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Race and Ethnicity in Pandemic Times by John Solomos 9781032073538
RRP: $77.98$68.37This edited collection brings together social scientists working on race and ethnicity to address the question of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on issues linked to racial and ethnic inequalities. The fourteen chapters that make up... -
B.R. Ambedkar, Economic Development and Dalits in Post-Independence India Gummadi Nancharaiah (School of Economics, University of Hyderabad, India) 9780367705824
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book examines Ambedkar the economist. It foregrounds his economic ideas within the context of post-independence India. It also studies the socio-economic status of Dalits in the country focusing on Ambedkar's views on inclusive and equitable growth... -
Caste, State and Society: Degrees of Democracy in North India by Jagpal Singh 9780367559748
RRP: $77.98$69.15This book examines the politics of social, cultural and political recognition of caste groups in North India. It explores the factors that make some castes politically influential, while others continue to remain socially and economically marginalized... -
Discrimination in Football by Christos Kassimeris 9781032003146
RRP: $77.98$68.37While football does not generate discriminatory behaviour, it often replicates the very same social issues that concern any given society. Evidently, football has witnessed an alarming increase in the number of disturbing incidents on the grounds of... -
Dalit Women: Vanguard of an Alternative Politics in India by S. Anandhi 9781138221062
RRP: $243.75$211.11Through its investigation of the underlying political economy of gender, caste and class in India, this book shows how changing historical geographies are shaping the subjectivities of Dalits across India in ways that are neither fixed nor predictable... -
Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action by Max Klau 9781119359289
RRP: $48.73$32.72A powerful study illuminates our nation's collective civic fault lines Recent events have turned the spotlight on the issue of race in modern America, and the current cultural climate calls out for more research, education, dialogue, and understanding... -
Antisemitism: the Generic Hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal by Michael Fineberg 9780853037460
RRP: $43.88$33.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853037460Author Michael FinebergFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co... -
Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout by Lynn Mie Itagaki 9780816699209
RRP: $152.10$85.57The 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, also known as the Rodney King riots, followed the acquittal of four police officers who had been charged with assault and the use of excessive force against a Black motorist. The violence included widespread looting and... -
Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South by Leslie Bow 9780814791332
RRP: $48.73$42.262012 Honorable mention for the Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during the heart of Jim Crow-era segregation. A Japanese-American person boards a bus, and immediately is faced... -
Dancing at Halftime: Sports and the Controversy over American Indian Mascots by Carol Spindel 9780814781272
RRP: $40.93$35.82A persuasive and compassionate analysis of the appropriation of Native American culture in sports Sports fans love to don paint and feathers to cheer on the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Indians, the Atlanta Braves, the Florida State Seminoles,... -
Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism by Charise Cheney 9780814716137
RRP: $46.78$40.64Brothers Gonna Work It Out considers the political expression of rap artists within the historical tradition of black nationalism. Interweaving songs and personal interviews with hip-hop artists and activists including Chuck D of Public Enemy, KRS-One,... -
Ethnic Peace in the American City: Building Community in Los Angeles and Beyond by Edward Taehan Chang 9780814715840
RRP: $40.93$35.82The Los Angeles riot of 1992 marked America's first high-profile multiethnic civil unrest. Latinos, Asian Americans, whites, and African Americans were involved as both victims and assailants. Nearly half of the businesses destroyed were Korean American... -
Racism and Justice: The Case for Affirmative Action by Gertrude Ezorsky 9780801499227
RRP: $38.98$34.20Affirmative action: does it really counteract racism? Is it morally justifiable? In her timely and tough-minded book, Gertrude Ezorsky addresses these central issues in the ongoing controversy surrounding affirmative action, and comes up with some... -
Sexualities and Society: A Reader by Jeffrey Weeks 9780745622484
RRP: $117.00$102.08Over the past generation there has been a revolution in our understanding of human sexualities. From being on the periphery of historical and scientific studies, sexuality has increasingly come to be seen as close to the heart of our understanding of... -
Gender and the Welfare State: Care, Work and Welfare in Europe and the USA by Mary Daly 9780745622316
RRP: $107.25$93.07This accessible book explores the configuration of care, work and welfare in the major European Union countries and in the USA. Bringing together the most recent empirical data available, it examines the impact of the welfare state on women's and men's... -
Love: An Unromantic Discussion by Mary Evans 9780745620725
RRP: $107.25$93.07Since the end of the eighteenth century, the pursuit of a true lovea has been enshrined in the expectations of Western societies. We regard this pursuit as our right, and organize our lives around it. However, the possibility that love is becoming more... -
Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere by Maria Pia Lara 9780745620428
RRP: $107.25$93.07In this original work, the Mexican political philosopher, Maria Pia Lara, develops a new approach to public sphere theory and a novel understanding of the history of the feminist struggle. When dominated groups create publicly--oriented social movements,... -
Theorizing Gender: An Introduction by Rachel Alsop 9780745619439
RRP: $107.25$93.07This accessible text aims to give a theoretical overview of approaches to gender. The book discusses the major theories concerned with the ways in which we 'become engendered', and explains and evaluates naturalist, psychoanalytic, materialist and... -
Class in Britain by Ivan Reid 9780745618913
RRP: $117.00$101.30Social class differences and inequalities are alive and flourishing in contemporary Britain. In reviewing a wide range of sources, this book provides easy access to the empirical research on social class. It illustrates how class differences reach into... -
The Female Genesis: Creativity, Self and Gender by Nicole Ward Jouve 9780745616810
