Minority Studies category: 588 books
Histories of Race and Racism
The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Ninety percent of the indigenous population in the Americas lives in the Andean and Mesoamerican nations of Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala. Recently indigenous social movements in these countries have intensified debate about racism and drawn attention to the connections between present-day...
Class, Race, Gender, and Crime
The Social Realities of Justice in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Class, Race, Gender, and Crime is a popular, and provocative, introduction to crime and the criminal justice system through the lens of class, race, gender, and their intersections. The book systematically explores how the main sites of power and privilege in the United States consciously or unconsciously...
Undivided Rights
Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Written by the founders of the term reproductive justice and leading organizers who have been at the heart of RJ struggles for a generation
Compiles as comprehensive view of the histories of Black, Latina, Native, and other women of color who have survived the most severe brutality of government...
Separate and Dominate
Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures
Feminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions féministes with Simone de Beauvoir in the 1970s and became one of the most influential figures in French feminism. Today, Delphy remains...
Cabin Pressure
African American Pilots, Flight Attendants, and Emotional Labor
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
From African American pilots being asked to carry people’s luggage to patrons refusing drinks from black flight attendants, Cabin Pressure demonstrates that racism is still very much alive in the “friendly skies.” The book draws on interviews with African Americans in the flight industry to...
Color Struck
Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Color Struck: Essays of Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective is a compilation of expositions on race and ethnicity, written from multiple disciplinary approaches including history, sociology, women's studies, and anthropology. This book is organized around a topical, chronological framework and...
Facing South to Africa
Toward an Afrocentric Critical Orientation
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Renowned Critical Africana scholar, social activist, and philosopher, Molefi Kete Asante demonstrates the multidimensionality of Afrocentricity as a paradigm of theoretical perspectives advancing the agency of African people. Examining orientations to culture, society, values, and communication, Asante’s essays face South first, and then to the rest of the world.
Interrogating Critical Pedagogy
The Voices of Educators of Color in the Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Educators, teacher practitioners, and social activists have successfully used critical pedagogy as a tool to help marginalized students develop awareness and seek alternative solutions to their poor educational and socioeconomic situations. However, this theory is often criticized as being mostly...
Cross-Cultural Women Scholars in Academe
Intergenerational Voices
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
This ground-breaking collection features the diverse voices, experiences, and scholarship of cross-cultural women of American Indian, Asian American, Black/African American and Hispanic descent at various levels of academe, actively engaged in the advancement of marginalized groups in the U.S. and...
Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions
Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Seventeenth-century Korea was a country in crisis�successive invasions by Hideyoshi and the Manchus had rocked the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), which already was weakened by maladministration, internecine bureaucratic factionalism, unfair taxation, concentration of wealth, military problems, and...
by Randolph Hohle
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book explains the emergence of two competing forms of black political representation that transformed the objectives and meanings of local action, created boundaries between national and local struggles for racial equality, and prompted a white response to the civil rights movement that set the...
The New Face of America: How the Emerging Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority is Changing the United States
How the Emerging Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority Is Changing the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
More and more, the idea of America as a melting pot is becoming a reality. Written from the perspective of multiracial citizens, The New Face of America: How the Emerging Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority Is Changing the United States brings to light the values, beliefs, opinions, and patterns among...
Global Islamophobia
Muslims and Moral Panic in the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The decade since 9/11 has seen a decline in liberal tolerance in the West as Muslims have endured increasing levels of repression. This book presents a series of case studies from Western Europe, Australia and North America demonstrating the transnational character of Islamophobia. The authors explore...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Using diverse theories and methods including analysis of online data, feminist critical discourse, fieldwork, grounded theory, and queer theory, this edited volume explores gender panic and policy in the United States as well as Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Japan, Russia, Sweden, and subnational...