Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
by James W. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
On August 13, 1521, the largest and most developed of North America's societies, the Aztec empire, fell to Spanish invaders who, along with later European colonizers, built new societies in which they occupied the dominant class positions and forced Indians, imported African slaves, and Asians into...
Race and the Obama Phenomenon
The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The concept of a more perfect union remains a constant theme in the political rhetoric of Barack Obama. From his now-historic race speech to his second victory speech delivered on November 7, 2012, that striving is evident. "Tonight, more than two hundred years after a former colony won the right...
by Steven G Carley
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
“Race, Ethnicity, and United States’ Demographics” discusses the demographics of the United States from the perspective of race and ethnicity. Distinguish the terms of race and ethnicity along with racial versus ethnic groups. The demographics of the United States would change rapidly...
by Matthew Pratt Guterl
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways. What does it mean to see someone as a color? As racially mixed or ethnically ambiguous? What history makes such things possible? Drawing creatively from advertisements, YouTube videos,...
The Sonic Color Line
Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear.
Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see “difference.” At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American...
Producers, Parasites, Patriots
Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump
The profound concentration of economic power in the United States in recent decades has produced surprising new forms of racialization. In Producers, Parasites, Patriots, Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes show that while...
Deadly Injustice
Trayvon Martin, Race, and the Criminal Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin and the subsequent trial and acquittal of his assailant, George Zimmerman, sparked a passionate national debate about race and criminal justice in America that involved everyone from bloggers to mayoral candidates to President Obama himself. With increased...
Not Quite Not White
Losing and Finding Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
**Winner of the ALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Nonfiction
"Captivating... [a] heartfelt account of how newcomers carve a space for themselves in the melting pot of America."
--Publishers Weekly
A first-generation immigrant's "intimate, passionate look at race in America" (Viet...
Reproducing the French Race
Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
In Reproducing the French Race, Elisa Camiscioli argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France, and she examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time. Camiscioli demonstrates that...
by Nazli Kibria, Cara Bowman, Megan O'Leary
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Immigration has long shaped US society in fundamental ways. With Latinos recently surpassing African Americans as the largest minority group in the US, attention has been focused on the important implications of immigration for the character and role of race in US life, including patterns of racial...
Underground Codes
Race, Crime and Related Fires
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable Mention
Americans fear crime, are rattled by race and avoid honest discussions of both. Anxiety, denial, miscommunication, and ignorance abound. Imaginary connections between minorities and crime become real, self-fulfilling prophecies...
Impurity of Blood
Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Although Francisco Franco courted the Nazis as allies during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s, the Spanish dictator's racial ideals had little to do with the kind of pure lineage that obsessed the Nazis. Indeed, Franco's idea of race -- that of a National Catholic state as the happy meeting...
White Lives
The Interplay of 'Race', Class and Gender in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
This revealing book explores the processes of racialization, class and gender, and examines how these processes play out in the everyday lives of white women living in London with young children. Bridget Byrne analyzes the flexibility of racialized discourse in everyday life, whilst simultaneously...
Global Raciality
Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Global Raciality expands our understanding of race, space, and place by exploring forms of racism and anti-racist resistance worldwide. Contributors address neoliberalism; settler colonialism; race, class, and gender intersectionality; immigrant rights; Islamophobia; and homonationalism; and investigate...