Social Science : Minority Studies - General

Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a "world city" characterized by multiculturalism and globalization. Yet, little is known about the historical ......

A decade after its first publication, Class, Race, Gender, and Crime remains the only authored book to systematically address the impact of class, race, and ......

This book explores the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled patholo......

This book discusses women who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to the various endeavors through which they have fulfilled their lives and contribut......

This book provides scholarly and applied perspectives on culturally-sensitive narrative interventions for culturally diverse and immigrant children and adole......

This book discusses the prevalence of messianic I-locution found in the Rastafari movement and the Bible. Because the phenomenon is important in the canonica......

This book explains that the original wishes of the founders of the American Republic, as well as those of modern luminaries like Martin Luther King, Jr. and ......

This book examines what constitutes good teaching and engaged learning and how to use this knowledge to support teachers in their efforts to create learning ......

Drawn from intimate interviews with 14 modern-day "steel rail nomads," "One More Train to Ride provides a revealing picture of today's American hobo. Intersp......

Peasant Pasts is an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to writing histories of peasant politics, nationalism, and colonialism. Vinayak Chaturvedi's analy......

Joel Beinin's state-of-the-art survey of subaltern history in the Middle East demonstrates lucidly and compellingly how the lives, experiences and culture of......

This moving and challenging book by Simon Charlesworth deals with the personal consequences of poverty and class and the effects of growing up as part of a p......

This interdisciplinary collection addresses the position of minorities in democratic societies, with a particular focus on minority rights and recognition. F......

This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms. Vi......

Against the backdrop of today's increasingly multicultural society, are America's elite colleges admitting and successfully educating a diverse student body?......

On New Shores focuses on immigrant fathers in North America and provides readers with a richer and more comprehensive approach to how researchers, practition......

The Italians of Rochester were unique because of the history, culture, and society to which they adapted. This photo-book is a record of the city and its Ita......

While there is a strongly held belief that Latin American societies are highly discriminatory, the economic profession has found relatively little evidence f......

'Competitiveness and Growth in Brazilian Cities' addresses the question of what cities can do to improve economic performance and create jobs. The topic is e......

There are countless self help books flooding the market, but few are specific to the current needs and concerns of the broad African American community. The......