Social discrimination and social justice Books

Book SynopsisThe perception of the immigrant as criminal or deviant has a long history in the United States, with many groups (e.g., Irish, Italians, Latinos) having been associated with perceived increases in crime and other social problems, although data suggest this is not necessarily the case. This Handbook examines the relationship between immigration and crime by presenting chapters reflecting key issues from both historical and current perspectives. The volume includes a range of topics related to immigration and crime, such as the links between immigration rates and crime rates, nativity and crime, and the social construction of the criminal immigrant, as well as historical and current immigration policy vis-Ã-vis perceptions of the criminal immigrant. Other topics covered in this volume include theoretical perspectives on immigration and assimilation, sanctuary cities, and immigration in the context of the war on terror. The Routledge Handbook on Immigration and CrimeTrade Review'This Handbook offers a comprehensive assessment of the relationship between immigration and crime, drawing from interdisciplinary and historical perspectives. The review essays and empirical studies fill a critical gap in the field, and I expect it will be the "go to" source for state of the art research on immigration and crime for years to come.' – Marjorie S. Zatz, University of California, Merced'The Routledge Handbook on Immigration and Crime offers a comprehensive and clear perspective on immigration and crime. The Handbook brings together a stellar team of scholars who explain the deep-rooted history of nativism in the United States, the empirical reality surrounding immigrants and crime, as well as the criminalization of immigrants through detention and immigration law enforcement. These essays render it evident that nativism and the concomitant criminalization of immigrations is not new, that immigration is not associated with higher levels of crime, and that the current construction of immigrants as criminals is used to justify punitive legislation. This handbook is written in a clear and accessible style and will be useful for scholars, advocates, and policy-makers alike.' – Tanya Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced'This handbook offers a timely and important examination of the relationship between immigration and crime. While public perceptions linking increased immigration and criminality persist, this terrific collection lays to rest these often repeated, yet unfounded, claims. Impressive for its breadth and depth, the Routledge Handbook on Immigration and Crime is a must-read for students, scholars, and policy makers alike.' – Roberto G. Gonzales, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsImmigration and Crime: An Introduction to the HandbookPART I. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON IMMIGRATION AND CRIME1. On the History of Immigration and Crime 2. Aliens Addicting Us: A Historical Perspective of Immigration and Drug Control PolicyPART II. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON IMMIGRATION AND CRIME3. The Classical Assimilation Model: A Controversial Canon4. Segmented Assimilation and Crime: Rethinking the Relationship between Assimilation and Crime 5. Theoretical Perspectives on the Immigration-Crime RelationshipPART III. EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON IMMIGRATION AND CRIME6. Immigration and Crime Rates: Lasting Trends and New Understandings7. Immigration and Gangs 8. Immigrants as Victims9. Immigrant Generation Differences in Crime and Violence: Disentangling Myth and Perception from Empirical Reality10. Latino Immigration and Crime 11. Crime and Delinquency among Asian Immigrants in the United States12. Afro-Caribbean Immigration and Crime 13. Eastern European Immigration and Crime PART IV. CURRENT ISSUES IN IMMIGRATION AND CRIME14. Two Decades of Constructing Immigrants as Criminals15. Immigration and Terrorism 16. Immigration within Contemporary Political Discourse17. Policing & Punishing Illegality in the United States18. Immigrants in the Federal Court System 19. With Mass Deportation Comes Mass Punishment: Punitive Capacity, Health, and Standards in US Immigrant Detention20. Sanctuary Cities and Crime

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Book SynopsisThe acclaimed social psychologist offers an insider’s look at his research and groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity.Trade Review"Conveys an understanding of why race remains such a powerful factor even in a society where racial discrimination is seen as abhorrent." -- Adam Serwer - American Prospect"Startles, beguiles, and challenges as it exposes the myriad ways that threats to our identities exert a powerful stranglehold on our individual and collective psyche." -- Lani Guinier, Harvard University"An intellectual odyssey of the first order—a true tour de force." -- William G. Bowen, former president of Princeton University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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Book SynopsisIntellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light. The views of individual intellectuals have spanned the spectrum, but the views of intellectuals as a whole have tended to cluster. Indeed, these views have clustered at one end of the