Social discrimination and social justice Books
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Richmond 34 and the Civil Rights Movement Images
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Lgbtq Cincinnati Images of Modern America
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing The Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City Kansas
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£18.69
History Press New Mexicos Stolen Lands
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£20.39
History Press The Grey Eagles of Chippewa Falls A Hidden
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History Press Black Beauties
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History Press Integrating the Charleston Police Force Stories
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£18.69
The University of North Carolina Press Goat Castle A True Story of Murder Race and the
Book SynopsisCentering on a 1932 murder in Natchez, Mississippi, Goat Castle tells the strange, fascinating, and sobering story of a local feud, killing, investigation, and trial, showing how a true crime tale of fallen southern grandeur and murder obscured an all too familiar story of racial injustice.Trade ReviewNever pedantic, this book is hard to put down.--The Journal of American History A detailed, thoughtful exploration of race and crime in the Jim Crow South through a case that was nationally covered, capturing a country in the throes of the Great Depression.--ALA Booklist Provides a definitive look at the 1932 murder of Jennie Merrill.--Publishers Weekly The book is well researched and written.--Arkansas Review This engrossing tale of murder, injustice, and racial inequality will interest lovers of regional history as well as true crime buffs.--Library Journal A riveting exploration of a true crime that illuminates the complicated relationship between race and the law in the post-Civil War South.--Foreword Reviews Cox dives deeper than the headlines, through excellent historical and journalistic investigation, to bring to light a horrible injustice.--Lemuria Books Blog Strange, fascinating and sobering, Goat Castle tells the story of [a] local feud, killing, investigation and trial, showing how a true crime tale of fallen Southern grandeur and murder obscured an all too familiar story of racial injustice.--Deep South Magazine A terrific read.--American Historical Review Drawing on extant personal papers, correspondence, legal case files, prison reports, extensive contemporary newspaper coverage, and recently recovered photographs and oral accounts, Cox makes evident her diligence and resourcefulness.--The Journal of Southern History
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Racial Domination
Book SynopsisRace is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and current issues, from slavery to police brutality to acute poverty, and it is also used as a term of civic denunciation and moral condemnation. In this erudite and incisive book based on a panoramic mining of comparative and historical research from around the globe, Loïc Wacquant pours cold analytical water on this hot topic and infuses it with epistemological clarity, conceptual precision, and empirical breadth. Drawing on Gaston Bachelard, Max Weber, and Pierre Bourdieu, Wacquant first articulates a series of reframings, starting with dislodging the United States from its Archimedean position, in order to capture race-making as a form of symbolic violence. He then forges a set of novel concepts to rethink the nexus of racial classification and stratification: the continuum of ethnicity and race as disguis
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Herald Press (VA) Lamenting Racism Participant Journal: A Christian
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£11.39
University of Minnesota Press Brown Threat: Identification in the Security
Book SynopsisWhat is “brown” in—and beyond—the context of American identity politics? How has the concept changed since 9/11? In the most sustained examination of these questions to date, Kumarini Silva argues that “brown” is no longer conceived of solely as a cultural, ethnic, or political identity. Instead, after 9/11, the Patriot Act, and the wars in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, it has also become a concept and, indeed, a strategy of identification—one rooted in xenophobic, imperialistic, and racist ideologies to target those who do not neatly fit or subscribe to ideas of nationhood. Interweaving personal narratives, ethnographic research, analyses of popular events like the Miss America pageant, and films and TV shows such as the Harold and Kumar franchise and Black-ish, Silva maps junctures where the ideological, political, and mediated terrain intersect, resulting in an appetite for all things “brown” (especially South Asian brown) by U.S. consumers, while political and nationalist discourses and legal structures (immigration, emigration, migration, outsourcing, incarceration) conspire to control brown bodies both within and outside the United States. Silva explores this contradictory relationship between representation and reality, arguing that the representation mediates and manages the anxieties that come from contemporary global realities, in which brown spaces, like India, Pakistan, and the Middle East pose key economic, security, and political challenges to the United States. While racism is hardly new, what makes this iteration of brown new is that anyone or any group, at any time, can be branded as deviant, as a threat. Trade Review"An essential text on the contemporary mediations of race in America. Kumarini Silva's analysis fills a critical gap in studies of race, arguing for the work done by the malleability of the racialized category of "South Asian brown" for the U.S. security state."—Inderpal Grewal, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: America’s Move from Identity to Identification1. What Is Brown? Theorizing Race in Everyday Life2. Un-American: Surviving through Patriotic Performances3. Expulsion and What Is Not: Defining Worthiness of American Citizenship4. Blackness in Brown Times: The Medicalization of RacismConclusion: Wielding Identity to Organize WarfareAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£29.41
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace: A Guide
Book SynopsisYour DEIJ efforts are stagnating because you continue to center whiteness. Creating a truly anti-racist organization requires learning how to identify and rectify the systemic, and often unconscious, centering of white culture and values in the workplace.Corporate America continues to struggle with racial equity in a post-George Floyd world. As the U.S. becomes more diverse and the public consciousness continues to shift, there is a greater need for successful racial equity efforts in the workplace. Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace exposes the ways that white culture and expectations are centered in the modern American workplace and the fears within corporate spaces about talking candidly, openly, and honestly about whiteness, white supremacy, and anti-blackness.Readers will discover: A direct and straightforward analysis about what white-centering is An evaluation of the different ways that whiteness is centered in the workplace such as bereavement and holiday policies to dress code A guide on how to recognize and decenter whiteness within oneself and at work Solutions for people to contribute individually and systemically to anti-oppression Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace provides a crucial guidebook with practical solutions for leaders, DEI practitioners, and anyone hoping to truly create an anti-racist workplace.
£17.85
Legacy Lit Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
Book SynopsisA New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024 • A New Yorker Best Book of 2024New York Times Bestseller • USA Today BestsellerKirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of the Year • Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best BooksIn the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning ninety-three-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, that the New York Times described as 'fascinating…meticulous research' and bestselling author Clint Smith endorsed it as 'a book that left me breathless.' On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state’s Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum. In Madness, Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the ninety-three-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents. Madness chronicles the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered as they tried, and sometimes failed, to find safety and dignity. Hylton also grapples with her own family’s experiences with mental illness, and the secrecy and shame that it reproduced for generations. As Crownsville Hospital grew from an antebellum-style work camp to a tiny city sitting on 1,500 acres, the institution became a microcosm of America’s evolving battles over slavery, racial integration, and civil rights. During its peak years, the hospital’s wards were overflowing with almost 2,700 patients. By the end of the 20th-century, the asylum faded from view as prisons and jails became America’s new focus. In Madness, Hylton traces the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people’s bodies and minds in our current mental healthcare system. It is a captivating and heartbreaking meditation on how America decides who is sick or criminal, and who is worthy of our care or irredeemable.
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Seal Press (CA) We Need to Talk about Antisemitism
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Basic Books Metaracism How Systemic Racism Devastates Black
Book SynopsisThe definitive book on how systemic racism in America really works, revealing the vast and often hidden network of interconnected policies, practices, and beliefs that combine to devastate Black lives In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and commentators fiercely debate racism’s very existence. And so, our conversations about racial inequalities remain muddled. In Metaracism, pioneering scholar Tricia Rose cuts through the noise with a bracing and invaluable new account of what systemic racism actually is, how it works, and how we can fight back. She reveals how—from housing to education to criminal justice—an array of policies and practices connect and interact to produce an even more devastating “metaracism” far worse than the sum of its parts. While these systemic connections can be difficult to see—
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Basic Books White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of
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£24.00
Seal Press (CA) The Power of Dignity: How Transforming Justice
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£24.00
Basic Books Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys
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£25.60
University of Arkansas Press Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action: Truth
Book SynopsisOn November 3, 1979, five protest marchers in Greensboro, North Carolina, were shot and killed by the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. There were no police present, but television crews captured the shootings on video. Despite two criminal trials, none of the killers ever served time for their crimes, exposing what many believed to be the inadequacy of judicial, political, and economic systems in the United States. Twenty-five years later, in 2004, Greensboro residents, inspired by post-apartheid South Africa, initiated a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to take public testimony and examine the causes, sequence of events, and consequences of the massacre. The TRC was to be a process and a tool by which citizens could feel confident about the truth of the city’s history in order to reconcile divergent understandings of past and current city values, and it became the foundation for the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the United States. Spoma Jovanovic, who worked alongside other community members to document the grassroots effort to convene the first TRC in the United States, provides a resource and case study of how citizens in one community used their TRC as a way to understand the past and conceive the future. This book preserves the historical significance of a people’s effort to seek truth and work for reconciliation, shows a variety of discourse models for other communities to use in seeking to redress past harms, and demonstrates the power of community action to promote participatory democracy.
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Temple University Press,U.S. White Boy: A Memoir
Book SynopsisHow does a Jewish boy who spent the bulk of his childhood on the basketball courts of Brooklyn wind up teaching in one of the city's pioneering black studies departments? Naison's odyssey begins as Brooklyn public schools respond to a new wave of Black migrants and Caribbean immigrants, and established residents flee to virtually all-white parts of the city or suburbs. Already alienated by his parents' stance on race issues and their ambitions for him, he has started on a separate ideological path by the time he enters Columbia College. Once he embarks on a long-term interracial relationship, becomes a member of SDS, focuses his historical work on black activists, and organizes community groups in the Bronx, his immersion in the radical politics of the 1960s has emerged as the center of his life. Determined to keep his ties to the Black community, even when the New Left splits along racial lines, Naison joined the fledgling African American studies program at Fordham, remarkable then as now for its commitment to interracial education. Author note: Mark D. Naison is Professor of African American Studies and History as well as Director of Urban Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of "Communists in Harlem During the Depression".Trade Review"White Boy effectively blends social history and autobiography together in an engaging tale..." The Radical Teacher "When W.E.B. Du Bois wisely cautioned in The Souls of Black Folk that 'he would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa,' might he have had some future Mark Naison in mind? In any case, if a shade of doubt had ever existed about this white boy's qualifications to teach and write African American history, Naison's engrossing, tumultuous memoir ought assure the author a place of honor not only among his professional peers of color but in the front ranks of all those for whom differences based on ideas and ideals--not on color or gender or class--are the only ones that matter." --David Levering Lewis, Martin Luther King, Jr., University Professor at Rutgers University and twice recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1994 and 2001 "White Boy is a happy exception to the absence of autobiographical writings of historians of social movements. It is also an inspired intervention into the history of Black Studies. Its ability to sustain optimism regarding interracialism while acknowledging the costs of long histories and deep structures of division makes the book a great asset." --David Roediger, Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois, and author of Colored White: Transcending The Racial Past "White Boy is one of the most fascinating memoirs I've read in a while. It does much more than provide us with an interesting coming-of-age tale of a smart Jewish kid who discovered and fell in love with black life and culture--a love, like all loves, full of discord and mad misunderstandings. Instead, Naison tries to be self-reflexive along the way, providing social historical contexts while attempting to reconstruct his own sense of naivete he experienced at the moment of certain cultural encounters. Chock full of stories, White Boy will be an important and much debated book." --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Yo' Mama's DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America "...forthright and thoughtful memoir... An adroit writer with a winning voice, Naison avoids romanticizing his activist days; he is at times also critical of New Left tactics (particularly those that reinforced racial polarization among activists), and he interrogates his own interest in and identification with black culture." --Choice "Naison [writes] with unsparing honesty and personal revelation... Naison's memoir grows in importance. It has raised some crucial issues, many of which go to the heart of the continuing search for racial justice and interracial unity. It should be read widely and debated vigorously." --Science and Society "In this forthright and thoughtful memoir, Naison, who became, in the early 1970s, one of the first professors (and the only white man) at Fordham's new Institute of Afro-American Studies, recalls a lifetime of fascination with black history and culture and of antidiscrimination activism. ...An adroit writer with a winning voice, Naison avoids romanticizing his activist days; ...he interrogates his own interest in and identification with black culture." --Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Crown Heights in the 1950s 2. Race Conscious 3. Looking Down on Harlem 4. Meeting Ruthie 5. Contested Territory 6. Ball of Confusion 7. Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide 8. Bringing the War Home 9. A White Man in Black Studies 10. Riders on the Storm 11. Close to the Edge
£69.30
Temple University Press,U.S. New Jack Jocks: Rebels, Race, And The American
Book SynopsisLatrell Sprewell. Allen Iverson. John McEnroe. Even Mohammed Ali and Mike Schmidt and Michael Jordan. These are characters of our national imagination, athletes who stand as symbols of our complex relationship with professional sport.In this erudite and captivating book, bestselling author Larry Platt takes us on a tour through American sports. Offering profiles of the athletes we love (and love to hate), Platt shows that sport, more than any other nationwide pastime, is the way we come to understand—and alter—race relations, gender, and, most profoundly, how we communicate with each other in ways that are often given too little credit in the minds of intellectuals.Thought-provoking and richly written, New Jack Jocks offers a textured picture of how athletes live their lives and how we live out and define American culture by the way we come to understand their lives in and out of the halls of play.Trade Review"Larry Platt's writing flies two places at once: inside America's sports heroes and high above them, gazing down on the strange dynamic between us and them. You won't be able to look at our athletes or our society the same after you've read Platt."—Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated"Larry Platt's view of the sports world reads like fiction—but it's fact! Writers of sitcoms and soap operas could use New Jack Jocks as a source of great content."—Pat Croce, part owner and former president, Philadelphia 76ers"Like the athletes he profiles, Larry Platt is a renegade in his own right. He has always known that the real stories are found outside the arenas and playing fields, and he tells them with insight and passion. Too bad he still can't go left...."—Gail Shister, Philadelphia Inquirer television columnist and former sportswriter"Larry Platt is a rarity among writers—a guy who understands the hip-hop lifestyle of today's athlete. Platt keeps it real; he explains where others judge."—John Lucas, NBA head coach, Cleveland Cavaliers"Few writers get the connection between sports and our public life as well as Larry Platt."—Ed Rendell, former mayor of Philadelphia"Larry Platt is one of the biggest pains in the ass I've had the misfortune of meeting. I can't stand the guy. Unfortunately this is a really good book."—Angelo Cataldi, WIP Radio (Philadelphia) talk show host"...written in a readable style for a variety of ages and audiences."—Kliatt"Platt tackles a wide range of subjects related to sports in his hometown Philadelphia in an attempt to analyze how fans and media construct and define athletic heroism at the turn of the twenty-first century. ...sports fans of all kinds should find the book to be an enjoyable read..."—American StudiesTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: The New Jack Jock1. Spree's World2. Soul Members3. Pat and Allen's Tough Love AdventurePart II: The Anti-Hero4. Portrait of an Artist on the Court5. No Requiem Necessary6. In the Name of the Father7. The Unloved8. The Round Mound Bids FarewellPart III: Entrepreneurs9. The Graying of Dr. J10. Magic Johnson Builds an Empire11. The Business of Rebellion12. Even the Ball Is White13. Jelly MakerAcknowledgments
£48.60
Temple University Press,U.S. New Jack Jocks: Rebels, Race, And The American
Book SynopsisLatrell Sprewell. Allen Iverson. John McEnroe. Even Mohammed Ali and Mike Schmidt and Michael Jordan. These are characters of our national imagination, athletes who stand as symbols of our complex relationship with professional sport.In this erudite and captivating book, bestselling author Larry Platt takes us on a tour through American sports. Offering profiles of the athletes we love (and love to hate), Platt shows that sport, more than any other nationwide pastime, is the way we come to understand—and alter—race relations, gender, and, most profoundly, how we communicate with each other in ways that are often given too little credit in the minds of intellectuals.Thought-provoking and richly written, New Jack Jocks offers a textured picture of how athletes live their lives and how we live out and define American culture by the way we come to understand their lives in and out of the halls of play.Trade Review"Larry Platt's writing flies two places at once: inside America's sports heroes and high above them, gazing down on the strange dynamic between us and them. You won't be able to look at our athletes or our society the same after you've read Platt."—Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated"Larry Platt's view of the sports world reads like fiction—but it's fact! Writers of sitcoms and soap operas could use New Jack Jocks as a source of great content."—Pat Croce, part owner and former president, Philadelphia 76ers"Like the athletes he profiles, Larry Platt is a renegade in his own right. He has always known that the real stories are found outside the arenas and playing fields, and he tells them with insight and passion. Too bad he still can't go left...."—Gail Shister, Philadelphia Inquirer television columnist and former sportswriter"Larry Platt is a rarity among writers—a guy who understands the hip-hop lifestyle of today's athlete. Platt keeps it real; he explains where others judge."—John Lucas, NBA head coach, Cleveland Cavaliers"Few writers get the connection between sports and our public life as well as Larry Platt."—Ed Rendell, former mayor of Philadelphia"Larry Platt is one of the biggest pains in the ass I've had the misfortune of meeting. I can't stand the guy. Unfortunately this is a really good book."—Angelo Cataldi, WIP Radio (Philadelphia) talk show host"...written in a readable style for a variety of ages and audiences."—Kliatt"Platt tackles a wide range of subjects related to sports in his hometown Philadelphia in an attempt to analyze how fans and media construct and define athletic heroism at the turn of the twenty-first century. ...sports fans of all kinds should find the book to be an enjoyable read..."—American StudiesTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: The New Jack Jock1. Spree's World2. Soul Members3. Pat and Allen's Tough Love AdventurePart II: The Anti-Hero4. Portrait of an Artist on the Court5. No Requiem Necessary6. In the Name of the Father7. The Unloved8. The Round Mound Bids FarewellPart III: Entrepreneurs9. The Graying of Dr. J10. Magic Johnson Builds an Empire11. The Business of Rebellion12. Even the Ball Is White13. Jelly MakerAcknowledgments
£21.84
Temple University Press,U.S. Swimming Against the Tide: African American Girls
Book SynopsisThe experiences in families, communities, and peer-groups that help young African American women "swim against the tide" of the white, male science education systemTrade Review"Swimming Against the Tide addresses a crucial lacunae in the body of literature on women in science, particularly women of color. This is a ‘new’ and innovative approach, since very few book publications on women in science have addressed the subject of African American women in science and from an age specific and culturally relevant perspective. Theoretically and methodologically strong, this is an example of feminist scholarship at its best." —Josephine Beoku-Betts, Professor of Women’s Studies and Sociology, Florida Atlantic University"Swimming Against the Tide addresses important research issues, with implications for the cultivation and retention of scientific talent and for practice and policy in science education. It also has implications for understanding the 'culture of science’ and the factors that encourage/discourage participation. Hanson’s statistical data and analyses are significant in the strength of findings, [in the] power of inference for young women's interest in and perceptions about science, and for the ways in which race and gender do/do not operate together in affecting outcomes for young women"— Mary Frank Fox, Advance Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology"[A]n excellent resource for those who are not familiar with this body of literature about race and science.... This book, overall, is an important contribution to our understanding of the gender, race, and class dynamics that influence the career decision-making of young women...Hanson's synthesis of previous studies on the subject makes this a valuable resource for those hoping to expand and deepen an understanding about how our educational system and science culture itself should be transformed to be a welcoming place for all who have an interest in exploring nature and the world in which we live." —Teachers College RecordTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Understanding Young African American Women's Experiences in Science 2. The Conceptual Framework: A Critical-Feminist Approach 3. Young African American Women's Experiences in Science: "Science Is Like Opening A Present from Your Favorite Aunt. You Just Can't Wait to Open It Because You Know There Is Something Wonderful and Unique Inside." 4. Influences—Teachers and Schools: "They Looked at Us Like We Weren't Supposed to Be Scientists." 5. Influences—Family and Community: "My Mother Never Minded Me Using Her Kitchen Utensils to Dig Up Insects and Worms to Explore." 6. Influences—Peers: "I Know Plenty of Girls at My School [Who] Love Science." 7. Conclusions: "Science Is Not About Which Race Likes It Better, It Is About Doing What You Like." Appendix A: Tables Appendix B: Detail on Knowledge Networks Sampling Appendix C: Test for Vignettes Appendix D: Selected Questions from Knowledge Networks Survey Appendix E: Detail on NELS Sampling and Data Notes Reference Index
£24.69
Temple University Press,U.S. Twenty-First Century Color Lines: Multiracial
Book SynopsisExploring the multiracial, multiethnicTrade Review"An excellent and timely collection on an important set of civil rights issues."—Pedro Noguera, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York UniversityTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: The Past as Racial Prologue? 1. Color Lines in a Multiracial Nation: An Institutional Demographic Overview of the United States in the Twenty-First Century Part I: Foundations of Multiracial Inequality 2. Color Lines in the Mind: Implicit Prejudice, Discrimination, and the Potential for Change 3. Structural Racism and Color Lines in the United States Part II: Ambiguities of Racial and Ethnic Identity 4. "We Are Not Like Them": Social Distancing and Realignment in the U.S. Latino Racial Hierarchy 5. The Paradox of the Puerto Rican Race: The Interplay of Racism and Nationalism under U.S. Colonialism 6. Shared Fates in Asian Transracial Adoption: Korean Adoptee Experiences of Difference in Their Families Part III: Negotiating Change: Group Interaction on the Ground 7. Multiracial Youth Scenes and the Dynamics of Race: New Approaches to Racialization within the Bay Area Hip Hop Underground 8. Toward Diversity That Works: Building Communities through Arts and Culture 9. Commonality in Values across the Racial Divide 10. Immigrant Political Empowerment in New York and Los Angeles Part IV: The Road Ahead? 11. To Be Continued? The "Problem of the Color Line" in the Twenty-First Century Conclusion: Color Lines, the New Society, and the Responsibility of Scholars Contributors Index
£65.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Twenty-First Century Color Lines: Multiracial
Book SynopsisExploring the multiracial, multiethnicTrade Review"An excellent and timely collection on an important set of civil rights issues."—Pedro Noguera, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York UniversityTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: The Past as Racial Prologue? 1. Color Lines in a Multiracial Nation: An Institutional Demographic Overview of the United States in the Twenty-First Century Part I: Foundations of Multiracial Inequality 2. Color Lines in the Mind: Implicit Prejudice, Discrimination, and the Potential for Change 3. Structural Racism and Color Lines in the United States Part II: Ambiguities of Racial and Ethnic Identity 4. "We Are Not Like Them": Social Distancing and Realignment in the U.S. Latino Racial Hierarchy 5. The Paradox of the Puerto Rican Race: The Interplay of Racism and Nationalism under U.S. Colonialism 6. Shared Fates in Asian Transracial Adoption: Korean Adoptee Experiences of Difference in Their Families Part III: Negotiating Change: Group Interaction on the Ground 7. Multiracial Youth Scenes and the Dynamics of Race: New Approaches to Racialization within the Bay Area Hip Hop Underground 8. Toward Diversity That Works: Building Communities through Arts and Culture 9. Commonality in Values across the Racial Divide 10. Immigrant Political Empowerment in New York and Los Angeles Part IV: The Road Ahead? 11. To Be Continued? The "Problem of the Color Line" in the Twenty-First Century Conclusion: Color Lines, the New Society, and the Responsibility of Scholars Contributors Index
£25.64
Temple University Press,U.S. Race and Class Matters at an Elite College
Book SynopsisHow race and class collide at a prestigious liberal arts collegeTrade Review"Finally, a case study that skillfully unpacks the problems of race and privilege, the less visible inheritance of social class, and the well-intentioned but unfinished campus efforts at environmental engineering. Elizabeth Aries’ insights and recommendations are as serious and relevant as the vexing challenges our colleges face."—Eugene M. Tobin, Program Officer for the Liberal Arts Colleges Program at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, former President of Hamilton College, and co-author of Equity and Excellence in American Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Becoming a More Diverse College: Challenges and Benefits 2. Investigating Race and Class Matters on Campus 3. First Encounters with Race and Class 4. Negotiating Class Differences 5. Relationships across Race and Class 6. Learning from Racial Diversity 7. Learning from Class-Based Diversity 8. Negotiating Racial Issues 9. As the Year Ended 10. Meeting the Challenges of Diversity Appendix A: On-Line Survey Measures Appendix B: Interview Questions Notes Reference Index
£65.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i
Book SynopsisChallenges the misconception of Hawai'i as a racial paradise by analyzing how ethnic inequality is maintained among its constituent groupsTrade Review"What is most compelling about Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i is the detail and historiography. Okamura's knowledge of local issues and ethnic identity in Hawai'i is impressive. This book will make a wonderful contribution to conversations about race and ethnicity in American studies, ethnic studies, and perhaps sociology too." -Dana Takagi, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa CruzTable of Contents1: Introduction; 2: Changing Ethnic Differences; 3: Socioeconomic Inequality and Ethnicity; 4: Educational Inequality and Ethnicity; 5: Constructing Ethnic Identities, Constructing Differences; 6: Japanese Americans: Toward Symbolic Identity; 7: Filipino Americans: Model Minority or Dogeaters?; 8: Conclusion
£69.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans After 9/11
Book SynopsisHow Muslim-American identity has been shaped by 9/11 and its after effectsTrade Review"In this savvy, research-based book, sociologist Peek (Colorado State Univ.) reports on interviews with Arab and South Asian Muslim Americans conducted after the 9/11 attacks. Peek provides an excellent introduction to the oppressive realities these Americans face, including sharp increases in hate crimes and illegal government spying after 9/11... This important book counters many US myths about Muslim Americans, their origins, and their life experiences. It makes them 'come alive' as important US residents seeking to counter 'othering' by fellow Americans...Summing Up: Highly recommended." -Choice "[A] well-researched, thoughtful examination of how processes of postdisaster backlash heighten social boundaries, despite both popular and scholarly assumptions of solidarity after disaster... One highlight of Peek's analysis is her sensitive consideration of the impact of 9/11 backlash on respondents who are less 'visibly Muslim.'...[The book] is engagingly written and often powerful." -Sociology of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Under Attack 3. Encountering Intolerance 4. Backlash 5. Repercussions 6. Adaptations 7. Conclusion Notes Index
£25.64
University of New Orleans Press Entangled Histories and the Environment?:
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£21.00
Michigan State University Press The Dialectics of Citizenship: Exploring
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a citizen? What impact does an active democracy have on its citizenry and why does it fail or succeed in fulfilling its promises? Most modern democracies seem unable to deliver the goods that citizens expect; many politicians seem to have given up on representing the wants and needs of those who elected them and are keener on representing themselves and their financial backers. What will it take to bring democracy back to its original promise of rule by the people? Bernd Reiter’s timely analysis reaches back to ancient Greece and the Roman Republic in search of answers. It examines the European medieval city republics, revolutionary France, and contemporary Brazil, Portugal, and Colombia. Through an innovative exploration of country cases, this study demonstrates that those who stand to lose something from true democracy tend to oppose it, making the genealogy of citizenship concurrent with that of exclusion. More often than not, exclusion leads to racialisation, stigmatising the excluded to justify their non-membership. Each case allows for different insights into the process of how citizenship is upheld and challenged. Together, the cases reveal how exclusive rights are constituted by contrasting members to non-members who in that very process become racialised others. The book provides an opportunity to understand the dynamics that weaken democracy so that they can be successfully addressed and overcome in the future.
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Michigan State University Press Blackhood Against the Police Power: Punishment
Book SynopsisBoth significant and timely, this book addresses the punishment of “race” and the disavowal of sexual violence central to the contemporary “post-racial” culture of politics. Here the author asserts that the post-racial presents an antiblack animus that should be read as desiring the end of blackness and the black liberation movement’s singular ethical claims. The book redefines policing as a sociohistorical process of implementing antiblackness and, in so doing, redefines racism as an act of sexual violence that produces the punishment of race. It smartly critiques the way leading antiracist discourse is frequently complicit with antiblackness and recalls the original 1960s conception of black studies as a corrective to the deficiencies in today’s critical discourse on race and sex.The book explores these lines of inquiry to pinpoint how the history of racial slavery wraps itself in a new discourse of disavowal. In this way, Blackhood Against the Police Power responds to a range of texts, policies, practices, and representations complicit with the police power - from the Fourth Amendment and the movements to curtail stop-and-frisk policing and mass incarceration to popular culture treatments of blackness to the leading academic discourses on race and sex politics.
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Chicago Review Press Freeing David McCallum: The Last Miracle of Rubin
Book SynopsisFor ten years before Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s death, he and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky had been working to help free another wrongfully convicted man, David McCallum. McCallum was eventually exonerated and freed after serving twenty-nine years in prison. This is the story of how Carter and Klonsky, along with a group of committed friends and professionals, managed to secure McCallum’s release. It details their many struggles, from founding an innocence project to take on the case, finding lawyers willing to work pro bono, and hiring a private detective to sift through old evidence and locate original witnesses, to the most difficult part: convincing members of a deeply flawed criminal justice system to reopen a case that would expose their own mistakes when all they wanted to do was ignore the conflicting evidence. A new district attorney willing to reexamine the case, a documentary film, and an op-ed piece in which Carter, on his deathbed, made a plea for McCallum’s release finally turned the tide of justice. Trade Review"After you read this gripping tale of a Brooklyn teenager coerced into falsely confessing and freed nearly thirty years later, you will not think about confession evidence or criminal investigations the same way." Brandon L. Garrett, author of End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice and Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong"I was the judge who granted a writ of habeas corpus to Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter resulting in his freedom after serving nineteen years in prison for a wrongful conviction. After his release we became friends, and he often spoke of his commitment to obtain the release of David McCallum. Freeing David McCallum is the compelling true story of the exoneration of another man wrongly convicted. His miraculous release, after twenty-nine years, demonstrates that fortunately there are those among us who will devote themselves unsparingly to freeing the innocent." Judge H. Lee Sarokin, retired
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Experiment How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do
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Time Home Entertainment Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New
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Triumph Books Game Misconduct: Hockey's Toxic Culture and How
Book SynopsisA bracing call to arms for hockey fans, players, and coaches everywhere Those who have been lured by the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice, by the incomparable speed, split-second decisions, and everything-or-nothing attitude of the game know that hockey can seem like its own world. It's all-consuming and exhilarating, boasting its own language and complex morality code. Yet in another light, that tight community can turn insular; the values of teamwork and humility can manifest as collective silence in the face of abuse and discrimination, issues which have been brought to the forefront of the sport as many share their stories for the first time. In Game Misconduct, reporters Evan Moore and Jashvina Shah reveal hockey's toxic undercurrent which has permeated the sport throughout the junior, college, and professional levels. They address the topic with a level of passion that comes from being rabid hockey fans themselves, and from experiencing its exclusivity first-hand. With a sensitive yet incisive approach, this necessary book lays bare the issues of racism, homophobia, xenophobia, bullying, sexism, and violence on and off the ice. Readers will learn about notable players and activists fighting for transformation as well as those beyond the spotlight who are nonetheless deeply affected by hockey's culture of inaction.Both a reckoning and a roadmap, Game Misconduct is an essential read for modern hockey fans, showing the truth of the sport's past and present while offering the tools to fight for a better future.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about
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Triumph Books Game Misconduct: Hockey's Toxic Culture and How
Book SynopsisThose who have been lured by the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice, by the incomparable speed, split-second decisions, and everything-or-nothing attitude of the game know that hockey can seem like its own world. It's all-consuming and exhilarating, boasting its own language and complex morality code. Yet in another light, that tight community can turn insular; the values of teamwork and humility can manifest as collective silence in the face of abuse and discrimination, issues which have been brought to the forefront of the sport as many share their stories for the first time. In Game Misconduct, reporters Evan Moore and Jashvina Shah reveal hockey's toxic undercurrent which has permeated the sport throughout the junior, college, and professional levels. They address the topic with a level of passion that comes from being rabid hockey fans themselves, and from experiencing its exclusivity first-hand. With a sensitive yet incisive approach, this necessary book lays bare the issues of racism, homophobia, xenophobia, bullying, sexism, and violence on and off the ice. Readers will learn about notable players and activists fighting for transformation as well as those beyond the spotlight who are nonetheless deeply affected by hockey's culture of inaction. Both a reckoning and a roadmap, Game Misconduct is an essential read for modern hockey fans, showing the truth of the sport's past and present while offering the tools to fight for a better future.
