Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
by Natalie Masuoka
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
While pundits point to multiracial Americans as new evidence of a harmonious ethnic melting pot, in reality mixed race peoples have long existed in the United States. Rather than characterize multiracial Americans as a "new" population, this book argues that instead we should view them as individuals...
by Nostaple Limited
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
If a multinational employer fired you for having diabetes because you would be off sick a lot in the future, what would you do? This is a true story of discrimination in the workplace, one ordinary person against a multinational employer, multinational legal firm, barrister, appeal courts, countries...
Roms & riverains
Une politique municipale de la race
Language: French
Release Date: February 18, 2014
L’argument est le suivant : ce qui se passe autour des Roms n’est pas l’éternel retour d’une haine du nomade, ce n’est pas identique à ce qui se passe autour des immigrés extra-européens, ce n’est pas non plus la simple répétition de ce qu’on a connu sous Sarkozy. Il s’agit ici...
A Country of Strangers
Blacks and Whites in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
A Country of Strangers is a magnificent exploration of the psychological landscape where blacks and whites meet. To tell the story in human rather than abstract terms, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David K. Shipler bypasses both extremists and celebrities and takes us among ordinary Americans...
Bittersweet Legacy
The Black and White 'Better Classes' in Charlotte, 1850-1910
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Bittersweet Legacy is the dramatic story of the relationship between two generations of black and white southerners in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1850 to 1910. Janette Greenwood describes the interactions between black and white business and professional people--the 'better classes,' as they...
We Have Overcome
An Immigrant’s Letter to the American People
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
It has been more than fifty years since the Civil Rights Act enshrined equality under the law for all Americans. Since that time, America has enjoyed an era of unprecedented prosperity, domestic and international peace, and technological advancement. It’s almost as if removing the shackles of enforced...
Chokehold
Policing Black Men
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**Finalist for the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Awards
Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)**
A 2017 Washington Post Notable Book
A Kirkus Best Book of 2017
**Butler has hit...
Behind the Backlash
Muslim Americans After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
As the nation tried to absorb the shock of the 9/11 attacks, Muslim Americans were caught up in an unprecedented wave of backlash violence. Public discussion revealed that widespread misunderstanding and misrepresentation of Islam persisted, despite the striking diversity of the Muslim community.
Letting...
Veiled Visions
The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
In 1906 Atlanta, after a summer of inflammatory headlines and accusations of black-on-white sexual assaults, armed white mobs attacked African Americans, resulting in at least twenty-five black fatalities. Atlanta's black residents fought back and repeatedly defended their neighborhoods from white...
Outposts of Civilization
Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Civilization and progress, Gilded Age Americans believed, were inseparable from Anglo-Saxon heritage and Christianity. In rising to become the first Asian and non-Christian world power, Meiji Japan (1868-1912) challenged this deeply-held conviction, and in so doing threatened racial and cultural hierarchies...
Racialized Policing
Aboriginal People’s Encounters with the Police
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Policing is a controversial subject, generating considerable debate. One issue of concern has been “racial profiling” by police, that is, the alleged practice of targeting individuals and groups on the basis of “race.” Racialized Policing argues that the debate has been limited by its individualized...
Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems
Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In 1908, American philosopher Josiah Royce foresaw the future. Race questions and prejudices, he said, "promise to become, in the near future, still more important than they have ever been before." Like his student W. E. B. Du Bois in Souls of Black Folk (1903), Royce recognized that the...
Some of My Friends Are...
The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Examines why it’s difficult to form friendships with people of different races, how we can make those connections, and how they will encourage more meaningful conversations about race.
Surveys have shown that the majority of people believe cross-racial friendships are essential for improving...
by Cornel West
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2000
The fundamental litmus test for American democracy-its economy, government, criminal justice system, education, mass media, and culture-remains: how broad and intense are the arbitrary powers used and deployed against black people. In this sense, the problem of the twenty-first century remains the...