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Racecraft
The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft.”...
The Construction of Whiteness
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
This volume collects interdisciplinary essays that examine the crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and the various material practices (social, cultural, political, and economic) that undergird white ideological influence in America. In truth, the need to examine...
Race and Slavery in the Middle East
Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in 19th-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is known about them. Studies have focused mainly on the mamluk and harem slaves of elite households, who were mostly white, and...
Burdened By Race
Coloured Identities in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Examines diverse manifestations of coloredness in southern Africa, with case studies from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi, to present analyses that challenge and overturn the conventional wisdom around colored identity.
BLACK a Misunderstood Race
Navigating America in Black Skin
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Have you experienced racism in America?
Do you think there is still a lot of work to do to right the wrongs of prejudice?
Mansa Mnēmē was born in a country south of the African equator but moved to the United States as a teenager. There, the author discovered that racism and prejudices still remained,...
Summary and Analysis of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Based on the Book by Michelle Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The New Jim Crow tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Michelle Alexander’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
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by James Waller
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2000
The experiences of a teacher and his white students on a nationwide trek toward racial understanding In 1998 James Waller took twenty-one white college students from Washington state on a month-long journey. Prejudice Across America is the record of their interaction with the American Indian, Asian...
by David Evans
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
I am white, but I have been going to a black church for the last twenty-one years. I have also continued to go to my original white church. Going back and forth between these two very different churches has been an amazing experience, and I have had some very big surprises along the way. But these...
Queer Brown Voices
Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In the last three decades of the twentieth century, LGBT Latinas/os faced several forms of discrimination. The greater Latino community did not often accept sexual minorities, and the mainstream LGBT movement expected everyone, regardless of their ethnic and racial background, to adhere to a specific...
The Nicest Kids in Town
American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
American Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. Counter to host Dick Clark’s claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national...
Educated in Whiteness
Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Educators across the nation are engaged in well-meaning efforts to address diversity in schools given the current context of NCLB, Race to the Top, and the associated pressures of standardization and accountability. Through rich ethnographic accounts of teachers in two demographically different secondary...
Racial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation
Beyond Law and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The work at hand for bridging the racial divide in the United States
From Baltimore and Ferguson to Flint and Charleston, the dream of a post-racial era in America has run up against the continuing reality of racial antagonism. Current debates about affirmative action, multiculturalism, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Addressing an issue of central concern in social life, this authoritative book examines how having or lacking power influences the way individuals and groups think, feel, and act. Leading international experts comprehensively review classic and contemporary research with an eye toward bridging gaps...
Stigma and Group Inequality
Social Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
This book provides a snapshot of the latest theoretical and empirical work on social psychological approaches to stigma and group inequality. It focuses on the perspective of the stigmatized groups and discusses the effects of the stigma on the individual, the interacting partners, the groups to which...