Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
What Can You Say?
America's National Conversation on Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
We are in a transitional moment in our national conversation on race. "Despite optimistic predictions that Barack Obama's election would signal the end of race as an issue in America, the race-related news stories just keep coming. Race remains a political and polarizing issue, and the sprawling,...
The Nature of Race
How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
What do Americans think "race" means? What determines one’s race—appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning takes a close look at how scientists are influencing ideas...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In order to protect and defend citizens, the foundational concepts of fairness and equality must be adhered to within any criminal justice system. When this is not the case, accountability of authorities should be pursued to maintain the integrity and pursuit of justice. Police Brutality, Racial Profiling,...
On Race and Medicine
Insider Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Health disparities exist between races in America. These inequalities are cataloged in numerous studies, reports, conferences, articles, seminars, and keynote speeches. Various studies include reports on income, health insurance, cultural differences between patients and their physicians, language...
The Race Whisperer
Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Nearly a week after George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, President Obama walked into the press briefing room and shocked observers by saying that “Trayvon could have been me.” He talked personally and poignantly about his experiences and pointed to intra-racial violence...
Critical Race Narratives
A Study of Race, Rhetoric and Injury
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
The beating of Rodney King, the killing of Amadou Diallo, and the LAPD Rampart Scandal: these events have been interpreted by the courts, the media and the public in dramatically conflicting ways. Critical Race Narratives examines what is at stake in these conflicts and, in so doing, rethinks racial...
What Is "Your" Race?
The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
America is preoccupied with race statistics--perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy, or cloud that reality and confuse social policy? Does America still have a color line? Who is on which side? Does it have a different "race"...
Shortchanged
Height Discrimination and Strategies for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Would you like to be taller? Many people—except very tall people—would likely answer yes. Why should this be the case, when height has nothing to do with intelligence, talent, fortitude, compassion, or indeed any of the factors that make us human? In her thoughtful and provocative book, Tanya...
Race Dialogues
A Facilitator's Guide to Tackling the Elephant in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
All too often, race discourse in the United States devolves into shouting matches, silence, or violence, all of which are mirrored in today’s classrooms. This book will help individuals develop the skills needed to facilitate difficult dialogues across race in high school and college classrooms,...
Up From Slavery
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Up from Slavery is one of the most influential biographies ever written. On one level it is the life story of Booker T. Washington and his rise from slavery to accomplished educator and activist. On another level it the story of how an entire race strove to better itself. Washington makes it clear...
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell
Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you’ve read about him in the New York Times, which called him “the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years.” Or maybe from The New Yorker, fawning over his brand of...
Detroit 1967
Origins, Impacts, Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
In the summer of 1967, Detroit experienced one of the worst racially charged civil disturbances in United States history. Years of frustration generated by entrenched and institutionalized racism boiled over late on a hot July night. In an event that has been called a “riot,” “rebellion,” “uprising,”...
Fatal Invention
How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” era.
Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive...
After the Nazi Racial State
Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
"After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of post-1945...