Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Playing While White
Privilege and Power on and off the Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Playing While White argues that whiteness matters in sports culture, both on and off the field. Offering critical analysis of athletic stars such as Johnny Manziel, Marshall Henderson, Jordan Spieth, Lance Armstrong, Josh Hamilton, as well as the predominantly white cultures of NASCAR and extreme...
What Can and Can't Be Said
Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and African American history that have been erected in the U.S. South over the past three decades, this powerful work explores how commemorative structures have been used to assert the presence of black Americans in contemporary Southern society....
Unsettling America
The Uses of Indianness in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Unsettling America explores the cultural politics of Indianness in the 21st century. It concerns itself with representations of Native Americans in popular culture, the news media, and political debate and the ways in which American Indians have interpreted, challenged, and reworked key ideas about...
After Charleston and Ferguson
Where Do We Go from Here?
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Despite the great strides made for social justice during the civil rights movement in the 1960s some of the most jarring national events of the early twenty-first century have been symptomatic of a deep-seated racial strife in America. The killing of nine African American church members in Charleston,...
Slavery behind the Wall
An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
"A significant contribution in Caribbean archaeology. Singleton weaves archaeological and documentary evidence into a compelling narrative of the lives of the enslaved at Santa Ana de Biajacas."--Patricia Samford, author of Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia...
Punishment in Paradise
Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century...
by Janet Michello, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Institutions play a dominant role in our society and influence the manner in which we live. Institutions form the basic structure of society and impact our access to information, employment, financial and educational resources, and quality of life. This book showcases how American institutions perpetuate...
The Psychology of Personal Constructs
Volume One: Theory and Personality
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Examining two centuries of Balkan politics, from the emergence of nationalism to the retreat of Communist power in 1989, this is the first book to systematically argue that many of the region's problems are external in origin.
A decade of instability in the Balkan states of southeast Europe...
Gender Trouble Makers
Education and Empowerment in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
International development efforts aimed at improving girls’ lives and education have been well-intended, somewhat effective, but ultimately short-sighted and incomplete. This is because international development efforts often operate under a reductive understanding of the term 'gender' and how it...
A Shadow over Palestine
The Imperial Life of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Upon signing the first U.S. arms agreement with Israel in 1962, John F. Kennedy assured Golda Meir that the United States had “a special relationship with Israel in the Middle East,” comparable only to that of the United States with Britain. After more than five decades such a statement might...
Borders of Equality
The NAACP and the Baltimore Civil Rights Struggle, 1914-1970
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
As a border city Baltimore made an ideal arena to push for change during the civil rights movement. It was a city in which all forms of segregation and racism appeared vulnerable to attack by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's methods. If successful in Baltimore, the...
Houston Bound
Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Beginning after World War I, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States.* Houston Bound* draws on social and cultural history to show how, despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through...
Being White, Being Good
White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Contemporary scholars who study race and racism have emphasized that white complicity plays a role in perpetuating systemic racial injustice. Being White, Being Good seeks to explain what scholars mean by white complicity, to explore the ethical and epistemological assumptions that white complicity...
Red Skin, White Masks
Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
WINNER OF:
Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book from the Caribbean Philosophical Association
Canadian Political Science Association’s C.B. MacPherson Prize
Studies in Political Economy Book Prize
Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization...