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  • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Queer Generations

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    Book SynopsisDaniel Marshall is Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow in Sexualities and Genders at the University of South Australia, Australia. Benjamin Hegarty is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Rob Cover is Professor of Digital Communication at RMIT University, Australia. Christy Newman is Professor at the Centre for Social Research in Health, where she conducts social research on health, gender and sexuality. Mary Lou Rasmussen is Professor and Head of the School of Sociology at The Australian National University, Australia.Peter Aggleton has a background in the social sciences as applied to well-being, education and health. He is the editor of several book series and journals, and holds professorial positions at a number of universities including The Australian National University in Canberra, UNSW Sydney, and UCL in London.

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  • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Navigating Womanhood in Contemporary Botswana

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    Book SynopsisExploring the social construction of womanhood in Tswana culture, this book questions how gendered expectations are shifting in the context of a rapidly changing environment. Seismic social change is underfoot in Botswana, and gender relations are in flux. The government's enactment of extensive legal reforms, national programmes, and international instruments has gone a long way towards ensuring gender equality on an official basis. However, conventionally defined gender roles continue to present major obstacles for women.This book explores what it means to be a woman today in Botswana. The concept of womanhood as a mark of status and responsibility is interrogated, and the social consequences of failing to meet the criteria for womanhood are explored. Stephanie S. Starling considers the multiple and often contradictory burdens women face, the strategies they employ, and the sacrifices they make to meet their obligations. Caught between traditional expectations and m

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  • Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Is Artificial Intelligence Racist

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    Book SynopsisArshin Adib-Moghaddam is Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies, Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, UK and Inaugural Co-Director of the SOAS Centre for AI Futures, University of London, UK.Trade ReviewWritten with intellectual flair, this is a stimulating if sobering assessment of what we can expect in a world increasingly dominated by biased AI. A must-read to understand the paradigm shift we are already experiencing, and better anticipate the all too human flaws in the embedded tech so rapidly accumulating in our techno-societies. * Roxane Farmanfarmaian, University of Cambridge, UK *A fascinating work on the age of artificial intelligence, surveillance, and algorithmic regimes. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam asks compelling questions regarding our dice-throw with the virtual, the digital, and the simulated, taking us into those timescapes of the near-beyond where we will have to confront dire questions of our own post-humanism. This work unveils with exceptional precision both the potentiality for catastrophic violence beneath the surface of such epochal technologies yet also an escape-route into its more boundless figurations. * Jason Mohaghegh, Babson College, USA *A cutting-edge piece of work illustrating how we can transform our psychology and change values within an AI-controlled system in the age of post-human society. * Hisae Nakanishi, Doshisha University, Japan *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Beyond Human Robots Chapter 2: The Matrix Decoded Chapter 3: Capital Punishment Chapter 4: Techno-Imperialism Chapter 5: Death-Techniques Conclusion: Decolonial AI - A Manifesto

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  • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Homes in Crisis Capitalism

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    Book SynopsisHomes in Crisis Capitalism explores the core social reproduction role that individual households fulfil in our societies, and the class and racial effects of this on gender inequality and discrimination. Women now make up nearly half of the paid workforce globally, yet prevailing neoliberal social policy continues to rule out adequate state provision of child- and elder-care, choosing instead to rely on marketized services to fill the gap. It is mainly women who carry out this little valued care work, either in a non-paid or paid capacity, and gender inequality is entrenched across society. Official gender parity policies, often expressed in terms of equality of opportunity, have done little to ease the double burden of domestic and care work for the vast majority of women. Competitive labour markets discriminate against those expected to be the primary caregivers of children, the sick and disabled and older people. In addition, the presence across many societies of an acute housing c

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  • Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Polarising Sexualities and Genders

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    Book SynopsisKath Browne is a Professor of Geography at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research has focused on social justice and inequalities, specifically around gender and sexualities. She has published Liveable Lives (Bloomsbury, 2023), Heteroactivism (Bloomsbury, 2020) and After Repeal (Bloomsbury, 2020).Emily Kazyak is Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her research focuses on laws related to sexuality and gender as well as on the family relationships of LGBTQ people.

