Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.

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

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.

Broadens the horizons of Strauss’s thought by initiating dialogues between him and figures with whom little or no dialogue has yet occurred.

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

Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.

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

Argues that plantation life, its racialized inequities, and the ongoing struggle against them are embedded in not only the physical structures but also the everyday workings of higher education.

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

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

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

Examines the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.

Brings relational sociology to bear on educational research.

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

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

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

Explores the effectiveness and value of meditation in a college classroom.

Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.

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

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.

Explores why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective, and considers the work of a new wave of scholarship that aims to reinvent the radical project and combat injustice.

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

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.

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