Discrimination

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791464854Author Joy JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 379Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)...

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the issues involved in the relation between gender and stratification, making it an invaluable text for women's studies.About the AuthorMichael Mann is Professor of Sociology at UCLAReviews"The authors show...

First published in 1991, this book evaluates and compares the problematic relationships that have sometimes existed between police and Afro-Caribbean people in Britain and in the United States of America. Contributors from both sides of the Atlantic...

Winner of the 2022 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award!Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America lays out the results of nearly two decades of research on racial profiling in retail settings.Gabbidon and Higgins...

The colorful and detailed story of folk musicBook InformationISBN 9780252073205Author Vernon J. WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press

Canada's next major challenge is not economic or political. It's ethical. On the issue of racism, Canadians tend to compare themselves favourably to Americans and to rely on a concession that Canadian racism, if it exists at all, is more "subtle...

The end of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade triggered wide-scale labor shortages across the U.S. and Caribbean. Planters looked to China as a source for labor replenishment, importing indentured laborers in what became known as "coolieism."...

Organized in chronological order of the founding of each movement, this documentary reader brings to life new religious movements from the 18th century to the present. It provides students with the tools to understand questions of race, religion, and...

Insights into the racialized fear of change in US societyThe standoff at Cliven Bundy's ranch, the rise of white identity activists on college campuses, and the viral growth of white nationalist videos on YouTube vividly illustrate the resurgence of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853037453Author Michael FinebergFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co...

From Bombay to Bollywood analyzes the transformation of the national film industry in Bombay into a transnational and multi-media cultural enterprise, which has come to be known as Bollywood. Combining ethnographic, institutional, and textual...

This ethnographic study of an urban high school in one of the most diverse cities in the United States examines the role that race plays in the lives of students. At a school publicly celebrated for its integration, academic excellence, and racial...

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 entertaining account of...

Pity the Drowned Horses is the winner of the first Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. This collection is about place and many of the poems in it are set in the desert southwest on the U.S./Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. Sheryl Luna's poems are also about...

Widespread 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...

In this incredibly timely book, David Ikard dismantles popular white supremacist tropes, which effectively devalue black life, and trivialize black oppression. Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs investigates the tenacity and cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741147247Author Aileen Moreton-RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 453g

The 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...

Honorable Mention, Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, Caribbean Studies Association, 2017In the wake of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, a key state ideology developed: racism was a systemic cultural issue that ceased to exist after the Revolution, and any...

A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms Run a Google search for "black girls"-what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top...

The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World. The demographics of both countries reflect this shared past, but this is where comparisons end. The vast majority of the "Afro-Brazilian" population, unlike...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593243633Author Tarana BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Sexology in Culture examines the impact of key writings by sexologists on English--speaking culture from the 1880s to the early 1940s. How influential a field was sexology during this period, and how much power did sexologists wield? What was the impact...

This book analyses racism and changing ethnicities in Europe and the US in the context of new forms of global dislocation, economic recession, the resurgence of ne0-Fascism, and a widespread sense of the crisis of Western modernity.About the AuthorSallie...

Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were...

Philosophers on Race adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining the historical roots of the concept in the works of major Western philosophers.About the Author Julie K. Ward is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola...

"First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux"--T.p. verso.Book InformationISBN 9780312428266Author Richard Thompson FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 327g

Drawing on a new generation of scholarship about the civil rights era in America, To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King as an advocate of racial harmony to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class,...

Most interpretations of ethnicity concentrate either on particular societies or on specific dimensions of a world societya . This work takes quite a different approach, arguing that variations within and across societies are vital for understanding...

In the last decade Black Americans have gone from exhilaration and hope with the election of Barack Obama to the malaise and fear of the Trump presidency. Both Administrations serve as tacit examples of the gains and regressions of minorities. From...

On January 20th, 2009, the United States entered a new era in terms of race relations in the country. The hopes of many Americans were not to be fulfilled and many believe race relations are worse now. The reason is the legacy of race is integral to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780375704253Author Paul HendricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525431930Author Eduardo PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Colonised subjects can play roles that sustain the power structure of coloniality. In this book, Morgan Ndlovu asks why people help support a system responsible for their own subjugation. Morgan Ndlovu provides a critique of the agency of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807011577Author Jeremy A. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *...

Reluctant Reformers explores the centrality of racism to American politics through the origins, internal dynamics, and leadership of the major democratic and social justice movements between the early nineteenth century and the end of World War II. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007426Author Michael HinesFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Death beyond Disavowal utilizes "difference" as theorized by women of color feminists to analyze works of cultural production by people of color as expressing a powerful antidote to the erasures of contemporary neoliberalism.According to Grace Kyungwon...

Gender studies has become one of the core fields in the social sciences and humanities. As a result of the struggles of feminists, women are no longer hidden from history or unacknowledged in social research or cultural analysis. Over recent years, again...

Winner, The Frantz Fanon Award for an Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and racial-colonial violence. Long before November 2016, white...