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  • HarperCollins Focus Driven by Difference

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  • Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Environmental Racism in the United States and

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    Book SynopsisFrom Flint, Michigan, to Standing Rock, North Dakota, minorities have found themselves losing the battle for clean resources and a healthy environment. This book provides a modern history of such environmental injustices in the United States and Canada.From the 19th-century extermination of the buffalo in the American West to Alaska''s Project Chariot (a Cold War initiative that planned to use atomic bombs to blast out a harbor on Eskimo land) to the struggle for recovery and justice in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017, this book provides readers with an enhanced understanding of how poor and minority people are affected by natural and manmade environmental crises.Written for students as well as the general reader with an interest in social justice and environmental issues, this book traces the relationship between environmental discrimination, race, and class through a comprehensive case history of environmental injustices. Environmental Racism in the United StaTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 Background What Is Environmental Justice? Types of Environmental Discrimination Perpetrators and Victims Challenges and Solutions Future Outlook Chapter 2 Unifying Themes Introduction Mining: Mother Earth or Mother Lode? Lead, Lead Everywhere: Flint, Michigan's Water Crisis in Context The Political Economy of Lead Poisoning and Other Water Quality Issues Canadian Tar Sands: From Treaty Forest to Moonscape Pipelines and Protests "Cowboys" vs. "Indians": Racial Stereotyping and Agent Orange in Vietnam Farmworkers: Toxicity as an Occupational Hazard Extermination of the Buffalo as Environmental Warfare Environmental Racism and the Demise of an Ice World Chapter 3 Cases: United States East Introduction Houston, Texas: Segregation, Sewage, and Environmental Racism Anniston, Alabama: A Plague of PCBs Dickson, Tennessee: Environmental Racism's "Poster Child" A 100 Percent Chance of Pig-manure Showers in North Carolina Bridgeport, Connecticut: A Spreading Web of Toxins Chester, Pennsylvania: Unwilling Capital of Hazmat South Chicago: Life and Death in the "Toxic Doughnut" Race, Class, and Toxicity at Love Canal North Carolina: Protesting Unwelcome Toxic Dumps Donald Trump, Hurricane Maria, and Puerto Rico Triana, Alabama: Dumped On, Ceaselessly Malathion and the Rosebud Sioux in Mission, South Dakota Houston, Texas: Always Awaiting the Next Flood Akwesasne: Land of the Toxic Turtles The Toxics Plantation: Life and Death in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley" The Demographics of Death in New Orleans: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina Chapter 4 Cases: United States West Introduction Montana's Gros Ventre and Assiniboine: Gold Mining and Cyanide Poisoning The Mothers of East Los Angeles Stand Down a Toxic Incinerator—and More Pueblo, Colorado: The Toxic Legacy of the "Pittsburgh of the West" Richmond, California: The Greens vs. Big Oil Alaska's Pebble Mine: Corporate Gold vs. Natives' Salmon Alaska Natives: Swamped by Warming The Point Hope Eskimos: An Atomic Harbor and a Nuclear Dump as a Neighbor "The Most Bombed Nation on Earth" Utah's Goshute Asked to House Waste Uranium—but Were Denied The Laguna Pueblo and Anaconda's Jackpile Uranium Mine The Navajos' Nuclear Legacy The Largest Uranium Spill in the United States Hunting Grounds to Dumping Grounds The Moapa Paiute: Good-Bye Toxic Ash: Solar In, Coal Power Out Chapter 5 Cases: Canada Introduction Grassy Narrows, Ontario: The Continuing Toxic Toll of Mercury The Aamjiwnaang of Ontario: Immersed in a Toxic Bath Dumping on Blacks in Africville, Nova Scotia British Columbia: Native Canadians vs. Mining's "New Prosperity" The Crees: Hydro Quebec's Electric Dreams The Lubicon Cree: Land Rights and Resource Exploitation The Dene: Killed by the "Money Rock" The Inuit: Mother's Milk Is Toxic Who Is Liable for Ruining a Culture? The Inuit Sue the United States of America Selected Bibliography Index

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  • Open Road Media Paid Servant

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    Trade Review“A kind of social worker’s journal, offering intimate glimpses into troubled lives but without jargon or tortured psychoanalytic interpretations.” —The New York Times Book Review“Paid Servant adds to Mr. Braithwaite’s stature. . . . Absorbing to read and skilfully composed.” —The Times Literary Supplement “Warm but never sentimental.” —Booklist Table of Contents Contents Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven About the Author

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  • Open Road Integrated Media LLC Mixed Up: Confessions of an Interracial Couple

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  • 1517 Media Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color

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    Book SynopsisGirls of color are often overlooked. Author, speaker, minister and youth advocate Khristi Lauren Adams brings these stories to the forefront. Thought-provoking and inspirational, Parable of the Brown Girl is a powerful example of how God uses narratives we most often ignore to teach us the most important lessons in life.

