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Cosmopolitan Anxieties
Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2008
In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel explores Germany’s relation to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within its borders. Based on her two decades of ethnographic research in Berlin, she argues that Germany’s reactions to the postwar Turkish diaspora have...
by Toni Nealie
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
In her debut essay collection, New Zealand native Toni Nealie examines journeys, homelands, family, and motherhood. She details humiliating confrontations with airport security, muses on the color brown, and intimately investigates her grandfather's complicated and criminal past, all while hearkening...
White Man Falling
Race, Gender, and White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1999
Ferber's provocative critique examines white supremacists' firm belief that white men are becoming victims and the repercussions of their attempts to assert white male power.
Women Writing the West Indies, 1804-1939
'A Hot Place, Belonging To Us'
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole. It introduces a fascinating wealth of relatively unknown material and constitutes a timely interrogation of the supposed homogeneity of Caribbean discourse, especially with regard to 'race' and gender.
From Bourgeois to Boojie
Black Middle-Class Performances
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Examines how generations of African Americans perceive, proclaim, and name the combined performance of race and class across genres.
Fire in the Streets
The Long Hot Summer of '67, the Kerner Commission, and Racial Liberalism in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2021
A revisionist history of the urban rebellions of the late 1960s
Between April and September of 1967, Black-led rebellions shook 164 U.S. cities large and small. The Long Hot Summer of '67, preceded by the Watts riots of 1965 and followed by more than 100 insurrections in '68, sparked the administration...
Our Creator's Love for Humanity
An Awakening Journey Towards Togetherness
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Our Creator's Love for Humanity is a riveting memoir which takes the reader on a journey of self-examination. This book will challenge you to examine what is in your heart as it relates to ongoing tension of Christianity, race, and ethnicity in America. Margaret talks of her own struggles and provides practical solutions for moving towards genuine embrace in making room for others.
Lines of Scrimmage
A Story of Football, Race, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
As in many small towns in the South, folks in Conway, South Carolina, fill the stands on fall Fridays to cheer on their local high school football squad. In 1989--with returning starter Carlos Hunt at quarterback and having finished with an 8-4 record in 1988--hopes were high that the beloved Tigers...
by Charles W. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of...
by Byron Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
In the late summer of 2014, black communities across the country exploded in anger over the deaths of black men at the hands of the police, including Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY, and Mike Brown in Ferguson, MO. But of course they weren't just upset with police brutality.
No Country for...
Martha's Vineyard Basketball
How a Resort League Defied Notions of Race and Class
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Year round on Martha’s Vineyard Island, residents and vacationers have played basketball—almost since the game was invented in Massachusetts by Dr. James Naismith. President Obama, former NFL linebacker Willie McGinest, and Family Matters sitcom star Jaleel White (a.k.a. “Steve Urkel”) all...
Safeguarding Black Children
Good Practice in Child Protection
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Providing an exploration of the key issues, this book offers practical advice on how to improve the safeguarding and welfare of black children and young people in need.
With contributions from academics, researchers and practitioners, it promotes an understanding of the particular cultural...
Managing White Supremacy
Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Smith draws on official records, private correspondence,...
There's Always Work at the Post Office
African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories that too often...