Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
by Karen Juanita Carrillo
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Latino and African American communities in the United States share neighborhoods, similar family values, and many of the same challenges faced by minorities, yet are often at odds about their distinctive cultures and position in society. This book looks at the social and political history of both...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Covering key issues ranging from education to political mobilization to racial stratification, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the Obama Presidency.
• Investigates linkages among micro and macro political issues, including voting rights, patterns, and Get Out the Vote (GOTV)...
Sustaining Faith Traditions
Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Over fifty years ago, Will Herberg theorized that future immigrants to the United States would no longer identify themselves through their races or ethnicities, or through the languages and cultures of their home countries. Rather, modern immigrants would base their identities on their religions.
The...
Race among Friends
Exploring Race at a Suburban School
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Many saw the 2008 election of Barack Obama as a sign that America had moved past the issue of race, that a colorblind society was finally within reach. But as Marianne Modica reveals in Race Among Friends, attempts to be colorblind do not end racism—in fact, ignoring race increases the likelihood...
Sharing Turf
Race Relations After the Crown Heights Riots
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Sharing Turf is the uplifting true-life story of a community torn by racial strife, coming together to make things better. The summer of 1991 race riots threatened to further divide Blacks and Hassidic Jews in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn neighborhood. Youth leaders from both ethnic groups came together...
by Frank Dobbin
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who determined what equal opportunity...
by Cleon E. Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
"THEY" Cripple Society Volume 1 is an expose consisting of true to life stories of discrimination in society against fine, smart, well cultured people. The qualities of these people, and of their assailants, are uniquely explored by the author, exposing a serious cultural problem. This expose of true...
Taking it seriously
Guide to Recommendation CM/Rec(2015)3 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member States on the access of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Promoting young people's access to social rights as a means for their inclusion and participation in society! In and around many cities, social and economic imbalances have led to the development of disadvantaged neighbourhoods, where diversity is also accompanied by poverty and often marginalisation...
Race
A Philosophical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
In Race: A Philosophical Introduction, Second Edition , Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-travelled but still-mysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. As in the first edition, the book blends metaphysics and social philosophy, analytic philosophy and pragmatic philosophy...
Mixed Race 3.0
Risk and Reward in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Have you been asked, "what nationality are you" or "what country are you from"?Have you been puzzled when forms tell you to "select only one ethnicity"?Have you been disturbed to hear that you’re the "face of a colorblind future"?If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, this book is for...
Discrimination in the NHL
Quebec Hockey Players Sidelined
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Ever since Maurice Richard dazzled hockey fans, fighting his way to hockey’s summits, the issue of discrimination against Quebec hockey players has simmered on. NHL veteran Bob Sirois now demonstrates that unless Quebec hockey players are superstars they are less likely to be drafted than other...
Critical Race Theory (Third Edition)
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Updated to include the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidency of Barack Obama, the rise of hate speech on the Internet, and more.
Since the publication of the first edition of Critical Race Theory in 2001, the United States has lived through two economic downturns, an outbreak of terrorism,...
The Light-Skin Trigger
The Black Woman's ''Kryptonite''
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
The Nonsagacious Saga of the Fourth Monkey
President Reagan was reportedly born in 1911. He had plenty of time to read about the outrages committed against black people during his lifetime and afterward. Either he didnt read the papers between then and now or he chose to ignore what he read....
by William Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
He had two problems. The first included a number of factors: He was black, he was creative, he was intelligent and he was opinionated. The second: He wanted to do his job and advance at the GVB—the Amsterdam municipal public transport company. But it would and could not happen, apparently. Although...