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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Illustrates the changing significance of what it means to be educated, rural, and ethnic in Southwest China.

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

Presents the key experiences of a diverse group of teachers and students in their journeys of becoming social justice educator/scholars.

Demonstrates how the success of universities depends on the working conditions of the younger academic generation.

A sweeping study of political murder in Latin America.

Examines the lives of recent Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany.

Argues that expectations for mothering include a new core principle of "body work. "

Explores activist scholarship in relation to feminism and social movements in the Americas.

An ethnography of young, single women struggling to live independently in South Korea.

Examines the progress of and obstacles faced by African Americans in twenty-first-century America.

A pioneering approach to social theory that rectifies overreliance on Western historical experience of development and modernization.

Explores the challenges faculty fathers face in navigating the demands of work and family.

Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory.