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A study, rooted in philosophical anthropology and metaphysics, of the meaning of community, which discusses such questions as what constitutes a community, what its language reveals, how to distinguish genuine community from its counterfeits, and how a community is established.

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This presents an in-depth study of the large Muslim population in Los Angeles County. It examines an array of issues facing the American Muslim population, ranging from gender and ethnicity to political and dac wa (missionary) activities.

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By examining Amilcar Cabrals theories and praxes, Reiland Rabaka reintroduces and analyzes several of the core characteristics of the Africana critical theory. Ultimately, this book promotes the ways in which classical black radicalism should inform contemporary black radicalism, and contemporary Africana critical theory.

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This book presents a metacritique of racial formation theory. Across a diversity of approaches and objects of analysis, the contributors assess the 'conceptual aphasia' gripping racial theorizing in our multicultural moment: analyses of racism struck dumb when confronted with ...

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This book presents a metacritique of racial formation theory. Across a diversity of approaches and objects of analysis, the contributors assess the 'conceptual aphasia' gripping racial theorizing in our multicultural moment: analyses of racism struck dumb when confronted with the insatiable specter of black historical struggle.

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Conceptualizing Racism is a provocative book that confronts the language we use to discuss and understand racism. The author traces the history of linguistic racial accommodation through the development of sociology of a discipline and illustrates how it is at play today, not only within the discipline but in public life.

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Understanding the role of women in Latin American history demands a full examination of their activities in the region's political, economic, and domestic spheres. This volume explore the ways in which Latin American women have shaped-and have been shaped by-the traditional practices and ideologies of their cultures.

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In a field over-saturated with research on global cities and megacities, this is the first academic book to analyze specifically small cities and regions in New England. The book contains contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, historians, political scientists, politicians, grassroots leaders, and urban/regional planners.

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Despite the persistence of the fraternal form of association in guilds, trade unions, and political associations, as well as in fraternal social organizations, scholars have often ignored its importance as a cultural and social theme. This provocative volume helps to redress that neglect. Tracing the development of fraternalism from early modern we

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This study analyzes the practice of national self-imagination and puts forward a structural-functional model of national narratives. It describes the differences and conflicting elements of the national narratives that constitute the contested arena of nation-building in Ukraine.

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According to Linn, corporate marketing has become a societal problem as complex and harmful as racism or pollution, and is so pervasive that it should be tackled by public policy rather than leaving things solely to beleaguered parents.

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Contemporary American Religion collects qualitative, on-the-ground studies of local congregations by up-and-coming religious scholars and helps make sense of complex religious communities. This collection covers a wide span of the religious landscape, always trying to uncover new theoretical insights.

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Contemporary Anti-Muslim Politics provides a succinct but potent critique of the foreign policies of Western nations toward majority Muslim nations. For decades, foreign policies that rely on exclusion, ghettoization, and war have triggered conflict escalation with majority Muslim nations and caused an increase in extremist activity.

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Contemporary Anti-Muslim Politics provides a succinct but potent critique of the foreign policies of Western nations toward majority Muslim nations. For decades, foreign policies that rely on exclusion, ghettoization, and war have triggered conflict escalation with majority Muslim nations and caused an increase in extremist activity.

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This is a detailed study of some of the most racially divisive issues that America has encountered in the 1990's. It contains over 40 surveys which explore race-based opinion differences on numerous high-profile controversies including the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson cases.

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This work argues that Africology, the Afrocentric study of African phenomena, represents an oasis of innovation in progressive venues. It brings together some of the most discussed theorists and intellectuals in the field of Africology and offers new interpretations and analys...

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A sourcebook on gay US fiction writers aiming for recognition of this emergent area of literary study. The works are examined in a gay literary context and each entry includes biographical details, an interpretive summary of works, an overview of critical reception, and bibliographies.