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Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing
Continued Lessons of Police Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Events in the United States during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s created tectonic shifts in how the police operated. This was especially true in terms of their relationship with society. These events included, among others: the due process revolution, which guided how police were to do their job; social...
Young, Gifted, and Shot
The youth are our joy
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
The late Donny Hathaway made a song "To be young, gifted and black" ; his thoughts filled the hearts of many.
When I first thought of this title “Young gifted and Shot", I was only thinking about the many young black young...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Addressing an issue of central concern in social life, this authoritative book examines how having or lacking power influences the way individuals and groups think, feel, and act. Leading international experts comprehensively review classic and contemporary research with an eye toward bridging gaps...
Racialization and Religion
Race, Culture and Difference in the Study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This volume locates the contemporary study of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia squarely within the fields of race and racism. As such, it challenges the extent to which discussion of the racialization of these minorities remains unrelated to each other, or is explored in distinct silos as a series of...
Race Defaced
Paradigms of Pessimism, Politics of Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
From Manifest Destiny to the White Man's Burden, Harold Macmillan to Tony Blair, and John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama—the historical development of racial doctrine has been closely connected to the relationship between radical and conservative politics. This book compares different forms of racism...
Race, Color, Identity
Rethinking Discourses about 'Jews' in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Advances in genetics are renewing controversies over inherited characteristics, and the discourse around science and technological innovations has taken on racial overtones, such as attributing inherited physiological traits to certain ethnic groups or using DNA testing to determine biological links...
Stigma and Group Inequality
Social Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
This book provides a snapshot of the latest theoretical and empirical work on social psychological approaches to stigma and group inequality. It focuses on the perspective of the stigmatized groups and discusses the effects of the stigma on the individual, the interacting partners, the groups to which...
by Karl Jacoby
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
**Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award
"An American 'Odyssey,' the larger-than-life story of a man who travels far in the wake of war and gets by on his adaptability and gift for gab." —Wall Street Journal**
A black child born on the US-Mexico...
Playing for Malaya
A Eurasian Family in the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
<p>A stunning personal account of a Eurasian family living in Malaya during WWII.</p>
by George O’Hare, Emma Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
George O’Hare’s was born and raised on the West Side of Chicago in 1927 during the height of Jim Crow, when racism was a way of life for most white people. He went to an all-white grammar and high school, and was raised by an extremely racist uncle. George learned to be a racist at an early age,...
Disabled Upon Arrival
Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In North America, immigration has never been about immigration. That was true in the early twentieth century when anti-immigrant rhetoric led to draconian crackdowns on the movement of bodies, and it is true today as new measures seek to construct migrants as dangerous and undesirable. This premise...
Charles H. Houston
An Interdisciplinary Study of Civil Rights Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
This study seeks to examine the life and work of Charles Hamilton Houston and the scope of this project will focus on the implementation and organization of the proposed plan in three ways: philosophical ideas, constructive engagement, and lasting contributions of this legal scholar activist. When...
by Vladimir Pozner
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Influential French novelist, screenwriter, pioneer in literary genre and Oscar nominee Vladimir Pozner came to the United States in the 1930s. He found the nation and its people in a state of profound material and spiritual crisis, and took it upon himself to chronicle the life of the worker, the...
Partly Colored
Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during the heart of Jim Crow-era segregation. A Japanese-American person boards a bus, and immediately is faced with a dilemma. Not white. Not black. Where to sit?
By elucidating the experience of interstitial ethnic groups such as Mexican, Asian, and Native Americans—groups...