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Diaspora and Class Consciousness
Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class. Shanshan Lan defines "Chinese immigrant workers" as Chinese immigrants with limited...
Racism
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Despite the fact that we’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars promoting tolerance, racism is still prevalent today. In fact, since 9-11 the subject of race, and exactly what this means, has become more important than ever before. Alana Lentin traces the development and mutation of ideas about race,...
Under the Affluence
Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
"Tim Wise is one of the great public moralists in America today. In his bracing new book, Under the Affluence, he brilliantly engages the roots and ramifications of radical inequality in our nation, carefully detailing the heartless war against the poor and the swooning addiction to the rich that...
White Bound
Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Discussions of race are inevitably fraught with tension, both in opinion and positioning. Too frequently, debates are framed as clear points of opposition—us versus them. And when considering white racial identity, a split between progressive movements and a neoconservative backlash is all too frequently...
Dealing with Your Implicit Racism
For black people and anti-racism activists
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2017
Sefunmi Oladumiye's struggle with racism began at the age of 12.
That was when she found out she was black.
That was when she decided that she did not want to be black because she finally understood why some people were mistreating her.
The desire to not be black led her down...
Chocolate City
A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national...
The Hands of Peace
A Holocaust Survivor?s Fight for Civil Rights in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Born in Hamburg in the 1930s, Marione Ingram fled Nazi Germany, only to find racism as pervasive in the American South as anti-Semitism was in Europe.
Marione moved first to New York and then to Washington, D.C. where, in 1960, she joined the Congress of Racial Equality, protesting discrimination...
Please Stop Helping Us
How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people...
Taming Cannibals
Race and the Victorians
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain...
Policing Black Bodies
How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
From Trayvon Martin to Freddie Gray, the stories of police violence against Black people are too often in the news. In Policing Black Bodies Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith make a compelling case that the policing of Black bodies goes far beyond these individual stories of brutality. They connect...
Love's Not Color Blind
Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The issues that make monogamous dating daunting for people of color—shaming and exclusion by white partners, being fetishized, having realities of everyday racism ignored—occur in polyamorous relationships too, and trying "not to see race" only makes it worse. To make polyamorous communities...
Carry the Rock
Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
In 1957, nine African American teenagers faced angry mobs and the resistance of a segregationist governor to claim their right to educational equality. The bravery of the Little Rock Nine, as they became known, captured the country's imagination and made history but created deep scars in the community.
Jay...
Constructing Identities in Mexican-American Political Organizations
Choosing Issues, Taking Sides
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The formation of a group identity has always been a major preoccupation of Mexican American political organizations, whether they seek to assimilate into the dominant Anglo society or to remain separate from it. Yet organizations that sought to represent a broad cross section of the Mexican American...
by Michael Omi, Howard Winant
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with each chapter radically revised and rewritten by authors Michael Omi and Howard Winant, but the overall purpose and...