Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Romaphobia
The Last Acceptable Form of Racism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Based on first-hand accounts from Roma communities, Romaphobia is an examination of the discrimination faced by one of the most persecuted groups in Europe. Well-researched and informative, it shows that this discrimination has its roots in the early history of the European nation-state, and the ways...
by Christy Newman, Dale Dagar Maglalang, Alexandra Marie Rivera
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men’s Communities engages in the necessarily complex task of mapping out the operations of racialized desire as it circulates among gay men. In exploring such desire, the contributors to this collection consider the intersections of privilege and marginalization...
White Kids
Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological Association
Finalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems
Riveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Despite a higher percentage of women entering various STEM fields, issues of discrimination and stereotyping continue to exist. These difficulties create a potential hostile environment and a noticeable gap in opportunities, advancements, and compensation increases in comparison to their male counterparts....
Discrimination in Elite Public Schools
Investigating Buffalo
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
School choice is an increasingly important part of today’s educational landscape and this timely volume presents fresh research about the competitive admissions policies of choice systems. Based on their investigation of a unique civil rights challenge to school choice admissions policies in politically...
The Jig Is Up: We Are One!
Race Is a Hoax That Fails American Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Race and racism have played a significant role in the rise and fall of America. In The Jig is Up: We Are One!, author and educator Johnnie P. Mitchell details how the man-made concept of race is a hoax that is destroying American education and presents a plan to restart education in America.
Based...
The Power Manual
How to Master Complex Power Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
All social relations are laden with power. Getting out from under dominant power relations and mastering power dynamics is perhaps the most essential skill for change agents across all sectors seeking to ignite positive change in the world.
This concise action manual explores major concepts...
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
The Sunday Times Bestseller
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION NARRATIVE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL...
Raising White Kids
Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
With a foreword by Tim Wise, Raising White Kids is for families, churches, educators, and communities who want to equip their children to be active and able participants in a society that is becoming one of the most racially diverse in the world while remaining full of racial tensions. For white...
Gender, Race and National Identity
Nations of Flesh and Blood
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
All nations construct stories of national belonging, stories of the nation’s character, its accomplishments, its defining traits, its historical trajectory. These stories, or discourses of national identity, carry powerful messages about gender and race, messages that reflect, reproduce and occasionally...
"I'm Not a Racist, But . . ."
The Moral Quandary of Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." Use of the word "racism" is pervasive: An article about the NAACP's criticism of...
by Harry Stein
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
In the Age of Obama, the ugly charge of racism is more prevalent than ever. Why? Because telling the truth about racial profiling, crime, the social fallout of single parent homes, and the ways racial preferences distort the very meaning of equity and justice would mean facing up to the soul-destroying...
by David Roediger
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationship
David Roediger’s influential work on working people who have come to identify as white has so illuminated questions of identity that its grounding in Marxism has sometimes been missed. This new volume implicitly and explicitly...
The Ethnic Project
Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Race is a known fiction—there is no genetic marker that indicates someone's race—yet the social stigma of race endures. In the United States, ethnicity is often positioned as a counterweight to race, and we celebrate our various hyphenated-American identities. But Vilna Bashi Treitler argues that...