Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Race and Retail
Consumption across the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans. Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety of other ethnic groups, who have at times found...
A Space for Race
Decoding Racism, Multiculturalism, and Post-Colonialism in the Quest for Belonging in Canada and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A Space for Race engages in a critical examination of some of the major discourses related to original/settler/immigrant and, particularly, racialized belonging. In the course of this examination, the book explores the various themes of racism, multiculturalism, and post-colonialism and the ongoing...
by Eric Weed
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
On January 20th, 2009, the United States entered a new era in terms of race relations in the country. The hopes of many Americans were not to be fulfilled and many believe race relations are worse now. The reason is the legacy of race is integral to the American nation. The Religion of White Supremacy...
Redefining Race
Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
In 2012, the Pew Research Center issued a report that named Asian Americans as the “highest-income, best-educated, and fastest-growing racial group in the United States.” Despite this seemingly optimistic conclusion, over thirty Asian American advocacy groups challenged the findings. As many pointed...
Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas brings together the work of leading experts to cast a powerful light on the rich and diverse history of Arkansas’s racial and ethic relations. The essays span from slavery to the civil rights era and cover a diverse range of topics including the frontier experience...
Race on the Brain
What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Of the many obstacles to racial justice in America, none has received more recent attention than the one that lurks in our subconscious. As social movements and policing scandals have shown how far from being “postracial” we are, the concept of implicit bias has taken center stage in the national...
After Civil Rights
Racial Realism in the New American Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
What role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question, and the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964 seemingly answered it: race must not be a factor in workplace decisions. In After Civil Rights, John Skrentny contends that...
Punishing Race
A Continuing American Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more likely than whites to be stopped by the police,...
How Race Is Made
Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses--not just their eyes--to construct racial difference and define race. His provocative analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, shows how whites of all classes used the artificial...
Toxic Communities
Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
From St.
Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and
minority neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be
hazardous to your health. Due to entrenched segregation, zoning ordinances that
privilege wealthier communities, or because businesses have...
Guinea Pigs of the New World Order
Blackman the Endangered Breed
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The author believes that those labelled as blacks in the world are the greatest victims of racial discrimination and will be highly victimised as the New World Government takes full force. According to the author, racism is not a problem as humans seem to have evolved with some seemingly physical...
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...
Subprime Health
Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
From race-based pharmaceutical prescriptions and marketing, to race-targeted medical “hot spotting” and the Affordable Care Act, to stem-cell trial recruitment discourse, Subprime Health is a timely examination of race-based medicine as it intersects with the concept of debt. The contributors to...
The Mystical Twins
A story about love, life and two nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
A story about love, life and two nations. Princess Obome who is like a Martin Luther King Jr. incarnate from African descent that met her European twin abroad. She suffers from gender discrimination in her society. However, she is able to change the notion and mentality of her society through diligence...