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Lived diversities
Space, place and identities in the multi-ethnic city
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Lived diversities: Space, place and identities in the multi-ethnic city is a timely and important book, which focuses on multi-ethnic interaction in an inner city area. Addressing difficult issues that are often simplistically and negatively portrayed it challenges the stereotypical denigration of...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Thurgood Marshall rides the train in the Jim Crow car (the one directly behind the engine) to the American south to defend yet another black citizen in court. Marshall, who was the grandson of a mixed-race slave, is an integral part of the growing civil rights movement in America. His father and uncle...
Comrades
A Local History of the Black Panther Party
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2007
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. It was perhaps the most visible of the Black Power groups in the late 60s and early 70s, not least because of its confrontational politics, its rejection of nonviolence, and its...
by Camillo Berneri
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
A 1934 essay by Italian anarchist Camillo Berneri (1897-1937) exploring the contentious issue of eugenics, race and racial prejudice in pre-war Europe and the United States, the so-called advanced nations. In Austria in October 1933, the courts granted a divorce in a marriage contracted between an...
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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...
Women and Social Work
Narrative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2001
Women and Social Work offers an innovative and empowering approach to working with women in a social work setting. As most social workers and service users are women, the interconnections between care giving and care receiving are explored, emphasising how women 'do it differently'. The philosophy and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
President Harry S. Truman’s contribution to civil rights is generally viewed as substantial and important. But some historians are inclined to regard his achievement as meager, hesitantly undertaken, polluted by political motives, and inadequate. The essays in this volume include the perspectives of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
The model minority stereotype is a form of racism that targets Asians and Asian-Americans, portraying this group as consistently hard-working and academically successful. Rooted in media portrayal and reinforcement, the model minority stereotype has tremendous social, ethical, and psychological implications....
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...
Xaripu Community across Borders, The
Labor Migration, Community, and Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
During the past three decades there have been many studies of transnational migration. Most of the scholarship has focused on one side of the border, one area of labor incorporation, one generation of migrants, and one gender. In this path-breaking book, Manuel Barajas presents the first cross-national,...
Those About Him Remained Silent
The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois died in exile in Ghana at the age of 95, more than a half century after cofounding the NAACP. Five years after his death, residents of Great Barrington, the small Massachusetts town where Du Bois was born in 1868, proposed...
Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women
Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of...
Black for a Day
White Fantasies of Race and Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously "became" black as well, traveling the American South in search of a certain kind of racial understanding. Contemporary history is littered...
Combined Destinies
Whites Sharing Grief about Racism
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
By beginning a conversation that encourages self-examination and compassion, Combined Destinies invites its readers to look at how white Americans have been hurt by the very ideology that their ancestors created. Editors Ann Todd Jealous and Caroline T. Haskell, both experienced psychotherapists skilled...