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In a work that will significantly influence the political discussion with respect to race and class politics, one of the country's most influential sociologists focuses on the rising inequality in American society and the need for a progressive,...

What do Americans think 'race' means? What determines one's race - appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? And how do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning takes a close look at...

"Being Black, Living in the Red" demonstrates that many differences between blacks and whites stem not from race but from economic inequalities that have accumulated over the course of American history. Property ownership - as measured by net worth -...

This lively, informative study provides an intimate view of the lived experience of race in urban America from a unique vantage: the corner store. Sociologist Monica McDermott spent a year working as a convenience store clerk in white working class...

As Karyn R. Lacy's innovative work in the suburbs of Washington DC, reveals, there is a continuum of middle-classness among blacks, ranging from lower-middle class to middle-middle class to upper-middle class. Focusing on the latter two, Lacy explores an...

Beyond the gilded gates of Google, little has been written about the suburban communities of Silicon Valley. Over the past several decades, the region's booming tech economy spurred rapid population growth, increased racial diversity, and prompted an...

Race and Ethnicity in America examines patterns and trends in racial and ethnic inequality over recent decades. John Iceland shows how color lines have generally softened over time in the United States but deep-seated inequalities remain-generally,...

Ain't No Trust explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the U.S.--at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and with caseworkers--and presents richly detailed evidence from in-depth interviews about our welfare system and...

In this important new book, Bart Landry contributes significantly to the study of black American life and its social stratification and to the study of American middle class life in general.About the AuthorBart Landry is Associate Professor of Sociology...

What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places - New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota - to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across...

In this unflinching exploration of one of the most politically charged topics of our time, Pyong Gap Min investigates the racial dynamics that exist between Korean merchants, the African American community, and white society in general. Focusing on...

If the conservative view of the American race problem is frightening, the traditional liberal view seems impotent. Analyzing the race problem from neither right nor left, Brooks sheds a new and clarifying light on America's longest running social and...

Woven throughout with rich details of everyday life, this original, on-the-ground study of poor neighbourhoods challenges much prevailing wisdom about urban poverty, shedding new light on the people, institutions, and culture in these communities. Over...

One of the most worrisome images in America today is that of the teenage mother. For the African-American community, that image is especially troubling: All the problems of the welfare system seem to spotlight the black teenage mom. Elaine Bell Kaplan's...

Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.In America in Denial Lori Latrice Martin examines the myth of a race-fair America by reviewing and offering alternatives to universal,...

Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.In America in Denial Lori Latrice Martin examines the myth of a race-fair America by reviewing and offering alternatives to universal,...

Challenged by Ku Klux Klan action in the '20s, labor protests culminating in a general strike in the '40s, and the rise of the civil rights and black power struggles of the '60s, Oakland, California, seems to encapsulate in one city the broad and varied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789369732296Author Kalyani Thakur CharalFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 144g

Both theoretical and narrative, the book draws on the author's long experience as a mediator and counselor to examine the ways in which members of society are dehumanized by institutional oppression and contribute to that system. At the place where...

Both theoretical and narrative, the book draws on the author's long experience as a mediator and counselor to examine the ways in which members of society are dehumanized by institutional oppression and contribute to that system. At the place where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316564717Author Eric LichtblauFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902275499Author Mark BendallFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Chester Academic PressPublisher Chester Academic Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798337330648Author Mohammad ArsalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Information Science ReferencePublisher IGI Global

The surprising two-hundred-year history of diversity in education, commerce, and science from the scholar the New Yorker dubbed America's "diversity detective" As a war on diversity upends government, corporate, and education policies, the history of the...

In 2007, the Watson Affair - the worldwide character assassination and exclusion from public life of Dr. James Watson, the brilliant, Nobel Prize-winning scientist co-credited with the discovery of DNA - shocked the global public in an early episode of...

People living in the Arab region face various forms of inequality, many of them linked to unequal exposure to life-cycle risks. By providing financial protection against these risks, social protection systems can address inequalities. To be fully...

Understanding Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary Society: A Reader provides both contemporary and historical perspectives on race and ethnicity with a focus the development of racial and ethnic relations in the United States. The third edition welcomes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780776646152Author Nicholas Ng-A-FookFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Ottawa PressPublisher University of Ottawa Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780776646145Author Nicholas Ng-A-FookFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Ottawa PressPublisher University of Ottawa Press

Laura Pulido traces the roots of third world radicalism in Southern California during the 1960s and 1970s in this accessible, wonderfully illustrated comparative study. Focusing on the Black Panther Party, El Centro de Accion Social y Autonomo (CASA),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593593615Author Dorothy A. BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Discusses the many ways that racism and hierarchies of language hinder honesty and harm society. In this bold attempt to challenge readers' assumptions about racial prejudice, JPB Gerald explores how racism and hierarchies of language hinder effective...

Race is a fundamental reality of life. It shapes our experiences and interactions whether we are conscious of it or not. But does this mean that humans are wired for racism from birth? Is racial bias inevitable? This sharp-sighted book offers nuanced...

A 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title"This concise, informative, and revealing overview of hate groups is an excellent starting point for researchers and readers." - Library JournalHate Groups: A Reference Handbook offers answers to essential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781038317858Author Dulcie McCallumFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Elite Networks presents a new explanatory factor behind the persistence of income inequality: extractive political power. Elite networks are informal social networks between politicians in power and top executives of politically connected firms where...

Over the past two decades, increased criminal and state violence has profoundly transformed everyday life in Mexico. In The Two Faces of Fear, Ana Villarreal draws on two years of qualitative fieldwork conducted during a major turf war in Monterrey,...

The expectation for fathers to be more involved with parenting their children and pitching in at home are higher than ever, yet broad social, political, and economic changes have made it more difficult for low-income men to be fathers. In It's a Setup,...

The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: Toward a Political Sense of Mourning attempts to show how post-racial discourse, in general, and post-racial memory, specifically, operates as a context through which the memorialization of anti-black violence...

Both significant and timely, Blackhood Against the Police Power addresses the punishment of "race" and the disavowal of sexual violence central to the contemporary "post-racial" culture of politics. Here the author asserts that the post-racial presents...