Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Barack Obama's America
How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
"White's Barack Obama's America eloquently captures both the important nuances of the current political scene and its long-term consequences."
---Richard Wirthlin, former pollster for Ronald Reagan
"This delightfully written and accessible book is the best available account of...
by James Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
"A rich and compelling narrative, as taut and suspenseful as good fiction. In places, Stories of Scottsboro is almost heartbreaking, not least because Goodman shows what people felt as well as what they thought." -- Washington Post Book World
To white Southerners, it was "a heinous...
The Zinn Reader
Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
No other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as Howard Zinn. It is rare that a historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible....
Driving While Black
Highways, Shopping Malls, Taxi Cabs, Sidewalks: How to Fight Back if You Are a Victim of Racial Profiling
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
A practical handbook for people who want to be safe and do something.
Racial profiling does happen. And while cases where victims find themselves looking down the barrel of a policeman's gun make the six o'clock news, dozens of less extreme, yet troubling, examples occur every day. Cabs that...
Revolt of the Tar Heels
The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890â??1901
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
During the 1890s, North Carolina witnessed a political revolution as the newly formed Populist Party joined with the Republicans to throw out do-nothing, conservative Democrats. Focusing on political transformation, electoral reform, and new economic policies to aid poor and struggling farmers, the...
Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware
Forty Years of Letters in Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In 1942 Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline Ware, one of the nation's leading historians. A friendship and a correspondence began, lasting until Murray's death in 1985. Ware, a Boston Brahmin...
Killing the Messenger
A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
When a nineteen-year-old member of a Black Muslim cult assassinated Oakland newspaper editor Chauncey Bailey in 2007—the most shocking killing of a journalist in the United States in thirty years—the question was, Why? “I just wanted to be a good soldier, a strong soldier,” the killer told...
by Alex S. Vitale
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training,...
Lethal Force
The True Toll of Police Shootings in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In 2015, The Washington Post launched an unprecedented effort to account for every fatal shooting by an officer of the law. Their study has motivated the FBI to action, and changed the way we think of those who serve and protect. After a police officer shot and killed a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri,...
by Stuart Albright
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Sidelines is an insider's look at the fascinating world of high-school football, and, beyond that, it is also about the death and rebirth of the American community. Stuart Albright uses football to explore our nation's complicated history of race and public education and to explain why some communities...
Becoming Black Political Subjects
Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s. In addition to symbolic recognition of indigenous peoples and black populations, governments in the region created a more pluralistic...
Getting Away with Murder
The Twentieth-Century Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S. Senate
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the US Congress engaged in bitter debates on whether to enact a federal law that would prosecute private citizens who lynched black Americans. In Getting Away with Murder, the fundamental question under scrutiny is whether Southern Democrats’...
Family Bonds
Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans to make a terrible choice: leave enslaved loved...
Policing the Black Man
Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.
Policing the Black Man explores and...