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For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London-the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism-Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922539618Author Silva McLeodFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Exisle PublishingPublisher Exisle PublishingWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575337Author Eddie S. GlaudeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation-that is, through individual...

In the nineties, neoliberalism simultaneously provided the context for the Internet's rapid uptake in the United States and discouraged public conversations about racial politics. At the same time many scholars lauded the widespread use of text-driven...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808247Author Jen HewettFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Roost BooksPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679743132Author Charles V. HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)...

On Forbes list of "10 Books To Help You Foster A More Diverse And Inclusive Workplace"How law, policy, and official state rhetoric have fueled the resurgence of Islamophobia-with a call to action on how to combat it."I remember the four words that...

In "There's Something In The Water", Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance activities by...

A powerful book comprising stories of anti-racist action by higher education scholars including researchers and teachers at various stages of their careers. Aimed at and relevant for anyone in education, it encourages reflection on the tolerance of...

"Who is an American?" asked the Ku Klux Klan. It is a question that echoes as loudly today as it did in the early twentieth century. But who really joined the Klan? Were they "hillbillies, the Great Unteachables" as one journalist put it? It would be...

How a TED Talk Speaker Learned to Successfully Confront Bigotry, Prejudice, and Racism"This brilliant and well-researched book ought to be required reading for anyone interested in conflict resolution; it gives nuance to an otherwise stale-mated debate."...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868616209Author Isobel WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint HarperCollins Publishers LtdPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 480g

"The most revealing and subjectively penetrating assessment of Baldwin's life yet published." -The New York Times Book Review. "The first Baldwin biography in which one can recognize the human features of this brilliant, troubled, principled, supremely...

A New York Times Best Seller! Baltimore, one of our country's quintessential urban war zones, is brought powerfully to life by literary talent, D. WatkinsTo many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434865Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 139g

Today, the word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry; therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have wiped his mind free from prejudice. English psychiatrist and writer Theodore Dalrymple shows...

The War on Drugs has led to millions of people dead, displaced and incarcerated. Disproportionately enforced on oppressed races, international drug prohibition has reinforced the colour line across the globe. While laws prohibiting the production,...

Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of...

"Riveting, inspiring, at times hard to believe but utterly true...it gives some measure of hope in these rancorous times." -- John GrishamHow a bomb-making white supremacist, once called "the most dangerous man in Mississippi," met Jesus in prison and...

New ID card systems are proliferating around the world. These may use digitized fingerprints or photos, may be contactless, using a scanner, and above all, may rely on computerized registries of personal information. In this timely new contribution,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791471029Author Shannon SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering...

In the run up to the 1987 election Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a twelve-year absence. The nature of that year's whites-only election and the bitter defeat of the liberals led him to write this satirical, evocative portrait...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452278738Author Barbara Diggs-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm...

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader's understanding of the issues surrounding immigration. Sayad's book will be widely used in courses on race, ethnicity, immigration...

Can Muslims ever fully be citizens of the West? Can the values of Islam ever be brought into accord with the individual freedoms central to the civic identity of Western nations? Not if you believe what you see on TV. Whether the bearded fanatic, the...

In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others - we simply take them for granted. This new edition of a lively introduction to the sociology of the body examines what certain aspects of our...

How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nationWestward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount...

Are personal relationships deeper and more intimate than ever before or are they increasingly empty and structured by selfish individualism? This exciting new book examines the question in a wide-ranging discussion of the nature of intimacy, focusing on...

Are personal relationships deeper and more intimate than ever before or are they increasingly empty and structured by selfish individualism? This exciting new book examines the question in a wide--ranging discussion of the nature of intimacy, focusing on...

Racism Without Racists examines in detail how Whites talk, think, and account for the existence of racial inequality. The main argument of the book is that color-blind racism, a new racial ideology that emerged in the post-Civil Rights era, has emerged...

A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community in the Deep South. The true events that inspired the film, with a foreword by writer/director Andrew Heckler In 1996, the town of Laurens, South Carolina,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780525434955Author Eli SaslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher...

The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile...

Sexology Uncensored brings together, for the first time, many of the key documents of the modern science of sexuality that emerged in the late nineteenth century. The early pioneers of the new field of sexology examined and classified sexual behaviours,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541602717Author Tricia RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 144mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945934292Author U S Department of LaborFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Cosimo ReportsPublisher Cosimo ReportsWeight(grams) 132g

Perry argues that racism in America has moved into a new phase--post-intentional For a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial, we are still mired in the practices of racial inequality that plays out in law, policy, and in our local...

The Masculinities Reader provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the key debates informing the study of masculinity. Structured in an accessible format, the book makes available in a single text some of the most important work on a range of...