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Summary and Analysis of Between the World and Me
Based on the Book by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Between the World and Me tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...
The Debt
What America Owes to Blacks
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Both an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its people, The Debt says in no uncertain terms what white America owes blacks—and what blacks owe themselves.
In this powerful and controversial book,...
Punishing Race
A Continuing American Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more likely than whites to be stopped by the police,...
Summary and Analysis of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Based on the Book by Michelle Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The New Jim Crow tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Michelle Alexander’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This...
Queer Brown Voices
Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In the last three decades of the twentieth century, LGBT Latinas/os faced several forms of discrimination. The greater Latino community did not often accept sexual minorities, and the mainstream LGBT movement expected everyone, regardless of their ethnic and racial background, to adhere to a specific...
by David Scott FitzGerald
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Culling the Masses questions the view that democracy and racism cannot coexist. Based on records from 22 countries 1790-2010, it offers a history of the rise and fall of racial selection in the Western Hemisphere, showing that democracies were first to select immigrants by race, and undemocratic states first to outlaw discrimination.
The Nicest Kids in Town
American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
American Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. Counter to host Dick Clark’s claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national...
Behind the Backlash
Muslim Americans After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
As the nation tried to absorb the shock of the 9/11 attacks, Muslim Americans were caught up in an unprecedented wave of backlash violence. Public discussion revealed that widespread misunderstanding and misrepresentation of Islam persisted, despite the striking diversity of the Muslim community.
Letting...
HATE
Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
HATE dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony. We hear too many incorrect assertions that "hate speech" -- which has no generally accepted...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This overview is designed to assist the reader in acknowledging and understanding the historical context of overt racist and discriminatory policies and practices in our military and how these...
Ghetto
The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A New York Times Notable Book of 2016
W****inner of the Zócalo Public Square Book Prize
On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto—a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck.
In this...
by Parthiban Muniandy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
For more than three decades Malaysia’s economic growth has been driven in part by the skills and sweat of large numbers of migrant workers. The country has become the temporary home for more than two million documented migrants. Many more than that are undocumented, living precarious lives on the...
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy
Democratizing Higher Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
A fresh and bold argument for revamping our standards of “merit” and a clear blueprint for creating collaborative education models that strengthen our democracy rather than privileging individual elites
Standing on the foundations of America’s promise of equal opportunity, our universities...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
While we are all familiar with the lives of prominent Black civil rights leaders, few of us have a sense of what is entailed in developing a White anti-racist identity. Few of us can name the White activists who joined the struggle against discrimination, let alone understand the complexities, stresses...