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Persea Books Inc Dying in the Scarecrows Arms
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Academy Chicago Publishers Europe and the Jews
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Wings Press Prison of Culture
Book SynopsisThe companion volume to the 50th-anniversary edition of Black Like Me, this book features John Howard Griffin’s later writings on racism and spirituality. Conveying a progressive evolution in thinking, it further explores Griffin’s ethical stand in the human rights struggle and nonviolent pursuit of equality.Trade ReviewThis collection of writings, chosen to complement Black like Me, provides a portrait of the effects of racial discrimination on Americans of color, as well as insight into Griffin's reasons for his experiment and his fundamental human decency. . . . It also introduces readers to the complex heritage of Christian traditions both in opposing and in maintaining the racial system in the US. . . . Highly recommended." —www.ChoiceMag.org"Prison of Culture is a valuable collection of essays by a creative, daring, and moral individual who is better known for his amazingly courageous Black Like Me. . . . John Howard Griffin's reputation as a voice of moral conscience is strong, clear, and essential." —Texas Books in Review"His trenchant essays are written with intensity and passion. His prose style is clear and forceful. People who grew up during the years of struggle for equal rights will find in Prison of Culture commentary that brings alive those times of intense moral crises. Readers today will find in these essays the truth in American philosopher George Santanya's statement that those who are ignorant of the past are doomed to repeat the past's mistakes. The prejudice and injustice of the past must never be forgotten. Prison of Culture should exist for modern readers who may have let themselves lose sight of the wrongs that still persist." —Kenneth W. Davis, Texas Books in Review
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African American Images Black Son Rising
Book SynopsisBased upon the author's experience as a youth counsellor and prison volunteer, this work offers a portrayal of black men and the contemporary obstacles they face in American society. This assessment of the plight of black men views them in relation to controversial topics, such as the prison system, drugs, education, and parenting.Table of ContentsPart 1 - The Cause; Part 2 - The Effects; Part 3 - The Solution; Part 4 - The Three Black Kings; Part 5 - The Final Call!
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Penguin Books Ltd The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Education Inequality
Book SynopsisIncome inequality has become the defining issue in the U.S. since the end of the recession. With stagnant wages and declining mobility among the working and middle class, many Americans believe the economic system unfairly favors the wealthy. Education can change this. To do so, however, we need to create the right conditions for students to succeed (i.e., increasing opportunity) and explore solutions to help them move ahead (i.e., improving mobility). This issue of the Journal of Social Issues, Education Inequality: Opportunity and Mobility, focuses on this theme.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Reframing the Inequality Debate toward Opportunity and Mobility 619Norman Eng and Allan Ornstein SECTION I: OPPORTUNITY School Finance & the Distribution of Equal Educational Opportunity in the Postrecession U.S. 629Bruce D. Baker The Social Genome Model: Estimating How Policies Affect Outcomes, Mobility and Inequality across the Life Course 656Gregory Acs, Steven Martin, Jonathan A. Schwabish, and Isabel V. Sawhill Education Inequality: Broadening Public Attitudes through Framing 676Norman Eng Global Equality of Educational Opportunity: Creating the Conditions for all Students to Succeed 696Andreas Schleicher and Pablo Zoido SECTION II: MOBILITY From Deficiency to Strength: Shifting the Mindset about Education Inequality 720Yong Zhao The Career Pathways Movement: A Promising Strategy for Increasing Opportunity and Mobility 740Robert B. Schwartz Children's Reasoning about Poverty, Economic Mobility, and Helping Behavior: Results of a Curriculum Intervention in the Early School Years 760Rashmita S. Mistry, Lindsey Nenadal, Katherine M. Griffin, Frederick J. Zimmerman, Hasmik Avetisian Cochran, Carla-Anne Thomas, and Christopher Wilson "I'm Still Waiting On That Golden Ticket": Attitudes toward and Experiences with Opportunity in The Streets of Black America 789Yasser Arafat Payne and Tara Marie Brown SECTION III: COMMENTARY Commentary 812Helen F. Ladd SECTION IV: LEWIN AWARD ADDRESS Carrying On Kurt Lewin's Legacy in Many Current Domains: Lewin Award 2015 828Philip G. Zimbardo
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St Martin's Press Dont Label Me
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St. Martin's Griffin Real American
Book SynopsisA fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a black woman in AmericaCourageous, achingly honest. Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessA compelling, incisive and thoughtful examination of race, origin and what it means to be called an American. Engaging, heartfelt and beautifully written, Lythcott-Haims explores the American spectrum of identity with refreshing courage and compassion.Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and RedemptionBringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The
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Henry Holt and Co. The White Bonus
Book SynopsisA genre-bending work of journalism and memoir by award-winning writer Tracie McMillan tallies the cash benefitand costof racism in America.In The White Bonus, McMillan asks a provocative question about racism in America: When people of color are denied so much, what are white people given? And how much is it worthnot in amorphous privilege, but in dollars and cents?McMillan begins with three generations of her family, tracking their modest wealth to its roots: American policy that helped whites first. Simultaneously, she details the complexities of their advantage, exploring her mother's death in a nursing home, at 44, on Medicaid; her family''s implosion; and a small inheritance from a banker grandfather. In the process, McMillan puts a cash value to whiteness in her life and assesses its worth.McMillan then expands her investigation to four other white subjects of different generations across the U.S. Alternating between these subjects
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Picador USA Learning from the Germans
Book SynopsisAs an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the pastIn the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman is a white woman who came of age in the civil rightsera South and a Jewish woman who has spent much of her adult life in Berlin. Working from this unique perspective, she combines philosophical reflection, personal stories, and interviews with both Americans and Germans who are grappling with the evils of their own national histories.Through discussions with Germans, including Jan Philipp Ree
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St Martin's Press The Viral Underclass
Book Synopsis**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION****LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE****WINNER OF THE 2022 POZ AWARD FOR BEST IN LITERATURE***Sarah Schulman named The Viral Underclass one of the Best Books of the 21st Century for the New York Times*An irresistibly readable and humane exploration of the barbarities of class...readers are gifted that most precious of things in these muddled times: a clear lens through which to see the world.Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock DoctrineFrom preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society. Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policin
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Picador USA Life of a Klansman
Book SynopsisA haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today . . . The interconnected strands of race and history give Ball's entrancing stories a Faulknerian resonance. Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book ReviewA 2020 NPR staff pick One of The New York Times'' thirteen books to watch for in August One of The Washington Post''s ten books to read in August A Literary Hub best book of the summer One of Kirkus Reviews'' sixteen best books to read in AugustThe life and times of a militant white supremacist, written by one of his offspring, National Book Awardwinner Edward BallLife of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the years after the Civil War. Edward Ball, a descendant of the Klansm
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Picador USA Fear of Black Consciousness
Book SynopsisLewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopher.Fear of Black Consciousness is an original and a bold intervention in the cultural and political conversation about systemic racism. Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and antiblackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized blackness, the problems racialization produces, and the many creative responses from black and nonblack communities in contemporary struggles for dignity and freedom.As he skillfully navigates the difficult and traumatic terrain, Gordon cuts through the mist of white narcissism and the versions of consciousness it perpetuates. He illuminates the different forms of invisibility that define black life, and he exposes the bad faith at the heart of many discussions about race and racism, not only in North America but also across the glo
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Thomas Nelson Publishers A Dream Too Big
Book SynopsisThe astounding, against-all-odds story of a young man's rise from abject poverty in gang-ridden Los Angeles to the pinnacle of academic achievement as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford.
