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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Gender Equality: The Time Has Come
Book SynopsisCorinna Lim is the Institute of Policy Studies' 8th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of her three IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered in April and May 2021, and includes highlights of her question-and-answer segments with our virtual audience.Ms Lim examines the most pressing concerns facing women in Singapore, contributing her insights to the national gender equality review. She analyses why gender equality in the workplace and home has not advanced more despite Singapore's promising start in the 1960s with the introduction of the Women's Charter and gender-neutral education. She looks at what Singapore should do to accelerate gender equality, and tackles the issues of masculine norms that are harmful, support for family caregiving, and comprehensive sex education in Singapore.The IPS-Nathan Lecture series was launched in 2014 as part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for the Study of Singapore. It seeks to advance public understanding and discussion of issues of critical national interest for Singapore.
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. Liquid Handcuffs
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New Harbinger Publications The Pain We Carry Workbook
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University Press of Mississippi Wading In
Book SynopsisDetailing the buildup of Back-of-Town businesses, lynchings in the early 1900s, and national and state legislation repressing Black progress, author Amy Lemco contextualizes the regional atmosphere Dr Gilbert Mason - a resilient civic leader, humanitarian, and lover of the water - and his family encountered in 1955.Trade ReviewThe courageous witness of Dr. Mason and those who worked with him deserves to be more widely known, and Lemco tells the story well." - Joseph Reiff, author of Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Mississippi’s Closed Society
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Scribe Publications All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the
Book SynopsisThe world’s Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia, and the United States, the Indigenous experience in colonised nations is startlingly similar and deeply disturbing. It is an experience marked by the violent separation of Peoples from the land, the separation of families, and the separation of individuals from traditional ways of life — all of which has culminated in a spiritual separation that has had an enduring impact on generations of Indigenous children. As a result of this colonial legacy, too many communities today lack access to the basic determinants of health — income, employment, education, a safe environment, health services — leading to a mental health and youth suicide crisis on a global scale. But, Talaga reminds us, First Peoples also share a history of resistance, resilience, and civil rights activism, from the Occupation of Alcatraz led by the Indians of All Tribes, to the Northern Ontario Stirland Lake Quiet Riot, to the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which united Indigenous Nations from across Turtle Island in solidarity. All Our Relations is a powerful call for action, justice, and a better, more equitable world for all Indigenous Peoples.Trade Review‘Talaga’s treatment and explanation of Indigenous people’s trauma is essential reading.’ -- Rosaleen McDonagh * The Irish Times *‘Tanya Talaga has written an urgent, passionate book, which is about the legacies of colonialism in the most naked, raw sense … Talaga writes with a sense of urgency as one who knows the story from the inside.’ -- Patrick Wright * Five Books *‘An essential work of non-fiction … Through storytelling, on-the-ground reporting, literature surveys, and plenty of statistics, Talaga demonstrates the extent to which Indigenous children continue to live under the full weight of colonial history … All children, she writes, ‘need to know who their ancestors are, who their heroes and villains are.’ In All Our Relations, Talaga restores that basic right to Indigenous children who have been robbed of it. And the rest of us, as an epigraph from author Thomas King makes clear, no longer have the excuse of saying we haven’t heard this story. Talaga alone has told it twice now.’ * Quill & Quire *‘All Our Relations is an impeccably researched and unflinching documentation of how both colonial histories and ongoing genocidal practices have created the suicide crisis among Indigenous youth across the globe. Tanya Talaga expertly folds together interviews, storytelling, and statistics to bring us directly to the startling truth that Indigenous youth are fighting to find themselves through the multiple separations forced on them by settler states: separation of parents from children, separation of peoples from their land, and separation of tongues and hearts from their languages and traditions. All Our Relations is a call to action and a testament to the strength and tenacity of Indigenous people around the world.’ * 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury Citation *‘Talaga's passion for the topic is palpable as she shares eye-opening stories and heartbreaking statistics ... Thoughtful and thought-provoking.’ * Parvati Magazine *‘This book is both moving and effective; it creates the space for readers to understand the complexity of these issues … An excellent read.’ * Ottawa Review of Books *‘While drawing on academic studies, All Our Relations is a burning missive about what is happening now, on the ground, and what needs to be done to make for safe and healthy indigenous communities.’ -- Fiona Capp * The Age *‘A heartbreaking book … [Tanya Talaga’s] writing style is clear and easy to read, and she has a way of telling the reader what they need to know about policy and history by telling stories about people and communities, who are at the heart of this book.’ -- Ranuka Tandan * Hon Soit *Praise for Seven Fallen Feathers: ‘Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising … The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.’ STARRED REVIEW * Publishers Weekly *Praise for Seven Fallen Feathers: ‘An urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by Indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario, far from their homes and families … Talaga’s incisive research and breathtaking storytelling could bring this community one step closer to the healing it deserves.’ STARRED REVIEW * Booklist *Praise for Seven Fallen Feathers: ‘Seven Fallen Feathers is achingly blunt in confronting recurring damage that must be repaired. The book puts a human face to the headline statistics, reveals the continuing harm of unequal educational opportunity, and delivers the evidence of systemic racism in Canada with an insistent voice. Tanya Talaga draws the reader into communities of hurt and flawed responses surrounding the deaths of seven Indigenous students, the ‘fallen feathers.’ Talaga yanks at the reader’s complacency with her story of separated families, untethered youths, and the seemingly unbridgeable distance between cultures. She offers painful lessons while courting hope.’ * BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction Jury Citation *
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MIT Press Inclusion on Purpose An Intersectional Approach
Book SynopsisHow organizations can foster diversity, equity, and inclusion: taking action to address and prevent workplace bias while centering women of color.Few would disagree that inclusion is both the right thing to do and good for business. Then why are we so terrible at it? If we believe in the morality and the profitability of including people of diverse and underestimated backgrounds in the workplace, why don’t we do it? Because, explains Ruchika Tulshyan in this eye-opening book, we don’t realize that inclusion takes awareness, intention, and regular practice. Inclusion doesn’t just happen; we have to work at it. Tulshyan presents inclusion best practices, showing how leaders and organizations can meaningfully promote inclusion and diversity. Tulshyan centers the workplace experience of women of color, who are subject to both gender and racial bias. It is at the intersection of gender and race, she shows, that we discover the kind of incl
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MIT Press Ltd Let Geography Die
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Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd There's Something in the Water: Environmental
Book SynopsisIn “There’s Something In The Water”, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance activities by Indigenous and Black communities against the pollution and poisoning of their communities. Using settler colonialism as the overarching theory, Waldron unpacks how environmental racism operates as a mechanism of erasure enabled by the intersecting dynamics of white supremacy, power, state-sanctioned racial violence, neoliberalism and racial capitalism in white settler societies. By and large, the environmental justice narrative in Nova Scotia fails to make race explicit, obscuring it within discussions on class, and this type of strategic inadvertence mutes the specificity of Mi’kmaq and African Nova Scotian experiences with racism and environmental hazards in Nova Scotia. By redefining the parameters of critique around the environmental justice narrative and movement in Nova Scotia and Canada, Waldron opens a space for a more critical dialogue on how environmental racism manifests itself within this intersectional context. Waldron also illustrates the ways in which the effects of environmental racism are compounded by other forms of oppression to further dehumanize and harm communities already dealing with pre-existing vulnerabilities, such as long-standing social and economic inequality. Finally, Waldron documents the long history of struggle, resistance, and mobilizing in Indigenous and Black communities to address environmental racism.Table of ContentsCONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Preface; The Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities & Community Health Project; A History of Violence: Indigenous & Black Conquest, Dispossession & Genocide in Settler Colonial Nations; Re-Thinking Waste: Mapping Racial Geographies of Violence on the Colonial Landscape; Not in My Backyard: The Politics of Race, Place & Waste in Nova Scotia; Sacrificial Lives: How Environmental Racism Gets Under the Skin; Narratives of Resistance, Mobilizing & Activism in the Fight Against Environmental Racism in Nova Scotia; Conclusion: The Road Up Ahead; Appendices; References; Index
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University of California Press Stolen Wealth Hidden Power
Book SynopsisA meticulous and exhaustive accounting of the total economic devastation wreaked on Black communities by mass incarceration with an action guide for vital reparations. Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power is a staggering account of the destruction wrought by mass incarceration. Finding that the economic value of the damages to Black individuals, families, and communities totals $7.16 trillionroughly 86 percent of the current BlackWhite wealth gapthis compelling and exhaustive analysis puts unprecedented empirical heft behind an urgent call for reparations. Much of the damage of mass incarceration, Tasseli McKay finds, has been silently absorbed by families and communities of the incarceratedwhere it is often compensated for by women's invisible labor. Four decades of state-sponsored violence have destroyed the health, economic potential, and political power of Black Americans across generations. Grounded in principles of transitional justice that have guided other nations in moving past erTrade Review"An eloquent and impressively detailed argument for repairing a grave injustice." * Publishers Weekly *"The case for reparations is not about guilt or blame but a shared morality about justice for the sins and harms the US inflicted through government actions, including enslavement, redlining, eminent domain, and racial discrimination. McKay makes a convincing case." * CHOICE *"A phenomenal read for those in privilege and those in peril." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Disremembered and Unaccounted For 2. “Institutionalized”: The Hyperregulation of Childhood Challenges 3. “More than a Shell”: Perpetual Imprisonment 4. “I Always Put the Burden on Her Shoulders”:The Invisible Weight of Mass Incarceration 5. “They Needed Me There”: The Mass Removal of Parents 6. “Systematic Deconstruction”: The Collective Effects of Mass Incarceration 7. Dreaming an America beyond Mass Incarceration Appendix: Research Methods Notes Bibliography Index
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Princeton University Press The Imperative of Integration
Book SynopsisMore than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American president. Some would aTrade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Joseph B. Gittler Award, The American Philosophical Association One of Choice's Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates for 2010-2011 "[A] real tour de force of philosophical argumentation utilizing social science data."--Brian Leiter, Leiter Reports blog "[T]his book is an impressive addition to the growing literature in so-called 'non-ideal' political theory, which as Anderson herself notes, begins 'from a diagnosis of injustices in our actual world, rather than from a picture of an ideal world.'"--Andrew Peirce, Philosophy in Review "There are social, academic and economic benefits to integration--the evidence for which is so powerfully represented in Elizabeth Andreson's award-winning book, The Imperative of Integration."--Jonathan Jansen, The TimesTable of ContentsPreface ix Chapter One: Segregation and Social Inequality 1 Chapter Two: Racial Segregation and Material Inequality in the United States 23 Chapter Three: Segregation, Racial Stigma, and Discrimination 44 Chapter Four: Racial Segregation Today: A Normative Assessment 67 Chapter Five: Democratic Ideals and Segregation 89 Chapter Six: The Imperative of Integration 112 Chapter Seven: Understanding Affirmative Action 135 Chapter Eight: The Folly and Incoherence of Color Blindness 155 Chapter Nine: The Ordeal and Promise of Integration 180 Notes 193 Index 239
