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A major social and educational experiment in race relations was conducted in Berea, Kentucky, from 1866 to 1904.

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Drawing on a variety of sources including private documents, this work argues that women actually played an important role in the formation of the public identity of the Victorian middle class. It offers numerous insights for the reader into the public lives of women in this fascinating period.

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This study assembles the evidence in search of an integrated view of royal women's position and power in critical functions of monarchy, challenging customary assumptions about women's place in the royal harem.

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A challenging contribution to a debate about a very sensitive social and political issue

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Of those which deal with sex and love addiction, this work is alone in that it examines adolescents as a specific population. The number of case histories presented in the text are a prominent feature. The book addresses the case of adolescent sex and love addicts as was done with adolescent chemical dependents 20 years ago.

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This is an annotated guide to young adult literature, organised into specific problem areas: alienation and identity; disabilities; homosexuality; divorced and single parents; adopted and foster families; abuse; eating disorders; alcohol and drugs; poverty; dropouts; and other problems.

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Illustrates how the political economy of private domestic adoption intersects with the political economy of racism to generate quite different demands for infants and children of different races and how the private adoption arena responds to these demands.

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The authors conclude that the majority of families and their adopted children are well integrated into society and that the adoptees now, as adolescents, do not see themselves as any less black than their in-racially raised peers.

Chapters 1 and 2 examine the historical and legal background of transracial adoption.

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From Dubai to Amsterdam, Memphis to South Korea, a phenomenon is reshaping the way we live and transforming the way we do business: the aerotropolis. This title looks at how the metropolis of the future will bring us together - and how to make the most of this opportunity.

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Africa's Legacies of Urbanization is the culmination of several decades of research, travel, and teaching. Goodwin provides an interdisciplinary and up-to-date look at African cities and the urbanization process. Beginning with an overview of the urban experience in Africa, Go...

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Leading African American scholars address the cultural context in the examination of research and policies regarding African Americans in higher education.

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From teen pregnancy to athletics, myths about African American families abound. This provocative book debunks many common myths about black families in America, sharing stories and drawing on the latest research to show the realities. As the book shows, racial inequality persistswere clearly not in a postracial society.

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The major issues for African Americans today, such as poverty, low graduation rates, high rates of out-of-wedlock births, and high rates of incarceration, are of national importance.

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This extensive collection of African American quotations is the first of its kind to be organized by subject area for ease of reference.

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In this book, Johnson interviews black Tea Partyers to reveal a group with deep regard for African Americans but also divergent perspectives on race, religion, government, and Tea Party racism. He argues in the context of their family structures and life experiences, their unusual political choices are knowable, understandable, and rational.

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This book examines the lived experiences and work of African American women educators during the 1880s to the 1960s.

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After decades of research devoted to women's health, a federal agency focused on women's health, and millions of dollars allocated to address women's health disparities, African American women are still the sickest American citizens.