Discrimination category: 2581 books
Racial Imperatives
Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects? She analyzes anti-miscegenation law, statutory definitions of race, and the rhetoric surrounding the phenomenon of racial passing to provide critical...
Class Acts
Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2007
In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention. Drawing on in-depth interviews and extended ethnographic research in a range...
by David Theo Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
We hear much talk about the advent of a “postracial” age. The election of Barack Obama as President of the U.S. was held by many to be proof that we have once and for all moved beyond race. The Swedish government has even gone so far as to erase all references to race from its legislative documents.
However,...
Spheres of Influence
The Social Ecology of Racial and Class Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The black-white divide has long haunted the United States as a driving force behind social inequality. Yet, the civil rights movement, the increase in immigration, and the restructuring of the economy in favor of the rich over the last several decades have begun to alter the contours of inequality....
by Anita Biressi, Heather Nunn
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
How does culture articulate, frame, organise and produce stories about social class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration? How have class-based labels been revived or newly-minted to categorise the insiders and outsiders...
The Crises of Multiculturalism
Racism in a Neoliberal Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Regarded as the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive legacies; parallel communities threatening social cohesion, enemies within cultivated by irresponsible cultural relativism,...
by Charles Tilly
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 1998
Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring...
Beneath a Ruthless Sun
A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST
"Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and...
We Wear the Mask
15 True Stories of Passing in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Why do people pass? Fifteen writers reveal their experiences with passing.
For some, “passing” means opportunity, access, or safety. Others don’t willingly pass but are “passed” in specific situations by someone else. We Wear the Mask, edited by Brando Skyhorse and Lisa Page, is an...
by Alain Mabanckou
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today. Mabanckou confronts the long and entangled history of Africa, France, and the United States as it has been shaped by slavery, colonialism, and their legacy today. Without ignoring...
by Oswald Mould
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
From its original sin of slavery, we hoped America would have changed its ways with the Emancipation and the Reconstruction period. However, its journey through darkness was to continue with the birth of the Ku Klux Klan. They ushered in one of the ugliest, most diabolical periods in American history...
The Blood of Government
Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over the next five decades, U.S. imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies...
by John Mohawk, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1997
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Blending social history with an ecological perspective, John Mohawk is able to draw the parallels among various cultures, from the ancient Greeks...
by Diego Enrique Osorno
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2017
En tiempos de Donald Trump, ésta es una defensa de la vida común y humilde entre Estados Unidos y México
Gerónimo González Garza cruzó la frontera de México con Estados Unidos por primera vez en 1969. Desde entonces y hasta principios de los noventa, cuando finalmente se asentó legalmente...