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Are We Born Racist?
New Insights from Neuroscience and Positive Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Where do our prejudices come from? Why are some people more biased than others? Is it possible for individuals, and society as a whole, to truly defeat prejudice? In these pages, leading scientists, psychologists, educators, activists, and many others offer answers, drawing from new scientific discoveries...
Can We Talk about Race?
And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
**Major new reflections on race and schools—by the best-selling author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?“
A Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education, and Democracy Series Book**
Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged on the national scene in 1997 with...
Longing and Belonging
Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Even as they see their wages go down and their buying power decrease, many parents are still putting their kids' material desires first. These parents struggle with how to handle children's consumer wants, which continue unabated despite the economic downturn. And, indeed, parents and other adults...
Educated in Whiteness
Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Educators across the nation are engaged in well-meaning efforts to address diversity in schools given the current context of NCLB, Race to the Top, and the associated pressures of standardization and accountability. Through rich ethnographic accounts of teachers in two demographically different secondary...
Racial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation
Beyond Law and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The work at hand for bridging the racial divide in the United States
From Baltimore and Ferguson to Flint and Charleston, the dream of a post-racial era in America has run up against the continuing reality of racial antagonism. Current debates about affirmative action, multiculturalism, and...
by J. Jackson Owensby
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Black man, White man, Red mllan, Yellow Man, Brown Man. African, Arab, Asian, Englishman, European, German, Irishman, Jew, Mexican Native American, Russian, Scotsman, Spaniard, White Anglo-Saxon.At one time or another, every race and every nation was enslaved. At one time or another, every nation...
Stand Up to Stigma
How We Reject Fear and Shame
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
**No More Hate! All Are Welcome!
“Stigma” is a simple two-syllable word, yet it carries the weight of negative and often unfair beliefs that we hold about those who are different from us. Stigmas lock people into stereotyped boxes and deny us all the right to be our authentic and whole...
Realizing Our Place
Real Southern Women in a Mythologized Land
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
What does it mean to be from somewhere? Does place seep into one's very being like roots making their way through rich soil, shaping a sense of self? In particular, what does it mean to be from a place with a storied past, one mythologized as the very best and worst of our nation? Such questions inspired...
Black and Proud
The Story of an Iconic AFL Photo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
On April 17, 1993, after an Australian Football League match between St. Kilda and Collingwood marred by racist chanting, victorious St. Kilda star Nicky Winmar faced the opposition fans, lifted his shirt and, pointing to his chest, declared, “I’m black and I’m proud to be black.” The moment...
Reconstructing Dixie
Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2003
The South has long played a central role in America’s national imagination—the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation’s moral other and its moral center. Reconstructing Dixie explores how ideas about the South function within American culture....
by TaraElla
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
The family as an institution has existed for the entire duration of human civilization, and in all but a few unfortunate exceptional cases, has served to support and enrich the lives of humans in countless generations. It is therefore just natural that supporting the family, and supporting values...
by Alex Alvarez
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Did Native Americans suffer genocide? This controversial question lies at the heart of Native America and the Question of Genocide. After reviewing the various meanings of the word “genocide,” author Alex Alvarez examines a range of well-known examples, such as the Sand Creek Massacre and the...
Religious Freedom
The Contested History of an American Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends in this sweeping and brilliantly argued book. Instead, American ideas about religious freedom were...
War on Autism
On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
War on Autism examines autism as a historically specific and powerladen cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a neoliberal western modernity. Bringing together a variety of interpretive theoretical perspectives including critical disability studies, queer and...