Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Intersectionality and Urban Education
Identities, Policies, Spaces & Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In urban education, “urban” is a floating signifier that is imbued with meaning, positive or negative by its users. “Urban” can be used to refer to both the geographical context of a city and a sense of “less than,” most often in relation to race and/or socioeconomic status (Watson, 2011)....
Inequity in Education
A Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Inequity in Education represents the latest scholarship investigating issues of race, class, ethnicity, religion, gender, and national identity formation that influenced education in America throughout its history. Targeting sophisticated undergraduates along with graduate students and specialists,...
African American Slavery and Disability
Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from...
Last Project Standing
Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago’s Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller, mixed-income, and partially privatized developments...
Dark Threats and White Knights
The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally.
Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shidane Abukar Arone is tortured to death. Dozens of Canadian soldiers look on or know of the torture.
The first reports of what became known in Canada...
A Crooked River
Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1861–1877
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
During the turbulent years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, a squall of violence and lawlessness swept through the Nueces Strip and the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas. Cattle rustlers, regular troops, and Texas Rangers, as well as Civil War deserters and other characters of questionable reputation,...
Backlash
What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
When George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled “Dear White America” asking white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from racism, he knew his article would be controversial. But he was unprepared for the flood of vitriol in response.
The resulting blowback played...
White, Male and Middle Class
Explorations in Feminism and History
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
What are the relations between feminism and history, feminist politics and historical practice? What are the connections between gender and class? What part have racial identities and ethnic difference played in the construction of Englishness?
Through a series of provocative and richly detailed...
Fantasies of Identification
Disability, Gender, Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodied or disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define these identities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable...
Raise Your Voice
Why We Stay Silent and How to Speak Up
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
You have a voice. And you have God's permission to use it. In some communities, certain voices are amplified and elevated while others are erased and suppressed. It can be hard to speak up, especially in the ugliness of social media. Power dynamics keep us silent and marginalized, especially when...
Rationing Justice
Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South, as the poor made tangible gains in cases involving...
South of Haunted Dreams
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
For black Americans from the north, a crossing into the South has always been a meaningful transition, a journey weighted with the burdens of history and oppression. Writing with real emotion and a twist of irony, Eddy L. Harris combines the lively detail of travel writing with a brilliant exploration of race in America in South of Haunted Dreams: A Memoir.
Taxing the Poor
Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2011
This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O’Brien argue that these policies...
by Nicholas Beecroft
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Dr Nicholas Beecroft interviews William Nkata Masembe on his perspective on British Patriotism as a Ugandan who has come to live in London. He describes those things that he loves about Britain and the British and gives his observations on how multiculturalism is working. He loves the tolerance and...