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Chicago Review Press The Brown Bullet: Rajo Jack's Drive to Integrate
Book SynopsisThe powers-that-be in 1920s auto racing, namely the American Automobile Association’s Contest Board, barred everyone who wasn’t a white male from the sport. But Dewey Gatson, a black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, drove into the center of “outlaw” auto racing in California, refusing to let the pervasive racism of his day stop him from competing against entire fields of white drivers. In The Brown Bullet, journalist Bill Poehler uncovers the life of a long-forgotten trailblazer and the great lengths he took to even get on the track, showing ultimately how Rajo Jack proved to a generation that a black man could compete with some of the greatest white drivers of his era, winning some of the biggest races of the day.Trade Review"Poehler has done a fine job of researching the life of Rajo Jack, relating his determination and poise in the face of discrimination." - Library Journal"This excellent, very important book tells an inspirational tale." Hemmings
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Chicago Review Press Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets,
Book Synopsis"With unflinching honesty, E. Dolores Johnson shares an enthralling story of identity, independence, family, and love. This timely and beautifully written memoir ends on a complicated yet hopeful note, something we need in this time of racial strife." —De'Shawn Charles Winslow, author of In West Mills Say I’m Dead is the true story of family secrets, separation, courage, and transformation through five generations of interracial relationships. Fearful of prison time—or lynching—for violating Indiana’s antimiscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson’s Black father and White mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry in Buffalo, New York. When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots, she searched her father’s black genealogy. But in the process, Johnson suddenly realized that her mother’s whole white family was—and always had been—missing. When she began to pry, her mother’s 36-year-old secret spilled out.Her mother had simply vanished from Indiana, evading an FBI and police search that had ended with the conclusion that she had been the victim of foul play.Trade Review"Powerfully important and deeply moving, Say I'm Dead is a story of race, family, and identity. Dolores Johnson is the daughter of a black man and a white womanbut how and why it took her years to realize that, and to unearth the secrets that defined her family along the way, testifies to the complicated his-tory of race relations in America. Johnson lived the changes our country has gone through and continues to wrestle with, and her story will both inspire and educate." Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich , author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir" Say I'm Dead is not only a candid, compelling, and ultimately hopeful story of one woman's quest to understand her family and herself through the lens of identity, it is also the story of an American identity riddled with secrets, lies, grievance, and thinly veiled shame. In telling her own alternately painful and exhilarating history, E. Dolores Johnson is subtly asking us all to turn the mirror on ourselves." Christopher Castellani, author of Leading Men"Say I'm Dead is a beautiful and probing family history of a woman's deep secret: she left behind her White family in 1940s Indiana to marry a Black man in New York. Decades before the Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court case overturned anti-miscegenation laws, Ella and Charles affirmed Du Bois's prescient theory that the problem of the twentieth century was indeed the problem of the color line. Their mixed-race daughter lives on the color line, a Black woman who comes to question her White background. This compelling story with related themes of race, class, education, and history furthers the exigent discussions of biraciality in the United States." Dr. Donavan L. Ramon, Kentucky State University, author of Betraying Their Colored Descent: Psychoanalysis and Racial Passing"During the 1940s, it was better to disappear or die than break anti-miscegenation laws. When Dolores wants to search for her White mother's estranged family, 'Say I'm dead,' is what her mother tells Dolores to say should she find them. The prose is clear, sharp, and insightful, and the writer's quest to find the truth about her family is as gripping as any mystery. Through one family's story, the memoir explores the tragedy of how racism divides us and also how one family moves beyond fear and bias. A must-read memoir for readers interested in a daughter's courageous search for her history, which is inextricably intertwined with the story of race in America." âGrace Talusan, author of The Body Papers , winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing in Nonfiction"With unflinching honesty, E. Dolores Johnson shares an enthralling story of identity, independence, family, and love. This timely and beautifully written memoir ends on a complicated yet hopeful note, something we need in this time of racial strife." De'Shawn Charles Winslow, author of In West Mills"With protests since the killing of George Floyd pushing the issue of racial justice to the fore, this timely book tells a Buffalo story with powerful appeal." The Buffalo News" Say I'm Dead is a compelling tale about the legacy of racism in America, family and the power of love." WBUR's The ARTery
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Chicago Review Press Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying On a Montgomery
Book SynopsisIn 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the city’s famous bus boycott, a Negro man named Hilliard Brooks was shot and killed by a white police officer in a confrontation after he tried to board a city bus. Thomas Gray, who had played football with Hilliard when they were kids, was outraged by the unjustifiable shooting. Gray protested, eventually staging a major downtown march to register voters, and standing up to police brutality. Five years later, he led another protest, this time against unjust treatment on the city’s segregated buses. On the front lines of what became the Montgomery bus boycott, Gray withstood threats and bombings alongside his brother, Fred D. Gray, the young lawyer who represented Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the rarely mentioned Claudette Colvin, a plaintiff in the case that forced Alabama to desegregate its buses. An incredible story of family in the pivotal years of the civil rights movement, Daughter of the Boycott is the reflection of Thomas Gray’s daughter, award-winning broadcast journalist Karen Gray Houston, on how her father’s and uncle’s selfless actions changed the nation’s racial climate and opened doors for her and countless other African Americans.Trade Review"There are many narratives yet to come out of the galvanizing civil rights movement. Karen Gray Houston's tender and powerful memoir is one such story." -- Wil Haygood , author of The Butler: A Witness to History , Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America , In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. , Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson"Our home was targeted by Ku Klux Klan bombings three times because of our activism in the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. I was a young white pastor of an all-black Lutheran church. More than 60 years later, as you will find in Daughter of the Boycott the true story of that fight for racial justice is still unfolding. Long lost police records were recently discovered, including an appeal bond for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was charged with conspiracy for his participation on the boycott. (However, the actual evidence about the bombings had been destroyed.) Our family and friends purchased at an auction a note written by our dear friend Rosa Parks, detailing how she was awakened by the bombing