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Abrams Invisible Women
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Johns Hopkins University Press Remixing the Civil War
Book SynopsisThis collection continues the conversation Warren began fifty years ago, although taking it in unorthodox and challenging directions, to offer fresh and stimulating perspectives on the war's presence in the collective imagination of the nation.Trade Review"The sesquicentennial needs this kind of jarring, probing look at all the fragmented artistic expression that the Civil War continues to stimulate." (David W. Blight, Yale University)"Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction. The Undead WarChapter 1.The Lincoln- Obama Moment Chapter 2. The Confederate Battle Flag and the Desertion of the Lost Cause TraditionChapter 3. Celebrating Freedom: Juneteenth and the Emancipation Festival Tradition Chapter 4. The Civil War and Contemporary Southern LiteratureChapter 5. Lincoln and the Civil War in Twenty-First-Century PhotographyChapter 6. Reenactment and Relic: The Civil War in Contemporary ArtChapter 7. African American Artists Interpret the Civil War in a Post-Soul AgeAfterword: War/Memory/History: Toward a Remixed UnderstandingAcknowledgmentsNotesList of Contributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Protesting Affirmative Action
Book SynopsisIn studying this phenomenon, Deslippe deepens our understanding of American democracy and neoconservatism in the late twentieth century and shows how the liberals' often contradictory positions of the 1960s and 1970s reflect the conflicted views about affirmative action many Americans still hold today.Trade ReviewA welcome examination of affirmative action opposition in the often-overlooked period before Bakke. Choice Deslippe's treatment of labor's resistance in particular is balanced, detailed, and nuanced, and he includes an excellent chapter on the precursor of Bakke, DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974)... A valuable discussion that clearly adds to the scholarship on this crucial subject. -- Kevin Yuill Journal of American History Ambitious and timely... The detail Deslippe provides in the creation of a 'reverse populism' that, in effect, made past discrimination into a union principle, is very powerful. -- Bill Barry Labor Studies Journal It is difficult to think of a more timely historical topic: persistent ambivalence about affirmative action again collides with an economic downturn as an increasingly conservative Supreme Court considers landmark cases that may resolve some legal questions but are unlikely to end the almost half-century-old moral and political debate. -- Serena Mayeri Journal of American Studies The detail Deslippe provides in the creation of a "reverse populism" that, in effect, made past discrimination into a union principle, is very powerful. -- Bill Barry Labor Studies Journal In uncovering the murky and complex pre-history of contemporary affirmative action debates, Deslippe shows how changing social and economic circumstances shaped diverse understandings of the meaning of race, sex, opportunity, and disadvantage. -- Katherine Turk American StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms and InitialismsIntroduction1. "The Best 'Affirmative Action Program' Is Creating Jobs for Everyone": Organized Labor Responds to Affirmative Action, 1960–19742. "This Strange Madness": The Origins of Opposition to Higher Education Affirmative Action, 1968–19723. "This Issue Is Getting Hotter": The Struggle over Affirmative Action Policy in the Early 1970s4. "Treat Him as a Decent American!": DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) and Colorblindness in the Courtroom5. "Do Whites Have Rights?": White Detroit Policemen and the "Reverse Discrimination" Protests of the 1970s6. "The Fight for True Nondiscrimination": The Politics of Anti–Affirmative Action in the 1970sConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press And the Crooked Places Made Straight
Book SynopsisIt carries the legacy of the 1960s forward: from Tom Hayden's idealistic 1962 Port Huron Statement through Newt Gingrich's 1994 Contract with America and Grover Norquist's twenty-first century Tax Payer's Protection Pledge.Table of ContentsEditor's ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Coming Out of the 1950s2. Marching in the Streets3. Through the Halls of Government4. Poverty and Progress5. Revolt on the Campus6. The Counterculture7. President's War, Media War8. The Antiwar Movement9. The End of Optimism10. Toward the Liberation of Women11. Legacies and ContinuitiesSelect Further ReadingsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Selmas Bloody Sunday
Book SynopsisDrawing on archival materials, secondary sources, and eyewitness accounts of the brave men and women who marched, this gripping account offers a brief and nuanced narrative of this critical phase of the black freedom struggle.Trade ReviewPratt has provided readers with a compelling narrative that is a welcome addition to civil rights studies for both classrooms and a general audience... Pratt has woven together a very readable chronology of dramatic events with attention to both the larger historical context and ongoing scholarly debates, a task many authors struggle to do effectively in much longer monographs.—Caroline S. Emmons, Hampden-Sydney College, Journal of Southern HistoryTable of ContentsPrologue 1 Slow March Toward Freedom 2 Seeds of Protest 3 Bloody Sunday 4 My Feets is tired, but my Soul is rested 5 A Season of Suffering Epilogue Acknowledgements Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Health Disparities in the United States
Book SynopsisChallenging students to think critically about the complex web of social forces that leads to health disparities in the United States. The health care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide disparities persist between social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries. In this revised edition of Health Disparities in the United States, Donald A. Barr provides extensive new data about the ways low socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity interact to create and perpetuate these health disparities. Examining the significance of this gulf for the medical community and society at large, Barr offers potential policy- and physician-based solutions for reducing health inequity in the long term. This thoroughly updated edition focuses on a new challenge the United States last experienced more than half a century ago: successive years of declining life expectancy. Barr addresses the causes of this declineTable of ContentsPreface1. Introduction to the Social Roots of Health Disparities2. What Is "Health"? How Should We Define It? How Should We Measure It?3. The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Health, or, "They Call It 'Poor Health' for a Reason"4. Understanding How Low Social Status Leads to Poor Health 5. Race, Ethnicity, and Health 6. Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health: Which Is More Important in Affecting Health Status?7. Children's Health Disparities 8. All Things Being Equal, Does Race/Ethnicity Affect How Physicians Treat Patients?9. Why Does Race/Ethnicity Affect the Way Physicians Treat Patients?10. When, if Ever, Is It Appropriate to Use a Patient's Race/Ethnicity to Help Guide Medical Decisions?11. What Should We Do to Reduce Health Disparities?ReferencesIndex
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Womens Equality in America
Book SynopsisWritten in vivid prose and with a keen eye for detail, Women''s Equality in America is a valuable resource for understanding the issues and trends that dominate public discourse in discussions of women''s rights and gender equality in America.Since its inception, the women''s equality movement in America has been criticized for moving too slowly, moving too quickly, being too demanding, or not being demanding enough. Some of its goals have aroused passionate opposition in those who believed women''s equality contradicted not only basic human biology, but also the word of God. Meanwhile, Americans voice starkly different opinions about where women stand in their quest for equality in American workplaces, classrooms, boardrooms, and homes.Women''s Equality in America: Examining the Facts presents sensibly organized and accurate summaries of the relevant facts concerning all of these claims and counterclaims. But while the volume is primarily conce
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Time Warner Trade Publishing Red Yellow Black and White
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Pelican Publishing Co Warrior for Justice
Book SynopsisA couple confronts the racial divide in Louisiana. In an era when segregation was commonplace, an educated, white woman from a small Southern town fell in love with a black paraplegic divorcee. To say this match was unfavorable to most would be an understatement. Despite the animosity they faced, Kathy and George Eames forged a life inspired by this controversy-fighting for civil equality. Working with the local NAACP, George fought against racism and discrimination, bringing to light instances of violence that were hidden from the public and calling for change in all aspects of the community. This is a story of hope and courage. It is a story that needs to be read today to remind the world how much change is needed.
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Formac Publishing Company Limited Black Loyalists in New Brunswick The Lives of
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HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Big Love
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Richmond 34 and the Civil Rights Movement Images
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Lgbtq Cincinnati Images of Modern America
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Arcadia Publishing The Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City Kansas
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History Press New Mexicos Stolen Lands
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History Press The Grey Eagles of Chippewa Falls A Hidden
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History Press Black Beauties
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History Press Integrating the Charleston Police Force Stories
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The University of North Carolina Press Goat Castle A True Story of Murder Race and the
Book SynopsisCentering on a 1932 murder in Natchez, Mississippi, Goat Castle tells the strange, fascinating, and sobering story of a local feud, killing, investigation, and trial, showing how a true crime tale of fallen southern grandeur and murder obscured an all too familiar story of racial injustice.Trade ReviewNever pedantic, this book is hard to put down.--The Journal of American History A detailed, thoughtful exploration of race and crime in the Jim Crow South through a case that was nationally covered, capturing a country in the throes of the Great Depression.--ALA Booklist Provides a definitive look at the 1932 murder of Jennie Merrill.--Publishers Weekly The book is well researched and written.--Arkansas Review This engrossing tale of murder, injustice, and racial inequality will interest lovers of regional history as well as true crime buffs.--Library Journal A riveting exploration of a true crime that illuminates the complicated relationship between race and the law in the post-Civil War South.--Foreword Reviews Cox dives deeper than the headlines, through excellent historical and journalistic investigation, to bring to light a horrible injustice.--Lemuria Books Blog Strange, fascinating and sobering, Goat Castle tells the story of [a] local feud, killing, investigation and trial, showing how a true crime tale of fallen Southern grandeur and murder obscured an all too familiar story of racial injustice.--Deep South Magazine A terrific read.--American Historical Review Drawing on extant personal papers, correspondence, legal case files, prison reports, extensive contemporary newspaper coverage, and recently recovered photographs and oral accounts, Cox makes evident her diligence and resourcefulness.--The Journal of Southern History
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Tyndale House Publishers Unified
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Racial Domination
Book SynopsisRace is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and current issues, from slavery to police brutality to acute poverty, and it is also used as a term of civic denunciation and moral condemnation. In this erudite and incisive book based on a panoramic mining of comparative and historical research from around the globe, Loïc Wacquant pours cold analytical water on this hot topic and infuses it with epistemological clarity, conceptual precision, and empirical breadth. Drawing on Gaston Bachelard, Max Weber, and Pierre Bourdieu, Wacquant first articulates a series of reframings, starting with dislodging the United States from its Archimedean position, in order to capture race-making as a form of symbolic violence. He then forges a set of novel concepts to rethink the nexus of racial classification and stratification: the continuum of ethnicity and race as disguis
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Herald Press (VA) Lamenting Racism Participant Journal: A Christian
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Herald Press (VA) Lamenting Racism Leader's Guide: A Christian
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University of Minnesota Press Brown Threat: Identification in the Security
Book SynopsisWhat is “brown” in—and beyond—the context of American identity politics? How has the concept changed since 9/11? In the most sustained examination of these questions to date, Kumarini Silva argues that “brown” is no longer conceived of solely as a cultural, ethnic, or political identity. Instead, after 9/11, the Patriot Act, and the wars in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, it has also become a concept and, indeed, a strategy of identification—one rooted in xenophobic, imperialistic, and racist ideologies to target those who do not neatly fit or subscribe to ideas of nationhood. Interweaving personal narratives, ethnographic research, analyses of popular events like the Miss America pageant, and films and TV shows such as the Harold and Kumar franchise and Black-ish, Silva maps junctures where the ideological, political, and mediated terrain intersect, resulting in an appetite for all things “brown” (especially South Asian brown) by U.S. consumers, while political and nationalist discourses and legal structures (immigration, emigration, migration, outsourcing, incarceration) conspire to control brown bodies both within and outside the United States. Silva explores this contradictory relationship between representation and reality, arguing that the representation mediates and manages the anxieties that come from contemporary global realities, in which brown spaces, like India, Pakistan, and the Middle East pose key economic, security, and political challenges to the United States. While racism is hardly new, what makes this iteration of brown new is that anyone or any group, at any time, can be branded as deviant, as a threat. Trade Review"An essential text on the contemporary mediations of race in America. Kumarini Silva's analysis fills a critical gap in studies of race, arguing for the work done by the malleability of the racialized category of "South Asian brown" for the U.S. security state."—Inderpal Grewal, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: America’s Move from Identity to Identification1. What Is Brown? Theorizing Race in Everyday Life2. Un-American: Surviving through Patriotic Performances3. Expulsion and What Is Not: Defining Worthiness of American Citizenship4. Blackness in Brown Times: The Medicalization of RacismConclusion: Wielding Identity to Organize WarfareAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace: A Guide
Book SynopsisYour DEIJ efforts are stagnating because you continue to center whiteness. Creating a truly anti-racist organization requires learning how to identify and rectify the systemic, and often unconscious, centering of white culture and values in the workplace.Corporate America continues to struggle with racial equity in a post-George Floyd world. As the U.S. becomes more diverse and the public consciousness continues to shift, there is a greater need for successful racial equity efforts in the workplace. Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace exposes the ways that white culture and expectations are centered in the modern American workplace and the fears within corporate spaces about talking candidly, openly, and honestly about whiteness, white supremacy, and anti-blackness.Readers will discover: A direct and straightforward analysis about what white-centering is An evaluation of the different ways that whiteness is centered in the workplace such as bereavement and holiday policies to dress code A guide on how to recognize and decenter whiteness within oneself and at work Solutions for people to contribute individually and systemically to anti-oppression Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace provides a crucial guidebook with practical solutions for leaders, DEI practitioners, and anyone hoping to truly create an anti-racist workplace.
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Legacy Lit Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
Book SynopsisA New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024 • A New Yorker Best Book of 2024New York Times Bestseller • USA Today BestsellerKirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of the Year • Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best BooksIn the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning ninety-three-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, that the New York Times described as 'fascinating…meticulous research' and bestselling author Clint Smith endorsed it as 'a book that left me breathless.' On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state’s Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum. In Madness, Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the ninety-three-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents. Madness chronicles the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered as they tried, and sometimes failed, to find safety and dignity. Hylton also grapples with her own family’s experiences with mental illness, and the secrecy and shame that it reproduced for generations. As Crownsville Hospital grew from an antebellum-style work camp to a tiny city sitting on 1,500 acres, the institution became a microcosm of America’s evolving battles over slavery, racial integration, and civil rights. During its peak years, the hospital’s wards were overflowing with almost 2,700 patients. By the end of the 20th-century, the asylum faded from view as prisons and jails became America’s new focus. In Madness, Hylton traces the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people’s bodies and minds in our current mental healthcare system. It is a captivating and heartbreaking meditation on how America decides who is sick or criminal, and who is worthy of our care or irredeemable.
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Seal Press (CA) We Need to Talk about Antisemitism
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Basic Books Metaracism How Systemic Racism Devastates Black
Book SynopsisThe definitive book on how systemic racism in America really works, revealing the vast and often hidden network of interconnected policies, practices, and beliefs that combine to devastate Black lives In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and commentators fiercely debate racism’s very existence. And so, our conversations about racial inequalities remain muddled. In Metaracism, pioneering scholar Tricia Rose cuts through the noise with a bracing and invaluable new account of what systemic racism actually is, how it works, and how we can fight back. She reveals how—from housing to education to criminal justice—an array of policies and practices connect and interact to produce an even more devastating “metaracism” far worse than the sum of its parts. While these systemic connections can be difficult to see—
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Basic Books White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of
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Seal Press (CA) The Power of Dignity: How Transforming Justice
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Basic Books Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys
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University of Arkansas Press The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
Book SynopsisAt an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990's Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her ""the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time."" Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, ""The Long Shadow of Little Rock"", couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was banned throughout the South. In 1988, after the University of Arkansas Press reprinted it, it won an American Book Award. On September 3, 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to surround all-white Central High School and prevent the entry of nine black students, challenging the Supreme Court's 1954 order to integrate all public schools. On September 25, Daisy Bates, an official of the NAACP in Arkansas, led the nine children into the school with the help of federal troops sent by President Eisenhower - the first time in eighty-one years that a president had dispatched troops to the South to protect the constitutional rights of black Americans. This new edition of Bates' own story about these historic events is being issued to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Little Rock School crisis in 2007.Trade ReviewThis is a book which I hope will be read by every American. It is simply told and easy to read, but not pleasant. - Eleanor Roosevelt, from the foreword to the first edition (1962) ""Daisy Bates' vivid memoir illuminates one of the key events of an historic freedom struggle.... Her story will serve as a source of inspiration for future participants in the long struggle for human freedom."" - From the afterword
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University of Arkansas Press Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action: Truth
Book SynopsisOn November 3, 1979, five protest marchers in Greensboro, North Carolina, were shot and killed by the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. There were no police present, but television crews captured the shootings on video. Despite two criminal trials, none of the killers ever served time for their crimes, exposing what many believed to be the inadequacy of judicial, political, and economic systems in the United States. Twenty-five years later, in 2004, Greensboro residents, inspired by post-apartheid South Africa, initiated a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to take public testimony and examine the causes, sequence of events, and consequences of the massacre. The TRC was to be a process and a tool by which citizens could feel confident about the truth of the city’s history in order to reconcile divergent understandings of past and current city values, and it became the foundation for the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the United States. Spoma Jovanovic, who worked alongside other community members to document the grassroots effort to convene the first TRC in the United States, provides a resource and case study of how citizens in one community used their TRC as a way to understand the past and conceive the future. This book preserves the historical significance of a people’s effort to seek truth and work for reconciliation, shows a variety of discourse models for other communities to use in seeking to redress past harms, and demonstrates the power of community action to promote participatory democracy.
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