economic advancement as the republican period started. In Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic, Melina Pappademos analyzes the racial politics and culture...
What's Wrong with the Poor?
Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade,...
Red, Brown, Yellow, Black, White-Who's More Precious In God's Sight?
A call for diversity in Christian missions and ministry
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Drawing upon two decades of mission experience, Leroy Barber exposes the racial divisions within Christian ministries and offers practical and comprehensive solutions for promoting diversity.
RED, BROWN, YELLOW, BLACK AND WHITE highlights the historic patterns that have created racial discrepancies...
Affective Labour
(Dis) assembling Distance and Difference
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Affective Labour explores four distinct landscapes in order to demonstrate how collective feelings are organized by social actors in order to both reproduce and contest hegemony. Utilizing a variety of methods, including participant observation, in-depth interviews across field sites, and content...
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies
Conversations on Race and Racializations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies is a unique collection of essays derived from a series of dialogues held in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Los Angeles on the issues of racializations, gender, communities, and the positionalities of scholars involved in Japanese American studies. The book brings together...
School Social Work
National Perspectives on Practice in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
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. While unique in that the content aligns with the newly developed national practice model developed by SSWAA, the text...
The Racial Mundane
Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association
Across the twentieth century, national controversies involving Asian Americans have drawn attention to such seemingly unremarkable activities as eating rice, greeting customers, and studying for exams....