War (ePub)

Cameron D. Lippard is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. His teaching interests focus on race and ethnic relations, immigration, sociology of war, and research methods. His primary research agenda examines the social integration of Latino immigrants into the American South, as well as examining how individuals and people use color-blind language to justify racist actions and policies. He also studies issues of postmodern cultural shifts in the United States and abroad concerning the rise of craft beer, "legal moonshine," and fair trade coffee. Most recent book publications include authoring Building Inequality: Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Immigration in the Atlanta Construction Industry; Being Brown in Dixie: Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Immigration in the New South; and the editing of Race and Racism in the United States (4 volume encyclopedia); and Untapped: The Cultural Dimensions of Craft Beer.

Pavel Osinsky is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Appalachian State University. Dr. Osinsky received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Moscow State University (Russia) and a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University (USA). His primary field of specialization is a comparative historical sociology, with a particular interest in examining the impact of the world wars of the twentieth century on the revolutionary cataclysms and the communist state-building in Eastern Europe and East Asia. His articles have been published in the Annual Review of Sociology, Sociological Forum, Sociological Quarterly, Political Power and Social Theory, Work & Occupations, Research in Economic History, and other academic journals. Dr. Osinsky teaches classes in sociological theory, political sociology, and globalization.