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Princeton University Press Racism
Book SynopsisAre antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth century see institutionalized racism in its most extreme forms? Why are egalitarian societies particuTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003 "In Racism: A Short History, written in ... [Fredrickson's] characteristically crisp, clear prose, he draws both on a wide range of recent work by others and on nearly half a century of his own writings on immigration, race and nationalism, in the United States and elsewhere, to provide us with a masterly--though not uncontroversial--synthesis... The book is worth reading just for its pathbreaking attempt to tell the stories of anti-Semitism and white supremacy together, while insisting both on their inter-connections and their differences."--Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Times Book Review "Fredrickson deftly combines intellectual with social and political history to explain the emergence of racism and its recent decline. Learned and elegant."--William H. McNeill, The New York Review of Books "Fredrickson [stands] out from a number of distinguished collegues [because of] his continuing urge to widen the comparative framework he uses to try to understand why these relations have developed as they did. Racism: A Short History is his most drastic venture to date--a brisk positioning of Southern racial domination within world history as a whole."--John Dunn, Times Literary Supplement "An erudite comparison of racism and anti-Semitism throughout Western history... Fredrickson offers a scholarly but compelling and accessible narrative."--Publishers Weekly "Fredrickson's book should be celebrated. The chief reason is the text itself. One of only a handful of attempts to cover Western attitudes towards race comprehensively, Fredrickson's Racism is by far the most concise and lucid. It is also the most balanced... [W]hat ultimately makes Fredrickson's book so valuable is its original vision of the major racisms--its view of them as belonging to a coherent historical narrative... Reviewers often apply the term 'path-breaking' to works that simply trim back a few errant branches. But Fredrickson's book really is path-breaking."--Paul Reitter, The Nation "In this incisive and thoughtful essay on the nature and historical trajectory of racism in the modern world, Fredrickson's magisterial command of his subject is on display as he provides a concise overview of racism's rise, climax, and retreat."--Choice "Racism, in short, comes with a history, and it is to scrutinize racism's history and reasoning that Fredrickson decided to write this brisk, intense, incisive probe of the concept and its implications. The result is the best, most erudite introduction to racism available."--Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer "Racism: A Short History is a tour de force within this genre. Richly footnoted and elegantly written, the book is a model of clarity and sophisticated analysis."--Milton Shain, KleioTable of ContentsFOREWORD TO THE PRINCETON CLASSICS EDITION ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii INTRODUCTION 1 ONE Religion and the Invention of Racism 15 TWO The Rise of Modern Racism(s): White Supremacy and Antisemitism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 49 THREE Climax and Retreat: Racism in the Twentieth Century 97 EPILOGUE Racism at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century 139 APPENDIX The Concept of Racism in Historical Discourse 151 NOTES 171 INDEX 193
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Princeton University Press Discriminatory Clubs
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
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Pluto Press WorkingClass Queers
Book SynopsisHighlights the entanglement of British class and sexuality, in a society saturated by the rhetoric of diversityTrade Review'A much needed and timely deep forensic dive into the underrepresentation of working class queers within our queer structures and concepts' -- Juno Roche, writer'This work holds rich and deep insights into lived experience, the power lines of learning within institutions, how people act on and transform each other in community. Yvette’s book opens doors and transforms fault lines. It will be beneficial to thinkers, feelers and doers for years to come.' -- Sarah Schulman, author of 'Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021)'Building on more than two decades of care-ful, engaged research with classed LGBT+ communities, Working-Class Queers makes major intellectual and ethical contributions to queer feminist methods. This book is a must-read for thinkers asking about the how of queer and lesbian studies, not least in that it reflects intimate methods of sharing negotiated by a scholar working in troubled and hopeful times alike.' -- Matt Brim, Professor of queer studies at the College of Staten Island, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Fighting for the Queer Left 2. Un-Doing Queer-Class Data 3. Queer Life in the Pandemic 4. Queer Provincialisms in (Post)Brexit Britain 5. Queers and Austerity 6. Queer Anachronisms: Working-Class Lesbians out of Time and Place 7. Towards a Queer Working-Class Reading List
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Pluto Press The Violence of Britishness
Book SynopsisExplores how 'Britishness' functions as a tool of violent racial borderingTrade Review'Nadya Ali’s book shows how the very idea of Britishness brings with it a racial hierarchy of belonging. Tracing the connections between various policy areas normally discussed in isolation – the hostile environment, Prevent, and citizenship deprivation – the book is a devastating account of how British life is shaped by colonialisms, old and new.' -- Arun Kundnani, author of 'The Muslims are Coming!' (Verso Books, 2014)'A groundbreaking book detailing how counterterrorism and immigration policy intersect to pressure Muslims and communities of colour to change their behaviour or risk being labelled 'extremists’ and ‘terrorists’. The book not only contributes to awareness of the ideologies and mechanics of racialised state violence but will provide students, scholars, and communities with the tools to challenge and resist state violence in multiple ways. A must read.' -- Dr. Rizwaan Sabir, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Liverpool John Moores University and author of 'The Suspect' (Pluto Press, 2022)'How is it that in a society that eschews racism as a toxic remnant of the past, and that adopts explicitly non-racial policies, people of colour and Muslims especially are repeatedly rejected as belonging to Britain? In this sharp analysis of the intersection between counter terrorism and immigration, Nadya Ali shows how any answer must incorporate the structuring role of our colonial past.' -- Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography, University of Sussex'In a moment when Britain seems to be in self-inflicted freefall, this work reminds us of the violence and cruelty involved in the demarcation of Britishness. Ali helps us to trace the connections between strands of state violence in order to persuade us that our only hope is an anti-racism that pushes back against all of these interlinked dehumanisations.' -- Gargi Bhattacharyya, author of 'Dangerous Brown Men' and co-author of 'Empire's Endgame''An excellent contribution to our understanding of the politics around who counts as sufficiently 'British', revealing a sustained and steadily tightening constriction of Muslim communities.' -- 'Renewal'Table of ContentsIntroduction: Undeserving citizens 1. The invitation 2. Domesticating Muslims 3. Conditional citizenship 4. The hostile environment 5. Hierarchies of citizenship in white Britain Concluding thoughts: The diminishing wages of whiteness
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University of Minnesota Press The White Possessive
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Aileen Moreton-Robinson brilliantly shows how systematically identifying whiteness with possession and dispossession deserves foregrounding in Indigenous studies."—David Roediger, University of Kansas, author of Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All"The White Possessive showcases the unique intellectual contribution of Aileen Moreton-Robinson, both within Australia and internationally. Prising apart concepts of race, ethnicity, and cultural difference, her book makes visible and accountable to patriarchal white subject of possession that subtends them."—The International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies"Moreton-Robinson provides her readers with an indispensable theoretical analysis with which they can (re)think the way in which the possessive logics of whiteness structure racialised populations, particularly Indigenous subjects, experiences of (non)belonging and displacement in contemporary settler colonial life."—Sociology"Most of the essays in the volume are on Australian Indigenous issues, but have relevance globally. This book provides many thought-provoking insights that could help bridge divides between scholars of indigeneity and those of whiteness."—Tribal College Journal"Moreton-Robinson provides important conceptual tools to think through how we interpret and contest settler sovereignty today and into the future."—AntipodeTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: White Possession and Indigenous Sovereignty MattersPart I. Owning Property1. I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a Postcolonizing Society2. The House That Jack Built: Britishness and White Possession3. Bodies That Matter on the Beach4. Writing Off Treaties: Possession in the U.S. Critical Whiteness LiteraturePart II. Becoming Propertyless5. Nullifying Native Title: A Possessive Investment in Whiteness6. The High Court and the Yorta Yorta Decision7. Leesa’s Story: White Possession in the Workplace8. The Legacy of Cook’s ChoicePart III. Being Property9. Toward a New Research Agenda: Foucault, Whiteness, and Sovereignty10. Writing Off Sovereignty: The Discourse of Security and Patriarchal White Sovereignty11. Imagining the Good Indigenous Citizen: Race War and the Pathology of White Sovereignty12. Virtuous Racial States: White Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesAfterwordNotesPublication HistoryIndex
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Bristol University Press Responding to Hate Crime
Book SynopsisBridging the gap between research and policy, this book provides new perspectives on the nature of hate crime victimisation and perpetration.Trade Review“At a time of heightened focus on `hate crimes’, renowned experts Chakraborti and Garland bring together an international array of commentators to make a persuasive case for restorative approaches to hate crime. The strength of this edited collection is found in the synergy between scholarship and policy.” Professor Carolyn Hoyle, University of Oxford“Neil Chakraborti and Jon Garland are to be congratulated for bringing together this exceptionally important, comprehensive and stimulating collection of essays exploring the hate crime scholarship-policy nexus. Responding to Hate Crime is a text of remarkable range and sophistication; it is both timely and forward-thinking. The tragic consequences of prejudice and bigotry are sadly all too familiar to all of us, but the small `signs of progress’ noted by the editors are in no small part due to their own pioneering work in this field.” Yvonne Jewkes, Professor of Criminology, University of LeicesterTable of ContentsIntroduction and Overview ~ Neil Chakraborti; Part One: Working Together: Developing Shared Perspectives; The adventures of an accidental academic in `policy-land’: a personal reflection on bridging academia, policing and government in a hate crime context ~ Nathan Hall; Academia from a practitioner’s perspective: a reflection on the changes in the relationship between academia, policing and government in a hate crime context ~ Paul Giannasi; Reshaping hate crime policy and practice: lessons from a grassroots campaign ~ an interview with Sylvia Lancaster, founder of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation; Not getting away with it: linking sex work and hate crime in Merseyside ~ Rosie Campbell; Evidencing the case for hate crime ~ Joanna Perry; Part Two: Researching Key Issues: Emerging Themes and Challenges; Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities to shape hate crime policy ~ Marian Duggan; Using a `layers of influence’ model to understand the interaction of research, policy and practice in relation to disablist hate crime ~ Chih Hoong Sin; Responding to the needs of victims of Islamophobia ~ Irene Zempi; Controlling the new far right on the streets: policing the English Defence League in policy and praxis ~ James Treadwell; Developing themes on young people, everyday multiculturalism and hate crime ~ Stevie-Jade Hardy; Hate crime against students: recent developments in research, policy and practice ~ Lucy Michael; We need to talk about women: examining the place of gender in hate crime policy ~ Hannah Mason-Bish; Part Three: Challenging Prejudice: Combating Hate Offending; Courage in the Face of Hate: a curricular resource for confronting anti-LGBTQ violence ~ Barbara Perry and D. Ryan Dyck; Policing prejudice motivated crime: a research case study ~ Gail Mason, Jude McCulloch and JaneMaree Maher; Policing hate against Gypsies and Travellers: dealing with the dark side ~ Zoë James; Understanding how 'hate' hurts: a case study of working with offenders and potential offenders ~ Paul Iganski, with Karen Ainsworth, Laura Geraghty, Spyridoula Lagou, and Nafysa Patel; Restorative approaches to working with hate crime offenders ~ Mark Austin Walters; Conclusions ~ Jon Garland.