and raced to our parsonage to be of assistance. For us, this Gray family memoir is personal, taking you on an amazing journey, introducing you to people who played important behind-the-scene roles, unearthing untold stories. Our family became lifelong friends of Karen Gray Houston's father and mother, Thomas and Juanita Gray, and Karen's uncle, attorney Fred Gray, both leaders in the boycott. All of us worked closely with Dr. King, who dreamed of a Beloved Community, where all people would accept and respect each other with love, regardless of the differences that divide us. The book speaks to real experiences of being black in America, reminding us of important past events that force the country to own up to its history." -- Robert S. Graetz Jr. , author of A White Preacher's Message on Race and Reconciliation"Thank you, Karen Gray Houston, for your insightful and inspiring visit with the true heroes of the civil rights movement: the ordinary citizens who stood up at great risk to bring the injustice of Jim Crow segregation to an end so that all Americans can go forward." Clarence Page , Pulitzer Prize--winning Chicago Tribune columnist" Daughter of the Boycott is more than a beautiful and moving memoir, it's an important work of history. With passion and insight, Karen Gray Houston tells an unforgettable story." Jonathan Eig , author of Ali: A Life and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season"Everything Karen Gray Houston accomplished as a journalist prepared her to tell this story in a truly authentic and masterful way, as no one else can tell it." A'Lelia Bundles , author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker"We do not have enough written words illustrating that the civil rights movement did not emerge from nowhere, and the strength of family and community that pushed it forward. Karen Gray Houston's Daughter of the Boycott teaches this. She is to be praised for doing so and admired for doing it so well." Charles E. Cobb Jr. , veteran of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and author of This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed"a welcome reminder that profound social changes can also result from the quiet heroism of people with unshakable commitment to nonviolence." Kirkus Reviews"The book speaks to real experiences of being black in America, reminding us of important past events that force the country to own up to its history." Robert S. Graetz Jr. , author of A White Preacher's Message on Race and Reconciliation
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Chicago Review Press Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets,
Book SynopsisFearful of prison time—or lynching—for violating Indiana’s anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry in Buffalo. Her mother simply vanished, evading an FBI and police search that ended with the declaration to her family that she was the victim of foul play, either dead or a victim of human trafficking. When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. As an African American, she withstood the advice of a high school counselor who said that blacks don’t go to college by graduating from Harvard. Then, as a code-switching business executive feeling too far from her black roots, she searched her father’s black genealogy. Johnson was amazed to suddenly realize that her mother's whole white side was—and always had been—missing. When confronted, her mother's decades-old secret spilled out. Despite her parents’ crippling and well-founded fears of rejection and reprisals, and her black militant brother’s accusation that she was a race traitor, Johnson went searching for the white family who did not know she existed. When she found them, it’s not just their shock and her mama’s shame that have to be overcome, but her own fraught experiences with whites.Table of ContentsPrologue 1 Code Switch 2 Dress Box 3 Lonely Only 4 My Whole Self 5 Details 6 A Train Ride 7 Black Girl 8 I Am Somebody 9 Searching 10 Deep South 11 A Lingering Smoky Odor 12 Too Through 13 Just Listen 14 The Visit 15 Indiana Chronicles 16 The Guard Tower 17 Shift 18 Europe 19 Belonging Everywhere 20 Flow On 21 Leaning into Brown Epilogue Acknowledgments Questions for Discussion
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Chicago Review Press Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the
Book SynopsisOvernight Code tells the story of Raye Montague, an ambitious little girl from segregated Little Rock who spent a lifetime educating herself, both inside and outside of the classroom, so that she could become the person and professional she aspired to be. Where some saw roadblocks, Montague only saw hurdles that needed to be overcome. Her mindset helped her become the first person to draft a Naval ship design by computer, using a program she worked late nights to debug. She did this as a single mother during the height of the Cold War, all the while imbuing her son with the hard-won wisdom she had accumulated throughout the years. Equal parts coming-of-age tale, civil rights history, and reflection on the power of education, Overnight Code is a tale about the persistence and perseverance required to forge the life of your dreams when the odds against you seem insurmountable, and shows how one woman refused to let other people’s prejudices stand in the way of her success.Table of ContentsForeword Part I: Jim Crow 1. Little Girl from Little Rock 2. The Submarine 3. Life in Pine Bluff 4. Aiming for the Stars Part II: A Capital Time 5. Exodus 6. Making Waves in the Navy 7. A Change Is Gonna Come 8. Impossible Tasks 9. Equal Opportunities 10. Love and Happiness Part III: Bringing It Full Circle 11. Another Direction 12. The Mentor 13. David 14. On the Shoulders of Giants 15. Retirement Epilogue Honors and Accolades Acknowledgments Notes
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University of Arkansas Press Just and Righteous Causes: Rabbi Ira Sanders and
Book SynopsisA dedicated advocate for social justice long before the term entered everyday usage, Rabbi Ira Sanders began striving against the Jim Crow system soon after he arrived in Little Rock from New York in 1926. Sanders, who led Little Rock’s Temple B’nai Israel for nearly forty years, was a trained social worker as well as a rabbi and his career as a dynamic religious and community leader in Little Rock spanned the traumas of the Great Depression, World War II and the Holocaust, and the social and racial struggles of the 1950s and 1960s.Just and Righteous Causes—a full biographical study of this bold social-activist rabbi—examines how Sanders expertly navigated the intersections of race, religion, and gender to advocate for a more just society. It joins a growing body of literature about the lives and histories of Southern rabbis, deftly balancing scholarly and narrative tones to provide a personal look into the complicated position of the Southern rabbi and the Jewish community throughout the political struggles of the twentieth-century South.Trade ReviewIn this highly readable and well-researched biography of Ira Sanders, James L. Moses depicts the major contributions made by a hitherto unsung hero of the long civil rights movement. Starting as a young man, but spiraling after witnessing a horrific lynching in 1926, Sanders launched a crusade against segregation highlighted by his stand before the Arkansas legislature against four segregationist laws, his outspoken position during the Little Rock High School crisis, and his commitment to integrated housing. Although his experiences with numerous other social justice reforms established him in his community, as with other Reform rabbis in the South who spoke out, his experience began earlier than most, and the Little Rock environment proved to be generally more moderate than in numerous other southern cities. This book places Sanders in context within his community and relation to the activities—or lack thereof—of other rabbis. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Little Rock, Arkansas, and southern history, the civil rights movement, and southern and American Jewish history." —Mark K. Bauman, editor, Southern Jewish History"An important new biography by James L. Moses, Just and Righteous Causes: Rabbi Ira Sanders and the Fight for Social Justice in Arkansas, meticulously chronicles Sanders’ significant, if largely till now unheralded, role in Southern Jewish history." —Tablet Magazine, January 2019"Historians of Arkansas, civil rights and American Judaism will find Just and Righteous Causes an indispensable addition to the literature." —Melanie K. Welch, Arkansas Review, August 2019"Just and Righteous Causes serves as an accessible and well researched biography of an important Arkansan. … will appeal to casual readers and interested experts alike, even as it adds an important chapter to the histories of Little Rock, southern Jews, and the civil rights movement." —Josh Parshall, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Summer 2019"With Just and Righteous Causes: Rabbi Ira Sanders and the Fight for Racial and Social Justice in Arkansas, 1926–1963, James L. Moses makes a welcome contribution to the study of mid-twentieth-century southern rabbis who walked a tightrope between discharging their duties as spiritual leaders and responding to wider social justice concerns." —Mary Stanton, The Journal of Southern History, November 2019"Just and Righteous Causes is an excellent look into the life of one of the South’s most prominent social justice and civil rights activists of the twentieth century. It successfully provides the casual reader, as well as scholars, with a valuable resource that helps shed light on not only Sanders’s life but the period as well." —Seth A. Weitz, The Journal of American History, March 2020
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Sounds True Inc Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the
Book Synopsis"Racism is a heart disease," writes Ruth King, "and it's curable." Exploring a crucial topic seldom addressed in meditation instruction, this revered teacher takes to her pen to shine a compassionate, provocative, and practical light into a deeply neglected and world-changing domain profoundly relevant to all of us. With Mindful of Race, Ruth King offers: Tend first to our suffering, listen to what it is trying to teach us, and direct its energies most effectively for change. Here, she invites us to explore: Ourselves as racial beings, the dynamics of oppression, and our role in racism • The power of paying homage to our most turbulent emotions, and perceiving the wisdom they hold • Key mindfulness tools to understand and engage with racial tension • Identifying our "soft spots" of fear and vulnerability—how we defend them and how to heal them • Embracing discomfort, which is a core competency for transformation • How our thoughts and emotions "rigidify" our sense of self—and how to return to the natural flow of who we are • Body, breath, and relaxation practices to befriend and direct our inner resources • Identifying our most sensitive "activation points" and tending to them with caring awareness • "It’s not just your pain"—the generational constellations of racial rage and ignorance and how to work with them • And many other compelling topics Drawing on her expertise as a meditation teacher and diversity consultant, King helps readers of all backgrounds examine with fresh eyes the complexity of racial identity and the dynamics of oppression. She offers guided instructions on how to work with our own role in the story of race and shows us how to cultivate a culture of care to come to a place of greater clarity and compassion.
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Sourcebooks Me and White Supremacy: A Guided Journal: The
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Sourcebooks Me and White Supremacy Book and Guided Journal
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Baraka Books Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico
Book SynopsisIshmael Reed has devoted his life to uncovering the neglected cultural and historical record of the United States, no matter how ugly it might be. He uses a full-court press: fiction, poetry, plays, songs, films, interviews, essays, and more. With Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico, Reed is at his best: insightful, hard-hitting, eclectic, refreshing, caustic, entertaining, informative, and, yes, funny. The War of Rebellion still divides the United States. President Trump, and millions of southerners wish to maintain monuments to generals like Robert E. Lee. Yet those who actually fought under them ran away by the thousands. Some rebel generals, whom the famous pro-confederate propaganda film “Gone With The Wind” referred to as “Knights,” earned their massacre bona fides by murdering thousands of blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans, who were often unarmed. The “Knight” Robert E. Lee fought children during the Battle of Buena Vista in 1847. The children, Los niños heroes (pictured on the cover), refused to surrender and were slaughtered. The subjects addressed in this book of essays are vast. They include white nationalism, Donald Trump, Quentin Tarantino and Django, the musical Hamilton, Ferguson, Missouri, Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones, a different take on #metoo, the one-at-a-time tokenism of an elite, who chooses winners and losers among minority artists, the Alt-Right, the use of immigrants to shame black America, and much more. After The Complete Muhammad Ali, recognized by many as the “truly definitive book” on the champion, Ishmael Reed is back with another exciting book of essays that will stir up debate in the United States and abroad.Trade ReviewIshmael Reed is the purest literary troublemaker we currently have... a book that is arresting... always-bracing and readable." —Jeff Simon, Buffalo News"One of 12 top books of 2019: Ishmael Reed builds on the theme of resisting white supremacy through the power of multi-racial coalitions with pugilistic essays that pull no punches.... His essay "White Nationalism's Last Stand" is so hopeful that it's worth the price of the ticket alone." —Michael Berry and D. Scot Miller, East Bay Express"Since the mid-twentieth century, Ishmael Reed has been deep, abrasive, and didactic, an iconoclastic champion of what is "good" and a formidable critic of what is "bad" in domestic and transnational affairs. Reed is a fighter, a battered but undefeated fighter. Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico is a compelling record of his place in literary histories and moral struggles. It is a feast one consumes with grains of pepper and salt." —Jerry W Ward, Jr, New World Review
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Page Two Books, Inc. Rising: From a Mud Hut to the Boardroom - and
Book SynopsisAn identity that spans the globe. In this astonishing memoir, Graci Harkema revisits her experience growing up as an adoptee from the Congo in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She traces her path to claiming and living her own story, becoming a successful consultant on diversity, equity and inclusion, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, and women in business. Born amid civil unrest in a mud hut in the Congo and weighing a mere three pounds, Harkema was left at an orphanage, where she was not expected to live another day. But that afternoon, a visiting American missionary saw her sleeping in a doll's bed and heard a voice inside her say, "This is your daughter." Her childhood was spent wishing to be lighter and blonder, like her siblings and classmates. Out of fear of standing out even more from her peers, Harkema kept her sexuality a secret, only coming out of the closet years later-during a job interview! Eventually, she learned to see her identity as her superpower, instead of her shame. Today, Harkema helps embrace diversity and drive inclusion to ensure open and safe work environments. She is committed to empowering employees to perform to their potential as their authentic selves-setting an example as she continues to live her own story, journeying to meet her birth mother, to discover one more piece of herself.
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