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Book SynopsisPeabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send. The answers, though, have been challenging and complicated. In the twelve years since award-winning journalist Michele Norris first posed that question, over half a million people have submitted their stories to The Race Card Project inbox. The stories are shocking in their depth and candor, spanning the full spectrum of race, ethnicity, identity, and class. Even at just six words, the micro-essays can pack quite a punch, revealing, fear, pain, triumph, and sometimes humor. Responses such as: You’re Pretty for a Black girl. White privilege, enjoy it, earned it. Lady, I don’t want your purse. My ancestors massacred Indians near here. Urban living has made me racist. I’m only Asian when it’s convenient. Many go even further than just six words, submitting backstories, photos, and heirlooms: a collection much like a scrapbook of American candor you rarely get to see. Our Hidden Conversations is a unique compilation of stories, richly reported essays, and photographs providing a window into America during a tumultuous era. This powerful book offers an honest, if sometimes uncomfortable, conversation about race and identity, permitting us to eavesdrop on deep-seated thoughts, private discussions, and long submerged memories. The breadth of this work came as a surprise to Norris. For most of the twelve years she has collected these stories, many were submitted by white respondents. This unexpected panorama provides a rare 360-degree view of how Americans see themselves and one another. Our Hidden Conversations reminds us that even during times of great division, honesty, grace, and a willing ear can provide a bridge toward empathy and maybe even understanding.Trade Review“A remarkable book. By letting Americans of every walk of life share their deepest, most personal—and sometimes contradictory—attitudes on race, it takes us past the usual polarizing debates and points us toward the possibility of greater understanding." — Barack Obama, on X “A testament to that journey. Featuring photos and stories on race from people all over America, it highlights the truths of the American experience — and shares everything, even the messy bits. It's an incredible read." — Michelle Obama, on Instagram “A stunning book and a gift to our nation. Anchored by more than a decade of research and engagement with Americans across the country, Michele Norris takes us on a journey into the heart of this country’s painful, complex and unrelenting battle with the salience and significance of race in our lives.” — Sherrilyn Ifill, Howard Law School, and former President & Director-Counsel NAACP Legal Defense Fund “An important, compelling work. In an extremely unique way, Norris captures private, poignant and instructive stories that are a guide to racial knowledge that can lead to the understanding and healing we so desperately need. Ultimately, she shows that we need not fear the issues we must all confront.” — Eric H. Holder, Jr., 82nd Attorney General of the United States and author of Our Unfinished March “When ordinary people, talk, extraordinary truths are revealed. Michele Norris has an extraordinary gift – she is able to coax people into revealing their profound beliefs about race. This book is a safe space where difficult conversations become healing exchanges.” — Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage "The brilliant Michele Norris has spent fourteen years getting people to open up about race — starting with six words. The result of her noble project is this beautiful and inspiring book. It can help us all cultivate communities of bridge builders so that we can talk about race with both candor and love.” — Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker “Candid, unsettling and brilliant, the Race Card Project is a rare window into the enigma of race and the ways in which people make sense of it. In Our Hidden Conversations, Michele Norris has brought together a vista of personal truths that are as indelible as the issue they’re responding to.” — Jelani Cobb, Dean, Columbia Journalism School "Michele Norris is one of our most important chroniclers of American life. The stories captured in this book reveal the complexity, nuance, and dynamism of race in America. It is an indispensable resource for all of us.” — Clint Smith, New York Times bestselling Author of How The Word is Passed “As an immigrant, I always dreamed of an America where all are welcome. I still do. That dream is powerful, but we know it’s not the whole story. Michele Norris has the rare courage, understanding and grace to tell the American stories we prefer to keep silent — and the ones we should be proud of telling." — José Andrés, chef and humanitarian “Our Hidden Conversations is a unique, troubling, tough and beautiful book, a study of people sharing their thoughts and stories about racism. It sometimes broke my heart, other times surprised me, always challenged me, and ultimately left me uplifted, and with hope, because truth heals." — Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird“Notable… Norris offers crucial insight into how Americans think about race, combining the painful with the inspiring.” — Kirkus Reviews "This is an eye-opening read and an affecting examination of how race affects our lives.” — Booklist Review

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Book SynopsisThis open access short reader provides a state of the art overview of the discrimination research field, with particular focus on discrimination against immigrants and their descendants. It covers the ways in which discrimination is defined and conceptualized, how it is measured, how it may be theorized and explained, and how it might be combated by legal and policy means. The book also presents empirical results from studies of discrimination across the world to show the magnitude of the problem and the difficulties of comparison across national borders. The concluding chapter engages in a critical discussion of the relationship between discrimination and integration as well as pointing out promising directions for future studies. As such this short reader is a valuable read to undergraduate students, as well as graduate students, scholars, policy makers and the general public.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: the case for discrimination research.- Chapter 2. Concepts of discrimination.- Chapter 3. Theories of discrimination.- Chapter 4. Methods of measurement.- Chapter 5. Discrimination across social domains.- Chapter 6. Consequences of and responses to discrimination.- Chapter 7. Combatting discrimination.- Chapter 8. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisSet in Ukraine and Crimea, this unique autobiography offers a fascinating, detailed picture of life in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Tsarist Russia. Goldenshteyn (1848-1930), a traditional Jew who was orphaned as a young boy, is a master storyteller. Folksy, funny, streetwise, and self-confident, he is a keen observer of nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, both Jewish and non-Jewish. His accounts are vivid and readable, sometimes stunning in their intensity. The memoir is brimming with information; his adventures shed light on communal life, persecution, family relationships, religious practices and beliefs, social classes, local politics, interactions between Jews and other religious communities (including Muslims, who formed the majority of Crimea’s populace), epidemics, poverty, competition for resources, migration, war, modernity and secularization, holy men and charlatans, acts of kindness and acts of treachery. In chronicling his own life, Goldenshteyn inadvertently tells a bigger story—the story of how a small, oppressed people, among other minority groups, struggled for survival in the massive Russian Empire.Until now, only a small circle of Yiddish-speaking scholars had access to this extremely significant primary source. This translation is a game-changer, making this treasure trove of information accessible to academics and ordinary readers alike. Informed by research in Ukrainian, Israeli, and American archives and personal interviews with the few surviving individuals who knew Goldenshteyn personally, The Shochet is a magnificent new contribution to Jewish and Eastern European history.Trade Review“This is a remarkable book, brimming with much information about East European traditional Jewish life in the second half of the nineteenth century. Its author, Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn, describes his experiences in a most direct, straightforward way, with great attention to detail. The Shochet contains a treasure trove of information for the scholar and will provide hours of reading pleasure for the layman."— Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought, Yeshiva University“Pinkhes Dov Goldenshteyn’s lengthy memoir is of great significance as he takes us with him throughout his journeys in East European Orthodox society. Here we meet many fascinating personalities up close. Originally written in Yiddish, we can thank Michoel Rotenfeld for his wonderful translation—a true labor of love— and his learned introduction and notes that allow us to get the most out of this fascinating work."— Marc B. Shapiro, Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies, University of Scranton “This autobiography’s importance is indisputable. It is a rare example of an ego-document written by a ‘simple,’ ordinary Jew, someone who never belonged to the elite circles of the maskilim, but instead lived far from their centers and influences. For historians of the period seeking to draw a fair and balanced portrait of the times, Goldenshteyn’s voice is an important one.”— Professor David Assaf, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University“A rare journey deep into the Hasidic world of nineteenth-century Tsarist Russia. Goldenshteyn, a Lubavitcher Hasid, conveys his daily struggles and fleeting joys in a manner unencumbered by the nostalgia and alienation so typical of secularist Jewish memoirs. The Shochet is meticulously edited, and is essential reading for an understanding of everyday Hasidic Eastern Europe.”— Glenn Dynner, author of The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust (Oxford University Press)“[T]his is… an extremely fascinating book that details the life of an unassuming Jewish man in late 19th-century Ukraine. The book, brilliantly translated from the original Yiddish by Michoel Rotenfeld... is the story of Rabbi Pinkhes Dov Goldenshteyn, who was a shochet and wrote his autobiography for his children so they could understand the trials and tribulations he went through. While Goldenshteyn’s intent was for his children, he has also bequeathed a great gift to us all. … Goldenshteyn was an ordinary person, who like his contemporaries, was simply struggling to survive. He never intended to write a historical account, but in his ordinariness, he has left the world with a captivating historical narrative about Jewish life in the Ukraine. … In the annals of Jewish and Eastern European history, The Shochet is a remarkably unique and fascinating work.”— Ben Rothke, The Jewish Press“The Shochet stands as a valuable addition to the corpus of Eastern-European Jewish memoir literature, offering readers an intimate and eye-opening view of the author’s life and the unique situation of Eastern European Jewish communities of this time period. Rotenfeld's translation expertly captures the author’s skillful storytelling, further enriching it with elucidations and notes. This renders the memoir a compelling and insightful exploration of a bygone era that resonates deeply with readers.”— Rabbi Moshe Maimon, SeforimChatter“The Shochet is an innocuously titled travelogue memoir of a righteous, forward moving, determined individual who recorded his difficult life in the later years of the 19th century and the early parts of the 20th century. In this masterpiece of detail, much peril and danger is presented and discussed, including the fright of border crossings, the terror of poverty and oppression, the nastiness of underhanded charlatans, and the inhumane snobbery of class warfare.”— Martin Bodek, Jewish LinkTable of ContentsVolume One AcknowledgementsA Note about the TranslationIntroduction: The Autobiography of Pinkhes-Dov (Pinye-Ber) Goldenshteyn—A Traditionalist’s Unique Depiction of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Life in Tsarist RussiaAn Exceptional Autobiographer: Pinye-Ber’s Status, Motives, And ChoicesPinye-Ber in Contrast to Modern Jewish AutobiographersHow Did Pinye-Ber Come to Write an Autobiography?Pinye-Ber’s Alltagsgeschichte: Traditional Jews in Tsarist RussiaCommon Life and Incidental ObservationsWork, Family Life, and Social StruggleThe Rebbe as an Inspirational LightAnti-Fanaticism and Anti-Corruption Religious Self-RealizationPinye-Ber’s Sense of Divine ProvidenceA Divine-Providence-Centered ConsciousnessHasidism and Divine ProvidenceA Life Seen as God’s WillDates in the AutobiographyPinye-Ber’s Language ConclusionBibliographyThe Shochet: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea In Lieu of a PrefacePart I: My Family and YouthMy Parents and SiblingsChapter 1: My Parents Chapter 2: The Deaths of My Parents, Brother-in-Law, and Brother, 1854–1857Chapter 3: Tragedy in the Lives of Three of My Sisters, ca. 1857–1864 My Early Years, 1848–1864Chapter 4: My Early Childhood, 1848–1855Chapter 5: A New Set of Parents, 1856Chapter 6: With Grandfather in Groseles, 1857–1858Chapter 7: Shuffled Around, 1858–1860Chapter 8: Sent Off to an “Uncle,” 1860Chapter 9: My Dream of a Celestial Palace, 1860Chapter 10: Working as a House Servant for Shulem Tashliker, 1860–1863Chapter 11: Beyle’s Fiancé, 1863Chapter 12: Gaining Admittance to the Yeshiva in Odessa, 1863Chapter 13: In Odessa, Tiraspol, and Romanovke, 1863–1864Part II: Engagement, Marriage, and Seeking a Livelihood, 1864–1873Chapter 14: My Unexpected Engagement, 1864–1865Chapter 15: Obtaining a Romanian Passport and Traveling to Lubavitch, 1865Chapter 16: The Lubavitcher Rebbe and Studying in Shklov, 1865–1866Chapter 17: Delivering an Esreg to the Lyever Rebbe, 1866–1867Chapter 18: My Wedding and a Fiery Pursuit, 1867–1868Chapter 19: In Search of a Livelihood, 1868–1869Chapter 20: Studying to Be a Shoykhet and Searching for Uncle Idl, 1870–1872Chapter 21: Receiving Certification as a Shoykhet and Returning to Lubavitch, 1872–1873Volume Two Part III: My Forty Years as a Shoykhet, and Moving to Palestine, 1873–1929Chapter 22: As the Shoykhet of Slobodze, 1873–1875Chapter 23: The Nobleman’s Attack and Moving to the Crimea, 1876–1880Chapter 24: Corruption in Bakhchisaray and Ungrateful Relatives, 1880–1889Chapter 25: The Threat of Banishment from Tsarist Russia, 1881–1884Chapter 26: Persecution in Bakhchisaray, 1884–1889Chapter 27: Raising My Children and My Wife’s Death, 1884–1897Chapter 28: Remarrying and My Children’s Departure from Russia, 1896–1910 Chapter 29: Preparing to Leave for Palestine, 1910–1914 Part III—Addendum: My Life in Palestine, 1913–1928Chapter 30: The World War and the Death of My Second Wife, 1913–1916Chapter 31: Marrying Off My Niece and Writing a Torah Scroll, 1916–1917Chapter 32: Exile to Kfar-Saba, 1917–1918Chapter 33: Suffering in Exile and Returning to Petakh-Tikva, 1918Chapter 34: Completing the Torah Scroll, the Arab Attack, and My Children Join Me in Palestine, 1919–1929Appendices:Appendix A: The Author and His Relatives The Author’s Final Years in Petakh-Tikva The Author’s Children Isaac Goldstein, the Author’s Nephew Feyge, the Author’s Second Wife Bashe, the Author’s Third Wife Salomon Bernstein, Relative and Portraitist of the Author The Printing of The Author’s Autobiography Appendix B: Translations of Documents Written by the Author Hebrew Engagement Contract for His Daughter Nekhame (1897) Hebrew Ethical Will (1920) Family Letters Appendix C: Translations of Additional Documents Hebrew Letter from Rabbi Medini (Sdei Khemed) Regarding the Author (1879) Episodes Related by the Author about Rabbi Medini (Sdei Khemed) Two Certificates in Sh’khita Obtained by the Author’s Son Refúel (1904 and 1906) Appendix D: Genealogical Charts The Author’s Ancestors and Siblings The Extended Family of Ershl Teplitsky, the Author’s Brother-in-Law The Author’s Children and Grandchildren The Extended Hershkovitsh Family, the Family of the Author’s Wife Freyde Appendix F: PhotographsAppendix E: Maps Tiraspol and Its Environs Bakhchisaray, Crimea, and Its Environs BibliographyGlossaries: Introduction to the Glossaries and the Transliteration SchemesGlossary 1: Foreign TermsGlossary 2: Jewish Personal NamesGlossary 3: Geographic Locations in Eastern Europe Index of Names, Places, and Subjects

