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by David Evans
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
I am white, but I have been going to a black church for the last twenty-one years. I have also continued to go to my original white church. Going back and forth between these two very different churches has been an amazing experience, and I have had some very big surprises along the way. But these...
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire
Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive...
Trouble
On Trial in Central Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
What is going on in the often troubled town of Alice Springs? Trouble goes into the ordered environment of the courtroom to lay out in detail some of the dark disorder in the town's recent history. Men kill their wives, kill one another in seeming senseless acts of revenge, families feud, women join...
by Ghassan Hage
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life. This trenchant book examines its relation to Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today, showing how both share roots in domination, colonialism, and the logics of...
Racism and Cultural Studies
Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
In Racism and Cultural Studies E. San Juan Jr. offers a historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary theories of inclusion as affirmations of the capitalist status quo, San Juan envisions a future of politically equal and economically...
White Party, White Government
Race, Class, and U.S. Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
White Party, White Government examines the centuries-old impact of systemic racism on the U.S. political system. The text assesses the development by elite and other whites of a racialized capitalistic system, grounded early in slavery and land theft, and its intertwining with a distinctive political...
by Doreen Massey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This new book brings together Doreen Massey's key writings on three areas central to a range of disciplines. In addition, the author reflects on the development of these ideas and outlines her current position on these important issues.
The book is organized around the three themes of space,...
Opening the Floodgates
Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Laws
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Seeking to re-imagine the meaning and significance of the international border, Opening the Floodgates makes a case for eliminating the border as a legal construct that impedes the movement of people into this country.
Open migration policies deserve fuller analysis, as evidenced by President Barack...
From Bombay to Bollywood
The Making of a Global Media Industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
From Bombay to Bollywood analyzes the transformation of the national film industry in Bombay into a transnational and multi-media cultural enterprise, which has come to be known as Bollywood. Combining ethnographic, institutional, and textual analyses, Aswin Punathambekar explores how relations between...
How to Hustle and Win Part 2
Rap, Race and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Foreword by Stic.Man of Dead Prez
A practical handbook to community development and social change, drawing the connections between the global influence of hip hop and oppression.
Rap, Race and Revolution: How to Hustle and Win Part 2 is the highly anticipated follow-up to the bestseller...
White Backlash
Immigration, Race, and American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis, Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal show that fears about immigration fundamentally influence white Americans' core political identities, policy preferences,...
Where Are We Going?
Unnatural Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Unnatural Behavior, is the ?rst of his many works of writings to come. It was inspired by a large collection of ideas put together as he sees it shaping up from the past, present, and future. This is a great read and a must have novel for any book collection.
by Athol Fugard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
A South African pastor and a young teacher from Cape Town battle over the fate of an eccentric elderly widow.
by Harold Holzer
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The Emancipation Proclamation is responsible both for Lincoln’s being hailed as the Great Emancipator and for his being pilloried by those who consider his once-radical effort at emancipation insufficient. Holzer examines the impact of Lincoln’s announcement at the moment of its creation, and then as its meaning has changed over time.