Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
by José Anguiano, Marcel Brousseau, Olivia Cadaval
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture is an innovative work that freshly approaches the concept of race as a social factor made concrete in popular forms, such as film, television, and music. The essays collectively push past the reaffirmation of static conceptions of identity, authenticity,...
Achieving Blackness
Race, Black Nationalism, and Afrocentrism in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Achieving Blackness offers an important examination of the complexities of race and ethnicity in the context of black nationalist movements in the United States. By examining the rise of the Nation of Islam, the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the “Afrocentric era” of the 1980s...
by Jessie B. Evans-Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Like the majority of institutions in America, the U.S. Postal Service policy, practice, and/or procedure appear neutral. Truthfully, it has a disproportionately negative impact on members of a racial or ethnic minority group.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once said, “An injustice anywhere...
First Available Cell
Desegregation of the Texas Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Decades after the U.S. Supreme Court and certain governmental actions struck down racial segregation in the larger society, American prison administrators still boldly adhered to discriminatory practices. Not until 1975 did legislation prohibit racial segregation and discrimination in Texas prisons....
White Identity
Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Ten years in the making, this book is the sequel to Jared Taylor's seminal Paved With Good Intentions. In White Identity, Taylor systematically marshals the data to show that:
People of all races pay lip service to the ideal of integration but generally prefer to remain apart.
Study after scientific...
What's Race Got to Do with It?
Why It's Time to Stop the Stupidest Argument in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Larry Elder and his straight talk are "controversial"*, "provocative"**, "iconoclastic"***, "refreshing". ****
IS LIFE UNFAIR FOR BLACK AMERICANS?
In What's Race Got to Do with It?, bestselling author Larry Elder takes on the touchiest topic in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Generations of Americans have debated the meaning of Abraham Lincoln's views on race and slavery. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and supported a constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery, yet he also harbored grave doubts about the intellectual capacity of African Americans, publicly used...
by S.K. Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
America is more diverse than ever before, but, disturbingly, black professionals still face discrimination, bias, and hostility in the workplace.S. K. Chapman has spent years in corporate America and has many stories to share. Some of the stories shared by Chapman will make you laugh out loud,...
One Drop of Blood
The American Misadventure of Race
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2000
A bold and original retelling of the story of race in America
Why has a nation founded upon precepts of freedom and universal humanity continually produced, through its preoccupation with race, a divided and constrained populace? This question is the starting point for Scott Malcomson's riveting...
The Black O
Racism and Redemption in an American Corporate Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
In 1988 several white managers of the Shoney’s restaurant chain protested against the company’s discriminatory hiring practices, including an order to blacken the “O” in “Shoney’s” on minorities’ job applications so that the marked forms could be discarded. When the managers refused...
Race, Education, and Reintegrating Formerly Incarcerated Citizens
Counterstories and Counterspaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This timely, readable text offers an authoritative and balanced analysis of how racially driven policies in America impact post release education as a leading pathway to social reintegration. Compelling research findings from an assemblage of college faculty, seasoned administrators, and criminal...
Digitizing Race
Visual Cultures of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
In the nineties, neoliberalism simultaneously provided the context for the Internet’s rapid uptake in the United States and discouraged public conversations about racial politics. At the same time many scholars lauded the widespread use of text-driven interfaces as a solution to the problem of racial...
Felix Longoria's Wake
Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Private First Class Felix Longoria earned a Bronze Service Star, a Purple Heart, a Good Conduct Medal, and a Combat Infantryman's badge for service in the Philippines during World War II. Yet the only funeral parlor in his hometown of Three Rivers, Texas, refused to hold a wake for the slain soldier...
by Dr. Ruth E. Todd
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
ECONORACISM:The Next Great Divide examines the current social strife, unrest, and dissatisfaction occurring throughout the world as the physical manifestation of an economic class struggle masquerading as racial discrimination. The divide between rich and poor has grown visibly and statistically throughout...