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Black Resistance/White Law
A History of Constitutional Racism in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1995
How the government has used the Constitution to deny black Americans their legal rights
From the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Howard Beach Incident of 1986, Yusef Hawkins, and Rodney King, federal law enforcement has pleaded lack of authority against white violence...
Suspicion Nation
The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post-racial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on the night of February 26, 2012, a black seventeen-year-old boy walking to a friend’s...
When and Where I Enter
The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
When and Where I Enter is an eloquent testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women's movements throughout American history. Drawing on speeches, diaries, letters, and other original documents, Paula Giddings powerfully portrays how black women have transcended...
Clash!
How to Thrive in a Multicultural World
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
“If you fear that cultural, political, and class differences are tearing America apart, read this important book.” —Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D., author of The Righteous Mind
Who will rule in the twenty-first century: allegedly more disciplined Asians, or allegedly more creative Westerners?...
Waiting for the Sunrise: One Family's Struggle against Genocide and Racism
One Family’s Struggle against Genocide and Racism
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Waiting for the Sunrise: One Family's Struggle against Genocide and Racism gives a personal account of one family's experience through the horror of the civil war that plagued Rwanda in 1994. Raised in the American Midwest, author Elizabeth Gatorano had little idea of the trials she would soon face after...
Policing the Black Man
Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.
Policing the Black Man explores and...
by Mary Mellor
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The relationship between feminism and ecology has grown in importance in recent years. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ecofeminist movement and its history, as well as an extended analysis of the main perspectives within it.
Mellor examines the connections between feminism...
by Emma Neale
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
A moving, compelling story about society and our reactions to difference, convincingly evoked, beautifully written. A young man is found unconscious in a remote forest. He is over seven feet tall, his skin covered in thick hair which reminds onlookers of an animal's pelt. When he wakes in a city hospital,...
Body Trade
Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Body Trade exposes myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of indigenous people in fairs and circuses, the stolen generations, the 'comfort' women and the making of the exotic/erotic body. This is a lively and intriguiung comtribution to the study of the postcolonial body.
by Joan Wallach Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism...
Shots on the Bridge
Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
A harrowing story of blue on black violence, of black lives that seemingly did not matter.
On September 4, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in New Orleans, two groups of people intersected on the Danziger Bridge, a low-rising expanse over the Industrial Canal. One was the...
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
From the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a domestic comedy that examines slavery, Protestant theology, and gender differences in early America.
First published in 1859, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s third novel is set in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, a community known for its engagement...
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1
Racial Oppression and Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In this seminal two-volume work, The Invention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen tells the story of how America’s ruling classes...
The Wrong End of the Table
A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
"[A] rare voice that is both relatable and unafraid to examine the complexities of her American identity.” **—Reza Aslan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
An Immigrant Love-Hate Story of What it Means to Be American**
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