Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Underground Codes: Race, Crime and Related Fires by Katheryn Russell-Brown 9780814775417
RRP: €24.98€21.86Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable Mention Americans fear crime, are rattled by race and avoid honest discussions of both. Anxiety, denial, miscommunication, and ignorance abound. Imaginary connections between minorities... -
After Race: Racism After Multiculturalism by Antonia Darder 9780814782699
RRP: €26.17€22.84After Race pushes us beyond the old "race vs. class" debates to delve deeper into the structural conditions that spawn racism. Darder and Torres place the study of racism forthrightly within the context of contemporary capitalism. While... -
Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure by Monique Guillory 9780814730850
RRP: €29.74€25.79No other word in the English language is more endemic to contemporary Black American culture and identity than "Soul". Since the 1960s Soul has been frequently used to market and sell music, food, and fashion. However, Soul also refers to a pervasive... -
Musical ImagiNation: U.S-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom by Maria Elena Cepeda 9780814716922
RRP: €28.55€24.80Long associated with the pejorative cliches of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. In this pioneering study of the Miami music industry and Miami's growing Colombian community, Maria... -
Musical ImagiNation: U.S-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom by Maria Elena Cepeda 9780814716915
RRP: €83.30€71.77Long associated with the pejorative cliches of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. In this pioneering study of the Miami music industry and Miami's growing Colombian community, Maria... -
More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Imani Perry 9780814767368
€106.96For 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 communities. One of two explanations is often given for this persistent phenomenon:... -
Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present by Moon-Kie Jung 9780804789387
RRP: €108.29€93.91Racism has never been simple. It wasn't more obvious in the past, and it isn't less potent now. From the birth of the United States to the contemporary police shooting death of an unarmed Black youth, Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy investigates... -
Framed: Media and the Coverage of Race in Canadian Politics by Erin Tolley 9780774831239
RRP: €97.58€84.80This book should sit on every journalist's desk next to the Canadian Press Stylebook. It will be of tremendous interest to scholars and students of political science, immigration and citizenship, multiculturalism, communications, journalism, media... -
Not Fit to Stay: Public Health Panics and South Asian Exclusion by Sarah Isabel Wallace 9780774832199
RRP: €33.31€28.73This book will appeal to those interested in South Asian diaspora studies, Canadian and American immigration history, and the history of public health.Book InformationISBN 9780774832199Author Sarah Isabel WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint... -
Not Fit to Stay: Public Health Panics and South Asian Exclusion by Sarah Isabel Wallace 9780774832182
RRP: €97.58€84.80This book will appeal to those interested in South Asian diaspora studies, Canadian and American immigration history, and the history of public health.Book InformationISBN 9780774832182Author Sarah Isabel WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint... -
A Feminist Reading of Debt by Luci Cavallero 9780745341712
RRP: €101.15€77.78The concept of finance initially appears abstract and indifferent to categories such as gender. This sharp intervention defies this by developing a specifically feminist understanding of debt, examining the relation between debt and social reproduction... -
Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn 9780742527591
RRP: €23.79€20.03Controversial and strikingly original, Race Experts looks at how we capsized racial progress in the quest for self-esteem. Now available in paperback, it uncovers the hidden trajectory and terms of our thinking about race relations since the 1960s. Since... -
Class Counts: Education, Inequality, and the Shrinking Middle Class by Allan C. Ornstein 9780742547414
RRP: €127.33€111.68Class counts. Class differences and class warfare have existed since the beginning of western civilization, but the gap in income and wealth between the rich (top 10 percent) and the rest has increased steadily in the last twenty-five years. The U.S. is... -
After Civil Rights: Racial Realism in the New American Workplace by John David Skrentny 9780691168128
RRP: €33.32€26.42What role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question, and the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964 seemingly answered it: race must not be a factor in workplace decisions. In... -
Desegregation: Resistance and Readiness by Melvin Marvin Tumin 9780691652696
RRP: €124.95€97.29"The most critical dimension of desegregation in our region is found in the attitudes of members of the dominant white communities. Melvin Tumin, a sociology professor at Princeton University, and eleven associates...have done a first-rate job... -
The Economics of Race in the United States by Brendan O'Flaherty 9780674368187
RRP: €60.63€48.74Brendan O'Flaherty brings the tools of economic analysis-incentives, equilibrium, optimization, and more-to bear on contentious issues of race in the United States. In areas ranging from quality of health care and education, to employment opportunities... -
Ain't No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why It Matters by Judith Levine 9780520274723
RRP: €29.75€23.31Ain'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... -
Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations by Monica McDermott 9780520248090
RRP: €35.70€27.72This 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... -
Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class by Karyn R. Lacy 9780520251168
RRP: €35.70€27.72As 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... -
Black-Brown Relations and Stereotypes by Tatcho Mindiola 9780292752689
