Discrimination

The focus of this book is the idea of equality as a moral, political and jurisprudential concept. The author is motivated primarily by a concern to better understand conundrums in the justification, interpretation and application of discrimination law...

Shortlisted for the Guyana Prize for Literature 2011.Pairing Caribbean wounds with the grievances of political Islam, this intriguing novel begins as a sad story of unrequited love on a Guyanese sugar estate that descends into the obsessive world of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635572957Author Reni Eddo-LodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury PublishingPublisher Bloomsbury PublishingWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316258074Author Dr Arline T GeronimusFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Little, Brown SparkPublisher Little, Brown SparkWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807055571Author Dr. Robin DiAngeloFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525509585Author Heather McGheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593593837Author Kate ManneFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728238852Author Layla SaadFormat HardbackImprint SourcebooksPublisher SourcebooksWeight(grams) 140g

This title was first published in 2001. A unique investigation of race and ethnic relations in today's America, exploring the nature and extent of non-white socio-economic progress since 1990 and the degree of improvement in the overall racial and ethnic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358393269Author Wesley LoweryFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 454g

"The most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighbourhood segregation" (William Julius Wilson), The Color of Law has become a landmark work, selling nearly 1,000,000 copies. Aware...

Racism has been an ongoing issue for centuries. Despite the efforts that have been made, from implementation of laws to teaching tolerance and acceptance in school, this problem still exists today. The essays in this volume seek to explore the prospect...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

This book explores language at the intersection of race and ethnicity and the institutional practices that still make for uneven access to education, resources and a sense of belonging. It takes a clear anti-racist stance in the way it examines issues of...

Following on from her previous nine books on discrimination law, Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter now focuses on the goal of child equality. Examining issues of child labour and the relevant laws which are designed to protect the most vulnerable in our society,...

The British and American Congo Reform Movement (ca. 1890-1913) has been praised extensively for its "heroic" confrontation of colonial atrocities in the Congo Free State. Its commitment to white supremacy and colonial domination, however, continues to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773634371Author Benita BunjunFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

This collection of twelve life stories delves into the experiences of families of Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) patients who tell their own stories in their own words. In detailed interviews spanning more than ten years, Ai Kurosaka presents their struggles...

Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) refers to the proportional overrepresentation of minority youth at each step of the juvenile justice system. This book addresses the issue of color-blind racism through an examination of the circular logic used by...

Drawing on content from yearbooks published by prominent colleges in Virginia, this book explores changes in race relations that have occurred at universities in the US since the late nineteenth century. It juxtaposes the content published in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925816709Author Stephen KinnaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552668887Author David EsteFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 544g

The U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. Though the infant mortality rate...

Beginning from the premise that being non-racist - and other 'neutral' positions - are inadequate in the face of a racist society and institutions, this book provides language educators with practical tools to implement antiracist pedagogy in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985679809Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Shoemaker + CompanyPublisher Shoemaker + Company

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506478944Author Jamie McGheeFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 159g

After Japan's defeat of Russia in the 1904 territorial war, W. E. B. Du Bois declared, ""The Color Line in civilization has been crossed in modern times as it was in the great past. The awakening of the yellow races is certain. That the awakening of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552668863Author Joseph MensahFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 399g

Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America’s first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid influx of 4.2 million immigrants between 1840 and 1860 and...

This volume adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining its historical roots in the works of major Western philosophers. The essays included in this book span a wide range of topics, including the opposition between Greek and...

The American Gothic novel has been deeply shaped by issues of race and raciality from its origins in British Romanticism to the American Gothic novel in the twenty-first century. Savage Horrors delineates an intrinsic raciality that is discursively...

Explicit discussions of race and racial identity have traditionally been omitted from Spanish language education in the US – especially in curricula designed for imagined 'native' speakers of English. Consequences of this de-racialization of Spanish...

In this third iteration of the classic work Impacts of Racism on White Americans (1981, 1996), a new generation of scholars utilizes the paradigm of racism developed in the first edition to explore the Trump phenomenon. In 1981, Impacts introduced an...

Documenting how the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug's traditional territory was threatened by mining exploration in 2006, this chronicle reveals how the people followed their customary duty to protect the land, asking the mining exploration company to leave...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593330173Author Winona GuoFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g

Despite its image as an epicenter of progressive social policy, New York City continues to have one of the nation's most segregated school systems. Tracing the quest for integration in education from the mid-1950s to the present, The Battle Nearer to...

From the 1970s on, Los Angeles was transformed into a center for entertainment, consumption, and commerce for the affluent. Mirroring the urban development trend across the nation, new construction led to the displacement of low-income and working-class...

Blackness, as the entertainment and sports industries well know, is a prized commodity in American pop culture. Marketed to white consumers, black culture invites whites to view themselves in a mirror of racial difference, while at the same time offering...

The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated into studies of black or white traditions. Bruce Dain breaks this separatist pattern with an integrated account of the emergence...