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Stanford University Press Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and
Book SynopsisNearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality. As in many global cities, those who hold Western passports share specific advantages: prestigious careers, high salaries, and comfortable homes and lifestyles. With this book, Amélie Le Renard explores how race, gender and class backgrounds shape experiences of privilege, and investigates the processes that lead to the formation of Westerners as a social group. Westernness is more than a passport; it is also an identity that requires emotional and bodily labor. And as they work, hook up, parent, and hire domestic help, Westerners chase Dubai's promise of socioeconomic elevation for the few. Through an ethnography informed by postcolonial and feminist theory, Le Renard reveals the diverse experiences and trajectories of white and non-white, male and female Westerners to understand the shifting and contingent nature of Westernness—and also its deep connection to whiteness and heteronormativity. Western Privilege offers a singular look at the lived reality of structural racism in cities of the global South.Trade Review"Western Privilege is a must-read for those interested in race and racialization anywhere. 'Western' and 'white' remain unmarked, static categories in most postcolonial scholarship. In this excellent ethnography, Amélie Le Renard shows ushow these structuring categories are both integral to Gulf social hierarchies and have an enduring global influence."—Neha Vora, Lafayette College"Western Privilege provides a fascinating analysis of Dubai as a hub city of postcolonial globalization. Amélie Le Renard skillfully weaves together consideration of a complex range of issues, such as intersectionality and heteronormativity, to bring new insights to scholars of Arab studies and all who work on globalization and migration."—Pauline Leonard, University of Southampton"Amélie Le Renard's portrait of professional workers in Dubai not only provides an intimate rendering of the workings of privilege, but shows why understanding it must foreground race (particularly whiteness), gender, and sexuality. Western Privilege is a rare intersectional analysis of privilege that is both empirically and theoretically rich."—Shamus R. Khan, Princeton University"Western Privilegecontributes to a discussion about Western hegemony by showing how Westernness and whiteness organise social life in a non-Western context. Moreover, the use of a postcolonial feminist approach allows the author to provide insights into how Westernness is conditioned and shaped by gender, race and class. Besides its scholarly contributions, the book will hopefully prompt those who self-identify as Westerners in the Middle Eastern context to critically examine their own contributions to the social order in question."—Dr Liina Mustonen, London School of Economics Review of Books"Recommended."—S. Waalkes, CHOICE"I applaud Le Renard for a rich and thorough investigation of class, gender, nationality, and race."—Jörg Matthias Determann, Review of Middle East Studies"Western Privilege provides a compelling analysis that speaks to multiple disciplines and regions in the world. It is highly recommended."—Yuting Wang, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Construction of Skills 2. Structural Advantages in the Job Market 3. Performing Stereotypical Westernness 4. The Heteronormativity of "Guest Families" 5. Relations with Domestic Employees 6. Hedonistic Lifestyles 7. Western Privilege and White Privilege Conclusion
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University of Minnesota Press The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the
Book SynopsisLocates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism Seb Franklin sets out a media theory of racial capitalism to examine digitality’s racial-capitalist foundations. The Digitally Disposed shows how the promises of boundless connection, flexibility, and prosperity that are often associated with digital technologies are grounded in racialized histories of dispossession and exploitation. Reading archival and published material from the cybernetic sciences alongside nineteenth-century accounts of intellectual labor, twentieth-century sociometric experiments, and a range of literary and visual works, The Digitally Disposed locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism.Franklin makes the groundbreaking argument that capital’s apparently spontaneous synthesis of so-called free individuals into productive circuits represents an “informatics of value.” On the one hand, understanding value as an informatic relation helps to explain why capital was able to graft so seamlessly with digitality at a moment in which it required more granular and distributed control over labor—the moment that is often glossed as the age of logistics. On the other hand, because the informatics of value sort populations into positions of higher and lower capacity, value, and status, understanding their relationship to digitality requires that we see the digital as racialized and gendered in pervasive ways.Ultimately, The Digitally Disposed questions the universalizing assumptions that are maintained, remade, and intensified by today’s dominant digital technologies. Vital and far-reaching, The Digitally Disposed reshapes such fundamental concepts as cybernetics, informatics, and digitality.Trade Review"Drawing beautifully on Black, Indigenous, postcolonial, and anti-racist feminist cultural theory, Seb Franklin offers a bold and rigorous critique of the social and epistemological processes of dispossession and abjection undergirding the informatics of value. This is a significant and powerful intervention, demonstrating the intimate intertwining of digitality and value—two linked modes of abstraction that shape social forms of free, self-possessed personhood only through the enactment of racialized and gendered forms of disposal. Through brilliant readings of the works of Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Samuel Delany, Sondra Perry, and Charles Babbage and extensive original archival research in the history of cybernetics, Franklin carefully tracks and restores what both information theory and dominant digital culture, in their fantasies of pure transmission and frictionless connection, depend on yet disavow: that is, the historical and present material violence of slavery, dispossession, unwaged reproduction, and superfluous populations at the heart of racial capitalism. An indispensable work, a model of critically engaged, synthetic scholarship, and an urgent reminder that ‘other ways of being free’ persist in forging connectivity beyond the informatics of value."—Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Barnard College, Columbia University"Why has digital culture perpetuated new forms of racial and gender inequality despite early hopes that it would make users more equal? Seb Franklin’s lucid readings of information theory and its affinities with the history of slavery and dispossession show the reader how informatics emerges historically through racial-capitalist dynamics. This book is a major contribution to the study of race, gender, and capacity as the foundation upon which the digital stands. Elegant, important, and compelling."—Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan"There's a brilliant moment—one of many—in Seb Franklin's new book, that turns the cyberlibertarian term 'digital native' inside out. . . . The Digitally Disposed's close readings, at once minute and expansive, demonstrate the deep and insidious connections between cybernetics, racial capitalism, and digital culture."—Media History"The Digitally Disposed establishes itself as critical reading and inspiration for the digital present, highlighting the continued need for anti-racist and anti-capitalist scholarship capable of rethinking the forms of knowledge and relation that connect our world."—Radical Philosophy"Through discriminating, situated readings, Franklin teases out how a logic of 'digitality' and 'disposal' takes shape at the sidelines of science and capitalism... These readings resonate with a larger strength of the book, Franklin’s knack for identifying overlooked fragments from a scientific career... [and] elicits from these works clues of still largely neglected economic and racial histories shaping digital infrastructures today."—Critical InquiryTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Forms of DisposalPart I. The Informatics of Value1. Things Communicated: Messages, Persons, Goods2. Reliable Circuits, Unreliable Components: How Capital Connects3. The Informatics of Dispossession4. Differentiation as Regulation5. Two Models: Samuel R. Delany’s NeveryónaPart II. Media Histories of Disposal6. Human Use, or The Digital-Liberal Person7. Elemental Space: Coloniality and Flexibility8. Deplorable Alternatives: “Mechanical Slaves” and Upgradable Labor9. The Digital Atlantic: Sondra Perry’s Typhoon coming on10. Redundant Life: Intellectual Workers and Street Nuisances11. Anatomizing “Freedom”: Carceral Digitality12. The Cybernetics of Capacity: R.S. Hunt’s “Two Kinds of Work”Coda: The Human SurgeAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Rutgers University Press The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway
Book SynopsisBroadway musicals are one of America’s most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often thought to be just frothy entertainment, really have to say about our country and who we are as a nation? Now in a new second edition, The Great White Way is the first book to reveal the racial politics, content, and subtexts that have haunted musicals for almost one hundred years from Show Boat (1927) to Hamilton (2015). This revised edition includes a new introduction and conclusion, updated chapters, as well as a brand-new chapter that looks at the blockbuster musicals The Book of Mormon and Hamilton. Musicals mirror their time periods and reflect the political and social issues of their day. Warren Hoffman investigates the thematic content of the Broadway musical and considers how musicals work on a structural level, allowing them to simultaneously present and hide their racial agendas in plain view of their audiences. While the musical is informed by the cultural contributions of African Americans and Jewish immigrants, Hoffman argues that ultimately the history of the American musical is the history of white identity in the United States. Presented chronologically, The Great White Way shows how perceptions of race altered over time and how musicals dealt with those changes. Hoffman focuses first on shows leading up to and comprising the Golden Age of Broadway (1927–1960s), then turns his attention to the revivals and nostalgic vehicles that defined the final quarter of the twentieth century. He offers entirely new and surprising takes on shows from the American musical canon—Show Boat (1927), Oklahoma! (1943), Annie Get Your Gun (1946), The Music Man (1957), West Side Story (1957), A Chorus Line (1975), and 42nd Street (1980), among others. In addition to a new chapter on Hamilton and The Book of Mormon, this revised edition brings The Great White Way fully into the twenty-first century with an examination of jukebox musicals and the role of off-Broadway and regional theaters in the development of the American musical. New archival research on the creators who produced and wrote these shows, including Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, and Edward Kleban, will have theater fans and scholars rethinking forever how they view this popular American entertainment. Trade Review“From Show Boat to Hamilton, from Oklahoma! to The Book of Mormon, Warren Hoffman provides an engaging and insightful analysis of how race has shaped 20th and 21st-century musical theatre. His perceptive and persuasive readings foreground normative whiteness and underline how every musical is “about” race. Required reading for the musical theatre student and aficionado alike.” -- Stacy Wolf * author of Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical *“Warren Hoffman’s new edition of The Great White Way remains as provocative, smart, challenging and entertaining as the original publication. Hoffman’s book is, in some sense, like a Broadway musical itself — surprising in its many and varied elements, opinions, defenses and prosecutions. The role of race in the history of Broadway has, I’m sure, never been more thoroughly or more judiciously explored. And it’s a terrific read.” -- Jack Viertel * author of The Secret Life of the American Musical *"Warren Hoffman delivers a comprehensive and robust examination of the American musical as a purveyor of white identity and privilege. Easy to read and adept at elucidating the complexities of race in performance, The Great White Way is straightforward and unapologetic. Within it, Hoffman contextualizes the racial disparities embedded in the art form and acknowledges the musical’s powerful and irresistible place in the public imagination. This book belongs on the shelf of any theater maker or scholar who seeks to decolonize sites of theater production and pedagogy." -- Rena M. Heinrich * University of Southern California *"This revised edition brings The Great White Way fully into the twenty-first century with an examination of jukebox musicals and the role of off-Broadway and regional theaters in the development of the American musical." * Broadway World *"There have been musicals produced on Broadway that have had subject matter that reflect diversity but it is Hoffman’s analysis that Broadway has yet to fully embrace diversity or taking risks. It seems that the non-profit theatre companies are more likely to take such risks. Hoffman’s analysis is worth pondering." * Mark Kappel Dance *"As ‘West Side Story’ returns to Broadway, it has a lot to say about race in America," by Warren Hoffman https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/20/west-side-story-returns-broadway-it-has-lot-say-about-race-america/ * Washington Post *"MAXAMOO BOOK CLUB: THE GREAT WHITE WAY – RACE AND THE BROADWAY MUSICAL" podcast interview with Warren Hoffman http://www.maxamoo.com/podcast/maxamoo-book-club-the-great-white-way-race-and-the-broadway-musical/ * Maxamoo Book Club podcast *Broadway Radio interview with Warren Hoffman * Broadway Radio *"The Lost Origins of Broadway's West Side Story," an excerpt from The Great White Way https://therevealer.org/the-lost-origins-of-broadways-west-side-story/ * The Revealer *"White Supremacy and the Broadway Musical" by Warren Hoffman https://medium.com/@whoffman18/white-supremacy-and-the-broadway-musical-a44ebd1b0f08 * Medium *"You've Got To Be Carefully Taught" BBC 2 interview with Warren Hoffman * BBC 2 - "You've Got To Be Carefully Taught" *Table of ContentsContents Preface to the Second Edition Overture: All Singin’! All Dancin’! All White People? Act One: 1927–1957 1 Only Make Believe: Performing Race in Show Boat 2 Playing Cowboys and Indians: Forging Whiteness in Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun 3 Trouble in New York City: The Racial Politics of West Side Story and The Music Man Act Two: 1967–2019 4 Carbon Copies: Black and Interracial Productions of White Musicals 5 A Chorus Line: The Benetton of Broadway Musicals 6 Everything Old Is New Again: Nostalgia and the Broadway Musical at the End of the Twentieth Century 7 Blockbuster Musicals in the Age of Obama: The Book of Mormon and Hamilton Exit Music Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Permissions Index
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Rutgers University Press Undocuasians
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Oxford University Press Inc Rules to Win By Power and Participation in Union
Book SynopsisRules to Win By: Participation and Power in Union Negotiations is a book for anyone who wants to understand how to build the power required to effectively challenge and reverse income inequality and attacks on democracy. Drawing insights from recent hard-won unionization and contract negotiation fights, Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor use lessons from some of the toughest fights today--preparing a durable, all-out strike in a union-hostile environment--to provide a masterclass in participatory social change, indispensable both within and beyond the workplaces where we spend half of our waking lives.In an era of polarization, big lies, and massive legislative setbacks, changemakers in every arena need to learn the skills and lessons honed in pitched battles against experienced and ruthless union busters. Rules to Win By is a book for workers, unionists, racial justice and climate campaigners, academics, policymakers and everyone who wants a more fair and democratic society.Trade ReviewNegotiation should be a process of creative aggression, not technocratic dealmaking that fractures class consciousness. McAlevey and Lawlor persuasively showhow democratized and disciplined mass participation creates the power in confrontation required to win—for unionists and for all movements for justice. Here we can see abolition as life in rehearsal. * Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author, Abolition Geography *At a time when union demand is higher than it's been in almost a century, Rules to Win By is required reading. This book is armor for the generation of workers poised to gain power world-wide for the working class. * Sara Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO *McAlevey and Lawlor eloquently detail the approach to negotiations rooted in the practice of the pace-setting national union known as District 1199 over eighty years ago. We adhere to the same approach today as we did in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Read this book to understand why and how building fighting worker organizations will serve as the foundation for 21st century movements for racial, economic, and gender justice. * Rob Baril, President, 1199NE (SEIU) *As McAlevey and Lawlor convincingly and movingly show, the way for unions to win big is by engaging in open and democratic negotiations. But the wisdom in these pages is universal and applies well beyond organized labor. Whatever cause you are fighting for, let this brilliant book be your guide. * Astra Taylor, co-founder of the Debt Collective and author of Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone *Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals. * Choice *Table of ContentsCharts, Figures and Tables Introduction: Negotiations as Democracy Building Chapter One: Twenty Key Elements of High Participation Negotiations Chapter Two: Legal Rope-a-Dope (PASNAP) Chapter Three: A Punch in the Face (NJEA) Chapter Four: A Flood of First Contracts (NewsGuild-CWA) Chapter Five: Radical Roots (MNA) Chapter Six: The New Boss in Town (UNITE HERE Local 26) Chapter Seven: Hollow Applause Conclusion: Participation in Negotiations Helps Build Governing Power Appendices References & Interviews Acknowledgements
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Princeton University Press The Gilded Cage
Book SynopsisHow China’s economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects of lifeSince the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of socioeconomic development centered on science and technology. Ya-Wen Lei traces the contours of this techno-developmental regime and its resulting form of techno-state capitalism, telling the stories of those whose lives have been transformed—for better and worse—by China’s rapid rise to economic and technological dominance.Drawing on groundbreaking fieldwork and a wealth of in-depth interviews with managers, business owners, workers, software engineers, and local government officials, Lei describes the vastly unequal values assigned to economic sectors deemed “high-end” versus “low-end,” and the massive expansion of tech
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Harvard University Press Making Monsters
Book SynopsisIt is tempting to believe that dehumanization is an excess of rhetoric—that no one thinks his foe is truly monstrous. David Livingstone Smith argues otherwise, showing that when we dehumanize our enemies, we consider them both human and not. Dehumanization is a genuine psychological response to political manipulation, with harrowing consequences.Trade ReviewNo one is doing better work on the psychology of dehumanization than David Livingstone Smith, and he brings to bear an impressive depth and breadth of knowledge in psychology, philosophy, history, and anthropology. Making Monsters is a landmark achievement which will frame all future work on the psychology of dehumanization. -- Eric Schwitzgebel, author of A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical MisadventuresA fascinating and rich book that combines philosophical and historical sophistication. Even—indeed especially—those who disagree markedly with Smith’s views about dehumanization, like me, will benefit from wrestling with his lucid, important arguments. -- Kate Manne, author of Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts WomenMaking Monsters is a wonderful book in so many ways. It is thoughtful, scholarly, and accessible, comprehensive and compelling—a tremendous accomplishment that will enrich our understanding of some of the darker part of our human condition. -- Lori Gruen, author of Entangled EmpathyMaking Monsters is a historically informed and theoretically rich exploration of how and why we dehumanize one another. Scientifically sophisticated and interdisciplinary in scope, Smith’s vivid use of examples transforms his book from a valuable scholarly treatise into an urgent and timely manifesto. -- Charlotte Witt, author of The Metaphysics of GenderIf you’ve ever wondered “How could they?” David Livingstone Smith’s brilliant Making Monsters will help you understand the callous brutality of race crimes and the psychology of dehumanization. With a steady hand, Smith leads us through a wide swath of the worst of human crimes and distills into his own insightful account the research explaining the social and psychological mechanisms that enable ordinary people to do monstrous deeds. This illuminating book is a major contribution to the urgent project of understanding the psychology of dehumanization in the hope of preventing future atrocities. -- Lynne Tirrell, University of ConnecticutIlluminating…It is cutting insights…along with thoughtful speculations on how dehumanization is nurtured—through racism, ideology, and the power of hierarchical structures—that makes this such an invaluable study, particularly at this time. -- Bill Marx * Arts Fuse *In this book, David Livingstone Smith’s concern is how human beings can come to conceive of other human beings ‘as subhuman creatures’—a phenomenon that is not limited to a single culture or a specific, isolated historical period…A very worthwhile read. -- Linda Roland Danil * Human Rights Quarterly *
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Princeton University Press The Loud Minority
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American Publishers""Though grounded in statistical analysis, the book is clear and readable, and it succeeds, by and large, in offering a theory and empirical analysis of how activism and the outcomes of elections are related. Pushing back against skepticism about the efficacy and purpose of protest, The Loud Minority makes an often impassioned case for viewing activism, social movements, and protest as essential elements of democratic life rather than irregular disruptions of it."---Eric Pineda, Nation
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Harvard University Press The Fateful Triangle Race Ethnicity Nation
Book SynopsisGiven the current political conditions, these lectures on race, ethnicity, and nation, delivered by Stuart Hall almost a quarter of a century ago, may be even more timely today.Angela Y. DavisIn this defining statement one of the founding figures of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, often deadly consequences of our contemporary politics of race and identity. As he untangles the power relations that permeate categories of race, ethnicity, and nationhood, Stuart Hall shows how old hierarchies of human identity were forcefully broken apart when oppressed groups introduced new meanings to the representation of difference. Hall challenges us to find more sustainable ways of living with difference, redefining nation, race, and identity. Stuart Hall bracingly confronts the persistence of raceand its confounding liberal surrogates, ethnicity and nationThis is a profoundly humane work thatfinds room for hope and change.Orlando PattersonStuart Hall's written words were ardent, discerning, recondite, and provocative, his spoken voice lyrical, euphonious, passionate, at times rhapsodic and he changed the way an entire generation of critics and commentators debated issues of race and cultural difference.Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Essential reading for those seeking to understand Hall's tremendous impact on scholars, artists, and filmmakers on both sides of the Atlantic.ArtforumTrade ReviewStuart Hall’s written words were ardent, discerning, recondite, and provocative, his spoken voice lyrical, euphonious, passionate, at times rhapsodic and he changed the way an entire generation of critics and commentators debated issues of race and cultural difference. To keep up with him, you had to be curious and nimble. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Promises to be essential reading for those seeking to understand Hall’s tremendous impact on scholars, artists, and filmmakers on both sides of the Atlantic. -- Glenn Ligon * Artforum *Hall’s main argument rests on the notion that the greatest problem of the 21st century is living with and understanding differences…The Fateful Triangle makes me recall the need to constantly question, interrogate and dismantle how we understand hierarchies of difference and identity; and how the position of outsiders is always part of a larger political question. -- Kalwant Bhopal * Times Higher Education *In this long awaited work, Stuart Hall, the invisibly Jamaican co-founder of British cultural studies, powerfully interrogates what is, simultaneously, the central dilemma of transatlantic black cultures and one of the most acute paradoxes of modern times. He bracingly confronts the persistence of race—and its confounding liberal surrogates, ethnicity and nation—as a marker of identification, a fervently embraced ‘sliding signifier’ among blacks and other formerly subaltern peoples, in spite of its scientific invalidation and horrendous past. This is a profoundly humane work that not only integrates African-American and Anglo-Caribbean cultural studies, but finds room for hope and change in the discursive nature of their subject. -- Orlando PattersonThese lectures are a vital contribution to Stuart Hall’s enduring vocation to find a critical voice which is, in equal measure, just and generous, reflective and transformative. Marked by struggle and sobriety, this important work makes a significant contribution to a vision of community and an ethics of solidarity. -- Homi K. BhabhaGiven the current political conditions, these lectures on race, ethnicity, and nation, delivered by Stuart Hall almost a quarter of a century ago, may be even more timely today. He has left us a vital legacy of intellectual passion, analytical rigor, and political prescience that should be heeded, especially now, by progressive scholars and activists. -- Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
