Social discrimination and social justice Books
Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon
Book SynopsisOn February 26th 2012 seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking home with a bag of Skittles and a can of juice when a fatal encounter with a gun-wielding neighbourhood watchman ended his young life. In a matter of weeks, Trayvon Martin's name would be spoken by President Obama, honored by professional athletes, and passionately discussed all over traditional and social media. Trayvon's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, driven by their intense love for their lost son, launched a nationwide campaign for justice that would change the USA and the world. Five years after his tragic death, Travyon Martin has become a symbol of social justice activism, as has his hauntingly familiar image: the photo of a young man, wearing his favourite hoodie and gazing silently at the camera. But who was Trayvon Martin, before he became an icon? And how did one black child's death become the match that lit a civil rights movement?Rest in Power, told through the compelling alternating narratives of Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, answers those questions from the most intimate of sources. It's the story of the beautiful and complex child they lost, the cruel unresponsiveness of the police and the hostility of the legal system, and the inspiring journey they took from grief and pain to power, and from tragedy and senselessness to meaning.Trade Review"When Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago." -President Barack Obama; "Given the unconscionable shooting deaths of young black men, many by police, that followed Trayvon's, this galvanizing testimony from parents who channeled their sorrow into action offers a deeply humanizing perspective on the crisis propelling a national movement."-Booklist (starred review); "Not since Emmitt Till has a parent's love for a murdered child moved the nation to search its soul about racial injustice and inequality. Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin's extraordinary witness, indomitable spirit and unwavering demand for change have altered the dynamics of racial justice discourse in this country." -Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy
£12.34
Little Island Keepsake
Book SynopsisA fast-paced adventure story full of heart, courage – and horses. Ella and Johnny are distraught when Johnny's horse Storm disappears from his field. Johnny knows that he has been taken by 'the pound man'. This is plain stealing. Ella, Johnny and Ella's granny aren't going to let Storm go that easily. They round up the evidence and set off to the pound, where they confront the officials with proof that Storm is a well-cared-for animal who was snatched from a field. But it isn't so easy and Johnny and Ella will have to find another, daring plan to rescue Storm. A pageturner adventure tale of Irish Traveller children and their fight to keep their horse.Trade ReviewLeyden’s fast-paced tale provides a snapshot of modern Ireland and the power of intergenerational relationships … Tackling prejudice and intolerance in an enlightening way. * Inis Magazine Reading Guide *Leyden captures Ella’s emotional life with great conviction as she struggles to deal with her fraught family life… The prejudice that drives the plot is subtly introduced and resolved with great compassion. -- Sara Keating * The Irish Times *Keepsake tackles the issue of animal rights, particularly the treatment of horses and the Traveller community in Ireland with its misunderstandings and stigma. Beautifully written, it demonstrates real passion and offers an adventure with much heart and courage. This is a classic ‘horse story’ with many contemporary elements and an inter-generational view … A carefully crafted, deliberate plot line never loses its rhythm and carries the reader on a fast-paced journey with exactly the right amount of drama and tension leading to an exciting, bold conclusion. Keepsake offers much, and it does not disappoint! A wonderful wonderful read for everyone. -- Mary Esther Judy * Fallen Star Stories *
£6.99
Medina Publishing Ltd Unbounded
Book SynopsisUnbounded tells the story of Huda Al-Ghoson, the first high-ranking female executive in the history of Saudi Aramco, the largest oil company in the world. In an organisation once dominated by men, Al-Ghoson’s memoir tells a real-life tale of courage and empowerment, standing as a testament to the challenges faced by women in Saudi Arabia. Recalling traumatic memories of adversity and doubt, Al-Ghoson delves into a past that saw a short-lived arranged marriage, a restricted primary education, and a hunger for something greater. Driven by self-determination, she would go on to overcome the odds in a culture where women of her generation once lacked basic rights taken for granted in Western countries. Encouraged by her mother, she would answer an ad from Saudi Aramco, which would prove to alter the course of her life in ways she could never have anticipated. Starting as an entry-level employee, Huda Al-Ghoson led by example, furthering the cause of gender equality at Aramco. While progressing in her career, she would shatter glass ceilings, confront workplace harassment, and do the unthinkable – put men in their place. Spirited and rebellious, Unbounded embodies the progressive Saudi Arabia Huda Al-Ghoson envisioned from a young age, and which she can see emerging today.Trade Review'Enlightening, inspiring, more than a memoir...Unbounded is an instruction manual for anyone who wants to become a global influencer and leader in the way Al-Ghoson has.’ – Deepak Chopra; THE FOURTH MOST POWERFUL WOMAN IN THE FIELD OF EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT - FORBES MAGAZINE; WINNER OF ARABIAN BUSINESS MAGAZINE'S 'ARAB WOMAN AWARD' FOR MOST INFLUENTIAL FIGURE IN ENERGY
£19.00
Medina Publishing Ltd Out On An Island
Book Synopsis**Shortlisted for the International Book Award 2023** Based on deeply personal testimonies and factual research, Out on An Island presents a rich and diverse portrayal of Isle of Wight LGBTQ+ history. Shining a light on stories of struggle and truth shared through recorded oral histories, this is a book which unearths a public history and cultural heritage hidden for over a century. In a collaborative effort among LGBTQ+ Island residents, Out on An Island signifies the first ever project dedicated to local LGBTQ+ oral history on the Isle of Wight. Created in remarkable circumstances, it celebrates a close-knit community surviving together in the face of exclusion, prejudice and misrepresentation. The result is an inspiring collection of interviews from LGBTQ+ people concerning their lives on the Island. The oral histories are shared in a matter-of-fact style, with accounts of disturbing homophobia, rejection and exclusion peppered with moments of joy and celebration. From beginning to end are stories of courage and despair which stand as powerful testaments of human endeavour. While some of the LGBTQ+ community were proud to call the Isle of Wight their home, others feared discrimination, and were desperate to escape. Read about the fierce, enigmatic lesbian Joe Carstairs, and the adventures of the all-female Ferguson's Gang in Newtown in the 1920s. Delving into the Island's 1980s gay scene, hear accounts of a community thriving in the face of negative local press and the grim shadow of Section 28. Onwards to the 1990s, experience the moment the Island welcomed its first ever local Gay Guide; and in the not-so-distant past, learn about a lingering culture of homophobia exposed by the Island's first Pride in 2017, and the resignations of reputable local journalist Charlotte Hofton, and the Island's Conservative MP Andrew Turner. A testament to the history, lives, social and political contribution of the Isle of Wight LGBTQ+ community for future generations, Out On An Island restores a shared and vibrant past. Instigating a broader dialogue on what can be complex and sensitive topics, readers are provided with a better understanding of the importance of equality, inclusion and the hurdles individuals must overcome to be their authentic selves.
£18.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Rights to land: A guide to tenure upgrading and
Book SynopsisThe issue of land rights is an ongoing and complex topic of debate for South Africans. Rights to Land comes at a time when land redistribution by the government is underway. This book seeks to understand the issues around land rights and distribution of land in South Africa, and proposes that new policies and processes should be developed and adopted. It further provides an analysis of what went so wrong, and warns that a new phase of restitution may ignite conflicting ethnic claims and facilitate elite capture of land and rural resources. Rights to Land is published in partnership with Good Governance Africa (GGA).
£17.05
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Confronting Inequality: The South African Crisis
Book SynopsisSouth Africa remains the most unequal country in the world, with a Gini coefficient of 0.63 in 2015. In terms of wealth, the top percentile households hold 70.9% while the bottom 60% holds a mere 7%. 76% of South Africans face an imminent threat of falling below the poverty line. These statistics explain the continued presence of violent protest in the country and a general sense that the legacies of apartheid and colonialism have not been overcome.In this context, the Institute for African Alternatives has brought together a series of papers written by eminent South African academics and policymakers to serve as a catalyst to finally confront and resolve inequality.
£18.86
Daraja Press Hand On The Sun
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£15.29
Daraja Press Struggling To Be Seen
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£15.29
Kohlhammer W. Inklusion leben
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£25.60
Duncker & Humblot GmbH Kleinstunternehmerinnen und gesellschaftlicher
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£37.42
Verlag Herder Vom Vorurteil Zur Gewalt: Politische Und Soziale
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£23.40
Brill U Schoningh Polizei Und Holocaust: Eine Generation Nach
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£23.65
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Antisemitismus Und Rassismus: Konjunkturen Und
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£18.99
Books on Demand Was uns Rassismus nimmt
£23.65
Frommann-Holzboog Queer(es) Denken in Der Psychoanalyse: Eine
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£25.20
Verlag Barbara Budrich Blurring Boundaries – ‘Anti-Gender’ Ideology
Book SynopsisIn politischen Auseinandersetzungen wird “Gender” als Sammelbegriff für Themen wie Frauen- und LGBTIQ + -Rechte, Gleichstellung der Geschlechter, sexuelle Bildung, feministisches Wissen und Geschlechterforschung verwendet. Während sich bisherige Veröffentlichungen auf die anti-gender Gruppen selbst oder feministische und queere Reaktionen auf diese konzentrieren, beleuchtet dieser Band die verschwimmenden Grenzen zwischen beiden Lagern. Im Fokus steht die Frage, inwieweit “Anti-Gender”-Behauptungen mit bestimmten Spielarten in der feministischen und LGBTIQ+-Politik interagieren und so Diskursbrücken zu liberalen und progressiven Teilen der Gesellschaft bauen. Anders als der „Sammelbegriff“ Gender vermuten lässt, ist das feministische und LGBTIQ+-Lager von politischen Konflikten, Meinungsverschiedenheiten und divergierenden Interessen durchzogen. Daher analysieren die Autor*innen die Verbindungen zwischen einigen dieser umstrittenen Positionen und dem “Anti-Gender”-Diskurs.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Blurring Boundaries. Uncanny Collusions, Overlaps, and Convergences in the Discursive Field of ‘Gender’ (Adriano José Habed, Annette Henninger, Dorothee Beck) I. Transphobia Securitizing Trans Bodies, (Re)Producing Lesbian Purity: Exploring the Discursive Politics of ‘Gender Critical’ Activists in the UK and Germany (Christine M. Klapeer and Inga Nüthen) Navigating Transphobia and Trans-Chauvinism: Effects of Right-Wing Policies on Trans People in the AfD (Judith Goetz) II. Femonationalism and Ethnosexism Femonationalism, Neoliberal Activation, and Anti-Feminism — The Shifting Discourses on Gender Equality and Women’s Issues in Austria (Edma Ajanovic) Anti-Muslim Articulations: Ethnosexist Common Sense and Gay Politics in the Alternative for Germany (Patrick Wielowiejski) III. Gender-Inclusive Language The Crusade Against Gender-Inclusive Language in Germany — A Discursive Bridge Between the Far Right and the Civic Mainstream (Dorothee Beck) IV. Mobilizing and Resisting Framing the LGBTQ Equality Debate: Movement/Countermovement Interactions and Resistances to Gender and Sexual Equality in Ukraine (Maryna Shevtsova) Anti-Feminist Mobilization and Popular Feminism in Turkey as Anti-Politics: Moralizing versus Psychologizing Social Wrongs (Funda Hülagü) V. Rethinking Critical Tools Understanding ‘Anti-Gender’ and TERF Movements Through the Lens of Populism (Gadea Méndez Grueso) Where Does Anti-Feminist Outrage Come from and Whom Does it Address? Understanding Right-Wing Anti-Feminist Galvanizations Using Affect Theory and Authoritarianism Surveys (Christopher Fritzsche) Conclusion: Blurring Boundaries as an Invitation to Self-Reflection. A Roundtable Discussion (Dorothee Beck, Adriano José Habed, Annette Henninger, Hanna Mühlenhoff, Koen Slootmaeckers) Authors’ Bios Index
£40.00
Marta Press Fat Acceptance
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£16.20
Steidl Publishers Jin-me Yoon
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£38.40
Creative Studio REING IWAKAN Volume 6 : The Masculinity Issue: 6
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£21.85
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El origen de los otros / The Origin of Others
£15.76
Skira A Postcard for Floyd (Bilingual edition): A Blind
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£29.75
The University of Chicago Press Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1529, this work argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they have long been excluded.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Black Picket Fences Second Edition Privilege and
Book SynopsisExplores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. This book remains a study of a group still under represented in the academic and public spheres.Trade Review"This sensitive account of a Chicago South Side neighborhood and its residents gives readers an insiders' view of the community, bringing the issues and challenges that confront the black middle class to the forefront." (Black Enterprise) "An insightful look at the socioeconomic experiences of the black middle class.... Through the prism of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, the author shows the distinctly different reality middle-class blacks face as opposed to middle-class whites." (Ebony)"
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Sexual Politics Sexual Communities
Book SynopsisIncluding documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the late-20th-century gay culture to emerge, this text aims to provide a definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the USA from 1940 to 1970.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Friends Disappear The Battle for Racial Equality
Book SynopsisHighlights how racial divides limited the life chances of blacks while providing opportunities for whites, and offers an insider's perspective on the social practices that doled out benefits and penalties based on race-despite attempts to integrate.Trade Review"Barr's gripping exploration of the divergent paths friends took away from a childhood snapshot combines the rigor of scholarship with the personal touch of memoir. I have rarely read a book that so effectively illustrates the persistence of racial disparities in the United States with unforgettable, wrenching life stories." (Amanda Seligman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Visayan Vignettes
Book SynopsisTo read the book is to appreciate the highly contingent, provisional, oblique, open-ended way in which people try to make sense of another culture.Resil B. Mojares, Philippine GraphicThis book is an interestingly complex ethnography that approaches the self-critical dialectical ethnography called for two decades ago....It is a welcome contribution to postmodernist theory and to the ethnography of the Visayas.Ronald Provencher, Journal of Asian Studies
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press From Power to Prejudice The Rise of Racial
Book SynopsisAmericans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and more. How did we get here? This book presents four competing visions of the race problem and documents how an individualistic paradigm, which presented white attitudes as the source of racial injustice, gained traction.Trade Review"With its five institutional case studies, From Power to Prejudice offers a new interpretation of the rise and fall of anti-prejudice education in the United States. While others have emphasized the structural causes of racial inequality and discrimination in American life, Gordon highlights the ways in which an ideology of racial individualism-the notion that individuals are responsible for their own place in a racial order-came to shape American psychology, sociology, and ultimately education in the mid-twentieth century. The result is a refreshingly critical look at the relationship between social science and social reform." (Adam Relson, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Enigma of Diversity
Book SynopsisWhat does diversity mean in contemporary America, and what are the effects of efforts to support it? The author explores the complicated, contradictory, and troubling meanings and uses of diversity as it is invoked by different groups for different, often symbolic ends.Trade Review"In this important book Berrey shows how the demands for inclusion of the racially oppressed during the Civil Rights Era were translated in universities, communities, and corporations into practices to keep the powerful in control. Berrey has deconstructed the symbolic politics of diversity and helped us understand the fundamental importance of substantive rather than formal diversity." (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University)
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Enigma of Diversity
Book SynopsisWhat does diversity mean in contemporary America, and what are the effects of efforts to support it? The author explores the complicated, contradictory, and even troubling meanings and uses of diversity as it is invoked by different groups for different, often symbolic ends.Trade Review"In this important book Berrey shows how the demands for inclusion of the racially oppressed during the Civil Rights Era were translated in universities, communities, and corporations into practices to keep the powerful in control. Berrey has deconstructed the symbolic politics of diversity and helped us understand the fundamental importance of substantive rather than formal diversity." (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University)
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Living with Moral Disagreement The Enduring
Book SynopsisHow to handle affirmative action is one of the most intractable policy problems of our era, touching on controversial issues such as race-consciousness and social justice. Much has been written both for and against affirmative action policiesespecially within the realm of educational opportunity. In this book, philosopher Michele S. Moses offers a crucial new pathway for thinking about the debate surrounding educational affirmative action, one that holds up the debate itself as an important emblem of the democratic process. Central to Moses's analysis is the argument that we need to understand disagreements about affirmative action as inherently moral, products of conflicts between deeply held beliefs that shape differing opinions on what justice requires of education policy. As she shows, differing opinions on affirmative action result from different conceptual values, for instance, between being treated equally and being treated as an equal or between seeing race-consciousness as
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Democracy and the Left Social Policy and
Book SynopsisAlthough inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the years, offset by improvements in health care and education, enhanced programs for social assistance, and increases in the minimum wage. The author argues that the resurgence of democracy in Latin America is key to this change.Trade Review"Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens have provided the most theoretically profound, empirically thorough, and wide-ranging work that advances the more optimistic view that democracy itself plays a crucial role in stimulating redistribution in Latin America and that the political left is the most important agent in effecting this change. Democracy and the Left is an important, major book that advances a powerful argument about a significant topic and substantiates it with an impressive range of research." (Kurt Weyland, University of Texas)"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Real Black
