Discrimination category: 2581 books
Surveillance as Social Sorting
Privacy, Risk and Automated Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
Surveillance happens to all of us, everyday, as we walk beneath street cameras, swipe cards, surf the net. Agencies are using increasingly sophisticated computer systems - especially searchable databases - to keep tabs on us at home, work and play. Once the word surveillance was reserved for police...
The Affirmative Action Puzzle
A Living History from Reconstruction to Today
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
A multifaceted history of affirmative action from its inception through the past five decades.
From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis ("Remarkable"--Anthony Lewis, NYROB; "Definitive"--Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic) and Dissent in the Supreme Court ("Riveting"--Dahlia...
White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition
The Legal Construction of Race
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2006
White by Law was published in 1996 to immense critical acclaim, and established Ian Haney López as one of the most exciting and talented young minds in the legal academy. The first book to fully explore the social and specifically legal construction of race, White by Law inspired a generation of...
Power Interrupted
Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In Power Interrupted, Sylvanna M. Falc�n redirects the conversation about UN-based feminist activism toward UN forums on racism. Her analysis of UN antiracism spaces, in particular the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance in Durban, South...
After the Storm: Militarization, Occupation, and Segregation in Post-Katrina America
Militarization, Occupation, and Segregation in Post-Katrina America
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
More than a decade ago, Hurricane Katrina served to expose a well-engineered system of oppression, one which continues to privilege some groups and disadvantage others. In the wake of the natural disaster that hit New Orleans, it became clear that institutions such as residential segregation, mass...
Elusive Utopia
The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberlin College, strove to end slavery and establish full equality for all. Yet, in the half-century after the Union victory, Oberlin’s resolute stand for...
Almighty God Created the Races
Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United States, Fay Botham argues that religion--specifically, Protestant and Catholic beliefs about marriage and race--had a significant effect on legal decisions concerning miscegenation and marriage in the...
When Law Fails
Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory for the criminal justice system: the wrong person went to jail, but the mistake was fixed and the accused set free. A closer...
by Philip F. Rubio
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
What is it about affirmative action that makes this public policy one of the most contentious political issues in the United States today? The answer to this question cannot be found by studying the recent past or current events. To understand the current debate over affirmative action, we must...
by Deneace Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
This is Book One of a quartet that showcases the life of a typical Black woman living in a world where the colour of her skin determines every facet of her life.As a child living on the island of Jamaica, in the 1970’s, she was exposed to the waning horrors of Black slavery. However, a year-and-a-half...
Minority Relations
Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
The question of how relations between marginalized groups are impacted by their common and sometimes competing search for equal rights has become acutely important. Demographic projections make it easy now to imagine a future majority population of color in the United States. Minority Relations sets...
Without a Country
The Untold Story of America's Deported Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
“Timely and compelling . . . What kind of country do we want to be? A nation that cares for our war veterans, or one that deports them into the unknown?” (Brian Castner, author of Disappointment River**)**
Many Americans believe service in the military to be a quintessential way to demonstrate...
by Victor N. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
In everyday life, people negotiate on issues, entertain offers and counteroffers, and gain or lose in terms of economic capital, political power, communal status, and social influence. Although life goes on in the form of compromise, feelings of discrimination or misfortune haunt consciously or unconsciously...
Native-Speakerism in Japan
Intergroup Dynamics in Foreign Language Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The relative status of native and non-native speaker language teachers within educational institutions has long been an issue worldwide but until recently, the voices of teachers articulating their own concerns have been rare. Existing work has tended to focus upon the position of non-native teachers...