This book compares contemporary racism in the US and the Netherlands through in-depth
interviews with fifty-five black women. As an interdisciplinary analysis of gendered social …

Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a
crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this …

Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism Page 1 Page 2 BLACK
SEXUAL POLITICS Page 3 Page 4 BLACK SEXUAL POLITICS AFRICAN AMERICANS …

This volume takes a critical approach to the study of prejudice and discrimination by
focusing on the role of elites in the reproduction of racism. Van Dijk's main thesis is that …

This paper reviews and discusses western sociological theories and research about poverty
in structural and cultural perspectives. Structural explanations focus on how social and …

Ethnicity and nationalism are pervasive features of the contemporary world, but how far is
ethnicity a result of cultural differences, and how much is it in fact dependent on the practical …

The award-winning Black Wealth/White Wealth offers a powerful portrait of racial inequality
based on an analysis of private wealth. Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro's groundbreaking …

Hebert Gans' study of Italian Americans in Boston's West In is one of the classics of
contemporary sociology. Providing a first-hand account of life in an inner city of …

GLOBAL UNEMPLOYMENT has now reached its highest level since the great depression of
the 1930s. More than 800 million human beings are now unemployed or underemployed in …

John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen
years. In Consuming Places, he gathers together his most significant contributions. Urry …