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Everyday Forms of Whiteness
Understanding Race in a 'Post-Racial' World
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
The second edition of Melanie Bush's acclaimed Everyday Forms of Whiteness looks at the often-unseen ways racism impacts our lives. The author has interviewed and surveyed hundreds of college students and reveals that even though we talk as though we live in a "post-racial" world after the...
Living Color
The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body’s most visible trait influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. In a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion, Nina G. Jablonski begins with the...
Co-Whites
How and Why White Women 'Betrayed' the Struggle for Racial Equality in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Co-Whites discusses race and gender politics and traces the role of women in Western and non-Western political systems. Aniagolu examines the dynamics of race and gender in the United States, starting from the colonial and antebellum periods, leading up to the American Civil War and Reconstruction,...
by Roy L. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
With the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States, the issue of racial justice in America occupies center stage. Have black Americans finally achieved racial justice? Is government intervention no longer required? Racial Justice in the Age of Obama considers contemporary...
Big Box Schools
Race, Education, and the Danger of the Wal-Martization of Public Schools in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The American public school system is at a crossroad. One pathway is decorated with signs and institutions that will lead public education towards a destination of collective obligation, accountability, and responsibility that is student-centered, community-based, and driven by educators and parents...
The Exceptional Negro
Racism, White Privilege and the Lie of Respectability Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Lawyer. Mother. Elected Official. Target. Traci O’Neal was thrust into the national spotlight in 2017 when local threats grew into a national racist outcry after a former GOP Presidential candidate singled her out on social media. What followed was a deeply disturbing and widespread campaign...
Race: My Story & Humanity's Bottom Line
More Than a Book.......It's an Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Lauren Joichin Nile introduces what she believes is humanity’s racial bottom line with a compelling account of her personal experiences growing up in 1950’s and 60’s segregated New Orleans. In so doing, she posits what she believes is humanity’s universal racial story.
Lauren explains...
The Anti-Black City
Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil
While Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh police tactics and repressive...
Disney's Most Notorious Film
Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The Walt Disney Company offers a vast universe of movies, television shows, theme parks, and merchandise, all carefully crafted to present an image of wholesome family entertainment. Yet Disney also produced one of the most infamous Hollywood films, Song of the South. Using cartoon characters and live...
Summary and Analysis of Between the World and Me
Based on the Book by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Between the World and Me tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...
Class Acts
Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2007
In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention. Drawing on in-depth interviews and extended ethnographic research in a range...
The Debt
What America Owes to Blacks
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Both an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its people, The Debt says in no uncertain terms what white America owes blacks—and what blacks owe themselves.
In this powerful and controversial book,...
by David L. Moody, Prince Rob Prince Obey
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
The Complexity and Progression of Black Representation in Film and Television examines the intricacies of race, representation, Black masculinity, sexuality, class, and color in American cinema and television. Black images on the silver screen date back to the silent film era, yet these films and...
Growing Gaps
Educational Inequality around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion in access to primary, secondary, and higher education in many nations around the world. Educational expansion is desirable for a country's economy, beneficial for educated individuals themselves, and is also a strategy for greater social harmony....