Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions begins with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moving on to a Philippine village and then to the Sinai desert, and concludes with a description of a tour bus full of Tibetan monks. Bateson's reflections …
Prentice Hall
An extraordinary powerful exposition of social patterns in a small town, Caste and Class in a Southern Town has become a benchmark in social science methodology and a classic in American studies. Now fifty years after its original publication, John Dollard’s most famous work offers timeless insights and remains essential to those interested in race-related social issues. In 1937, W. E. B. …
Bernard Haring, the noted moral theologian, maintains that nothing could be more authentically Christian than the idea of protesting.
A diverse collection of readings on trends and issues surrounding the African American family. Provides a combination of empirical research and scholarly essays on such diverse issues in the African American community as the black male's role, interracial relationships, poverty, AIDS, and the health status of black women.