Discrimination

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915080387Author Mel HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Critical Publishing LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 350g

A meditation on the private and public fault lines which divide American society.In Civil Wars, June Jordan's battleground is the intersection of private and public reality, which she explores through a blending of personal reflection and political...

This book brings together and develops some of the most important economic, social, and ethical ideas Sen has explored over the last two decades. It examines the claims of equality in social arrangements, stressing that we should be concerned with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849352321Author Cindy MilsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 222g

Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African...

This book explores the epistemic side of oppression, focusing on racial and sexual oppression and their interconnections. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from interacting epistemically in...

Rethinking How to Build Inclusive OrganizationsRace, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people's experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America...

In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twentieth century. Brazilian authorities, who had considered race a biological fact, began to view...

Whiteness is not innate - it is learned. The systems of white domination that prevail across the world are not pregiven or natural. Rather, they are forged and sustained in social and political life. Learning Whiteness examines the material...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912914265Author Guy KennawayFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Mensch PublishingPublisher Mensch PublishingWeight(grams) 344g

Winner, 2020 Senior Book Prize, given by the Association of Feminist Anthropology Winner, 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, given by the Society for Medical Anthropology Honorable Mention, 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by...

How did antisemitism get so strange?Life-long anti-racists accused of antisemitism, life-long Jew haters absolving themselves by declaring their love of Israel. Today, antisemitism and philosemitism seem selective, as if Jews offered themselves up as a...

Examining the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora - figures who are never quite 'white enough' - this bold and compelling work emphasises how such classification perpetuates anti-Blackness...

Even as COVID-19 made a seismic impact across the world, the cracks exposed by Brexit, Black Lives Matter and rising levels of race hate crimes revealed bitter divisions in British society. In the aftermath of the pandemic, and with questions over the...

The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter is a pioneering reflection on the psychology of racism and its impact on us all. With the intimacy of personal experience and depth of analytic exposition, the authors expose racism's searing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807047408Author Dr. Robin DiAngeloFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 157mm *...

Published to accompany an exhibition at MK Gallery, this is the first major survey of the work of contemporary British artist and photographer Ingrid Pollard, nominated for the Turner Prize 2022. This publication provides the first overview of works...

Following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, three women - Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Khan-Cullors - came together to form an active response to the systemic racism causing the deaths of so many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133285Author Frank AbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 128mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039683Author Heather Mac DonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA

We hear for the first time from internationalists who secretly worked for the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK), in the struggle to liberate South Africa from apartheid rule. They acted as couriers, provided safe houses in the neighbouring states...

How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes...

America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What...

Shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize.A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others-and how and why we do it."I wouldn't have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who's just learning to smile, and it...

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Named a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Time, and The Guardian As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and...

In this provocative new work, Heather Cox Richardson argues that while the North won the Civil War, ending slavery, oligarchy, and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," the victory was short-lived. Settlers from the East pushed into the West,...

A seminal volume on prejudice against children for parents, teachers, psychologists, social workers, policy-makers-anyone concerned with the crucial subject of child welfare. In this groundbreaking volume on the human rights of children, acclaimed...

"Like all the best meetings of Jewish minds, this book will make you think, argue and see the world anew." Hadley Freeman, author of House of GlassConspiracy theories about Jews are back in the mainstream. The Pittsburgh gunman who murdered 11 people in...

The "yellow peril" is one of the oldest and most pervasive racist ideas in Western culture-dating back to the birth of European colonialism during the Enlightenment. Yet while Fu Manchu looks almost quaint today, the prejudices that gave him life persist...

Turn Uncomfortable Conversations into Meaningful Dialogue If you believe that talking about race is impolite, or that "colorblindness" is the preferred approach, you must read this book. Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence debunks the most pervasive...

After Race pushes us beyond the old "race vs. class" debates to delve deeper into the structural conditions that spawn racism. Darder and Torres place the study of racism forthrightly within the context of contemporary capitalism. While agreeing with...

Imperial Identities is a groundbreaking book that addresses identity formation in colonial Algeria of two predominant ethnicities and analyzes French attitudes in the context of nineteenth-century ideologies. Patricia M. E. Lorcin explores the process...

2022 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER2022 NATIONAL ANTIRACIST BOOK FESTIVAL SELECTION2021 PORCHLIGHT PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT & HUMAN BEHAVIOR BOOK OF THE YEARAs we become more aware of various social injustices in the world, many of us want to be part of...

How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurismAmid increasing hardship and limited employment options, poor urban youth are...

A record of the American civil rights movement. Included are speeches by Martin Luther King Jr, and his "Letter from Birmingham City Jail", an interview with Rosa Parks, selections from "Malcolm X Speaks"; Black Panther Bobby Seale's "Seize the Time", a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593239889Author Andre HenryFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 144mm *...

Stanford University psychology professor Geoffrey L. Cohen has used science to show that when people don't have a sense of belonging, negative consequences often follow: diminished performance at school and work, poorer health, increased levels of...

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King outlined a dream of an America where people would not be judged by the color of their skin. That dream has yet to be realized, but some three centuries ago it was a reality. Back then,...

The world's Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil,...

Is race only about the color of your skin? In The Latinos of Asia, Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what "color" you are depends largely on your social context. Filipino Americans, for example, helped establish the Asian American movement and are...