Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Disabled Upon Arrival
Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In North America, immigration has never been about immigration. That was true in the early twentieth century when anti-immigrant rhetoric led to draconian crackdowns on the movement of bodies, and it is true today as new measures seek to construct migrants as dangerous and undesirable. This premise...
Black for a Day
White Fantasies of Race and Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously "became" black as well, traveling the American South in search of a certain kind of racial understanding. Contemporary history is littered...
Divided We Fail
The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequality
In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially ended...
Long Past Slavery
Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. These narratives are now widely used as a source to understand the lived experience of those who made the transition from slavery to freedom. But in this examination...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This overview is designed to assist the reader in acknowledging and understanding the historical context of overt racist and discriminatory policies and practices in our military and how these...
The Road to Chinese Exclusion
The Denver Riot, 1880 Election, and Rise of the West
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Denver in the Gilded Age may have been an economic boomtown, but it was also a powder keg waiting to explode. When that inevitable eruption occurred—in the Anti-Chinese Riot of 1880—it was sparked by white resentment at the growing encroachment of Chinese immigrants who had crossed the Pacific...
by Parthiban Muniandy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
For more than three decades Malaysia’s economic growth has been driven in part by the skills and sweat of large numbers of migrant workers. The country has become the temporary home for more than two million documented migrants. Many more than that are undocumented, living precarious lives on the...
Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance
Orientalism, Race and the Idea of the Arabian Nights
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The public image of Arabs in America has been radically affected by the 'war on terror'. But stereotypes of Arabs, manifested for instance in Orientalist representations of Sheherazade and the Arabian Nights in Hollywood and American popular culture, have prevailed for much longer. Here Somaya Sabry...
Represent and Destroy
Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In the global convulsions in the aftermath of World War II, one dominant world racial order broke apart and a new one emerged. This is the story Jodi Melamed tells in Represent and Destroy, portraying the postwar racial break as a transition from white supremacist modernity to a formally antiracist liberal...
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy
Democratizing Higher Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
A fresh and bold argument for revamping our standards of “merit” and a clear blueprint for creating collaborative education models that strengthen our democracy rather than privileging individual elites
Standing on the foundations of America’s promise of equal opportunity, our universities...
Way Too Cool
Selling Out Race and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or fashion, cool is big business for those who can sell it across a range of markets and media. Yet the concept wasn't always a popular commodity. Cool began as a...
American Hate
Survivors Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
**Amid the ugly realities of contemporary America, American Hate affirms our courage and inspiration, opening a roadmap to reconciliation by means of the victims' own words.”
-NPR Books
The collection offers possible solutions for how people, on their own or working with others, can confront...
Inclusive equality
A vision for social justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
In an era of ongoing economic failures, as governments cut support to the poorest, the richest continue to get richer and those in-between are squeezed by rising costs and flagging incomes, the challenges for social cohesion – and for social justice – seem overwhelming. As inequality increases,...
The Hour of Eugenics"
Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 1996
Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and the United States the eugenics movement found many supporters before it was finally discredited by its association with the racist ideology...