American artist Barkley L. Hendricks (1945 2017) revolutionized contemporary portraiture with his vivid depictions of Black subjects beginning in the late 1960s. This book contextualizes Hendricks s portraits at different stages of the country s history and places him in the pantheon of innovative twentieth-century artists.

Erik Hansson examines Swedish society's reactions to the presence of European Union citizens, mainly Romanian and Bulgarian Roma, begging in the 2010s.

This book presents an overview of current developments in Belarus. It explores the upswelling of popular support for the idea that Belarus must change. It highlights how the old regime presiding over worsening economic conditions has been confronted by increasing social mobilisation which demands a transformation of state-society relations.

Between Care and Criminality examines Australian social welfare's encounter with migration and marriage in an era of intensified border control. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how social welfare practitioners carry out a migrant-targeted social policy designed to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law which criminalized the practice.

Discusses the fluctuations of black suffrage in the ante-bellum North, using the 4 states of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island as examples. This book offers a framework for understanding and explaining how the issue of voting rights for blacks unfolded between the drafting of the Constitution, and the end of the Civil War.

The contributors to Beyond Man reckon with the colonial and racial implications of the philosophy of religion's history by staging a conversation between it and Black, Indigenous, and decolonial studies.