Discrimination

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949017007Author Chris Howard-WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

This study offers insight into the discriminatory workings of the labour market and its unequal outcomes with respect to employment, wages, and occupations, and its impact on the poverty of Scheduled Caste wage workers in India. It develops an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487010508Author Esi EdugyanFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint House of Anansi PressPublisher House of Anansi PressWeight(grams) 133g

The Constitution of the United States, writes Bryan Fair, was a series of compromises between white male propertyholders: Southern planters and Northern merchants. At the heart of their deals was a clear race-conscious intent to place the interests of...

The beating of Rodney King, the killing of Amadou Diallo, and the LAPD Rampart Scandal: these events have been interpreted by the courts, the media and the public in dramatically conflicting ways. Critical Race Narratives examines what is at stake in...

Not so long ago, many spoke of a 'post-racial' era, claiming that advances made by people of colour showed that racial divisions were becoming a thing of the past. But the hollowness of such claims has been exposed by the rise of Trump and Brexit, both...

This edited collection focuses on Africentric social work practice, providing invaluable assistance to undergraduate students in developing foundational skills and knowledge to further their understanding of how to initiate and maintain best practices...

Each year, thousands of Chinese children, primarily abandoned infant girls, are adopted by Americans. Yet we know very little about the local and transnational processes that characterize this new migration. Transnational Adoption is a unique...

Stephen Steinberg offers a bold challenge to prevailing thought on race and ethnicity in American society. In a penetrating critique of the famed race relations paradigm, he asks why a paradigm invented four decades before the Civil Rights Revolution...

Nicknamed both "Mobtown" and "Charm City" and located on the border of the North and South, Baltimore is a city of contradictions. From media depictions in The Wire to the real-life trial of police officers for the murder of Freddie Gray, Baltimore has...

Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the immigrants of New York City's Lower East Side-the Irish, the Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews-were not white, but now "they" are. There was a time when the French-speaking working...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988963068Author Eileen M AngeliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Universitas PressPublisher Universitas PressWeight(grams) 280g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517904807Author David HugillFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

A bracing, original look at the connected histories of real estate, institutionalized racism, and our political polarizationA landmark history told with supreme narrative skill, Freedom to Discriminate uncovers realtors' definitive role in segregating...

This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and activists to examine expressions of racism in contemporary policy areas, including education, labour, immigration, media, and urban planning. While anti-racist struggles during the twentieth...

A new perspective that helps us understand the damaged social relations that incubate racial and sexual discriminationBook InformationISBN 9781592139125Author Samuel Roundfield LucasFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Temple University Press,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635422214Author Issac J. BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807000717Author Dr. Martin Luther KingFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

It is a common misconception that, in the contemporary world, racism has been somehow defeated, pushed to the boundaries of acceptable social behaviour. In fact, racism has taken on a subtler guise in the ways it is expressed. This ambiguity has made...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250311481Author Ashton ApplewhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Celadon BooksPublisher Celadon BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 163mm...

From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way.White Riot is the definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person...

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...

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...

Structural racism has impacted the lives of African Americans in the United States since before the country's founding. Although the country has made some progress towards a more equal society, political developments in the 21st century have shown that...

When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688184742Author LeRoi JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 250g

When George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled "Dear White America" asking white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from racism, he knew his article would be controversial. But he was unprepared for the flood of vitriol in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525577324Author Dorothy A. BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Illustrates how the power of narrative influences how police, prosecutors, juries, and judges construct legal reality Wrongful convictions have been studied primarily through the lenses of law, psychology, and the social sciences. Though scholarship has...

In this groundbreaking book, playwright and social critic Sarah Schulman explores the family, the first place where all people: straight, gay, and bisexual, learn homophobia. It is within the family that homophobia begins to control the lives of...

Neville Alexander is not a household name, but he should be. As a revolutionary public intellectual, activist and former political prisoner, he is among the most important theorists of racial capitalism to emerge during the struggle against Apartheid. ...

Despite the UK's long history of racial injustice, people from minoritised groups have fought back, engaging in advocacy, activism, and every-day acts of resistance to create positive change.This anthology is a prize-winning collection of these stories,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629630373Author J. SakaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 495g

From the TIME 100 author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity.'One of the most admired writers and "internet yellers" around... [Mediocre is] ever...

Human rights lawyer Arsalan Iftikhar takes on Islamophobia through the lens of the brutal Christchurch slaughter. In March 2019, a heavily-armed white supremacist walked into two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand and slaughtered fifty-one innocent...

Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, the professional elite--journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--is on the outside looking in, and left to argue over the reasons why. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807003565Author Robin DiangeloFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

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...

The subject of race, and exactly what this means, has become more important since 9-11 than ever before. Alana Lentin traces its development through political history right up to modern debates about ethnicity and xenophobia, and considers the...

In this important and timely new book, Michael Banton examines the international politics of racial discrimination and racism. The book recounts key events in the international politics of race during the past few decades. It discusses the difficulties...