Book SynopsisDr Josh Ryan-Collins is senior economist at the New Economics Foundation, where he has been based since 2006. He leads a research programme at NEF focusing on monetary and financial reform and the economics of land and housing and has published widely across these areas. Josh is the lead author of Where Does Money Come From?, a comprehensive guide to the workings of the modern monetary system, which is used as a textbook to teach banking and finance courses at universities in the UK and United States. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Southampton and is visiting research fellow at Southampton Business School and City University's Political Economy Research Centre in London.Toby Lloyd is head of housing development at Shelter, the UK's largest housing charity, where he was previously head of policy. He has worked on housing issues across the public, private and voluntary sectors for over twelve years, advising ministers, mayors, businesses and communities. His proposal for a new Garden City won the runner-up award in the Wolfson Economics Prize 2014.Laurie Macfarlane is an economist at the New Economics Foundation, working on land and financial reform issues. He was previously head of economic analysis at the Water Industry Commission for Scotland and also spent one year working in the markets and economics division at Ofwat. Laurie has written on land and housing reform for the progressive Scottish think tank Common Weal. He has a first class degree in economics from the University of Strathclyde.The New Economics Foundation is the only people-powered think tank. It works to build a new economy where people really take control.Trade ReviewA very welcome analysis.' * Greenhouse think tank *This is an admirable book. It provides a powerful critique of the UK’s failed policies towards land and housing and it sets out an ambitious but credible set of alternatives which merit serious debate.' * LSE Review of Books *The book that did the most to alter my perception of the world. * Bloomberg - Must-reads of 2017 *A lucid exposition of the dysfunctional British housing market. * Financial Times - Best Books of 2017 *Extremely useful * Institute of Place Management - Best Books of 2017 *The most important book I read this year. * Times Higher Education - Best Books of 2017 *Housing and land play a central role in modern economies , but most mainstream economic theory simply ignores land's special character - with grave consequences for its ability to explain the real world. By contrast, this important book analyses the subject with excellent clarity. Read it and you will understand the crucial underlying drivers of rising debt, increasing inequality and financial crises. * Adair Turner, chairman of the Institute of New Economic Thinking *A lucid and convincing explanation of why a free-market approach to the land problem makes little sense; why the state needs to intervene; and of the wide range of policy options available. Economics is evolving and this crucial book is a key part of its transformation. * Danny Dorling, author of All That Is Solid: How the Great Housing Disaster Defines Our Times, and What We Can Do About It *Land policy is the missing issue in any discussion on planning, development and the property market. This book is therefore long overdue. It returns land to its central role in both economic theory and in built environment discourses. * Duncan Bowie, author of Radical Solutions to the Housing Supply Crisis *This book takes a fresh and comprehensive look at the problems created by a failure to consider the role of land in the economy of the UK. It proposes a wide range of solutions which policymakers should consider. * Kate Barker, author of the Barker Review of UK Housing Supply *This excellent book on the economic role of land is both thorough and comprehensive. I am convinced that it will quickly become an important reference for the general public and for economists, and hopefully also for policymakers. * Michael Kumhof, senior research advisor, Bank of England *A comprehensive survey of the role of land in the economy and its neglect in economics, as well as a profile of how ownership of this essential requirement for life has become unattainable for the majority of young Britons, thanks to the march of finance and the compliance of Parliament. * Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics *Table of ContentsForeword by John Muellbauer 1. Introduction 2. Land Ownership and Property 3. The Missing Factor: Land in Production and Distribution 4. Land for Housing: Land Economics in the Modern Era 5. The Financialisation of Land and Housing 6. Land, Wealth and Inequality 7. Putting Land Back into Economics and Policy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Why Not Capitalism
Book SynopsisMost people believe capitalism is a compromise with selfish human nature. As Adam Smith put it, It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. Capitalism works better than socialism, according to this thinking, only because we are not kind and generous enough to make socialism work. If we were saints, we would be socialists.In Why Not Capitalism?, Jason Brennan attacks this widely held belief, arguing that capitalism would remain the best system even if we were morally perfect. Even then, private property and free markets would be the best way to realize mutual cooperation, social justice, harmony, and prosperity. Socialists seek to capture the moral high ground by showing that ideal socialism is morally superior to realistic capitalism. But, Brennan responds, ideal capitalism is superior to ideal socialism, and so capitalism beats socialism at every level.Clearly,
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University of Nebraska Press Terrorizing Gender
Book Synopsis2020 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association The increased visibility of transgender people in mainstream media, exemplified by Time magazine’s declaration that 2014 marked a “transgender tipping point,” was widely believed to signal a civil rights breakthrough for trans communities in the United States. In Terrorizing Gender Mia Fischer challenges this narrative of progress, bringing together transgender, queer, critical race, legal, surveillance, and media studies to analyze the cases of Chelsea Manning, CeCe McDonald, and Monica Jones. Tracing how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of these trans women, Fischer exposes the traps of visibility by illustrating that dominant representations of trans people as deceptive, deviant, and threatening are integral to justifying, normalizing, and reinforcing the state-sanctioned violence enacted against them. The heightenedTrade Review“Fischer’s novel approach . . . yields utterly compelling analytical results and promises to make a lasting contribution to work on the racialized surveillance practices of the state by accenting its gendered aspects.”—Rachel Hall, Women’s Studies in Communication“Terrorizing Gender is an incendiary contribution to media studies and transgender studies. With brilliant rigor, Fischer shows how recent U.S. transgender visibility has occasioned a revival of narratives presenting trans people as deviant and threatening. . . . The result, as Fischer masterfully illustrates, is an extremely limited public trans visibility, premised on replicating white supremacy and violent policing of those trans people who do not or will not comply with state regulation. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in transgender politics and media.”—Aren Z. Aizura, assistant professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Minnesota, and author of Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment“Mia Fischer’s Terrorizing Gender valuably unsettles normative assumptions and reveals precarious implications of the vaunted transgender ‘tipping point.’. . . Terrorizing Gender’s compelling necropolitical critique floodlights the conditions and obfuscations of trans precarity, and its closing call to embody Tourmaline’s politics of ‘nobodiness’ offers a promising glimpse of visibility’s queer future.”—Charles E. Morris III, professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University and coeditor of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking“Methodologically innovative and theoretically sophisticated, this brave book exposes how transgender people in the United States are increasingly subject to state-sanctioned violence and surveillance practices. . . . This book will occupy a central place on my shelf as it bridges the fields of surveillance, trans, and media studies, and critical race and feminist theory. I can’t wait to teach it.”—Shoshana Magnet, associate professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa“An essential resource for students of queer and trans media, and more broadly media studies students seeking to understand the relationship between representation and lived experiences. . . . The substantiation in Terrorizing Gender of the many ways in which (hyper)visibility in the media reproduces and reinforces the state’s regulation of trans lives is a timely and valuable addition to the existing trans, queer, and feminist media scholarship on visibility and will assuredly inform the future of these fields.”—Ash Kinney d’Harcourt, Feminist Media Studies"Terrorizing Gender ultimately asks media scholars to move beyond reductive debates over “good” and “bad” representation, instead pointing to the more insidious ways in which visibility as a directive both obscures more entrenched struggles in marginalized communities as well as contributes directly to increased political violence toward those who are most at risk."—Erique Zhang, International Journal of Communication“Reveal[s] a set of interlocking and coordinated harms, psychic and physical, that course through individual and group actors, mass media representations, and the state.”—Jeanie Austin, RGWS: A Feminist ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: A Transgender Tipping Point? 1. Pathologizing and Prosecuting a (Gender) Traitor 2. Transpatriotism and Iterations of Empire 3. Blind(ing) (In)justice and the Disposability of Black Life 4. Materializing Hashtag Activism and the #FreeCeCe Campaign 5. Sex Work, Securitainment, and the Transgender Terrorist Coda: The Perils of Transgender Visibility Notes Bibliography Index
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Cornerstone Biased
Book Synopsis'Jennifer Eberhardt makes it clear that racism operates at all levels, and it fills me with hope to know that she is fighting it at all levels. More power to you, sister. The world needs you.' BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH'Poignant... striking... important and illuminating.' NEW YORK TIMES______________________No matter how fair-minded we think we are, we still don't treat people equally.Why not?Every day, unconscious biases affect our visual perception, attention, memory and behaviour in ways that are subtle and very difficult to recognise without in-depth scientific studies. In a single interaction, they might slip by unnoticed. Over thousands of interactions, they become a huge and powerful force.Jennifer Eberhardt is a pioneering social psychologist one of the world's leading experts on unconscious bias. In this landmark book, she lays out how these biases affect every sector of society, leading to enormous disparities from the classroom to the courtroom to the boardroom.But unconscious bias is not a sin to be condemned. It's a universal human condition, and as Eberhardt shows, one that can - and must - be overcome.______________________'A critically important book.' DAVID OLUSOGA, author of Black and British'Groundbreaking... essential reading for anyone interested in how we become a more just society.' BRYAN STEVENSON, author of Just Mercy'This book should be required reading for everyone.' ROBIN DIANGELO, author of White Fragility'Jennifer Eberhardt's ground-breaking work has the power to shift the debate and help shape a fairer society.' DAVID LAMMY MP'Jennifer Eberhardt gives us the opportunity to talk about race in new ways, ultimately transforming our thinking about ourselves and the world we want to create.' MICHELLE ALEXANDER, author of The New Jim Crow'An illuminating and readable account of how racial stereotypes and assumptions can cause social devastation and keep huge inequalities in place.' DR PRIYAMVADA GOPAL, University of Cambridge'Read this book. Biased will enlighten your journey through race relations and associations.' DAWN BUTLER MPTrade ReviewThis book is deep. Deep because Jennifer Eberhardt digs right down to the lowermost areas of mindsets, customs and attitudes. She does so logically, thoroughly, and comprehensively, in a way that I really believe has never been done before. It is very rarely that you can call something highly intellectual, deeply personal, and beautifully accessible at the same time. This book is rational, honest, depressing but inspiring. Jennifer Eberhardt makes it clear that racism operates at all levels, and it fills me with hope to know that she is fighting it at all levels. More power to you, sister. The world needs you. -- Benjamin ZephaniahJennifer Eberhardt's work is essential to helping us understand racial inequalities in our country and around the world. Her groundbreaking research and deep insight makes it possible for individuals and communities to face our deeply-rooted human biases with greater compassion and courage. We avoid talking about race for fear it will divide us, but avoidance inevitably leads us to repeat past mistakes and create conditions in which old wounds fester rather than heal. Eberhardt gives us the opportunity to talk about race in new ways, ultimately transforming our thinking about ourselves and the world we want to create. -- Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowJennifer Eberhardt is one of the great thinkers and one of the great voices of our time. Everything she writes transforms the way people see things. Every talk she gives changes people’s lives. There is nobody like her. She has unique insights into contemporary society and a unique ability to evoke images, emotions, and understandings that people will never forget. I believe her book will change the conversation on race in our society – and perhaps our society itself. -- Carol Dweck, author of MindsetIn the next decade there is a chance to make unprecedented progress in confronting America's history of racial inequality which has created a society where racial bias remains one of the most challenging problems our nation faces. The hope for progress is greatly increased by Jennifer Eberhardt's groundbreaking new book on implicit bias. Biased presents the science of bias with rare insight and accessibility, but it is also a work with the power and craft to make us see why overcoming racial bias is so critical. Jennifer Eberhardt is one America's preeminent social psychologists and her book will be essential reading for anyone interested in how we become a more just society.An illuminating and readable account of how racial stereotypes and assumptions can cause social devastation and keep huge inequalities in place. It seeks to show how things can change for the better if we are honest and embrace a degree of discomfort about understanding how race works in reality. -- Dr Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge
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HarperCollins Publishers The Matter of Black Lives Writing from The New
Book SynopsisA collection of the New Yorkers groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and moreFrom the pages of the New Yorker comes a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America, with astonishing early work from Rebecca West's account of a lynching trial and James Baldwin's Letter from a Region in My Mind' (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time) to more recent writing by Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith, Hilton Als, Jamaica Kincaid, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Alexander, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Doreen St. Félix, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kelefa Sanneh, and more.Reaching back across the last century, The Matter of Black Lives includes a wide array of material from the New Yorker archives ranging across essays, reported pieces, profiles, criticism, and historical pieces. This book addresses everything from the arts to civil rights, matters of justice, and politics, and brings uTrade Review Praise for The Matter of Black Lives ‘An essential volume for readers interested in the Black past and present, as all readers should be’ – Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise for The Fragile Earth ‘A must-read’ Daily Beast ‘Immersive and engaging . . . Reading three decades of essays on this important and urgent topic, one is appalled that we know so much and have repeatedly done so little with that knowledge, as well as simultaneously hopeful and skeptical that technological solutions can save us now’ Library Journal ‘Illuminating and powerful . . . a memorable book with a resounding message’ Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The End of Anger
Book Synopsis“A tremendously important book—gracefully done, painfully perceptive…fearless in its honesty.”—Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities“The most authoritative accounting I’ve seen of where our country stands in its unending quest to resolve the racial dilemma on which it was founded.”—Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Carry Me Home“The End of Anger may be the defining work on America’s new racial dynamics.”—Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties UnionEllis Cose is a venerated voice on American life. With The End of Anger, he offers readers a sharp and insightful contemporary look at the decline of black rage, the demise of white guilt, and the intergenerational shifts in how blacks and whites view and interact with each other. A new generation’s take on race and rage, The End of Anger may be the most important book dealing with race to be published in the last several decades.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Progressively Worse
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Penguin Books Ltd Plutocrats
Book SynopsisChrystia Freeland is the managing editor and director of consumer news at Thompson Reuters, following years of service at the Financial Times both in New York and London. She was the deputy editor of Canada's The Globe and Mail and has reported for the Financial Times, The Economist, and The Washington Post. Freeland is also the author of Sale of a Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution. She lives in New York City.blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland@cafreeland
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Oxford University Press Inc Unmuted Conversations on Prejudice Oppression and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword Unmuting Philosophic Voices in Our Time Cornel West Introduction A Revolution of Ideas Notes on Contributors Section 1: Politics and Society 1. Meena Krishnamurthy on Political Distrust 2. Denise James on Political Illusions 3. Lori Gruen on Prisons 4. Jose Mendoza on Immigration 5. Wendy Salkin on Informal Political Representation Section 2: Language, Knowledge, and Power 6. Rachel Ann McKinney on Police and Language 7. Cassie Herbert on Risky Speech 8. Luvell Anderson on Slurs and Racial Humor 9. Jason Stanley on Speech, Satire, and Public Philosophy 10. Winston Thompson on Educational Justice Section 3: Social Groups and Activism 11. Serene Khader on Cross-Border Feminist Solidarity 12. Joel Michael Reynolds on Disability 13. Elizabeth Barnes on The Minority Body 14. Douglas Ficek on Frantz Fanon and Black Lives Matter 15. Rachel V. McKinnon on Allies and Active Bystanders 16. Kyle Whyte on Indigenous Resilience & Environmental Change 17. Andrea Pitts on Feminist Indigenous Resistance to Neoliberalism Section 4: Race and Economics 18. David Livingstone Smith on Dehumanization 19. Linda Alcoff on The Future of Whiteness 20. Chike Jeffers on Black Political Thought 21. Larry Blum on Teaching Race 22. Tommie Shelby on Dark Ghettos 23. David McClean on Money and Materialism 24. Vanessa Wills on Marxism and Today Section 5: Gender, Sex, and Love 25. Nancy Bauer on Pornography 26. John Corvino on Homosexuality 27. Tom Digby on the Problem of Masculinity 28. Justin Clardy on Love and Relationships Section 6: Emotions and Art in Public Life 29. Paul C. Taylor on Black Aesthetics 30. Amir Jaima on the Power of Literature 31. Adrienne Martin on Hope Conclusion Say What? A Glossary of Terms Acknowledgments
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Oxford University Press Exponential Inequalities Equality Law in Times of
Book SynopsisThis thoughtfully edited volume explores the operation of equality and discrimination law in times of crisis. It aims to understand how existing inequalities are exacerbated in crises and whether equality law has the tools to understand and address this contingency. Experience during the COVID-19 crisis shows that the pandemic has acted as a catalyst for ''exponential inequalities'' related to racism, xenophobia, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ageism, and ableism. Yet, the field of equality law (which is meant to be addressing such discrimination or inequality) has had little immediate relevance in mitigating these exponential inequalities. This is despite the fact that countries like the UK have a rather recent and state-of-the-art legislation in the field, namely the Equality Act 2010. Exponential Inequalities offers readers an understanding of how these inequalities came to be and how crises such as the global pandemic, the climate emergency, or the economic downturn, can exacerbate an already untenable situation. It illuminates both the structural and the conceptual, as well as the practical and doctrinal difficulties currently experienced in equality law, and discusses whether or not equality law even has the tools to both understand and then address this contingency. Written by a team of internationally recognized experts, Exponential Inequalities provides a comparative perspective on the functioning of equality laws across a range of contexts and jurisdictions and represents an essential read for scholars and policy makers alike.Trade ReviewIt is an informative and meaningful read for students, scholars and policy makers who are seeking to address inequalities. * Shaid Parveen, Associate Dean for Enterprise and External Engagement and Senior Teaching Fellow, Aston University. *Table of ContentsDavid B. Oppenheimer: Foreword 1: Shreya Atrey and Sandra Fredman: Introduction - Exponential Inequalities: What Can Equality Law Do? I. UNDERSTANDING EXPONENTIAL INEQUALITIES 2: Aleta Sprague, Amy Raub, and Jody Heymann: Protecting Workers' Equal Rights During Crisis and Recovery: Constitutional Approaches in 193 Countries 3: Diane Elson and Marion Sharples: Addressing Intersecting Inequalities Through Alternative Economic Strategies 4: Aaron Reeves, Kate Andersen, Mary Reader, and Rosalie Warnock: Social Security, Exponential Inequalities, and COVID-19: How Welfare Reform in the UK Left Larger Families Exposed to the Scarring Effects of the Pandemic 5: Meghan Campbell: The Proportionality of an Economic Crisis 6: Kelley Loper: Intersecting Crises and Exponential Inequalities: The View from Hong Kong II. ADDRESSING EXPONENTIAL INEQUALITIES Section A: Comparative and International Law 7: Colm O'Cinneide: New Directions Needed: Exponential Inequalities and the Limits of Equality Law 8: Mark Bell: More than an Afterthought? Equality Law in Ireland During the Pandemic 9: Jessica A Clarke: A Public Policy Approach to Inequality 10: Beth Gaze: Responding to Exponential Inequalities in Australia: Beyond the Limits of Equality and Discrimination Law 11: Helena Alviar García: The Interaction of Laws Enabling Gender Equality with Other Legal Regimes: Limiting Progress in Times of Crisis 12: Catherine O'Regan: Equal Access to Vaccines: Exposing the Limits of International Human Rights Law? Section B: Vulnerable Groups 13: Alysia Blackham: A Life Course Approach to Addressing Exponential Inequalities: Age, Gender, and COVID-19 14: Anna Lawson and Lisa Waddington: Disability in Times of Emergency: Exponential Inequality and the Role of Reasonable Accommodation Duties 15: Jule Mulder: Remote Working, Working from Home and EU Sex-Discrimination Law 16: Marta Machado and Taís Penteado: COVID-19 and Exponential Reproductive Rights-related Inequalities in Brazil 17: Aparna Chandra: A Life of Contradictions: Group Inequality and Socio-Economic Rights in the Indian Constitution 18: Victoria Miyandazi: An Equality-Sensitive Approach to Delivering Socio-Economic Rights During Crises: A Focus on Kenya 19: Catherine Albertyn: The Role of Equality Law in Expanding Access to Social Goods and Services in South Africa: Lessons after the Pandemic
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Oxford University Press Inc Social Work and the Grand Challenge to Eliminate
