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

Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics.

Discusses the conservative ideological and political attack on welfare in the United States.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Tells the story of a tragic Supreme Court decision involving child abuse and what might be done to rectify it.

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

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

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

Defends confrontational modes of citizenship as a means to reinvigorate democratic participation and regime accountability.

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

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.

Presents a major new interpretation of the Ashcan School of Art, arguing that these artists made the working class city at the turn of the century a subject for beautiful art.

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

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