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  • Augsburg Fortress Publishers Body Phobia

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  • Cognella, Inc Social Inequalities: Select Readings on Race, Class, and Gender

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    Book SynopsisFeaturing an intersectional approach, Social Inequalities: Select Readings on Race, Class, and Gender introduces students to social inequalities embedded within society at both the micro and macro level. Through compelling, scholarly articles, students gain the knowledge necessary to address social inequalities and inspire social change.The anthology features six distinct units. Unit I focuses on race, racism, and immigration and features readings on racial formation, defining racism, and the consequences of racism on U.S. immigration policy. In Unit II, students read about gender, patriarchy, and formal and informal discrimination against women at work. Unit III features coverage of social class, power, and privilege, and Unit IV speaks to the tensions between wealth, privilege, and inequality. Students learn about inequality and discrimination within social institutions like schools, housing, and mass incarceration. The final unit encourages students to pursue social change and social transformation.Social Inequalities is an ideal reader for courses in sociology, women and gender studies, and race and ethnic studies, as well as those that address social stratification and the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, class, and gender.

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  • Rowman & Littlefield Getting Smart about Race: An American

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    Book SynopsisThis book is about race and racial inequality. If you can answer the question, “What is race and how does it impact our society?” then you don’t need to read this book. If you are looking for an upfront, practical, and no-nonsense guide to understanding race, then this book is for you. Just mention race or racism in any conversation and people become nervous, defensive, or possibly even angry. So You Think You Know All About Race informs, educates, and most importantly, introduces a fresh, meaningful conversation on why it is important to understand what race is and why racism still occurs today.Trade ReviewMargaret Andersen’s Getting Smart about Race is a roadmap for the substantive and constructive conversation about race we say we need to have. With the first sentence and one thoughtful question, she unsettles the racial landscape...But she doesn’t just discuss the problem, she offers a way for us to discover the shared humanity which must be the foundation for racial healing in the United States of America. -- Jeffrey Blount, Emmy-award winning television director and author of The Emancipation of Evan WallsIn a clear, elegant, and thorough way, Margaret Andersen makes us all `smart about race’. She tells us what race, racism, and prejudice are, their effects in society, and what we can do to change the racial order of things. Getting Smart about Race will help advance our national dialogue about the continuing significance of race. -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University; author of Racism Without Racists

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  • Basic Books Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive

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    Book SynopsisFrom a prize-winning Harvard legal scholar, "a damning portrait" (New York Review of Books) of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new perspective on inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense system that produces over thirteen million criminal cases each year, over 80 percent of the national total. People arrested for minor crimes are swept through courts where defendants often lack lawyers, judges process cases in mere minutes, and nearly everyone pleads guilty. This misdemeanor machine starts punishing people long before they are convicted, it punishes the innocent, and it punishes conduct that never should have been a crime. As a result, vast numbers of Americans-most of them poor and disproportionately people of color-are stigmatized as criminals, impoverished through fines and fees, and stripped of driver's licenses, jobs, and housing. And as the nation learned from the police killings of Eric Garner, George Floyd, and too many others, misdemeanor enforcement can be lethal. Now updated with a new afterword, Punishment Without Crime shows how America's sprawling misdemeanor system makes our entire country less safe, less fair, and less equal.

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  • For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender

    Seal Press (CA) For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender

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  • Charter Schools and Their Enemies

    Basic Books Charter Schools and Their Enemies

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    Book SynopsisAs public schools in low income areas fell into disrepair and failed to meet the needs of disadvantaged and minority students, charter schools offered an alternative. These schools were born out of the idea that low income families should be allowed to choose where their children went to school, just the same as high income families. If the public school in the community was unsatisfactory, shouldn't they be allowed to seek out an alternative? The alternatives are surprisingly effective. Charter schools located in low income black and Latinx communities achieve results surpassing both traditional public schools in their areas, and also, in many cases, public schools in more affluent neighbourhoods. In Charter Schools and Their Enemies, celebrated conservative intellectual Thomas Sowell explores the surprising success of this model and the surprising backlash that threatens to dismantle it.Instead of being celebrated for their successes, charter schools are caught in political crosscurrents. In addition to uncovering the success of the charter school movement, Sowell pays careful attention to its adversaries to understand how these schools became such a contentious issue and why the controversy rages on. Teachers' unions, fearful of their hold over government-funded education, fund political candidates to oppose the charter school movement. Liberal educators also oppose charter schools, Sowell argues, because they believe that the school system should indoctrinate the young in progressive politics.Deeply researched and amply documented, Charter Schools and Their Enemies is essential reading for anyone concerned with debates over education in America.

