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Red Star Over Malaya
Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation of Malaya, 1941-46
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial relations between Malays and Chinese during the final stages of the Japanese occupation.In 1947, none of the three major race of Malaya - Malays, Chinese, and Indians - regarded themselves as pan-ethnic "Malayans" with common duties and problems....
Promises I Can Keep
Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them...
In black & white
Australians All at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
“I look forward to the success of this important work; to seeing it in our schools, in our libraries and to see its impact on the thoughts and processes of governments, their departments and other relevant organisations. The issues highlighted by the authors impact on the lives of all Australians;...
Sensational Flesh
Race, Power, and Masochism
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation—pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. Yet at its core, masochism is a site where power, bodies, and society come together. Sensational Flesh uses masochism as a lens to examine how...
No Campus for White Men
The Transformation of Higher Education into Hateful Indoctrination
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
No Campus for White Men shines a bright light on the growing obsession with diversity, victimization and identity politics on today's college campuses, and shows how it is creating an intensely hostile and fearful atmosphere that can only lead, ultimately, to ever greater polarization in American...
by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America
Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international...
The Diversity Delusion
How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning
America is in crisis, from the university to the workplace. Toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values,...
Two Nations
Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Why, despite continued efforts to increase understanding and expand opportunities, do black and white Americans still lead separate lives, continually marked by tension and hostility? In his much-lauded classic, newly updated to reflect the changing realities of race in our nation, Andrew Hacker explains...
America in Black and White
One Nation, Indivisible
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
In a book destined to become a classic, Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom present important new information about the positive changes that have been achieved and the measurable improvement in the lives of the majority of African-Americans. Supporting their conclusions with statistics on education, earnings,...
Professionalism
The Third Logic
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each...
White Awake
An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Daniel Hill will never forget the day he heard these words: "Daniel, you may be white, but don't let that lull you into thinking you have no culture. White culture is very real. In fact, when white culture comes in contact with other cultures, it almost always wins. So it would be a really good...
Roadmap to Reconciliation
Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2015 We can see the injustice and inequality in our lives and in the world. We are ready to rise up. But how, exactly, do we do this? How does one reconcile? What we need is a clear sense of direction. Based on her extensive consulting experience with churches,...
La sociedad del descenso
Precariedad y desigualdad en la era posdemocrática
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 5, 2017
El ascensor social ha frenado, los títulos universitarios ya no dan seguridad y los trabajos son cada vez más precarios. Pero ¿cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí? ¿Por qué la movilidad social ha sufrido un revés y ya no va en ascenso, sino en descenso? ¿Es la nuestra una sociedad regresiva, precaria...
Is Everyone Really Equal?
An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the new edition of the award-winning guide to social justice education.
Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource...