Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Spaces of Hate
Geographies of Discrimination and Intolerance in the U.S.A.
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Black Prometheus
Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
How did an ancient mythological figure who stole fire from the gods become a face of the modern, lending his name to trailblazing spaceships and radical publishing outfits alike? How did Prometheus come to represent a notion of civilizational progress through revolution--scientific, political, and...
The Accidental Slaveowner
Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial past? Part history, part anthropology, and part detective story, The Accidental Slaveowner traces, from the 1850s to the present day, how different groups of people have struggled with one powerful story about...
by Brendan O'Flaherty
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Brendan O’Flaherty brings the tools of economic analysis—incentives, equilibrium, optimization—to bear on racial issues. From health care, housing, and education, to employment, wealth, and crime, he shows how racial differences powerfully determine American lives, and how progress in one area is often constrained by diminishing returns in another.
Black, White, and Green
Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Farmers markets are much more than places to buy produce. According to advocates for sustainable food systems, they are also places to “vote with your fork” for environmental protection, vibrant communities, and strong local economies. Farmers markets have become essential to the movement for...
America is not Post-racial: Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, and the 44th President
Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, and the 44th President
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Despite the fact that President Obama was raised by a white mother and white grandparents, and has two degrees from Ivy League universities, he has still been subject to intense racial hatred from a large number of Americans. Even after Obama's presidency, the "Obama Haters"—and their...
by Robert Mann, Shaun Gabbidon, Jackelyn Hwang
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
How Public Policy Impacts Racial Inequality, edited by Josh Grimm and Jaime Loke, brings together scholars of political science, sociology, and mass communication to provide an in-depth analysis of race in the United States through the lens of public policy. This vital collection outlines how issues...
Complex Justice
The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In 1987 Judge Russell Clark mandated tax increases to help pay for improvements to the Kansas City, Missouri, School District in an effort to lure white students and quality teachers back to the inner-city district. Yet even after increasing employee salaries and constructing elaborate facilities...
Explorations in Diversity
Examining the Complexities of Privilege, Discrimination, and Oppression
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Every person comes to know and understand their life from their own perspective. As a result, it is often difficult and sometimes unbelievable to realize that others, whom one may or may not know, might also experience daily life in a vastly different way. Explorations in Diversity offers readers...
Complexion Based Discriminations
Global Insights
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Complexion based discrimination is a harsh prejudice against dark-skinned people by fair-skinned people that has been prevalent in all countries and continents of the world. This book states the unbearable traumas faced by dark-skinned people such as Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther, Jimmy Carter, Barack...
by Elaine Allen Lechtreck
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In 1963, the Sunday after four black girls were killed by a bomb in a Birmingham church, George William Floyd, a Church of Christ minister, preached a sermon based on the Golden Rule. He pronounced that Jesus Christ was asking Christians to view the bombing from the perspective of their black neighbors...
The Denial of Antiblackness
Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society
Thanks to movements like Black Lives Matter, Western society’s chronic discrimination against black individuals has become front-page news. Yet, there is little...
Cultural Fault Lines in Healthcare
Reflections on Cultural Competency
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Healthcare in the U.S. faces two interpenetrating certainties. First, with over 66 racial and ethnic groupings, our “American Mosaic” of worldviews and values unavoidably generates clashes in hospitals and clinics. Second, our public increasingly mistrusts our healthcare system and delivery. One...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
As the demographic makeup of the American population continues to evolve, understanding and addressing the psychological needs of ethnic minorities in the United States becomes more important to the overall health and well-being of society. This three-volume set is the first publication to explicitly...