Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
The Limits of Whiteness
Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
When Roya, an Iranian American high school student, is asked to identify her race, she feels anxiety and doubt. According to the federal government, she and others from the Middle East are white. Indeed, a historical myth circulates even in immigrant families like Roya's, proclaiming Iranians to be...
Workers in Bondage
The Origins and Bases of Unfree Labour in Queensland 18241916
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Based on thorough documentary research in archives and newspapers, Workers in Bondage begins with the origins of servitude during the convict era in Queensland before its separation from New South Wales in 1859. The study then focuses in on Queensland’s Pacific Islander labor force, examining the...
The DuSable Panthers
The Greatest, Blackest, Saddest Team from the Meanest Streets in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Twelve years before Kentucky and Texas Christian. Seven years after Jackie Robinson’s first at-bat in the Majors. A color barrier in both sports and in America was shattered—by a team of teenage boys. The weight of a season and the weight of growing up are burdens enough. For a high school...
Dear White Christians
For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
In this provocative book Jennifer Harvey argues for a radical shift in how justice-committed white Christians think about race. She calls for moving away from the reconciliation paradigm that currently dominates interracial relations and embracing instead a reparations paradigm.
Harvey presents...
Race and Place
How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Geography matters.
We long for diverse, thriving neighborhoods and churches, yet racial injustices persist. Why? Because geographic structures and systems create barriers to reconciliation and prevent the flourishing of our communities.
Race and Place reveals the profound ways in which these geographic...
The Baron and the Bear
Rupp's Runts, Haskins's Miners, and the Season That Changed Basketball Forever
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game, an all-white University of Kentucky team was beaten by a team from Texas Western College (now UTEP) that fielded only black players. The game, played in the middle of the racially turbulent 1960s—part David and Goliath in short pants, part emancipation...
Red Star Over Malaya
Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation of Malaya, 1941-46
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial relations between Malays and Chinese during the final stages of the Japanese occupation.In 1947, none of the three major race of Malaya - Malays, Chinese, and Indians - regarded themselves as pan-ethnic "Malayans" with common duties and problems....
Sensational Flesh
Race, Power, and Masochism
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation—pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. Yet at its core, masochism is a site where power, bodies, and society come together. Sensational Flesh uses masochism as a lens to examine how...
by damali ayo
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
A hilarious and satirical look at race relations that is almost too close for comfort, this pseudo-guidebook gives both renters and rentals "much-needed" advice and tips on technique. Reframing actual stories, techniques, requests, and responses gathered from the author's more than 30 years...
Redevelopment and Race
Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In the decades following World War II, professional city planners in Detroit made a concerted effort to halt the city's physical and economic decline. Their successes included an award-winning master plan, a number of laudable redevelopment projects, and exemplary planning leadership in the city and...
Baltimore
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Charm City or Mobtown? People from Baltimore glory in its eccentric charm, small-town character, and North-cum-South culture. But for much of the nineteenth century, violence and disorder plagued the city. More recently, the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in police custody has prompted Baltimoreans—and...
Stop Falling for the Okeydoke
How the Lie of Race Continues to Undermine Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
The United States of America has been plagued by a critical birth defect since its founding: the idea that race matters.
Stephen A. Tillett, an Air Force veteran and pastor for the past 27 years, argues that race is a social construct and has no basis in science. But sadly, it has permeated...
Mindful of Race
Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
How to grow our inner capacity to face racial ignorance and suffering with a wise and caring heart
“Racism is a heart disease,” writes Ruth King, “and it's curable.” Exploring a crucial topic seldom addressed in meditation instruction, this revered teacher takes to her pen to shine...
Racial Imperatives
Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects? She analyzes anti-miscegenation law, statutory definitions of race, and the rhetoric surrounding the phenomenon of racial passing to provide critical...