Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
by Ikuko Asaka, Caree Banton, Celso Thomas Castilho
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation...
The Life and Death of Gus Reed
A Story of Race and Justice in Illinois during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman’s March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancipation and...
How the Sun Lost Its Shine
A Newsroom Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
How the Sun Lost Its Shine: A Newsroom Memoir is award-winning journalist Elaine Tassy's no-holds-barred account of her four years working as a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. As one of few black female staff writers, she noticed and spoke out about the vast differences she saw in how editors, mostly...
The Protest Psychosis
How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness
The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in...
by Philip F. Rubio
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
What is it about affirmative action that makes this public policy one of the most contentious political issues in the United States today? The answer to this question cannot be found by studying the recent past or current events. To understand the current debate over affirmative action, we must...
When Baseball Went White
Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The story of Jackie Robinson valiantly breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947 is one that most Americans know. But less recognized is the fact that some seventy years earlier, following the Civil War, baseball was tenuously biracial and had the potential for a truly open game. How, then, did...
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch
Essays On Race and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Why hate Abercrombie? In a world rife with human cruelty and oppression, why waste your scorn on a popular clothing retailer? The rationale, Dwight A. McBride argues, lies in “the banality of evil,” or the quiet way discriminatory hiring practices and racist ad campaigns seep into and reflect...
by Deneace Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
This is Book One of a quartet that showcases the life of a typical Black woman living in a world where the colour of her skin determines every facet of her life.As a child living on the island of Jamaica, in the 1970’s, she was exposed to the waning horrors of Black slavery. However, a year-and-a-half...
Without a Country
The Untold Story of America's Deported Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
“Timely and compelling . . . What kind of country do we want to be? A nation that cares for our war veterans, or one that deports them into the unknown?” (Brian Castner, author of Disappointment River**)**
Many Americans believe service in the military to be a quintessential way to demonstrate...
by Victor N. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
In everyday life, people negotiate on issues, entertain offers and counteroffers, and gain or lose in terms of economic capital, political power, communal status, and social influence. Although life goes on in the form of compromise, feelings of discrimination or misfortune haunt consciously or unconsciously...
Native-Speakerism in Japan
Intergroup Dynamics in Foreign Language Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The relative status of native and non-native speaker language teachers within educational institutions has long been an issue worldwide but until recently, the voices of teachers articulating their own concerns have been rare. Existing work has tended to focus upon the position of non-native teachers...
Goondeen
Understanding Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In Aboriginal terminology, a ‘Goondeen’ is a person respected for their wisdom, gleaned from long experience; an elder who is listened to and their opinions shared and acted upon. In this book, you will meet three Goondeens: Uncle Albert Holt, a Murri man and champion of equality; Henry Palaszczuk,...
Inequality in the Promised Land
Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Nestled in neighborhoods of varying degrees of affluence, suburban public schools are typically better resourced than their inner-city peers and known for their extracurricular offerings and college preparatory programs. Despite the glowing opportunities that many families associate with suburban...
At the Cross
Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement. No part of that system highlights this truth more than the current implementation of the death penalty. At the Cross tells a story of the relationship between the death penalty and...