Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
by Hillary Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
**The International Bestseller
Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards.**
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying...
by Clint Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Black Harvard Doctorate in Poetics launches poetry that explores modern blackness.
Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging...
Good as Gold
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2019
That night, the night I first met Jim, lightning blazed and thunder cracked and rolled overhead … Dad burst in through the front door, a flashlight in one hand, an Aboriginal boy clasped to his hip with the other. ‘This is Jimmy,’ he said. ‘He’s going to be living here with us now.’ I...
The Agenda
Wake up Black America! Now is your time!
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
As a black person, have you experienced racism in America?
Is your default position to blame others?
How can we change the way we react when faced with the issues around racism?
There is no doubt that racism exists in the USA today. It can be seen almost daily, in major towns or cities up and down...
A Terrible Thing to Waste
Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
A "powerful and indispensable book" (Gerald Markowitz) on the devastating consequences of environmental racism -- and what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities.
Did you know...
Middle-class African American households with incomes between $50,000 and $60,000...
Black Fortunes
The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
**“By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.”—**Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden Figures
Between the...
My Grandmother's Hands
Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze. My Grandmother’s Hands is a call to action for Americans to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body. Author Resmaa Menakem introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.
Dead or in Prison
My Journey Through Foster Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Crime . . . Poverty . . Racism. George rose above it all. His journey through Foster Care was at times difficult, at times touching and at times very funny. His story will inspire anyone working with young people. Especially those in Foster and Adoptive Care, from Foster Parents to Youth, Social Workers...
by Claude M. Steele
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
The acclaimed social psychologist offers an insider’s look at his research and groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity.
Claude M. Steele, who has been called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his...
by Richard Rothstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2017
Longlisted for the National Book Award
This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review).
Widely heralded as...
Typecasting
On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveals how the work of its creators—early social scientists—continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our most fundamental and unconscious judgments of beauty, humanity, and degeneracy. In this...
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.
The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents...
by Kwasi Konadu
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Transatlantic Africa examines the internal workings of African and diasporic slave societies in the transatlantic era. Emphasizing a global context and the multiplicity of African experiences during that period, historian Kwasi Konadu interprets transatlantic slaving and its consequences through...
The Slave Trade
The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures...