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Superior
The Return of Race Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial differences
Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science.
After the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War II, the...
Black France / France Noire
The History and Politics of Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists from France and the United States address the untenable paradox at the heart of French society. France's constitutional and legal discourses do not recognize race as a meaningful category. Yet the lived realities of race and racism...
Legacies of Race
Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World. The demographics of both countries reflect this shared past, but this is where comparisons end. The vast majority of the "Afro-Brazilian" population, unlike their U.S. counterparts, view themselves as...
Home and Native Land
Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light—shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain.
The book’s articles, by some of the foremost critical thinkers and activists on issues of difference, diversity,...
Unequal Motherhoods and the Adoption of Asian Children
Birth, Foster, and Adoptive Mothers
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
This book explores a deeply personal aspect of globalization: the adoption of Asian children by white Americans. It is based on dozens of interviews with adoptive mothers and adoption social workers, nearly two hundred letters and essays written by Korean birth mothers who put their children up for...
At the Crossroads
Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Examining interactions between native Americans and whites in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, Jane Merritt traces the emergence of race as the defining difference between these neighbors on the frontier.
Before 1755, Indian and white communities in Pennsylvania shared a certain amount of interdependence....
by Bruce A. Glasrud
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Anti-Black Violence in Twentieth-Century Texas provides an arresting look at the history of violence against African Americans in Texas.
From a lynching in Paris at the turn of the century to the 1998 murder of Jasper resident James Byrd Jr., who was dragged to death behind a truck, this volume...
by Shaun L. Gabbidon
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Ideal for use in either crime theory or race and crime courses, this is the only text to look at the array of explanations for crime as they relate to racial and ethnic populations. Each chapter begins with a historical review of each theoretical perspective and how its original formulation and more...
Righteous Lives
Narratives of the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
An emotionally evocative, richly textured history based on autobiographical accounts of those who lived and shaped the struggle. The importance of many of Rogers' subjects and the uniqueness of New Orleans make this must reading for anyone interested in the history of the movement. But those interested...
by Babacar Camara
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2008
This book deals with substantive issues that have the potential to enhance our understanding regarding how Marxist theory can be quite useful in interpreting Black specificities and the race paradigm. So far, Marxist theory has been excluded because it is supposedly class and economy reductionist,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
From the mid-nineteenth century until the 1930s, many Latin American leaders faced a difficult dilemma regarding the idea of race. On the one hand, they aspired to an ever-closer connection to Europe and North America, where, during much of this period, "scientific" thought condemned nonwhite races...
Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites
Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
After the American Civil War, several movements for ethnic separatism and political self-determination significantly shaped the course of Reconstruction. The Union Leagues mobilized African Americans to fight for their political rights and economic security while the Ku Klux Klan used intimidation...
The Chinese Must Go
Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration...
by Anne C. Rose
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In the American South at the turn of the twentieth century, the legal segregation of the races and psychological sciences focused on selfhood emerged simultaneously. The two developments presented conflicting views of human nature. American psychiatry and psychology were optimistic about personality...