Book SynopsisAuthenticity is considered the best way to distinguish the real from the phony, the genuine from the fake. The author proposes a new model for thinking about these issues - racial sincerity. This book offers a kaleidoscope of subjects and stories that directly and indirectly address how race is negotiated in today's world.Trade Review"Expertly weaving theory with analysis, Jackson discovers that identities built around race and class in the quintessential black American neighborhood are far less monolithic than even Harlem residents believe." - Publishers Weekly "Jackson convincingly makes the case that precisely because race and class can be 'done to people,' his behavioural model is 'the only real grounding on which hierarchical notions of race in the United States can ultimately stand.' " - Mireille A. L. Djenno, Times Literary Supplement"
£56.05
The University of Chicago Press Real Black Adventures in Racial Sincerity
Book SynopsisAuthenticity is considered the best way to distinguish the real from the phony, the genuine from the fake. The author proposes a new model for thinking about these issues - racial sincerity. This book offers a kaleidoscope of subjects and stories that directly and indirectly address how race is negotiated in today's world.Trade Review"Expertly weaving theory with analysis, Jackson discovers that identities built around race and class in the quintessential black American neighborhood are far less monolithic than even Harlem residents believe." - Publishers Weekly "Jackson convincingly makes the case that precisely because race and class can be 'done to people,' his behavioural model is 'the only real grounding on which hierarchical notions of race in the United States can ultimately stand.' " - Mireille A. L. Djenno, Times Literary Supplement"
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Intersectional Inequality Race Class Test Scores
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£24.00
The University of Chicago Press From Power to Prejudice The Rise of Racial
Book SynopsisAmericans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and the idea that we can challenge racial injustice by reducing white prejudice has long been a core component of this faith. How did we get here? In this first-rate intellectual history, Leah N. Gordon jumps into this and other big questions about race, power, and social justice. To answer these questions, From Power to Prejudice examines American academia both black and white in the 1940s and '50s. Gordon presents four competing visions of the race problem and documents how an individualistic paradigm, which presented white attitudes as the source of racial injustice, gained traction. A number of factors, Gordon shows, explain racial individualism's postwar influence: individuals were easier to measure than social forces; psychology was well funded; studying political economy was difficult amid McCarthyism; and individualism was useful in legal attacks on segregation. Highlighting vigorous midcentury debate over the meanings of racial justice and equality, From Power to Prejudice reveals how one particular vision of social justice won out among many contenders.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Divided by Color Racial Politics and Democratic
Book SynopsisAn examination of American attitudes toward race and racial policies. This book shows that racial resentment powerfully affects white opinion on such issues as: welfare, affirmative action, school desegregation, and the plight of the inner city. The opinions of black Americans are also studied.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Opposing Ambitions Gender and Identity in an
Book SynopsisUsing a case study of a holistic health centre, Renewal, this book offers lessons on understanding the problems women face in organizations, the failure of social movements to live up to their ideals, and how it is possible for progressiveness to avoid perpetuating the inequalities it opposes.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press The Elusive Ideal Equal Educational Opportunity
Book SynopsisA probing and provocative work of urban history with deep relevance for urban public schools today, Nelson's book reveals why equal educational opportunity remains such an elusive ideal.Trade Review"Nelson is breaking new ground by comparing different equity reforms in education against the background of local/federal relations. Historians of education and policy analysts will find The Elusive Ideal very illuminating." - David Tyack, author of Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society"
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Black in White Space
Book SynopsisFrom the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country.Trade Review"Penetrating ethnographic study. . . . [A] fine-grained portrait of how systemic racism operates." * Publishers Weekly *“Anderson is a legendary sociologist whose high ascent into the Academy has always yielded profound insights into the precious Black people living and loving on the night side of the American Empire. This text is another masterpiece from his flaming pen!’” * Cornel West *“With creative concepts and phrases, Anderson builds on his previous ethnographic research to illuminate racial reactions in settings of recurrent intergroup contact. Black in White Space is a captivating book that is a must-read for anyone seeking a lucid discussion of American race relations.” * William Julius Wilson, Harvard University *“Black in White Space is an elegantly composed, brilliant, and intimate look at how Black people are seen in and navigate through predominantly white spaces. This will be an extremely useful text—particularly as we grapple with what diversity means in its substance as an aspiration.” * Imani Perry, Princeton University *“Explains how not just urban ghetto Blacks, but successful Blacks living elsewhere, share the need to manage the enduring stigma of being treated as inferiors. This is not Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ but the hypervisible Black person.” * Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania *“Rich in ethnographic detail and anchored in historical and sociological perspective, Black in White Space brilliantly informs us about the personal and social consequences of living in a society still stratified by racial inequality.” * Margaret L. Andersen, author of Getting Smart about Race: An American Conversation *“Anderson’s crowning masterpiece, Black in White Space is an incisive analysis of the iconic ghetto that illuminates the reality of white racism from police murders to everyday acts of disrespect.” * Fred Block, University of California, Davis *“With elegant prose, deep ethnography, and incisive theorizing, these essays demonstrate why Anderson is one of America’s ‘wise men.’ Black in White Space piercingly illuminates not only the chasm but also the crevasses that divide racial understandings in the United States.” * Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University *“Once again, Anderson demonstrates his clear mastery of the issue of race in America. This book is his gift to all of us who yearn for a nation of equality.” * The Honorable Rev. Dr. W. Wilson Goode, Sr., Former Mayor, City of Philadelphia *“Anderson is the Erving Goffman of race relations. He reveals the human realities behind the statistics and the everyday life behind the headlines.” * Randall Collins, author of Charisma: Micro-sociology of Power and Influence *“Black inWhite Space is a searing ethnographic depiction of everyday life in America. Anderson’s work has redefined sociology, especially our understanding of race and the history of anti-Blackness. Anderson explains what it means to be Black in America at this moment in history, offering powerful insights into the ways economic deprivation, anti-Black racism, and social marginalization shape the Black American experience. In short, Black in White Space is nothing less than an ethnographic portrait of America.” * Waverly Duck, author of 'Tacit Racism' *"Anderson grounds readers in what is essentially a theoretical and empirical study that explores why racism in America does not have an income cap. What follows is a compelling theoretical argument and Anderson’s quintessential style of ethnography, capturing the microinteractions that create the ongoing marginalization of the Black middle-class." * Symbolic Interaction *"[Black in White Space] adds a significant and important contribution to our understanding of how race, space and place intersect in a world where the colour line is always present but at times shifts, blurs or appears to be momentarily erased. Anderson’s [book] is momentous, trenchant and insightful contribution into race relations, specifically how white racism is forever recalibrating and morphing into something that ostensibly seems more benign and palatable to White folks’ sometimes naïve, oblivious or jaded racial sensibilities." * Ethnic and Race Studies *"Black in White Space provides an inside look at the everyday injustices that Black people face in white spaces in the US. During a time when mainstream white communities are intent on registering and responding to overt manifestations of racism and extreme white supremacists, this book helps create a more comprehensive picture of the workings of anti-Black racism by highlighting the small but pervasive ways in which white supremacy impacts the lives of Black people." * Choice *"In his latest opus, Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life, Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale, explores the contours of daily life for urban black folk as they navigate predominantly white spaces. A keen observer of human interaction and the human condition, Anderson combines his observational skills, penetrating storytelling, and sociological insights to probe and decode the social organization of city life." * Sociological Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Brief History of Anti-Black Racism in America Prologue Chapter 1: The White Space Chapter 2: The Iconic Ghetto Chapter 3: Living While Black: The Deficit of Credibility Chapter 4: A History of the Ghetto Chapter 5: A Portrait of the Ghetto Chapter 6: The Car Wash: A Racial Advertisement Chapter 7: The Ghetto Economy Chapter 8: Policing the Iconic Ghetto Chapter 9: The Black Class Structure Chapter 10: The Workplace: Of “Tokens,” “Toms,” and “the HNIC” Chapter 11: Social Mobility: A Foot in Two Worlds Chapter 12: Gentrification: Whites in Black Space Chapter 13: The Gym as a Staging Area Postscript: What Black Folk Know Notes References Index
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press A Guide to Americas Sex Laws
Book SynopsisThis is a concise compendium of America's sex laws, summarizing the laws regulating personal sexual activity; revealing gaps, anachronisms, anomalies, inequalities and irrationalities; and providing an empirical basis for studies of sexual regulation.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press The Right to Difference French Universalism and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"?A noted literary critic, Samuels tells his story through a series of largely literary case studies, tracing competing literary representations of Jews from the 18th century to the present. As these case studies reveal, even supposedly philo-Semitic French advocates of Jewish integration and equality have often sounded suspiciously like dyed-in-the-wool anti-Semites."--David Bell, The Nation "This book's most valuable contribution is its inclusion of moments of both failure and success in France's universalist history and its focus on both 'high' and 'popular' culture, reminding the reader that ideologies permeate every aspect of society."--The French Review "Samuels presents a highly nuanced and sophisticated analysis of French universalism through the exploration of its various historical iterations as it has engaged with the Jews of France since the French Revolution. This superb study is a major contribution to the scholarship on the themes of assimilation, acculturation and minority distinctiveness, and diversity that continue to be vexed problems in France to this day."