Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
by George W. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Slavery existed long before the United States of America was founded, but so did opposition to slavery. Both flourished after the founding of the country, and the anti-slavery movement was known as abolition. For many abolitionists, slavery was the preeminent moral issue of the day, and their opposition...
Desegregating Desire
Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, Desegregating Desire examines the varied strategies used by eight American poets and novelists to integrate sexuality into their respective depictions of desegregated places and emergent identities...
White Enough to Be American?
Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Racial mixture posed a distinct threat to European American perceptions of the nation and state in the late nineteenth century, says Lauren Basson, as it exposed and disrupted the racial categories that organized political and social life in the United States. Offering a provocative conceptual approach...
When Diversity Drops
Race, Religion, and Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Julie J. Park examines how losing racial diversity in a university affects the everyday lives of its students. She uses a student organization, the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) at “California University,” as a case study to show how reductions in racial diversity impact the ability...
by Carol A. Horton
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
Race and the Making of American Liberalism traces the roots of the contemporary crisis of progressive liberalism deep into the nation's racial past. Horton argues that the contemporary conservative claim that the American liberal tradition has been rooted in a "color blind" conception of individual...
by George Foster
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
The last six words in the Pledge of Allegiance, “With liberty and justice for all,” continue to ring hollow for many Americans and will continue to do so until it becomes clear to all Americans that it is as difficult for the African American community to see justice in the continued murders of...
D'une abolition l'autre
Textes d'un autre temps pour un débat d'aujourd'hui
Language: French
Release Date: January 15, 1999
Cette anthologie de textes consacrés à l’abolition de l’esclavage n’est pas celle des Lumières et de leurs philosophes. Elle rassemble les textes d’hommes du XIXe siècle, croyants et pragmatiques, scientistes et systématiques, généreux et paternalistes. De la Restauration à la Seconde...
The Many Colors of Crime
Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
In this authoritative volume, race and ethnicity are themselves considered as central organizing principles in why, how, where and by whom crimes are committed and enforced. The contributors argue that dimensions of race and ethnicity condition the very laws that make certain behaviors criminal, the...
Acting Black
College, Identity and the Performance of Race
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Sarah Willie asks: What's it like to be black on campus. For most Black students, attending predominantly white universities, it is a struggle. Do you try to blend in? Do you take a stand? Do you end up acting as the token representative for your whole race? And what about those students who attend...
Can White People Be Saved?
Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
White normativity as a way of being in the world has been parasitically joined to Christianity, and this is the ground of many of our problems today. Written by a world-class roster of scholars, this volume develops language to describe the current realities of race and racism, challenging evangelical...
City Kids
Transforming Racial Baggage
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Cosmopolitanism—the genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversity—is often associated with adult worldliness and sophistication. Yet, as this innovative new book suggests, children growing up in multicultural environments might be the most cosmopolitan group of all.
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From Jack Johnson to LeBron James
Sports, Media, and the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The campaign for racial equality in sports has both reflected and affected the campaign for racial equality in the United States. Some of the most significant and publicized stories in this campaign in the twentieth century have happened in sports, including, of course, Jackie Robinson in baseball;...
by Kimberly A. Goyette
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Education in America provides an essential, comprehensive introduction to education in the U.S., from its origins to its contemporary manifestations. Focusing on social inequality, Kimberly A. Goyette calls into question Horace Mann’s famous proclamation that education is the “great equalizer”...
Byword
A Nation Called out of Their Name
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Byword “A Nation Called out of Their Name” is the book that will change America forever! A race of people were stolen from a land, and their history was stolen from them. Hidden behind centuries of deception and misdeeds, God’s people struggle with the residue of physical oppression and mental...