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Anthropology & Sociology

Towards the Abolition of Whiteness

by David R. Roediger
Counting the costs of whiteness in the American past and present.
11 posts
Cinderella Goes to Market

by Barbara Einhorn
Assessing the position of women before and after the fall of state socialism.
4 posts
Inside Babylon

Edited by Clive Harris and Winston James

A lively and informed reflection on the experience of black people in Britain.

6 posts
Church Fathers, Independent Virgins

by Joyce Salisbury
Salisbury explores the relationship between Church doctrines and the position of women.
3 posts

Social Division

by Alan Carling

Social divisions are systematic social inequalities which are frequently regarded as unjust, and are fateful in the lives of individuals.
Strange Weather

by Andrew Ross
“A marvellous, sceptical history of the culture of prediction.”—Meaghan Morris
Memory and Modernity

by William Rowe and Vivian Schelling
“A new, needed and definite work.”—New Statesman and Society
Communities of Resistance

by Ambalavaner Sivanandan
A collection of incisive critiques of contemporary Marxism, of post-colonial development and of the Eurocentric assessment of imperialism.
12 posts

Agency of Fear

by Edward Jay Epstein
A sharp exposé of the true motivations behind the war on drugs.
An Injury to All

by Kim Moody
Exposing the roots of modern “business unionism” and the causes of its decline.
6 posts
The Social Origins of Private Life

by Stephanie Coontz

A highly original account of the evolution of the family unit.

6 posts
Farewell to Reason

by Paul Feyerabend
“Feyerabend’s prose is sparkling and his writing is deeply learned.”—New Statesman

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