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Blue-Chip Black
Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
As Karyn R. Lacy's innovative work in the suburbs of Washington, DC, reveals, there is a continuum of middle-classness among blacks, ranging from lower-middle class to middle-middle class to upper-middle class. Focusing on the latter two, Lacy explores an increasingly important social and demographic...
Race and the Invisible Hand
How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2003
From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test—and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies...
The Color Complex (Revised)
The Politics of Skin Color in a New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
A courageous, humane, and provocative examination of how differences in color and features among African Americans have played and continue to play a role in their professional lives, friendships, romances, and families.
Shifting
The Double Lives of Black Women in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to com-promise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves...
Not for Sale
The Return of the Global Slave Trade--and How We Can Fight It
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Human trafficking is not an issue of the left or right, blue states or red states, but a great moral tragedy we can unite to stop . . . Not for Sale is a must-read to see how you can join the fight.” —Jim Wallis, author of God's Politics
“David Batstone is a heroic character.” —Bono
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Bitter Chocolate
Anatomy of an Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
This shocking exposé of the corruption and exploitation at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industry is “an astounding eye-opener that takes no prisoners” (Quill & Quire, starred review).
Bitter Chocolate is both an absorbing social history and a passionate investigation...
The Business of Empire
United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of...
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by Cathy Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
No matter what issue you are trying to bring attention to – Wrongful Terminations from the Workplace, False Imprisonment, Racial Profiling, Police Brutality, etc. --you can set up Legal Defense Funds to fight back.
The bottom line is tons of employees are wrongfully terminated from the workplace...
Sex and the Office
A History of Gender, Power, and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
In this engaging book—the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace—Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans’ attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed from the 1860s, when women first took jobs as clerks in the U.S. Treasury office, to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Race and Real Estate brings together new work by architects, sociologists, legal scholars, and literary critics that qualifies and complicates traditional narratives of race, property, and citizenship in the United States. Rather than simply rehearsing the standard account of how blacks were historically...
by Aj Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
The Flaming Bullet attempts to determine all root causes of the disturbances manifest across England in August 2011. It compares recent findings with past riots and their associated motivations. Added to this, it explores racial prejudice, social injustice, civil liberties and taboos pertaining to...
State of White Supremacy
Racism, Governance, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
The deeply entrenched patterns of racial inequality in the United States simply do not square with the liberal notion of a nation-state of equal citizens. Uncovering the false promise of liberalism, State of White Supremacy reveals race to be a fundamental, if flexible, ruling logic that perpetually...
by Judy Wajcman
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
This timely and engaging book argues that technoscientific advances are radically transforming the woman-machine relationship. However, it is feminist politics rather than the technologies themselves that make the difference. TechnoFeminism fuses the visionary insights of cyberfeminism with a materialist analysis of the sexual politics of technology.
by D. Marvin Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
An eye-opening, unapologetic explanation of what "racial profiling" is in modern-day America: systematic targeting of communities and placing of suspicion on populations, on the basis of not only ethnicity but also certain places that are linked to the social identity of that group.
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