Minority Studies

In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million members. Most...

BLThe first comprehensive history of antisemitism in America Dinnerstein draws on an extraordinary number of sources and provides a cogently argued yet complex narrative for the history of this prejudice from its roots in Colonial America to the...

Originating with the birth of the nation itself, in many respects, the story of the domestic slave trade is also the story of the early United States. While an external traffic in slaves had always been present, following the American Revolution this was...

Advertised in Asia as "The Chinese Beverly Hills," this small city minutes east of downtown Los Angeles, became by the late 1970s a regional springboard for a new type of Chinese immigration-suburban and middle class with a diversified and...

In Working Women, Working Men, Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which Sao Paulo's working men and women experienced Brazil's...

In the modern imagination the peasant survives as a creature of the land, suspicious of the outside world and resistant to change, either the repository of pristine innocence and virtue or the manifestation of everything nasty, brutish, and at best dull...

Race and Coalition is volume 1, number 2 of the journal Race/Ethnicity. It reflects continuing attention by scholars and advocates to the theoretical and practical features of coalition building. Contributors engage topics that include the challenges and...

Too often, when America speaks of race, it is in black and white terms. Dialogue surrounding race seems always to position whiteness as the center around which all other colors revolve. Meanwhile relations between minorities are largely ignored,...

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An important history of the way class formed in the US, "The Rule of Racialization" offers a rich new look at the invention of whiteness and how the inextricable links between race and class were formed in the seventeenth century and consolidated by...

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A revised and updated edition of the ground-breaking work that became an essential read for non-Indigenous scholars and activists seeking solidarity with Indigenous struggles across the world

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While contemporary European universities are often imagined to be a forward-thinking environment fostering acceptance and inclusivity, universities can be crucial sites for the reproduction of oppression. As modern universities diversify, they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262552264Author Bruno PerreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd