Discrimination category: 2581 books
Fat Rights
Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Author Interview on The Brian Lehrer Show
America is a weight-obsessed nation. Over the last decade, there's been an explosion of concern in the U.S. about people getting fatter. Plaintiffs are now filing lawsuits arguing that discrimination against fat people should be illegal. Fat Rights asks the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this important work by the Army recognizes and highlights the contributions of African Americans to the military history of the United States. This is accomplished by providing a historic context on the African American...
Pigmentocracies
Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America's most populous nations. Based on extensive, original...
First Available Cell
Desegregation of the Texas Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Decades after the U.S. Supreme Court and certain governmental actions struck down racial segregation in the larger society, American prison administrators still boldly adhered to discriminatory practices. Not until 1975 did legislation prohibit racial segregation and discrimination in Texas prisons....
by Leslie V. Tischauser
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Jim Crow Laws presents the history of the discriminatory laws that segregated people by race in the American South from the end of the Civil War through passage of the 1965 Civil Rights Act. To paint a true picture of these deplorable restrictions, this book provides a detailed analysis of the creation,...
by S.K. Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
America is more diverse than ever before, but, disturbingly, black professionals still face discrimination, bias, and hostility in the workplace.S. K. Chapman has spent years in corporate America and has many stories to share. Some of the stories shared by Chapman will make you laugh out loud,...
The Black O
Racism and Redemption in an American Corporate Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
In 1988 several white managers of the Shoney’s restaurant chain protested against the company’s discriminatory hiring practices, including an order to blacken the “O” in “Shoney’s” on minorities’ job applications so that the marked forms could be discarded. When the managers refused...
Black Americans and Organized Labor
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
In Black Americans and Organized Labor, Paul D. Moreno offers a bold reinterpretation of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labor movement. Moreno applies insights of the law-and-economics movement to formulate a powerfully compelling labor-race theorem of elegant simplicity:...
Race, Wrongs, and Remedies
Group Justice in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Black Americans continue to lag behind on many measures of social and economic well-being. Conventional wisdom holds that these inequalities can only be eliminated by eradicating racism and providing well-funded social programs. In Race, Wrongs, and Remedies, Amy L. Wax applies concepts from the law...
Felix Longoria's Wake
Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Private First Class Felix Longoria earned a Bronze Service Star, a Purple Heart, a Good Conduct Medal, and a Combat Infantryman's badge for service in the Philippines during World War II. Yet the only funeral parlor in his hometown of Three Rivers, Texas, refused to hold a wake for the slain soldier...
by Dr. Ruth E. Todd
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
ECONORACISM:The Next Great Divide examines the current social strife, unrest, and dissatisfaction occurring throughout the world as the physical manifestation of an economic class struggle masquerading as racial discrimination. The divide between rich and poor has grown visibly and statistically throughout...
Divided by Faith
Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2000
Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America. They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination,...
More Beautiful and More Terrible
The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
For a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial, we are still mired in the practices of racial inequality that plays out in law, policy, and in our local communities. One of two explanations is often given for this persistent phenomenon: On the one hand, we might be hypocritical—saying...
Toxic Communities
Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
From St.
Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and
minority neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be
hazardous to your health. Due to entrenched segregation, zoning ordinances that
privilege wealthier communities, or because businesses have...