Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Voting Rights Under Fire: The Continuing Struggle for People of Color
The Continuing Struggle for People of Color
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Why does race play such a discursive role when it comes to the "right to vote"? Lawmakers are continuing to propose changes to voting rights policies that directly impact African Americans and the emerging Latino electorate. Ranging from issues like voter identification laws, accusations...
Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States
Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States: Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities compares the formation of the ethnic identities of two distinct cohorts of Korean Americans. Through personal essays, the book explores four influential factors of ethnic identity: retention...
by Alastair Bonnett
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2005
This introductory text provides students for the first time with an historical and international analysis of the development of anti-racism. Drawing on sources from around the world, the author explains the roots and describes the practice of anti-racism in Western and non-Western societies from Britain...
Desegregating Dixie
The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Mark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the first time the complex response of African American and white Catholics across the South to desegregation. In the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the southern Catholic Church contributed to...
Inland Shift
Race, Space, and Capital in Southern California
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The subprime crash of 2008 revealed a fragile, unjust, and unsustainable economy built on retail consumption, low-wage jobs, and fictitious capital. Economic crisis, finance capital, and global commodity chains transformed Southern California just as Latinxs and immigrants were turning California...
Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature
From Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women’s Literature by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across several...
Plantation Jesus
Race, Faith, and a New Way Forward
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Not long ago, most white American Christians believed that Jesus blessed slavery. God wasn’t bothered by Jim Crow. Baby Jesus had white skin. Meet Plantation Jesus: a god who is comfortable with bigotry, and an idol that distorts the message of the real Savior. That false image of God is dead, right?...
Same Family, Different Colors
Confronting Colorism in America's Diverse Families
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States.
Colorism and color bias—the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the color of their skin—is...
White Girl
A Story of School Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This poignant account recalls firsthand the upheaval surrounding court-ordered busing in the early 1970s to achieve school integration. Like many students at the vanguard of this great social experiment, sixth-grader Clara Silverstein was spit on, tripped, and shoved by her new schoolmates. At other...
by K. Emma Ng
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
A 2010 Human Rights Commission report found that Asian people reported higher levels of discrimination than any other minority in New Zealand.
K. Emma Ng shines light onto the persistence of anti-Asian sentiment in New Zealand. Her anecdotal account is based on her personal experience as a...
Overcoming Political Impotence in the Ghetto with Goodwillism
Leave the Rat Race to the Rats, #3
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The ghetto is suffering political impotence. The goodwillism of the Goodwill Revolution is the political Viagra that will restore their potency. Too long the ghetto has been ignored and forsaken because of this. By rejecting the rat race and adopting goodwillism we will mobilize the ghetto and change...
Today, 60% of American Women Are Graduating with College Degrees versus 40% of American Men.
SHORT STORY # 27. Nonfiction series #1- #60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Even the Civil Right Act of 1964 gave an equal opportunity to women and minorities, discrimination and prejudice continue even today. Brilliant and pioneering women in these generations sacrificed, endured, and overcome monumental problems. They took a risk—millions entered the labor force and colleges...
Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South
Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
After World War II, elite private universities in the South faced growing calls for desegregation. Though, unlike their peer public institutions, no federal court ordered these schools to admit black students and no troops arrived to protect access to the schools, to suggest that desegregation at...
Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military
Volume 4. Investigations of Potential Bias in Estimates from the 2014 RAND Military Workplace Study
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office asked the RAND Corporation to independently assess rates of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination in the military. This volume presents the results of methodological investigations into sources of potential...