--Aron Rodrigue, author of Jews and Muslims: Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Modern Times "elegant...deftly written book."--Jeffrey Mehlman, Antisemitism Studies "Timely and thought-provoking, The Right to Difference will interest scholars and lay readers alike. Ambitious in scope, the book offers a broad survey of French universalism's multifaceted attitude toward the Jews since the eighteenth century. Just as importantly, it represents a much needed intervention in public discussions about the ambiguous legacy of the French Revolution, the politics of la cit , and debates over the assimilation of religious minorities in France today. At a time when France's Jews are in the news more than ever before, Samuels offers illuminating new ways of thinking about their position, and, through that analysis, about the politics of difference in modern France."--Lisa Moses Leff, author of The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust "The Right to Difference is a beautifully written, accessible book that is suitable for undergraduate teaching, while offering fruitful opportunities for engagement by specialists. . . .Samuels's argument unfolds in seven chapters in which he engages with current scholarship in Jewish studies and French history in textual readings that challenge long-settled scholarly consensus. His careful analyses elucidate the ways universalism has been understood since the eighteenth century to 'offer new possibilities for thinking through France's current social and political dilemmas--and perhaps some American ones as well'. . . . The Right to Difference persuasively demonstrates that the current political understanding of republican universalism is not the only version available for the French body politic."--Journal of Modern History "The Right to Difference is a timely and compelling study that urges us to rethink some rather widely held perceptions about universalism, secularism [la cit ], the French state, and modern European society in relation to religious minorities and ethnic communities. Maurice Samuels combines insightful and sometimes surprising reexaminations of historical sources with sharp analyses."--Jonathan Skolnik, University of Massachusetts Amherst "Particularism and Universalism: ever since St. Paul, the Jews have served as a stage upon which to act out the tension between these two ideals. That tension did not diminish with revolution, democracy, modernity, or secularization, nor did figures of Judaism lose their utility in these revolutions. Today Zionism and Israel continue to play a special role in fervent debates about the relationship between claims of universal justice and those of particularist, often minoritarian identities. The Right to Difference is a clear and critical guide through this history and these debates, a guide all of us who live in this age of increasingly passionate convictions should be grateful for."--David Nirenberg, author of Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today "The Right to Difference is a useful and clairvoyant book full of rigorously researched evidence that allows us to better grasp our relationship to universalism. From the years leading up to the Revolution to the rigid universalism of Finkelkraut and the universalism that Badiou calls an instrument of exclusion, Maurice Samuels charts a nuanced path that never seeks to reach a definitive, prescriptive conclusion. Because undertaking this archeology of universalism is not an attempt to establish a philosophy of history, a typology, or a user's guide, but rather to establish a global frame of reference that might even provide keys to understanding the present."--Nonfiction (France)
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Unequal under Law
Book SynopsisRace is a factor in government efforts to control dangerous drugs, but the precise ways that race affects drug laws remain difficult to pinpoint. Illuminating this relationship, this book lays out how decades of racism helped shape a punitive US drug policy whose onerous impact on racial minorities has been ignored by Congress and the courts.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Just One of the Guys
Book SynopsisThe fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. This book focuses on this phenomenon by analyzing the unique experiences of transgender men - people designated female at birth whose gender identity is male - on the job.Trade Review"Truly innovative, courageous, and rigorous. Just One of the Guys? will spark a lot of dialogue and some contentious discussions. Kristen Schilt has taken an ethnographic and interview-based approach to understanding the workplace inequalities facing a highly understudied population, and the results are sobering and unexpected. This is an indubitably creative and original book." - Shari L. Dworkin, University of California, San Francisco"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Just One of the Guys
Book SynopsisThe fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. This book focuses on this phenomenon by analyzing the unique experiences of transgender men - people designated female at birth whose gender identity is male - on the job.Trade Review"Truly innovative, courageous, and rigorous. Just One of the Guys? will spark a lot of dialogue and some contentious discussions. Kristen Schilt has taken an ethnographic and interview-based approach to understanding the workplace inequalities facing a highly understudied population, and the results are sobering and unexpected. This is an indubitably creative and original book." - Shari L. Dworkin, University of California, San Francisco"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Racialized Politics The Debate about Racism in
Book SynopsisExplores the late-1990s debate surrounding the sources of racism in America. The essays represent three major approaches: the social psychological, the social structural and the non-racially inspired ideology. It assesses the issues on the role of racism in mass politics and public opinion.
