Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Troy Duster
Berkeley Sociologist, Teacher, and Civil Rights Activist
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This book is a biography of University of California-Berkeley sociology professor Troy Duster. Troy Duster received an MA and PhD in sociology from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Duster is a black man who was born in South Chicago. His maternal grandmother is the famous Ida B. Wells. He...
Dear White America
Letter to a New Minority
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Tim Wise is a force. His relentless touring and blogging have positioned him as one of the top commentators on the ever-changing racial landscape in the US today. A-list media seek him, his events are packed and his sales are strong. His success demonstrates that people of all colors in the US are...
Birth of a Nation'hood
Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Birth of a Nation'hood elucidates as never before the grim miasma of the O.J. Simpson case, which has elicited gargantuan fascination.
As they pertain to the scandal, the issues of race, sex, violence, money,...
Disunited Brotherhoods
...Race, Racketeering and the Fall of the New York Construction Unions
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2006
Just 40 years ago, the construction unions of New York City were among the most powerful labor organizations in the world. They were also among the most openly racist and sexist, and were thoroughly dominated by organized crime.
Today, minority males, and women of any color, can get work in...
I'm Still Here
Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America.
Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers...
The Clapham Sect
How Wilberforce's circle transformed Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
The Clapham Sect was a group of evangelical Christians, prominent in England from about 1790 to 1830, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery and promoted missionary work at home and abroad. The group centred on the church of John Venn, rector of Clapham in south London. Its members included William...
Games of Persuasion
: Exercises in Media Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2000
Like rain, the media overload pours over us each day, each hour, each waking moment of our lives. One way to cope is to withdraw from the world to a faraway island unhooked to any satellite.
Another way is to grapple with the media as so to understand the nuts and bolts of the persuasive messages...
United by Faith
The Multiracial Congregation As an Answer to the Problem of Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
In the last four decades, desegregation has revolutionized almost every aspect of life in the United States: schools, businesses, government offices, even entertainment. But there is one area that remains largely untouched, and that is the church. Now comes a major new call for multiracial congregations...
Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience
Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938-1987
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma (1944) influenced the attitudes of a generation of Americans on the race issue and established Myrdal as a major critic of American politics and culture. Walter Jackson explores how the Swedish Social Democratic scholar, policymaker, and activist came to shape a consensus on one of America's most explosive public issues.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Born into an elite Boston family and a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, white Massachusetts aristocrat Wendell Phillips’s path seemed clear. Yet he rejected his family’s and society’s expectations and gave away most of his great wealth by the time of his death in 1884....
Inventing George Whitefield
Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Evangelicals and scholars of religious history have long recognized George Whitefield (1714-1770) as a founding father of American evangelicalism. But Jessica M. Parr argues he was much more than that. He was an enormously influential figure in Anglo-American religious culture, and his expansive missionary...
The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
Right-Wing Movements and National Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
In 1915, forty years after the original Ku Klux Klan disbanded, a former farmer, circuit preacher, and university lecturer named Colonel William Joseph Simmons revived the secret society. By the early 1920s the KKK had been transformed into a national movement with millions of dues-paying members...
Shut Out
A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Shut Out is the compelling story of Boston's racial divide viewed through the lens of one of the city's greatest institutions - its baseball team, and told from the perspective of Boston native and noted sports writer Howard Bryant. This well written and poignant work contains striking interviews...
by Anne M. Blankenship
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Anne M. Blankenship's study of Christianity in the infamous camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II yields insights both far-reaching and timely. While most Japanese Americans maintained their traditional identities as Buddhists, a sizeable minority identified as Christian,...