Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Racial Discrimination
Institutional Patterns and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
There is an institutionalized dilemma in Europe that counteracts social cohesion and stability. It is a result of the collision and incompatibility between declarations of universal values (such as human rights and democracy) and institutionalized actions which exclude and discriminate against Europeans...
Little Angels
An International Legal Perspective on Child Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Following on from her previous nine books on discrimination law, Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter now focuses on the goal of child equality. Examining issues of child labour and the relevant laws which are designed to protect the most vulnerable in our society, the book explores the primary role of legislation...
Poison in the Ivy
Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
The world of elite campuses is one of rarified social circles, as well as prestigious educational opportunities. W. Carson Byrd studied twenty-eight of the most selective colleges and universities in the United States to see whether elite students’ social interactions with each other might influence...
White Rage
The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
New York TimesBestseller
A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016
A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016
From the Civil War to our combustible present,...
Getting Respect
Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Racism is a common occurrence for members of marginalized groups around the world. Getting Respect illuminates their experiences by comparing three countries with enduring group boundaries: the United States, Brazil and Israel. The authors delve into what kinds of stigmatizing or discriminatory incidents...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
This collection of essays highlights the controversies surrounding racism in sports and African American athletes, examining the racial discrimination that exists in one of the most public arenas in the 21st century.
• Enables readers to comprehend how sports influence—and are influenced...
Social Scientists for Social Justice
Making the Case against Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
In one of the twentieth century's landmark Supreme Court cases, Brown v. Board of Education, social scientists such as Kenneth Clark helped to convince the Supreme Court Justices of the debilitating psychological effects of racism and segregation. John P. Jackson, Jr., examines the well-known studies...
Good Kids, Bad City
A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them.
In the early 1970s, three...
The Racial Glass Ceiling
Subordination in American Law and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A compelling study of a subtle and insidious form of racial inequality in American law and culture. Why does racial equality continue to elude African Americans even after the election of a black president? Liberals blame white racism while conservatives blame black behavior. Both define the race problem...
When They Blew the Levee
Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, one of the flood prevention mechanisms of the Mississippi Rivers and Tributaries Project. This levee breach was intended to divert water in order to...
Caribbean Crossing
African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Shortly after winning its independence in 1804, Haiti’s leaders realized
that if their nation was to survive, it needed to build strong diplomatic bonds
with other nations. Haiti’s first leaders looked especially hard at the United
States, which had a sizeable free black population that included...
Tears We Cannot Stop
A Sermon to White America
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, INDIEBOUND, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CHRONICLE HERALD, SALISBURY POST, GUELPH MERCURY TRIBUNE, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post • Bustle • Men's Journal • The Chicago Reader •...
I Hate Being Black
Author's Unedited Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
"I Hate Being Black", written by Hip Hop pioneer Spyder D, is a direct derivative of his song of the same title. The song was written based off of his real life personal experiences, and was further elaborated on during the writing of the book. Spyder D, as he is known in the entertainment industry,...