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Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case against Segregation by John P. Jackson 9780814742662
$188.75In one of the twentieth century's landmark Supreme Court cases, Brown v. Board of Education, social scientists such as Kenneth Clark helped to convince the Supreme Court Justices of the debilitating psychological effects of racism and segregation. John P... -
The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise by Corey Dolgon 9780814719589
$188.75Winner of the 2005 Book Prize from the Association for Humanist Sociology In this absorbing account of New York's famous vacation playground, Corey Dolgon goes beyond the celebrity tales and polo games to tell us the story of this complex and... -
Black and Multiracial Politics in America by Yvette Alex-Assensoh 9780814706626
$189.59America is currently in the midst of a major racial and ethnic demographic shift. By the twenty-first century, the population of Hispanics and Asians will increase significantly, while the black population is expected to remain relatively stable... -
Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil by Stanley R. Bailey 9780804762779
$227.49The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World. The demographics of both countries reflect this shared past, but this is where comparisons end. The vast majority of the "Afro-Brazilian" population, unlike... -
Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin by Katherine Pratt Ewing 9780804758994
$208.72The covered Muslim woman is a common spectacle in Western media-a victim of male brutality, the oppressed and suffering wife or daughter. And the resulting negative stereotypes of Muslim men, stereotypes reinforced by the post-9/11 climate in which he is... -
Everyday Forms of Whiteness: Understanding Race in a 'Post-Racial' World by Melanie E. L. Bush 9780742599987
RRP: $100.80$88.31The second edition of Melanie Bush's acclaimed Everyday Forms of Whiteness looks at the often-unseen ways racism impacts our lives. The author has interviewed and surveyed hundreds of college students and reveals that even though we talk as though we... -
Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race by Thomas J. Sugrue 9780691137308
$60.67Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning... -
Korean International Students and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites by Sung-Choon Park 9781793609717
RRP: $178.50$156.47By examining privileged and highly skilled Asian migrants, such as international students who acquire legal permanent residency in the United States, this book registers and traces these transnational figures as racialized transnational elites and... -
...But I'm Not Racist!: Tools For Well Meaning Whites by Kathy Obear 9781683092025
RRP: $31.40$23.31Deepen your Resolve to Live as a Change Agent for Racial JusticeWho would you be if you were no longer afraid someone would call you racist? What impact could you have if you had proven tools and techniques to create greater racial justice in your... -
Reckoning with Race: America's Failure by Gene Dattel 9781594039096
RRP: $41.98$38.24Reckoning with Race confronts America's most intractable problem-race. The book outlines in a provocative, novel manner American racial issues from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. It explodes myths about the South as America's... -
Smash the Pillars: Decoloniality and the Imaginary of Color in the Dutch Kingdom by Melissa F. Weiner 9781498554251
RRP: $199.50$174.55Smash the Pillars builds on the efforts by scholars and activists to decolonize Dutch history and memory, as they resist the epistemological violence imposed by the state, its institutions, and dominant narratives. Contributions offer an unparalleled... -
The Religion of White Supremacy in the United States by Eric Weed 9781498538756
RRP: $178.50$164.01On January 20th, 2009, the United States entered a new era in terms of race relations in the country. The hopes of many Americans were not to be fulfilled and many believe race relations are worse now. The reason is the legacy of race is integral to the... -
Racisms: An Introduction by Steve Garner 9781412961769
RRP: $239.40$193.91Combining key theoretical perspectives with contemporary case studies, this text will be invaluable in helping you to fully understand the complex issue of racism. With clear definitions and practical examples this is a solid resource when seeking to... -
Fighting Feelings: Lessons in Gendered Racism and Queer Life by Gulzar R. Charania 9780774868990
RRP: $186.90$149.65Racialized women and girls often feel racial injustice before they have the words to name it. Gulzar Charania situates women of colour at the heart of this book, sharing the lasting impacts and exacting costs of racism in their lives. She highlights how... -
What Black and White America Must Do Now: A Prescription to Move Beyond Race by Armstrong Williams 9781510764224
RRP: $48.28$29.23A call to our highest virtues and idealsWhat Black and White People Must Do Now explores the complexity of race and culture in the United States. In his third book, renowned conservative entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist Armstrong Williams... -
Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration by Flores A. Forbes 9781510711709
RRP: $35.68$29.65Winner of the 2017 American Book Award Flores Forbes, a former leader in the Black Panther Party, has been free from prison for twenty-five years. Unfortunately that makes him part of a group of black men without constituency who are all but invisible in... -
Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma by Michael Tonry 9780199751372
RRP: $174.30$135.28How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more... -
The Freedom to Be Racist?: How the United States and Europe Struggle to Preserve Freedom and Combat Racism by Erik Bleich 9780199739684
