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Book SynopsisWhy do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow. For decades in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white women performed myriad duties that upheld white over black: censoring textbooks, denying marriage certificates, deciding on the racial identity of their neighbors, celebrating school choice, canvassing communities for votes, and lobbying elected officials. They instilled beliefs in racial hierarchies in their children, built national networks, and experimented with a color-blind political discourse. Without these mundane, everyday acts, white supremacist politics could not have shaped local, regional, and national politics the way it did or lasted as long as it has.With white women at the center of the story, the rise of postwar conservatism looks very different than the male-dominated narratives of the resistance to Civil Rights. Women like Nell Battle Lewis, Florence Sillers Ogden, Mary Dawson Cain, and Cornelia Dabney Tucker publicized threats to their Jim Crow world through political organizing, private correspondence, and journalism. Their efforts began before World War II and the Brown decision and persisted past the 1964 Civil Rights Act and anti-busing protests. White women''s segregationist politics stretched across the nation, overlapping with and shaping the rise of the New Right. Mothers of Massive Resistance reveals the diverse ways white women sustained white supremacist politics and thought well beyond the federal legislation that overturned legal segregation.Trade ReviewReaders will find this to be a deeply researched and chronologically impressive account of white conservative women in the twentieth century. While McRae claims a specific focus on four white southern women who were activists in conservative organising, the chapters often extend into broader sketches of rapidly shifting global and national landscapes. The New Deal, world war, the threat of communism, decolonisation, and the civil rights movement provided these women with new approaches to championing the cause of white supremacy. McRae's work highlights the resilience of that position. * Stephanie R. Rolph, English Historical Review *Mothers of Massive Resistance effectively ties segregationists to the development of conservatism nationally and shows that massive resistance was not a sudden and short-lived response to the Brown decision. * Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Journal of Southern History *Brilliantly argued...Rather than hewing to southern exceptionalism, McRae explains how segregationist activists connected themselves to national debates...Mothers of Massive Resistance, like other recent books on right-wing women, is part of an important feminist historical project that goes beyond celebrating foremothers to understanding how and why women have helped build oppressive institutions. * Rebecca Hill, Journal of American History *Though this is a thoroughly-researched historical study, McRae does not present strictly chronological order, but lets the lives of the women shine forth and parallel the historical events * local and national, domestic and privatethat they shaped ... McRae is unafraid to plainly state where segregationist and conservative interests and rhetoric overlap and to pinpoint where even academics fail to showcase them.LaToya Jefferson-James, Arkansas Review *This is an ambitious and well-written book, and McRae makes compelling case that white southern segregationists had more power to fortify and shape white supremacy and the rise of massive resistance than historians to date have recognized. Readers will find that one of the most striking features of this book is the haunting familiarity of these white supremacist tropes in our current political discourse, evidence that this history is vitally important to the ongoing struggle for racial justice. * Zoë Burkholder, History of Education Quarterly *A valuable addition to the politically urgent study of whiteness in American History. * Anna J. Clutterbuck-Cook, Library Journal (starred review) *The crystal-clear message of this thoroughly researched and impressively documented book is that white supremacy remains a powerful force in the United States. * Kirkus Reviews *A strikingly original and unsettling analysis of the 'long segregation movement.' Tracking this struggle to maintain racial difference and distance from the eugenics mania of the 1920s through the watershed of the 1940s to the Boston busing crisis and the rise of the New Right, Elizabeth McRae paints a vivid portrait of hard-working white women in local communities across the country who, drawing on their moral authority as mothers, fought to protect white privilege, sometimes explicitly, through the tactics of massive resistance, sometimes covertly, under the guise of school choice and limited government. A must read for understanding the politics of white supremacy over the past half century and in our own time. * Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *Women have long been marginalized in studies of segregation, but Mothers of Massive Resistance makes a powerful case for placing them at the center of our attention. In this smartly argued book, Elizabeth McRae shows that southern white women not only brought massive resistance into being, but then sustained its growth at the grassroots in vitally important ways. * Kevin Kruse, Princeton University *A product of extraordinary research, McRae's gracefully written account captures the critical role white women of the South played in defending segregation even as it exposes the deep-seated cultural assumptions that led them to battle. * Dan Carter, University of South Carolina *Brilliantly demonstrates how white women were both the everyday architects of white supremacy in the Jim Crow South and fully connected to national movements to enforce racial segregation and promote political conservatism. It excavates the grassroots activism of female segregationists in their roles as suffragists, social workers, eugenicists, school teachers, textbook censors, journalists, storytellers, garden clubbers, party activists, anticommunists, and most of all as wives and mothers. * Matthew Lassiter, author of The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South *This deeply researched history of women and the work of segregation represents a major revision of Jim Crow and gender history. We see just how widespread and unrelenting, coordinated and feminine anti-integration efforts became over the early and mid-twentieth century * within and beyond the south. Indeed, women were the 'mass in massive resistance.'Michelle Nickerson, author of Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right *A fascinating, meticulously researched, and damning look into the myriad ways white women have consciously worked to aid racial segregation in the Jim Crow South and sanctify their racially pure vision of white motherhood...McRae's book shines a harsh light on our status as collaborators and progenitors in the mainstream white-supremacist movement, and is essential reading for any white woman who seeks to understand our history-and our responsibility to those we've failed. * Kim Kelly, Bitch Magazine *A sharp look at mainstream, everyday segregationism: the segregationism of respectable white women...McRae's book is an excellent history of white women's politics generally, but it's especially strong as a history of white women acting to protect 'their' public schools...McRae's project fulfills nearly all the requirements for a feminist history. She uncovers the role women played in a well-known historical movement, in which powerful or violent men-Klan members or George Wallace-are usually assigned the lead. She shines a light on their under-recognized, feminized work to shape and support that movement. She even demonstrates how women responded to gendered and class-based limitations on their power to perpetuate segregation in the public sphere with creativity and resilience. * Rebecca Stoner, Pacific Standard *An essential addition...McRae's book is likely to endure as a work that helps to permanently transform our understanding of the relationship between the Jim Crow South and what she calls Jim Crow Nation, and the emergence of the New Right. McRae rightly calls the political mobilization of segregationist women in the South and elsewhere a women's movement. These conservative women, previously unheralded in the historical literature, staked their claim as political actors, calling on their traditional-and powerful-role as mothers to express their views and exert influence on a host of political and cultural issues, while never completely disguising the fidelity to white supremacy that animated and joined together their various causes. * Zachary J. Lechner, H-South, H-Net Reviews *McRae...makes the compelling case that reducing massive resistance to a decade from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s obscures its political evolution and renders its activists reactionaries...Examining this resistance through the eyes of four southern white segregationists...McRae reveals that these women and their southern sisters were...part of a widespread political mobilization. Though initially these women publicly promoted the importance of maintaining de jure segregation and 'white over black,' over time they came to emphasize other fears...but ideas of white supremacy always remained under the surface. For McRae, the forced busing controversies of the 1970s...brings home the idea of an expanded notion of massive resistance and the idea that racism in the US has been persistent and pervasive, occurring across vast periods of time and crossing regional boundaries. McRae deserves kudos for her extensive research. * Choice *<"Mothers of Massive Resistance...helps reperiodize, reconceptualize, and nationalize the historiography of both massive resistance (in the Jim Crow South) and the rise of the New Right in twentieth-century American politics.... McRae's female subjects kept white supremacy alive and well long after the fall of de jure segregation. Her conclusions remain relevant today. Blatant discrimination and groups such as the KKK may have lost respectability in most circles, but wrapping white supremacy in language about school choice and limited government, among other supposedly unrelated topics, enjoys great resonance across America.> * Stacie Taranto, American Historical Review *<"In Elizabeth Gillespie McRae's revelatory exploration of mid-century white women's segregationist work, we see how the inheritors of that vision learned to speak in new languages, muted enough to pass in a society increasingly hostile to white supremacy but unmistakable to partisans as a continuation of the long struggle against racial equality....Thinking globally, acting locally, McRae's women...forged coalitions with non-southerners who shared compatible values and outlooks. They learned to frame their opposition to desegregation in terms of ostensibly non-racial threats: federal power, communism, the United Nations, and especially the subversion of traditional family structures.>"-Stephen Kantrowitz, Boston ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Segregation's Constant Gardeners Part I: Massive Support for Segregation, 1920-1942 Ch. 1 The Color Line in Virginia: The Home Grown Production of White Supremacy Ch. 2 Citizenship Education for a Segregated Nation Ch. 3 Campaigning for a Jim Crow South Ch. 4 Jim Crow Storytelling Part II: Massive Resistance to the Black Freedom Struggle Ch. 5 Partisan Betrayals: A Bad Woman, Weak White Men, and the End of a Party Ch. 6 Jim Crow's International Enemies and Nationwide Allies Ch. 7 Threats Within: Black Southerners, 1954-1956 Ch. 8 White Women, White Youth, and the Hope of the Nation Conclusion: The New National Face of Segregation: Boston Women Against Busing Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn edited volume that explores how color intersects with problematic histories of racial encoding in linguistic, visual, and algorithmic media.What is at stake when categories like color, race, and ethnicity are transformed into a common language, lexicon, or industry standard? And more critically, how can we avoid the epistemic and ontological violence that seems inevitable in organizing color into a series of grammars, syntaxes, indexes, and protocols? Color Protocols offers a series of responses to these questions and others. It begins with the premise that color is central to the history of systemic racism, and in turn, that the encoding of race vis-à-vis color is an intrinsic aspect of chromatic technologies.The book’s eighteen curated essays, edited by Carolyn Kane and Lida Zeitlin-Wu, are written by scholars from across the arts, social sciences, and humanities. Each section contains both original essays and republished excerpts fundamental to understanding how the history of color technology and its racialized double-valences have played out across multiple fields and media platforms over the last century and a half. Contributors: Ruha Benjamin, Jianqing Chen, Anne Anlin Cheng, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Dyer, Ali Feser, Nicholas Gaskill, Quran M. Karriem, Michael Keevak, Lisa Nakamura, Tina Post, Aileen Robinson, Michael Rossi, Lorna Roth, Amber Sweat, Genevieve Yue

