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Seizing Freedom
Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Forceful and detailed account of the struggle for “freedom” after the American Civil War
How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roediger’s radical new history redefines the idea of freedom...
The Construction of Whiteness
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
This volume collects interdisciplinary essays that examine the crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and the various material practices (social, cultural, political, and economic) that undergird white ideological influence in America. In truth, the need to examine...
How Race Survived US History
From Settlement and Slavery to The Eclipse of Post-Racialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
In this absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, David R. Roediger explores how the idea of race was created and recreated from the 1600’s to the present day. From the late seventeenth century—the era in which DuBois located the emergence of “whiteness”—through the American...
Regulating Aversion
Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic,...
Prejudicial Appearances
The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2001
In Prejudicial Appearances noted legal scholar Robert C. Post argues modern American antidiscrimination law should not be conceived as protecting the transcendental dignity of individual persons but instead as transforming social practices that define and sustain potentially oppressive categories...
Black Sheep
Journey to Borroloola
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
'I was a child when I first heard of him . 'There was a photograph of an old man with a prophet's beard and funny clothes standing outside an odd corrugated-iron dwelling in the middle of nowhere. Roger Jose lived with his Aboriginal wife in an upside-down water tank in a place called Borroloola....
Covering
The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar.
“[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone...
The Ox and the Slave
A Satirical Music Drama in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
This interdisciplinary study sheds light on the communal creative process of music and discusses the process of music change in Bumba-meu-Boi, and provides an example of exo-semantic analysis in the quest for the truth of this folk drama in Brazil. It argues that Bumba-meu-Boi sheds light on eighteenth...
by Laura Naumann
Language: German
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Vier Frauen sind mit einer handzahmen Kampfdrohne unterwegs, um die Welt zu retten. Sie könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein: Carla, Ende 50, war mal bei der Fremdenlegion und hat auch sonst eine obskure Vergangenheit. Die als Junge aufgewachsene Halbgar hat mit 19 endgültig die Nase voll von den...
by W. J. T. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
According to Mitchell, a “color-blind” post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against claims that race is an outmoded construct, he contends that race is not simply something to be seen but is a fundamental medium through which we experience human otherness. Race also makes racism visible and is thus our best weapon against it.
The Bigot
Why Prejudice Persists
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Stephen Eric Bronner is a prolific author, activist, and one of America’s leading political thinkers. His new book presents bigotry as a systematic, all-encompassing mindset that has a special affinity for right-wing movements. In what will surely prove a seminal study, Bronner explores its appeal,...
by Jonathan Marks
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural...
Into the Heart of the Whore
The Story of Apartheid's Death Squads
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The ongoing assassinations of anti-apartheid activists led to rumours that some kind of third force must be responsible. The South African government flatly denied any involvement. All investigations of the matter were met with stony silence.
The first crack in the wall came with the publication...
Slavery Unseen
Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and exploitation of slaves. Drawing on sources ranging from inquisition trial documents to travel accounts and...