Discrimination

The question of covert racism has been splashed across the headlines in recent times through incidents in football, with John Terry, Stan Collymore and Luis Suarez all involved; politics, with Dianne Abbott accused of racism; and the metropolitan police...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781669869474Author Ken DyFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Xlibris UsPublisher Xlibris UsWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New Apple E-Book Awards 2016. Commended for Readers' Favorite International Book Awards 2015. Short-listed for Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2015.Book...

Invisible, intractable, and deadly- such is the nature of institutional racism. But are there mitigating actions that society could take against it? Diane Carpenter Emling explores this question in Institutional Racism and Restorative Justice: Oppression...

Racism After Apartheid, volume four of the Democratic Marxism series, brings together leading scholars and activists from around the world studying and challenging racism. In eleven thematically rich and conceptually informed chapters, the contributors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639457625Author Ned KellarFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Writers Branding LLCPublisher Writers Branding LLCWeight(grams) 426g

In the open access book Higher Flight, pre-eminent scholar and activist James B. Stewart offers a much-needed critical assessment of the current state of Black/Africana studies in order to chart a path forward. In three equally groundbreaking sections,...

A historic Houston barrio provides an illuminating lens on neighborhood reputation. Neighborhoods have the power to form significant parts of our worlds and identities. A neighborhood’s reputation, however, doesn’t always match up to how residents see...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063320918Author Wesley LoweryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

The social conception of bodies as mixed race provides insight into the operation of the external racial gaze within 'multicultural' Canada. Drawing on multi-staged life story interviews with mixed race adults, Mixed Race Life Stories: The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725299061Author Tony BaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)...

This volume examines the connections between race and work, focusing on three key themes. First, contributors consider how racial minorities deal with questions of identity in the workplace. This is especially important as ideas about professionalism...

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,...

Cultural Processes of Inequality: A Sociological Perspective shows how inequality is produced and reproduced through mundane, routine actions based on taken-for-granted assumptions about who should be treated well and who 'deserves' to be treated poorly...

Imprisonment, homicide, non-lethal assault and other crime, chronic and infectious disease, substance abuse, suicide, and accidents all contribute to the much wider gap in the community-level sex ratios found among African Americans compared to those...

Celebrating the James A. Partridge Outstanding African American Information Professional Award the authors examine issues of race, inclusion, diversity, and justice in the field of library and information science. The award recognizes information...

On August 13, 1521, the largest and most developed of North America's societies, the Aztec empire, fell to Spanish invaders who, along with later European colonizers, built new societies in which they occupied the dominant class positions and forced...

Social Justice Case Studies: Interdisciplinary and Non-Traditional Interdisciplinary Approaches provides individuals interested in social justice the ability to discuss and engage in interdisciplinary and non-traditional interdisciplinary team processes...

Since the election in 2008 of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States there have been a plethora of books, films, and articles about the role of race in the election of the first person of color to the White House. None of these works though...

'This elegantly written, erudite book is essential reading for all of us, whatever our identifications' - Lynne Segal Antisemitism is one of the most controversial topics of our time. The public, academics, journalists, activists and Jewish people...

The War on Drugs has led to millions of people dead, displaced and incarcerated. Disproportionately enforced on oppressed races, international drug prohibition has reinforced the colour line across the globe. While laws prohibiting the production,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939880505Author Michigan State School of JournalismFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Front Edge Publishing, LLCPublisher Front Edge Publishing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666795363Author Sterling VinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504078863Author Tineka SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road MediaWeight(grams) 82g

Stemming from the 2000 Census when respondents could indicate more than one racial category for the first time in census history, Structural Influence on Biracial Identification is the first study of its kind to explore how urban environmental dynamics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293542Author Magdalena NowickaFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the pulpit of Mason Temple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666737318Author Choo Lak YeowFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666719383Author William E BoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736159316Author Chauncia WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Savvy Dimension PublishingPublisher Savvy Dimension PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

The Wake County Public School System was once described as a beacon of hope for American school districts. It was both academically successful and successfully integrated. It accomplished these goals through the hard work of teachers and administrators,...

The Path of the Devil is organized around three fundamental theories: witch hunts as functional sacrificial ceremonies, realistic conflict and strategic persecution, and scapegoat phenomena. All conjectures point to the role of epidemic disease, war, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783910567481Author Susan OmondiFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Susan OmondiPublisher Susan OmondiWeight(grams) 431g

This book explores the existing inequities within the U.S. healthcare system and their impacts on individuals and in particular Black women, who seek life-saving healthcare. Specifically, it documents the impact of racial and ethnic inequities on the...

When Hate Groups March Down Main Street is a comprehensive, authoritative resource guide for communities, organizations, and individuals who are concerned and intimidated by the resurgence of neo-Nazi and extreme right-wing groups in the United States...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439208588Author Gregory SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 177g

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,...

Projecting 9/11 examines sensibilities and ideologies that arose after September 11, 2001, and how these intersect with issues of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in contemporary mainstream films. The authors argue that the social and political...

Whitewashing the South is a powerful exploration of how ordinary white southerners recall living through extraordinary racial times-the Jim Crow era, civil rights movement, and the post-civil rights era-highlighting tensions between memory and reality. ...

Canada has been known as a hot spot for HIV criminalization where the act of not disclosing one’s HIV-positive status to sex partners has historically been regarded as a serious criminal offence. Criminalized Lives describes how this approach has...