Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic
Fashioning Jewishness in France
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
During the course of her fieldwork in Paris, anthropologist Kimberly Arkin heard what she thought was a surprising admission. A French-born, North African Jewish (Sephardi) teenage girl laughingly told Arkin she was a racist. When asked what she meant by that, the girl responded, "It means I...
Killing African Americans
Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Killing African Americans examines the pervasive, disproportionate, and persistent police and vigilante killings of African Americans in the United States as a racial control mechanism that sustains the racial control system of systemic racism. Noel A. Cazenave’s well-researched and conceptualized...
Christian Slavery
Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave...
by Kurt Barling
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Race and racism remain an inescapable part of the lives of black people. Daily slights, often rooted in fears and misperceptions of the ‘other’, still damage lives. But does race matter as much as it used to? Many argue that the post-racial society is upon us and racism is no longer a block on...
On Anger
Race, Cognition, Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Anger is an emotion that affects everyone regardless of culture, class, race, or gender—but at the same time, being angry always results from the circumstances in which people find themselves. In On Anger, Sue J. Kim opens a stimulating dialogue between cognitive studies and cultural studies to argue...
by Max Perry Mueller
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
The nineteenth-century history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Max Perry Mueller argues, illuminates the role that religion played in forming the notion of three "original" American races—red, black, and white—for Mormons and others in the early American Republic....
Celebrating the James Partridge Award
Essays Toward the Development of a More Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable Field of Library and Information Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Celebrating the James A. Partridge Outstanding African American Information Professional Award the authors examine issues of race, inclusion, diversity, and justice in the field of library and information science. The award recognizes information professionals who exemplify the highest ideals of the...
Captain "Hell Roaring" Mike Healy
From American Slave to Arctic Hero
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
One of the Coast Guard’s great heroes and the secret he kept hidden
"This is a book of adventure that tells how one man shaped the Alaskan frontier at a crucial time in American history."--Vincent William Patton, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard,...
by Geoff Dench
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Most accounts of ethnic and race relations in Western states are optimistic at heart.They assume that equal participation by minorities will be achieved because it is a "public good" from which citizens will benefi t. Social justice will prevail. In this topical and disturbing book, Geoff...
A Perilous Path
Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Huge names: Stevenson’s Just Mercy has sold over 400,000 copies, Lynch was Attorney General of the US from 2015 to 2017, Sherrilyn Ifill is the current head of the NAACP Legal Defense fund, the force behind the landmark Texas Voting Rights Act lawsuit, Tony Thompson is a well-known, well-connected,...
Blaming the Poor
The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In 1965, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan—then a high-ranking official in the Department of Labor—sparked a firestorm when he released his report “The Negro Family,” which came to be regarded by both supporters and detractors as an indictment of African American culture. Blaming the...
by Henri Grégoire
Language: French
Release Date: October 4, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 4, 2014
De la littérature des nègres - Henri Grégoire Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire (1750 - 1831), également appelé...
Race, Ethnicity, and Policing
New and Essential Readings
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
From Rodney King and “driving while black” to claims of targeting of undocumented Latino immigrants, relationships surrounding race, ethnicity, and the police have faced great challenge. Race, Ethnicity, and Policing includes both classic pieces and original essays that provide the reader with...
My Larger Education
With Linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
In My Larger Education, Booker T. Washington explains how he came by his positions on race relations, by describing the people who influenced him during the founding of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute of Alabama. Washington was constantly, and often bitterly, criticized by his contemporaries...