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Stolen Honor
Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
The covered Muslim woman is a common spectacle in Western media—a victim of male brutality, the oppressed and suffering wife or daughter. And the resulting negative stereotypes of Muslim men, stereotypes reinforced by the post-9/11 climate in which he is seen as a potential terrorist, have become...
Equality
What Do You Think About When You Think of Equality?
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
In the tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Stride Toward Freedom and Malala Yousafzai’s,* I Am Malala*, Equality: What Do You Think About When You Think of Equality? presents thought-provoking and compelling personal essays that probe a concept professed to be the very foundation of our...
We Have Overcome
An Immigrant’s Letter to the American People
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
It has been more than fifty years since the Civil Rights Act enshrined equality under the law for all Americans. Since that time, America has enjoyed an era of unprecedented prosperity, domestic and international peace, and technological advancement. It’s almost as if removing the shackles of enforced...
Dealing with Your Implicit Racism
For black people and anti-racism activists
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2017
Sefunmi Oladumiye's struggle with racism began at the age of 12.
That was when she found out she was black.
That was when she decided that she did not want to be black because she finally understood why some people were mistreating her.
The desire to not be black led her down...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Critical Race Theory (CRT) explains and challenges the persistence of racial discrimination throughout the world today, addressing issues such as racism, post-colonialism and systems of apartheid. Despite claims we live in a post-racial era, equality laws are under threat in the UK and evidence of...
The Hands of Peace
A Holocaust Survivor?s Fight for Civil Rights in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Born in Hamburg in the 1930s, Marione Ingram fled Nazi Germany, only to find racism as pervasive in the American South as anti-Semitism was in Europe.
Marione moved first to New York and then to Washington, D.C. where, in 1960, she joined the Congress of Racial Equality, protesting discrimination...
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama’s emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people, Obama’s rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasive...
Please Stop Helping Us
How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people...
Chokehold
Policing Black Men
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**Finalist for the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Awards
Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)**
A 2017 Washington Post Notable Book
A Kirkus Best Book of 2017
**Butler has hit...
Antiracism in Cuba
The Unfinished Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social...
Constructing Identities in Mexican-American Political Organizations
Choosing Issues, Taking Sides
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The formation of a group identity has always been a major preoccupation of Mexican American political organizations, whether they seek to assimilate into the dominant Anglo society or to remain separate from it. Yet organizations that sought to represent a broad cross section of the Mexican American...
Getting Respect
Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Racism is a common occurrence for members of marginalized groups around the world. Getting Respect illuminates their experiences by comparing three countries with enduring group boundaries: the United States, Brazil and Israel. The authors delve into what kinds of stigmatizing or discriminatory incidents...
Color and Money
How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War over College Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
What is the real story behind the fight over affirmative action at colleges? Veteran journalist Peter Schmidt exposes truths that will outrage readers and forever transform the debate. He reveals how:
* colleges use affirmative action to mask how much they cater to the country club crowd and...
Reproducing Racism
How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws and now the inauguration of our first black president, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress?
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