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Racism has deep roots in both the United States and Europe. This important book examines the past, present, and future of racist ideas and politics. It describes how policies have developed over a long history of European and White American dominance of...

The best-selling look at how American cities can promote racial equity, end redlining, and reverse the damaging health- and wealth-related effects of segregation.Winner of the IPPY Book Award Current Events II by the Independent PublisherThe world gasped...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544649644Author Marc WeitzmannFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOneWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm * 33mm

Three stereotypical figures have come to represent the 'war on terror' - the 'dangerous' Muslim man, the 'imperilled' Muslim woman, and the 'civilized' European. Casting Out explores the use of these characterizations in the creation of the myth of the...

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"The African American community." "The black position." In accounts of black politics after the Second World War, these phrases reflect how the African American perspective generally appeared consistent, coherent, and unified. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307949363Author Randall KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244g

'If you think you don't need to read this book, you really need to read this book.' Jane Garvey, Presenter, BBC Radio 4 'An exhaustive, brilliantly researched survey of bias and how it seeps so easily into our everyday thoughts and actions. An...

In 1944, distinguished Howard University historian Rayford W. Logan gathered together essays on the subject "What the Negro Wants" written by fifteen prominent African American intellectuals, including Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Mary...

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A Space for Race engages in a critical examination of some of the major discourses related to original/settler/immigrant and, particularly, racialized belonging. In the course of this examination, the book explores the various themes of racism,...

Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) is just one of the many African American intellectuals whose work has been long excluded from the literary canon. In her time, Burroughs was a celebrated African American (or, in her era, a "race woman")...

In 1926, Walter White, then assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke the story of an especially horrific triple lynching in Aiken, South Carolina. Aiken was White's forty-first lynching investigation in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062976482Author Adam HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 152g

Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture provides the first comprehensive overview of desire and pleasure in western sexual culture. It argues that both have always been seen as socially disruptive and morally dangerous and offers an account of the methods by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993415616Author The Loomba FoundationFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Standard InformationPublisher Standard Information

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702265853Author Ellen van NeervenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland...

The Quetzal in Flight examines the motives for immigration of Guatemalan families to the United States, and explores the processes of psychological change and adaptation that take place within the families during the early period of resettlement. Norita...

For more than thirty years, Bob Blauner's incisive writing on race relations has drawn a wide and varied audience. Whether his topic is the Watts riots in 1965, Chicano culture, or the tension between Blacks and Jews, his work is remarkable for its...

Significant changes in New York City's Latino community have occurred since the first edition of Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition was published in 1996. The Latino population in metropolitan New York has increased from 1.7 million in the...

In Race: A Philosophical Introduction, Second Edition , Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-travelled but still-mysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. As in the first edition, the book blends metaphysics and social...

Although it is commonly believed that deafness and disability limits a person in a variety of ways, Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India describes the two as a source of value in postcolonial India. Michele Friedner argues that the experiences of deaf...

Through the testimonies of Bosnian refugees who survived ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina, this title demonstrates how ethnic cleansing has worked its way into people's lives and memories. Stevan M. Weine is a psychiatrist who has spent the past...

The Los Angeles Riot of 1992 was one of the most destructive civil disturbances in twentieth century America. Dozens of people died, and the property damage estimate was in the billions of dollars. The most powerful images from the riots remained etched...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293696Author Radmila MladenovaFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

With an ongoing international conference, Jewish humor in recent years has been a subject of serious scholarly inquiry. Most academic publications, however, have been individual works representing a particular thesis or viewpoint, generally on literary...

A rare firsthand chronicle of one of the most racially progressive unions in twentieth-century America When, during the Great Depression, tenant farmers and sharecroppers were pushed off the land they had worked but never owned, many sought power in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013269813Author Stavros AssimakopoulosFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Lynch's passionately argued book asks: How did controversial social policy that lacked public support nonetheless become institutionalized? The social policy Lynch examines is affirmative action. . . . Lynch condemns the sloppy, fearful thinking that has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999404348Author Kurt TylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Kurt TylerPublisher Kurt TylerWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993415609Author The Loomba FoundationFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Standard InformationPublisher Standard Information

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013274596Author Victor Santiago PinedaFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

This collection brings together a dozen academics from diverse racial, ethnic, and gender perspectives to explore race in a postmodern way. Postmodernism and Race articulates the differences between modern and postmodern discourses. It then offers a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982046029Author Darline Amos-McElroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Dr Creative ArtPublisher Dr Creative ArtWeight(grams) 152g

Could your kids be learning a fourth ""R"" at school: reading, writing, rithmatic, and race? Race in the Schoolyard takes us to a place most of us seldom get to see in action-our children's classrooms-and reveals the lessons about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013272431Author Christophe-Toussaint SoulardFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293559Author Magdalena NowickaFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791454787Author Samina NajmiFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

This collection of essays focuses principally on Indian/White and Black/White relations in colonial America. While the princippal concern of the book is on the interaction of culture and races, its more specific focus is on perception and policies, based...

Black Liberation focuses on the efforts of African Americans and South African blacks to combat the domination of white people in American and South African society. Starting in the 1860s, it follows the emancipation of slaves after the Civil War, and...