spectrum in the early twentieth century and then clustered at the opposite end of the spectrum in the late twentieth century. Moreover, these radically different views of race in these two eras were held by intellectuals whose views on other issues were very similar in both eras. Intellectuals and Race is not, however, a book about history, even though it has much historical evidence, as well as demographic, geographic, economic and statistical evidence- all of it directed toward testing the underlying assumptions about race that have prevailed at times among intellectuals in general, and especially intellectuals at the highest levels. Nor is this simply a theoretical exercise. The impact of intellectuals'' ideas and crusades on the larger society, both past and present, is the ultimate concern. These ideas and crusades have ranged widely from racial theories of intelligence to eugenics to social justice and multiculturalism. In addition to in-depth examinations of these and other issues, Intellectuals and Race explores the incentives, the visions and the rationales that drive intellectuals at the highest levels to conclusions that have often turned out to be counterproductive and even disastrous, not only for particular racial or ethnic groups, but for societies as a whole.Trade ReviewPittsburgh Tribune-Review "Sowell brings an all-too-rare perspective to whatever he writes about -- that of a conservative black intellectual, especially valuable for this book's topic." New American "After reading Dr. Thomas Sowell's latest book, Intellectuals and Race, one cannot emerge with much respect for the reasoning powers of intellectuals, particularly academics, on matters of race. There's so much faulty logic and downright dishonesty." Mona Charen, Creator's Syndicate "I plunged into Thomas Sowell's latest book, Intellectuals and Race, immediately upon its arrival, but soon realized that I needed to slow down. Many writers express a few ideas with a great cataract of words. Sowell is the opposite. Every sentence contains at least one insight or fascinating statistic -- frequently more than one."

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Book SynopsisThe radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.George J. Sánchez The vision for America's cross-cultural future lies beyond the multicultural myth of the great melting pot. That idea of diversity often imagined ethnically distinct urban districtsthe Little Italys, Koreatowns, and Jewish quarters of American citiesbuilt up over generations and occupying spaces that excluded one another. But the neighborhood of Boyle Heights shows us something altogether different: a dynamic, multiracial community that has forged solidarity through a history of social and political upheaval. Boyle Heights is an in-depth history of the Los Angeles neighborhood, showcasing the potent experiences of its residents, from early contact between Spanish colonizers and native Californians to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the hunt for hTrade Review"Pathbreaking civic history. . . . A historical journey through the beginning, middle, and present of one of Los Angeles’s most prominent neighborhoods. Sánchez counters the fear that shrouds its image and allows us to understand why this neighborhood is the way it is — powerful and pure of heart." * Los Angeles Review of Books *“In the annals of Chicanx history, only a few historians stand heads and shoulders above the rest. One of those is George J. Sánchez whose recent publication . . . leaves off where his award-winning Becoming Mexican American made its mark roughly three decades ago.” * Latino Book Review *"A remarkable book." * Housing Studies *"The author has written this valuable history in clear and concise language. Scholars as well as civic activists and government officials concerned with social and racial justice and with urban planning will find the book useful and enlightening. It would also work well in graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses concerned with those areas. The interested layperson will find it straightforward and comprehensible​." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Coherent, sweeping, dazzling." * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Maps and Illustrations Preface Chapter One • Introduction: A Multiracial Map for America Chapter Two • Making Los Angeles Chapter Three • From Global Movements to Urban Apartheid Chapter Four • Disposable People, Expendable Neighborhoods Chapter Five • Witnesses to Internment Chapter Six • The Exodus from the Eastside Chapter Seven • Edward R. Roybal and the Politics of Multiracialism Chapter Eight • Black and Brown Power in the Barrio Chapter Nine • Creating Sanctuary Chapter Ten • Remembering Boyle Heights Time Line Mayor and City Council Lists Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhy do people hate? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate crime, analysing human behaviour across the globe and throughout history in this vital book. 'A key text for how we live now.' DAVID BADDIEL'This is a world-changing book.' ALICE ROBERTS'Timely and superb.' RACHEL CLARKE'Persuasive and compassionate.' ROBIN INCE'Fascinating and moving.' PRAGYA AGARWALAre our brains wired to hate? Is social media to blame for an increase in hateful abuse? With hate on the rise, what can we do to turn the tide? Drawing on twenty years of pioneering research - as well as his own experience as a hate-crime victim - world-renowned criminologist Matthew Williams explores one of the pressing issues of our age.Surveying human behaviour across the globe and reaching back through time, from our tribal ancestors in prehistory to artificial intelligence iTrade Review;An important read, combining an expert use of data with moving, personal storytelling. A key text for how we live now.' - David Baddiel'A truly insightful book that can help us all understand why hate can overpower us. It is wise, disarming, persuasive and compassionate.' - Robin Ince'Powerful. This is a world-changing book . . . From personal histories to broader social patterns, from individual criminal cases to the latest neuroscience and psychology, Matthew Williams' brilliant forensic dissection of hate reveals its insidious power - but also its weaknesses. This book is not just about how and why hate happens - it's about how to combat it.' - Alice Roberts'This is an incredibly powerful, important and valuable book on what causes hate and how we can help prevent and defeat it.' - Peter Tatchell'Fascinating . . . meticulously researched . . . written in a really accessible manner . . . expansive in approach and supplemented with so many real-world case studies. This is a really key contribution to our understanding of the divides in our society, and how these can perhaps be repaired.' - Dr Pragya Agarwal'Williams is masterful at making this complex topic accessible, so we can all better understand hate and the dark side of human behaviour and finally, start to tackle it.' - Nova Reid

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA gripping study of white power…It is impossible to read the book without recalling more recent events…The book’s explosive thesis: that the white power movement ...emerged as a radical reaction to the [Vietnam] war…It is a breathtaking argument, one that treats foreign policy as the impetus for a movement that most people view through the lens of domestic racism…It’s a stunning indictment of official culpability, and Belew constructs her case with forensic care. In doing so, she shows that, while racism is ever with us, policy choices ranging from local police strategies to the furthest reaches of foreign policy create the space for white power to flourish. * New York Times *Compelling…Meticulously researched and powerfully argued, Belew’s book isn’t only a definitive history of white-racist violence in late-20th-century America, but also a rigorous meditation on the relationship between American militarism abroad and extremism at home…The power of Belew’s book comes, in part, from the fact that it reveals a story about white-racist violence that we should all already know. * The Nation *Superbly comprehensive…supplants all journalistic accounts of America’s resurgent white supremacism. -- Pankaj Mishra * The Guardian *Fascinating…Belew connects seemingly disparate events like the killings at Greensboro, the persecution of Vietnamese fishers in Texas in the early 1980s, and the siege at Ruby Ridge. She shows how hatred of the federal government, fears of communism, and racism all combined in white-power ideology and explains why our responses to the movement have long been woefully inadequate. * Slate *A gorgeously rendered account of the white power movement in this country that reveals its symbiotic character, one that both feeds on mainstream angst and stimulates it to new heights. * Los Angeles Review of Books *An engrossing and comprehensive history of the white power movement in America, highlighting its racism, antigovernment hostility, and terrorist tactics…Belew presents a convincing case that white power rhetoric and activism continue to influence mainstream U.S. politics. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Belew…counters the treatment of white terrorists as ‘lone wolves’ by tracing the contours of an organized white power movement that connected radical white extremists from Greensboro, North Carolina, to Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and from Waco, Texas, to Oklahoma City…Belew does the hard work of restoring those connections, revealing how white supremacists built a coalition of rural survivalists, urban skinheads, and anti-Semitic Christian Identity believers. * Los Angeles Review of Books *An essential reference book for our times. -- Rachel Maddow * Rachel Maddow Show *This is a work of fierce intelligence. Belew shows how white power activists used their view of the Vietnam War to advance every element of their reactionary agenda and to justify domestic terrorism. A book of signal importance and urgency, it provides a haunting vantage point on contemporary American political culture. -- Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for AmericaBring the War Home is a tour de force. An utterly engrossing and piercingly argued history that tracks how the seismic aftershocks of the Vietnam War gave rise to a white power movement whose toxic admixture of violent bigotry, antigovernmental hostility, and racial terrorism helped set the stage for Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing, and, yes, the presidency of Donald Trump. -- Junot DíazThis is a troubling book for many reasons, not just because of the scope of the white power network it reveals…[It] raises questions about how the elements of United States culture that valorize violence and draw ready distinctions between the deserving ‘us’ and the less deserving ‘them’ ...contribute to mass shootings…Belew treats the trajectory of white power victimhood as a shift from attacks on the other to a declaration of war against the federal government. * Jotwell *Fascinating and riveting... that archive is truly incredible. -- Soledad O’Brien * Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien *Belew…traces the origins of the white power movement to the aftermath of the Vietnam War. She examines how various racist groups—skinheads, Klansmen, white separatists, neo-Nazis, militiamen, and others—united under a common banner and took the movement in a violent and revolutionary direction…Belew also argues that the anti-government sentiment created by the Vietnam War helped consolidate and radicalize the white power movement in ways we haven’t fully understood. -- Sean Illing * Vox *Kathleen Belew’s vital new book begins in the belly of a Huey helicopter somewhere over South Vietnam. From there she follows with unflinching honesty the violence that violence begat, from the tiny cadre of veterans who decided to bring the war home through Ruby Ridge and Waco to the horror of the Oklahoma City terrorist attack. Over the years I’ve read any number of exemplary histories. Never have I read a more courageous one. -- Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz AgeAn engaging account of how and why the modern white power movement emerged from 1975 to 1995…[Belew] offers an unprecedented level of detail, engaging deeply with developments that other authors typically gloss over…Bring the War Home is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the history of America’s white power movement. * Reason *A smart and powerfully argued book about the way that the Vietnam War in particular reshaped white power in the United States… It’s really fascinating. -- Nicole Hemmer * Past Present *The connection between hate groups and the military is not new… Bring the War Home charts the path of radical white supremacists from the end of the Vietnam War to the 1995 bombing of a Federal government building in Oklahoma City. * CBS News *Examine[s] how romantic public narratives have been deployed to suppress collective memory of the violence that underwrites white supremacy. * Times Literary Supplement *An unquestionably powerful, well-researched and must-read addition to the post-2016 upsurge in analysis and investigation of the foundations of modern fascism. Anyone seeking to understand the origins of the modern far right in the U.S. should include this work at the top of their reading list. -- Ryan Smith * Truthout *Alarming and meticulously researched. -- Wajahat Ali * NYR Daily *This necessary work reminds readers that white violence—on behalf of, and against, the state—has a long and deep history. * Library Journal *In this major work of scholarly synthesis, Kathleen Belew uses letters, ephemera and ‘zines’ as well as newspaper reports and official documents to reconstruct a dark chapter in American history that has chilling echoes for today. * Times Higher Education *Bring the War Home is a fascinating account of right-wing white power extremists in the United States. Kathleen Belew illuminates this history through staggeringly broad research. A compelling and sometimes shocking read, it is an outstanding contribution to the history of violence. -- Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its ConsequencesIf you weren’t afraid of the violent white power movement before reading [this], you will be when you’re done…Belew details fifty years of energetic racist organizing and violent acts…A ringing call to recognize the extent of the threat, in order to better organize an effective response. -- Micol Seigel * American Historical Review *For those who wish to make sense of the enduring ‘catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War’ as well as recent events in places like Charlottesville, Belew’s Bring the War Home is required reading. -- Keira Williams * PopMatters *Invaluable to understanding our current political moment. -- Angela E. Hubler * Against the Current *A carefully written book that argues that violent white-supremacist groups were mobilized by the Vietnam War and the Cold War more generally to undertake an armed campaign in the service of their anticommunist, White supremacist goals…Belew’s work suggests that armed violence by militant movements is a far more enduring and deep-rooted part of American politics than conventional understandings admit. -- Paul Musgrave * Systemic Organization *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the PROSE Award in Education Theory and Practice, Association of American Publishers""In this important book, Gasman (Rutgers Univ.) takes a closer look at problematic hiring practices at the 62 member institutions of the Association of American Universities (AAU). Written in a conversational style, her book draws on countless interviews she conducted with faculty and administrators at the nation’s leading universities. . . . Though written with AAU institutions in mind, the practical advice Gasman offers should also be applied in all other higher education contexts. Only then will there be a noticeable and much-needed change in faculty hiring across the country and thus a true commitment to inclusive excellence."---G. Thuswaldner, Choice"Although it is a difficult task to speak to and appease such broad audiences, by placing professors’ engagement with DEI efforts as constitutive of their job as professors, Doing the Right Thing’s use of a wide lens convincingly shows how investments in elite affiliations are part of defending a White professoriate. To this end, Gasman impressively combines quantitative and qualitative data to support her argument and provides a benchmark for future debates on DEI in higher education."---prahdeep singh kehal, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Book SynopsisAnti-black racism is a stark presence in Chicago, a fact illustrated by significant racial inequality in and around contemporary global city. Drawing his work as a civil rights advocate and investigator in Chicago, Street explains this neo-liberal apartheid and its resulting disparity in terms of persistently and deeply racist societal and institutional practices and policies. Racial Oppression in the Black Metropolis uses the highly relevant historical and sociological laboratory that is Chicago in order to explain the racist societal and institutional practices and policies which still typify the United States. Street challenges dominant neoconservative explanations of the black urban crisis that emphasize personal irresponsibility and cultural failure. Looking to the other side of the ideological isle, he criticizes liberal and social democratic approaches that elevate class over race and challenges many observers'' sharp distinction between present and so-called past racism. In questioning the supposedly inevitable reign of urban-neoliberaism, Street also investigates the real, racial politics of the United States and finds that parties and ideologies matter little on matters of race. This innovative work in urban history and cultural criticism will inform contemporary social science and policy debates for years to come.Trade ReviewRace and racism have a continuing and profound influence in shaping all aspects of American life. Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis not only captures the pernicious impact racism has as an ideological and structural force, but illuminates with clarity, power, and imagination the way in which it is lived and struggled over at the level of daily life. Street has produced what may be one of the most important accounts of both the causes and effects of racism amid vast material inequities in one of America's most important cities. Paul Street has become an essential figure as a critical commentator on race in the United States. This book should be read by everyone who believes in racial justice, democracy, and hope for the future. -- Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interesta bracing look at what has and has not changed in Chicago, Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis is worth the time. * Colorlines *Paul Street has long written some of the most compelling studies of race and class in Chicago history. At the same time he has produced critical material on how structural racism works today and on how public policies and social movements can produce hope and change. This marvelous book brings past and present together, showing just how the glitter of global Chicago rests on and reproduces injustice. -- David Roediger, Babcock Professor of History and African American Studies, University of Illinois, and author of History Against MiseryTable of ContentsChapter 1 It'll Take More Than a Hurricane: Race, Place, Chicago and America's "Enduring Shame" Chapter 2 Whitewashing "Global Chicago": Racial Invisibility in the Neoliberal Era Chapter 3 The First and Only True Ghetto Chapter 4 The Second, "Golden Age" Ghetto Chapter 5 The Nadir: The Third and Apocalyptic Ghetto and the Retreat From Race Chapter 6 Metropolitan Apartheid Chapter 7 Savage Inequalities Chapter 8 What's "Racism" Got to Do With It? Chapter 9 Contesting Corporate Urban Neoliberal Racism

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Book SynopsisJustice for All is the first book that provides a comprehensive examination of social equity in American public administration. The breadth of coverage--theory, context, history, implications in policy studies, applications to practice, and an action agernda--cannot be found anywhere else.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments, Introduction, Part I. Context and Background, Part II. Measuring Social Equity, Part III. Leadership, Outreach, and Organizational Development, About the Editors and Contributors, Index

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Book SynopsisShe concludes with a provocative analysis of Forrest Gump, identifying the popular film as a retelling of post-World War II Southern history.Trade ReviewA resourceful, imaginative, sure-handed analysis by an author who knows both how movies and television get made and how to get at what those products mean. -- Thomas Cripps Journal of Southern History This text would be an excellent place for readers who have very little background in film or media history to begin delving into the ongoing discussion of how much reality drives media and how much media drives reality. -- Dana L. Hettich Southern Historian The best book I have found that discusses popular cinema and the American South... Graham's is a groundbreaking study that locates both blacks and whites in post-World War II cultural history. Her scholarly monograph contributes significantly to historical and film studies... Graham's book is lively, aesthetically informed, and teeming with insightful observations about a variety of topics: white women in race-conscious films; the 'anarchic physicality' of the redneck; the centrality of the 'cracker' to our understanding of American racism; the southern delinquent as social activist; the corrupt southern lawman and the redemptive southern lawyer. -- Sharon Monteith Scope Provides a perfect critical lens through which to appreciate what lies behind all the representations of the South flashing across the screen... In this meticulously researched and accessibly written book, [Allison Graham] covers such issues as the eugenics movement and class politics, white women's sexuality, the star personae of Elvis and Andy Griffith, and the political power of Southern populists. Her methodology is part of what makes the book so readable: it's interdisciplinary but not jargon-laden, drawing on the most exciting recent academic studies in cinema, culture, class, history, sociology, whiteness, gender, sexuality, and politics. The close readings in the book are never so detailed that they become tedious, but even for readers unfamiliar with the primary sources, Graham's analysis is persuasive and fascinating to read. There is no way to adequately summarize all the ingenious bits of reading pleasure in this book. -- Julia Leyda Bright Lights Film Journal Provides detailed analysis of interactions among race, gender, and, crucially, class, often neglected in cultural studies. It draws upon an enormous range of evidence. Seemingly unlikely material such as 1950s films on teenage delinquency is convincingly woven into the analysis... Not least, the book is leavened with humor in a way that makes the argument more compelling... This book provides new insights, showing how varied and subtle is the encoding of major events and struggles. The argument is complex yet accessible, making it an invaluable teaching aid. It is a major contribution to scholarship on racism and the civil rights movement in America. -- John A. Silk Journal of American History Probing, provocative, lively... Graham's often original readings and entertaining renderings [of films and television shows]... chart the tangled route whereby race becomes subsumed by class and then rediscovered. She reaches widely in her literary, film, and television references, which she juxtaposes with civil rights events to suggest how the former 'framed' the latter but also how film and television fiction sometimes offered a competing narrative as to race and civil rights... Graham has written a book very much worth reading. It is at once entertaining and instructive, and it makes 'real' the reel South as no other book to date. -- Randall M. Miller American Historical Review In a series of interlocking essays, Graham deftly explores the ways Hollywood filmmakers and television producers tried to reformulate stock southern characters in light of rapidly changing social relations... A fascinating and compelling cultural history that should be of use to a wide array of scholars. -- Patrick D. Jones American Studies Perceptive... A sophisticated analysis of films produced during the civil rights era... Readers who wish to understand the ways popular media buttress conservative assessments of race in American life will do well to digest Graham's helpful volume. -- Andrew M. Manis Georgia Historical Quarterly She restores to our field of view media texts of real complexity that have been overlooked by previous analyses... An often poetic and crisply edited long essay. -- Kevin Jack Hagopian Journal of Communication 2005Table of ContentsContents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Remapping DogpatchChapter 1 "The Purest of God's Creatures": White Women, Blood Pollution, and Southern Sexuality Chapter 2 Sentimental Educations: Romance, Race, and White Redemption Chapter 3 Natural Acts: Hillbillies, Delinquents, and the Disappearing Psyche Chapter 4 Reeducating the Southerner: Elvis, Rednecks, and Hollywood's "White Negro" Chapter 5 Civil Rights Films and the New Red Menace: The Legacy of the 1960sNotes Essay on Sources Index

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Book SynopsisThis Element examines the socio-political hierarchy of England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, focusing upon the plasticity of the boundary between the ranks of ceorl and thegn. Offering a nuanced analysis of terms such as thegn and ceorl in both early medieval texts and modern scholarship, the Element highlights the mechanisms that allowed these non-institutional signifiers to hold such social weight while conferring few tangible benefits. To better describe the relative social positions, the author argues that a compound method is preferable, supporting this proposal via a thorough deconstruction of writings by Archbishop Wulfstan II of York - responsible for many of scholars'' ideas about rank in the period - and the examination of sources that evidence a blurring of ''middling'' social boundaries across the two centuries under discussion. Together, these strands of interrogation allow for a fuller understanding of how status was constructed in early medieval England.

