Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
The Longest Fight
In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African American Champion
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Many people came to Goldfield, Nevada, America's last gold-rush town, to seek their fortune. However, on a searing summer day in September 1906, they came not to strike it rich but to watch what would become the longest boxing match of the twentieth century—between Joe Gans, the first African American...
Answering the Call
An Autobiography of the Modern Struggle to End Racial Discrimination in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
“Jones, a trailblazing African American judge, delivers an urgently needed perspective on American history . . . [A] passionate and informative account” (Booklist, starred review).
Answering the Call is an extraordinary eyewitness account from an unsung hero of the battle for racial equality...
White Over Black
American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition, with new forewords by historians Christopher...
Church, State, and Race
The Discourse of American Religious Liberty, 1750–1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
This book uses the discourse of religious liberty, often expressed as one favoring a separation between church and state, to explore racial differences during an era of American empire building (1750–1900). Discussions of religious liberty in America during this time often revolved around the fitness...
Tomlinson Hill
The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
A New York Times Best Seller!
Tomlinson Hill is the stunning story of two families—one white, one black—who trace their roots to a slave plantation that bears their name.
Internationally recognized for his work as a fearless war correspondent, award-winning journalist Chris Tomlinson...
Others
Writers on the power of words to help us see beyond ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
Features a prestigious list of contributors including Kamila Shamsie, Noam Chomsky, A. L. Kennedy, Matt Haig, Louise Doughty and Preti Taneja among others.
Charles Fernyhough is a professor of psychology at Durham University.
He is also the acclaimed author of The Baby in the Mirror...
Unseen
Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Hundreds of stunning images from black history have long been buried in The New York Times archives. None of them were published by The Times--until now. UNSEEN uncovers these never-before published photographs and tells the stories behind them.
It all started with Times photo editor Darcy...
The Hidden Cost of Being African American
How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
Thomas Shapiro reveals how the lack of family assets--inheritance, home equity, stocks, bonds, savings accounts, and other investments-- along with continuing racial discrimination in crucial areas like homeownership dramatically impact the everyday lives of many black families, reversing gains earned...
Racial Revolutions
Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of pardos (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous descent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indians. In *Racial Revolutions—*the first book-length study of racial formation...
European Muslim Antisemitism
Why Young Urban Males Say They Don't Like Jews
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Antisemitism from Muslims has become a serious issue in Western Europe, although not often acknowledged as such. Looking for insights into the views and rationales of young Muslims toward Jews, Günther Jikeli and his colleagues interviewed 117 ordinary Muslim men in London (chiefly of South Asian...
Stolen Honor
Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
The covered Muslim woman is a common spectacle in Western media—a victim of male brutality, the oppressed and suffering wife or daughter. And the resulting negative stereotypes of Muslim men, stereotypes reinforced by the post-9/11 climate in which he is seen as a potential terrorist, have become...
The Presumption of Guilt
The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Shortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., MacArthur Fellow and Harvard professor, was mistakenly arrested by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley for attempting to break into his own home. The ensuing media firestorm ignited debate across the country. The Crowley-Gates...
by C. H. Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
"Read it with someone you hate."
—Jon Stewart
A hilarious look at the races of the world—capturing the proud history and bright future of racism in one handy, authoritative, and deeply offensive volume.
Whether you’re laughing, cringing, or some combination of the two,...
Equality
What Do You Think About When You Think of Equality?
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
In the tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Stride Toward Freedom and Malala Yousafzai’s,* I Am Malala*, Equality: What Do You Think About When You Think of Equality? presents thought-provoking and compelling personal essays that probe a concept professed to be the very foundation of our...