Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Cause
. . . And How It Doesn't Always Equal Effect
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The Freakonomics of the sociology world. This book shows how deeply irrational we humans are, and what we can do about it
When we try to understand our world, we ask “why?” a specific event occured. But this profoundly human question often leads us astray. In Cause, sociologist Gregory...
The Hardest Deal of All
The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2007
Race has shaped public education in the Magnolia State, from Reconstruction through the Carter Administration. For The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 Charles C. Bolton mines newspaper accounts, interviews, journals, archival records, legal and financial...
The White Possessive
Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
There is great diversity of definitions, causes and consequences of discrimination against persons with disabilities, yet there are fundamental themes uniting countries in their pursuit of human rights policies to improve the social and economic status of those with disabilities. In this volume are...
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Color Behind Bars: Racism in the U.S. Prison System [2 volumes]
Racism in the U.S. Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
A diverse, critical analysis of racial and ethnic disparities within the American criminal justice system that encourages critical thinking by providing various sides to the issues.
• Presents a historical examination of racial and ethnic influences in the early formation of the criminal...
Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis
A Living Black Chicago History
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
Anti-black racism is a stark presence in Chicago, a fact illustrated by significant racial inequality in and around contemporary "global" city. Drawing his work as a civil rights advocate and investigator in Chicago, Street explains this neo-liberal apartheid and its resulting disparity...
The Color of Sound
Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Throughout Brazil, Afro-Brazilians face widespread racial prejudice. Many turn to religion, with Afro-Brazilians disproportionately represented among Protestants, the fastest-growing religious group in the country. Officially, Brazilian Protestants do not involve themselves in racial politics. Behind...
Life in a Black Community
Striving for Equal Citizenship in Annapolis, Maryland, 1902-1952
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Life in a Black Community: Striving for Equal Citizenship in Annapolis, Maryland, 1902-1952 tells the story of a struggle over what it meant to be a citizen of a democracy. For blacks, membership in a democracy meant full and equal participation in the life of the town. For most whites, it meant the...
The Diversity Machine
The Drive to Change the White Male Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
"Diversity" has become the turn-of-the-century buzzword. Republican and Democratic leaders ritually chant "diversity is our strength" and corporate CEOs talk about the need to create a "workforce that looks like America." Most corporate mission statements now contain...
What if I Say the Wrong Thing?
25 Habits for Culturally Effective People
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
In this compelling new tip book you'll find innovative and surprising ways to keep your personal diversity journey moving and the diversity commitment of your organization. Written to make this information bite-size and accessible, you'll find quick answers to typical What should I do? questions, like:...
R.A.C.E. Mentoring Through Social Media
Black and Hispanic Scholars Share Their Journey in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Ivory Tower is and can often be a lonely place for faculty of color. Social injustices run deep and are entrenched within academia. Faculty of color (FOC), more specifically Black and Hispanic, often lament about the ‘Black/Brown’ tax that frequently takes its toll both personally and professionally,...
Beautiful Wasteland
The Rise of Detroit as America's Postindustrial Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
According to popular media and scholarship, Detroit, the once-vibrant city that crumbled with the departure of the auto industry, is where dreams can be reborn. It is a place that, like America itself, is gritty and determined. It has faced the worst kind of adversity, and supposedly now it’s back....
Blinded by the Whites
Why Race Still Matters in 21st-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The election of Barack Obama gave political currency to the (white) idea that Americans now live in a post-racial society. But the persistence of racial profiling, economic inequality between blacks and whites, disproportionate numbers of black prisoners, and disparities in health and access to healthcare...
Surveillance as Social Sorting
Privacy, Risk and Automated Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
Surveillance happens to all of us, everyday, as we walk beneath street cameras, swipe cards, surf the net. Agencies are using increasingly sophisticated computer systems - especially searchable databases - to keep tabs on us at home, work and play. Once the word surveillance was reserved for police...