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Book SynopsisBased on the vivid firsthand testimony of prominent Afro-Cubans who live in Cuba, this book of interviews looks at ways that race affects daily life on the island. While celebrating their racial and national identity, the collected voices express an urgent need to end the silences and distortions of history in both pre- and postrevolutionary Cuba.Trade ReviewThis beautiful, poignant collection of snippets of thoughful reflections and conversations by a wide range of Afro-Cubans will go far toward understanding. It deftly cuts through the caricatures, myths, stereotypes, and misconceptions about blacks, not only in Cuba, but also across much of the Americas."—Choice"An important work for all those interested in contemporary race relations."—Cuban Studies"Offers a refreshing account of race, nation, and culture in Cuba. . . . For students unfamiliar with Cuban history, this volume is an insightful preamble to more detailed treatments of particular topics."—Transforming Anthropology"Offer[s] a wealth of material. . . . [A] timely compilation."—Race & Class"A commendable treatment of a thorny topic. Its clear prose and the frankness of its subjects makes it accessible to both the specialist and anyone interested in the complex nature of social life in present-day Cuba."—Florida Historical Quarterly

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Book SynopsisPero Gaglo Dagbovie examines the lives, works, and contributions of two of the most important figures of the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. Drawing on the two men''s personal papers as well as the materials of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), Dagbovie probes the struggles, sacrifices, and achievements of the black history pioneers and offers the first major examination of Greene''s life. Equally important, it also addresses a variety of overlooked issues pertaining to Woodson, including the historian''s image in popular and scholarly writings and memory, the democratic approach of the ASNLH, and the pivotal role women played in the association.Trade Review"Dagbovie . . . draws on the personal papers of these two seminal historians, along with materials from the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), to chronicle the growth of the modern black history movement. . . . Recommended for all black history and historiography collections."--Multicultural Review "As scholar-activists, Carter G. Woodson and Lorenzo J. Greene used their professional historical training not only to establish and further the subdiscipline of African American history, but also to help African Americans understand the importance and significance of their role in U.S. development. . . . Dagbovie has done well to highlight their careers and contributions. . . . Recommended."--Choice "Dagbovie contributes benchmark research to US historiography. . . . [He] provides an unprecedented analytical account of two central black history innovators."--Journal of American History “In addition to a careful assessment of the personalities and motivations of Woodson and Greene, Dagbovie’s work provides a solid foundation and model for future work on black historians.”--The Journal of Southern History"Dagbovie's dual biography of two giants of the black history movement is an important work. . . . The Early Black History Movement gives deeper insight on iconic figures of the early black history movement while simultaneously serving as a rebuke to disinterested black scholars in the present."--Afro-Americans in New York Life and History"A welcome reminder of a period when scholars strove to advance knowledge and social justice. . . . Pero Dagbovie has recovered a vital chapter in that intellectual struggle, offering insight into the African American past and a reminder of roads not taken today."--A.M.E. Church Review"A vital study of black American intellectual life and black professional historians."--American Studies"Well-written and original, this dual biography of Carter G. Woodson and one of his leading disciples in the Black History Movement, Lorenzo Greene, allows historian Pero Dagbovie to explore new paths and places touched by Woodson's expansive vision of the importance of history to the overall social, economic, political, and psychological well-being and advancement of people of African descent. This is a major contribution to an overlooked and under-theorized area of African American intellectual history."--V. P. Franklin, editor of The Journal of African American History "This book brilliantly illuminates the early black history movement through the lives and scholarship of two of its pioneers. Dagbovie expertly helps us to understand and to appreciate the nature of that 'movement' for truth and social justice."--Robert L. Harris Jr., coeditor of The Columbia Guide to African American History since 1939

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Book SynopsisConsiders the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence - the deadly ethnic riot - an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group against another ethnic group. This title examines approximately 150 such riots in about fifty countries, mainly in Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, as well as fifty control cases.Trade Review"Makes an important contribution to our understanding of ethnic conflict [and] will be a source of testable hypotheses for years to come."-Stephen M. Saideman, American Political Science Review "This definitive work is recommended for all academic and larger public libraries."-Library journal "Horowitz's book is comprehensive, illuminating, unprecedented in scope and absolutely fascinating. It may be just the thing for realists-yes, you know them as pessimists-who are looking for some chilly truths about the sphinx that has haunted the century past and may yet haunt the century to come."-Washington Post Book World "This magisterial yet stimulating study is marked by the comprehensiveness of its empirical data, the author's keen analytic sensibility, and his gift for the telling phrase. The Deadly Ethnic Riot is that rare combination of theoretical analysis and practical advice. It not only signals a breakthrough in our understanding of the morphology and dynamics of ethnic riots but offers eminently useful strategies for containing these deadly events."-ScienceTable of ContentsA Note on Place Names 1. Say It with Murder 2. Ethnic Boundaries, Riot Boundaries 3. The Riot Episode 4. Selective Targeting 5. Target-Group Characteristics 6. An Economy of Antipathy: Target Selection and the Imperatives of Violence 7. Organizers and Participants 8. The Occasions for Violence 9. The Social Environment for Killing 10. Location, Diffusion, and Recurrence 11. Aims, Effects, and Functions 12. Violence and Quiescence 13. The Calculus of Passion Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing explicit lines, across time and a broad spectrum of violent acts, to provide the definitive field guide for understanding and opposing white supremacy in America Hate, racial violence, exclusion, and racist laws receive breathless media coverage, but such attention focuses on distinct events that gain our attention for twenty-four hours. The events are presented as episodic one-offs, unfortunate but uncanny exceptions perpetrated by lone wolves, extremists, or individuals suffering from mental illnessand then the news cycle moves on. If we turn to scholars and historians for background and answers, we often find their knowledge siloed in distinct academic subfields, rarely connecting current events with legal histories, nativist insurgencies, or centuries of misogynist, anti-Black, anti-Latino, anti-Asian, and xenophobic violence. But recent hateful actions are deeply connected to the pastjoined not only by common perpetrators, but bythe vast complex of systems, histories, ideologies, and personal beliefs that comprise white supremacy in the United States. Gathering together a cohort of researchers and writers, A Field Guide to White Supremacy provides much-needed connections between violence present and past. This book illuminates the career of white supremacist and patriarchal violence in the United States, ranging across time and impacted groups in order to provide a working volume for those who wish to recognize, understand, name, and oppose that violence. The Field Guide is meant as an urgent resource for journalists, activists, policymakers, and citizens, illuminating common threads in white supremacist actions at every scale, from hate crimes and mass attacks to policy and law. Covering immigration, antisemitism, gendered violence, lynching, and organized domestic terrorism, the authors reveal white supremacy as a motivating force in manifold parts of American life. The book also offers a sampling of some of the most recent scholarship in this area in order to spark broader conversations between journalists and their readers, teachers and their students, and activists and their communities.A Field Guide to White Supremacy will be an indispensable resource in paving the way for politics of alliance in resistance and renewal. Trade Review"Belew and Gutiérrez have compiled a superstar group of writers, commentators, and scholars who make sense of these vicious times of sophisticated hate. Collectively, they make the case that white supremacy—not ‘democracy’ or ‘freedom,’ as some like to think—is the most dominant idea (or ideology) in the history of the United States." * The Progressive *"An important and timely collection in a moment of political and social polarization." * California Review of Books *"This edited volume gives a clear and nuanced view of the different manifestations of white supremacy in the US. While modestly referred to as a manual by the editors, the volume shows the endurance of white supremacy in the past and the present, its embedment in its democratic institutions in the US, and ongoing manifestations." * Ethnic & Racial Studies *"A Field Guide to White Supremacy tracks the complex career of white supremacy, settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, anti-Semitism, and nativism in the United States. . . . This is an indispensable volume for historians of race, racism, gender and sexuality, and immigration who are interested in the myriad ways that white supremacy has been produced and reproduced in the United States since its founding." * California History *"Lucid, written for a broad audience. . . . a lightning strike against any complacency within or without the academy that racism is merely Trumpism, or that both are somehow ‘over’." * Against the Current *Table of ContentsThoughts on the Associated Press Stylebook, by Kathleen Belew et al. Introduction, by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez Section I Building, Protecting, and Profiting from Whiteness 1. Nation v. Municipality: Indigenous Land Recovery, Settler Resentment, and Taxation on the Oneida Reservation Doug Kiel 2. A Culture of Racism Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 3. Policing the Boundaries of the White Republic: From Slave Codes to Mass Deportations Juan F. Perea 4. The Arc of American Islamophobia: From Early History through the Present Khaled A. Beydoun Section II Iterations of White Supremacy 5. The Longest War: Rape Culture and Domestic Violence Rebecca Solnit 6. The Pain We Still Need to Feel: The New Lynching Memorial Confronts the Racial Terrorism That Corrupted America—and Still Does Jamelle Bouie 7. Anti-Asian Violence and U.S. Imperialism Simeon Man 8. Homophobia and American Nationalism: Mass Murder at the Pulse Nightclub Roderick Ferguson 9. Wounds of White Supremacy: Understanding the Epidemic of Violence against Black and Brown Trans Women/Femmes Croix Saffin 10. On Antisemitism Judith Butler Section III Anti-Immigrant Nation 11. Fear of White Replacement: Latina Fertility, White Demographic Decline, and Immigration Reform Leo R. Chavez 12. Unmaking the Nation of Immigrants: How John Tanton’s Network of Organizations Transformed Policy and Politics Carly Goodman 13. The Expulsion of Immigrants: America’s Deportation Machine Adam Goodman 14. The Detention and Deportation Regime as a Conduit of Death: Memorializing and Mourning Migrant Loss Jessica Ordaz Section IV White Supremacy from Fringe to Mainstream 15. A Recent History of White Supremacy Ramón A. Gutiérrez 16. From Pat Buchanan to Donald Trump: The Nativist Turn in Right-Wing Populism Joseph E. Lowndes 17. The Alt-Right in Charlottesville: How an Online Movement Became a Real-World Presence Nicole Hemmer 18. The Whiteness of Blue Lives: Race in American Policing Joseph Darda 19. There Are No Lone Wolves: The White Power Movement at War Kathleen Belew Conclusion, by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez Notes Acknowledgments Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTakesWhite Fragility to the next level, placing emotional conversations about race squarely in the realm of employment discrimination lawexploring how implicit bias and diversity trainings are insufficient tools for battling inequality in the workplace. Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around raceand much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized solutions to discrimination and inequality in employment, calling for sweeping changes in how the law and work organizations treat and shape racial emotions. Green provides readers with the latest research on racial emotions in interracial interactions and ties this research to thinking about discrimination and disadvantage at work. We see how our racial emotions can result in discrimination, and how our institutionsthe law and work organizationsvalue and skew our racial emotions in ways that plac

