Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
While we are all familiar with the lives of prominent Black civil rights leaders, few of us have a sense of what is entailed in developing a White anti-racist identity. Few of us can name the White activists who joined the struggle against discrimination, let alone understand the complexities, stresses...
by Leah Penniman, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Leah Penniman tells us a story about race and the food system and how we can decolonize and re-indigenize our relationship to land and to food....
American Islamophobia
Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“I remember the four words that repeatedly scrolled across my mind after the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. ‘Please don’t be Muslims, please don’t be Muslims.’ The four words I whispered to myself on 9/11 reverberated through the mind of every Muslim American...
Race and Ethnicity
Culture, Identity and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Broad-ranging and comprehensive, this completely revised and updated textbook is a critical guide to issues and theories of ‘race’ and ethnicity. It shows how these concepts came into being during colonial domination and how they became central – and until recently, unquestioned – aspects...
Jim Crow Terminals
The Desegregation of American Airports
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public accommodations. It is essential to add airplanes and airports to this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Air travel stands...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Patterns of migration and the forces of globalization have brought the issues of mixed race to the public in far more visible, far more dramatic ways than ever before. Global Mixed Race examines the contemporary experiences of people of mixed descent in nations around the world, moving beyond US borders...
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...
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...
Race and Racism
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Race and Racism examines the foundations of race in American society from an anthropological perspective. The book offers and accessible overview of a variety of perspectives and theories on the biology of race, the social context of race, ethnicity and ethnocentrism, and more. The second edition...
by Spencer Cohn
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
It's shocking how little most of us know about the fundamental rules for workplace survival. Few people truly understand how to hang onto their jobs, how to effectively respond to threats to their jobs, or what to do if their main source of income is abruptly terminated. Considering how dependent...
Reimagining Equality
A New Deal for Children of Color
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Magazine
A comprehensive examination of developmental inequality among children
Developmental equality–whether every child has an equal opportunity to reach their fullest potential–is essential for children’s future growth and access...
Racism and Ethnicity
Global Debates, Dilemmas, Directions
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Racism and Ethnicity*: Global Debates, Dilemmas, Directions* examines in detail the theories, histories and principal debates of race, racism and ethnicity within a global context. The text offers critical evaluation of the work of major figures from Du Bois to Goldberg, and presents new research...
The Nigger in You
Challenging Dysfunctional Language, Engaging Leadership Moments
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Embrace Leadership to Combat All Forms of Prejudice“Is there a ‘nigger’ in you?” If you have attempted to avoid and/or escape oppression, been made to feel as if you are a problem, been treated as “lesser than” or even like a criminal, all just because you are different in a given context,...