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  • Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys

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  • Wilfrid Laurier University Press Uneasy Partners: Multiculturalism and Rights in

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    Book SynopsisAfter decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, as embedded in the Charter, and multiculturalism as policy and practice, and ask which charter value should trump which and under what circumstances? The opening essay deliberately sharpens the conflict among religion, culture, and equality rights and proposes to shift some of the existing boundaries. Other contributors disagree strongly, arguing that this position might seek to limit freedoms in the name of justice, that the problem is badly framed, or that silence is a virtue in rebalancing norms. The contributors not only debate the analytic arguments but infuse their discussion with their personal experiences, which have shaped their perspectives on multiculturalism in Canada. This volume is a highly personal as well as strongly analytic discussion of multiculturalism in Canada today. Trade ReviewThis collection of essays addressing the tensions in Canada between rights and multiculturalism is a very Canadian book. It propvides an excellent survey of multiculturalism and rights issues in Canada, and of the manner in which the debate is taking place intense disgreements debated in a very collegial (Canadian) fashion. Tracie Scott, Birkbeck College British Journal Of Canadian Studies 2009``In the midst of the debate on Canadian multiculturalism and whither it's bound comes a timely book from Wilfrid Laurier University Press.... If you have a genuine interest in the future of Canada this book is essential reading.... If you believe the Canadian concept of multiculturalism is worth preserving...This book offers eight viewpoints that pave the way.'' -- Ben Viccari -- Canscene, August 2007, 200708``Canada has benefited from favourable circumstances in putting in place a peaceful and prosperous multicultural society. But we have let good fortune take the place of hard thinking, and we have not sufficiently engaged in democratic discussion to do with the kind of multicultural society that we want. It is past time that we take up Janice Gross Stein's invitation to face upt to this difficult but unavoidable societal challenge.'' -- Daniel Marc Weinstock -- Literary Review of Canada, January/February 2008, 200801``The seven essays that fill this book pack more punch than you might expect. By turns the pieces are provocative, witty or frustrating -- but rarely dull'' -- Omar Majeed -- Montreal Gazette, June 30, 2007, 200707Table of Contents Uneasy Partners: Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada by Janet Gross Stein, David Robertson Cameron, John Ibbitson, Will Kymlicka, John Meisel, Haroon Siddiqui, and Michael Valpy Acknowledgements Janet Gross Stein Introduction Frank Iacobucci Searching for Equality Janice Gross Stein Don't Blame Multiculturalism Haroon Siddiqui Let Sleeping Dogs Lie John Ibbitson An Evolutionary Story David Cameron Canada: J'accuse/j'adore: Extracts from a Memoir John Meisel Seismic Tremors: Religion and the Law Michael Valpy Disentangling the Debate Will Kymlicka Contributors Index Contributors David Robertson Cameron, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is chair and professor of political science at the University of Toronto, where he served as vice-president from 1985 to 1987. He has divided his time between public service (federally and provincially) and academic life. For the government of Canada, he has served as Assistant Secretary to Cabinet for Strategic and Constitutional Planning and was assistant undersecretary of State from 1979 to 1985. For Ontario, he was Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs from 1987 to 1990. His recent publications include Cycling into Saigon: The 1995 Conservative Transition in Ontario (2000), with Graham White; Disability and Federalism: Comparing Different Approaches to Full Participation (2001), with Fraser Valentine; and Street Protests and Fantasy Parks: Globalization, Culture and Society (2002), with Janice Gross Stein. The Honourable Frank Iacobucci is counsel with Torys LLP and chair of Torstar Corporation and a director of Tim Hortons Inc. He is also chair of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. He has taught at and was dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto, and served as the university's vice-president of internal affairs as well as provost and, from September 2004 to June 2005, was interim president. In 1985 he was appointed deputy minister of Justice and deputy attorney general for Canada; in 1988, chief justice of the Federal Court of Canada; and from 1991 to 2004, a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. In 2005, he was the federal representative in the negotiations leading to a comprehensive agreement to resolve the legacy of Indian Residential Schools. He is also a member of the Ontario Law Commission and, in December 2006, was appointed commissioner to lead an inquiry into the conduct of Canadian officials regarding certain individuals. A recipient of numerous awards and honours in Canada and abroad, he has authored or edited numerous books, articles, and commentaries on a variety of subjects. John Ibbitson has written on provincial, national and American politics since joining The Globe and Mail in 1999. He has also written numerous books on politics and public policy, the most recent being The Polite Revolution: Perfecting the Canadian Dream (2005). From 2002 to 2007 he wrote the political affairs column for the Globe, based in Ottawa, before moving to Washington to write commentary on American politics and society. He is also a well-known author of novels for young readers, including 1812: Jeremy's War (1991) and Water Music, to be published in 2008 by Kidscan Press. Will Kymlicka holds the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research and the Trudeau Foundation. He is the author of six books published by Oxford University Press: Liberalism, Community and Culture (1989), Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction (1990; second edition 2002), Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Right (1995), Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998), Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship (2001) and Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007). His works have been translated into 30 languages. John Meisel, of Czech origin, is the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Queen's University. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada, a former president of the Royal Society of Canada and a one-time chair of the Canadian Radio and Telecommunication Commission of Canada. Except for visiting professorships at Yale University and in the United Kingdom, he spent his whole academic life at Queen's,where he pioneered studies of elections and political parties, the role of government in the arts, the politics of regulation and challenges to national cohesion. Teaching, research, writing and nature have been his passions and he finds it hard not to get involved in issues affecting the common weal. Haroon Siddiqui is a columnist for the Toronto Star. He is a former editorial page editor, national editor, news editor and correspondent. He has covered, among other events, the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war and, lately, the emergence of China and India as global economic powers. He has written extensively on multiculturalism and Canada's changing demography. Author of Being Muslim (2006), a study on the impact of September 11 on Muslims around the world, he is a recipient of both the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario. Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada. She is the author of The Cult of Efficiency (2001) and the coauthor of Networks of Knowledge: Innovation in International Learning (2000) and The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar (2007). She is co-editor of Street Protests and Fantasy Parks: Globalization, Culture and Society (2001) and a contributor to Canada by Picasso: The Faces of Federalism (2006). She was the Massey lecturer in 2001 and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate. She is an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Alberta and the University of Cape Breton. Michael Valpy is a senior writer for The Globe and Mail. He began his journalistic career in Vancouver and became associate editor and national affairs columnist of The Vancouver Sun. For The Globe and Mail, he has been a member of the editorial board, Ottawa national political columnist, Africa correspondent, deputy managing editor and a national columnist on social policy and urban issues. He is co-author of two books on the Constitution—The National Deal (1982) and To Match a Dream (1998)—and co-author with Globe colleague Erin Anderssen of The New Canada: A Profile of the Next Generation (2004). He has produced public affairs documentaries for CBC Radio, written for Maclean's, Elm Street, Canadian Living, Literary Review of Canada, Time Canada and Policy Options magazines and won three National Newspaper Awards - two for foreign reporting and one for an examination of how the schools cope with children of dysfunctional families. In 1997, Canada's Trent University awarded him an honorary doctorate for his journalism.

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  • University of Tennessee Press Lines That Divide: Historical Archaeologies Of Race, Class, And Gender

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    Book SynopsisA truly creative, rigorous, and novel interdisciplinary collection that rethinks some of historical archaeology’s most fundamental questions."—Paul Mullins, Indiana University–Purdue UniversityThe division of human society by race, class, and gender has been addressed by scholars in many of the social sciences. Now historical archaeologists are demonstrating how material culture can be used to examine the processes that have erected boundaries between people.Drawing on case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume highlight diverse moments in the rise of capitalist civilization both in Western Europe and its colonies. In the first section, the contributors address the dynamics of the racial system that emerged from European colonialism. They show how archaeological remains shed light on the institution of slavery in the American Southeast, on the treatment of Native Americans by Mormon settlers, and on the color line in colonial southern Africa. The next group of articles considers how gender was negotiated in nineteenth-century New York City, in colonial Ecuador, and on Jamaican coffee plantations. A final section focuses on the issue of class division by examining the built environment of eighteenth-century Catalonia and material remains and housing from early industrial Massachusetts.These essays constitute an archaeology of capitalism and clearly demonstrate the importance of history in shaping cultural consciousness. Arguing that material culture is itself an active agent in the negotiation of social difference, they reveal the ways in which historical archaeologists can contribute to both the definition and dismantling of the lines that divide.

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  • Prometheus Books Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present

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    Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, it was widely assumed that society ought to foster the breeding of those who possessed favorable traits and discourage the breeding of those who did not. Controlled human breeding, or "eugenics" as it was called, was a movement with broad support that lasted into the 1930s. In this concise historical account, the author answers the questions of why eugenics, the search for means to propage only "good genes," was so attractive earlier in the twentieth century, why it then fell into disrepute, and whether it has returned today in the new guise of genetic counseling.Trade Review""This is an excellent book and deserves a wide readership.”-Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

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  • Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Antisemitism: A Reference Handbook

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    Book SynopsisA survey of the historical, political, and sociological contexts of antisemitism in more than 50 countries.Antisemitism: A Reference Handbook is the first reference work to present a global survey of antisemitism that goes beyond its history to reveal the roots and nature of antisemitism. Exploring how antisemitism has manifested itself in various countries from pre-Christian times to today's ongoing Palestinian Intifada, which has caused severe reactions in Arab and Muslim communities all over the world, this unique work traces the history of the hatred of Jews worldwide.Approximately 20 biographical sketches profile advocates of antisemitism such as William Marr, who coined the term "antisemitism," and opponents of antisemitism such as St. Anselm and Martin Luther King. In this serious yet accessible volume, students, scholars, government officials, and diplomats will discover the answers to such puzzling questions as "What is antisemitism?" and "How does antisemitism relate to racism and to group prejudice in general?" A detailed worldwide survey of antisemitism, covering every major country from Austria to Yemen Biographical sketches of influential antisemitic figures such as John Chrysostom, Father Charles Coughlin, and David Duke as well as individuals who fought against antisemitism such as Abraham Foxman, David Harris, and Martin Niemoller Trade Review"This is a useful handbook that provides objective information. It will help readers understand antisemitism and gather data for research, databases, or personal use. Public, academic, school, and synagogue libraries will welcome it for their collections." - American Reference Books Annual"Biographical sketches are followed by a country-by-country reference discussing both historical legacy and recent developments, making Antisemitism an excellent overview reference recommended for college-level and advanced high school collections alike." - The Midwest Book Review"Chanes provides an exploration in depth of the historical, political, and sociological contexts of antisemitism from an international perspective. Recommended. All libraries." - Choice

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  • Monthly Review Press,U.S. The Punishment Monopoly: Tales of My Ancestors,

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    Book SynopsisWhy, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming “liberty and justice for all”? The Punishment Monopoly challenges conventional American historiography. It focusses on the constructions of race, class, and gender upon which the United States was built, and which still support racial capitalism and the carceral state. After all, Buck writes, “a state, to be a state, has to punish … bottom line, that is what a state and the force it controls is for.” Using stories of her European ancestors, who arrived in colonial Virginia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and following their descendants into the early nineteenth century, Buck shows how struggles over the right to punish, backed by the growing power of the state governed by a white elite, made possible the dispossession of Africans, Native Americans, and poor whites. Those struggles led to the creation of the low-wage working classes that capitalism requires, locked in by a metastasizing white supremacy that Buck’s ancestors, with many others, defined as white, helped establish and manipulate. Examining those foundational struggles illuminates some of the most contentious issues of the twenty-first century: the exploitation and detention of immigrants; mass incarceration as a central institution; Islamophobia; white privilege; judicial and extra-judicial killings of people of color and some poor whites. The Punishment Monopoly makes it clear that none of these injustices was accidental or inevitable; that shifting our state-sanctioned understandings of history is a step toward liberating us from its control of the present.Trade Review“Through the lens of family members, and those with whom they interacted, Pem Davidson Buck allows the reader to flesh out the structures of domination, inequality, the restrictions of gender, race, religious conflict, warfare, and notions of property present in the British Isles, West Africa, and mainland North America from the seventeenth century through contemporary times. A great book.” —Yvonne Jones, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Louisville

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  • Monthly Review Press,U.S. Inequality, Class, and Economics

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  • PublicAffairs,U.S. Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town

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    Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-funded investigation performed in cooperation with the local authorities, was based on the work of one notoriously unreliable undercover officer. At trial, the prosecution relied almost solely on the uncorroborated, and contradictory, testimony of that officer, Tom Coleman. Despite the flimsiness of the evidence against them, virtually all of the defendants were convicted and given sentences as high as ninety-nine years. Tom Coleman was named a Texas Lawman of the Year for his work. Tulia is the story of this town, the bust, the trials, and the heroic legal battle that ultimately led to the reversal of the convictions in the summer of 2003. Laws have been changed in Texas as a result of the scandal, and the defendants have earned a measure of bittersweet redemption. But the story is much bigger than the tale of just one bust. As Tulia makes clear, these events are the latest chapter in a story with themes as old as the country itself. It is a gripping, marvellously well-told tale about injustice, race, poverty, hysteria, and desperation in rural America.Trade Review"Reading this gripping account of the appalling Tulia case brought to mind Bill Gillespie, the police-chief played so convincingly by Rod Steiger in the film The Heat of the Night. Being real life, Blakeslee's story is much worse: 39 people, almost all black, convicted for drugs on the testimony (uncorroborated and contradictory) of one police officer. That he was uncovered and a colossal legal battle reversed the convictions goes some way towards mitigating a terrible miscarriage of justice." Publishing News "Blakeslee's riveting account of what proved to be a gross miscarriage of justice does not shy away from the moral complexities of the case...This is strong stuff and would make an interesting tale in almost any hands. But Nate Blakeslee uses his considerable journalistic skill and invaluable local knowledge to turn his account of what happened in Tulia into something exceptional... this account is utterly compelling. The next time you feel the urge to pick up a thriller, don't. Read Tulia instead." Scotland on Sunday "Tulia is a splendid read: engagingly and enthusiastically written, with close attention to detail and a grim sense of tragedy. By focusing on the experience of individuals such as Joe Moore, Blakeslee gives the tale a powerfully personal thrust, but what is really disturbing is that the case was not especially unusual. No one reading this book can fail to be horrified by the staggeringly corrupt and incompetent Texas justice system - a system capable of sentencing dozens of men for crimes they palpably never committed." Daily Telegraph"

