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Slavery's Borderland
Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance made the Ohio River the dividing line between slavery and freedom in the West, yet in 1861, when the Civil War tore the nation apart, the region failed to split at this seam. In Slavery's Borderland, historian Matthew Salafia shows how the river was both a physical...
Moving Working Families Forward
Third Way Policies That Can Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
“Cherry and Lerman have written a compelling book that challenges the orthodoxies of both the political ‘left’ and ‘right’, and that promotes a set of policies to improve the economic status of lower-to-middle income working families. All who care about the well-being of working families...
by lord byron
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Ourika is a delightful tale set in France during the French Revolution. George Gordon Byron (1788–1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement.
Ourika, was published in 1823, de Duras' novel represents a number of firsts: the...
Beyond Black and White
From Civil Rights to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Highly acclaimed dissection of the “new racism,” from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time
Many in the United States, including Barack Obama, have called for a “post-racial” politics; yet race still divides the country politically, economically, and socially....
Racism without Racists
Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities. The fifth edition of this provocative...
How May I Help You?
An Immigrant's Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
In this moving and insightful work, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia. Armed with an MBA from India, Singh can get only a minimum-wage job in an electronics store. Every day he confronts unfamiliar American mores, from strange idioms to deeply...
Brown
What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction and the Trillium Book Award
A Globe and Mail, National Post**, Toronto Life****, Walrus****, CBC Books, Chatelaine****, Hill Times****, 49th Shelf and Writers’...
The Persistence of the Color Line
Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Timely—as the 2012 presidential election nears—and controversial, here is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial politics and the Obama presidency.
Renowned for his cool reason vis-à-vis the pitfalls and clichés of racial discourse, Randall Kennedy—Harvard...
Municipalities and Multiculturalism
The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
The Canadian model of diversity management is considered a success in the international community, yet the methods by which these policies are adopted by local governments have seldom been studied. Municipalities and Multiculturalism explores the role of the municipality in integrating immigrants...
Cybertypes
Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Our Search for Belonging
How Our Need to Connect Is Tearing Us Apart
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
We are living in a time of mounting political segregation that threatens to tear us apart as a unified society. The result is that we are becoming increasingly tribal, and the narratives of life that we get exposed to on a daily basis have become echo chambers in which we hear our beliefs reinforced...
School Resegregation
Must the South Turn Back?
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Confronting a reality that many policy makers would prefer to ignore, contributors to this volume offer the latest information on the trend toward the racial and socioeconomic resegregation of southern schools. In the region that has achieved more widespread public school integration than any other...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This is a collection of original essays focusing on social rights in Latin America, covering four areas in particular: subsistence, labor, gender, and race/ethnicity within the original framework of human rights. Topics covered include the environment, AIDS, workers' rights, tourism, and many more.
My Triumph over Prejudice
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
My Triumph over Prejudice is the autobiography of a black girl growing up in Mississippi during the civil rights era. Born in 1949, Martha Wyatt-Rossignol came of age during some of the most crucial and dangerous years of the civil rights movement. She examines those years and what happened when the...