Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Trouble in Mind
Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
"The stain of Jim Crow runs deep in 20th-century America. . . . Its effects remain the nation's most pressing business. Trouble in Mind is an absolutely essential account of its dreadful history and calamitous legacy." --The Washington Post
"The most complete and moving account we have had...
The Booker T. Washington Reader
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography; My Larger Education; Character Building; The Negro Problem
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Here in one omnibus edition are Booker T. Washington's most important books. Washington was constantly, and often bitterly, criticized by his contemporaries for being too conciliatory to whites and not concerned enough about civil rights. It would not be until after his death that the world would...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Critical Race Theory (CRT) explains and challenges the persistence of racial discrimination throughout the world today, addressing issues such as racism, post-colonialism and systems of apartheid. Despite claims we live in a post-racial era, equality laws are under threat in the UK and evidence of...
Building the Beloved Community
Philadelphia’s Interracial Civil Rights Organizations and Race Relations, 1930–1970
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Inspired by Quakerism, Progressivism, the Social Gospel movement, and the theories of scholars such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles S. Johnson, Franz Boas, and Ruth Benedict, a determined group of Philadelphia activists sought to transform race relations. This book concentrates on these organizations:...
Cycle of Segregation
Social Processes and Residential Stratification
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed housing discrimination by race and provided an important tool for dismantling legal segregation. But almost fifty years later, residential segregation remains virtually unchanged in many metropolitan areas, particularly where large groups of racial and ethnic...
Cases, Materials and Text on National, Supranational and International Non-Discrimination Law
Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2007
This casebook, the result of the collaborative efforts of a panel of experts from various EU Member States, is the latest in the Ius Commune Casebook series developed at the Universities of Maastricht and Leuven. The book provides a comprehensive and skilfully designed resource for students, practitioners,...
Darwin's Athletes
How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1997
A “provocative, disturbing, important” look at how society’s obsession with athletic achievement undermines African Americans (The New York Times).
Very few pastimes in America cross racial, regional, cultural, and economic boundaries the way sports do. From the near-religious respect...
The Power of Race in Cuba
Racial Ideology and Black Consciousness During the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
In The Power of Race in Cuba, Danielle Pilar Clealand analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial progress and activism through the lens of Cuba. Since 1959, Fidel Castro and the Cuban government have married socialism and the ideal of racial harmony to...
White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition
The Legal Construction of Race
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2006
White by Law was published in 1996 to immense critical acclaim, and established Ian Haney López as one of the most exciting and talented young minds in the legal academy. The first book to fully explore the social and specifically legal construction of race, White by Law inspired a generation of...
Elusive Utopia
The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberlin College, strove to end slavery and establish full equality for all. Yet, in the half-century after the Union victory, Oberlin’s resolute stand for...
by Annie O. Derthick, PhD, E.J.R. David
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Written in an engaging and relatable manner, this book reviews the psychological theories and research on the topic of oppression – its evolution, its various forms, and its consequences. Painful historical examples and modern-day occurrences of oppression including mass incarceration, LGBT and...
by Nostaple Limited
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
If a multinational employer fired you for having diabetes because you would be off sick a lot in the future, what would you do? This is a true story of discrimination in the workplace, one ordinary person against a multinational employer, multinational legal firm, barrister, appeal courts, countries...
The Clamorgans
One Family's History of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
The historian Julie Winch uses her sweeping, multigenerational history of the unforgettable Clamorgans to chronicle how one family navigated race in America from the 1780s through the 1950s. What she discovers overturns decades of received academic wisdom. Far from an impermeable wall fixed by whites,...
One Race One Blood
A Biblical Answer to Racism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
It is a rarely discussed fact of history that the premise of Darwinian evolution has been deeply rooted in the worst racist ideology since its inception. Read a thorough account of the effects of evolution on the history of the United States and discrimination based on ethnicity, including slavery...