£35.15
The University of Chicago Press Citizen Brown Race Democracy and Inequality in
Book SynopsisThe 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institutional racism. But Ferguson was no aberration. As Colin Gordon shows in this urgent and timely book, the events in Ferguson exposed not only the deep racism of the local police department but also the ways in which decades of public policy effectively segregated people and curtailed citizenship not just in Ferguson but across the St. Louis suburbs. Citizen Brown uncovers half a century of private practices and public policies that resulted in bitter inequality and sustained segregation in Ferguson and beyond. Gordon shows how municipal and school district boundaries were pointedly drawn to contain or exclude African Americans and how local policies and servicesespecially policing, education, and urban renewalwere weaponized to maintain civic separation. He also makes it clear that the outcry that arose in Ferguson was no impulsive outburst but rather an explosion of pent-up rage against long-standing systems of segregation and inequalityof which a police force that viewed citizens not as subjects to serve and protect but as sources of revenue was only the most immediate example. Worse, Citizen Brown illustrates the fact that though the greater St. Louis area provides some extraordinarily clear examples of fraught racial dynamics, in this it is hardly alone among American cities and regions. Interactive maps and other companion resources toCitizen Brownare available at thebook website.Trade Review“Citizen Brown is an important contribution to the literatures on segregation, suburbanization, and local politics. Gordon creates a compelling and well-documented account of the ways in which local governments first refuse to provide services to certain neighborhoods and then use that lack of services as evidence of blight and grounds for slum clearance. He then offers an excellent, structural explanation for Michael Brown’s murder that is linked to this same connection between public services and local policy.” * Jessica Trounstine, author of Segregation by Design *“Citizen Brown arrives at a propitious moment, when many Americans are still trying to make sense of how and why one of the most explosive incidents in American race relations—the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri—occurred not in a center city, where so many of the nation’s best-known racial dramas have played out over the last fifty years, but in a suburb. What Gordon accomplishes here is a much needed, much deeper understanding of what happened there, even when Ferguson isn’t front and center. Citizen Brown is a pioneering foray into a larger, more complicated consideration of the recent history of race relations in American suburbs.” * Mark Krasovic, author of The Newark Frontier *"This innovative study is informed by the deep understanding of legal processes and familiarity with St. Louis’s unique geography that Gordon showed in his previous book Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (2008). Citizen Brown also benefits from being grounded in political theory about citizenship and its many meanings." * Missouri Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Maps and Figures Introduction One / Fragmenting Citizenship: Municipal Incorporation and Annexation Two / Segregating Citizenship: Schools, Safety, and Sewers Three / Bulldozing Citizenship: Renewal, Redevelopment, and Relocation Four / Arresting Citizenship: Segregation, Austerity, and Predatory Policing ConclusionAcknowledgments Notes Index
£20.00
The University of Chicago Press Hegels Critique of Liberalism Rights in Context
Book SynopsisIn Hegel's Critique of Liberalism, Steven B. Smith examines Hegel's critique of rights-based liberalism and its relevance to contemporary political concerns. Smith argues that Hegel reformulated classic liberalism, preserving what was of value while rendering it more attentive to the dynamics of human history and the developmental structure of the moral personality. Hegel's goal, Smith suggests, was to find a way of incorporating both the ancient emphasis on the dignity and even architectonic character of political life with the modern concern for freedom, rights, and mutual recognition. Smith's insightful analysis reveals Hegel's relevance not only to contemporary political philosophers concerned with normative issues of liberal theory but also to political scientists who have urged a revival of the state as a centralconcept of political inquiry.
£30.00
