1958 San Francisco: Beatniks, Eisenhower, Fillmore District jazz and Major League baseball. As Mayor George Christopher fights an influx of organized crime and redevelopment begins to transform the city, racial…

The story of Alison Davis, one of the first black anthropologists and the first black tenured professor, a pioneer whose work-in part because it was so multifarious-has been all but…

This collection analyzes the rhetoric used by American Catholic Women of various periods, races, ethnicities, sexualities, and classes. Taken together, the essays reveal a shared ethos of resisting a powerful…

A classic examination of the lived realities of American racism, now with a new foreword from Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson.

First published in 1941, Deep South is a landmark…

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids…

Women Writing Nature addresses the question, ‘Do women write about nature differently?’ In the process, the collection considers women’s writings about the natural world in light of recent and current…