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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
How are social inequalities experienced, reproduced and challenged in local, global and transnational spaces? What role does the control of space play in distribution of crucial resources and forms of capital (housing, education, pleasure, leisure, social relationships)?
The case studies in...
by Milton J. Esman
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Throughout human history people have moved across national borders. With the advent of globalization, they are now moving in record numbers in search of greater security or better livelihoods. Diasporas have become an ever important and visible presence in the modern world. Their existence has sometimes...
Framed
Media and the Coverage of Race in Canadian Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This book should sit on every journalist’s desk next to the Canadian Press Stylebook. It will be of tremendous interest to scholars and students of political science, immigration and citizenship, multiculturalism, communications, journalism, media studies, women and gender studies, as well as politicians and policy analysts.
Invisible Families
Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Black Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Mignon R. Moore brings to light the family life of a group that has been largely invisible—gay women of color—in a book that challenges long-standing ideas about racial identity, family formation, and motherhood. Drawing from interviews and surveys of one hundred black gay women in New York City,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant’s influential work, brings together fourteen...
A Nation for All
Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well represented, had...
Twenty-First Century Color Lines
Multiracial Change in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
The result of work initiated by the Harvard Civil Rights Project, this collection provides an excellent overview of the contemporary racial and ethnic terrain in the United States. The well-respected contributors to Twenty-First Century Color Lines combine theoretical and empirical perspectives, answering...
Survival Math
Notes on an All-American Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
An electrifying, dazzlingly written reckoning and an essential addition to the national conversation about race and class, Survival Math takes its name from the calculations award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson made to survive the Portland, Oregon of his youth.
This dynamic book explores...
by Velma Demerson
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a “crime” that was compounded by her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child. Sentenced to a home for wayward...
Grace Will Lead Us Home
The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE * BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER GREAT NEW WRITERS PICK * OPRAH MAGAZINE SUMMER 2019 READING LIST SELECTION
“A soul-shaking chronicle of the 2015 Charleston massacre and its aftermath**... [Hawes is] a writer with the exceedingly rare ability to observe sympathetically...
Musical ImagiNation
U.S-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Long associated with the pejorative clichés of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. In this pioneering study of the Miami music industry and Miami’s growing Colombian community, María Elena Cepeda boldly asserts that popular music...
Slaves and Englishmen
Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery was entrenched in law and practice, English men and women were well aware of the various forms of human bondage practiced in other nations and, in less systematic...
African American Families Today
Myths and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
From teen pregnancy and single parenting to athletics and HIV/AIDS, myths about African American families abound. This provocative book by two acclaimed scholars of race and ethnicity debunks many common myths about black families in America, sharing stories and drawing on the latest research to show...
According to Our Hearts
Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
This landmark book looks at what it means to be a multiracial couple in the United States today. According to Our Hearts begins with a look back at a 1925 case in which a two-month marriage ends with a man suing his wife for misrepresentation of her race, and shows how our society has yet to come to...