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Book SynopsisHow can democracies deal with plurality? This book looks at the political accommodation of national plurality in liberal democracies and in the European Union at the turn of the century. Its panel of international authorities examines this issue from a variety of perspectives, considering questions of citizenship, multiculturalism, immigration and equality. The contributors, many of whom have set the terms of this debate in international political science, include Will Kymlicka, Carlos Closa, Michael Keating, Enric Fossas, Wayne Norman and Ricard Zapata Barrero.Table of Contents1. Introduction: 'It is so very late that we may call it early by and by' Ferran Requejo 2. The New Debate over Minority Rights Will Kymlicka 3. Nations Without the States, Minority Nationalism in the Global Era Michael Keating 4. National Plurity and Equality Enric Fossas 5. Secession and (Constitutional) Democracy Wayne Norman 6. National Plurity within Single Statehood in the European Union Carlos Closa 7. The Limits of a Multinational Europe: Democracy and Immigration in the European Union Ricard Zapata 8. Democratic Legitimacy and National Plurism Ferran Requejo

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Book SynopsisFeaturing essays from David Olusoga, Dawn Butler MP, Kit de Waal, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and many more.In response to the international outcry at George Floyd's death, Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder have commissioned this collection of essays to discuss how and why we need to fight for Black lives to matter - not just for Black people but for society as a whole.Recognising Black British experience within the Black Lives Matter movement, nineteen prominent Black figures explain why Black lives should be celebrated when too often they are undervalued. Drawing from personal experience, they stress how Black British people have unique perspectives and experiences that enrich British society and the world; how Black lives are far more interesting and important than the forces that try to limit it."We achieve everything not because we are superhuman. We achieve the things we achieve because we are human. Our strength does not come from not having any weaknesses, ou

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Book SynopsisA film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, from Brian’s Song to Lando in the Star Wars universe—unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed.“The story of a legend, written by the legend himself! Impressive, inspiring, entertaining and endearing.” —J. J. AbramsBilly Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up feeding Lenya her lines. He studied painting, first at the High School of Music and Art, with fellow student Diahann Carroll, and then at the National Academy of Fine Art, before setting out to pursue acting with Herbert Berghoff, Stella Adler, and Sidney Poitier.His first film role was

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Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric.Americans of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question: how has the conversation on race in America gone so crazy? We’re told to read books and listen to music by people of color but that wearing certain clothes is “appropriation.” We hear that being white automatically gives you privilege and that being Black makes you a victim. We want to speak up but fear we’ll be seen as unwoke, or worse, labeled a racist. According to John McWhorter, the problem is that a well-meaning but pernicious form of antiracism has become, not a progressive ideology, but a religion—and one that’s illogical, unreachable, and unintentionally neoracist.

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Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller ? Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today ? Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography ? Winner of the American Library Association Alex AwardA young poet tells the inspiring story of hismigration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this?gripping memoir? (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family. Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction ? One of the New York Public Library?s Ten Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the PEN/Open Book Award?I read Solito with my heart in my throat and did not burst into tears until the last sentence. What a person, what a writer, what a book.??Emma Straub ?A riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help each other in times of struggle.??Dave EggersONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Vulture, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago??one day, you?ll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.? Javier Zamora?s adventure is athree-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and acrossthe U.S. border.He will leave behindhis beloved aunt and grandparentsto reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling aloneamida group of strangers and a ?coyote? hired to lead them to safety, Javierexpects histriptolast two short weeks.At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents? arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito providesan immediate and intimate accountnot onlyof a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but alsoofthe miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is JavierZamora?sstory, but it?s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.

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Book SynopsisEuropean anti-Muslim attitudes: the voice of public protest against out-of-touch elites?Are anti-Muslim attitudes becoming the spectre that is haunting Europe? Is Islamophobia as widespread and virulent as is made out? Or do some EU societies appear more prejudiced than others? To what extent are European fears about unmanaged immigration the basis for scapegoating Muslim communities? And is there an anti-elitist dimension to Europeans'' protest about rapid demographic change occurring in their countries?This cross-national analysis of Islamophobia looks at these questions in an innovative, even-handed way, steering clear of politically-correct clichés and stereotypes. It cautions that Islamophobia is a serious threat to European values and norms, and must be tackled by future immigration and integration policy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Studying phobias; 2. Norms and models of migrant rights; 3. From fears about immigrants to prejudices against Muslims; 4. Islamophobia's deep structures and shallow stereotypes; 5. France: from assimilation to affirmative action?; 6. Germany: from multiculturalism to Realpolitik?; 7. Undoing Islamophobia; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisEuropean anti-Muslim attitudes: the voice of public protest against out-of-touch elites?Are anti-Muslim attitudes becoming the spectre that is haunting Europe? Is Islamophobia as widespread and virulent as is made out? Or do some EU societies appear more prejudiced than others? To what extent are European fears about unmanaged immigration the basis for scapegoating Muslim communities? And is there an anti-elitist dimension to Europeans'' protest about rapid demographic change occurring in their countries?This cross-national analysis of Islamophobia looks at these questions in an innovative, even-handed way, steering clear of politically-correct clichés and stereotypes. It cautions that Islamophobia is a serious threat to European values and norms, and must be tackled by future immigration and integration policy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Studying phobias; 2. Norms and models of migrant rights; 3. From fears about immigrants to prejudices against Muslims; 4. Islamophobia's deep structures and shallow stereotypes; 5. France: from assimilation to affirmative action?; 6. Germany: from multiculturalism to Realpolitik?; 7. Undoing Islamophobia; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisHave Europeans become hostile to multiculturalism? When people vote for anti-immigrant parties, do they also support their anti-multicultural policies? This book tackles the challenge of dismantling the multicultural model without destroying diversity in European society.

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Book SynopsisTackles the challenge of dismantling the multicultural model without destroying diversity in European society* Have Europeans become hostile to multiculturalism? * When people vote for anti-immigration parties, do they also support their anti-multiculturalism policies? * And are right-wing extremists becoming the storm troopers of the struggle against diversity?In recent years, European political leaders from Angela Merkel to David Cameron have discarded the term ''multiculturalism'' and now express scepticism, criticism and even hostility towards multicultural ways of organising their societies. Yet they are unprepared to reverse the diversity existing in their states. These contradictory choices have different political consequences in the countries examined in this book. The future of European liberalism is being played out as multicultural notions of belonging, inclusion, tolerance and the national home are brought into question.

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Book SynopsisMulticulturalism has recently been declared dead, while at the same time the value of diversity is still emphasised - how can we explain this? In this book, the author sets out to reassess liberal theories of multiculturalism, and argues that the 'backlash' is actually the strengthening of tendencies already present in liberal multiculturalism.

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Book SynopsisWhat divides and what unites an ethnically diverse citizenry? Do multicultural policies cause ethnic conflict or do they form the basis for wider loyalties? George Vasilev addresses these vexed questions. He argues against critics who claim that group representative measures are incompatible with solidarity. Instead, he explains how they provide the incentive structure needed for inter-ethnic cooperation. By looking beyond the representative institutions of the nation state, Vasilev shows us how NGOs, international institutions and opinion leaders are becoming increasingly important in cultivating interethnic openness.

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Book Synopsis WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020 ''This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known, events in modern British history. Lee''s journey and fight for justice are both inspiring and enraging'' AKALA What would you do if the people you trusted to uphold the law committed a crime against you? Who would you turn to? And how long would you fight them for? On 28 September 1985, Lee Lawrence''s mother Cherry Groce was wrongly shot by police during a raid on her Brixton home. The bullet shattered her spine and she never walked again. In the chaos that followed, 11-year-old Lee watched in horror as the News falsely pronounced his mother dead. In Brixton, already a powder keg because of the deep racism that the community was experiencing, it was the spark needed to trigger two days of rioting that saw buildings brought down by petrol bombs, cars torched and shops looted.

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Book SynopsisExplores the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

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Book SynopsisKorn and Bursztyn and their contributors examine the cultural transitions that children make as they move between the cultures of home and school. To better understand these transitions, they explore how educators understand their students' shifting experiences and examine how educators also negotiate transitions as they too move from home to school each day. The narratives or case studies reflect this shifting gaze: from child, to teacher, to parents, and take up the various relational configurations that these can form, amongst and between each other. They turn a critical eye toward instances of classroom practice and school life, connecting personal knowledge with school change. In some cases, the authors draw directly on autobiographical material, linking these to a reflective approach to teaching.Avoiding the celebratory tone that often attends discussions of multiculturalism, the authors address how diverstiy engages us in continual renegotiation of the persTable of ContentsForeword: Exploring a Transformative Multiculturalism--Justice in a Zeitgeist of Despair by Joe L. Kincheloe Preface by Alberto M. Bursztyn Introsuction: Cultural Transitions and Curricular Transformations by Carol Korn Silenced Voices: A Case of Racial and Cultural Intolerance in the Schools by Deborah Nelson and Margaret R. Rogers Redefining School Culture: Creating New Traditions for Bicultural Students by Vernita Zubia and Beth Doll Issues of Class and Race in Education: A Personal Narrative by Cheryl C. Holcomb-McCoy Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge: The Geography of Social and Cultural Transitions by Carol Korn An Ecological Perspective on Preparing Teachers for Multicultural Classrooms by Helen Johnson Facing the Terror Within: Exploring the Personal in Multicultural Education by Peter Taubman Transforming the Deficit Narrative: Race, Class, and Social Capital in Parent-School Relations by Hollyce C. Giles The Path to Academic Disability: Jacier's School Experience by Alberto Bursztyn Conclusion: Reflections on Collective Identities by Alberto Bursztyn Further Readings Index

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Book SynopsisExplores literary, visual, material and biological evidence of marginality in the ancient Greek world.

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Book Synopsis A New York Times Notable Book, Overground Railroad is the first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists used for decades when traveling through segregated America. Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black travel guide to America.” At that time, it was both dangerous and difficult for African Americans to travel, because black travelers couldn’t eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other businesses that were safe for black travelers. It was a resourceful and innovative solution to a horrific problem. Candacy Taylor writes in her introduction, “The Green Book was published during a time when car travel symbolized freedom in America, but since racial segregation was in full force throughout the country, the

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Book SynopsisIn the graphic novel history Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, author Alverne Ball and illustrator Stacey Robinson have crafted a love letter to Greenwood, Oklahoma—also known as Black Wall Street—a community whose importance is often overshadowed by the atrocious slaughter that took place there in 1921.Across the Tracks introduces the reader to the businesses and townsfolk who flourished in this unprecedented time of prosperity for Black Americans. We learn about Greenwood and why it is essential to remember the great achievements of the community as well as the tragedy which nearly erased it. However, Ball is careful to recount the eventual recovery of Greenwood. With additional supplementary materials including a detailed preface, timeline, and historical essay, Across the Tracks offers a thorough examination of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Black Wall Street.Trade Review“Focus on rebuilding efforts ends this brief but informative book on a hopeful note” * Booklist *“Across the Tracks not only personalizes and therefore heightens the tragedy we know will come, but it also reframes that tragedy. Black perseverance and joy take center stage in a way it seldom does when discussing Greenwood. This story is about Greenwood, not Tulsa and the race massacre, a deliberate choice on Ball and Stacey’s end.” * The Beat *“Educational and accessible, this feels well crafted for any American history class, or as a primer for general readers unfamiliar with this dark chapter of American history.” * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisWinner of the African American Literary Show Award for Best Non-FictionIn her first book, The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan examined race in America through her experience as a White House reporter. In this book, she shifts the conversation from the White House to every home in America. At Mama's Knee looks at race and race relations through the lessons that mothers transmit to their children. As a single African American mother in Baltimore, Ryan has struggled with each gut wrenching, race related news story to find the words to convey the right lessons to her daughters. To better understand how mothers transfer to their children wisdom on race and race relations, she reached out to other mothersprominent political leaders like Hillary Clinton and Valerie Jarrett, celebrities like Cindy Williams, and others like Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin's mother, whose lives have been impacted by prominent race related events. At a time when Americans still struggle to addTrade Review[At Mama's Knee] is an engrossing read, and Ryan's commentary is vital to understanding the problems we face as Americans if we can ever expect to end our divisiveness. * Baltimore Magazine *"In these racially turbulent times, April Ryan’s At Mama's Knee is essential reading. Drawing from her experience as a White House reporter and keen observations of black motherhood in the 21st century, April offers a poignant look at the racial challenges our nation still faces. Mothers are on the front lines of racial revolution. At Mama's Knee teaches us, above all, that mothers in America carry a heavy burden. Their lessons on race and intolerance shape not just the lives of their children, but our communities and nation as a whole." -- Montel Williams, Former Naval Intelligence Officer and Television Personality“In her latest tome, At Mama’s Knee, April Ryan brings a needed and necessary conversation on race to the forefront. That she chooses to tell these precious stories on race through the voice of a mother is worthy of perking our ears to listen. Mothers are the backbone of our society. They set the stage for how we will address the world. And in today’s racially charged climate, there are far too many mothers crying. It’s time that we lean into the wisdom emanating through these poignant expressions of joy and pain.” -- T. D. Jakes, senior pastor, The Potter's House of Dallas, host the "T.D. Jakes" show"Ryan's emotionally-rich exploration of the influences race, identity and family have on our life experiences reminds us just how powerful an imprint mothers make on us all." -- Vanessa De Luca, Editor-in-Chief, Essence Magazine"From her humble beginnings in inner city Baltimore to the heights of serving as a White House correspondent, April Ryan has seen it all. From this unique perspective, she shares her life experience as a black daughter and now as a black mother in today's racially complex world." -- Bobby Scott, U.S. House of Representatives“April Ryan has written a truly amazing book. At Mama's Knee is powerful and personal; insightful and moving; loving and gracious. I learned so much. Anyone who reads At Mama's Knee will emerge smarter and stronger." -- Wolf Blitzer, CNN Anchor, The Situation Room“With passion and precision, April Ryan examines race, gender, and family at the dawn of a post-Obama, and an anything but post-racial America.... Incisive, intelligent and interesting page after page.” -- Cornell William Brooks, President and CEO, NAACP"As a single mother of two young girls, native of Baltimore and veteran White House correspondent, April Ryan (The Presidency in Black and White) has spent much of her adulthood juggling the complex issues of race and race relations in both her personal and professional lives. In her second book, At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White, she draws on that experience. . . to present a new and multifaceted interpretation of the important role that mothers play in both understanding and defining race relations in the United States today. Ryan uses her journalistic background to great effect in At Mama's Knee, most notably through extensive conversations with others. Interviews with prominent politicians, such as Hillary Clinton and Valerie Jarrett, combine with the stories of mothers who have been thrust into the news cycle, such as Gwen Carr (mother of Eric Garner) and Sybrina Fulton (mother of Trayvon Martin), to fully flesh out Ryan's ideas of race and motherhood. . . At its heart, Ryan's work is an important reminder of the place of mothers in the ongoing conversation about race and racial tensions in U.S. "We must teach our children," she urges, "whether with words or actions, about race in America." The words in At Mama's Knee are an important part of that teaching." -- Kerry McHugh, blogger at Entomology of a Bookworm * Shelf Awareness *Table of ContentsForeword Introduction 1. More than a Headline 2. Born a Statistic 3. A Mother’s Love 4. The N–Word 5. The Faith of Our Mothers 6. Mothers, Presidents, and Race 7. A Tale of Two Cities 8. Assimilation 9. Work–Life Balance 10. Educating the Future Conclusion—A Prayer for Harmony Acknowledgments Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisCan human rights be truly universal, without becoming a subtle form of Western imperialism or restricting the rights of women, minorities, LGBT people and other culturally disadvantaged peoples? This book critically addresses these core issues through an interdisciplinary analysis of key case studies and particularly challenging issues.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. A defensible universalism; 2. Culture and Transcending Relativism; 3. A Right to Cultural Identity; 4. The rights of women - patriarchy, harm and empowerment; 5. The rights of national and ethnic minorities; 6. The Rights of Indigenous Peoples; 7. Religion and Human Rights; 8. Working on a dream?; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, interculturalism has emerged as a possible alternative to prevailing approaches of multiculturalism. But how is interculturalism different from multiculturalism? This collection brings together leading proponents of intercultural and multicultural theory and practice from Europe and North America to address this question.Table of ContentsForeword; 1. A Plural Century: Situating lnterculturalism and Multiculturalism; 2. Multiculturalism, lnterculturalism and Citizenship; 3. Theorising Intercultural Citizenship; 4. Quebec lnterculturalism and Canadian Multiculturalism; 5. lnterculturalism and Multiculturalism: Similarities and Differences; 6. The Case for lnterculturalism, Plural Identities and Cohesion; 7. Defending Diversity in an Era of Populism: Multiculturalism and lnterculturalism Compared; 8. Models of Diversity in the Americas: Avenues for Dialogue and Cross-Pollination; 9. Diversity, Duality and Time; 10. Towards an Intercultural Sense of Belonging Together: Reflections on the Theoretical and Political Level; 11. Multiculturalism, Interculturalisms and the Majority; Afterword: Multiculturalism and lnterculturalism - A Critical Dialogue; Index.

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Book SynopsisLasse Thomassen argues that the politics of inclusion and identity should be viewed as struggles over how these identities are represented. He centres this argument through careful analysis of cases from the last four decades of British multiculturalism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Identity, Inclusion and Representation; 1. Hegemony, Representation and Britishness; 2. Subjects of Equality; 3. (Not) Just a Piece of Cloth: Recognition and Representation; 4. Tolerance: Circles of Inclusion and Exclusion; 5. Hospitality beyond Good and Bad; Conclusion: Multiculturalism, Britishness and Muscular Liberalism; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book surveys Russian nationalism as a political, social and intellectual phenomenon by leading Western and Russian experts. Includes case studies on the relationship between nationalism and migrantophobia; religion; the media; national identity in economic policy; the strategy of the Putin regime and public opinion.

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Book SynopsisOffers a set of new comparative perspectives on the experiences of Shi'a Muslim minorities outside the 'Muslim heartland' (Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia) and discusses the challenges these communities face as 'a minority within a minority'.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the circumstances of the Kurds in 21st century Turkey, under the hegemony of the AKP government. After decades of denial, oppression and conflict, Kurds now assert a more confident presence in Turkey?s politics ? but does increasing visibility mean a rejection of Turkey? Recording Kurdish voices from Istanbul and Diyarbakir, Turkey?s most important Kurdish-populated cities, this book generates new understandings of Kurdish identity and political aspirations. Highlighting elements of Kurdish identity including Newroz, the Kurdish language, connections to religion, landscape and cross-border ties, it offers a portrait of Kurdish political life in a Turkey increasingly dominated by its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Within the context of Turkey?s troubled trajectory towards democratisation, it documents Kurdish narratives of oppression and resistance, and enquires how Kurds reconcile their distinct ethnic identity and citizenship in modern Turkey.

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Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress.

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Book SynopsisAnne Sofie Schott explores how the Kurdish diaspora in Denmark supported the Kurdish struggle in Syria from the battle of Kobane (2014) to the defeat in Afrin (2018). She examines the political lobbyism, the courtroom activism and the humanitarian action of the various Kurdish diaspora groups.

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Book SynopsisIn the world of online dating, race-based discrimination is not only tolerated, but encouraged as part of a pervasive belief that it is simply a neutral, personal choice about one's romantic partner. Indeed, it is so much a part of our inherited wisdom about dating and romance that it actually directs the algorithmic infrastructures of most major online dating platforms, such that they openly reproduce racist and sexist hierarchies. In Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating, Apryl Williams presents a socio-technical exploration of dating platforms' algorithms, their lack of transparency, the legal and ethical discourse in these companies' community guidelines, and accounts from individual users in order to argue that sexual racism is a central feature of today's online dating culture. She discusses this reality in the context of facial recognition and sorting software as well as user experiences, drawing parallels to the long history of eugenics and banned interracial partnerships. Ultimately, Williams calls for, both a reconceptualization of the technology and policies that govern dating agencies, and also a reexamination of sociocultural beliefs about attraction, beauty, and desirability.Trade Review"[A] troubling investigation of structural racism in online dating platforms.... Williams's highly accessible narrative is made extra intriguing by the liberal inclusion of users' own words sharing their intimate thoughts."—Publishers Weekly"From the automation of white beauty standards to the chilling prevalence of racist abuse in private messages, Williams reveals the harms created when racism, technology, and romance interact."—Angéle Christin, author of Metrics at Work"This book changes how we think about the sociology of the 'real world' in dating by taking seriously the online world where so many of us find love forever or just right now. Apryl Williams shows us a new, better way to do digital sociology, and her writing makes for a compelling read."—Jessie Daniels, author of Nice White LadiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. A New Sexual Racism? 2. Automating Sexual Racism 3. I'm Just Not Comfortable with Them: The Myth of Neutral Personal Preference 4. I've Always Wanted to Fuck a Black or Asian Woman: Being Racially Curated in the Sexual Marketplace 5. Safety Thirst: Who Gets to Be Safe While Dating Online? Conclusion: All You Need Is Love (and Transparency, Trust, and Safety)

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Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘An absolute must-read . . . Emmanuel Acho dives into important subjects like cultural appropriation and white privilege, urging you to find a way to join in the fight against racism’ – Cosmopolitan An urgent primer on race and racism, from Emmanuel Acho, an American Football Legend and host of the viral hit video series Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man.In Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white people are afraid to ask – yet which everyone needs the answers to, now more than ever. With the same open-hearted generosity that has made his video series of the same name a phenomenon, Acho explains the vital core of such fraught concepts as white privilege, cultural appropriation and ‘reverse racism’.In his own words, he provides a space of compassion and understanding in a discussion that can lack both. He asks only for the reader’s curiosity – but along the way, he will galvanize all of us to join the anti-racist fight.‘I really love this’ – Jada Pinkett Smith‘What Emmanuel Acho has to say is important’ – Matthew McConaugheyTrade ReviewI really love this . . . [it’s] deeply informative for those who need more clarity and understanding. Get educated with Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man -- Jada Pinkett SmithWhat Emmanuel Acho has to say is important. It has made me think, and I hope that more people read this and that it will get them thinking. He answers the questions – the why of things – that will hopefully lead, in the future, to the how we move forward -- Matthew McConaugheyEmmanuel is a voice we need right now. I admire and appreciate the way he tackles complex issues with great empathy, care and introspection. He understands that every good conversation starts with listening, and I believe the work he is doing is critical -- Roger Goodell, NFL CommissionerEmmanuel Acho pushes conversations that we need to have into the middle, when so many want them on the side. This book matters so much -- Carl Lentz

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Book SynopsisWhen George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled “Dear White America” asking white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from racism, he knew his article would be controversial. But he was unprepared for the flood of vitriol in response. The resulting blowback played out in the national media, with critics attacking Yancy in every form possible—including death threats—and supporters rallying to his side. Despite the rhetoric of a “post-race” America, Yancy quickly discovered that racism is still alive, crude, and vicious in its expression. In Backlash, Yancy expands upon the original article and chronicles the ensuing controversy as he seeks to understand what it was about the op-ed that created so much rage among so many white readers. He challenges white Americans to rise above the vitriol and to develop a new empathy for the African American experience.Trade Review“Direct and honest, Yancy’s delineations of white violence, white indifference, and white naïveté are both thoughtful and discomforting.” * Publishers Weekly *For all readers with the courage and care to act for racial and social justice. * Library Journal *For a professional philosopher to communicate such deep rawness and suffering is, quite simply, astounding. * Tikkun Magazine *Searing, honest, and Unflagging in its pursuit of understanding. * Foreword Reviews *Rather than just acknowledging modern-day American racism, Yancy implores white readers to face the truth of their own bigotry, the privilege of their whiteness, and the ways that this whiteness inherently dehumanizes and endangers black people. . . . Yancy asks white readers to fundamentally question their sense of self, to accept the ugliness of the whiteness inherent in them. This is a monumental, incredibly difficult intellectual task. . . . Backlash is an honest, smart, and thoughtful book. . . * Los Angeles Review of Books *This is a timely account of how raising the issue of racism to a white public can bring out the worst of humanity: hate. . . . It is not an easy book to read, no matter what your cultural and racial heritage, because it is unutterably sad that we need such a book in 2018. But we do require such an analysis of racism, and its concomitant ally whiteness. It is ubiquitous and rather insidious in all forms of social life, from the White House to the trailer park. Yancy gives heartfelt, yet courageous, insight into how the vitriol from whites stirred his humanity to be proactive, and seek further ways to reach the unreachable. * CHOICE *“George Yancy’s courageous appeal to White America “to confront the problem of whiteness; to cultivate a critical awareness of the specter of whiteness and white privilege that each one of you inherits” elicited a remarkable range of responses, some hideous beyond words, some welcoming what he rightly called a “gift.” This eloquent meditation on the events and their meaning calls on us, with piercing honesty, to think hard, and work hard, to excise the malignancy of white supremacy from our culture and our lives.” -- Noam Chomsky“Backlash is a decisive intervention on a hugely important topic by a very courageous thinker. Highly recommended.” -- Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor, The New School for Social Research“Although fighting racism is one of the beliefs of our liberal society, not only astute social critics but also thousands of “ordinary” people clearly experience the falsity of the predominant liberal dogmas. Yancy conclusively demonstrates how we should move far beyond the liberal attacks on alt-right neocons towards asking the key question: to what degree the conservative backlash was made possible by the silences and compromises of the liberal perspective itself. No politically correct language policy can effectively disturb actual relations of domination and power. For this fact alone, Backlash deserves to become a classic.” -- Slavoj Žižek"Through his wisdom, his research, and his lived experience, George Yancy has provided us with a thought-provoking example of the impact of racism in America: personally and impersonally, individually and collectively. Yancy deconstructs racism in a powerful way, and deepens our understanding by sharing his personal experience. All Americans can learn from reading this text. White Americans, and for that matter members of any dominant group, should especially treat this book as a special gift." -- Howard J. Ross, founder and chief learning officer of Cook Ross Inc., a diversity consulting company, and author of Everyday Bias and Reinventing DiversityTable of ContentsForeword: The End of White Innocence Acknowledgments Introduction: Talking About Racism: When Honesty Feels Like Too much to Bear Chapter 1: The Letter: Dear White America Chapter 2: Dear Nigger Professor Chapter 3: Risking the White Self Chapter 4: Accepting the Gift Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThinking Race argues that racism results from a misguided blending of biological facts with pernicious socially constructed ideas. This book aims to help readers accept the reality of human difference while understanding human unity. The esteemed author team of Richard A. Goldsby, a biologist, and Mary Catherine Bateson, an anthropologist, recognize race as primarily socially constructed but also having biological reality. They argue that misunderstanding the nature of race stands in the way of addressing and solving the problems of our current racial climate. The book addresses controversial subjects, exploring whether or not race-associated biological differences are differences that might impact mental ability, medical practice, or athletic performance. Because the black/white divide is a dominant and continuing theme of U.S. history and culture, the book devotes a good deal of attention to these groups, while also covering Native Americans and Asian Americans. Thinking Race provides a thoughtful and nuanced case for viewing race as a cultural play in an ancestral theater. This perspective, anthropological and biological, will build a framework for thinking about race and provide conceptual tools for better understanding and addressing this charged and often pernicious notion.Trade ReviewIs race a social construction or a biological reality? In this brave and necessary book, Richard Goldsby and Mary Catherine Bateson provide a persuasive response: it is both. Using a wealth of genetic and cultural evidence, Goldsby and Bateson shed light on a question too often dominated by heat, and they explore the implications of their answer for medicine, social policy, and politics. -- William A. Galston, Senior Fellow, The Brookings InstitutionThis scholarly, but completely accessible and entertaining, treatise examines what we term “race” providing food for serious thought on several levels. The authors bring expertise from their respective areas of scholarship to bear on this complex topical issue. Their discussion of the intricacies involved, not readily resolved by current DNA analyses or dissection of cultural issues, gives new and thoughtful insight. Having defined race in a reasonable way next are enumerated consequences of racial discrimination along with some suggestions to balance inequity. An open-minded reading of this treatment may require rethinking of common stereotypes and abandoning racist attitudes. -- Thomas J. Kindt, authorThis wise book by a distinguished biologist and an acclaimed anthropologist forthrightly, clearly, and concisely summarizes the objective evidence that there are races and racial differences: readers will find some surprising. The authors’ take bears on many `hot-button’ issues and provides compelling and reasoned insight into how society and culture, not biology, determines racial inequality. Thinking Race is a must read. -- Lydia Villa-Komaroff, independent consultant, Intersections: Science, Business, Diversity; former vice president of research, Northwestern UniversityIf we are ever to move beyond the racial divisiveness that continues to plaque our nation, we must have courageous conversations about race. Goldsby and Bateson have written an important and engaging book that can enlighten these conversations in the interest of social justice. By explaining the biology of race, and how race is largely socially constructed, the authors help us accept human differences among us at the same time that we understand the power of human unity. -- Johnnetta Betsch Cole, President Emerita of Spelman College and Bennett College for WomenThe authors draw upon a wide spectrum of sources and methods in crafting a compelling argument that distinguishes and illustrates the complexities between race as a biological concept and race as a social construct. -- Robert Wedgeworth, founding President and CEO of ProLiteracy WorldwideTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 Generations of Migration 2 The Notion and Nature of Race 3 Human Diversity 4 Race and Medicine 5 Race and Ability 6 Seeking Solutions Suggested Readings for Thinking Race Index

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