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Racisms in a Multicultural Canada
Paradoxes, Politics, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
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Augie Fleras
Problematizing Racism: From Racism 1.0 to Racism 2.0
Chapter 2 reveals how perceptions, theories, and definitions of racism have shifted because of evolving debates that often yield more heat than light. References to racism as bad attitudes have given...
Transcending Racial Barriers
Toward a Mutual Obligations Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Despite recent progress against racial inequalities, American society continues to produce attitudes and outcomes that reinforce the racial divide. In Transcending Racial Barriers, Michael Emerson and George Yancey offer a fresh perspective on how to combat racial division. They document the historical...
Being White
Stories of Race and Racism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Karyn McKinney uses written autobiographies solicited from young white people to empirically analyze the contours of the white experience in U.S. society. This text offers a unique view of whiteness based on the rich data provided by whites themselves, writing about what it means to be white.
Everyday Forms of Whiteness
Understanding Race in a 'Post-Racial' World
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
The second edition of Melanie Bush's acclaimed Everyday Forms of Whiteness looks at the often-unseen ways racism impacts our lives. The author has interviewed and surveyed hundreds of college students and reveals that even though we talk as though we live in a "post-racial" world after the...
Uneasy Alliances
Race and Party Competition in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Uneasy Alliances is a powerful challenge to how we think about the relationship between race, political parties, and American democracy. While scholars frequently claim that the need to win elections makes government officials responsive to any and all voters, Paul Frymer shows that not all groups...
Colorblind
The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era. Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to...
by Elizabeth Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected...
Institutional Racism
A Primer on Theory and Strategies for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Many people associate racism with bigoted individuals and radical groups on the fringes of society. Shirley Better argues that racism is much larger than negative attitudes and that it touches the very core of our lives as Americans. In this enhanced second edition, Better explores the historical...
Care, Migration and Human Rights
Law and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The continuum of exploitation that has historically defined the everyday of domestic work - exclusion from employment and social security standards and precarious migration status – has frequently been neglected. It is primarily the moments of crisis, incidents of human trafficking, slavery or forced...
Race, Education, and Reintegrating Formerly Incarcerated Citizens
Counterstories and Counterspaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This timely, readable text offers an authoritative and balanced analysis of how racially driven policies in America impact post release education as a leading pathway to social reintegration. Compelling research findings from an assemblage of college faculty, seasoned administrators, and criminal...
Xenophobia in South Africa
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This book is a vivid history of racism in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on how colonialism still haunts black intraracial relationships. In 2008, sixty-four people died in a wave of anti-immigrant violence in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg; in the aftermath, Hashi Kenneth Tafira went...
The Making of African America
The Four Great Migrations
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries
Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one...
by Ira Katznelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action.
In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during...
by David Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
"The era of Reconstruction was short-lived but rife with historically significant activity. The central political issues of the day, according to the author, were the future integrity of the Union, and the future status of the newly emancipated Negroes. His purpose here is to use the labor question...