Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Razing Africville
A Geography of Racism
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
In the 1960s, the city of Halifax razed the black community of Africville under a program of urban renewal and 'slum clearance.' The city defended its actions by citing the deplorable living conditions in Africville, ignoring its own role in the creation of these conditions through years of neglect...
Tales from the Haunted South
Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved...
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire
Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive...
White Party, White Government
Race, Class, and U.S. Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
White Party, White Government examines the centuries-old impact of systemic racism on the U.S. political system. The text assesses the development by elite and other whites of a racialized capitalistic system, grounded early in slavery and land theft, and its intertwining with a distinctive political...
by Doreen Massey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This new book brings together Doreen Massey's key writings on three areas central to a range of disciplines. In addition, the author reflects on the development of these ideas and outlines her current position on these important issues.
The book is organized around the three themes of space,...
From Bombay to Bollywood
The Making of a Global Media Industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
From Bombay to Bollywood analyzes the transformation of the national film industry in Bombay into a transnational and multi-media cultural enterprise, which has come to be known as Bollywood. Combining ethnographic, institutional, and textual analyses, Aswin Punathambekar explores how relations between...
by J. Jackson Owensby
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Black man, White man, Red mllan, Yellow Man, Brown Man. African, Arab, Asian, Englishman, European, German, Irishman, Jew, Mexican Native American, Russian, Scotsman, Spaniard, White Anglo-Saxon.At one time or another, every race and every nation was enslaved. At one time or another, every nation...
Black and Proud
The Story of an Iconic AFL Photo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
On April 17, 1993, after an Australian Football League match between St. Kilda and Collingwood marred by racist chanting, victorious St. Kilda star Nicky Winmar faced the opposition fans, lifted his shirt and, pointing to his chest, declared, “I’m black and I’m proud to be black.” The moment...
Religious Freedom
The Contested History of an American Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends in this sweeping and brilliantly argued book. Instead, American ideas about religious freedom were...
War on Autism
On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
War on Autism examines autism as a historically specific and powerladen cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a neoliberal western modernity. Bringing together a variety of interpretive theoretical perspectives including critical disability studies, queer and...
by Karl Jacoby
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
**Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award
"An American 'Odyssey,' the larger-than-life story of a man who travels far in the wake of war and gets by on his adaptability and gift for gab." —Wall Street Journal**
A black child born on the US-Mexico...
Partly Colored
Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during the heart of Jim Crow-era segregation. A Japanese-American person boards a bus, and immediately is faced with a dilemma. Not white. Not black. Where to sit?
By elucidating the experience of interstitial ethnic groups such as Mexican, Asian, and Native Americans—groups...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Thurgood Marshall rides the train in the Jim Crow car (the one directly behind the engine) to the American south to defend yet another black citizen in court. Marshall, who was the grandson of a mixed-race slave, is an integral part of the growing civil rights movement in America. His father and uncle...
by Premilla Nadasen
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The welfare rights movement was an interracial protest movement of poor women on AFDC who demanded reform of welfare policy, greater respect and dignity, and financial support to properly raise and care for their children. In short, they pushed for a right to welfare. Lasting from the early 1960s...