Book SynopsisThis text offers a compendium of knowledge and perspectives from leading researchers dedicated to examining various forms of racism and their distinctions and impact on racial groups. Each chapter promotes both evidence and practice-based research that cultivates improvements in the daily lives of people affected by racism. The text also advocates for the facilitation of systemic change on the individual, organizational, community, and greater societal levels. With this advocacy perspective, the authors aim to advance community empowerment and advocacy to address and eliminate both racism and white supremacy. The authors identify the link between racism and social determinants of both physical/mental health and social well-being aiming to foster development of an anti-racist social work framework that promotes access to resources and opportunities that encompass transdisciplinary collaboration among the workforce. From a historical perspective, the book also examines the link between hTrade ReviewFinally, a textbook for the social work profession that dares to challenge the unyielding stain of American racism and its many attributes. The text provides readers with multiple historical references and perspectives about race and racism in our society. Research cited within the text supports that disparities exist in every institutional system due to policies, practices, and attitudes that are deeply rooted in long-held biases and beliefs about race. The authors explain the role that the social work profession must engage in to become an antiracist profession in bending the arc of justice towards equality and equity for all. * Mildred "Mit" C. Joyner, DPS, MSW, LCSW, National Association of Social Workers President *Drs. Teasley, Spencer, and Bartholomew are thought leaders in social work and theology on race, racism, and oppression. They have done an excellent job in providing a comprehensive overview of race, racism, and oppression within the social work profession. The authors draw from history, theoretical concepts, and frameworks to enhance the reader's knowledge of race, racism, and race relations in social work. The book explores how structural racism and white supremacy intersect and impact the other 12 Grand Challenges for Social Work. The writings in this book support classroom learning and interventions and makes an important contribution to the social work profession. * James Herbert Williams, PhD, Arizona Centennial Professor of Social Welfare Services, School of Social Work, Arizona State University *Although systemic racism is undoubtedly at the core of the social problems reflected in each of the twelve 'original' grand challenges, the move to include 'Eliminate racism' as a separate and explicit Grand Challenge is to be applauded. That said, the task is monumental. This book provides invaluable direction and serves as a resounding and well-informed call to action for the social work profession to make significant progress on what has been a dark stain on this country. * Darla Spence Coffee, PhD, MSW, Former President and CEO of the Council on Social Work Education *Table of ContentsIntroduction Section I History, Racism, & Social Work Education Chapter 1 The Meaning and Function of Race & Racism: A Conceptual Understanding Chapter 2 Antiracism Social Work: History and the Challenge Ahead Chapter 3 Using Personal-Professional Narratives as a Technique for Teaching Chapter 4 Eradicating Racism: Social Work's Most Pressing Grand Challenge. Section II Racism and Individual and Family Wellbeing Chapter 5 Ending Racism: A Critical Perspective Chapter 6 Ensure the Healthy Development for Youth: Expansions and Elaborations for Equity Chapter 7 Ensuring Healthy Development for All Youth: Prevention Of Psychosis Chapter 8 Closing the Health Gap: Addressing Racism, Settler Colonialism and White Supremacy Chapter 9 Integrating AASW&SW's Grand Challenges of Productive Aging with Anti-Racism and Health Equity Lenses to Improve Population Health Chapter 10 Racism and the Grand Challenge of Ending Family Violence Among Black Families SECTION III Eliminating Racism through Strengthening the Social Fabric Chapter 11 Beyond Colorism: The Impact of Racialization in U.S. Latinxs Chapter 12 Confronting the History of Racism Against Asian Americans in the U.S. Chapter 13 Strengthening the Social Responses to the Human Impacts of Environmental Change Chapter 14 Race and Racism in the Homelessness Crisis in the United States: Historic Antecedents, Current Best Practices and Recommendations to End Racial Disparities in Housing and Homelessness Chapter 15 Eradicating Social Isolation: Focus on Social Exclusion and Racism Section IV Progressive Approaches to Eliminating Institutional, Social Policy, and Economic Racism Chapter 16 Juvenile Justice for Achieving Equal Opportunity and Justice Chapter 17 From Mass Incarceration to Smart Decarceration 561 Chapter 18 Reducing Racialized Barriers to School Success for All Children & Youth Chapter 19 Reversing Extreme Inequality Chapter 20 White Supremacy and American Social Policy: Implications for Racism-Centered Policy Practice Chapter 21 Policy, Practice and Institutional Barriers to FCAB for All Related to Race (Racism) in the U.S.
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Oxford University Press Inc Property Law in the Society of Equals
Book SynopsisProperty is often seen as fundamentally inegalitarian, leading many to believe that a world without property would be a more equal one. Property Law in the Society of Equals challenges this view, demonstrating instead that property is essential for a society of equals. Property, as the legal realization of the idea of yours and mine, creates the conditions for us to relate to each other on equal terms. This conception of property allows for an examination of many of its core doctrines, including trespass and nuisance law, the law of acquisition, possession, and transfer, the law of leases, and the law of servitudes. It also reveals the distinctive place of property within private law more generally, and how to think about novel or controversial cases of property rights. Moreover, the idea that property is fundamentally egalitarian generates a radical critique of our present systems of property. It shows that various forms of public law regulation of property - including the right to housing and public housing itself - are justified by the same principles that underlie the need for property in the first place.Property Law in the Society of Equals offers a thorough and insightful account of a fundamental legal subject matter, and a compelling call for the reform of property on more egalitarian lines.
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Oxford University Press Is Inequality the Problem
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Oxford University Press Inc The Poverty of the World
Book SynopsisIn the middle of the twentieth century, liberal intellectuals and policymakers in the United States came to see poverty as a global problem. Applying Progressive era and Depression insights about the causes of poverty to the post-World War II challenges posed by the Cold War and decolonization, they developed new ideas about why poverty persisted. The problem, they argued, was that the poor at home and abroad were alienated from the enormous opportunities industrial capitalism provided. Left unsolved, that problem, they believed, would threaten world peace. In The Poverty of the World, Sheyda Jahanbani brings together the histories of US foreign relations and domestic politics to explain why, during a period of unprecedented affluence, Americans rediscovered poverty and supported major policy initiative to combat it. Revisiting a moment of triumph for American liberals in the 1940s, Jahanbani shows how the US''s newfound role as a global superpower prompted novel ideas among liberal thTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction "The World's Problem in Miniature": Global Poverty in the American Century Chapter 1 "This World-Wide Need": John Collier and the Origins of the Global War on Poverty Chapter 2 "Not Modern Men": Oscar Lewis's Theory of Global Poverty Chapter 3 "The Only War We Seek": Discovering World Poverty and Building an Empire of Affluence Chapter 4 "Challenge to Affluence": Promoting Poverty-Fighting as the National Purpose Chapter 5 "The United States Contains an Underdeveloped Nation": World Poverty Comes Home Chapter 6 "One Global War on Poverty": Building a Volunteer Army for the Empire of Affluence Chapter 7 "Living Poor": Representing the Global War on Poverty Conclusion Neither Peace nor Honor Won: Retreat in the Global War on Poverty Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Antidiscrimination Law Minority Employment
Book SynopsisA critique of 30 years of antidiscrimination law in the United States, this book explains why equal opportunity and affirmative action policies have failed to improve black employment since the 1964 Civil Rights Act.Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: Recruitment Practices 3: Recruitment Discrimination 4: Employment Discrimination Law 5: Antidiscrimination Policy: Theoretical Considerations 6: The Effects of Antidiscrimination Programs 7: Minority Employment Opportunities Author Index Subject Index
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The University of Chicago Press Opposing Ambitions Gender 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.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: Money as Moral Currency 3: Conventional Signs, Unconventional Commitments 4: Alternative Rituals 5: Waking Up to Inequality 6: Conclusions References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Against Innocence
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The University of Chicago Press Generous Betrayal
Book SynopsisMany immigrants in Europe find marginalization, discrimination, and increasing segregation. In this book, the author shows how an excessive respect for their culture has been part of the problem. Culture has become a concept of race, sustaining ethnic identity politics that subvert human rights.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Racism Class and the Racialized Outsider
Book SynopsisRacism, Class and the Racialized Outsider is that rare thing nowadays, an academic book that not only engages with a wider public but also provides a sharp campaigning edge to the analysis. Historical and broad in its coverage, this is one of the best accounts of contemporary racism published in a good long time. Mark Perryman, Philosophy FootballRacism, Class and the Racialized Outsider offers an original perspective on the significance of both racism and anti-racism in the making of the English working class. While racism became a powerful structuring force within this social class from as early as the mid-Victorian period, this book also traces the episodic emergence of currents of working class anti-racism. Through an insistence that race is central to the way class works, this insightful text demonstrates not only that the English working class was a multi-ethnic formation from the moment of its inception but that racialized outsiders Irish Catholics, Jews, Asians aTrade Review"A remarkable study of the interplay between racism and anti-racism in shaping the contours of working class organization and struggle in England. It is a nuanced and sophisticated contribution both to the empirical account of this historical trajectory, and to our theoretical understanding of the mutually constitutive character of race and class." - Erik Olin Wright, Vilas Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin, USA, and Past-President, American Sociological Association "A serious and conceptually sophisticated analysis of key aspects of racism and anti-racism in the contemporary environment. Its combination of history and sociology makes it somewhat unique and it has no obvious competitor at the present time." - John Solomos, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK "Virdee's inspiring and historically wide-ranging account of the hidden role played by racialized minorities in the formative moments of English labour history sets a new benchmark in work on race and class." - Verity Burgmann, Professor Emerita, Monash University, Australia "This pathbreaking and cogently written book is a major contribution to our historical understanding of racism and working class politics in England." - Rodolfo D. Torres, University of California, Irvine, USA "It is written in an engaging and accessible way and manages to convey its argument that English working class history cannot be fully understood without the lens of race to interrogate key events. This is a book that I would recommend to labour studies students for a different take on working class history of the labour movement, but also students of sociology and race in order that they develop a more nuanced understanding of the process of racialization through some of the key events of English working class struggles." - Jane Holgate, University of Leeds, UK "Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider makes an important contribution to the history of the English Working class, trade union movement and the left; crucially it is highly readable." - Sian Moore, Centre for Employment Studies Research "He has made a significant contribution to the writing of a more nuanced and true history of the working classes of the British Isles" Danny Reilly, Institute of Race Relations "Virdee's work provides a highly useful historical foundation from which to approach the task of explicating, politically and theoretically, more recent linkages between the economic violence of growing class inequality and the racisms with which it is fundamentally intertwined." Margarita Aragon, Associate Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, UK "This book is important for emphasizing how the racializing of outsiders has long historical roots and Virdee's insistence on putting race at the centre of our understanding of social history is timely" Lucy Williams, University of Kent, UK "Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider is that rare thing nowadays, an academic book that not only engages with a wider public but also provides a sharp campaigning edge to the analysis. Historical and broad in its coverage, this is one of the best accounts of contemporary racism published in a good long time." Mark Perryman, Philosophy FootballTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Class, Nation and the Racialized Outsider 3. Racism and the Contradictions of Socialist Nationalism 4. Race, Empire and its Discontents 5. Class War, Racist Riots and Communism 6. Racism: from the Welfare Settlement to Enoch Powell 7. Socialists, Anti-racism and Working Class Bifurcation 8. Municipal Anti-racism and Black Self-organization 9. Conclusion.
