Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
The New Immigrant Whiteness
Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Explores the racialization of immigrants from post-Soviet states and the nuances of citizenship for this new diaspora.
Mapping representations of post-1980s immigration from the former Soviet Union to the United States in interviews, reality TV shows, fiction, and memoirs, Claudia Sadowski-Smith...
by Kristen J. Warner
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This book fills a significant gap in the critical conversation on race in media by extending interrogations of racial colorblindness in American television to the industrial practices that shape what we see on screen. Specifically, it frames the practice of colorblind casting as a potent lens for...
Anatomy of Four Race Riots
Racial Conflict in Knoxville, Elaine (Arkansas), Tulsa, and Chicago, 1919-1921
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Anatomy of Four Race Riots is a study of the terrible racial violence that erupted in four different communities of America during the post World War I years, racial violence that left hundreds dead or injured and a massive amount of destruction in its wake.
Although the igniting incident or...
Projecting 9/11
Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Recent Hollywood Films
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Projecting 9/11 examines sensibilities and ideologies that arose after September 11, 2001, and how these intersect with issues of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in contemporary mainstream films. The authors argue that the social and political project that is “9/11” can be found in most...
Race and Gender in the Classroom
Teachers, Privilege, and Enduring Social Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Race and Gender in the Classroom explores social inequalities in education in the current era of “post-racial” and “post-gendered” politics. In particular, this book illuminates the obstacles that mitigate the potential for teachers to serve as social justice advocates in the classroom by...
by Elizabeth Aries
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2008
In Race and Class Matters at an Elite College, Elizabeth Aries provides a rare glimpse into the challenges faced by black and white college students from widely different class backgrounds as they come to live together as freshmen. Based on an intensive study Aries conducted with 58 students at Amherst...
by Tomlinson, Sally
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Covering the period from the height of Empire to Brexit and beyond, this book shows how the vote to leave the European Union increased hostilities towards racial and ethnic minorities and migrants. Concentrating on the education system, it asks whether populist views that there should be a British...
Between Sisters
Emancipatory Hope out of Tragic Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In a world laced with the lethal threads of racism, sexism, classism, and sexual oppression we need a liberating hope that dismantles these intersecting problems that render us into a stupor of chronic despair. In the United States, where the color of your skin can determine life or death, we need...
The Contours of Eurocentrism
Race, History, and Political Texts
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book proposes an approach to Eurocentrism as a paradigm of knowledge production and interpretation rooted in the Western narrative of modernity and its racial governmentalities. Accordingly, it interrogates the relationship between knowledge, race and power at the heart of debates on the making...
Stamped from the Beginning
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than...
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
**Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States” (The New York Observer)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE...
In Full Color
Finding My Place in a Black and White World
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A lot of people have made up their minds about Rachel Doležal. But none of them know her real story. In June 2015, the media outed” Rachel Doležal as a white woman who had knowingly been passing” as Black. When asked if she were African American during an interview about the hate crimes directed...
Under Our Skin
Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Can it ever get better? This is the question Benjamin Watson is asking. In a country aflame with the fallout from the racial divide—in which Ferguson, Charleston, and the Confederate flag dominate the national news, daily seeming to rip the wounds open ever wider—is there hope for honest and healing...
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body...