Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism.

Examines how the new wave of Generation Y public service employees are affecting the dynamics of continuity and change in public management ethics.

Tells the story of New York's playing grounds, teams, and ballparks of yesteryear.

Argues that Progressive Era reforms had the counterintuitive effect of weakening political parties and their role in representative government.

A visitor's companion to New York's Letchworth State Park, richly illustrated with ninety maps and thirty-five photographs.

Explores the duality between humans and Earth through a focus on the economic system changes that began with grain agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.

Explores the delicate interplay between emigration of Jews from Israel to Germany and the construction of a new identity in the shadow of antisemitism both past and present in their new home.

Chronicles the astonishing and counterintuitive spread of Christianity among a group of previously isolated tribes in a remote and hilly part of Northeastern India.

An up-to-date examination of the work of one of the most inventive thinkers in the study of religion.

Comparative, ethnographic study of women who migrate for marriage in rural north India.

Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.

Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies.

Intensive look at restrictive new voting laws ostensibly designed to target voter fraud but criticized as being racially-based voter suppression.

The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein.

Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy.

Describes how new kinds of direct-action labor movements are emerging to reshape American labor activism in the twenty-first century.

Explores distinctions between the sacred and the secular in a variety of religious traditions, and proposes ways in which their relationship can be mutually beneficial.

Argues that Irish American masculinity functioned to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1960.

A powerful anthology on the role of curricula in perpetuating—and resisting—oppression.

Draws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subjective experience into objective knowledge.

Offers a vision for innovation in higher education focused on societal progress and human development, as well as for higher education's role within a broader culture of innovation.

The first work to offer a comprehensive pragmatist anthropology focusing on sensibility, habits, and human experience as contingently yet irreversibly enlanguaged.

Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.

Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood.

Provides a novel conceptual and practical theory of revolution, engaging previous theories of revolution, contemporary continental philosophy, and systems theory.

Traces the inner connections between the second slavery in the Americas, slavery in Africa, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and the "Great Transformation" of the nineteenth century world economy.

Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film.

Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.

Examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency, and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism.

Examines policies, norms, and classroom practices of the US and Mexican education systems, with the aim of preparing educators to understand and help transnational children and youth.

The first exploration of vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along its history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism.

Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York.

Examines women’s food cooperatives and local dining venues on the Greek island of Lesvos and how tourism, gender, and sexualities inform the creation of these alternative economies.

Examines representations of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on the ways in which sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability.

A cross-case analysis of fifteen faith communities striving to care for the earth and live more sustainably.

Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.

Presents a new way of thinking about fundamental political concepts such as freedom, justice, and the common good.

Documents the surprising role pharmaceutical science and technology has played in Russia’s search for national identity over a century of political turbulence.

Investigates the professional practices of astrologers in urban India and their popularity among the educated middle and upper classes.

Studies the relationship between young Italian Americans and their Italian cultural and historical heritage.

Traces how alternative food movements are affected by global and local trends, with a focus on how organic agriculture was integrated in Israel.

Argues that we need to reinvent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its relationship to violence.

Essays in the field of comparative world religions and corresponding axial civilizations.

Relates how the self-direction movement was developed, the research that supports it, how the model has spread across the country and the globe, and recommendations and prospects for the future.

Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.

An in-depth account and model of antiracist professional development for white practicing teachers.

Offers an in-depth ethnography of paradigm shifts in the lifestyles and values of youth in post-growth Japan.

Develops a new kind of epistemological position that highlights virtue over more standard epistemological theories.

Explores why people stay in vulnerable cities by looking at Syracuse, New York, through the contemporary experiences of five citizens.

Offers a powerful new interpretation of Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory.

A provocative tale of an unlikely contender and her midlife transformation through boxing.

Examines how cities of various sizes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making walkability improvements a part of their overall urban revitalization strategy.

Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci’s work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.

A comprehensive exploration of racial inequality in New York City since 1965.

Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.

Inside account of the negotiations between the football Bills, New York State, and Erie County to sign a long-term stadium lease and thereby keep the team in Buffalo.

A comprehensive guidebook for dog owners that includes seventy-seven great hikes from the Adirondacks through the Catskills.

Explores the evolving role of botanic gardens from products and enablers of modernity and the nation-state, to their recent reinvention as institutions of environmental governance.

Reveals how the expanding world-system entangled the non-western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied, and, often, non-European in their expression.

Illustrates how the notion of an ecological society remains a decisively political question.

Examines US foreign and domestic policy through the narratives of post-9/11 US military veterans and the activism they are engaged in.

Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.

Provides firsthand perspectives from yoga practitioners and educators on the promises and challenges of school-based yoga programs.

Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.

Essays that examine globalization's effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples.

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.

Examines why many governments, rebels, and terrorist organizations are using children as soldiers.

Tells the story of the nation's largest higher education union from its earliest years to its role today as a powerful organization promoting the interests of faculty, staff, and the entire SUNY community.

A compelling story of our ever-evolving relationship with mountains and wilderness.

Analyzes the nineteenth century canal age in the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region as a transnational phenomenon.

Examines the ways in which austerity policies are transforming US cities.

This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology and illustrates the continued potential of the concept of civilization for all participants.

Explores how violence structures language and the writing of literature and philosophy.

The first scholarly book to address Korean geomancy through an interdisciplinary lens.

Highlights the continuing social unrest and public protest occurring in South Africa’s poorest districts.

Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment.

Explores the role of rhetoric and the racial classification of Asian American immigrants in the early twentieth century.

The first systematic analysis of the Frankfurt School’s research and theorizing on modern antisemitism.

Explores the concept of "moral horror" as the experience of living amidst unjustifiable state violence.

Illuminates the contradictions that emerge within conscious capitalism initiatives that are designed to empower women.

Provides answers to one of the enduring paradoxes of mass social change.

Provides firsthand accounts of militant Puerto Rican activists in 1970s New York City.

Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Uses two case studies to demonstrate how neoliberal reforms in India have de-democratized labor politics.

A comparative examination of the political, historical, legal, and religious antecedents of penalties and discrimination against sexual minority groups around the world.

Argues that the economic system itself is culpable in maintaining our oppressive educational status quo.

Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.

An overview and analysis of austerity policies and labor movement resistance in several countries.

A regional and transnational history of anarchism in Korea.

The first guidebook devoted exclusively to New York City’s Art Deco treasures.

Discusses how just war theory needs to be revised to better secure and respect human rights.

European scholars discuss Leo Strauss as a major figure in the history of philosophy.

Examines city politics and policy, federalism, and democracy in the United States.

Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.

Traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in nineteenth-century Martinique.

Using Chinese thought, explores how non-Western thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory.

Recovers and chronicles the plights of ordinary New Yorkers that resonate with contemporary debates on rape and domestic violence.

Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.

An ultrarunner’s fast-paced narrative into the wilds of New York’s Hudson Valley, as he attempts to set a new record for completing the Long Path, a 350-mile hiking trail that links New York City and Albany.

Uses both historical and contemporary case studies to examine how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit. .