Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
A Defiant Life
Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Thurgood Marshall's extraordinary contribution to civil rights and overcoming racism is more topical than ever, as the national debate on race and the overturning of affirmative action policies make headlines nationwide. Howard Ball, author of eighteen books on the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary,...
Half and Half
Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
As we approach the twenty-first century, biracialism and biculturalism are becoming increasingly common. Skin color and place of birth are no longer reliable signifiers of one's identity or origin. Simple questions like What are you? and Where are you from? aren't answered--they are discussed.
How...
African American Culture and Society After Rodney King
Provocations and Protests, Progression and 'Post-Racialism'
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
1992 was a pivotal moment in African American history, with the Rodney King riots providing palpable evidence of racialized police brutality, media stereotyping of African Americans, and institutional discrimination. Following the twentieth anniversary of the Los Angeles uprising, this time period...
by Tatcho, Jr. Mindiola, Yolanda Flores Niemann
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Race relations in twenty-first-century America will not be just a black-and-white issue. The 2000 census revealed that Hispanics already slightly outnumber African Americans as the largest ethnic group, while together Blacks and Hispanics constitute the majority population in the five largest U.S. cities....
Civil Racism
The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, also known as the Rodney King riots, followed the acquittal of four police officers who had been charged with assault and the use of excessive force against a Black motorist. The violence included widespread looting and destruction of stores, many of which were owned or...
The Cincinnati Human Relations Commission
A History, 1943–2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
In the summer of 1943, as World War II raged overseas, the United States also faced internal strife. Earlier that year, Detroit had erupted in a series of race riots that killed dozens and destroyed entire neighborhoods. Across the country, mayors and city councils sought to defuse racial tensions...
Basic Equality and Discrimination
Reconciling Theory and Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The focus of this book is the idea of equality as a moral, political and jurisprudential concept. The author is motivated primarily by a concern to better understand conundrums in the justification, interpretation and application of discrimination law. Nicholas Smith aims to provide a clearer understanding...
Notes of a Racial Caste Baby
Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
The Constitution of the United States, writes Bryan Fair, was a series of compromises between white male propertyholders: Southern planters and Northern merchants. At the heart of their deals was a clear race-conscious intent to place the interests of whites above those of blacks.
In this provocative...
Class Act
An International Legal Perspective on Class Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Even today, class discrimination remains an important global legal issue. This book allows readers a better understanding of the issue of class discrimination and inequality, including the role of education in bridging the class systems. The study seeks to increase the likelihood of achieving equality...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this important work by the Army recognizes and highlights the contributions of African Americans to the military history of the United States. This is accomplished by providing a historic context on the African American...
Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters
The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursuit of pleasure but as part of a wider struggle for racial equality. Well before the Montgomery bus boycott, mothers led their children into segregated amusement...
by Leslie V. Tischauser
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Jim Crow Laws presents the history of the discriminatory laws that segregated people by race in the American South from the end of the Civil War through passage of the 1965 Civil Rights Act. To paint a true picture of these deplorable restrictions, this book provides a detailed analysis of the creation,...
Race Matters, 25th Anniversary
With a New Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction
First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...