Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
by Alain F. Corcos
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The idea that human races exist is a socially constructed myth that has no grounding in science. Regardless of skin, hair, or eye color, stature or physiognomy, we are all of one race. Nonetheless, scientists, social scientists, and pseudoscientists have, for three centuries, tried vainly to prove...
by Crystal Blanton
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Bringing Race to the Table: Exploring Racism in the Pagan Community is an anthology which explores the topic of racism and how it shows up in the Pagan community, as well as what we can do to discuss it and bring it out in the open. Each section of the anthology explores different facets of racism...
“Métis”
Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Ask any Canadian what “Métis” means, and they will likely say “mixed race.” Canadians consider Métis mixed in ways that other indigenous people are not, and the census and courts have premised their recognition of Métis status on this race-based understanding.
According to Andersen,...
Divided Fates
The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This book compares the Korean diasporic groups in Japan and the United States. It highlights the contrasting adaptation of Koreans in Japan and the United States, and illuminates how the destinies of immigrants who originally belonged to the same ethnic/national collectivity diverge depending upon...
Who Is an African?
Race, Identity, and Destiny in Post-apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
The subject of race and identity is a burning issue which continues to occupy the attention not only of South Africans but also the wider residents of the continent of Africa and those who are Africans in the Diaspora. The outburst of xenophobic attacks against foreigners mostly of Black African origins...
by Robert Wald Sussman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Robert Sussman explains why—when it comes to race—too many people still mistake bigotry for science.
Brazil's Living Museum
Race, Reform, and Tradition in Bahia
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia has built its economy around attracting international tourists to what is billed as the locus of Afro-Brazilian culture and the epicenter of Brazilian racial harmony. Yet this inclusive ideal has a complicated past. Chronicling the discourse among intellectuals...
Desegregating Desire
Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, Desegregating Desire examines the varied strategies used by eight American poets and novelists to integrate sexuality into their respective depictions of desegregated places and emergent identities...
Racially Writing the Republic
Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Racially Writing the Republic investigates the central role of race in the construction and transformation of American national identity from the Revolutionary War era to the height of the civil rights movement. Drawing on political theory, American studies, critical race theory, and gender studies,...
The Biopolitics of Race
State Racism and U.S. Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The Biopolitics of Race provides philosophical analysis of immigration, a pressing public issue, by focusing on how concerns over state health are used to identify and deny entrance to Mexican, Muslim, homosexual, and female immigrants. Discourse about state health can be seen as the leading indicator for determining how races are defined in modern society.
White Women's Work
Examining the Intersectionality of Teaching, Identity, and Race
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Historically, white women have had a tremendous influence on establishing the ideological, political, and cultural scaffold of American public schools. Pedagogical orientations, school policies, and classroom practices are underwritten by white, cisgender, feminine, and middle to upper class social and...
Living Racism
Through the Barrel of the Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Living Racism is based on the premise that race and racism are well-entrenched elements of US society. The contributors of this volume argue that race and racism are more than mere concepts; instead, they see and treat these as part of the fabric that constitutes and organizes everyday life. Consequently,...
Gender and Agency
Reconfiguring the Subject in Feminist and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This book reassesses theories of agency and gender identity against the backdrop of changing relations between men and women in contemporary societies. McNay argues that recent thought on the formation of the modern subject offers a one-sided or negative account of agency, which underplays the creative...
Race in the Age of Obama
Part 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
This volume is the second part of a two volume examination of the sociological and cultural impact derivative of Barack Hussein Obama's initial election and re-election as President of the United States. For some scholars and political pundits, the election of the first African-American president...