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Columbia University Press Troublesome Science The Misuse of Genetics and
Book SynopsisRob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall explain how science has been misused to sustain belief in the biological basis of racial classification. Troublesome Science draws on the tools of taxonomy to show that while the diversity that exists within our species is a real phenomenon, it nevertheless defeats any attempt to recognize discrete units within it.Trade ReviewWhy do we need another book on the refuted belief that human beings are naturally divided into biological races? Because this myth is recirculating in prestigious scientific journals and popular media, as well as on white nationalist websites, threatening to rationalize and reinforce persistent social inequities. By revealing the unscientific basis for contemporary racial claims, DeSalle and Tattersall leave no excuse for letting this dangerous fallacy continue to masquerade as science. Troublesome Science is an urgent and important defense against the modern resurgence of racial science. -- Dorothy Roberts, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First CenturyTroublesome Science provides one of the most lucid expositions in the scientific literature of how taxonomies of human populations have developed—and most important, the authors use this explication to take us on a fascinating 200,000-year journey to demonstrate the flaws in any attempt to use a genetic boundary for racial categories. -- Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Backdoor to EugenicsIn Troublesome Science, DeSalle and Tattersall tackle the contentious and important subject of human genetic diversity and its relationship to the definition of human groups. This bold, beautiful, thorough, and up-to-date demolition of the biological concept of race is based on excellent history and the latest science. Think of this clearly written and approachable book as a user’s guide to your own DNA and ancestry. -- Nina G. Jablonski, Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, associate director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State UniversityIn the current atmosphere denigrating truth and wisdom, the resurgence of racism is the worst case of rejection of both morality and science. It is a profound relief and pleasure to read this masterful synthesis of data on human biological variation and evolution, melding results on everything from genomics to the anatomical features of living and ancient populations. The result is a powerful and compelling picture of the generation of diversity, the historical migrations of populations, and the continual mixing of human beings that decisively refutes the notion that our species is compartmentalized into rigidly separate racial subdivisions. It is unscientific, and thus racist, to maintain that there are separate human races! -- Niles Eldredge, curator emeritus, Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural HistoryThis timely book sheds a good deal of scholarly light on genetic studies of human variation, which are widely misrepresented in popular science venues. Geneticist Rob DeSalle and anthropologist Ian Tattersall bring some helpfully critical eyes to the research in this biopolitical minefield, and to what genomics really says about the patterns in the human gene pool. This is very important book for anyone interested in race, and why it is not the same as human biodiversity! -- Jonathan Marks, professor of anthropology, University of North Carolina at CharlotteTroublesome Science provides a deeper analysis than one usually finds in discussions of racial classifications. It brings clarity to the field of systematics and in so doing reveals the hollowness of claims to the scientific legitimacy of race. Clear, assertive, and well argued, it demonstrates that scientific taxonomy cannot draw racial boundaries in human populations from genetic-clustering studies. More than a takedown of a popular journalistic account, it is an important contribution to our understanding of the science behind the classification of species and subspecies. -- Sheldon Krimsky, author of Stem Cell Dialogues: A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical FrontiersA masterclass in taxonomy and its methods, evolutionary theory, population and molecular genetics, ancient DNA sequencing, palaeoanthropology and patterns of human migration. -- Steven Rose * Times Higher Education *Genetically, race is a meaningless concept, yet our society seems far from ready to stop dividing people into racial categories. Evolutionary biologist DeSalle and paleoanthropologist Tattersall debunk the idea as a useful scientific classification, explaining how the technique of taxonomy—the grouping of organisms based on shared characteristics—fails to find significant genetic differences among the groups we commonly call races. -- Clara Moskowitz * Scientific American *A necessary response to recently published misguided and troublesome books on the topic of biological race in our species. * American Journal of Human Biology *[Troublesome Science] should be widely read by evolutionary biologists, geneticists, and biomedical researchers. -- Joseph L. Graves Jr. * Evolution: Education & Outreach *The book does an excellent job of describing the approaches to our understanding of how our species has moved out of Africa in waves to fill the continents over a 200,000-year span. * Quarterly Review of Biology *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Evolutionary Lessons2. Species and How to Recognize Them3. Phylogenetic Trees4. The Name Game: Modern Zoological Nomenclature and the Rules of Naming Things 5. DNA Fingerprinting and Barcoding6. Early Biological Notions of Human Divergence 7. Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosome Adam8. The Other 99 Percent of the Genome 9. ABBA/BABA and the Genomes of Our Ancient Relatives10. Human Migration and Neolithic Genomes 11. Gene Genealogies and Species Trees12. Clustering Humans?13. STRUCTUREing Humans?14. Mr. Murray Loses His BetEpilogue: Race and SocietyNotes and BibliographyIndex
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Penguin Books Ltd Create a GenderBalanced Workplace
Book Synopsis''Useful, practical and non-preachy'' Financial Times Gender balance is first and foremost a business issue. McKinsey estimates we could add 28 trillion to global GDP if we achieved gender equality everywhere - that is more than the GDPs of the US and China combined. But it is so much more than that. Gender balance is one of the best levers we can pull to build better managers and leaders at every level, improve team performance and create better cultures where everyone can thrive.In the Penguin Experts: Create a Gender-Balanced Workplace, Ann Francke, the CEO of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), introduces her solution to combating the problems at the heart of the continued imbalance and offers clear, actionable strategies for making a positive change in your organisation.Trade ReviewPractical, evidence-based and inspiring, this book offers compelling solutions to improve gender balance -- Hilary Spencer, Director, Government Equalities OfficeWorkplace balance is a goal for all managers. There is nothing more important than gender balance and this book describes why -- Sir Winfried Bischoff. founding Chair 30% Club, chair, Financial Reporting Council, chair, JP Morgan Securities plcInsightful and timely ... A must read for all business leaders -- Brenda Trenowden, Global chair, 30% ClubPractical and informed guidance on the diversity imperative and the diversity dividend -- Dame Cilla Snowball, former group chairman and group CEO, AMV BBDO, chair, Women’s Business Council, UKA fantastic guide for getting ahead in business. Packed to the brim with practical tips, this book clearly demonstrates how we can work together to fix one of the biggest challenges we face at work. An absolute must read for any leader -- Vanessa Vallely OBE, Managing Director, WeAreTheCityThis is one of the most important issues we face and all of us should ask how we can help make progress. This book offers simple advice on what you can do to make a difference -- Paul Polman, former CEO, Unilever and chair, HeforSheAnn ably demonstrates that while there is no silver bullet, there are practices that help organizations achieve gender balance -- Vivian Hunt, Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company UK & IrelandFrancke's no-nonsense approach is useful, practical and non-preachy * The Financial Times September book of the month *It is not women who need to change. It requires making a business somewhere women want to work. A wealth of practical tips to help, but ultimately men need to want to make change happen * Anthony Hilton, Evening Standard *
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MIT Press Ltd Ageism Stereotyping and Prejudice Against Older
Book SynopsisCurrent research and theory from a range of disciplines on ageism, discussing issues from elder abuse to age discrimination against workers, revised and updated.People commonly use age to categorize and stereotype others-even though those who stereotype the elderly are eventually bound to become elderly themselves. Ageism is found cross-culturally, but it is especially prevalent in the United States, where most people regard growing older with depression, fear, and anxiety. Older people in the United States are stigmatized and marginalized, with often devastating consequences. This volume collects the latest theory and research on prejudice against older people, offering perspectives from psychology, nursing, medicine, social work, and other fields. The second edition has been completely updated, with new or extensively revised contributions. The contributors, all experts in their fields, consider issues that range from elder abuse to age discrimination against workers. <
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Hachette Books The Wake Up
Book Synopsis This informative guide helps allies who want to go beyond rigid Diversity and Inclusion best practices, with real tools to go from good intentions to making meaningful change in any situation or venue.2022 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER2022 NATIONAL ANTIRACIST BOOK FESTIVAL SELECTION2021 PORCHLIGHT PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT & HUMAN BEHAVIOR BOOK OF THE YEAR As we become more aware of various social injustices in the world, many of us want to be part of the movement toward positive change. But sometimes our best intentions cause unintended harm, and we fumble. We might feel afraid to say the wrong thing and feel guilt for not doing or knowing enough. Sometimes we might engage in performative allyship rather than thoughtful solidarity, leaving those already marginalized further burdened and exhausted. The feelings of fear, insecurity, inadequacy are all too common among a wide spectrum of changemakers,
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