    15 in stock

    £17.99

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  • Rvp Press Demonizing Israel and the Jews

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    15 in stock

    £16.56

  • University of Tennessee Press Been Coming through Some Hard Times: Race,

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    Book SynopsisFrom the earliest days when slaves were brought to western Kentucky, the descendants of both slaves and slave owners in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, have continued to inhabit the same social and historic space. Part ethnography and part historical narrative, Been Coming through Some Hard Times offers a penetrating look at this southern town and the surrounding counties, delving particularly into the ways in which its inhabitants have remembered and publicly represented race relations in their community.Neither Deep South nor Appalachian, this western Kentucky borderland presented unique opportunities for African American communities and also deep, lasting tensions with powerful whites. Glazier conducted fieldwork in Hopkinsville for some ten months, examining historical evidence, oral histories, and the racialized hierarchy found in the final resting places of black and white citizens. His analysis shows how structural inequality continues to prevail in Hopkinsville. The book’s ethnographic vignettes of worship services, school policy disputes, segregated cemeteries, a “dressing like our ancestors” day at an elementary school, and black family reunions poignantly illustrate the ongoing debate over the public control of memory. Ultimately, the book critiques the lethargy of white Americans who still fail to recognize the persistence of white privilege and therefore stunt the development of a truly multicultural society.Glazier’s personal investment in this subject is clear. Been Coming through Some Hard Times began as an exploration of the life of James Bass, an African American who settled in Hopkinsville in 1890 and whose daughter, Idella Bass, cared for Glazier as a child. Her remarkable life profoundly influenced Glazier and led him to investigate her family’s roots in the town. This personal dimension makes Glazier’s ethnohistorical account especially nuanced and moving. Here is a uniquely revealing look at how the racial injustices of the past impinge quietly but insidiously upon the present in a distinctive, understudied region.

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    £29.66

  • Black Lawrence Press everything saved will be last

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    £9.65

  • University Press of Mississippi We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired

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    Book SynopsisOnce in a great while, a certain photograph captures the essence of an era: Three people--one black and two white--demonstrate for equality at a lunch counter while a horde of cigarette-smoking hotshots pour catsup, sugar, and other condiments on the protesters' heads and down their backs. This iconic image strikes a chord for all who lived through those turbulent times of a changing America. The photograph, which plays a central role in the book's perspectives from frontline participants, caught a moment when the raw virulence of racism crashed against the defiance of visionaries. It now shows up regularly in books, magazines, videos, and museums that endeavor to explain America's largely nonviolent civil rights battles of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Yet for all of the photograph's prominence, the people in it and the events they inspired have only been sketched in civil rights histories. It is not well known, for instance, that it was this event that sparked to life the civil rights movement in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1963. Sadly, this same sit-in and the protest events it inspired led to the assassination of Medgar Evers, who was leading the charge in Jackson for the NAACP. Winner of the 2014 Lillian Smith Book Award, We Shall Not Be Moved puts the Jackson Woolworth's sit-in into historical context. Part multifaceted biography, part well-researched history, this gripping narrative explores the hearts and minds of those participating in this harrowing sit-in experience. It was a demonstration without precedent in Mississippi--one that set the stage for much that would follow in the changing dynamics of the state's racial politics, particularly in its capital city.

