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Negative Images: A Simple Matter of Black and White?
An Examination of 'Race' and the Juvenile Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
That black young people have been subject to unequal treatment in the youth justice system has been the belief of some individuals and groups, reinforced, at best, by anecdotal evidence. Negative Images: A Simple Matter of Black and White? provides not only evidential weight to uphold this view but...
Latino Politics en Ciencia Política
The Search for Latino Identity and Racial Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
More than 53 million Latinos
now constitute the largest, fastest-growing, and most diverse minority group in
the United States, and the nation’s political future may well be shaped by
Latinos’ continuing political incorporation. In the 2012 election, Latinos
proved to be a critical voting bloc...
Slave Owners of West Africa
Decision Making in the Age of Abolition
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests, religious beliefs, and responses to colonial...
Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd
Counterfeit Heroes and Unhappy Truths
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1994
In recent years, black neoconservatism has captured the national imagination. Clarence Thomas sits on the Supreme Court. Stephen Carter's opinions on topics ranging from religion to the confirmation process are widely quoted. The New Republic has written that black neoconservative Thomas Sowell was...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
An engaging and eclectic collection of essays from leading scholars on the subject, which looks at affirmative action past and present, analyzes its efficacy, its legacy, and its role in the future of the United States.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
This is the first book to focus on the significance of religion during President Obama's years in the White House. Addressing issues ranging from identity politics, immigration, income inequality, Islamophobia and international affairs, Religion in the Age of Obama explores the religious and moral...
Learning from the Germans
Race and the Memory of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past
In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing...
Is That Your Mom?
Voices of Cross Racially Raised Adults of The African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
While White parents raising Black children has become increasingly salient in the last 20?30 years, the experience of those who grow up in these cross?racial families is much more complicated. Indeed, much of the adoption studies literature has privileged White parent voices, further silencing crossracially...
Legacy of the Lash
Race and Corporal Punishment in the Brazilian Navy and the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Legacy of the Lash is a compelling social and cultural history of the Brazilian navy in the decades preceding and immediately following the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil. Focusing on non-elite, mostly black enlisted men and the oppressive labor regimes under which they struggled, the book is...
She’s Mad Real
Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Overwhelmingly, Black teenage girls are negatively represented in national and global popular discourses, either as being “at risk” for teenage pregnancy, obesity, or sexually transmitted diseases, or as helpless victims of inner city poverty and violence. Such popular representations are pervasive...
The Inner Work of Racial Justice
Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
An essential mindfulness and compassion-based approach to confront racial injustice and work towards healing
Law professor and mindfulness practitioner Rhonda Magee shows that the work of racial justice begins with ourselves. When conflict and division are everyday realities, our instincts...
Si ce sont des hommes...
Les médecins du Struthof
Language: French
Release Date: February 1, 2012
« Si ce sont des hommes, je suis la pire des ordures ! » L’examen de conscience du Professeur de médecine August Hirt, provoqué par la peur d’être bientôt capturé par les troupes françaises, ne dure que quelques instants. Ses cobayes Tsiganes ne pouvaient pas être des hommes, on ne...
The South of the Mind
American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960–1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
With the nation reeling from the cultural and political upheavals of the 1960s era, imaginings of the white South as a place of stability represented a bulwark against unsettling problems, from suburban blandness and empty consumerism to race riots and governmental deceit. A variety of individuals...
Finding Charity's Folk
Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica...