Social discrimination and social justice Books
Temple University Press,U.S. White Boy: A Memoir
Book SynopsisHow does a Jewish boy who spent the bulk of his childhood on the basketball courts of Brooklyn wind up teaching in one of the city's pioneering black studies departments? Naison's odyssey begins as Brooklyn public schools respond to a new wave of Black migrants and Caribbean immigrants, and established residents flee to virtually all-white parts of the city or suburbs. Already alienated by his parents' stance on race issues and their ambitions for him, he has started on a separate ideological path by the time he enters Columbia College. Once he embarks on a long-term interracial relationship, becomes a member of SDS, focuses his historical work on black activists, and organizes community groups in the Bronx, his immersion in the radical politics of the 1960s has emerged as the center of his life. Determined to keep his ties to the Black community, even when the New Left splits along racial lines, Naison joined the fledgling African American studies program at Fordham, remarkable then as now for its commitment to interracial education. Author note: Mark D. Naison is Professor of African American Studies and History as well as Director of Urban Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of "Communists in Harlem During the Depression".Trade Review"White Boy effectively blends social history and autobiography together in an engaging tale..." The Radical Teacher "When W.E.B. Du Bois wisely cautioned in The Souls of Black Folk that 'he would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa,' might he have had some future Mark Naison in mind? In any case, if a shade of doubt had ever existed about this white boy's qualifications to teach and write African American history, Naison's engrossing, tumultuous memoir ought assure the author a place of honor not only among his professional peers of color but in the front ranks of all those for whom differences based on ideas and ideals--not on color or gender or class--are the only ones that matter." --David Levering Lewis, Martin Luther King, Jr., University Professor at Rutgers University and twice recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1994 and 2001 "White Boy is a happy exception to the absence of autobiographical writings of historians of social movements. It is also an inspired intervention into the history of Black Studies. Its ability to sustain optimism regarding interracialism while acknowledging the costs of long histories and deep structures of division makes the book a great asset." --David Roediger, Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois, and author of Colored White: Transcending The Racial Past "White Boy is one of the most fascinating memoirs I've read in a while. It does much more than provide us with an interesting coming-of-age tale of a smart Jewish kid who discovered and fell in love with black life and culture--a love, like all loves, full of discord and mad misunderstandings. Instead, Naison tries to be self-reflexive along the way, providing social historical contexts while attempting to reconstruct his own sense of naivete he experienced at the moment of certain cultural encounters. Chock full of stories, White Boy will be an important and much debated book." --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Yo' Mama's DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America "...forthright and thoughtful memoir... An adroit writer with a winning voice, Naison avoids romanticizing his activist days; he is at times also critical of New Left tactics (particularly those that reinforced racial polarization among activists), and he interrogates his own interest in and identification with black culture." --Choice "Naison [writes] with unsparing honesty and personal revelation... Naison's memoir grows in importance. It has raised some crucial issues, many of which go to the heart of the continuing search for racial justice and interracial unity. It should be read widely and debated vigorously." --Science and Society "In this forthright and thoughtful memoir, Naison, who became, in the early 1970s, one of the first professors (and the only white man) at Fordham's new Institute of Afro-American Studies, recalls a lifetime of fascination with black history and culture and of antidiscrimination activism. ...An adroit writer with a winning voice, Naison avoids romanticizing his activist days; ...he interrogates his own interest in and identification with black culture." --Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Crown Heights in the 1950s 2. Race Conscious 3. Looking Down on Harlem 4. Meeting Ruthie 5. Contested Territory 6. Ball of Confusion 7. Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide 8. Bringing the War Home 9. A White Man in Black Studies 10. Riders on the Storm 11. Close to the Edge
£999.99
Temple University Press,U.S. New Jack Jocks: Rebels, Race, And The American
Book SynopsisLatrell Sprewell. Allen Iverson. John McEnroe. Even Mohammed Ali and Mike Schmidt and Michael Jordan. These are characters of our national imagination, athletes who stand as symbols of our complex relationship with professional sport.In this erudite and captivating book, bestselling author Larry Platt takes us on a tour through American sports. Offering profiles of the athletes we love (and love to hate), Platt shows that sport, more than any other nationwide pastime, is the way we come to understand—and alter—race relations, gender, and, most profoundly, how we communicate with each other in ways that are often given too little credit in the minds of intellectuals.Thought-provoking and richly written, New Jack Jocks offers a textured picture of how athletes live their lives and how we live out and define American culture by the way we come to understand their lives in and out of the halls of play.Trade Review"Larry Platt's writing flies two places at once: inside America's sports heroes and high above them, gazing down on the strange dynamic between us and them. You won't be able to look at our athletes or our society the same after you've read Platt."—Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated"Larry Platt's view of the sports world reads like fiction—but it's fact! Writers of sitcoms and soap operas could use New Jack Jocks as a source of great content."—Pat Croce, part owner and former president, Philadelphia 76ers"Like the athletes he profiles, Larry Platt is a renegade in his own right. He has always known that the real stories are found outside the arenas and playing fields, and he tells them with insight and passion. Too bad he still can't go left...."—Gail Shister, Philadelphia Inquirer television columnist and former sportswriter"Larry Platt is a rarity among writers—a guy who understands the hip-hop lifestyle of today's athlete. Platt keeps it real; he explains where others judge."—John Lucas, NBA head coach, Cleveland Cavaliers"Few writers get the connection between sports and our public life as well as Larry Platt."—Ed Rendell, former mayor of Philadelphia"Larry Platt is one of the biggest pains in the ass I've had the misfortune of meeting. I can't stand the guy. Unfortunately this is a really good book."—Angelo Cataldi, WIP Radio (Philadelphia) talk show host"...written in a readable style for a variety of ages and audiences."—Kliatt"Platt tackles a wide range of subjects related to sports in his hometown Philadelphia in an attempt to analyze how fans and media construct and define athletic heroism at the turn of the twenty-first century. ...sports fans of all kinds should find the book to be an enjoyable read..."—American StudiesTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: The New Jack Jock1. Spree's World2. Soul Members3. Pat and Allen's Tough Love AdventurePart II: The Anti-Hero4. Portrait of an Artist on the Court5. No Requiem Necessary6. In the Name of the Father7. The Unloved8. The Round Mound Bids FarewellPart III: Entrepreneurs9. The Graying of Dr. J10. Magic Johnson Builds an Empire11. The Business of Rebellion12. Even the Ball Is White13. Jelly MakerAcknowledgments
£999.99
Baker Publishing Group Prey Tell – Why We Silence Women Who Tell the
Book Synopsis"A welcome book offering an important wake-up call to the Christian community and beyond."--Gail Eubanks, Library Journal Tiffany Bluhm wishes this wasn't her story to tell. Yet like many women today who are taking action against sexual harassment and sexual assault, it is. Bluhm explores the complex dynamics of power and abuse in systems we all find ourselves in. With honesty and strength, she tells stories of how women have overcome silence to expose the truth about their ministry and professional leaders--and the backlash they so often face. In so doing, she empowers others to speak up against abuses of power. Addressing men and women in all work settings--within the church and beyond--popular author and podcast host Tiffany Bluhm sets out to understand the cultural and spiritual narratives that silence women and to illuminate the devastating emotional, financial, and social impact of silence in the face of injustice. As readers journey with Bluhm, they will be moved to find their own way, their own voice, and their own conviction for standing with women. They'll emerge more ready than ever to advocate for justice, healing, and resurrection.Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionPart 1: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth1. Everything Is Just Fine2. His Way or the Highway3. Be Quiet4. But He's Done So Much for MePart 2: How We Silence Women5. What Do You Have to Lose?6. The Questioning7. Puppets of the Patriarchy8. Look at Who I AmPart 3: How Everyone Can Speak Up9. Allies10. It's Not Her Fault11. He Is Not Indispensable12. Believe Women
£20.12
Temple University Press,U.S. New Jack Jocks: Rebels, Race, And The American
Book SynopsisLatrell Sprewell. Allen Iverson. John McEnroe. Even Mohammed Ali and Mike Schmidt and Michael Jordan. These are characters of our national imagination, athletes who stand as symbols of our complex relationship with professional sport.In this erudite and captivating book, bestselling author Larry Platt takes us on a tour through American sports. Offering profiles of the athletes we love (and love to hate), Platt shows that sport, more than any other nationwide pastime, is the way we come to understand—and alter—race relations, gender, and, most profoundly, how we communicate with each other in ways that are often given too little credit in the minds of intellectuals.Thought-provoking and richly written, New Jack Jocks offers a textured picture of how athletes live their lives and how we live out and define American culture by the way we come to understand their lives in and out of the halls of play.Trade Review"Larry Platt's writing flies two places at once: inside America's sports heroes and high above them, gazing down on the strange dynamic between us and them. You won't be able to look at our athletes or our society the same after you've read Platt."—Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated"Larry Platt's view of the sports world reads like fiction—but it's fact! Writers of sitcoms and soap operas could use New Jack Jocks as a source of great content."—Pat Croce, part owner and former president, Philadelphia 76ers"Like the athletes he profiles, Larry Platt is a renegade in his own right. He has always known that the real stories are found outside the arenas and playing fields, and he tells them with insight and passion. Too bad he still can't go left...."—Gail Shister, Philadelphia Inquirer television columnist and former sportswriter"Larry Platt is a rarity among writers—a guy who understands the hip-hop lifestyle of today's athlete. Platt keeps it real; he explains where others judge."—John Lucas, NBA head coach, Cleveland Cavaliers"Few writers get the connection between sports and our public life as well as Larry Platt."—Ed Rendell, former mayor of Philadelphia"Larry Platt is one of the biggest pains in the ass I've had the misfortune of meeting. I can't stand the guy. Unfortunately this is a really good book."—Angelo Cataldi, WIP Radio (Philadelphia) talk show host"...written in a readable style for a variety of ages and audiences."—Kliatt"Platt tackles a wide range of subjects related to sports in his hometown Philadelphia in an attempt to analyze how fans and media construct and define athletic heroism at the turn of the twenty-first century. ...sports fans of all kinds should find the book to be an enjoyable read..."—American StudiesTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: The New Jack Jock1. Spree's World2. Soul Members3. Pat and Allen's Tough Love AdventurePart II: The Anti-Hero4. Portrait of an Artist on the Court5. No Requiem Necessary6. In the Name of the Father7. The Unloved8. The Round Mound Bids FarewellPart III: Entrepreneurs9. The Graying of Dr. J10. Magic Johnson Builds an Empire11. The Business of Rebellion12. Even the Ball Is White13. Jelly MakerAcknowledgments
£999.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Swimming Against the Tide: African American Girls
Book SynopsisThe experiences in families, communities, and peer-groups that help young African American women "swim against the tide" of the white, male science education systemTrade Review"Swimming Against the Tide addresses a crucial lacunae in the body of literature on women in science, particularly women of color. This is a ‘new’ and innovative approach, since very few book publications on women in science have addressed the subject of African American women in science and from an age specific and culturally relevant perspective. Theoretically and methodologically strong, this is an example of feminist scholarship at its best." —Josephine Beoku-Betts, Professor of Women’s Studies and Sociology, Florida Atlantic University"Swimming Against the Tide addresses important research issues, with implications for the cultivation and retention of scientific talent and for practice and policy in science education. It also has implications for understanding the 'culture of science’ and the factors that encourage/discourage participation. Hanson’s statistical data and analyses are significant in the strength of findings, [in the] power of inference for young women's interest in and perceptions about science, and for the ways in which race and gender do/do not operate together in affecting outcomes for young women"— Mary Frank Fox, Advance Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology"[A]n excellent resource for those who are not familiar with this body of literature about race and science.... This book, overall, is an important contribution to our understanding of the gender, race, and class dynamics that influence the career decision-making of young women...Hanson's synthesis of previous studies on the subject makes this a valuable resource for those hoping to expand and deepen an understanding about how our educational system and science culture itself should be transformed to be a welcoming place for all who have an interest in exploring nature and the world in which we live." —Teachers College RecordTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Understanding Young African American Women's Experiences in Science 2. The Conceptual Framework: A Critical-Feminist Approach 3. Young African American Women's Experiences in Science: "Science Is Like Opening A Present from Your Favorite Aunt. You Just Can't Wait to Open It Because You Know There Is Something Wonderful and Unique Inside." 4. Influences—Teachers and Schools: "They Looked at Us Like We Weren't Supposed to Be Scientists." 5. Influences—Family and Community: "My Mother Never Minded Me Using Her Kitchen Utensils to Dig Up Insects and Worms to Explore." 6. Influences—Peers: "I Know Plenty of Girls at My School [Who] Love Science." 7. Conclusions: "Science Is Not About Which Race Likes It Better, It Is About Doing What You Like." Appendix A: Tables Appendix B: Detail on Knowledge Networks Sampling Appendix C: Test for Vignettes Appendix D: Selected Questions from Knowledge Networks Survey Appendix E: Detail on NELS Sampling and Data Notes Reference Index
£999.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Twenty-First Century Color Lines: Multiracial
Book SynopsisExploring the multiracial, multiethnicTrade Review"An excellent and timely collection on an important set of civil rights issues."—Pedro Noguera, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York UniversityTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: The Past as Racial Prologue? 1. Color Lines in a Multiracial Nation: An Institutional Demographic Overview of the United States in the Twenty-First Century Part I: Foundations of Multiracial Inequality 2. Color Lines in the Mind: Implicit Prejudice, Discrimination, and the Potential for Change 3. Structural Racism and Color Lines in the United States Part II: Ambiguities of Racial and Ethnic Identity 4. "We Are Not Like Them": Social Distancing and Realignment in the U.S. Latino Racial Hierarchy 5. The Paradox of the Puerto Rican Race: The Interplay of Racism and Nationalism under U.S. Colonialism 6. Shared Fates in Asian Transracial Adoption: Korean Adoptee Experiences of Difference in Their Families Part III: Negotiating Change: Group Interaction on the Ground 7. Multiracial Youth Scenes and the Dynamics of Race: New Approaches to Racialization within the Bay Area Hip Hop Underground 8. Toward Diversity That Works: Building Communities through Arts and Culture 9. Commonality in Values across the Racial Divide 10. Immigrant Political Empowerment in New York and Los Angeles Part IV: The Road Ahead? 11. To Be Continued? The "Problem of the Color Line" in the Twenty-First Century Conclusion: Color Lines, the New Society, and the Responsibility of Scholars Contributors Index
£999.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Twenty-First Century Color Lines: Multiracial
Book SynopsisExploring the multiracial, multiethnicTrade Review"An excellent and timely collection on an important set of civil rights issues."—Pedro Noguera, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York UniversityTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: The Past as Racial Prologue? 1. Color Lines in a Multiracial Nation: An Institutional Demographic Overview of the United States in the Twenty-First Century Part I: Foundations of Multiracial Inequality 2. Color Lines in the Mind: Implicit Prejudice, Discrimination, and the Potential for Change 3. Structural Racism and Color Lines in the United States Part II: Ambiguities of Racial and Ethnic Identity 4. "We Are Not Like Them": Social Distancing and Realignment in the U.S. Latino Racial Hierarchy 5. The Paradox of the Puerto Rican Race: The Interplay of Racism and Nationalism under U.S. Colonialism 6. Shared Fates in Asian Transracial Adoption: Korean Adoptee Experiences of Difference in Their Families Part III: Negotiating Change: Group Interaction on the Ground 7. Multiracial Youth Scenes and the Dynamics of Race: New Approaches to Racialization within the Bay Area Hip Hop Underground 8. Toward Diversity That Works: Building Communities through Arts and Culture 9. Commonality in Values across the Racial Divide 10. Immigrant Political Empowerment in New York and Los Angeles Part IV: The Road Ahead? 11. To Be Continued? The "Problem of the Color Line" in the Twenty-First Century Conclusion: Color Lines, the New Society, and the Responsibility of Scholars Contributors Index
£999.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Race and Class Matters at an Elite College
Book SynopsisHow race and class collide at a prestigious liberal arts collegeTrade Review"Finally, a case study that skillfully unpacks the problems of race and privilege, the less visible inheritance of social class, and the well-intentioned but unfinished campus efforts at environmental engineering. Elizabeth Aries’ insights and recommendations are as serious and relevant as the vexing challenges our colleges face."—Eugene M. Tobin, Program Officer for the Liberal Arts Colleges Program at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, former President of Hamilton College, and co-author of Equity and Excellence in American Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Becoming a More Diverse College: Challenges and Benefits 2. Investigating Race and Class Matters on Campus 3. First Encounters with Race and Class 4. Negotiating Class Differences 5. Relationships across Race and Class 6. Learning from Racial Diversity 7. Learning from Class-Based Diversity 8. Negotiating Racial Issues 9. As the Year Ended 10. Meeting the Challenges of Diversity Appendix A: On-Line Survey Measures Appendix B: Interview Questions Notes Reference Index
£999.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i
Book SynopsisChallenges the misconception of Hawai'i as a racial paradise by analyzing how ethnic inequality is maintained among its constituent groupsTrade Review"What is most compelling about Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i is the detail and historiography. Okamura's knowledge of local issues and ethnic identity in Hawai'i is impressive. This book will make a wonderful contribution to conversations about race and ethnicity in American studies, ethnic studies, and perhaps sociology too." -Dana Takagi, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa CruzTable of Contents1: Introduction; 2: Changing Ethnic Differences; 3: Socioeconomic Inequality and Ethnicity; 4: Educational Inequality and Ethnicity; 5: Constructing Ethnic Identities, Constructing Differences; 6: Japanese Americans: Toward Symbolic Identity; 7: Filipino Americans: Model Minority or Dogeaters?; 8: Conclusion
£999.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans After 9/11
Book SynopsisHow Muslim-American identity has been shaped by 9/11 and its after effectsTrade Review"In this savvy, research-based book, sociologist Peek (Colorado State Univ.) reports on interviews with Arab and South Asian Muslim Americans conducted after the 9/11 attacks. Peek provides an excellent introduction to the oppressive realities these Americans face, including sharp increases in hate crimes and illegal government spying after 9/11... This important book counters many US myths about Muslim Americans, their origins, and their life experiences. It makes them 'come alive' as important US residents seeking to counter 'othering' by fellow Americans...Summing Up: Highly recommended." -Choice "[A] well-researched, thoughtful examination of how processes of postdisaster backlash heighten social boundaries, despite both popular and scholarly assumptions of solidarity after disaster... One highlight of Peek's analysis is her sensitive consideration of the impact of 9/11 backlash on respondents who are less 'visibly Muslim.'...[The book] is engagingly written and often powerful." -Sociology of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Under Attack 3. Encountering Intolerance 4. Backlash 5. Repercussions 6. Adaptations 7. Conclusion Notes Index
£999.99
University of New Orleans Press Entangled Histories and the Environment?:
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£21.00
Michigan State University Press The Dialectics of Citizenship: Exploring
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a citizen? What impact does an active democracy have on its citizenry and why does it fail or succeed in fulfilling its promises? Most modern democracies seem unable to deliver the goods that citizens expect; many politicians seem to have given up on representing the wants and needs of those who elected them and are keener on representing themselves and their financial backers. What will it take to bring democracy back to its original promise of rule by the people? Bernd Reiter’s timely analysis reaches back to ancient Greece and the Roman Republic in search of answers. It examines the European medieval city republics, revolutionary France, and contemporary Brazil, Portugal, and Colombia. Through an innovative exploration of country cases, this study demonstrates that those who stand to lose something from true democracy tend to oppose it, making the genealogy of citizenship concurrent with that of exclusion. More often than not, exclusion leads to racialisation, stigmatising the excluded to justify their non-membership. Each case allows for different insights into the process of how citizenship is upheld and challenged. Together, the cases reveal how exclusive rights are constituted by contrasting members to non-members who in that very process become racialised others. The book provides an opportunity to understand the dynamics that weaken democracy so that they can be successfully addressed and overcome in the future.
£999.99
Michigan State University Press Blackhood Against the Police Power: Punishment
Book SynopsisBoth significant and timely, this book addresses the punishment of “race” and the disavowal of sexual violence central to the contemporary “post-racial” culture of politics. Here the author asserts that the post-racial presents an antiblack animus that should be read as desiring the end of blackness and the black liberation movement’s singular ethical claims. The book redefines policing as a sociohistorical process of implementing antiblackness and, in so doing, redefines racism as an act of sexual violence that produces the punishment of race. It smartly critiques the way leading antiracist discourse is frequently complicit with antiblackness and recalls the original 1960s conception of black studies as a corrective to the deficiencies in today’s critical discourse on race and sex.The book explores these lines of inquiry to pinpoint how the history of racial slavery wraps itself in a new discourse of disavowal. In this way, Blackhood Against the Police Power responds to a range of texts, policies, practices, and representations complicit with the police power - from the Fourth Amendment and the movements to curtail stop-and-frisk policing and mass incarceration to popular culture treatments of blackness to the leading academic discourses on race and sex politics.
£999.99
Chicago Review Press Freeing David McCallum: The Last Miracle of Rubin
Book SynopsisFor ten years before Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s death, he and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky had been working to help free another wrongfully convicted man, David McCallum. McCallum was eventually exonerated and freed after serving twenty-nine years in prison. This is the story of how Carter and Klonsky, along with a group of committed friends and professionals, managed to secure McCallum’s release. It details their many struggles, from founding an innocence project to take on the case, finding lawyers willing to work pro bono, and hiring a private detective to sift through old evidence and locate original witnesses, to the most difficult part: convincing members of a deeply flawed criminal justice system to reopen a case that would expose their own mistakes when all they wanted to do was ignore the conflicting evidence. A new district attorney willing to reexamine the case, a documentary film, and an op-ed piece in which Carter, on his deathbed, made a plea for McCallum’s release finally turned the tide of justice. Trade Review"After you read this gripping tale of a Brooklyn teenager coerced into falsely confessing and freed nearly thirty years later, you will not think about confession evidence or criminal investigations the same way." Brandon L. Garrett, author of End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice and Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong"I was the judge who granted a writ of habeas corpus to Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter resulting in his freedom after serving nineteen years in prison for a wrongful conviction. After his release we became friends, and he often spoke of his commitment to obtain the release of David McCallum. Freeing David McCallum is the compelling true story of the exoneration of another man wrongly convicted. His miraculous release, after twenty-nine years, demonstrates that fortunately there are those among us who will devote themselves unsparingly to freeing the innocent." Judge H. Lee Sarokin, retired
£14.20
Experiment How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do
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Time Home Entertainment Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New
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Triumph Books Game Misconduct: Hockey's Toxic Culture and How
Book SynopsisA bracing call to arms for hockey fans, players, and coaches everywhere Those who have been lured by the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice, by the incomparable speed, split-second decisions, and everything-or-nothing attitude of the game know that hockey can seem like its own world. It's all-consuming and exhilarating, boasting its own language and complex morality code. Yet in another light, that tight community can turn insular; the values of teamwork and humility can manifest as collective silence in the face of abuse and discrimination, issues which have been brought to the forefront of the sport as many share their stories for the first time. In Game Misconduct, reporters Evan Moore and Jashvina Shah reveal hockey's toxic undercurrent which has permeated the sport throughout the junior, college, and professional levels. They address the topic with a level of passion that comes from being rabid hockey fans themselves, and from experiencing its exclusivity first-hand. With a sensitive yet incisive approach, this necessary book lays bare the issues of racism, homophobia, xenophobia, bullying, sexism, and violence on and off the ice. Readers will learn about notable players and activists fighting for transformation as well as those beyond the spotlight who are nonetheless deeply affected by hockey's culture of inaction.Both a reckoning and a roadmap, Game Misconduct is an essential read for modern hockey fans, showing the truth of the sport's past and present while offering the tools to fight for a better future.
£22.46
Pitchstone Publishing The Raceless Antiracist
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Bloomsbury Publishing Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about
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Triumph Books Game Misconduct: Hockey's Toxic Culture and How
Book SynopsisThose who have been lured by the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice, by the incomparable speed, split-second decisions, and everything-or-nothing attitude of the game know that hockey can seem like its own world. It's all-consuming and exhilarating, boasting its own language and complex morality code. Yet in another light, that tight community can turn insular; the values of teamwork and humility can manifest as collective silence in the face of abuse and discrimination, issues which have been brought to the forefront of the sport as many share their stories for the first time. In Game Misconduct, reporters Evan Moore and Jashvina Shah reveal hockey's toxic undercurrent which has permeated the sport throughout the junior, college, and professional levels. They address the topic with a level of passion that comes from being rabid hockey fans themselves, and from experiencing its exclusivity first-hand. With a sensitive yet incisive approach, this necessary book lays bare the issues of racism, homophobia, xenophobia, bullying, sexism, and violence on and off the ice. Readers will learn about notable players and activists fighting for transformation as well as those beyond the spotlight who are nonetheless deeply affected by hockey's culture of inaction. Both a reckoning and a roadmap, Game Misconduct is an essential read for modern hockey fans, showing the truth of the sport's past and present while offering the tools to fight for a better future.
£16.10
Chicago Review Press The Brown Bullet: Rajo Jack's Drive to Integrate
Book SynopsisThe powers-that-be in 1920s auto racing, namely the American Automobile Association’s Contest Board, barred everyone who wasn’t a white male from the sport. But Dewey Gatson, a black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, drove into the center of “outlaw” auto racing in California, refusing to let the pervasive racism of his day stop him from competing against entire fields of white drivers. In The Brown Bullet, journalist Bill Poehler uncovers the life of a long-forgotten trailblazer and the great lengths he took to even get on the track, showing ultimately how Rajo Jack proved to a generation that a black man could compete with some of the greatest white drivers of his era, winning some of the biggest races of the day.Trade Review"Poehler has done a fine job of researching the life of Rajo Jack, relating his determination and poise in the face of discrimination." - Library Journal"This excellent, very important book tells an inspirational tale." Hemmings
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Chicago Review Press Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets,
Book Synopsis"With unflinching honesty, E. Dolores Johnson shares an enthralling story of identity, independence, family, and love. This timely and beautifully written memoir ends on a complicated yet hopeful note, something we need in this time of racial strife." —De'Shawn Charles Winslow, author of In West Mills Say I’m Dead is the true story of family secrets, separation, courage, and transformation through five generations of interracial relationships. Fearful of prison time—or lynching—for violating Indiana’s antimiscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson’s Black father and White mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry in Buffalo, New York. When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots, she searched her father’s black genealogy. But in the process, Johnson suddenly realized that her mother’s whole white family was—and always had been—missing. When she began to pry, her mother’s 36-year-old secret spilled out.Her mother had simply vanished from Indiana, evading an FBI and police search that had ended with the conclusion that she had been the victim of foul play.Trade Review"Powerfully important and deeply moving, Say I'm Dead is a story of race, family, and identity. Dolores Johnson is the daughter of a black man and a white womanbut how and why it took her years to realize that, and to unearth the secrets that defined her family along the way, testifies to the complicated his-tory of race relations in America. Johnson lived the changes our country has gone through and continues to wrestle with, and her story will both inspire and educate." Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich , author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir" Say I'm Dead is not only a candid, compelling, and ultimately hopeful story of one woman's quest to understand her family and herself through the lens of identity, it is also the story of an American identity riddled with secrets, lies, grievance, and thinly veiled shame. In telling her own alternately painful and exhilarating history, E. Dolores Johnson is subtly asking us all to turn the mirror on ourselves." Christopher Castellani, author of Leading Men"Say I'm Dead is a beautiful and probing family history of a woman's deep secret: she left behind her White family in 1940s Indiana to marry a Black man in New York. Decades before the Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court case overturned anti-miscegenation laws, Ella and Charles affirmed Du Bois's prescient theory that the problem of the twentieth century was indeed the problem of the color line. Their mixed-race daughter lives on the color line, a Black woman who comes to question her White background. This compelling story with related themes of race, class, education, and history furthers the exigent discussions of biraciality in the United States." Dr. Donavan L. Ramon, Kentucky State University, author of Betraying Their Colored Descent: Psychoanalysis and Racial Passing"During the 1940s, it was better to disappear or die than break anti-miscegenation laws. When Dolores wants to search for her White mother's estranged family, 'Say I'm dead,' is what her mother tells Dolores to say should she find them. The prose is clear, sharp, and insightful, and the writer's quest to find the truth about her family is as gripping as any mystery. Through one family's story, the memoir explores the tragedy of how racism divides us and also how one family moves beyond fear and bias. A must-read memoir for readers interested in a daughter's courageous search for her history, which is inextricably intertwined with the story of race in America." âGrace Talusan, author of The Body Papers , winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing in Nonfiction"With unflinching honesty, E. Dolores Johnson shares an enthralling story of identity, independence, family, and love. This timely and beautifully written memoir ends on a complicated yet hopeful note, something we need in this time of racial strife." De'Shawn Charles Winslow, author of In West Mills"With protests since the killing of George Floyd pushing the issue of racial justice to the fore, this timely book tells a Buffalo story with powerful appeal." The Buffalo News" Say I'm Dead is a compelling tale about the legacy of racism in America, family and the power of love." WBUR's The ARTery
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Chicago Review Press Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying On a Montgomery
Book SynopsisIn 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the city’s famous bus boycott, a Negro man named Hilliard Brooks was shot and killed by a white police officer in a confrontation after he tried to board a city bus. Thomas Gray, who had played football with Hilliard when they were kids, was outraged by the unjustifiable shooting. Gray protested, eventually staging a major downtown march to register voters, and standing up to police brutality. Five years later, he led another protest, this time against unjust treatment on the city’s segregated buses. On the front lines of what became the Montgomery bus boycott, Gray withstood threats and bombings alongside his brother, Fred D. Gray, the young lawyer who represented Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the rarely mentioned Claudette Colvin, a plaintiff in the case that forced Alabama to desegregate its buses. An incredible story of family in the pivotal years of the civil rights movement, Daughter of the Boycott is the reflection of Thomas Gray’s daughter, award-winning broadcast journalist Karen Gray Houston, on how her father’s and uncle’s selfless actions changed the nation’s racial climate and opened doors for her and countless other African Americans.Trade Review"There are many narratives yet to come out of the galvanizing civil rights movement. Karen Gray Houston's tender and powerful memoir is one such story." -- Wil Haygood , author of The Butler: A Witness to History , Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America , In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. , Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson"Our home was targeted by Ku Klux Klan bombings three times because of our activism in the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. I was a young white pastor of an all-black Lutheran church. More than 60 years later, as you will find in Daughter of the Boycott the true story of that fight for racial justice is still unfolding. Long lost police records were recently discovered, including an appeal bond for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was charged with conspiracy for his participation on the boycott. (However, the actual evidence about the bombings had been destroyed.) Our family and friends purchased at an auction a note written by our dear friend Rosa Parks, detailing how she was awakened by the bombing and raced to our parsonage to be of assistance. For us, this Gray family memoir is personal, taking you on an amazing journey, introducing you to people who played important behind-the-scene roles, unearthing untold stories. Our family became lifelong friends of Karen Gray Houston's father and mother, Thomas and Juanita Gray, and Karen's uncle, attorney Fred Gray, both leaders in the boycott. All of us worked closely with Dr. King, who dreamed of a Beloved Community, where all people would accept and respect each other with love, regardless of the differences that divide us. The book speaks to real experiences of being black in America, reminding us of important past events that force the country to own up to its history." -- Robert S. Graetz Jr. , author of A White Preacher's Message on Race and Reconciliation"Thank you, Karen Gray Houston, for your insightful and inspiring visit with the true heroes of the civil rights movement: the ordinary citizens who stood up at great risk to bring the injustice of Jim Crow segregation to an end so that all Americans can go forward." Clarence Page , Pulitzer Prize--winning Chicago Tribune columnist" Daughter of the Boycott is more than a beautiful and moving memoir, it's an important work of history. With passion and insight, Karen Gray Houston tells an unforgettable story." Jonathan Eig , author of Ali: A Life and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season"Everything Karen Gray Houston accomplished as a journalist prepared her to tell this story in a truly authentic and masterful way, as no one else can tell it." A'Lelia Bundles , author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker"We do not have enough written words illustrating that the civil rights movement did not emerge from nowhere, and the strength of family and community that pushed it forward. Karen Gray Houston's Daughter of the Boycott teaches this. She is to be praised for doing so and admired for doing it so well." Charles E. Cobb Jr. , veteran of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and author of This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed"a welcome reminder that profound social changes can also result from the quiet heroism of people with unshakable commitment to nonviolence." Kirkus Reviews"The book speaks to real experiences of being black in America, reminding us of important past events that force the country to own up to its history." Robert S. Graetz Jr. , author of A White Preacher's Message on Race and Reconciliation
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Chicago Review Press Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets,
Book SynopsisFearful of prison time—or lynching—for violating Indiana’s anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry in Buffalo. Her mother simply vanished, evading an FBI and police search that ended with the declaration to her family that she was the victim of foul play, either dead or a victim of human trafficking. When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. As an African American, she withstood the advice of a high school counselor who said that blacks don’t go to college by graduating from Harvard. Then, as a code-switching business executive feeling too far from her black roots, she searched her father’s black genealogy. Johnson was amazed to suddenly realize that her mother's whole white side was—and always had been—missing. When confronted, her mother's decades-old secret spilled out. Despite her parents’ crippling and well-founded fears of rejection and reprisals, and her black militant brother’s accusation that she was a race traitor, Johnson went searching for the white family who did not know she existed. When she found them, it’s not just their shock and her mama’s shame that have to be overcome, but her own fraught experiences with whites.Table of ContentsPrologue 1 Code Switch 2 Dress Box 3 Lonely Only 4 My Whole Self 5 Details 6 A Train Ride 7 Black Girl 8 I Am Somebody 9 Searching 10 Deep South 11 A Lingering Smoky Odor 12 Too Through 13 Just Listen 14 The Visit 15 Indiana Chronicles 16 The Guard Tower 17 Shift 18 Europe 19 Belonging Everywhere 20 Flow On 21 Leaning into Brown Epilogue Acknowledgments Questions for Discussion
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Chicago Review Press Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the
Book SynopsisOvernight Code tells the story of Raye Montague, an ambitious little girl from segregated Little Rock who spent a lifetime educating herself, both inside and outside of the classroom, so that she could become the person and professional she aspired to be. Where some saw roadblocks, Montague only saw hurdles that needed to be overcome. Her mindset helped her become the first person to draft a Naval ship design by computer, using a program she worked late nights to debug. She did this as a single mother during the height of the Cold War, all the while imbuing her son with the hard-won wisdom she had accumulated throughout the years. Equal parts coming-of-age tale, civil rights history, and reflection on the power of education, Overnight Code is a tale about the persistence and perseverance required to forge the life of your dreams when the odds against you seem insurmountable, and shows how one woman refused to let other people’s prejudices stand in the way of her success.Table of ContentsForeword Part I: Jim Crow 1. Little Girl from Little Rock 2. The Submarine 3. Life in Pine Bluff 4. Aiming for the Stars Part II: A Capital Time 5. Exodus 6. Making Waves in the Navy 7. A Change Is Gonna Come 8. Impossible Tasks 9. Equal Opportunities 10. Love and Happiness Part III: Bringing It Full Circle 11. Another Direction 12. The Mentor 13. David 14. On the Shoulders of Giants 15. Retirement Epilogue Honors and Accolades Acknowledgments Notes
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Yo y la supremacía blanca: Combate el racismo,
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University of Arkansas Press Just and Righteous Causes: Rabbi Ira Sanders and
Book SynopsisA dedicated advocate for social justice long before the term entered everyday usage, Rabbi Ira Sanders began striving against the Jim Crow system soon after he arrived in Little Rock from New York in 1926. Sanders, who led Little Rock’s Temple B’nai Israel for nearly forty years, was a trained social worker as well as a rabbi and his career as a dynamic religious and community leader in Little Rock spanned the traumas of the Great Depression, World War II and the Holocaust, and the social and racial struggles of the 1950s and 1960s.Just and Righteous Causes—a full biographical study of this bold social-activist rabbi—examines how Sanders expertly navigated the intersections of race, religion, and gender to advocate for a more just society. It joins a growing body of literature about the lives and histories of Southern rabbis, deftly balancing scholarly and narrative tones to provide a personal look into the complicated position of the Southern rabbi and the Jewish community throughout the political struggles of the twentieth-century South.Trade ReviewIn this highly readable and well-researched biography of Ira Sanders, James L. Moses depicts the major contributions made by a hitherto unsung hero of the long civil rights movement. Starting as a young man, but spiraling after witnessing a horrific lynching in 1926, Sanders launched a crusade against segregation highlighted by his stand before the Arkansas legislature against four segregationist laws, his outspoken position during the Little Rock High School crisis, and his commitment to integrated housing. Although his experiences with numerous other social justice reforms established him in his community, as with other Reform rabbis in the South who spoke out, his experience began earlier than most, and the Little Rock environment proved to be generally more moderate than in numerous other southern cities. This book places Sanders in context within his community and relation to the activities—or lack thereof—of other rabbis. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Little Rock, Arkansas, and southern history, the civil rights movement, and southern and American Jewish history." —Mark K. Bauman, editor, Southern Jewish History"An important new biography by James L. Moses, Just and Righteous Causes: Rabbi Ira Sanders and the Fight for Social Justice in Arkansas, meticulously chronicles Sanders’ significant, if largely till now unheralded, role in Southern Jewish history." —Tablet Magazine, January 2019"Historians of Arkansas, civil rights and American Judaism will find Just and Righteous Causes an indispensable addition to the literature." —Melanie K. Welch, Arkansas Review, August 2019"Just and Righteous Causes serves as an accessible and well researched biography of an important Arkansan. … will appeal to casual readers and interested experts alike, even as it adds an important chapter to the histories of Little Rock, southern Jews, and the civil rights movement." —Josh Parshall, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Summer 2019"With Just and Righteous Causes: Rabbi Ira Sanders and the Fight for Racial and Social Justice in Arkansas, 1926–1963, James L. Moses makes a welcome contribution to the study of mid-twentieth-century southern rabbis who walked a tightrope between discharging their duties as spiritual leaders and responding to wider social justice concerns." —Mary Stanton, The Journal of Southern History, November 2019"Just and Righteous Causes is an excellent look into the life of one of the South’s most prominent social justice and civil rights activists of the twentieth century. It successfully provides the casual reader, as well as scholars, with a valuable resource that helps shed light on not only Sanders’s life but the period as well." —Seth A. Weitz, The Journal of American History, March 2020
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Sounds True Inc Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the
Book Synopsis"Racism is a heart disease," writes Ruth King, "and it's curable." Exploring a crucial topic seldom addressed in meditation instruction, this revered teacher takes to her pen to shine a compassionate, provocative, and practical light into a deeply neglected and world-changing domain profoundly relevant to all of us. With Mindful of Race, Ruth King offers: Tend first to our suffering, listen to what it is trying to teach us, and direct its energies most effectively for change. Here, she invites us to explore: Ourselves as racial beings, the dynamics of oppression, and our role in racism • The power of paying homage to our most turbulent emotions, and perceiving the wisdom they hold • Key mindfulness tools to understand and engage with racial tension • Identifying our "soft spots" of fear and vulnerability—how we defend them and how to heal them • Embracing discomfort, which is a core competency for transformation • How our thoughts and emotions "rigidify" our sense of self—and how to return to the natural flow of who we are • Body, breath, and relaxation practices to befriend and direct our inner resources • Identifying our most sensitive "activation points" and tending to them with caring awareness • "It’s not just your pain"—the generational constellations of racial rage and ignorance and how to work with them • And many other compelling topics Drawing on her expertise as a meditation teacher and diversity consultant, King helps readers of all backgrounds examine with fresh eyes the complexity of racial identity and the dynamics of oppression. She offers guided instructions on how to work with our own role in the story of race and shows us how to cultivate a culture of care to come to a place of greater clarity and compassion.
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Sourcebooks Me and White Supremacy: A Guided Journal: The
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Sourcebooks Me and White Supremacy Book and Guided Journal
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Baraka Books Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico
Book SynopsisIshmael Reed has devoted his life to uncovering the neglected cultural and historical record of the United States, no matter how ugly it might be. He uses a full-court press: fiction, poetry, plays, songs, films, interviews, essays, and more. With Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico, Reed is at his best: insightful, hard-hitting, eclectic, refreshing, caustic, entertaining, informative, and, yes, funny. The War of Rebellion still divides the United States. President Trump, and millions of southerners wish to maintain monuments to generals like Robert E. Lee. Yet those who actually fought under them ran away by the thousands. Some rebel generals, whom the famous pro-confederate propaganda film “Gone With The Wind” referred to as “Knights,” earned their massacre bona fides by murdering thousands of blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans, who were often unarmed. The “Knight” Robert E. Lee fought children during the Battle of Buena Vista in 1847. The children, Los niños heroes (pictured on the cover), refused to surrender and were slaughtered. The subjects addressed in this book of essays are vast. They include white nationalism, Donald Trump, Quentin Tarantino and Django, the musical Hamilton, Ferguson, Missouri, Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones, a different take on #metoo, the one-at-a-time tokenism of an elite, who chooses winners and losers among minority artists, the Alt-Right, the use of immigrants to shame black America, and much more. After The Complete Muhammad Ali, recognized by many as the “truly definitive book” on the champion, Ishmael Reed is back with another exciting book of essays that will stir up debate in the United States and abroad.Trade ReviewIshmael Reed is the purest literary troublemaker we currently have... a book that is arresting... always-bracing and readable." —Jeff Simon, Buffalo News"One of 12 top books of 2019: Ishmael Reed builds on the theme of resisting white supremacy through the power of multi-racial coalitions with pugilistic essays that pull no punches.... His essay "White Nationalism's Last Stand" is so hopeful that it's worth the price of the ticket alone." —Michael Berry and D. Scot Miller, East Bay Express"Since the mid-twentieth century, Ishmael Reed has been deep, abrasive, and didactic, an iconoclastic champion of what is "good" and a formidable critic of what is "bad" in domestic and transnational affairs. Reed is a fighter, a battered but undefeated fighter. Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico is a compelling record of his place in literary histories and moral struggles. It is a feast one consumes with grains of pepper and salt." —Jerry W Ward, Jr, New World Review
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Page Two Books, Inc. Rising: From a Mud Hut to the Boardroom - and
Book SynopsisAn identity that spans the globe. In this astonishing memoir, Graci Harkema revisits her experience growing up as an adoptee from the Congo in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She traces her path to claiming and living her own story, becoming a successful consultant on diversity, equity and inclusion, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, and women in business. Born amid civil unrest in a mud hut in the Congo and weighing a mere three pounds, Harkema was left at an orphanage, where she was not expected to live another day. But that afternoon, a visiting American missionary saw her sleeping in a doll's bed and heard a voice inside her say, "This is your daughter." Her childhood was spent wishing to be lighter and blonder, like her siblings and classmates. Out of fear of standing out even more from her peers, Harkema kept her sexuality a secret, only coming out of the closet years later-during a job interview! Eventually, she learned to see her identity as her superpower, instead of her shame. Today, Harkema helps embrace diversity and drive inclusion to ensure open and safe work environments. She is committed to empowering employees to perform to their potential as their authentic selves-setting an example as she continues to live her own story, journeying to meet her birth mother, to discover one more piece of herself.
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Auckland University Press Oceans Between Us
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Verso Books Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after
Book SynopsisWhen the French government passed a ban on the veil in 2011, surprisingly few French feminists spoke out against the racist measure. Christine Delphy--the sociologist who Simone de Beauvoir once described as "France's most exciting feminist writer"--was one of the notable few. Castigating humanitarian liberals for demanding cultural assimilation of the women they were purporting to "save," Delphy showed how criminalizing Islam in the name of feminism was fundamentally paradoxical. Dominating Others is Delphy's manifesto against this tendency, and for a fluid understanding of political identity that does not place different political struggles in a false opposition. Dismantling the absurd claim that Afghanistan was invaded to save women, alongside the notion that homosexuals and immigrants alike should reserve their self-expression for private settings, Dominating Others is a call for a true universalism that sacrifices no one at the expense of others.Trade ReviewFrance's most exciting feminist writer. -- Simone de Beauvoir
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Merrion Press A Day in May: Real Lives, True Stories
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Chronicle Books Courageous Discomfort: How to Have Important,
Book SynopsisMany people struggle to have honest conversations about race, even those who consider themselves allies or identify as anti-racist. For anyone who wants to have better, more productive discussions, COURAGEOUS DISCOMFORT is an empowering handbook that teaches you how to do just that. In these pages, authors (and best friends), Shanterra McBride, who is Black, and Rosalind Wiseman, who is white, discuss their own friendship and tap into their decades of anti-racism work to answer the 20 uncomfortable-but-critical questions about race they get asked most often, including: - Should I see color? - I'm a good person - how can I be racist? - What if I say something wrong? - What kind of apology makes a difference? These 20 questions-as-chapters invite you into the conversation without judgment and inspire thoughtful reflection and discussion. There will be moments when you will laugh or cringe at the ridiculous or awkward things you read. But the truth is, there is no perfect solution or script for every maybe-racist, sort-of-racist, or blatantly racist situation. And that's OK: making mistakes is just an opportunity to do better next time. But doing this work will empower us to have the relationships we really want to have, including the relationship we want to have with ourselves.
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Spiramus Press Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law: The
Book SynopsisEquality and Anti-Discrimination Law covers The Equality Act 2010 and other anti-discrimination protections both within the UK legislation and in the context of EU law.The UK's approach to ensuring equality for the workforce is notoriously difficult to navigate, with various aspects of protection being contained and discussed across a range of statutory and non-statutory instruments. Although the Equality Act 2010 is often viewed as central to the equality laws of the UK, there are other key areas that must also be borne in mind, including atypical worker protection and family friendly regulation: each of these are discussed to sufficient detail to enable the reader to gain a working understanding of how each operates.In considering each of these key areas this text attempts to decipher and navigate each of them with the end user in mind. The protections, and the thresholds that need to be satisfied to acquire the protections, are broken down into their constituent parts and analysed using key case law and relevant codes of practices with a view to ensuring that their practical use is understood by the reader. Through adopting this approach the book ensures that the reader gets to grips with key concepts that protect on an equality footing.The text takes account of case law from both UK courts, and European Courts where this is needed. This helps show the interaction that UK and EU law has in the area of equality law, and that the systems are interdependent to some extent.For those wishing to go beyond the simple practical application of the law the text touches upon a number of academic debates that exist in the area of equality law, to further stimulate those with an interest in the law, but further to highlight some of the perceived weaknesses that exist with the UK's current approach to equality protection, and whets the appetite for further discussion.Table of Contents Contents List of abbreviations Table of authorities 1. Introduction to Equality Law 1.1. The legal landscape 1.2. Purpose of this text 1.3. Structure 2. Development of Non-Discrimination/Equality Protection 2.1. European Union Level 2.2. European Convention of Human Rights 2.3. National Level 3. Defining Equality 3.1. Introduction 4. The Equality Act 2010 4.1. Public Sector Equality Duty 4.2. Combined Discrimination 4.3. Direct Discrimination 4.4. Indirect Discrimination 4.5. Harassment 4.6. Victimisation 4.7. Vicarious Liability of Employers 4.8. Instructions to Discriminate and aiding a contravention 4.9. Discriminatory Advertisements 4.10. Disability Discrimination Protections 5. Defences 5.1. Genuine Occupational Requirements 5.2. Positive Action 5.3. Statutory Defence 5.4. Illegal contracts 5.5. National Security 6. Scope of the Equality Act 2010 6.1. Working Arrangments 7. Protected Grounds 7.1. Age 7.2. Disability 7.3. Gender Reassignment 7.4. Marriage and Civil Partnership 7.5. Race 7.6. Religion or Belief 7.7. Sex 7.8. Sexual Orientation 7.9. Pregnant Workers and Maternity 8. Evidencing Unlawful Discrimination 8.1. Burden of Proof 8.2. Presentation of a Complaint 9. Remedies for Direct and Indirect Discrimination, Harassment and Victimisation Claims 9.1. Compensation for direct discrimination, harassment and victimisation claims 9.2. Recommendation 9.3. Declaration 10. Equal Pay 10.1. Introduction 10.2. The Gender Pay Gap 10.3. The Scope of the Equal Pay Protections 10.4. The Sex Equality Clause 10.5. Choosing a Suitable Comparator 10.6. The Genuine Material Factor Justification 10.7. Bringing a Claim 10.8. Remedying Equal Pay Claims 10.9. Conclusions on Equal Pay 11. Family Friendly Policy 11.1. Introduction 11.2. Right to Request Flexible Working 11.3. Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Rights 11.4. Conclusions on family friendly policies 12. Atypical Worker Protection: 12.1. Introduction 12.2. Part-Time Worker Protection 12.3. Fixed-Term Workers 12.4. Conclusions 13. Concluding Remarks Index
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Parthian Books Rocking the Boat: Welsh Women who Championed
Book SynopsisThis insightful and revealing collection of essays focuses on seven Welsh women who, in a range of imaginative ways, resisted the status quo in Wales, England and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Written by an acclaimed biographical historian, the essays not only challenge expectations about how women’s lives were lived in the last two centuries, they also explore different ways of approaching biographical writing and understanding, as well as raising issues of gender and nationality. From the pioneer doctor and champion of progressive causes, Frances Hoggan, to the irrepressible twentieth-century novelist Menna Gallie, these women spoke out for what they believed in, and sometimes they paid the price. Although proud of their Welsh identity, they articulated it in a variety of ways, and each spent most of their adult lives outside Wales. They became familiar, and often controversial voices, on the page and platform in London, Oxford, Northern Ireland and internationally. Lady Rhondda and Edith Picton-Turbervill championed women’s equality at the centre of power in Westminster, whilst Myvanwy and Olwen Rhŷs saw education as the key to change. Women’s suffrage played a prominent part in the lives of these women and was especially central to Margaret Wynne Nevinson’s thinking, writing and actions. The intelligence, determination and grit of these women is revealed through their stirring stories. Taken together, the essays critically investigate the challenges, setbacks and hard-won achievements of feisty women who rocked the boat over a period of 150 years.
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Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd Promoting Equality, Valuing Diversity: A Learning
Book SynopsisThe challenge of developing forms of practice that are effective in tackling discrimination and oppression remains a major one. In Promoting Equality, Valuing Diversity, internationally renowned author Dr Neil Thompson explores a wide range of issues relating to equality and diversity. Topics include the case for equality and diversity, understanding and challenging discrimination in relation to age, race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability and religion.
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Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press Fighting Prejudice in Japan: The Families of
Book SynopsisThis collection of twelve life stories delves into the experiences of families of Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) patients who tell their own stories in their own words. In detailed interviews spanning more than ten years, Ai Kurosaka presents their struggles from the previously neglected perspective of family members of patients. The storytellers tell how they were torn by experiences of separation, discrimination and broken relationships. Like fugitives, many spent years hiding the truth and deceiving others to protect themselves and their families, and they reveal how this affected their relationships with others, but also with themselves. These recollections reveal agony and repentance, but are also stories of resilience that show the courage of the storytellers in speaking up and in challenging the government's policy on Hansen's Disease. This book breaks the silence of families of Hansen's Disease patients and seeks to restore relationships for families of patients and the wider society.Table of Contents Figure Photographs Acknowledgements Introduction Short History of Hansen’s Disease in Japan Part I: Stories as Told by Daughters and Sisters Episode 1: Restored Memories Episode 2: Thanking Parents for Giving Birth to Me Episode 3: Painful Consciousness of Hating My Own Father Episode 4: I Should Have Been Nicer to My Father Episode 5: Never Ever Moving Away Episode 6: Living in the Sanatorium despite Being a Non?patient Part II: Stories as Told by Sons and Brothers Episode 7: Son of a ‘Leper’ Episode 8: At the Forefront of the Bereaved Families’ Lawsuit Episode 9: Forced out of High School Episode 10: Growing up without Knowing Parents Episode 11: Proudly Born in Wak?en Episode 12: Unfulfilled Aspirations Conclusion Notes References Further Reading Index
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Michigan Publishing Services Operation Mind
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Rutgers University Press Beyond the Black and White TV: Asian and Latin
Book SynopsisThis is the first book that examines how “ethnic spectacle” in the form of Asian and Latin American bodies played a significant role in the cultural Cold War at three historic junctures: the Korean War in 1950, the Cuban Revolution in 1959, and the statehood of Hawaii in 1959. As a means to strengthen U.S. internationalism and in an effort to combat the growing influence of communism, television variety shows, such as The Xavier Cugat Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, and The Chevy Show, were envisioned as early forms of global television. Beyond the Black and White TV examines the intimate moments of cultural interactions between the white hosts and the ethnic guests to illustrate U.S. aspirations for global power through the medium of television. These depictions of racial harmony aimed to shape a new perception of the United States as an exemplary nation of democracy, equality, and globalism.Trade Review"The Cold War has been studied by many, but this is the first book that does so by looking at how the “ethnic spectacle” helped the United States in winning the cultural Cold War."— Journal of Popular Culture "Fascinating, compelling, and important, Beyond the Black and White TV demonstrates how government objectives were married with the goals of television productions to display migration, integration, and global imagination in order to control discourses of race and nation.This work reframes television history through the lens of variety shows by engaging with race from an industry perspective, informing readers how race factored into the production of genre and national identity." — L.S. Kim, associate professor, Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz "Benjamin M. Han illuminates the secret history of the American variety show, deftly revealing the cosmopolitan roots of a familiar TV format. A major contribution to the cultural history of the Cold War."— Christina Klein, author of Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema "Beyond the Black and White TV makes a convincing and timely argument that the history of Asian and Latin American media representation is the history of anticommunism [and] serves as a warning to critically examine such media representation as more than merely evidence of America’s racial liberalism but also as an instrument for its political interests."— Journal of Asian American Studies "This book illustrates the process by which various races coexist to construct a state and how television programs are used to form national identity… Readers tired of examining the Cold War only in the context of international politics will enjoy understanding the conflict through various experiences of racial diversity and ambiguity." — Wonjung Min, Asian Communication ResearchTable of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Narratives of Integration: Ethnic Spectacle and Las Vegas 2 Narratives of Exchange: Asian/ American Performers after the Korean War 3 Narratives of Partnership: Latin American Entertainers in the Post-Cuban Revolution 4 Narratives of Co-Existence: Pacific Islanders and the Statehood of Hawaii’i Epilogue Epilogue Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism
Book SynopsisTo Defend this Sunrise examines how black women on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua engage in regional, national, and transnational modes of activism to remap the nation’s racial order under conditions of increasing economic precarity and autocracy. The book considers how, since the 19th century, black women activists have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, and political repression. Specifically, it explores how the new Sandinista state under Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has utilized multicultural rhetoric as a mode of political, economic, and territorial dispossession. In the face of the Sandinista state’s co-optation of multicultural discourse and growing authoritarianism, black communities have had to recalibrate their activist strategies and modes of critique to resist these new forms of “multicultural dispossession.” This concept describes the ways that state actors and institutions drain multiculturalism of its radical, transformative potential by espousing the rhetoric of democratic recognition while simultaneously supporting illiberal practices and policies that undermine black political demands and weaken the legal frameworks that provide the basis for the claims of these activists against the state. Trade Review"This is a very important and well-written book that will be attractive for scholars and students of race, gender, political activism, and citizenship in Latin America. Courtney Morris' work is essential for understanding the politics of authoritarianism and resistance in present-day Nicaragua." -- Karen Kampwirth * author of Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba *"Morris has written a profoundly brilliant, sophisticated, and nuanced critique of mestizo nationalism. This book is a gift for anyone who cares about feminist organizing, ending anti-Black racism, and understanding contemporary authoritarianism, state violence, and mestizo hegemony in Nicaragua. It is also anthropology at its best, seeking to right the wrongs in the historical record by centering Black women’s struggles for autonomy and self-determination on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast." -- Victoria González-Rivera * author of Before the Revolution: Women's Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821–1979 *Table of ContentsPreface: An Unexpected Uprising? Introduction: Black Women’s Activism in Dangerous Times Part I: Genealogies 1 Grand Dames, Garveyites, and Obeah Women: State Violence, Regional Radicalisms, and Unruly Femininities in the Mosquitia 2 Entre el Rojo y Negro: Black Women’s Social Memory and the Sandinista Revolution Part II: Multicultural Dispossession 3 Cruise Ships, Call Centers, and Chamba: Managing Autonomy and Multiculturalism in the Neoliberal Era 4 Dangerous Locations: Black Suffering, Mestizo Victimhood, and the Geography of Blame in the Struggle for Land Rights Part III: Resisting State Violence 5 “See how de blood dey run”: Sexual Violence, Silence, and the Politics of Intimate Solidarity 6 From Autonomy to Autocracy: Development, Multicultural Dispossession, and the Authoritarian Turn Conclusion: Transition in Saeculae Saeculorum Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Crossing Segregated Boundaries: Remembering
Book SynopsisScholars have long explored school desegregation through various lenses, examining policy, the role of the courts and federal government, resistance and backlash, and the fight to preserve Black schools. However, few studies have examined the group experiences of students within desegregated schools. Crossing Segregated Boundaries centers the experiences of over sixty graduates of the class of 1988 in three desegregated Chicago high schools. Chicago’s housing segregation and declining white enrollments severely curtailed the city’s school desegregation plan, and as a result desegregation options were academically stratified, providing limited opportunities for a chosen few while leaving the majority of students in segregated, underperforming schools. Nevertheless, desegregation did provide a transformative opportunity for those students involved. While desegregation was the external impetus that brought students together, the students themselves made integration possible, and many students found that the few years that they spent in these schools had a profound impact on broadening their understanding of different racial and ethnic groups. In very real ways, desegregated schools reduced racial isolation for those who took part.Trade Review"In a nation still grappling with segregation, this timely book elevates the voices of Black, Latinx, and White students to craft a compelling collective narrative of the experience of desegregation." -- Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland * author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s *"Thoughtful and well-written, Crossing Segregated Boundaries complicates a literature that people think they know well. This book will be celebrated by Chicagoans and by anyone interested in school desegregation, race and education, and the experiences of minority students during desegregation." -- Hilton Kelly * author of Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers *"A unique window into the lesser-known experiences of students who participated in a desegregation programme in a northern city in the 1980s, three decades after the Brown rulings." * Ethic and Racial Studies *"The recollections that Danns assembles in Crossing Segregated Boundaries constitute an important contribution to histories of the desegregation era. Chicago's school integration programs were anti-systemic, built from a pessimistic view of the city's body politic. Yet in Danns's narrators, we recover memories of a buoyant optimism about intercultural connection and belonging. Danns reminds us that if we want a better view of how schools have structured social arrangements and condensed civic values, we might need to ask people what it was like when it was happening." * History of Education Quarterly *"In a nation still grappling with segregation, this timely book elevates the voices of Black, Latinx, and White students to craft a compelling collective narrative of the experience of desegregation." -- Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland * author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s *"Thoughtful and well-written, Crossing Segregated Boundaries complicates a literature that people think they know well. This book will be celebrated by Chicagoans and by anyone interested in school desegregation, race and education, and the experiences of minority students during desegregation." -- Hilton Kelly * author of Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers *"A unique window into the lesser-known experiences of students who participated in a desegregation programme in a northern city in the 1980s, three decades after the Brown rulings." * Ethic and Racial Studies *"The recollections that Danns assembles in Crossing Segregated Boundaries constitute an important contribution to histories of the desegregation era. Chicago's school integration programs were anti-systemic, built from a pessimistic view of the city's body politic. Yet in Danns's narrators, we recover memories of a buoyant optimism about intercultural connection and belonging. Danns reminds us that if we want a better view of how schools have structured social arrangements and condensed civic values, we might need to ask people what it was like when it was happening." * History of Education Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Segregation, Politics, and School Desegregation Policy 2 Busing, Boycotts, and Elementary School Experiences 3 “The World is Bigger than Just My Local Community”: Choosing and Traveling to High Schools 4 “I Don’t Know If It Was a Racial Thing or Not”: Academic Experiences and Curriculum 5 “We Were from All Over Town”: Interracial Experiences in and out of School 6 “We All Got Along”: Difficulties and Difference 7 After High School and Desegregation Benefits Conclusion: Continuing Inequality Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Rutgers University Press Crossing Segregated Boundaries: Remembering
Book SynopsisScholars have long explored school desegregation through various lenses, examining policy, the role of the courts and federal government, resistance and backlash, and the fight to preserve Black schools. However, few studies have examined the group experiences of students within desegregated schools. Crossing Segregated Boundaries centers the experiences of over sixty graduates of the class of 1988 in three desegregated Chicago high schools. Chicago’s housing segregation and declining white enrollments severely curtailed the city’s school desegregation plan, and as a result desegregation options were academically stratified, providing limited opportunities for a chosen few while leaving the majority of students in segregated, underperforming schools. Nevertheless, desegregation did provide a transformative opportunity for those students involved. While desegregation was the external impetus that brought students together, the students themselves made integration possible, and many students found that the few years that they spent in these schools had a profound impact on broadening their understanding of different racial and ethnic groups. In very real ways, desegregated schools reduced racial isolation for those who took part.Trade Review"In a nation still grappling with segregation, this timely book elevates the voices of Black, Latinx, and White students to craft a compelling collective narrative of the experience of desegregation." -- Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland * author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s *"Thoughtful and well-written, Crossing Segregated Boundaries complicates a literature that people think they know well. This book will be celebrated by Chicagoans and by anyone interested in school desegregation, race and education, and the experiences of minority students during desegregation." -- Hilton Kelly * author of Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers *"A unique window into the lesser-known experiences of students who participated in a desegregation programme in a northern city in the 1980s, three decades after the Brown rulings." * Ethic and Racial Studies *"The recollections that Danns assembles in Crossing Segregated Boundaries constitute an important contribution to histories of the desegregation era. Chicago's school integration programs were anti-systemic, built from a pessimistic view of the city's body politic. Yet in Danns's narrators, we recover memories of a buoyant optimism about intercultural connection and belonging. Danns reminds us that if we want a better view of how schools have structured social arrangements and condensed civic values, we might need to ask people what it was like when it was happening." * History of Education Quarterly *"In a nation still grappling with segregation, this timely book elevates the voices of Black, Latinx, and White students to craft a compelling collective narrative of the experience of desegregation." -- Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland * author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s *"Thoughtful and well-written, Crossing Segregated Boundaries complicates a literature that people think they know well. This book will be celebrated by Chicagoans and by anyone interested in school desegregation, race and education, and the experiences of minority students during desegregation." -- Hilton Kelly * author of Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers *"A unique window into the lesser-known experiences of students who participated in a desegregation programme in a northern city in the 1980s, three decades after the Brown rulings." * Ethic and Racial Studies *"The recollections that Danns assembles in Crossing Segregated Boundaries constitute an important contribution to histories of the desegregation era. Chicago's school integration programs were anti-systemic, built from a pessimistic view of the city's body politic. Yet in Danns's narrators, we recover memories of a buoyant optimism about intercultural connection and belonging. Danns reminds us that if we want a better view of how schools have structured social arrangements and condensed civic values, we might need to ask people what it was like when it was happening." * History of Education Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Segregation, Politics, and School Desegregation Policy 2 Busing, Boycotts, and Elementary School Experiences 3 “The World is Bigger than Just My Local Community”: Choosing and Traveling to High Schools 4 “I Don’t Know If It Was a Racial Thing or Not”: Academic Experiences and Curriculum 5 “We Were from All Over Town”: Interracial Experiences in and out of School 6 “We All Got Along”: Difficulties and Difference 7 After High School and Desegregation Benefits Conclusion: Continuing Inequality Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Rutgers University Press An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and