RRP: $168.00$116.34We love freedom. We hate racism. But what do we do when these values collide? In this wide-ranging book, Erik Bleich explores policies that the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and other liberal democracies have implemented when forced to choose... -
Interracial Romance and Health: Bridging Generations, Race Relations, and Well-Being by Byron Miller 9781793634054
RRP: $161.70$142.00Romantic relationships and health are fundamental for society, but what happens to a person's well-being when he or she chooses the "wrong" partner? Interracial Romance and Health: Bridging Generations, Race Relations, and Well-Being tackles... -
Perspectives on Racism and the Human Services Sector: A Case for Change by Carl E. James 9780802077790
RRP: $71.40$64.83Today's social services agencies are faced with the challenge of responding to the diverse needs and expectations of a growing multicultural population. This volume examines race and racism in Canada from historical and contemporary perspectives and... -
Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity by Armando Lara-Millan 9780197507896
RRP: $174.30$158.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197507896Author Armando Lara-MillanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA -
Narrow Fairways: Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India by Patrick Inglis 9780190664770
RRP: $67.18$61.64India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.2 billion people living on little more than a few dollars day. Just as telling, the country's informal working population numbers nearly 500 million, or approximately 80 percent of the... -
Race, Identity and Citizenship by RD Torres 9780631210214
RRP: $275.00$245.24This volume offers comparative and relational analysis of race, ethnicity, and culture at a time when boundaries designating radicalized groups are being radically redrawn. Particular attention is paid to how best to theorize 'race relations' in the... -
New Destination Dreaming: Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South by Helen B. Marrow
RRP: $207.90$83.77New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have long been shaped by immigration. These gateway cities have traditionally been assumed to be the major flashpoints in American debates over immigration policy-but the reality on the ground is proving different... -
Racism and Paid Work by Tania Das Gupta
RRP: $39.88$36.41This book explicitly addresses racism in the paid workplace, showing how racism, and by corollary sexism, are systemic to society. Based on extensive research on workers in both the Health Care sector and in the Garment Manufacturing sector, the author... -
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L Eberhardt
RRP: $58.80$44.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735224933Author Jennifer L EberhardtFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint VikingPublisher VikingWeight(grams) 544g -
A Leftist Critique of the Principles of Identity, Diversity, and Multiculturalism by Richard Anderson-Connolly
RRP: $63.00$56.03Identity politics is a lightning rod in American society. To both its progressive supporters and conservative critics, it is seen as defining the agenda of the Left. Both sides are wrong. Identity politics is not a leftist project. Instead it enables the... -
Diversity Matters: The Color, Shape, and Tone of Twenty-First-Century Diversity by Emily Allen Williams
RRP: $178.50$156.47Social justice rhetoric is prevalent in contemporary America, but are we as a nation ready to do the work to effect real change? Emily Allen Williams has gathered a group of essays that interrogate matters of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access. In... -
Standing Our Ground: A Mother's Story by Lucy McBath
RRP: $35.70$21.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501187797Author Lucy McBathFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint 37 InkPublisher 37 InkWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 18mm -
White Guys on Campus: Racism, White Immunity, and the Myth of "Post-Racial" Higher Education by Nolan L. Cabrera
RRP: $71.40$55.65On April 22, 2015, Boston University professor Saida Grundy set off a Twitter storm with her provocative question: "Why is white America so reluctant to identify white college males as a problem population?" White Guys on Campus is a critical... -
Charlottesville: White Supremacy, Populism, and Resistance by Chris Howard-Woods
RRP: $27.28$24.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949017007Author Chris Howard-WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Scheduled Castes in the Indian Labour Market: Employment Discrimination and Its Impact on Poverty by Sukhadeo Thorat
RRP: $205.80$195.72This 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... -
Out of the Sun: On Art, Race, and History by Esi Edugyan
RRP: $58.78$35.45Apologies 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 -
Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action by Bryan K. Fair
$188.75The 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... -
Critical Race Narratives: A Study of Race, Rhetoric and Injury by Carl Gutierrez-Jones
RRP: $48.28$38.58The 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... -
The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence by Azeezat Johnson
RRP: $178.50$170.00Not 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... -
Africentric Social Work by Delores V. Mullings
$92.36This 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... -
Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship by Sara K. Dorow
$188.75Each 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... -
Race Relations: A Critique by Stephen Steinberg
$171.63Stephen 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... -
Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a US City by P. Nicole King
RRP: $81.90$64.55Nicknamed 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...