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    £23.70

  • Lies about Black People: How to Combat Racist

    Prometheus Books Lies about Black People: How to Combat Racist

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisIn many ways, race has come to the forefront of contemporary American life. From the Black Lives Matter movement sparked by unarmed police shootings of black people to the health and economic disparities exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans have been forced to reckon with our country’s fraught history – and present – of racial bias and inequality. Now that we have scratched the surface on courageous conversations about race, many are wondering: what is the next step towards healing and justice? Lies About Black People: Challenging Common Racist Stereotypes on Our Path to Common Antiracist Understanding is designed for anyone who wants to examine their own biases and behaviors with a deeper critical lens in order to take action, make change, and engage positively in the fight for racial equality. In this honest and welcoming book, diversity and inclusion expert, professor, and award-winning speaker Dr. Omekongo Dibinga argues that we must embark on a massive undertaking to re-educate ourselves on the stereotypes that have proven harmful, and too often deadly, to the black community. Through personal anecdotes, nuanced historical inquiry, and engaging analysis of modern-day events and their historical context and implications, this invaluable guide will break down some of the most powerful lies told about black people. Whether those lies are pernicious, like the idea that “most black people are criminals,” or seemingly innocuous, like “black people can’t swim,” all of the lies and stereotypes combatted in this book are rooted in hate and continue to undermine not only black people in America, but our society as a whole. Beyond combatting these harmful lies, Dr. Dibinga also provides readers with powerful insights on our racial vocabulary, reflective hands-on exercises that will allow readers to confront and change their own biases, and an honest discussion about how to move beyond misplaced shame and use privilege to serve others.Featuring personal surveys alongside real-life interviews with those who have been affected by racial biases first-hand, this open and thoughtful guide will lead readers on a path to understanding, action, and change.

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    £18.99

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  • White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making

    BenBella Books White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisWhite fear is not new. It enabled the rise of Donald Trump. It’s behind the recent flood of restrictive voting laws disproportionately impacting people of colour. It’s why reactions to movements like Black Lives Matter and a football player taking a knee have been so negative and so strong. For two centuries, the deep-seated fear that many white people feel - of losing power, of losing economic standing, of losing a particular “way of life” - has been the driving force behind American politics and culture. And as we approach a future where white people will become a racial the minority in the US, something estimated to occur as early as 2043, that fear is only intensifying, festering, and becoming more visible. Are we destined for a violent clash? What can we do to step into our country’s inevitable future, without tearing ourselves apart in the process? Nationally renowned journalist and award-winning author Roland Martin has been sounding this alarm for more than a decade. In White Fear, he provides a primer on how white fear has shaped, and continues to shape, our democracy and our culture. He connects the separate puzzle pieces, from the Tea Party Movement and QAnon to the decline of white American optimism to the diminishing blue-collar workforce, to illuminate the larger picture of what will unfold in America over the next decade-plus, and offers a better way forward. If we want to create the kind of country that we’re all welcome in and proud to live in, we can no longer ignore white fear. To neutralise it - in our country and, for white readers, ourselves - we must first understand it. Only then can we recognise and dismantle it. And as the last few years have shown, we don’t have any time to lose.

    3 in stock

    £18.04

  • Piankh Organizing the Diaspora

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    £9.37

  • Second Class

    Encounter Books Second Class

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £16.99

  • Haymarket Books Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over

    15 in stock

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    £15.29

  • Counter-Currents Publishing Toward a New Nationalism

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    £28.50

  • Counter-Currents Publishing Toward a New Nationalism

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    £14.12

  • Bold Type Books Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive

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    £999.99

  • Cosimo Classics Trans-national America

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    £11.15

  • She Writes Press Rebellion, 1967: A Memoir

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    Book SynopsisJanet Duffy, a spunky, seventeen-year-old Irish girl, is eager to start college—but instability between her alcoholic father and self-absorbed mother jeopardize her dream, so she sets up her own apartment with her younger sister in Jamaica, Queens, and treks to City College in Manhattan, New York. The routine is deadening, but she finds purpose in the black community, working for a mural painter and volunteering for a civil rights activist. After turning eighteen, Janet marches with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and falls for a young black saxophone player, Carmen. Her father, a policeman, explodes over their relationship, so Janet rebels—runs away with the jazz musician, and then winds up in the East Village in the Summer of Love. In the ensuing months she deals with heartbreak, sexual harassment, poverty, and danger—but eventually, she asks for the help she needs in order to pick up the pieces of her life and return to her dream.Trade Review“Candid and wholehearted, Rebellion, 1967: A Memoir offers a window into an era of turbulence and dramatic change, and keeps the reader’s attention riveted from cover to cover. Highly recommended!” —Midwest Book Reviews “It takes rare courage to be this vulnerable, honest, and authentic in a memoir. With heart wide open, Janet reveals herself as a girl whose path was driven by intellect, curiosity, and a quest for justice. The history she weaves into her personal story gives gravity to the book. A compelling story.” —Denise Page, writer, storyteller, diversity trainer, and vision engineer with F.U.N. (Fired Up Network) “Now is the best time for this memoir to come out. Janet has an important message to deliver.” —Sonja Ahuja, Capacity Building and Training Partner, Co-Creating Effective and Inclusive Organizations (CEIO)

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    £12.34

  • Lexington Books From Antebellum Light Skinned Slaves to the

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    £999.99

  • Bloomsbury Academic Practical Symbolic Interactions in the Shrine of the South

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    Book SynopsisJohn F. Cataldi teaches sociology of conflict and criminology at Washington & Lee University.

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    £36.30

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