Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook
A James Boggs Reader
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Born in the rural American south, James Boggs lived nearly his entire adult life in Detroit and worked as a factory worker for twenty-eight years while immersing himself in the political struggles of the industrial urban north. During and after the years he spent in the auto industry, Boggs wrote two...
Gender, Whiteness, and Power in Rodeo
Breaking Away from the Ties of Sexism and Racism
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The lure of cowgirls and cowboys has hooked the American imagination with the lure of freedom and adventure since the turn of the twentieth century. The cowboy and cowgirl played in the imagination and made rodeo into a symbolic representation of the Western United States. As a sport that is emblematic...
Sanctuaries of Segregation
The Story of the Jackson Church Visit Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Eudora Welty Prize
Sanctuaries of Segregation provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Jackson, Mississippi, church visit campaign of 1963-1964 and the efforts by segregationists to protect one of their last refuges. For ten months, integrated groups of ministers...
Who Killed John Clayton?
Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861-1893
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1998
In 1888 a group of armed and masked Democrats stole a ballot box from a small town in Conway County, Arkansas. The box contained most of the county’s black Republican votes, thereby assuring defeat for candidate John Clayton in a close race for the U.S. Congress. Days after he announced he would...
Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places
Justice Beyond and Between
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
An impressive line-up of leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines – law, but also anthropology, rhetoric, literature, history, geography, and race and ethnic studies.
Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds
Gender, Race, and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Focusing on fifty girls enrolled in a model public school program for pregnant teens, Luttrell explores how pregnant girls experience society's view of them and also considers how these girls view themselves and the choices they've made. Also includes an 8-page color insert.
The Skin That We Speak
Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
“Lucid, accessible” research on classroom language bias for educators and “parents concerned about questions of power and control in public schools” (Publishers Weekly).
In this collection of twelve essays, MacArthur Fellow Lisa Delpit and Kent State University Associate Professor Joanne...
Not Like a Native Speaker
On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal...
"When the Welfare People Come"
Race and Class in the US Child Protection System
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Provides an analysis of institutional racism and inequality in the U.S. with a focus on institutions for which are often paid less attention by scholars and activists.
There are no other works which analyze the child welfare system historically or in its current composition, specifically as...
Court of Appeal
The Black Community Speaks Out on the Racial and
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Forty-one essays from across the political spectrum, plus Clarence Thomas’s and Anita Hill’s statements to the Senate Judiciary Committee and position papers from major black organizations
Despite the intense media coverage of the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence...
Shades of Difference
Why Skin Color Matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference for lighter skin and the ranking of individual worth according to skin tone. Examining the social and cultural significance of skin color in a broad range of societies and historical periods, this...
Fighting the Slave Trade
West African Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2003
While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention. But our picture of the slave trade is incomplete without an examination...
by Raewyn W. Connell
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In recent years, questions about men and boys have aroused remarkable media interest, public concern and controversy. Across the world, health services are noticing the relevance of men’s gender to problems as diverse as road accidents, diet and sexually transmitted disease. Teachers are increasingly...
by Jaap Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
The main question of this book is: why have the billions of dollars spent on Aboriginal issues not closed the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and what should be done about this?
Wake Up Time is the, often very graphic and anecdotal, story of a personal journey through some remote...