Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
by Major Welton I. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
African Americans enlisted by the hundreds of thousands during World War II, swelling the ranks of the U.S. military by more than a million strong. And as they had in every U.S. war from the Revolutionary War on, blacks signed up with two goals in mind: to fight for the country they loved and to earn,...
Song for My Fathers
A New Orleans Story in Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Song for My Fathers is the story of a young white boy driven by a
consuming passion to learn the music and ways of a group of aging
black jazzmen in the twilight years of the segregation era.
Contemporaries of Louis Armstrong, most of them had played in local
obscurity until Preservation Hall launched...
Invisibility Blues
From Pop to Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
First published in 1990, Michele Wallace’s Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism.
Wallace’s considerations of the black experience in America include recollections of her early life in Harlem; a look at the continued underrepresentation of...
by Derrick Austin
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Rich in religious and artistic imagery, Trouble the Water is an intriguing exploration of race, sexuality, and identity, particularly where self-hood is in constant flux. These intimate, sensual poems interweave pop culture and history—moving from the Bible through several artistic eras—to interrogate...
by Elizabeth Anionwu
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
‘Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union’ are the memoirs of Professor Elizabeth Anionwu.
It’s 1947 and a clever, sheltered Catholic girl of Liverpool Irish working class heritage is studying Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the first one in her family to go to university...
Viola Desmond’s Canada
A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government recognized this gross miscarriage of justice and posthumously granted her a free pardon.
Most Canadians are aware of Rosa Parks,...
North of the Color Line
Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters,...
A Question of Freedom
A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
A unique prison narrative that testifies to the power of books to transform a young man's life
At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts-a good student from a lower- middle-class family-carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed...
by Jonathan Jansen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Ways of speaking can help heal or they can provoke; they can inflame passions or settle nerves.' Professor Jonathan Jansen is fast becoming a household name in South Africa, for his critical and at times inconvenient voice. In this collection of articles previously published in The Times Jansen highlights...
The Third Reconstruction
How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.
Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions...
Are Italians White?
How Race is Made in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This dazzling collection of original essays from some of the country's leading thinkers asks the rather intriguing question - Are Italians White? Each piece carefully explores how, when and why whiteness became important to Italian Americans, and the significance of gender, class and nation to racial identity.
Skin Deep
Black Women & White Women Write About Race
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Candid, poignant, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to childrearing and friendship. Eudora Welty contributes a bittersweet story of a one-hundred-year-old black...
Cuban Underground Hip Hop
Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
In the wake of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, a key state ideology developed: racism was a systemic cultural issue that ceased to exist after the Revolution, and any racism that did persist was a result of contained cases of individual prejudice perpetuated by US influence. Even after the state officially...
Breathe
A Letter to My Sons
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world.
Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving...