Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
Anxious to Talk About It
Helping White Christians Talk Faithfully about Racism
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
"What if I say the wrong thing?" "I'm white--is race really something I need to talk about? I'm worried I'll be called a racist!" "What does race have to do with faith, anyway?" "Why do we have to keep talking about this?"
If talking about racism makes...
by Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts, AmherstBill Fletcher Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
In this powerful new work, Marable, Ness, and Wilson maintain that contrary to the popular hubris about equality, race is entrenched and more divisive than any time since the Civil Rights Movement. Race and Labor in the United States asserts that all advances in American race relations have only evolved...
Divided by Faith
Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2000
Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America. They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination,...
Race Defaced
Paradigms of Pessimism, Politics of Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
From Manifest Destiny to the White Man's Burden, Harold Macmillan to Tony Blair, and John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama—the historical development of racial doctrine has been closely connected to the relationship between radical and conservative politics. This book compares different forms of racism...
Black-Jewish Relations on Trial
Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
An analysis of the Leo Frank case as a measure of the complexities characterizing the relationship between African Americans and Jews in America In 1915 Leo Frank, a Northern Jew, was lynched in Georgia. He had been convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, a young white woman who worked in the Atlanta...
The Race Card
How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
What do hurricane Katrina victims, millionaire rappers buying vintage champagne, and Ivy League professors waiting for taxis have in common? All have claimed to be victims of racism. But these days almost no one openly defends bigoted motives, so either...
Beyond Ethnicity
New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics. Race is not the primary paradigm through which Hawai‘i is understood. Instead, ethnic difference...
A Mask for Privilege
Anti-semitism in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Why in America should the most sinister of European social diseases have taken root? Why should that disease have spread from its seemingly anachronistic beginning in the Gilded Age until it infected many of our great magazines and newspapers? Until it determined not only where a man might stay...
by Booker T. Washington
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
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The Negro Problem
Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view. These essays show us how far...
by David Mamet
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
"Gripping. . . . Deep in its gut, Mamet's new play argues, everything in America-and this play throws in sex, rape, the law, employment and relationships-is still about race."-Chicago Tribune"A dramatist celebrated for introducing expletives to the American theatre now tackles a truly taboo four-letter...
Black Like You
Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
A refreshingly clearheaded and taboo-breaking look at race relations reveals that American culture is neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix-a mongrel.
Black Like You is an erudite and entertaining exploration of race relations in American popular culture. Particularly compelling is Strausbaugh's...
Disowning Slavery
Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources—from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides—Joanne Pope Melish reveals not only how northern society changed but...
by Rush , Erik
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Negrophilia studies the undue and inordinate affinity for blacks (as opposed to antipathy toward them) that has been promoted by activists, politicians and the establishment press for the past 40 years and which has fostered an erroneous perception of blacks, particularly in America. The book dissects...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and imperial greatness were a cornerstone of the new country when it was founded. In fact, notions of empire...