RRP: $107.25$93.85Is creation male, as the Bible seems to suggest? Does creativity always belong to the male element? Is there no female genesis? This exciting book argues against fashionable trends in contemporary feminisms that wish to abandon a woman as a flawed and... -
The Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics and Beyond by Mr David Bell 9780745616537
RRP: $97.50$84.84The notion of citizenship, with its balancing of rights and responsibilities, has become a dominant way of articulating sexual politics today. In The Sexual Citizen, David Bell and Jon Binnie critically explore the notion of sexual citizenship as a way... -
Is Racism an Environmental Threat? by Ghassan Hage 9780745692265
RRP: $68.25$60.20The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life. This trenchant book examines its relation to Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today, showing how both share roots in... -
The Future of Whiteness by Linda Martin Alcoff 9780745685441
RRP: $97.50$84.84White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population. The impending demographic shifts are already felt in most urban centers and the... -
The Rise of the New Second Generation by Min Zhou 9780745684697
RRP: $31.18$28.10In this age of migration, more and more children are growing up in immigrant or transnational families. The "new second generation" refers to foreign-born and native-born children of immigrants who have come of age at the turn of the... -
The Rise of the New Second Generation by Min Zhou 9780745684680
RRP: $107.25$93.07In this age of migration, more and more children are growing up in immigrant or transnational families. The "new second generation" refers to foreign-born and native-born children of immigrants who have come of age at the turn of the... -
Immigrant Families Cecilia Menjivar (University of Kansas, KS) 9780745670164
RRP: $35.08$31.28Immigrant Families aims to capture the richness, complexity, and diversity that characterize contemporary immigrant families in the United States. In doing so, it reaffirms that the vast majority of people do not migrate as isolated individuals, but are... -
Immigrant Families by Cecilia Menjivar 9780745670157
RRP: $97.50$84.84Immigrant Families aims to capture the richness, complexity, and diversity that characterize contemporary immigrant families in the United States. In doing so, it reaffirms that the vast majority of people do not migrate as isolated individuals, but are... -
Racial Conflict in Global Society by John Stone 9780745662619
RRP: $31.18$28.10Despite global shifts in world power, racial conflict remains one of the major problems of contemporary social life. This concise and engaging book demonstrates the interplay between identity, power and conflict in the creation, persistence and... -
Multiculturalism Tariq Modood (University of Bristol) 9780745662862
RRP: $107.25$93.07At a time when many public commentators are turning against multiculturalism in response to fears about militant Islam, immigration or social cohesion, Tariq Modood, one of the world's leading authorities on multiculturalism, provides a distinctive... -
Confronting Equality: Gender, Knowledge and Global Change by Raewyn W. Connell 9780745653501
RRP: $97.50$84.84What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge? In this new book, Raewyn Connell combines vivid research with theoretical insight and radical politics to address this question. The focus moves across... -
Transnational Migration by Thomas Faist 9780745649771
RRP: $97.50$84.84Increasing interconnections between nation-states across borders have rendered the transnational a key tool for understanding our world. It has made particularly strong contributions to immigration studies and holds great promise for deepening insights... -
On Critique: A Sociology of Emancipation by Luc Boltanski 9780745649634
RRP: $107.25$106.74The 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... -
Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait by Molefi Kete Asante 9780745648286
RRP: $33.13$29.68In this book, the most prolific contemporary African American scholar and cultural theorist Molefi Kete Asante leads the reader on an informative journey through the mind of Maulana Karenga, one of the key cultural thinkers of our time. Not only is... -
Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait by Molefi Kete Asante 9780745648279
RRP: $107.25$93.07In this book, the most prolific contemporary African American scholar and cultural theorist Molefi Kete Asante leads the reader on an informative journey through the mind of Maulana Karenga, one of the key cultural thinkers of our time. Not only is... -
Gender and Culture by Revd Dr Anne Phillips 9780745647999
RRP: $107.25$93.07The idea that respect for cultural diversity conflicts with gender equality is now a staple of both public and academic debate. Yet discussion of these tensions is marred by exaggerated talk of cultural difference, leading to ethnic reductionism,... -
The Ethnicity Reader: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Migration by Montserrat Guibernau 9780745647012
RRP: $126.75$110.27The second edition of The Ethnicity Reader offers a comprehensive and engaging selection of readings for students of sociology, politics, international relations and race relations. Updated with a large proportion of new readings and extended editorial... -
Diasporas in the Contemporary World Milton J. Esman (Cornell University) 9780745644974
RRP: $35.08$31.28Throughout human history people have moved across national borders. With the advent of globalization, they are now moving in record numbers in search of greater security or better livelihoods. Diasporas have become an ever important and visible presence... -
Diasporas in the Contemporary World by Milton J. Esman 9780745644967
RRP: $107.25$93.07Throughout human history people have moved across national borders. With the advent of globalization, they are now moving in record numbers in search of greater security or better livelihoods. Diasporas have become an ever important and visible presence... -
An Afrocentric Manifesto: Toward an African Renaissance by Molefi Kete Asante 9780745641027
RRP: $107.25$93.07Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentric philosophy has become one of the most persistent influences in the social sciences and humanities over the past three decades. It strives to create new forms of discourse about Africa and the African Diaspora, impact on... -
Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Surveillance by David Lyon 9780745641553
RRP: $87.75$76.62New ID card systems are proliferating around the world. These may use digitized fingerprints or photos, may be contactless, using a scanner, and above all, may rely on computerized registries of personal information. In this timely new contribution,...