RRP: €19.03€16.95Race relations in twenty-first-century America will not be just a black-and-white issue. The 2000 census revealed that Hispanics already slightly outnumber African Americans as the largest ethnic group, while together Blacks and Hispanics constitute the... -
Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition, Second Edition by Sherrie L. Baver 9780268101503
RRP: €122.57€106.55Significant 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... -
Human Relations Commissions: Relieving Racial Tensions in the American City by Prof Valerie Martinez-Ebers 9780231191012
RRP: €29.75€23.31During the 1950s, amid increased attention to the problems facing cities-such as racial disparities in housing, education, and economic conditions; tense community-police relations; and underrepresentation of minority groups-local governments developed... -
Human Relations Commissions: Relieving Racial Tensions in the American City by Prof Valerie Martinez-Ebers 9780231191005
RRP: €119.00€92.74During the 1950s, amid increased attention to the problems facing cities-such as racial disparities in housing, education, and economic conditions; tense community-police relations; and underrepresentation of minority groups-local governments developed... -
America the Beautiful and Violent: Black Youth and Neighborhood Trauma in Chicago by Dexter Voisin 9780231184403
RRP: €89.25€69.13Widespread media narratives portray an epidemic of neighborhood violence in urban areas-often ignoring the structural explanations advanced by community organizers fighting violence and activists such as those in the Movement for Black Lives. In this... -
Lesbians, Gays, and the Empowerment Perspective by Carol T. Tully 9780231109581
RRP: €119.00€92.74The most comprehensive resource to date on the methods of empowerment with lesbian and gay clients, this book explores the history and politics of gay identity and explains the basis and development of the empowerment approach in social work practice in... -
The Freedom to Be Racist?: How the United States and Europe Struggle to Preserve Freedom and Combat Racism by Erik Bleich 9780199739691
RRP: €48.18€28.32We 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... -
A Contemporary History of Exclusion: The Roma Issue in Hungary from 1945 to 2015 by Balazs Majtenyi 9789633861226
RRP: €76.16€69.53This study presents the changing situation of the Roma in the 2nd half of the 20th century. It examines the effects of the policies of the Hungarian state towards minorities by analyzing legal regulations, policy documents, archival sources and... -
Towards Social Justice by C. Joshua Thomas 9789386618443
€58.58Towards Social Justice brings together papers from various perspectives in the humanities and social sciences on different issues related to the impact of positive discrimination on marginalised communities with special reference to Scheduled... -
Price of Prejudice: No. 32: Study Paper by Morten Hedegaard 9788790199531
RRP: €8.93€7.54The paper presents the results of an experiment in which a number of high school students with Danish and Muslim names were recruited to put letters in envelopes, paid on a piecework basis. They were to work in pairs, and could choose to work with a... -
The States of Race by Sherene Razack 9781897071595
RRP: €24.93€20.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897071595Author Sherene RazackFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the Lines -
Equality and diversity: Value incommensurability and the politics of recognition by Steven R. Smith 9781847426079
RRP: €95.19€72.42Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, including liberal egalitarianism,... -
Perceptions of Ethnicity, Religion, and Radicalization amongst Second-Generation Pakistani-Canadians: Unity in Diversity? by Saad Ahmad Khan 9781793627308
RRP: €101.15€88.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793627308Author Saad Ahmad KhanFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality by Esteban Morales Dominguez 9781583673218
RRP: €59.50€48.25As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Dom nguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian... -
Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality by Esteban Morales Dominguez 9781583673201
RRP: €17.79€14.95As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Dominguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian... -
The Lost-Found Nation of Islam in America by Clifton E. Marsh 9781578860081
RRP: €41.65€31.20This important work on American Black Islam, previously published in cloth, is now available in trade paperback. With the 1995 Million Man March in Washington, the Nation of Islam and its often controversial leader, Minister Louis Farrakhan, have... -
Naked Racial Preference: The Case Against Affirmative Action by Carl Cohen 9781568330532
RRP: €21.41€16.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568330532Author Carl CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 522g -
The Death of Affirmative Action?: Racialized Framing and the Fight Against Racial Preference in College Admissions by J. Scott Carter 9781529201116
RRP: €95.19€72.42Affirmative action in US college admissions has inspired fierce debate as well as several US Supreme Court cases. In this significant study, leading US professors J. Scott Carter and Cameron D. Lippard provide an in-depth examination of the issue using... -
Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror by Nicole Nguyen 9781517906399
RRP: €105.91€91.89The first major qualitative study of "countering violent extremism" in key U.S. cities Suspect Communities is a powerful reassessment of the U.S. government's "countering violent extremism" (CVE) program that has arisen in major... -
The Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami by Monika Gosin 9781501738234
RRP: €128.52€111.15The Racial Politics of Division deconstructs antagonistic discourses that circulated in local Miami media between African Americans, "white" Cubans, and "black" Cubans during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift and the 1994 Balsero Crisis... -
The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry by Maryann Erigha 9781479886647
RRP: €88.06€79.91The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which revealed, among many other things, that a powerful Hollywood insider didn't believe that Denzel Washington could...