Book SynopsisFinalist for the 2022 Cheiron Book Prize An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in particular on the influence of phrenology. In the United States, phrenology shaped the production of medico-legal knowledge around crime, the treatment of the criminal within prisons and in public discourse, and sociocultural expectations about the causes of crime. The criminal was phrenology’s ideal research and demonstration subject, and the courtroom and the prison were essential spaces for the staging of scientific expertise. In particular, phrenology constructed ways of looking as well as a language for identifying, understanding, and analyzing criminals and their actions. This work traces the long-lasting influence of phrenological visual culture and language in American culture, law, and medicine, as well as the practical uses of phrenology in courts, prisons, and daily life. Trade Review"The book will be of clear interest to those interested in phrenology, but it will also be relevant to scholars working in the history of criminology and punishment. One reason is Thompson's excellent demonstration of phrenology's reliance on the prison, which raises larger questions about criminology's relationship with confinement....An Organ of Murder will prove interesting and helpful to scholars working in the history of criminology and punishment." — Punishment & Society Privacy International - Technology Pill podcast interview with Courtney Thompson— Privacy International - Technology Pill podcast "An Organ of Murder is a fascinating, well-written history of phrenology....Recommended."— Choice "For a compelling introduction to what a new generation of scholars is discovering about the perennially interesting topic of phrenology, Courtney E. Thompson’s An Organ of Murder comes highly recommended. This sophisticated, well-written history explores an aspect of phrenology that deserves more attention: its influence on both elite and popular conceptions of criminality....An Organ of Murder should find an appreciative readership not only among historians of science and medicine but also scholars interested in the new carceral history."— Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Scienes "This short but informative book will appeal to anyone with an interest in phrenology, criminology, or the histories of psychiatry, psychology, and related fields, especially in nineteenth-century America. It fills a void, is well researched, and is written in an engaging and captivating way."— Journal of the History of Neurosciences An Organ of Murder? - BYU Radio "Constant Wonder" interview with Courtney E. Thompson— BYU Radio, "Constant Wonder" "Unlike many existing studies of phrenology, which tend to focus on the science’s European fortunes, Thompson takes on the nineteenth-century United States, particularly the period from 1830 to 1860. The book situates phrenology in the history of American criminal justice and the emerging conceptualization of criminality as an innate biological predisposition....Thompson adds a new, distinctively legal note to recent histories of phrenological science."— New Rambler Review "This book provides much needed insight into the confluence of phrenology, criminal justice, and the attempts by Americans to better explain, understand, and even correct criminal behavior in the nineteenth century and beyond."— Law and History Review "In this compelling book, Courtney Thompson takes readers to the prisons, courtrooms, and streets of antebellum cities to expose just how phrenology claimed authority on criminality. Rich in detail and analysis, An Organ of Murder vividly illustrates the long history of making criminal minds and bodies into objects of medical and scientific inquiry." — Carla Bittel, Loyola Marymount University "Courtney Thompson provocatively measures the face, head, and soul of American phrenology and invites us to a discovery of the historical origins of scientific criminology."— Stephen Casper, Clarkson University "Professor Thompson’s book does what it does quite well. It is an important contribution to the literature. And we might expect that it will be a guide to contemporary legal theory as well. It surely should be."— Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books "Vividly narrated with great wit and insight, An Organ of Murder constitutes an important contribution to the history of criminology as well as phrenology, with important implications for the practice of law and the human sciences... Thompson succeeds brilliantly. An Organ of Murder deserves a wide readership among historians and legal scholars, who will readily see the importance of following her leads."— Susanna L. Blumenthal, Isis Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Sciences of the Mind forum held in partnership with American Philosophical Society: Courtney Thompson and Alicia Puglionesi in discussion — Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine - Sciences of the Mind "New Books Network - New Books in Medicine" interview with Courtney E. Thompson— New Books Network - New Books in Medicine "Thompson presents an impressively researched and appealingly structured argument for the importance of crime and punishment to phrenology, that problematic frontrunner of so many human and social sciences."— Journal of the History of the Behavioral ScienceTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Through a Mirror, Darkly 1 Origins and Organs 2 Transatlantic Societies and Skulls 3 Phrenology on Trial 4 The Prison as Laboratory 5 Policing the Self and the Stranger 6 A Victory for Phrenology? Epilogue Phrenological Futures Notes Bibliography Inde
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Rutgers University Press Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention - 2022 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Special Admission contradicts the national belief that college sports provide upward mobility opportunities. Kirsten Hextrum documents how white middle-class youth become overrepresented on college teams. Her institutional ethnography of one elite athletic and academic institution includes over 100 hours of interviews with college rowers and track & field athletes. She charts the historic and contemporary relationships between colleges, athletics, and white middle-class communities that ensure white suburban youth are advantaged in special athletic admissions. Suburban youth start ahead in college admissions because athletic merit—the competencies desired by university recruiters—requires access to vast familial, communal, and economic resources, all of which are concentrated in their neighborhoods. Their advantages increase as youth, parents, and coaches strategically invest in and engineer novel opportunities to maintain their race and class status. Thus, college sports allow white, middle-class athletes to accelerate their racial and economic advantages through admission to elite universities.Trade Review“Special Admission is a truly outstanding work that provides a point of informed entry into a previously largely neglected topic. It is a graphic indictment of an institution which–despite all reifying allusions to the contrary–is a highly effective engine of social differentiation.” — David L. Andrews, Physical Cultural Studies Research Group, University of Maryland, author of Making Sport Great Again "Readers engaging with this book can expect to understand the historical, political, and economic factors that influence current practices in college admissions, with a critical analysis about the racial and gender exclusion of non-white athletes and the concentration of resources in white, suburban areas. Central themes within the work focus on race, gender, economic status, state control and access to resources as the contextual factors that influence the favoritism of white athletes in college admissions."— International Journal of Educational Integrity "Special Admission: Dr. Kirsten Hextrum Discusses How College Athletic Recruitment Favors White Suburbia" — Diverse: Issues in Higher Education "With careful research and astute analysis, Kirsten Hextrum unveils the systemic ways privilege works in and through sport. Special Admission is a game-changer for anyone who cares about college sports and social justice."— Michael A. Messner, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California "Supreme Court Roundup: Voting Rights And NCAA Athletes" interview with Kristen Hextrum— WORT - "A Public Affair" "What the NCAA ruling really means for student athletes" by Faith Karimi— CNN.com "College athletics are routinely portrayed as a vehicle of social mobility. Kirsten Hextrum proves that the opposite is true. White-dominated sports, such as crew and lacrosse, offer a hidden pathway to college admissions that is known only to affluent, suburban parents. Meticulously researched and conversationally written, Special Admission exposes the fundamental unfairness and hypocrisy of college sports. It impels action."— Evan J. Mandery, author of A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America "Kirsten Hextrum has perfect timing. Her work is not only topical but carefully researched and very well-argued. She reveals the extent of special admissions for athletes and its negative effects: on the university and, ironically, often on the athletes themselves. Special Admission is a must-read for everyone concerned with unfair college admission procedures, and especially for all those parents who are dreaming of athletic scholarships for their children."— Murray Sperber, Indiana University, Bloomington, author of Beer and Circus: How Bigtime College Sports Is CripplingTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Gentlemen’s Agreement: College Sports Become a State Institution 2 The State Alignment: White Suburbia and Athletic Talent 3 Build a Wall: The State Segregates Sports 4 Activating Capital: Pay-to-Play Sports 5 A Guide: Socializing Future College Athletes 6 The Offer Letter: Athletic Talent Secures Preferential College Access Conclusion: Altering the Path Appendix A: Study Participant Background Characteristics Appendix B: Participant Recruitment Appendix C: High School Sports Relative to College Sports Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Black Space: Negotiating Race, Diversity, and
Book SynopsisProtests against racial injustice and anti-Blackness have swept across elite colleges and universities in recent years, exposing systemic racism and raising questions about what it means for Black students to belong at these institutions. In Black Space, Sherry L. Deckman takes us into the lives of the members of the Kuumba Singers, a Black student organization at Harvard with racially diverse members, and a self-proclaimed safe space for anyone but particularly Black students. Uniquely focusing on Black students in an elite space where they are the majority, Deckman provides a case study in how colleges and universities might reimagine safe spaces. Through rich description and sharing moments in students’ everyday lives, Deckman demonstrates the possibilities and challenges Black students face as they navigate campus culture and the refuge they find in this organization. This work illuminates ways administrators, faculty, student affairs staff, and indeed, students themselves, might productively address issues of difference and anti-Blackness for the purpose of fostering critically inclusive campus environments. Trade Review“Sherry Deckman has written an important volume about how space, place, and identity are racialized through campus life that is truly a gift. People should read, reflect, and hopefully struggle with the complexity presented in this study because of its implications for how we work towards diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education.” -- W. Carson Byrd * Faculty Director of Research Initiatives, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan *"Deckman’s treatment of cultivating safe Black space in an elite, predominately white university context is masterful and instructive. As it turns out, mission, commitment, transparency, respect, care, and most importantly, love comprise the necessary chords to maintain a racially safe space for Black students that centers blackness and where non-Black students may also choose to participate. How much better off our schools and universities would become if only they embodied the lessons that Deckman beautifully conveys." -- Keffrelyn D. Brown * Suzanne B. and John L. Adams Endowed Professor of Education *“Sherry Deckman has written an important volume about how space, place, and identity are racialized through campus life that is truly a gift. People should read, reflect, and hopefully struggle with the complexity presented in this study because of its implications for how we work towards diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education.” -- W. Carson Byrd * Faculty Director of Research Initiatives, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of *"Deckman’s treatment of cultivating safe Black space in an elite, predominately white university context is masterful and instructive. As it turns out, mission, commitment, transparency, respect, care, and most importantly, love comprise the necessary chords to maintain a racially safe space for Black students that centers blackness and where non-Black students may also choose to participate. How much better off our schools and universities would become if only they embodied the lessons that Deckman beautifully conveys." -- Keffrelyn D. Brown * Suzanne B. and John L. Adams Endowed Professor of Education *Table of ContentsForeword by Richard J. Reddick Introduction: How Do You Lift Every Voice? Prelude: (Un)Safe Space and Racial Diversity in the Ivory Tower Verse I: Being Black Verse II: Staying Black Bridge: Non-Black Members in the Black Choir Chorus: Learning to Care Coda: Lessons from the Safe Black Space Appendix A: Interview Participants Appendix B: Note on Methods Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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