Joe Feagin: 20 books
Systemic Racism
A Theory of Oppression
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In this book, Feagin develops a theory of systemic racism to interpret the highly racialized character and development of this society. Exploring the distinctive social worlds that have been created by racial oppression over nearly four centuries and what this has meant for the people of the United...
Yes We Can?
White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The first edition of this book offered one of the first social science analyses of Barack Obama’s historic electoral campaigns and early presidency. In this second edition the authors extend that analysis to Obama’s service in the presidency and to his second campaign to hold that presidency....
Black in Blue
African-American Police Officers and Racism
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
From New York to Los Angeles, police departments across the country are consistently accused of racism. Although historically white police precincts have been slowly integrating over the past few decades, African-American officers still encounter racism on the job. Bolton and Feagin have interviewed...
The White Racial Frame
Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In this book Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame. Now four centuries-old, this white racial frame encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and racist ideology emphasized in other theories of...
Globalization and America
Race, Human Rights, and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
As globalization expands, more than goods and information are traded between the countries of the world. Hattery, Embrick, and Smith present a collection of essays that explore the ways in which issues of human rights and social inequality are shared globally. The editors focus on the United States'...
Racist America
Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
This fourth edition of Racist America is significantly revised and updated, with an eye toward racism issues arising regularly in our contemporary era. This edition incorporates many recent research studies and reports on U.S. racial issues that update and enhance the last edition’s chapters. It...
White Party, White Government
Race, Class, and U.S. Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
White Party, White Government examines the centuries-old impact of systemic racism on the U.S. political system. The text assesses the development by elite and other whites of a racialized capitalistic system, grounded early in slavery and land theft, and its intertwining with a distinctive political...
Latinos Facing Racism
Discrimination, Resistance, and Endurance
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Feagin and Cobas provide the first in-depth examination of the everyday racism faced by middle-class Latinos. Based on a national survey, we learn how a diverse group of talented Latinos Mexican Americans, Puerto Rican Americans, Cuban Americans, and others respond to and cope with the commonplace...
How Blacks Built America
Labor, Culture, Freedom, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
How Blacks Built America examines the many positive and dramatic contributions made by African Americans to this country over its long history. Almost all public and scholarly discussion of African Americans accenting their distinctive societal position, especially discussion outside black communities,...
Myth of the Model Minority
Asian Americans Facing Racism, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The second edition of this popular book adds important new research on how racial stereotyping is gendered and sexualized. New interviews show that Asian American men feel emasculated in America’s male hierarchy. Women recount their experiences of being exoticized, subtly and otherwise, as sexual...
by Carol Rambo Ronai, Barbara A. Zsembik, Joe R. Feagin
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This collection features new and original research on the range of sexism still faced every day by women in US society. It documents oppression across ethnic, racial, class, and sexual orientation groups in a wide range of gendered spaces, including the home, the workplace, unions, educational institutions,...
by Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, Kimberly Ducey
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Many people of all ages today continue to be attracted to sociology and other social sciences because of their promise to contribute to better political, social, and moral understandings of themselves and their social worlds-and often because they hope it will help them to build a better society....
Double Burden: Black Women and Everyday Racism
Black Women and Everyday Racism
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Studies of contemporary black women are rare and scattered, and are often extensions of a legacy beginning in the 19th century that characterized black women as domineering matriarchs, prostitutes, or welfare queens, negative characterizations that are perpetuated by both white and non-white social...
How the United States Racializes Latinos
White Hegemony and Its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Mexican and Central American undocumented immigrants, as well as U.S. citizens such as Puerto Ricans and Mexican-Americans, have become a significant portion of the U.S. population. Yet the U.S. government, mainstream society, and radical activists characterize this rich diversity of peoples and cultures...
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