Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Race and the University
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite his mentor's warning to avoid the "redneck school in a backward state." Henderson became the university's third African American professor, a...
Ferguson
Three Minutes that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
From the Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post comes a meticulously detailed, insightful report on the killing that brought the nation's attention to a city coming apart at the seams. 12:00PM: Officer Darren Wilson turns his Chevy Tahoe police cruiser left on Canfield Drive. 12:01PM: Wilson orders two...
by Cleon E. Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
People usually think of discrimination as being against black or other ethnic minorities. Think again. "THEY" Cripple Society Volumes 1 and 2 will show how it is also practiced, usually by white people, very abundantly and severely against certain good caliber white people. It is damaging to human personhood,...
Colorblind
The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era. Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
In the 21st century, it is easy for some students and readers to believe that racism is a thing of the past; in reality, old wounds have yet to heal, and new forms of racism are taking shape. Racism has played a role in American society since the founding of the nation, in spite of the words "all...
Community Action against Racism in West Las Vegas
The F Street Wall and the Women Who Brought It Down
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
This book chronicles Robert J. McKee's active participation in a successful protest action, led primarily by black females in the historically African American community of West Las Vegas, Nevada, from 2008-2013. The residents protested the closure of a main street (F Street) in their community for...
by Matthew Holden
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. The Review's purpose, as described by Matthew Holden in his introduction, is to "lead to new information, insights, and findings" into the social and political status...
Pre-Post-Racial America
Spiritual Stories from the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Those people. Their issues. The day's news and the ways we treat each other, overtly or subliminally, prove we are not yet living in post-racial America. It's hard to talk about race in America without everyone very quickly becoming defensive and shutting down.
What makes talking race even...
by J.I. Suleri
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008
What separates human beings from animals are the intellect, power to reason, and the mind - the greatest work of God. Human beings are the same in every part of the world. Their nature, instincts, feelings, emotions and desires are all the same. Yet a great barrier separates them bringing an amazing...
The Urban Racial State
Managing Race Relations in American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
The Urban Racial State introduces a new multi-disciplinary analytical approach to urban racial politics that provides a bridging concept for urban theory, racism theory, and state theory. This perspective, dubbed by Noel A. Cazenave as the Urban Racial State, both names and explains the workings of...
Path Towards Equality: Anti-Discrimination Acts & Most Important Supreme Court Decisions Against Racism
Civil Rights Legislation and Racial Discrimination Law: From the Thirteenth Amendment to the Hate Crimes Prevention Act & from the Strauder v. West Virginia to the Batson v. Kentucky Case
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This is a unique legal collection comprised of the most important U.S. Civil Rights Acts and Supreme Court decisions considering racial discrimination. Ideals, hopes and dreams of Nat Turner, Dred Scott, Martin Luther King and many other activists who fought for equality, are built in the legislative...
From Human Trafficking to Human Rights
Reframing Contemporary Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Over the last decade, public, political, and scholarly attention has focused on human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery. Yet as human rights scholars Alison Brysk and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick argue, most current work tends to be more descriptive and focused on trafficking for sexual exploitation.
In...
by Samantha Nogueira Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy, by Samantha Nogueira Joyce, examines what happens when a telenovela directly addresses matters of race and racism in contemporary Brazil. This investigation provides a traditional textual analysis of Duas Caras (2007-2008), a watershed telenovela...
Race and Reconciliation
Redressing Wounds of Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1955
In this enlightening and insightful monograph, John B. Hatch analyzes various public discourses that have attempted to address the racialized legacy of slavery, from West Africa to the United States, and in doing so, proposes a rhetorical theory of reconciliation. Recognizing the impact both of religious...