Who Should Pay

Who Should Pay? draws on a decade’s worth of public opinion…

Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements. Folk Music, and Race in the United States

Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form…

Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes

In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel…

Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening

It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered…

What’s Wrong with Fat?

The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic-a…

Grassroots for Hire

Although “grassroots” conjures up images of independent citizen…

Black Citymakers

W.E.B. DuBois immortalized Philadelphia's Black Seventh Ward…

Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation

Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio airplay…

The Cross-Border Connection

International migration presents the human face of globalization,…

Grounds for Difference

Offering fresh perspectives on perennial questions of ethnicity,…