Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Blood Work
Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890--1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
The invocation of blood-as both an image and a concept-has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In Blood Work, Shawn Salvant mines works from the American literary canon to explore the multitude of associations that race and blood held in the consciousness of late nineteenth- and...
Democracy in Black
How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society.
America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to...
Racial Blasphemies
Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Racial Blasphemies, using critical race theory and literary analysis, charts the tense, frustrated religious language that saturates much twentieth-century American literature. Michael Cobb argues that we should consider religious language as a special kind of language - a language of curse words...
The War on Cops
How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the “Ferguson effect”:...
The Lines that Divide America
Race, Protests, and Police
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
White police officers killing black men, protesters taking over college campuses, streets, and cities claiming injustice and demanding change. It seems unreal that officers are behaving the way the headlines allege, the events make us feel like the civil rights era has returned with social media and...
Race, Women of Color, and the State University System
Critical Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Race, Women of Color, and the State University System focuses on challenges women of color experience or have experienced while teaching or pursuing administrative duties within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The book systematically examines how women of color —- administrators,...
The Latinos of Asia
How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Is race only about the color of your skin? In The Latinos of Asia, Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what "color" you are depends largely on your social context. Filipino Americans, for example, helped establish the Asian American movement and are classified by the U.S. Census as Asian....
Philadelphia Divided
Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In a detailed study of life and politics in Philadelphia between the 1930s and the 1950s, James Wolfinger demonstrates how racial tensions in working-class neighborhoods and job sites shaped the contours of mid-twentieth-century liberal and conservative politics. As racial divisions fractured the...
When and Where I Enter
The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
When and Where I Enter is an eloquent testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women's movements throughout American history. Drawing on speeches, diaries, letters, and other original documents, Paula Giddings powerfully portrays how black women have transcended...
by Randall Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
In this powerfully reasoned, lucidly written work, Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy takes on the highly complex issues of race, crime, and the legal system, uncovering the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect blacks from criminals and revealing difficult truths about these factors in the United States.
by Newell G. Bringhurst
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Originally published shortly after the LDS Church lifted its priesthood and temple restriction on black Latter-day Saints, Newell G. Bringhurst’s landmark work remains ever-relevant as both the first comprehensive study on race within the Mormon religion and the basis by which contemporary discussions...
Uneasy Alliances
Race and Party Competition in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Uneasy Alliances is a powerful challenge to how we think about the relationship between race, political parties, and American democracy. While scholars frequently claim that the need to win elections makes government officials responsive to any and all voters, Paul Frymer shows that not all groups...
The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
Race, Power, and Politics of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public...
by Ian Whitmarsh, David S. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
How race as a categoryreinforced by new discoveries in geneticsis used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.