Discrimination category: 2581 books
Medicine Unbundled
A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
A shocking exposé of the dark history and legacy of segregated Indigenous health care in Canada.
After the publication of his critically acclaimed 2011 book Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer’s Search for Justice and Healing in Africa, author Gary Geddes turned the investigative lens on his...
by Jennifer L. S. Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Analyzing experiences of White mothers of daughters and sons of color across the U. S., Chandler provides an insider’s view of the complex ways in which Whiteness norms appear and operate. Through uncovering and analyzing Whiteness norms occurring across motherhood stages, Chandler has developed a...
by Jean-Yves Camus
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg’s critical look at the far right throughout Europe reveals a prehistory and politics more complex than the stereotypes suggest and warns of the challenges it poses to the EU’s liberal-democratic order. These movements are determined to gain power through legitimate electoral means, and they are succeeding.
by Nicola Gaston
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Science changes the world because the creation of knowledge opens up new pathways for us to explore new ways of doing things, and new questions to ask. My optimism lies in the fact that I think that the answer to why science is sexist does all of these things.In this eye-opening BWB Text, Nicola Gaston,...
by Cindy Styles
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
A little story about one girl’s attempt to claim her heritage, and the maneuvering by the Canadian government to discredit that heritage. This book contains a “gift of words” for Toronto, with views on substance abuse presented in the spirit of a fever dream. Feisty. Irreverent. Silly. Political. Experiential.
A Wall in Jerusalem
Hope, Healing, and the Struggle for Justice in Israel and Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Violence in Israel and Palestine has become the norm.
Do we even understand this conflict? Do we know where it comes from?
Why can't the two sides reach agreement? Can Jews and Palestinians find a way to coexist?
An American Jew, Mark Braverman thought he understood the reasons...
The Race Card
How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
What do hurricane Katrina victims, millionaire rappers buying vintage champagne, and Ivy League professors waiting for taxis have in common? All have claimed to be victims of racism. But these days almost no one openly defends bigoted motives, so either...
Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege
The View from the Country Club
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Exclusive social clubs are traditionally an important site for the consolidation of upper-class power. Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege shows that while the particulars of admission have changed, these clubs remain socially significant incubators. Having interviewed typically inaccessible...
White Lies
Race and the Myths of Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2000
The acclaimed work that debunks our myths and false assumptions about race in America
Maurice Berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged environment of New York City in the sixties. His father was a Jewish liberal who worshiped Martin Luther King, Jr.; his mother a dark-skinned Sephardic...
by Lysander Spooner
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
Slavery existed long before the United States of America was founded, but so did opposition to slavery. Both flourished after the founding of the country, and the anti-slavery movement was known as abolition. For many abolitionists, slavery was the preeminent moral issue of the day, and their opposition...
All Eyes are Upon Us
Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
bled roots in segregation and its promising future in politicians from Deval Patrick to Barack Obama.
by Richard B. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagasy, and Southeast Asian slaves to ports throughout the Indian Ocean world. The activities of the British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese traders who operated in the Indian Ocean demonstrate that European...
Crossroads of Freedom
Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
By 1870 the sugar plantations of the Recôncavo region in Bahia, Brazil, held at least seventy thousand slaves, making it one of the largest and most enduring slave societies in the Americas. In this new translation of Crossroads of Freedom—which won the 2011 Clarence H. Haring Prize for the Most...
Eighty-Eight Years
The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a “house divided against itself,” as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick Rael, but no other...