Sociology

Amazon’s sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and…

The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. "What happens…

"Men and women are just different!"  NOPE. Not according to science we aren't. This wickedly funny book lays out the…

The International Hotel was a low-income residential hotel that became the most dramatic housing-rights battleground in…

From a pro wrestler fans loved to hate to a bona fide Hollywood superstar, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is truly all sorts…

An expert on American authoritarianism offers 12 lessons to expose the divisive rhetoric, strongman tactics, violent…

An in-depth exploration of racial identity and racism in the US, sparked by the question of the title: Is…

In a time racked with police brutality and institutionalized racism, authors Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin offer a…

In the last 50 years, scientists have discovered how these capacities are shared by other species, which only raises the…

Humans can become so obsessed over the most trivial of things. Take, for instance, the human penis. How did this…

Racism isn't just something done by violent mobs in white pointy hoods or MAGA hats. It's baked into our culture and…

These short, vibrant tanka poems about Black boys and young men depict thirteen views of everyday life: dressed in…

Christien Storm walks the reader through understanding what boundaries are and how to create, communicate, and uphold…

A guide to healing our fractured discourse on race and racism by having better arguments—as in, actually constructive…

The Indigenous Repatriation Handbook serves as a guide for Indigenous communities in British Columbia working to…

This book is Penny Rimbaud's literary bullet shot into the heart of the state. He details the events leading to the…

This graphic novelette illustrates the early years of C.L.R. James, the son of a family of teachers and in later years…

Have you ever wondered what this drag phrase, "Hunty, do you want to come over, have a kiki and spill some tea," meant?…

This is an underdog story about six unassuming college students who worked together to count cards in Las Vegas and win…

For nearly five centuries, the world of book publishing remained largely static. But at the dawn of the twenty-first…

Janelle Shane is the robot whisperer. She gives various AIs a list of something mundane, like recipes, cat names,…

An ethnographic account of women who choose FGCS (female genital cosmetic surgery) in Australia and the physicians who…

The concept (and cover) may seem goofy, but this is actually a clever and well-written examination of class in the…

Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the…

In this classic work, first published in 1930, James Weldon Johnson, one of the leading lights of the Harlem…

A race-informed therapeutic approach to yoga describing how race-based traumatic stress differs from PTSD and why a…

Lesbian partners known for cross-dressing and creating the kind of gender-bending work that the Nazis would come to call…

It's time for everyone who cares about the state of our nation to heed the call and join forces to redeem the soul of…