Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Suspicion Nation
The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post-racial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on the night of February 26, 2012, a black seventeen-year-old boy walking to a friend’s...
Color and Money
How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War over College Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
What is the real story behind the fight over affirmative action at colleges? Veteran journalist Peter Schmidt exposes truths that will outrage readers and forever transform the debate. He reveals how:
* colleges use affirmative action to mask how much they cater to the country club crowd and...
Reproducing Racism
How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws and now the inauguration of our first black president, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress?
Legal...
Why Do We Still Have A Race Problem?
Whatever Makes Us Different, Makes Us the Same
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
America has changed, however the disparity of equality between white and African Americans have not. African Americans are still statistically unemployed more than whites, statistically first in receiving welfare benefits and first in violent crimes reporting. Today, African Americans and white people...
Anatomy of Four Race Riots
Racial Conflict in Knoxville, Elaine (Arkansas), Tulsa, and Chicago, 1919â??1921
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Romani Pilgrims
Europe's new moral force
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Throughout Europe, Gypsies and Travellers are finding God in record numbers as a pentecostal revival gathers momentum. The Life and Light church is changing lives and at the same time bringing previously stigmatised minorities into a closer dialogue with local communities. New political and moral voices...
by Willie James Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
by Johnny Bernard Hill
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
In this book Johnny Bernard Hill argues that prophetic rage, or righteous anger, is a necessary response to our present culture of imperialism and nihilism. The most powerful way to resist meaninglessness, he says, is refusing to accept the realities of structural injustice, such as poverty, escalating...
Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity
Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
In Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity, Gaye Theresa Johnson examines interracial anti-racist alliances, divisions among aggrieved minority communities, and the cultural expressions and spatial politics that emerge from the mutual struggles of Blacks and Chicanos in Los Angeles from the 1940s...
by D. Marvin Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
An eye-opening, unapologetic explanation of what "racial profiling" is in modern-day America: systematic targeting of communities and placing of suspicion on populations, on the basis of not only ethnicity but also certain places that are linked to the social identity of that group.
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The Color of Crime (Second Edition)
Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and Other Macroaggressions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
When The Color of Crime was first published ten years ago, it was heralded as a path-breaking book on race and crime. Now, in its tenth anniversary year, Katheryn Russell-Brown’s book is more relevant than ever. The Jena Six, Duke Lacrosse Team, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, James Byrd, and all of those...
Get out of Jena
Under Condition
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Get Out Of Jena takes a look into the conditions that makes for racial divides to persist in any modern day American society that refuses to acknowledge the contributions that any race makes to that society. Through the real life experiences of a family from LaSalle Parish, Louisiana- where Jena is...
by Stephen J. McNamee
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The Meritocracy Myth challenges the widely held American belief in meritocracy—that people get out of the system what they put into it based on individual merit. The book examines talent, attitude, work ethic, and character as elements of merit and evaluates the effect of nonmerit factors such as...
Two Nations
Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Why, despite continued efforts to increase understanding and expand opportunities, do black and white Americans still lead separate lives, continually marked by tension and hostility? In his much-lauded classic, newly updated to reflect the changing realities of race in our nation, Andrew Hacker explains...