Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
A Great Conspiracy against Our Race
Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Racial history has always been the thorn in America’s side, with a swath of injustices—slavery, lynching, segregation, and many other ills—perpetrated against black people. This very history is complicated by, and also dependent on, what constitutes a white person in this country. Many of the...
Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents
The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets...
How to Be Less Stupid About Race
On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A unique and irreverent take on everything that's wrong with our “national conversation about race”—and what to do about it
How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way...
Radical Dharma
Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective awakening....
The Invisible Line
A Secret History of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
"The Invisible Line" shines light on one of the most important, but too often hidden, aspects of American history and culture. Sharfstein's narrative of three families negotiating America's punishing racial terrain is a must read for all who are interested in the construction of race in...
Uncovering Race
A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape.
From the Rodney King riots to the racial inequities of the new digital media, Amy Alexander has...
Colour-Coded
A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1999
Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal...
Antiracism in Cuba
The Unfinished Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social...
Deep Diversity
Overcoming Us vs. Them
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
What if our interactions with those different from us are strongly influenced by things happening below the radar of awareness, hidden even from ourselves? Deep Diversity explores this question and argues that "us vs. them" is an unfortunate but normal part of the human experience due to...
Twists of Fate
Multiracial Coalitions and Minority Representation in the US House of Representatives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Members of Congress from racial minority groups often find themselves in a unique predicament. For one thing, they tend to represent constituencies that are more economically disadvantaged than those of their white colleagues. Moreover, they themselves experience marginalization during the process...
The Power to Heal
Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most integrated. These powerful private institutions, which had for a half...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
In Race After the Internet, Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White bring together a collection of interdisciplinary, forward-looking essays exploring the complex role that digital media technologies play in shaping our ideas about race. Contributors interrogate changing ideas of race within the context...
by David Scott FitzGerald
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Culling the Masses questions the view that democracy and racism cannot coexist. Based on records from 22 countries 1790-2010, it offers a history of the rise and fall of racial selection in the Western Hemisphere, showing that democracies were first to select immigrants by race, and undemocratic states first to outlaw discrimination.
White Lies
Race and the Myths of Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2000
The acclaimed work that debunks our myths and false assumptions about race in America
Maurice Berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged environment of New York City in the sixties. His father was a Jewish liberal who worshiped Martin Luther King, Jr.; his mother a dark-skinned Sephardic...