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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...
by Clarence Lusane
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the Obamas.
Clarence...
Blood Sugar
Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
Why do African Americans have exceptionally high rates of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity? Is it their genes? Their disease-prone culture? Their poor diets? Such racist explanations for racial inequalities in metabolic health have circulated in medical journals for decades. Blood Sugar analyzes and...
The Black Image in the White Mind
Media and Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans not through personal relationships but through the images the media show them. The Black Image in the White Mind offers the most comprehensive look at the intricate racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the...
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 Blood of Government
Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over the next five decades, U.S. imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies...
Reconstructing Dixie
Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2003
The South has long played a central role in America’s national imagination—the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation’s moral other and its moral center. Reconstructing Dixie explores how ideas about the South function within American culture....
They Called Them Greasers
Anglo Attitudes Toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821-1900
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Tension between Anglos and Tejanos has existed in the Lone Star State since the earliest settlements. Such antagonism has produced friction between the two peoples, and whites have expressed their hostility toward Mexican Americans unabashedly and at times violently.This seminal work in the historical...
Casting Out
The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2008
Three stereotypical figures have come to represent the 'war on terror' - the 'dangerous' Muslim man, the 'imperilled' Muslim woman, and the 'civilized' European. Casting Out explores the use of these characterizations in the creation of the myth of the family of democratic Western nations obliged...
The Color of the Law
Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran accused of attacking a white radio repairman at a local department store. That night, after Stephenson was safely out of town, four of Columbia's police...
Two Weeks Every Summer
Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Two Weeks Every Summer, which is based on extensive oral history interviews with former guests, hosts, and administrators in Fresh Air programs, opens a new chapter in the history of race in the United States by showing how the actions of hundreds of thousands of rural and suburban residents who hosted...
Race Lessons
Using Inquiry to Teach About Race in Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
We hold that the mission of social studies is not attainable, without attention to the ways in which race and racism play out in society—past, present, and future. In a follow up to the book, Doing Race in Social Studies (2015), this new volume addresses practical considerations of teaching about...
Cyber Racism and Community Resilience
Strategies for Combating Online Race Hate
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2017
This book highlights cyber racism as an ever growing contemporary phenomenon. Its scope and impact reveals how the internet has escaped national governments, while its expansion is fuelling the spread of non-state actors. In response, the authors address the central question of this topic: What is...
Almost Free
A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South.
There were several paths to freedom for slaves, each of them difficult. After...