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The Affect of Difference
Representations of Race in East Asian Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The Affect of Difference is a collection of essays offering a new perspective on the history of race and racial ideologies in modern East Asia. Contributors approach this subject through the exploration of everyday culture from a range of academic disciplines, each working to show how race was made...
by Sharon DeGraw
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series, Edgar Rice Burroughs primarily supported essentialist constructions of racial identity, but also included...
Multiracial Parents
Mixed Families, Generational Change, and the Future of Race
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The views and experiences of multiracial people as parents
The world’s multiracial population is considered to be one of the fastest growing of all ethnic groups. In the United States alone, it is estimated that over 20% of the population will be considered “mixed race” by 2050. Public...
by Yinghong Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
This book is a critical study of the development of a racialised nationalism in China, exploring its unique characteristics and internal tensions, and connecting it to other forms of global racism. The growth of this discourse is contextualised within the party-state’s political agenda to seek legitimacy,...
A Realist Metaphysics of Race
A Context-Sensitive, Short-Term Retentionist, Long-Term Revisionist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
A Realist Metaphysics of Race: A Context-Sensitive, Short-Term Retentionist, Long-Term Revisionist Approach, Jeremy Pierce defends a social kind view of racial categories. On this view, the biological features we use to classify people racially do not make races natural kinds. Rather, races exist...
Between Slavery and Capitalism
The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change affected individuals, organizations, and communities in the late...
Freedom's Frontier
California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific...
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2
The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King outlined a dream of an America where people would not be judged by the color of their skin. That dream has yet to be realized, but some three centuries ago it was a reality. Back then, neither social practice nor law recognized any special...
The Fire This Time
A New Generation Speaks about Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
A surprise New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation—are “thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that words...
Almost Hereditary: A White Southerner's Journey Out of Racism
A Guide for Unlearning and Healing Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Almost Hereditary is one person's story of overcoming the racism that was passed down in his family from generation to generation. It is a story of transformation that offers hope to others who want to see less prejudice in the world around them. As well as sharing the history of his family and his...
Carolina Israelite
How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)--author of the 1958 national best-seller Only in America--illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position...
by Tracey Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
‘This eloquent and passionate work documents how we have strayed from a humane policy towards asylum seekers, following the same sad and discredited path as Australia.’ Joris de Bres, Race Relations Commissioner 2002-2013Why would a country that has never had a boatload of asylum arrivals in modern...
The Color of Success
Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of...
Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel
White Jews, Black Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This is the first book in English to examine the Mizrahi Jews (Jews from the Muslim world) in Israel, focussing in particular on social and political movements such as the Black Panthers and SHAS. The book analyses the ongoing cultural encounter between Zionism and Israel on one side and Mizrahi Jews...