case studies

Armored cars, burner phones, top-notch weaponry, and top-secret missions. This is the life of today's private military contractor. Simon Chase, and many other PMC's were once the world's top military operatives---retired from the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team Six and the UK's Special Boat Service. The operations can be so hazardous and politically sensitive that they require a "zero footprint", that is no trace of any action left behind. Simon Chase, and the men he works with, operate without government backup or air rescue. If they die, they die, and they remain anonymous. There are no military honors or benefits. They are a strong, but largely invisible force in the war against terrorism.

Addresses the issues of family and illegal immigration through the story of a young boy's dangerous journey from Honduras to the U.S. in search of his mother, who left him and his sibling behind to make a better life for her family.

Interviews in America and Japan relate the experiences of the Hiroshima Maidens. Describes their memories of the blast, the extent of their disfigurement, and the effect of their plastic surgery performed in the United States.

Collects essays in which scholars and activists examine issues of genocide and war crimes and the involvement of the United States and other democracies in such actions.

Chronicles the experiences of ten Nazi men after the collapse of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich.

Describes the experiences of inmates in the Jerome and Rohwer internment camps in Arkansas, where U.S. citizens and residents of Japanese descent were held during World War II.

Documents the true story of a Long Island immigrant's murder in 2008, citing the hate biases that compelled a group of teens to attack the Ecuadorean victim, who became a symbol of flaws in America's immigration system.

An ethnographic study of American Muslim women that focuses on African-American and South Asian immigrant Muslims in Chicago and Atlanta and discusses how the two groups interact as well as confront race and class inequalities.

Firsthand accounts of daily life in contemporary China in the midst of rapid social change and political unrest.