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Book SynopsisIn 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of 'conspicuous signs' of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. This book argues that the law is symptomatic of France's failure to integrate its former colonial subjects as full citizens.Trade Review"Scott does a good job of conveying the hysteria that surrounded the foulard debate in France...Scott's broad and exhaustive research makes for a bracing account of the debate."--Laila Lalami, The Nation "Veil-bashing is suddenly socially acceptable among not merely tabloid-reading Little Englanders, but also metropolitan sophisticates...Why should a bit of cloth so threaten the French republic? That is the central question posed by [this] subtle new study...Many French commentators cast the debate about the veil as an issue about Muslims, Islam and integration. Scott, a distinguished historian at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, shows that it revealed rather more about the French themselves."--Carla Power, New Statesman "This book is a powerful denunciation of the French government and people whom Scott labels as racist, discriminatory, and intolerant of Muslim immigrants primarily from North Africa. In instituting a ban on the wearing of Muslim headscarves in public schools, the author claims that France has gone too far in its policies of strict secularism and adherence to the values of republicanism in which citizenship is conceived of as an individual matter devoid of ethnic and religious content... [A] fascinating piece of scholarship."--S. Majstorovic, Choice "It is difficult to do justice to the rigour and subtlety of this important book, written by a distinguished historian with previous works on gender and democratic politics. It should be read not only by those interested in the French situation but also by anyone who is concerned by the hysteria surrounding Muslims in Europe. It clarifies the ideas behind current debates on multiculturalism, assimilation and integration, and points the way towards a solution."--Mary Hossain, Journal of Islamic Studies "The Politics of the Veil is a propitious contribution to the exploration and analysis of the complex meanings and purported meanings of these phenomena that have come to symbolise for Turkey and France the struggle to defend the foundations of their Republic against forces that allegedly undermine all that is glorious and good about these 'singular' or 'exceptional' states."-- Elif Aydyn, The Muslim News "[I]t is important to remember the lessons of the headscarf ban, to understand the politics that lay behind it and its racist implications. This book is a useful reminder of both."--Sadie Robinson, International Socialism "Scott's book is a wonderful discussion about how well and how badly societies respond to religious challenges. I strongly recommend it."--Iva Ellen Deutchman, Politics and Religion "This book will undoubtedly rank as one of the best Anglo-American critical commentaries on the affaire du foulard and the 2004 law banning religious signs in schools...[Scott] succeeds in providing a magisterial demonstration of the power of discourse--of the ways in which abstract ideas, when mediated through a vibrant political culture, can influence collective thinking and practice."--Cecile Laborde, La Vie Des Idees "Joan Scott authoritatively rejects many of the arguments that are often used in favor of totally excluding Islam from the public sphere. In doing so she has provided much food for thought and has written a book that is equally valuable to scholars and to students in a graduate or upper level undergraduate course."--Hootan Shambayati, Law and Politics Book Review "The Politics of the Veil is written in clear and accessible prose, and its provocative yet succinct chapters are thought provoking and user friendly at the same time... [T]he book can be easily divided up and read over two or three class periods or it can be comfortably assigned as a whole. Because its subject matter is so pertinent to so many disciplines, the book can be used in history, sociology, anthropology, political science, gender studies, European Studies, religion, or any courses in the humanities or social sciences examining contemporary French politics and society."--Kristen Ghodsee, Women's Studies International Forum "The Politics of the Veil ... challenges the traditions of detached scholarship, yet Scott's careful use of specific evidence adheres to scholarly methods and demonstrates how historians can contribute critical insights to the public debates of our own time."--Lloyd Kramer, Journal of Modern History "This is a very important and ... welcome book... [T]his sharp and insightful study is undoubtedly a must for any student on not only French society, but of questions regarding secular ideology, gender, and 'deterritorialized' Islam in general."--Per-Erik Nilsson, Evironment and Planning "Scott succeeds in revealing how the inability of French government's failure to address the issue of the veil meaningfully underlines its current inability to create a country where the co-existence of differences, rather than celebration of what is common or the same, is the basis of community."--Irmak Ertuna, Darkmatter "Scott unfolds excellent and detailed analyses of the construction of the citizen in the French nation state, of French racism and Algeria, and of the prominent news events in the French veiling controversy."--Virginia Corvid, Feminist CollectionsTable of ContentsForeword vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1: The Headscarf Controversies 21 Chapter 2: Racism 42 Chapter 3: Secularism 90 Chapter 4: Individualism 124 Chapter 5: Sexuality 151 Conclusion 175 Notes 185 Index 199

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Book SynopsisRacisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the prism and context of social hierarchies and local conditions. In this richly illustrTrade Review"[A]nalytically sophisticated... Bethencourt tacks deftly between cultural and social history. His binocular vision marks Racisms out from most previous studies."--David Armitage, Times Literary Supplement "Bethencourt, professor of history at King's College London, examines how expansion abroad shaped European systems of ethnic prejudice in a tour de force spanning the Americas, West Africa, India, and other colonial environs."--Publishers Weekly "[W]ell worth reading."--Christie Davies, Standpoint "Francisco Bethencourt's Racisms could not be more timely ... Bethencourt's incisive analysis ought to be compulsory reading in the think tanks, chanceries and ministries of the developed world."--Maria Misra, Prospect "To understand what fuelled such racist ideologies and practices, I can think of no better book than Francisco Bethencourt's Racisms. It is an ambitious, bold project... Bethencourt addresses the 'scientific' turn in racial classification systems. There is a vast literature on the ideas of influential men such as ... Charles Darwin and many others. However, Bethencourt's summary is the clearest and most sophisticated to date... [An] impressive book."--Joanna Bourke, New Statesman "[A]mbitious and wide-ranging... Racisms['s] cataloguing of successive centuries of poisonous bigotry, of tangled, self-serving myth and murderous victimisation, creates a powerful cumulative effect. To chart some of my own emotions while reading it: anger; pain, disgust and sorrow. This is an unlovely history. But a necessary one that appears, sadly for the wrong reasons, at the right time."--Ekow Eshun, Independent "As a comparative study of colonial behaviour Racisms is astonishing... Readers of Racisms will learn a great deal about the colonial encounters that brought people of different regions, religions, 'skin colors,' and 'ethnicities' into contact with each other during the long centuries of European expansion."--David Nirenberg, Literary Review "Epic in scale and ringing with authority."--Steven Carroll, Age "Although Bethencourt's writings are grounded in academia, Racisms is a highly accessible and lively account that should appeal to a wide audience--a work that, while not being too sophisticated for the average person to read and appreciate for the multiple insights that it provides, makes for just as worthy an undergraduate text."--Lois Henderson, BookPleasures.com "For those who are already working on racism, or who are at the very least acquainted with it, the book should prove a very useful tool in locating specific work within a larger historical landscape. It serves as a very strong call to open one's historical horizons, both temporally and geographically, which can only improve one's work. In this sense, Racisms is well worth reading. It represents a welcome contribution to the growing body of work on the topic by debunking some very persistent myths about it."--Philippe-Andre Rodriguez, Oxonian Review "In this richly illustrated study, Bethencourt defines racism as prejudice based on ethnic descent that is supported by discriminatory measures driven by political motivations... Although Europe constitutes Bethencourt's focal point, he draws on examples of racism from Africa, Asia, and the Americas as points of comparison and context."--Choice "Bethencourt has done an admirable job sifting through history to produce this broad survey of the evolution of racial thought, always tying each development back to the political projects it was meant to facilitate and thereby illustrating the emptiness of race as an ontological category. Racisms not only pulls regularly from primary sources, such as travel narratives or scientific reports, but it is also richly peppered with images that bring to life the shifting perception of race through the centuries."--Guy Lancaster, Journal of History and Cultures "Racisms is a weighty tome in every sense of the word: the book reflects the scholarship and attention to detail of the dedicated academic as well as the writing of a man deeply sensitive to the moral and ethical issues involved."--Ed Standhaft, Methodist Recorder "This is a richly illustrated work--in terms of both historical material and visual images--that creates an interesting departure for further enquiry into a deeply challenging subject."--Shu Cao, International Affairs "Racisms is a superb monograph, well served by excellent illustrations."--Survival "No short review can do justice to this dazzlingly learned and ambitious book."--Stephen J. Whitfield, Patterns of Prejudice "Bethencourt has assessed copious sources and studies, making his book as helpful as instructive."--Stefanie Affeldt, Malte Hinrichsen, Wulf D. Hund, Archiv fuer Sozialgeschichte "This beautifully produced and richly illustrated book is a complex cross between an erudite essay on Western ideas about cultural, ethnic, religious, and racial differences, and a detailed accounting of European history and European contact with the rest of the world since the Middle Ages."--Stuart B. Schwartz, New West Indian Guide "Francisco Bethencourt's magisterial study Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century, offers an original contribution to this historiographical debate... Bethencourt's encyclopaedic research and sensitive and detailed analysis of 73 visual sources that guide each section will indubitably make this study invaluable for framing discussions on the long history of discrimination throughout European cores and peripheries."--Chloe Ireton, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Maps xii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I The Crusades 11 Chapter 1 From Greek to Muslim Perceptions 13 Chapter 2 Christian Reconquest 19 Chapter 3 Universalism: Integration and Classification 37 Chapter 4 Typologies of Humankind and Models of Discrimination 48 Part II Oceanic Exploration 63 Chapter 5 Hierarchies of Continents and Peoples 65 Chapter 6 Africans 83 Chapter 7 Americans 101 Chapter 8 Asians 117 Chapter 9 Europeans 137 Part III Colonial Societies 159 Chapter 10 Ethnic Classification 163 Chapter 11 Ethnic Structure 181 Chapter 12 Projects and Policies 204 Chapter 13 Discrimination and Segregation 216 Chapter 14 Abolitionism 228 Part IV The Theories of Race 247 Chapter 15 Classifications of Humans 252 Chapter 16 Scientific Racialism 271 Chapter 17 Darwin and Social Evolution 290 Part V Nationalism and Beyond 307 Chapter 18 The Impact of Nationalism 309 Chapter 19 Global Comparisons 335 Conclusions 365 Notes 375 Index 423

