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Race in Society
The Enduring American Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Race in Society is a comprehensive, but brief, book that introduces readers to current research scholarship on race, emphasizing the socially constructed basis of race and the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. institutions. The book is anchored in contemporary social science scholarship and...
Most American
Notes from a Wounded Place
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
2018 PEN America Literary Award Finalist!
In her first nonfiction collection, award-winning novelist Rilla Askew casts an unflinching eye on American history, both past and present. As she traverses a line between memoir and social commentary, Askew places herself—and indeed all Americans—in...
Charleston in Black and White
Race and Power in the South after the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Once one of the wealthiest cities in America, Charleston, South Carolina, established a society built on the racial hierarchies of slavery and segregation. By the 1970s, the legal structures behind these racial divisions had broken down and the wealth built upon them faded. Like many southern cities,...
How Race Survived US History
From Settlement and Slavery to The Eclipse of Post-Racialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
In this absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, David R. Roediger explores how the idea of race was created and recreated from the 1600’s to the present day. From the late seventeenth century—the era in which DuBois located the emergence of “whiteness”—through the American...
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,...
Blacks at Harvard
A Documentary History of African-American Experience At Harvard and Radcliffe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1993
The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the United States. Harvard, too, has been indelibly scarred by slavery, exclusion, segregation, and other forms of racist oppression. At the same time, the nation's oldest university has also, at various times,...
Race, Culture and Psychotherapy
Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
What is multicultural psychotherapy?
How do we integrate issues of gender, class and sexual orientation in multicultural psychotherapy?
Race, Culture and Psychotherapy provides a thorough critical examination of contemporary multiculturalism and culturalism, including discussion of the...
Troubled Water
Race, Mutiny, and Bravery on the USS Kitty Hawk
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In the vein of Crimson Tide, with action pulled straight from a high seas thriller, this is the exciting story of a mutiny that the U.S. Navy denies to this day.
In 1972, the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk was headed to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin when many of the five thousand men cooped up for the...
by Michael Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This time the Goodwill Revolution takes up the challenge of transforming the dismal ghetto into a model community. Our rat race culture pits people against each other in a competition to get as much money, materials, and power as they can. Greed, selfishness, ruthlessness and avarice are assets in the...
by Steven Leinen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1985
"Extremely informative. . . deserves a wide readership, both inside and outside police departments."
-Publishers Weekly
"An imaginative and insightful account of the day-to-day life of the black police officer in a large urban environment. A must read for all police officers, white...
Terms of Inclusion
Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern nation.
Drawing...
Mixed Race Cinemas
Multiracial Dynamics in America and France
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Using critical race theory and film studies to explore the interconnectedness between cinema and society, Zélie Asava traces the history of mixed-race representations in American and French filmmaking from early and silent cinema to the present day. Mixed Race Cinemas covers over a hundred years...
Slim's Table
Race, Respectability, and Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
At the Valois "See Your Food" cafeteria on Chicago's South Side, black and white men gather over cups of coffee and steam-table food. Mitchell Duneier, a sociologist, spent four years at the Valois writing this moving profile of the black men who congregate at "Slim's Table." Praised...
by David Goldenberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
On February 18, 2009, US Attorney General Eric Holder threw down a new gauntlet in the arena of racial relations in our country: “…One cannot truly understand America without understanding the historical experience of black people in this nation. Simply put, to get to the heart of this country...