Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
by David Theo Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
We hear much talk about the advent of a “postracial” age. The election of Barack Obama as President of the U.S. was held by many to be proof that we have once and for all moved beyond race. The Swedish government has even gone so far as to erase all references to race from its legislative documents.
However,...
by Jonathan Marks
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural...
Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop
Crises in Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop examines white American male literature for its social commentary on the construction of whiteness in the United States. Whiteness has always been a contested racial identity in the U.S., one in a state of construction and reconstruction throughout...
by Clare V. McKanna
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
Nineteenth-century California was a society in turmoil, with a rapidly growing population, booming mining camps, insufficient or nonexistent law-enforcement personnel, and a large number of ethnic groups with differing attitudes toward law and personal honor. Violence, including murder, was common,...
How to Hustle and Win Part 2
Rap, Race and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Foreword by Stic.Man of Dead Prez
A practical handbook to community development and social change, drawing the connections between the global influence of hip hop and oppression.
Rap, Race and Revolution: How to Hustle and Win Part 2 is the highly anticipated follow-up to the bestseller...
Racialization and Religion
Race, Culture and Difference in the Study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This volume locates the contemporary study of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia squarely within the fields of race and racism. As such, it challenges the extent to which discussion of the racialization of these minorities remains unrelated to each other, or is explored in distinct silos as a series of...
Black Women’s Christian Activism
Seeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
2017 Wilbur Non-Fiction Award Recipient
Winner of the 2018 Author's Award in scholarly non0fiction, presented by the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance
In Black Women’s Christian Activism, Betty Livingston Adams examines the oft overlooked role of non-elite black women in the growth...
by Manisha Sinha, Donna Murch, Peniel Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Race Capitalism Justice urges us to embrace a vision of justice attentive to the history of slavery not through the lens of human rights, but instead through an honest accounting of how slavery was the foundation of capitalism, a legacy that continues to afflict people of color and the poor. Inspired...
Troublesome Science
The Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
It is well established that all humans today, wherever they live, belong to one single species. Yet even many people who claim to abhor racism take for granted that human “races” have a biological reality. In Troublesome Science, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall provide a lucid and forceful critique...
Christians and the Color Line
Race and Religion after Divided by Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Christians and the Color Line analyzes the complex entanglement of race and religion in the United States. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples of racialized religion, the essays in this volume consider the problem of race both in Christian congregations and in American society as a whole....
Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live
Theoretical Perspectives from the Virtual Margins
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live provides a much-needed theoretical framework for examining deviant behavior and deviant bodies within one of the largest virtual gaming communities—Xbox Live. Previous research on video games has focused mostly on violence and examining violent behavior resulting...
Diploma of Whiteness
Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2003
In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twentieth century. Brazilian authorities, who had considered race a biological fact, began to view it as a cultural and environmental condition....
by Philip V.N. Myers, Gustave Le Bon
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Among the factors which determine the birth and development of the basic elements of a civilization, one of the most important — perhaps the most important because it represents the synthesis of all the others — is race, that is to say, the ensemble of the physical, moral and intellectual qualities...
The Machinery of Whiteness
Studies in the Structure of Racialization
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
In this follow up to his book, The Rule of Racialization—which considered the way class structure is formed in the U.S.—Steve Martinot now examines how the structures of racialization reside at the core of all social, cultural, and political institutions in the U.S. In The Machinery of Whiteness,...