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Book SynopsisUsing Racial Threat Theory arguments, this book demonstrates that American states with larger or growing Black and Hispanic populations have more restricted voting, and that these restrictive voting laws disproportionately demobilize these populations in predictable ways.Trade ReviewThe Cost of Voting Index (COVI) developed by the authors is a very useful resource that will benefit the field for years. In addition to developing this metric, the authors have convincingly demonstrated that voting restrictions are more likely in diversifying states and that efforts to expand access to the polls do not compromise election integrity. A must-read for students of voting and electoral reform." - Elliott Fullmer, associate professor of political science at Randolph-Macon College and author of Tuesday’s Gone: America’s Early Voting RevolutionTable of Contents Introduction 1. A Brief History of Voting Restrictions in the United States 2. The Changing Nature of State Election Law 3. Falling Behind or Jumping Ahead: Movement in the State Cost of Voting Rank 4. Minority Populations, Republicans, and the COVI 5. The COVI and Reported Voter Turnout 6. Minority Candidate Electoral Success and the Underrepresentation of Minorities and Women 7. the First Big Lie: Accessible Voting Leads to Widespread Voter Fraud 8. The Second Big Lie: More Convenient Voting Helps Democrats Conclusion Appendices A: Measurement Challenges and Omitted Variables B: More Specifics on Constructing the Cost of Voting Index C: Sensitivity Analysis D: Construct Validity Check, the COVI, and State Voter Turnout E: 4 TablesF: State COVI Values by Presidential Election G: 5 Tables Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisRacism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in the world in the early twentieth century and in turn affected the way that diplomatic history and international relations were taught and understood in the American academy. Evolutionary theory, social Darwinism, and racial anthropology had been dominant doctrines in international relations from its beginnings; racist attitudes informed research priorities and were embedded in newly formed professional organizations. In White World Order, Black Power Politics, Robert Vitalis recovers the arguments, texts, and institution building of an extraordinary group of professors at Howard University, including Alain Locke, Ralph Bunche, Rayford Logan, Eric Williams, and Merze Tate, who was the first black female professor of political science in the country.Within the rigidly segregated profession, the Howard School of International Relations represented the most important center of opposition Trade ReviewDefying his discipline's preference for theory over history, Vitalis has demonstrated how detailed, archive-based historical accounts can lift the veil on the racism running through international relations as field and practice. -- Carol Polsgrove * American Historical Review *The book stands out for how it critiques how institutions reproduce, often in an unconscious manner, the foundational assumptions of an academic discipline.... Vitalis has also contributed to the vibrant and expanding scholarly study of radical Black transnational intellectual history by engaging with a largely-overlooked dimension of the work of important figures in the history of Black radical thought such as Locke, Williams and Bunche, showing how those thinkers worked within and against formal academic structures to criticize the racist and imperialist dynamics of international relations scholarship. * National Polticial Science Review *Robert Vitalis wants his discipline to understand not only how central the category of race and the structures of racism were to its founding institutions and paradigms but also to see the erasure of that history not as progress but as repression, a willful forgetting that has if anything made it less equipped to comprehend (much less to address) the shocking racial inequities that still mark both the American and the global order. If international relations scholars want to understand the racial politics that made their field what it is today, there is no better place to begin than with this righteously angry book. -- Susan Pederson * London Review of Books *There is much to commend in Vitalis' book which is filled with fascinating vignettes and unexpected connections. He writes with clarity and passion, especially in the book's opening and close, to ensure that whilst ample room is given for the reader to make their own way through the material, it is never an aimless wander. -- Jake Hodder * Journal of Historical Geography *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Mongrel American Social SciencePart I. The Noble Science of Imperial Relations and Its Laws of Race Development1. Empire by Association2. Race ChildrenPart II. Worlds of Color3. Storm Centers of Political Theory and Practice4. Imperialism and Internationalism in the 1920sPart III. The North versus the Black Atlantic5. Making the World Safe for "Minorities"6. The Philanthropy of MastersPart IV. "The Dark World Goes Free"7. The First but Not Last Crisis of a Cold War Profession8. Hands of Ethiopia9. The Fate of the Howard SchoolConclusion: The High Plane of Dignity and DisciplineNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Dark Threats and White Knights, Sherene H. Razack explores the racism implicit in the Somalia Affair and what it has to do with modern peacekeeping.Trade Review"'In Dark Threats and White Knights, Sherene H. Razack raises issues that are central to world politics today - especially in light of Anglo-American occupation of postwar Iraq - covering a range of scholarly, journalistic, and governmental sources. The book is clearly and eloquently written. I found it a compelling read.' L.H.M. Ling, Graduate Program in International Affairs, New School University"

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Book SynopsisExamines the histories behind the issues at the root of America's conflicts both past and present, from race and immigration to misogyny and reproductive rights. This is more than a study of the issues; it is an attempt to shed real light on how to encourage constructive dialogue and move society forward.Trade ReviewGriffith approaches complex ideas in a way that is thoughtful, concise, and provocative without being incendiary.

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Book SynopsisShifts the narrative around the history of US higher education to examine its colonial past. Over the past several decades, higher education in the United States has been shaped by marketization and privatization. Efforts to critique these developments often rely on a contrast between a bleak present and a romanticized past. In Unsettling the University, Sharon Stein offers a different entry pointone informed by decolonial theories and practicesfor addressing these issues. Stein describes the colonial violence underlying three of the most celebrated moments in US higher education history: the founding of the original colonial colleges, the creation of land-grant colleges and universities, and the postWorld War II Golden Age. Reconsidering these historical moments through a decolonial lens, Stein reveals how the central promises of higher educationthe promises of continuous progress, a benevolent public good, and social mobilityare fundamentally based on racialized exploitation, expTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. A Colonial History of the Higher Education PresentChapter 2. The Violent Origins of US Higher Education in the Colonial and Antebellum ErasChapter 3. Dispossession at the Roots of "Democracy's Colleges": The Colonial Legacy of Land-Grant InstitutionsChapter 4. The "Golden Age" of Higher Education and the Underside of the American DreamChapter 5. Inclusion is Not Reparation: Reckoning with Violence or Reproducing Higher Education Exceptionalism?Chapter 6. Imagining Higher Education OtherwiseAcknowledgementsWorks CitedNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisGeorge Lipsitz's classic book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness argues that public policy and private prejudice work together to create a possessive investment in whiteness that is responsible for the racialized hierarchies of our society. Whiteness has a cash value: it accounts for advantages that come to individuals through profits made from housing secured in discriminatory markets, through the unequal educational opportunities available to children of different races, through insider networks that channel employment opportunities to the friends and relatives of those who have profited most from past and present discrimination, and especially through intergenerational transfers of inherited wealth that pass on the spoils of discrimination to succeeding generations. White Americans are encouraged to invest in whiteness, to remain true to an identity that provides them with structured advantages. In this twentieth anniversary edition, Lipsitz provides a new introduction and updTrade Review"Lipsitz’s 20th-anniversary reissue has only shown how prescient and important this book was from first press.... Weaving together literary references, scientific studies, and court cases, and using well-known contemporary events like Hurricane Katrina, police killings of young African-American men, the Charleston massacre, and many historical events that may be lesser known, he illustrates how white fear and failure are the sources for the development of ethnonationalism. Summing Up: Highly recommended."--Choice

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Book SynopsisThis unique book provides an insider's view of the seminal inquiry into Stephen Lawrence's murder. This paperback edition includes analysis of hitherto inaccessible transcripts which show how the Inquiry was undermined and a new Afterword by the author.Trade Review"It is apt and timely that Dr Stone should reveal detail from the (only now available) transcript evidence, modulated through his own cool, scientific and humanely liberal interpretation of this important event. " Dr Bryn Caless, Senior Lecturer in Policing , Canterbury Christ Church University"Going through the Inquiry was a reminder of the pain of losing my son: it was difficult but one I had to sit through. The Inquiry filled in the gaps of what happened the night my son was murdered. The Inquiry also showed me the depth of racism and corruption that existed in the Metropolitan Police Service." Baroness Doreen Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE"Insights into the private considerations of the Stephen Lawrence Murder Inquiry will provide clarity and better understanding about how the combination of prejudice, poor leadership, unaccountable decision-making and abuse of power contribute to institutional discriminatory outcomes." Lord Ouseley of Peckham RyeTable of ContentsIntroduction; Why there was an inquiry; The Inquiry and how I came to be an Adviser on the panel; Cancellations and reinstatements; The Commissioner takes the stand; Searching for the files of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry; Defining ‘institutional racism’ and the challenge to ‘double jeopardy’; Unprofessional policing and timid leadership; Final reflections ; Afterword.

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Book SynopsisInformed by sociological theory and recent empirical analysis, the new edition of this classic textbook is an accessible account of the major social divisions that structure social life. Written by experts, it covers an unrivalled range of social divisions, diversity and inequalities. This is an invaluable sourcebook for social science students.Trade Review"Written by a highly distinguished set of sociologists, this is a standout text with its extensive coverage of so many dimensions of social divisions in one volume." Lavinia Mitton, University of Kent“A valuable resource that gets to grips with the causes and effects of the many inequalities that damage the lives of so many people.” Chris Yuill, Robert Gordon University“A welcome new edition. The chapters are bang up to date. An invaluable text for new cohorts of students in sociology and the social sciences.” Fiona Devine, The University of ManchesterTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part 1 ~ The Persistence of Social Divisions Defining and Explaining 'Social Divisions' ~ Geoff Payne Class and Stratification ~ Eric Harrison and John Scott Gender ~ Pamela Abbott Race ~ John Solomos Part 2 ~ Social Structures and Inequalities Education ~ Diane Reay Work ~ Tim Strangleman Poverty ~ Lucinda Platt Elites ~ Daniel Smith Global Social Divisions ~ Robert Holton Part 3 ~ Social Divisions and the Body Sexuality ~ Sue Scott and Stevi Jackson Age ~ Stephen Hunt and Liz Frost Disability ~ Ruth Garbutt and David Saltiel Health ~ Clare Bambra and Geoff Payne Part 4 ~ Inclusion, Exclusion and Inequality Social Identites ~ Steph Lawler National Identity ~ David McCrone Religion ~ Michael Rosie Community ~ Graham Crow and Catherine Maclean Social Divisions as a Sociological Perspective ~ Geoff Payne

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Book SynopsisExploring why food aid exists and the deeper causes of food poverty, this book addresses neglected dimensions of traditional debates. It challenges neoliberal governmentality and shows how food charity maintains inequalities of class, race, religion and gender.Table of ContentsForeword - Kate Pickett 1. Introduction 2. Revising perspectives on neoliberalism, hunger and food insecurity 3. Food aid and neoliberalism: an alliance built on shared interests? 4. Soup and salvation: realising religion through contemporary food charity 5. Whiteness, racism and colourblindness in UK food aid 6. Lived neoliberalism: food, poverty and power 7.Racial inequality or mutual aid? Food and poverty among Pakistani British and White British women 8. Seeds beneath the snow

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Book SynopsisAdopting a mixed-method and multilevel perspective, this book provides a comprehensive investigation into the multifaceted consequences of social exclusion of young people and derives crucial new policy recommendations. Contributors offer fresh insights into areas including youth well-being, health, leaving home and risks of poverty.Table of Contents1. Introduction: youth transitions in times of labour market insecurity - Michael Gebel, Marge Unt, Sonia Bertolini, Vassiliki Deliyanni-Kouimtzi, and Dirk Hofäcker Part 1: Labour market insecurity and youth well-being and health 2. Effects of unemployment and insecure jobs on youth well-being in Europe: economic development and business cycle fluctuations - Olena Nizalova, Gintare Malisauskaite, Despoina Xanthopoulou, Katerina Gousia, and Christina Athanasiades 3. Health effects of unemployment in couples: does becoming unemployed affect a young partner’s health? - Anna Baranowska-Rataj and Mattias Strandh 4. Multiple routes to youth well-being: a qualitative comparative analysis of buffers to the negative consequences of unemployment - Triin Lauri and Marge Unt 5. Experiencing unemployment and job insecurity in two European countries: German and Italian young people’s well-being and coping strategies - Christoph Schlee, Rosy Musumeci, and Chiara Ghislieri Part 2: Labour market insecurity and youth autonomy 6. Meanings of work in the narratives of Italian, Estonian, and Polish young people who experience labour market insecurity - Eve-Liis Roosmaa, Epp Reiska, Jędrzej Stasiowski, Sonia Bertolini, and Paola Maria Torrioni 7. Housing autonomy of youth in Europe: do labour and housing policies matter? - Valentina Goglio and Sonia Bertolini 8. Is housing autonomy still a step towards adulthood in a time of job insecurity? - Sonia Bertolini, Rosy Musumeci, Christina Athanasiades, Anastasia Flouli, Lia Figgou, Vassiliki Deliyanni- Kouimtzi, Veneta Krasteva, Maria Jeliazkova, and Douhomir Minev 9. Becoming economically autonomous: young people in Italy and Poland in a time of job insecurity - Antonella Meo, Valentina Moiso, Jędrzej Stasiowski, and Zofia Włodarczyk 10. The role of informal social support for young people in unemployment and job insecurity in Italy, Estonia, and Germany - Antonella Meo, Roberta Ricucci, Christoph Schlee, Jelena Helemäe, and Margarita Kazjulja 11. How young people experience and perceive labour market policies in four European countries - Roberta Ricucci, Chiara Ghislieri, Veneta Krasteva, Maria Jeliazkova, Marti Taru, and Magdalena Rokicka Part 3: Labour market insecurity and the socio-economic consequences for youth 12. Can labour market policies protect unemployed youth from poverty? A cross-European comparison - Małgorzata Kłobuszewska, Marta Palczyńska, Magdalena Rokicka, Jędrzej Stasiowski, Kadri Täht, and Marge Unt 13. Unemployment and job precariousness: material and social consequences for Greek and Italian youth - Lia Figgou, Martina Sourvinou, Christina Athanasiades, Valentina Moiso, and Rosy Musumeci 14. Syntheses of long-term socio-economic consequences of insecure labour market positions for youth in Europe - Dirk Hofäcker, Sina Schadow, and Janika Kletzing 15. Conclusions: Integrating perspectives on youth transitions and the risk of social exclusion - Sonia Bertolini, Vassiliki Deliyanni-Kouimtzi, Michael Gebel, Dirk Hofäcker, and Marge Unt

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Book SynopsisThe story of white masculinity in geek culture through a history of hobby gamingGeek culture has never been more mainstream than it is now, with the ever-increasing popularity of events like Comic Con, transmedia franchising of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, market dominance of video and computer games, and the resurgence of board games such as Settlers of Catan and role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Yet even while the comic book and hobby shops where the above are consumed today are seeing an influx of BIPOC gamers, they remain overwhelmingly white, male, and heterosexual. The Privilege of Play contends that in order to understand geek identity's exclusionary tendencies, we need to know the history of the overwhelmingly white communities of tabletop gaming hobbyists that preceded it. It begins by looking at how the privileged networks of model railroad hobbyists in the early twentieth century laid a cultural foundation for the scenes that woTrade Review"In this timely and important book, Aaron Trammell explores not just today's growing board game community, but its longer, more complex, and problematic genealogies and historiographies. The hobbyists from which the modern board game community developed—the train enthusiasts, the sci-fi authors, the war gamers, the role players—have strong ties through to today. And while the communities have offered safe spaces for some marginalized groups, they also participated in racist and class-based segregation. With his practiced analytical skills and detailed eye for nuance, Trammell never lets one narrative dominate, telling a refined, three- dimensional story about the development of hobby board games. Play is serious business, but Trammell's engaging tone makes it fun again too. Highly recommended." * Paul Booth, author of Board Games as Media *"I have been waiting for years for a book like The Privilege of Play. Using contemporary and historical examples, Aaron Trammell weaves together insightful theoretical analysis, archival deep dives, and sharp, poignant anecdotes to construct a compelling picture of game culture hobbyists, and the history out of which they emerged." * Shira Chess, author of Play Like a Feminist *"I read The Privilege of Play straight through. It hit pretty close to home, reading a bit like my own travelogue through the hobby, beginning with the model train sets I had as a kid, my obsession with war games as a teenager, and taking us right through my RPG days and current career in games. The Privilege of Play is a must read for anyone seriously committed to a socially just and open hobby industry. Trammel argues, and I would agree, that any hobby gaming professional looking to break down the patterns of exclusion that pervade our industry would do well to study how we arrived here." -- Christopher O’Neal, CEO of Brotherwise Games and President of Game Pathways"For nearly a decade, Aaron Trammell has been a leading voice calling for the field of game studies to attend to analog games’ (board games, card games, and tabletop roleplaying games) deep history and thriving present... Overall, The Privilege of Play expands a nascent but growing movement to study race within game cultures and provides a powerful demonstration of what archival work about play communities can reveal." -- Peter McDonald * Critical Inquiry *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2022 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, given by the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner, 2021 Robert K. Merton Book Award, given by the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineExplores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific resultsImagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of participating is that you will receive up to $5,175. You must spend twenty nights literally locked in a research facility. You will be told what to eat, when to eat, and when to sleep. You will share a bedroom with several strangers. Who are you, and why would you choose to take part in this kind of study? This book explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers. Trade ReviewJill Fisher has provided the most thorough examination [of Phase I trials] yet … the world that Fisher reveals in Adverse Events is unsettling. * New York Review of Books *Adverse Events damns the industry with simple description, but Fisher’s analysis has a bigger concern. The industry is a symptom of the American problem of racist capitalism, and in the book, Fisher documents how a racist, wildly unequal economy leads people who are already in precarious positions to take part in first-in-human trials. Ten years ago, when she started her research, she could hardly have predicted its immediacy. * The New Republic *This book presents weighty implications relative to current US economic and employment arrangements ... a helpful reference in courses on bioethics, biomedical research methods, social justice, gender and race/ethnicity, intersectionality studies, and the sociology of science. * CHOICE *Adverse Events reveals the many and varied ways in which social inequalities—particularly class and race—compel individuals to become healthy volunteers for Phase I trials, despite the risks involved ... This is a text that can—and should—reach audiences beyond academia. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *May become a scholarly classic, change how the drugs we take are tested, and save billions in misleading trials that are not necessary. -- Donald W. Light, Rowan University School of Osteopathic MedicineOne of the best books of medical sociology I have ever read. Fisher describes the world of paid research subjects with remarkable insight and compassion. . . . Nothing short of brilliant. -- Carl Elliott, author of White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of MedicineA mesmerizing ethnographic study that shows the safety of the pharmaceuticals we swallow depends on an invisible army of volunteers putting their bodies at risk for a quick dollar. -- Stefan Timmermans, University of California, Los AngelesOffers an unflinching view of the inequities built in to the twenty-first-century clinical-trials industry. . . . Has as much to say about the micropolitics of stigma and adversity as it does about the macrostructures of health and capitalism today. -- Jeremy Greene, author of Generic: The Unbranding of Modern MedicineEspecially during the COVID-19 pandemic, its message is very important. * For Better Science *Jill Fisher invites the reader into a sustained and systematic analysis of how pharmaceutical companies operate their Phase I drug trials and the symbiotic relationship between drug development and what she calls a “profound economic insecurity” on the part of the participants ... It is an important book for understanding broader sociological concepts of inequality, stigma, and pharmaceutical development. * Social Forces *Leaves a striking impression on the reader ... Likely to be of interest to a broad audience. It is suitable for lay people who have an interest in exploring a largely unseen side of the pharmaceutical industry, people working in pharmaceuticals who wish to scrutinize the ins-and-outs of their industry, as well as students and academics such as bioethicists, sociologists, and those studying race and ethnicity * New Genetics and Society *

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Book SynopsisFrom the 1970s on, Los Angeles was transformed into a center for entertainment, consumption, and commerce for the affluent. Mirroring the urban development trend across the nation, new construction led to the displacement of low-income and working-class racial minorities, as city officials targeted these neighborhoods for demolition in order to spur economic growth and bring in affluent residents. Responding to the displacement, there emerged a coalition of unions, community organizers, and faith-based groups advocating for policy change. In Building Downtown Los Angeles Leland Saito traces these two parallel trends through specific construction projects and the backlash they provoked. He uses these events to theorize the past and present processes of racial formation and the racialization of place, drawing new insights on the relationships between race, place, and policy. Saito brings to bear the importance of historical events on contemporary processes of gentrification and integrates the fluidity of racial categories into his analysis. He explores these forces in action, as buyers and entrepreneurs meet in the real estate marketplace, carrying with them a fraught history of exclusion and vast disparities in wealth among racial groups.Trade Review"Another richly detailed book on capitalistic space control and white racism by Leland Saito! Although big capital and city officials remade LA's Broadway area, California's progressive growth-with-equity groups democratized this once capitalist-dominated city development process. Accenting historical context and changing meanings of white racial framing of cities, Saito crafts a very innovative racial-spatial formation theory."—Joe Feagin, Texas A&M University"Through rich documentation and incisive theorizing, Saito exposes a tragic history of racialized residential and community displacement in LA. He vividly portrays the struggles of regional social justice organizations to wrest community benefits agreements along with nuanced policy appraisals for how to achieve more redistributive and equitable urban futures in LA and elsewhere."—Jan Lin, Occidental College"Saito goes beyond the dualities of power and inequalities as he eloquently depicts the struggles and negotiations between community-based organizations and city officials and developers who had little regard for the welfare of racial and working-class minorities."—Fazila Bhimji, Ethnic and Racial Studies"Even though many studies have been published about Los Angeles, there is a lot to learn from Saito's thoroughly researched manuscript, particularly about the power of community coalitions and how they could challenge even the most influential developers. This is an excellent book, expertly structured, with a well-crafted and clear message about the path to success of local organizing for social justice."—Elena Vesselinov, Social Forces"Saito's close-to-the-ground book is essential reading for scholars of urban development and community organizers alike and will appeal to a wide audience of historians of Los Angeles, urban scholars, planning professionals, and students of community and labor movements."—Luis Flores, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"Building Downtown Los Angeles is an essential study of the dialectics among capital, development, and oppositional politics.... Elaborating on the analytic of 'racial-spatial formation' in his account of city-corporate machinations, coalitional opposition, and subsequent public policy, he demonstrates how the construction of urban spaces and meanings about race are mutually constitutive....Essential."—J. deGuzman, CHOICEThis book speaks to multiple audiences, including scholars and practitioners working across disciplines and professions.... For all audiences, this text calls us to critically interrogate development projects, especially those underwritten by public dollars, as well as corresponding narratives ofmodernization. It calls us to ask who such projects serve and who shoulders the costs ofprogressin gentrifying cities."—Ashley Hernandez, Journal of the American Planning Association"Building Downtown Los Angeles has much to recommend it. It provides a well-researched account of the development of several key projects in Los Angeles's downtown beginning in the 1960s and continuing until about 2015. In addition, using Los Angeles as a case study, it effectively examines the increasingly significant role of social justice concerns and community engagement with the development process; it highlights the importance of community benefits agreements (CBAs) in this process."—Robert B. Kent, Journal of Urban Affairs"Saito's work has multiple strengths. His book is centrally concerned with understanding what made growth-with-equity coalitions arise and succeed in Los Angeles. The historical account he provides is key to this aim, as he produces an argument about the necessary antecedent events that led to particular outcomes. This book will be of special interest to scholars of Los Angeles, urban development, contemporary union movements, and Latino organizations."—Sarah Mayorga, Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Racial-Spatial Formation 1. The Los Angeles Convention Center: 1950s-1990s 2. The Staples Center and L.A. Live: 1990s-2010s 3. Growth Interests and the Growth with Equity Coalition: 1990s 4. Negotiating the L.A. Live Community Benefits Agreement: 1990s-2000s 5. Evaluating the L.A. Live Community Benefits Agreement: 2000s 6. The NFL Stadium Proposal and Neighborhood Change: 1990-2015 Conclusion: Implications for Social Justice

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at Black food and the challenges it faces today For Black Americans, the food system is broken. When it comes to nutrition, Black consumers experience an unjust and inequitable distribution of resources. Black Food Matters examines these issues through in-depth essays that analyze how Blackness is contested through food, differing ideas of what makes our sustenance “healthy,” and Black individuals’ own beliefs about what their cuisine should be. Primarily written by nonwhite scholars, and framed through a focus on Black agency instead of deprivation, the essays here showcase Black communities fighting for the survival of their food culture. The book takes readers into the real world of Black sustenance, examining animal husbandry practices in South Carolina, the work done by the Black Panthers to ensure food equality, and Black women who are pioneering urban agriculture. These essays also explore individual and community values, the influence of history, and the ongoing struggle to meet needs and affirm Black life. A comprehensive look at Black food culture and the various forms of violence that threaten the future of this cuisine, Black Food Matters centers Blackness in a field that has too often framed Black issues through a white-centric lens, offering new ways to think about access, privilege, equity, and justice. Contributors: Adam Bledsoe, U of Minnesota; Billy Hall; Analena Hope Hassberg, California State Polytechnic U, Pomona; Yuson Jung, Wayne State U; Kimberly Kasper, Rhodes College; Tyler McCreary, Florida State U; Andrew Newman, Wayne State U; Gillian Richards-Greaves, Coastal Carolina U; Monica M. White, U of Wisconsin–Madison; Brian Williams, Mississippi State U; Judith Williams, Florida International U; Psyche Williams-Forson, U of Maryland, College Park; Willie J. Wright, Rutgers U.Trade Review"Strongly recommend this volume as essential reading for courses in American Studies, Anthropology, Geography, African and African Diaspora Studies, Feminist Studies, and Food Studies and Systems, at both the graduate and undergraduate levels."—Current Anthropology "Framed by a clear and well-documented introduction by the editors, the books contains 10 chapters written by scholars in the fields of geography, environmental studies, anthropology, ethnic and women’s studies, African and African diaspora studies, and American studies."—CHOICE"A thought provoking and often mouthwatering discussion of food values that have endured in spite of the discontinuities that have persisted since slavery."—Ethnic and Racial Studies "This innovative edited volume offers an incisive contribution that destabilizes dominant assumptions about the food justice movement."—Medical Anthropology Quarterly "Mediating between the thread to Black food culture and a celebration of it, Black Food Matters centers Blackness in a field that has too often framed Black issues through a white-centric lens, offering new ways to think about access, privilege, equity, and justice."—Antipode"Black Food Matters is here to teach us all how not to just ask the right questions but to stand alongside those who have always done so."—City & Society"Black Food Matters is an excellent read, illustrating the intersection between Black food studies, urban political economy, and equitable development. "—Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

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Book SynopsisA comparative media analysis of the representation of the U.S.–Mexico border Border tunnels at the U.S.–Mexico border are ubiquitous in news, movies, and television, yet, because they remain hidden and inaccessible, the public can encounter them only through media. Analyzing the technologies, institutional politics, narrative tropes, and aesthetic decisions that go into showing border tunnels across multiple forms of media, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez argues that we cannot properly address border issues without attending to—and fully understanding—the fraught relationship between their representation and reality. Llamas-Rodriguez reveals that every media text about border tunnels, whether meant for entertainment, cable news, video games, or speculative design, implicitly takes a position on the politics of the border. The examples laid out in Border Tunnels will teach readers how to look differently at the border as it is commonly presented in various forms of media, from ABC’s Nightline and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360º to reality TV, propaganda videos, and even digital effects in Hollywood action films. Llamas-Rodriguez examines how creative decisions in the production, promotion, and distribution of these media texts either emphasize or downplay issues such as border security, racial dynamics of migration, and sustainability of the borderlands. Focusing on tunnels to show how media representations can influence all kinds of audiences—even those physically near the border—Border Tunnels helps us make sense of this pressing social issue, ultimately advancing understanding of the U.S.–Mexico border in all of its complexity and precariousness. Trade Review "Don’t miss this provocative and impressive study of the mediated imaginings and construction of the U.S.–Mexico border. Juan Llamas-Rodriguez’s Border Tunnels provides an original and illuminating investigation of the complex and intertwined subjects of U.S.–Mexico relations, media narratives and video games that focus on border security, and the political rhetoric of marginalization." —Mary Beltrán, author of Latino TV: A History "Juan Llamas-Rodriguez pushes the limits of media theory to help us think about borders, tunnels, and the complex social and material interrelations that define the U.S.–Mexico border. Subtle, creative, and theoretically sophisticated, Border Tunnels compels us to look at these material structures as media, as social organizers crafted by popular culture, policy, myth, engineering, and surveillance technologies." —Hector Amaya, author of Trafficking: Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States Table of Contents Contents Introduction: A Media Theory of the Border Tunnel 1. TV News and Spectacle 2. Reality TV and Performativity 3. Digital Animation and Plasticity 4. First-Person Shooters and Racialization 5. Speculative Design and Sustainability Conclusion: Media Theory from the Border Tunnel Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWartime military service is held up as a marker of civic duty and patriotism, yet the rewards of veteran status have never been equally distributed. Certain groups of military veterans—women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and former service members with stigmatizing conditions, "bad paper" discharges, or criminal records—have been left out of official histories, excised from national consciousness, and denied state recognition and military benefits.Chronicling the untold stories of marginalized veterans in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Service Denied uncovers the generational divides, cultural stigmas, and discriminatory policies that affected veterans during and after their military service. Together, the chapters in this collection recast veterans beyond the archetype, inspiring an innovative model for veterans studies that encourages an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of veterans history. In addition to contributions from the volume editors, this collection features scholarship by Barbara Gannon, Robert Jefferson, Evan P. Sullivan, Steven Rosales, Heather Marie Stur, Juan Coronado, Kara Dixon Vuic, John Worsencroft, and David Kieran.

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Book SynopsisThe Tao of S is an engaging study of American racialization of Chinese and Asians, Asian American writing, and contemporary Chinese cultural production, stretching from the nineteenth century to the present. Sheng-mei Ma examines the work of nineteenth-century "Sinophobic" American writers, such as Bret Harte, Jack London, and Frank Norris, and twentieth-century "Sinophiliac" authors, such as John Steinbeck and Philip K. Dick, as well as the movies Crazy Rich Asians and Disney's Mulan and a host of contemporary Chinese authors, to illuminate how cultural stereotypes have swung from fearmongering to an overcompensating exultation of everything Asian. Within this framework Ma employs the Taoist principle of yin and yang to illuminate how roles of the once-dominant American hegemony—the yang—and the once-declining Asian civilization—the yin—are now, in the twenty-first century, turned upside down as China rises to write its side of the story, particularly through the soft power of television and media streamed worldwide.

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Book SynopsisThe Ku Klux Klan established a significant foothold in Arkansas in the 1920s, boasting more than 150 state chapters and tens of thousands of members at its zenith. Propelled by the prominence of state leaders such as Grand Dragon James Comer and head of Women of the KKK Robbie Gill Comer, the Klan established Little Rock as a seat of power second only to Atlanta. In The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas, Kenneth C. Barnes traces this explosion of white nationalism and its impact on the state's development.Barnes shows that the Klan seemed to wield power everywhere in 1920s Arkansas. Klansmen led businesses and held elected offices and prominent roles in legal, medical, and religious institutions, while the women of the Klan supported rallies and charitable activities and planned social gatherings where cross burnings were regular occurrences. Inside their organization, Klan members bonded during picnic barbeques and parades and over shared religious traditions. Outside of it, they united to direct armed threats, merciless physical brutality, and torrents of hateful rhetoric against individuals who did not conform to their exclusionary vision.By the mid-1920s, internal divisions, scandals, and an overzealous attempt to dominate local and state elections caused Arkansas's Klan to fall apart nearly as quickly as it had risen. Yet as the organization dissolved and the formal trappings of its flamboyant presence receded, the attitudes the Klan embraced never fully disappeared. In documenting this history, Barnes shows how the Klan's early success still casts a long shadow on the state to this day.Trade ReviewKen Barnes has skillfully produced a work that is accessible to a general audience and one that offers new insights for historians. An undeniable contribution to Arkansas and American history." —Ben F. Johnson III, author of Arkansas in Modern America

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Book Synopsis#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell and the ones we don't shape our realities.?Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about race.? Associated Press?Coates exhorts readers, including students, parents, educators, and journalists, to challenge conventional narratives that can be used to justify ethnic cleansing or camouflage racist policing. Brilliant and timely.? Booklist (starred review)A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Vanity Fair, Town & Country, Electric LitTa-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic ?Politics and the English Language,? but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking expose and distort our realities.In the first of the book's three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book's banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nation's recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city a capital of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Finally, in the book's longest section, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground. Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country's most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world and our own souls and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the human rights of children, the author an acclaimed analyst, political theorist and biographer argues that prejudice exists against children as a group and that it is comparable to racism, sexism and homophobia. He draws upon a wide range of sources, from the literary and philosophical to the legal and psychoanalytic.Trade Review"This brilliant, provocative book . . . exposes American society’s prejudice against its children—'childism'—and the harm it causes them. . . . A clarion call for urgent action."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review * Publishers Weekly *"[Childism] concludes with a clarion call for programs of parent education and abuse prevention, for expanded parenting support services, and for closer attention to children’s voices. . . Among the book’s key insights is that many behaviors that we don’t think of as abuse are in fact abusive because they place parental needs above children’s developmental needs."—Steven Mintz, Washington Post -- Steven Mintz * Washington Post *"More than a study of child abuse, [Childism] excavates the psychological foundations of destructive attitudes toward children."—Peter Monaghan, Chronicle of Higher Education -- Peter Monaghan * Chronicle of Higher Education *

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Book SynopsisIn this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman show readers why antiracist principles are both just and backed by sound science.Trade ReviewNamed a Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and One of the Best Books About Being Black in America for 2021 * Kirkus Reviews *What a timely and thoughtful book, posing in Socratic fashion the central questions of our struggling republic. -- Ken Burns, filmmakerIn this timely and important book, Professors Graves and Goodman provide detailed explanations in response to questions about race and racism. They have also followed the 'Noah principle.' Indeed, it is not enough to simply predict the rain. One must also build arks. And that is what Professors Graves and Goodman have done. They offer concrete steps that can be taken to help to eliminate the scourge of racism, as well as other systems of oppression, that continue to plague our nation. -- Johnnetta Betsch Cole, author of Racism in American Public Life: A Call to ActionA timely tapestry of questions and answers on race and racism! Joseph Graves and Alan Goodman have intricately disentangled and woven together biological race, socially defined race, and racism, providing a strategy for addressing not only the consequences of systemic racism but more importantly, the root cause—the ideology of a hierarchy of human value. Brilliant work! -- Charmaine DM Royal, director of the Duke Center on Genomics, Race, Identity, DifferenceIn Racism, Not Race, Graves and Goodman lay out comprehensively and accessibly why notions of race are social constructs that cannot be justified in biological terms. Packed with contemporary and historical references that place race in perspective, this is an authoritative clarification of an issue that is critically important for society but is widely misunderstood despite its ever more pressing ramifications. A valuable resource. -- Ian Tattersall, author of Troublesome Science: The Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding RaceAn entertaining and informative read that will serve as a jumping-off point for countless discussions about racism. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *Brings a new angle and an accessible approach to the ongoing reckoning with race in America. * Publishers Weekly *Joseph Graves Jr and Alan Goodman explain why race isn’t a biological fact and ponder why society continues to act as if it is. * New Scientist *Racism and white supremacy are killing people every day, harming society at large, and fostering deep injustice. Graves and Goodman demonstrate why antiracism is not just an ethical and scientifically correct position, but why it is also necessary for the future of science and society. * Science *Racism, Not Race is definitely the type of book we need. * Kara Reviews *It is a testament to the value of interdisciplinary collaboration, and drives home the point that dissociating human variation from race, arguably one of the twentieth-century’s greatest scientific achievements, has been a multi-disciplinary task. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *It could not be easier to use if it was an audiobook that read itself to you. * Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud *Given the significance of the information it conveys and the approachability of the writing, every biology educator will benefit from reading this book and sharing its ideas with students...an indispensable tool for our biology classrooms. * American Biology Teacher *An excellent introduction to race and racism for both students and a general audience. * The Quarterly Review of Biology *

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Book SynopsisTHE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE''A marvellous book . . . I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for the next generation'' Tom Hanks''Furious and fascinating'' The Times*****Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own . . .When she uncovers his forgotten wife, it''s a revelation. Eileen O''Shaughnessy''s literary brilliance shaped Orwell''s work and her practical nous saved his life. But why - and how - was she written out of the story?Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder recreates the Orwells'' marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and WWII in London. As she rolls up the screenTrade ReviewA marvelous book . . . I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for the next generation. * Tom Hanks *Simply, a masterpiece. Here, Anna Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full. -- Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for FictionTruly wonderful... Anna Funder has written another brilliant human portrait. -- Claire TomalinElectrifying... Daring in both form and content, Funder's book is a nuanced, sophisticated literary achievement * Kirkus *

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Book SynopsisThis one-of-a-kind guide explores the impact of systematic oppression, colonisation, generational trauma, and individual trauma for people in the Latinx community. It guides the reader on a journey of understanding, healing, and empowerment for them and their communities, and includes reflective questions and healing exercises.

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Book SynopsisWhy are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives? More than a decade before the election of Donald Trump, vitriolic and dehumanizing rhetoric against migrants was already part of the national conversation. Situating the contemporary debate on immigration within America’s history of indigenous dispossession, chattel slavery, the Mexican-American War, and Jim Crow, Cristina Beltrán reveals white supremacy to be white democracy—a participatory practice of racial violence, domination, and exclusion that gave white citizens the right to both wield and exceed the law. Still, Beltrán sees cause for hope in growing movements for migrant and racial justice. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.Trade Review"Cristina Beltrán’s analysis and exposition of historical and political contexts of racism and xenophobia through Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy, is a compelling and necessary read."—Colors of Influence "A devastating and critical read."—Zocalo Public Space

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Book SynopsisA new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race TheorySince the publication of the third edition of Critical Race Theory: An Introduction in 2017, the United States has experienced a dramatic increase in racially motivated mass shootings and a pandemic that revealed how deeply entrenched medical racism is and how public disasters disproportionately affect minority communities. We have also seen a sharp backlash against Critical Race Theory, and a president who deemed racism a thing of the past while he fanned the flames of racial intolerance and promoted nativist sentiments among his followers. Now more than ever, the racial disparities in all aspects ofpublic life are glaringly obvious. Taking note of all these developments, this fourth edition covers a range of new topics and events and addresses the rise of a fierce wave of criticism from right-wing websites, think tanks, and foundations, some of which insist that America is now colorblind and hasTrade ReviewComprehensive and insightful, Critical Race Theory, Third Edition is a must read for those wondering ‘why the fuss?’ about racial justice and a must read for those who think they know. An essential tool for today’s world. -- Stephanie M. Wildman, Professor Emerita, Santa Clara UniversityWithout doubt this is the best introduction available to Critical Race Theory. The authors are inspirational writers who have shaped CRT from its inception to its present state as a global interdisciplinary movement of scholars and activists. CRT provides a radical and challenging perspective that reveals how racism shapes the everyday reality of the world; from law courts and prisons, to the economy, schools, media, and health care. -- David Gillborn, Emeritus Professor of Critical Race Studies, University of Birmingham, UKOne of the most acclaimed critical race theory books... accessible and informative. * Book Riot *

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Book SynopsisIn this urgent response to violence, racism and increasingly aggressive methods of coercion, Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of armed conflict, a process integral to how the West prosecutes its wars. In doing so, she calls for a reconceptualization of the Left, one united in opposition and resistance to the illegitimate and arbitrary effects of interventionist military action.Trade ReviewJudith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time. -- J. M. BernsteinJudith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today. Frames of War is an intellectual masterpiece that weds a new understanding of being, immersed in history, to a novel Left politics that focuses on State violence, war and resistance. -- Cornel WestHers is a unique voice of courage and conceptual ambition that addresses public life from the perspective of psychic reality, encouraging us to acknowledge the solidarity and the suffering through which we emerge as subjects of freedom. -- Homi K. BhabhaA trenchant and brilliant book. * Utne Reader *An impressive and challenging book from one of the leading intellectuals of our time. * Diva *Judith Butler strongly upholds the tradition of dissenting voices in America, even in the midst of climate of fear and censorship that comes close at times to McCarthyism * Politics and Culture *Frames of War is an earnest, thought-provoking and uncompromisingly critical work on an issue of singular relevance * Red Pepper *

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Book SynopsisWe've heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education, about how universities should intervene if at all to ensure a diverse but deserving student population. But what about those for whom these issues matter the most? In this book, Natasha K. Warikoo deeply explores how students themselves think about merit and race at a uniquely pivotal moment: after they have just won the most competitive game of their lives and gained admittance to one of the world's top universities. What Warikoo uncovers talking with both white students and students of color at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford is absolutely illuminating; and some of it is positively shocking. As she shows, many elite white students understand the value of diversity abstractly, but they ignore the real problems that racial inequality causes and that diversity programs are meant to solve. They stand in fear of being labeled a racist, but they are quick to call foul should a diversity program appear at all to hamper their own chances for advancement. The most troubling result of this ambivalence is what she calls the diversity bargain, in which white students reluctantly agree with affirmative action as long as it benefits them by providing a diverse learning environment racial diversity, in this way, is a commodity, a selling point on a brochure. And as Warikoo shows, universities play a big part in creating these situations. The way they talk about race on campus and the kinds of diversity programs they offer have a huge impact on student attitudes, shaping them either toward ambivalence or, in better cases, toward more productive and considerate understandings of racial difference. Ultimately, this book demonstrates just how slippery the notions of race, merit, and privilege can be. In doing so, it asks important questions not just about college admissions but what the elite students who have succeeded at it who will be the world's future leaders will do with the social inequalities of the wider world.

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Book SynopsisWhen we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow - two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. In this title, the author shows us that segregation is everywhere, deforming cities and societies worldwide.Trade Review"Most of us live in cities shaped in part by segregation, but urban segregation is usually studied in particular cases. Carl H. Nightingale adopts a world history perspective and ranges from Calcutta and Johannesburg to Chicago and other places. His book is a major contribution to both the study of segregation and comparative urban studies." -Chris Saunders, University of Cape Town"

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Book SynopsisOffers contributions to the history of antisemitism. Of interest to scholars in medieval and Jewish history and religious studies, this work summarizes the historical developments, indicating when and where antisemitism emerged. It criticizes theories about prejudice and racism and develops theory about the nature and dynamics of antisemitism.Table of ContentsPart I. HISTORIOGRAPHY 1. Majority History and Post-Biblical Jews 2. Tradition, History, and Prejudice Part II. ANTI-JUDAISM 3. Anti-Judaism as the Necessary Preparation for Antisemitism 4. The Transformation of Anti-Judaism 5. Doubt in Christendom Part III. JEWISH LEGAL STATUS 6. "Judei nostri" and the Beginning of Capetian Legislation 7. "Tanquam servi": The Change in Jewish Legal Status in French Law about 1200 Part IV. IRRATIONAL FANTASIES 8. Peter the Venerable: Defense Against Doubts 9. Thomas of Monmouth: Detector of Ritual Murder 10. The Knight's Tale of Young Hugh Lincoln 11. Ritual Cannibalism 12. Historiographic Crucifixion Part V. ANTISEMITISM 13. Medieval Antisemitism 14. Toward a Definition of Antisemitism

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Book SynopsisIn 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting more than 120,000 visits to her website. Within weeks of their delivery Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s own speech about misogyny and sexism went viral and was celebrated around the world. Summers makes the case that Australia, the land of the fair go, still hasn’t figured out how to make equality between men and women work. She shows how uncomfortable we are with the idea of women with political and financial power, let alone the reality. Summers dismisses the idea that we should celebrate progress for women as opposed to outright success. She shows what success will look like.

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Book SynopsisChildhood poverty has moved from the periphery to the centre of the policy agenda following New Labour's pledge to end it within twenty years. However, whether the needs and concerns of poor children themselves are being addressed is open to question. The findings raise critical issues for both policy and practice - in particular the finding that children are at great risk of experiencing exclusion within school. School has been a major target in the drive towards reducing child poverty. However, the policy focus has been mainly about literacy standards and exclusion from school. This book shows that poor children are suffering from insufficient access to the economic and material resources necessary for adequate social participation and academic parity. Childhood poverty and social exclusion will be an invaluable teaching aid across a range of academic courses, including social policy, sociology, social work and childhood studies. All those who are interested in developing a more inclusive social and policy framework for understanding childhood issues from a child-centred perspective, including child welfare practitioners and policy makers, will want to read this book. Studies in poverty, inequality and social exclusion series Series Editor: David Gordon, Director, Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research. Poverty, inequality and social exclusion remain the most fundamental problems that humanity faces in the 21st century. This exciting series, published in association with the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristol, aims to make cutting-edge poverty related research more widely available. For other titles in this series, please follow the series link from the main catalogue page.Trade Review"The sharp observations of these young citizens on their schooling, on problems in their neighbourhood and on the deficiencies of their leisure opportunities, set an agenda for any practitioner who aspires to tackle family poverty." Community Care"Ridge's work enters a previously underdeveloped field of poverty-related research, and in doing so makes substantive, theoretical and methodological contributions. This book will be of interest to those involved in the development and evaluation of public policy, researches concerned with policy and poverty, and those involved in education - as well as to anyone wanting to move toward a rich, contextual understanding of how the world is experienced and negotiated by children." Family Matters"This book is an accessible and informative read for anyone researching, studying and working on poverty and social exclusion... It is a book that deserves to be widely read, and one that demands to be acted upon." International Journal of Social Welfare "... an extremely useful contribution to the literature on poverty. The value of recording and reporting children's experiences in their own words is indisputable." Children, Youth and Environments "... important and timely." Youth & Policy"...a vivid and comprehensive picture of what it is like to grow up poor in Britain today." Journal of Social Policy"This book provides richness and context to debates about childhood poverty, and remedies for it, from the perspectives of children themselves." Sue Middleton, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough UniversityTable of ContentsContents: The challenge of child poverty: developing a child-centred approach; What do we know about childhood poverty?; Children's access to economic and material resources; 'Fitting in' and 'joining in': social relations and social integration; Family life and self-reflection; Experiences and perceptions of school: analysis of BHPYS data; Childhood poverty and social exclusion: incorporating children's perspectives.

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Book SynopsisWhen Roya, an Iranian American high school student, is asked to identify her race, she feels anxiety and doubt. According to the federal government, she and others from the Middle East are white. Indeed, a historical myth circulates even in immigrant families like Roya's, proclaiming Iranians to be the "original" white race. But based on the treatment Roya and her family receive in American schools, airports, workplaces, and neighborhoods—interactions characterized by intolerance or hate—Roya is increasingly certain that she is not white. In The Limits of Whiteness, Neda Maghbouleh offers a groundbreaking, timely look at how Iranians and other Middle Eastern Americans move across the color line. By shadowing Roya and more than 80 other young people, Maghbouleh documents Iranian Americans' shifting racial status. Drawing on never-before-analyzed historical and legal evidence, she captures the unique experience of an immigrant group trapped between legal racial invisibility and everyday racial hyper-visibility. Her findings are essential for understanding the unprecedented challenge Middle Easterners now face under "extreme vetting" and potential reclassification out of the "white" box. Maghbouleh tells for the first time the compelling, often heartbreaking story of how a white American immigrant group can become brown and what such a transformation says about race in America.Trade Review"The Limits of Whiteness is cutting-edge scholarship at its best. Beautifully written and insightfully researched, it is essential reading for those interested in the fraught and capacious legacies, and afterlives, of Middle Eastern and American racial projects." -- Sarah Gualtieri * author of Between Arab and White *"In this brilliant, beautifully written, and persuasive book, Maghbouleh demonstrates that Iranian Americans inhabit a complex and contradictory relationship to race. The poignant portraits of second-generation Iranian Americans reveal whiteness to be a volatile social construction, shaped by political, cultural, linguistic, and religious practices that initially might seem to have little to do with race." -- George Lipsitz * author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness *"I've been writing personal essays about Iranians and race for years, but Neda Maghbouleh's The Limits of Whiteness provides a much-needed sociologist's examination. Maghbouleh seamlessly navigates the historical, anthropological, and political, in a work as engaging as it is informative. This trailblazing book should be required reading for anyone interested in race in America, period." -- Porochista Khakpour * author of Sons & Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion *"While there is much for a scholar or advanced graduate student of race, migration, or Middle East studies to glean from the text, the book would be a welcome addition to introductory courses in American studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, and sociology, and as shared family reading in Iranian American households. The book is a conversation starter and an insightful, timely analysis of what race means and feels like for brown youth at the limits of whiteness." -- Stephanie Sadre-Orafai * Mashriq and Mahjar *"While numerous sociological studies have examined how Jewish, Italian, and Irish Americans have "become white" over time,...Neda Maghbouleh is interested in how Iranian Americans and those of other Middle Eastern backgrounds have moved back and forth across the color line....Maghbouleh's book illustrates the inadequacy of existing studies of American whiteness." -- Bardia Sinaee * Literary Review of Canada *"Social science studies on race and Iranians, especially full-length books, are few. So this book significantly contributes to the scarce but emerging research on Iranians in diaspora. It also endeavors to better situate the immigration scholarship with that of race. Lastly, The Limits of Whiteness comes at a time when discussions surrounding immigrants and their children continue to take center stage in American political discourse and immigration policy." -- Sahar Sadeghi * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Being White chapter abstractChapter 1 describes how race and racism organize Iranian American lives and shows that for liminal racial groups, whiteness is fickle and volatile. The chapter introduces the concepts "racial hinges" and "racial loopholes" to make sense of the contradictory racial experiences of Iranian Americans. Through the narratives of Roya, a second-generation youth, and the controversy over an anti-Iranian poster, this chapter offers the "limits of whiteness" as an analytic to understand racial problems that, when typically extended to Iranians, are integrated as expressions of "anything but race": that is, ethnic and cultural difference, religious intolerance, or anti-immigrant nativism. 2In the Past chapter abstractChapter 2 takes the reader inside the conflicting racial logics of early twentieth-century court cases and the six-month window in the late 1970s when Iranian Americans were made at once legally white and perhaps irrevocably socially brown during and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In the twenty-first century, Iranian Americans are trapped in racial loopholes in which they are unable to seek legal recourse for on-the-ground racism in workplaces and street-level hate crimes due to their legal whiteness. With American racism in the twenty-first century increasingly drawing on "color-blind" logic, even the most socioeconomically successful Iranian Americans are sanctioned from full inclusion through subtle means, such as residential architecture and design codes in Los Angeles, California. 3At Home chapter abstractFirst- and second-generation Iranian Americans tend to disagree about one key question: Are Iranians white or not? A little-known feature of the Iranian American community is that first-generation immigrants grew up in an Iranian state in which they were formally taught that Iranians are not only white but also the world's original and most racially pure white people. In the American context, first-generation parents' insistence to their American-born children that Iranians are in fact whiter than the European American white peers who racially harass and bully them at school offers little recourse for second-generation youth. From their perspective, the "Aryan myth" of Iranian whiteness and other expressions of "Persian" pride (which are often anti-Arab) is a distressing expression of ethno-racial elitism that fundamentally misunderstands Iranian Americans' actual position in the racial hierarchy in the United States. 4In School chapter abstractIt is through youth's physical proximity to whiteness that they are convinced that Iranians are not white. Faced with racial harassment and sometimes physical violence, second-generation youth repeatedly learn that their brand of white is not white enough to escape racial harassment. This is reflected in the political and social alliances they form with other racialized peers, in their racialized interactions in classrooms, and in their retreat to "inherited nostalgia" for Iran in co-ethnic safe spaces on college campuses. In support of this characterization, Iranian American and other youth from the Middle East and North Africa have successfully petitioned the University of California System for a new non-white racial classification: "SWANA." 5To the Homeland chapter abstractChapter 5 focuses on racial profiling and the visceral experience of traveling that is required of Iranian American youth to visit ancestral homelands. Common concerns about not being "Iranian" enough for one's parents and extended family in Iran are counterpoised against the lived experiences of being "too Iranian" for customs agents and TSA personnel. A collective consciousness about the transformative process of international travel becomes part of Iranian American youth culture, as boys and girls share stories of excitement and disappointment after coming face-to-face with their shifting racialization and inherited nostalgia for the home country. These transnational crossings and direct encounters with their own inherited nostalgia form the raw material for a specific second-generation consciousness that celebrates Iranian heritage, while also forging nonbiological kin networks across diaspora and with other liminal non-white groups. 6At Summer Camp chapter abstractAs second-generation Iranian American youth grow up scattered across the United States and with their extended biological families often dispersed across the world, how do these youth foster and develop a positive collective identity? Camp Ayandeh, a summer camp by and for second-generation Iranian American youth, is one such site in which teenage Iranian Americans create community. Camp Ayandeh provides a powerful corrective against the racialized bullying faced by youth, and rather than run from their de jure non-white identities in the United States, through camp youth learn to embrace it, themselves, and each other. 7Being Brown chapter abstractChapter 7 draws on the author's own biography and her surprising connection to a seminal racial prerequisite case (United States v. Cartozian, 1925) to show how a group can be repeatedly ushered into and shoved out of whiteness, depending on the prevailing winds of the time. As Iranians and other Middle Easterners have served as racial hinges in the project of American whiteness for more than one hundred years, the stark contradiction between their legal racial status and on-the-ground experience is not surprising. Yet what this means in the twenty-first century is that Iranian Americans fall into racial loopholes in which they cannot seek legal recourse for the racial discrimination they face. The experiences of Iranian Americans expose the shifting borderlands of inclusion in the white racial category and the limits of the protections that legal whiteness can afford socially non-white migrants and their children.

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Book SynopsisExamining the operation of tolerance in contexts as different as the War on Terror, campaigns for gay rights, and the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, this book traces the operation of tolerance in contemporary struggles over identity, citizenship, and civilization.Trade Review"The triumph of toleration as the central liberal value, and the attendant inability of liberals to see the dark side of their favorite virtue, is the subject of Wendy Brown's insightful and illuminating new book... I find the analysis trenchant and the critique persuasive."--Stanley Fish, Chronicle of Higher Education "This is a remarkable book ... made attractive by its passion, the lucidity of its negative critique, and its intelligence."--John Hall, Social Forces "Wendy Brown has produced a richly textured and timely analysis of some of the darker elements lurking beneath the tolerance discourse of western liberalism."--Vincent Geoghegan, American Review of Politics "[This is a] bold, erudite, and timely study."--Ely Aharonson, Criminal Law and Philosophy "Regulating Aversion is a forceful and, in many places, convincing attempt to account for the contemporary relevance and meanings of tolerance within liberalism in the West, and in the United States in particular."--Emily Grabham, Feminist Legal Studies "The strength of Brown's book is her trenchant deconstructions of the universalizing pretenses of tolerance specifically and liberal discourse more generally. Brown's intervention successfully jars tolerance loose from the hallowed transhistorical ground on which it usually rests."--C. Michael Hurst, Cultural CritiqueTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Chapter 1: Tolerance as a Discourse of Depoliticization 1 Chapter 2: Tolerance as a Discourse of Power 25 Chapter 3: Tolerance as Supplement The "Jewish Question" and the "Woman Question" 48 Chapter 4: Tolerance as Governmentality Faltering Universalism, State Legitimacy, and State Violence 78 Chapter 5: Tolerance as Museum Object The Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance 107 Chapter 6: Subjects of Tolerance Why We Are Civilized and They Are the Barbarians 149 Chapter 7: Tolerance as/in Civilizational Discourse 176 Notes 207 Index 259

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Book SynopsisChallenges arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. This book stresses that economic fortune depends more on social circumstances than on IQ, which is itself a product of society.Trade ReviewNamed an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America for 1998 "Inequality by Design's most important findings describe an America deeply stratified by class, an America in which equal opportunity remains only and idle dream...[It] may well after the public discussion...with a shot across the bow of the nation's policymakers."--Lingua Franca "... calmly but devastatingly refutes the view that IQ is the inexorable force behind growing inequality in American society. [This] message deserves wide airing, lest voters and policy makers believe the fatalistic--and false--message that our destiny lies in our genes... The fact that IQ isn't destiny means Americans can't wash their hands of poverty and related social problems by imagining them to be timeless and unchangeable."--Jonathan Marshall, San Francisco Chronicle "A clear and persuasive counter argument to the conclusions of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein in The Bell Curve... The authors urge that Americans not scapegoat race but look critically at policy and at a design for society to narrow the gaps between the least and most encouraged in our country."--Library JournalTable of ContentsFigures and Tables ix Preface xi CHAPTER 1 Why Inequality? 3 CHAPTER 2 Understanding "Intelligence" 22 CHAPTER 3 But Is It Intelligence? 55 CHAPTER 4 Who Wins? Who Loses? 70 CHAPTER 5 The Rewards of the Game: Systems of Inequality 102 CHAPTER 6 HOW Unequal? America's Invisible Policy Choices CHAPTER 7 Enriching Intelligence: More Policy Choices 158 CHAPTER 8 Confronting Inequality in America: The Power of Public Investment 204 APPENDIX 1 Summary of The Bell Curve 217 APPENDIX 2 Statistical Analysis for Chapter 4 225 Notes 241 References 277 Index 303

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