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Freedom by a Thread
The History of Quilombos in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil *brings together some of the best scholars in the world working on the history of *quilombos (maroon societies) in Brazil from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Over 40 percent of the total volume of captive Africans arrived in Brazil...
Co-Whites
How and Why White Women 'Betrayed' the Struggle for Racial Equality in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Co-Whites discusses race and gender politics and traces the role of women in Western and non-Western political systems. Aniagolu examines the dynamics of race and gender in the United States, starting from the colonial and antebellum periods, leading up to the American Civil War and Reconstruction,...
by Roy L. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
With the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States, the issue of racial justice in America occupies center stage. Have black Americans finally achieved racial justice? Is government intervention no longer required? Racial Justice in the Age of Obama considers contemporary...
Baltimore
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Charm City or Mobtown? People from Baltimore glory in its eccentric charm, small-town character, and North-cum-South culture. But for much of the nineteenth century, violence and disorder plagued the city. More recently, the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in police custody has prompted Baltimoreans—and...
Beyond Black and White
From Civil Rights to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Highly acclaimed dissection of the “new racism,” from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time
Many in the United States, including Barack Obama, have called for a “post-racial” politics; yet race still divides the country politically, economically, and socially....
Energy Democracy
Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The near-unanimous consensus among climate scientists is that the massive burning of gas, oil, and coal is havingcataclysmic impacts on our atmosphere and climate. These climate and environmental impacts are particularly magnifiedand debilitating for low-income communities and communities of color.
Energy...
African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Beyond the Silence and the Shame
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2005
It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now?--Chief Awusa of Atorkor
For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories...
by George M. Fredrickson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1981
Racism without Racists
Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities. The fifth edition of this provocative...
Skill in Action
Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World will ask you to explore the deeply transformational practice of yoga, and to become a social change agent so that you can create a world that is just for all. This book explores liberation for ourselves and others, while asking...
Racism in the Canadian University
Demanding Social Justice, Inclusion, and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The mission statements and recruitment campaigns for modern Canadian universities promote diverse and enlightened communities. Racism in the Canadian University questions this idea by examining the ways in which the institutional culture of the academy privileges Whiteness and Anglo-Eurocentric ways...
How May I Help You?
An Immigrant's Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
In this moving and insightful work, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia. Armed with an MBA from India, Singh can get only a minimum-wage job in an electronics store. Every day he confronts unfamiliar American mores, from strange idioms to deeply...
Brown
What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction and the Trillium Book Award
A Globe and Mail, National Post**, Toronto Life****, Walrus****, CBC Books, Chatelaine****, Hill Times****, 49th Shelf and Writers’...
by S. N. Verma
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
This book about Poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have a third of the worlds poor.