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The Persistence of the Color Line
Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Timely—as the 2012 presidential election nears—and controversial, here is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial politics and the Obama presidency.
Renowned for his cool reason vis-à-vis the pitfalls and clichés of racial discourse, Randall Kennedy—Harvard...
by Rosemary Crompton
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Inequality in its many forms is becoming an ever greater problem in modern society. The revised edition of this popular book explains why it is so important to understand class and stratification, and how the tools used to analyse these divisions can help us to understand and confront problems of...
The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
Race, Power, and Politics of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public...
New Directions in Slavery Studies
Commodification, Community, and Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
In this landmark essay collection, twelve contributors chart the contours of current scholarship in the field of slavery studies, highlighting three of the discipline’s major themes—commodification, community, and comparison—and indicating paths for future inquiry.
New Directions in Slavery...
by Meira Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
While teaching at an all-Black middle school in Atlanta, Levinson realized that her students’ individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their historical marginalization. In order to overcome their civic empowerment gap, students must learn how to reshape power relationships through public political and civic action.
Race in Society
The Enduring American Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Race in Society is a comprehensive, but brief, book that introduces readers to current research scholarship on race, emphasizing the socially constructed basis of race and the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. institutions. The book is anchored in contemporary social science scholarship and...
Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class
The Sociology of Group Conflict and Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
Known for its clear and engaging writing, the bestselling Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class by Joseph F. Healey, Andi Stepnick, and Eileen O’Brien has been thoroughly updated to make it fresher, more relevant, and more accessible to undergraduates. The Eighth Edition retains the same use of sociological...
Systemic Racism
Making Liberty, Justice, and Democracy Real
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This volume identifies some of the remaining gaps in extant theories of systemic racism, and in doing so, illuminates paths forward. The contributors explore topics such as the enduring hyper-criminalization of blackness, the application of the white racial frame, and important counter-frames developed...
Big Box Schools
Race, Education, and the Danger of the Wal-Martization of Public Schools in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The American public school system is at a crossroad. One pathway is decorated with signs and institutions that will lead public education towards a destination of collective obligation, accountability, and responsibility that is student-centered, community-based, and driven by educators and parents...
Not Working
Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Not Working chronicles the devastating effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare as we know it. For those who now receive public assistance, “work” means pleading with supervisors for full-time hours, juggling ever-changing work schedules, and shuffling between dead-end...
Color-Blind
Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Is a truly race-netrual society possible? Can the United States wipe the slate clean and surmount the racism of its past? Or is color blindness just another name for denial? In this penetrating and provocative book, Ellis Cose probes the depths of the American mind and exposes the contradictions,...
The Exceptional Negro
Racism, White Privilege and the Lie of Respectability Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Lawyer. Mother. Elected Official. Target. Traci O’Neal was thrust into the national spotlight in 2017 when local threats grew into a national racist outcry after a former GOP Presidential candidate singled her out on social media. What followed was a deeply disturbing and widespread campaign...
Stop Falling for the Okeydoke
How the Lie of Race Continues to Undermine Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
The United States of America has been plagued by a critical birth defect since its founding: the idea that race matters.
Stephen A. Tillett, an Air Force veteran and pastor for the past 27 years, argues that race is a social construct and has no basis in science. But sadly, it has permeated...
by Jr. Phillip Bell
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
“Run In My Shoes” defines the pace that is sometimes required of African Americans to make up the socioeconomic distance between the races created by prejudice. This insightful book traces the racial divide from its historical origins up to the present era. It also provides a pro-active plan to...