Race & Ethnic Relations

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136439Author Regina JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

"Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider is that rare thing nowadays, an academic book that not only engages with a wider public but also provides a sharp campaigning edge to the analysis. Historical and broad in its coverage, this is one of the best...

In this incisive account, leading scholar of Islamophobia Deepa Kumar traces the history of anti-Muslim racism from the early modern era to the "War on Terror." Importantly, Kumar contends that Islamophobia is best understood as racism rather than as...

White fear is not new. It enabled the rise of Donald Trump. It's behind the recent flood of restrictive voting laws disproportionately impacting people of colour. It's why reactions to movements like Black Lives Matter and a football player taking a knee...

WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2023A Times Best Literary Non-Fiction Book of the YearCritic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they...

'A magical, magnificent novel, that amounts to a secret history of an America we think we know, but never really knew' Marlon JamesThe people of Salt Point are afraid of the world beyond their rural town. Most of them are born, live and die never having...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054418Author Lilian ThuramFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

'David Oluwale's story has a raw power...and Kester Aspden makes it relevant for the reader of today' Mishal HusainAn award-winning microhistory that examines the death of David Oluwale and institutionalised police racism in Britain.When, in May 1969,...

How do Black women experience education in Britain? Within British educational research about Black students, gender distinctions have been largely absent, male-dominated or American-centric. Due to the lack of attention paid to Black female students,...

'Superbly reported, compelling . . . wonderfully captures the spirit of that time' Financial Times'Gripping and important' Observer __________________________________________________________________________ Nine days that set the course of a nation.....

If race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does it continue to seem like a physiological reality? The trickery of race, Sita Balani argues, comes down to how it is embedded in everyday life through the domain we take to be most...

Being culturally competent in practice is an essential skill for any practitioner working with people. Award-winning social worker and diversity trainer Vivian Okeze-Tirado has developed an applied practice model to help you to increase your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054746Author Vanisha ParmarFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of colour.'Electric essays that speak to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962305068Author Yara MekawiFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Bridge City BooksPublisher Bridge City BooksWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 252mm *...

How is your institution enabling Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff and students to thrive? Is your institution effectively tackling racism? Following the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement, the higher education sector has started making bold...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545273Author Aaron TrammellFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

2020 was a year in which global politics radically shifted, catalyzed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. This book is a response to that year, asking: was it a moment or is it a movement, and what fundamental changes within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496458803Author Derwin L. GrayFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

Winner of the Ludwik Fleck Book Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 1995Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature-one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era. When plants...

A cutting-edge, relentless, objective approach to inclusion.Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest...

Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476725277Author Eve FairbanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

An enduring history of how race and class came together to mark the course of the antebellum US and our present crisis. Roediger shows that in a nation pledged to independence, but less and less able to avoid the harsh realities of wage labor, the...

"Where are you from?" I'm asked. "The UK," I reply. "I mean where are you originally from?" "Zambia," I reply. These questions are very familiar to those from visible ethnic groups in the UK who have had to answer these questions many times in...

'Remi Adekoya is a welcome blast of unsentimental rigour into a race debate clogged up with emotion and moralism. His dissection of the economic underpinnings of the world's racial and national hierarchies will make uncomfortable reading for both...

"It's easier to build strong children than repair broken men and women. This book provides an incredible opportunity for parents and guardians to start important conversations early on." - Guvna B, rapper, author and broadcaster "Books like this are...

"American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is." - Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an AntiracistFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cyclical pattern of violence that has marred racial progress in AmericaIn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536510Author Brian SeibertFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

A Guardian Best Book of the Year"A gripping study of white power...Explosive."-New York Times"Helps explain how we got to today's alt-right."-Terry Gross, Fresh AirThe white power movement in America wants a revolution.Returning to a country ripped apart...

In Europe today, staunchly nationalist parties such as France's National Front and the Austrian Freedom Party are identified as far-right movements, though supporters seldom embrace that label. More often, "far right" is pejorative, used by liberals to...

The issue of race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. Nowhere has the drama of race relations been more powerfully staged than in the American South. This book charts the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060578633Author Shelby SteeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

'Remi Adekoya is a welcome blast of unsentimental rigour into a race debate clogged up with emotion and moralism. His dissection of the economic underpinnings of the world's racial and national hierarchies will make uncomfortable reading for both...

WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2023A Times Best Literary Non-Fiction Book of the YearCritic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they...

Why did a movement as powerful as the one inspired by the murder of George Floyd fall short of securing its most militant demands? After Black Lives Matter argues that the core of the movement itself failed to locate the central racial injustice that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593318867Author Hahrie HanFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Liberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally an individual problem of extremist beliefs. Responding to Nazism, thinkers like gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld and anthropologist Ruth Benedict called for teaching people,...

'A gorgeously exuberant account. . . writing that is natural and vivacious . . . a fascinating and hugely enjoyable read.' Bernardine Evaristo, from the IntroductionTravelling over from Jamaica as a teenager, Barbara's journey is remarkable. She finds...

In the last two decades, the UK has deported thousands of people to Jamaica. Many of these 'deportees' left the Caribbean as infants and grew up in the UK. Deporting Black Britons traces the life stories of four such men who have been exiled from their...