Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Race and Democracy in the Americas examines dimensions of the comparative dynamics of race and ethnicity, with a directed focus on the Americas, most particularly Brazil and the United States. Brazil and the United States are two countries in the Americas that have been major hosts for the African...
by Thomas Lemke
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Over the past 15 years, a series of empirical studies in different countries have shown that our increasing genetic knowledge leads to new forms of exclusion, disadvantaging and stigmatization. The spectrum of this "genetic discrimination" ranges from disadvantages at work, via problems...
Seeing White
An Introduction to White Privilege and Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
This interdisciplinary textbook challenges students to see race as everyone's issue. Drawing on sociology, psychology, and economics, Seeing White introduces students to the concepts of white privilege and social power. Compelling concrete examples illustrate key theoretical perspectives, including...
Race, Law, and American Society
1607-Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
This second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall’s seminal work , tracing the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, is now available with major revisions. Throughout, she advocates for freedom and equality at the center, moving from their struggle for...
Rethinking Race, Class, Language, and Gender
A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky and Other Leading Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Oftentimes, critical examinations of oppression solely focus on one type and neglect others. In this single volume, Pierre Orelus examines the way various forms of oppression, such as racism, classism, capitalism, sexism, and linguicism (linguistic discrimination) operate and limit the life chances...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 24: Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
There is no denying that race is a critical issue in understanding the South. However, this concluding volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture challenges previous understandings, revealing the region's rich, ever-expanding diversity and providing new explorations of race relations. In 36...
Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China
Chinese and Canadian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2009
Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian...
Our Town
A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
The brutal lynching of two young black men in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930, cast a shadow over the town that still lingers. It is only one event in the long and complicated history of race relations in Marion, a history much ignored and considered by many to be best forgotten. But the lynching...
by Jim Sleeper
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1991
"In this study of race relations in N.Y.C., Sleeper, an editorial writer for New York Newsday, harshly criticizes both black leaders and their liberal supporters for pointing a finger at America's racist society rather than setting concrete goals to overcome inequality." —Kirkus Reviews
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Minority Relations
Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
The question of how relations between marginalized groups are impacted by their common and sometimes competing search for equal rights has become acutely important. Demographic projections make it easy now to imagine a future majority population of color in the United States. Minority Relations sets...
White Race Discourse
Preserving Racial Privilege in a Post-Racial Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The election of Barack Obama as president led some to suggest that not only has US society made significant strides toward racial equality, but it has moved beyond race or become “post-racial.” In fact, studies have exposed numerous contradictions between the ways white Americans answer questions...
by John Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Race and Ethnicity in America examines patterns and trends in racial and ethnic inequality over recent decades. John Iceland shows how color lines have generally softened over time in the United States but deep-seated inequalities remain—generally, blacks, American Indians, and some Hispanics fare...
by Nostaple Limited
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
If a multinational employer fired you for having diabetes because you would be off sick a lot in the future, what would you do? This is a true story of discrimination in the workplace, one ordinary person against a multinational employer, multinational legal firm, barrister, appeal courts, countries...
by Nostaple Limited
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
If a multinational employer fired you for having diabetes because you would be off sick a lot in the future, what would you do? This is a true story of discrimination in the workplace, one ordinary person against a multinational employer, multinational legal firm, barrister, appeal courts, countries...