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by Jonathan Jansen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Ways of speaking can help heal or they can provoke; they can inflame passions or settle nerves.' Professor Jonathan Jansen is fast becoming a household name in South Africa, for his critical and at times inconvenient voice. In this collection of articles previously published in The Times Jansen highlights...
Angry White People
Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
'An enlightening, thoughtful and intelligent study.'
The Independent
There is a new anger brewing in Britain. In the pubs and estates, the cafes and football stadiums, the mood is unsettled. People kick back increasingly against whoever or whatever is presented as the latest scapegoat.
Delving...
The Cleanest Race
How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Understanding North Korea through its propaganda
What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them?
Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full-length study of the North Korean...
The Third Reconstruction
How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.
Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions...
The New Anti-Catholicism
The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
Anti-Catholicism has a long history in America. And as Philip Jenkins argues in The New Anti-Catholicism, this virulent strain of hatred--once thought dead--is alive and well in our nation, but few people seem to notice, or care. A statement that is seen as racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, or homophobic...
Black Power
Politics of Liberation in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting...
by Cornelius Eady
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
**Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry
Brutal Imagination is the work of a poet at the peak of his considerable powers, confronting a crucial subject: the black man in America.
“A hymn to all the sons this country has stolen from her African-American families.”—The Village...
by Alexander Reid Ross
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
US society is notoriously complacent when it comes to the rise of fascist tendencies. When Dylann Roof murdered nine black parishioners in a Charleston church, media emphasis remained superficial. Familiar narratives of insane lone wolves and Confederate flags masked the organizations that inspired...
by Jeffrey Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Jeffrey Weeks has established an international reputation as one of the most original and influential writers on the social history of sexuality.
The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
A Life in the Balance
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been incarcerated on Pennsylvania's death row for over two decades. His case has generated more controversy and received more attention, both national and international, than that of any other inmate currently under sentence of death in the United States of America.
Mumia Abu Jamal,...
Interracial Intimacies
Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
In Interracial Intimacies, Randall Kennedy hits a nerve at the center of American society: race relations and our most intimate ties to each other. Writing with the same piercing intelligence he brought to his national bestseller Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Kennedy here challenges...
Autobiography of a Blue-eyed Devil
My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In an updated second edition of her follow-up to the cult classic Cunt, Inga Muscio asserts that the history taught in schools and perpetuated in all areas of life in the US is, in fact, a marketing brand developed by powerful people to maintain gross inequities. With Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed...
The Transformation of American Abolitionism
Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. In fact, however, the abolition movement had been born with the American Republic. In the decades following the Revolution, abolitionists worked...
Gender, Race and National Identity
Nations of Flesh and Blood
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
All nations construct stories of national belonging, stories of the nation’s character, its accomplishments, its defining traits, its historical trajectory. These stories, or discourses of national identity, carry powerful messages about gender and race, messages that reflect, reproduce and occasionally...