"International Relations, as a discipline, does not grant race and racism explanatory agency in its conventional analyses, despite such issues being integral to the birth of the discipline. Race and Racism in International Relations seeks to remedy this oversight by acting as a …
Colorblind Racial Profiling outlines the history of racial profiling practices and policies in the United States from 1974 to the present day. Drawing on a wide variety of sources including case law, newspaper and television reporting, government reports, and police manuals, aut…
In English with an Accent, Rosina Lippi-Green scrutinizes American attitudes towards language. Using examples drawn from a variety of contexts: the classroom, the court, the media, and corporate culture, she exposes the way in which discrimination based on accent functions to su…
A comprehensive assessment of the broad issues that underpin social exclusion in India, This book posits the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) vis--vis their upper-caste Hindu peers and establishes how caste is a lived reality in everyday life in modern India. It…
In this fascinating and radical reconceptualization of stigma, Imogen Tyler precisely and passionately outlines its political function, revealing it as a political practice and an instrument of state coercion. From the literal stigmatizing (tattooing) of criminals in ancient Gre…