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Book SynopsisSystemic Racism and Educational Measurement provides a theoretical and historical reckoning with racism and oppression produced through educational measurement and research methodology. As scholars and professionals in the testing, measurement, and assessment of human learning and performance work to exorcise race sciences, white supremacy, and other injustices from the field's research and practice, new insights are needed into their root causes. This book is the first to posit that the theory of the White Racial Frame was and continues to be applied to the foundations, process, dissemination, and use of educational measurement, leading to instruments, findings, and decisions that perpetuate the racialized social structure of our nation. Even among well-meaning stakeholders who aim to improve humanity and address inequities, the White Racial Frame shapes the field's research questions, the methods utilized, the data valued, the interpretations made, and the language used tTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsKey Terms and DefinitionsIntroductionPart I: Race, Racism, and the White Racial FrameChapter 1: The Origins of RaceChapter 2: Molding Race in the United StatesChapter 3: The Systemic Structure of RacismChapter 4: The White Racial FramePart II: The White Racial Frame and the Development of Educational MeasurementChapter 5: Heredity and Family TraitsChapter 6: The Birth of Tests of Mental AbilityChapter 7: The Rise of Educational Testing and Test BiasChapter 8: The Rise of Statistics in Educational MeasurementChapter 9: Educational Measurement as Apparatus for Systemic RacismSection III: Alternate Lenses for Educational MeasurementChapter 10: Critical TheoryChapter 11: Critical Race Theory and QuantCritChapter 12: Intersectionality TheoryChapter 13: Educational Measurement and the Pursuit of Racial JusticeChapter 14: Forging a Path Toward Anti-Racism in Educational MeasurementIndex

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Book SynopsisWe all have biases and our biases, whether conscious or not, can prevent us from teaching and supporting children equitably. We cannot turn a blind eye to this, no matter how uncomfortable it may feel to tackle the difficult questions.This groundbreaking book is a must-read for all early years professionals working with babies, toddlers, young children, and their families. Its practical and accessible guidance provides the tools and techniques you need to identify and confront discriminatory practices, with strategies to break down barriers and tackle these complicated issues sensitively and constructively. Reflective questions facilitate active engagement with a wealth of case studies and encourage you to evaluate your own practice. Each chapter builds your confidence and ability to create dynamic and anti-racist learning environments that embrace and celebrate difference and will ensure your setting fosters a positive sense of identity and belonging.Let's Talk Abo

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Book SynopsisThis highly topical edited book documents the community response to Covid-19 across national contexts, exploring the widespread development and mobilisation of community initiatives and groups. It provides rich analysis of case studies from the Global North and South, including South Africa, the USA, India, China, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Australia, the UK, Turkey, and Argentina. The Covid-19 pandemic motivated a significant community response globally, with the widespread development and mobilisation of bottom up community initiatives and groups. These community responses were an essential yet often unseen and unrecognised means by which people survived the pandemic. This book asks questions such as how were community responses to Covid-19 shaped by national, cultural and political processes and phenomena; how did community responses to Covid-19 interact with public policies, on health, education, and social welfare; and what are the likely political implications of the communTable of Contents1. Introduction: Social distancing and social connection , Luiz Silva Souza (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil), Emma O’Dwyer (Kingston University, UK) SECTION 1: Psychosocial and psychological resources of the community response to Covid-19 2. Volunteering motivation to combat Covid-19: Evidence from community responses in China, Susan Schwarz (King’s College London, UK), Gary Schwarz (Queen Mary University of London, UK), Qing Miao (Zhejiang University, China) 3. The role of emotions in the political implications of grassroots activism in Mexico City, Alice Poma (IIS-UNAM, Mexico), Tommaso Gravante (CEIICH-UNAM, Mexico) 4. When crises collide: Reimagining the community during the Covid-19 pandemic in Slovenia, Hana Hawlina (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Tania Zittoun (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) 5. Resilience, power of articulation and social engagement: the necessary ingredients in the face of inequalities experienced in carrying out community work in Rio de Janeiro favelas during the Covid-19 pandemic, Pedro Paulo Gastalho de Bicalho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Luana Almeida de Carvalho Fernandes (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 6. Grassroots movements and Covid-19 in Buenos Aires: Vital networking and social media in times of crisis, Victoria D'hers (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) 7. Collective action and Covid-19 restrictions: Community participation in Italy and Australia, Carlo Pistoni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy), Maura Pozzi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy), Emma Thomas (Flinders University, Australia), Craig McGarty (Western Sydney University, Australia) 8. How can UK Covid-19 mutual aid groups be sustained over time?, John Drury (University of Sussex, UK), Maria Fernandes-Jesus (York St John University, UK), Guanlan Mao (University of Sussex, UK), Evangelos Ntontis (The Open University, UK), Rotem Perach (University of Sussex, UK) SECTION 2: Communities transforming social representations and public policies 9. Reimagining infrastructures of care in pandemic times: Sketches from Kolkata, Raktim Ray (University College London, UK), Amit Chatterjee (School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal), Koumi Dutta (Independent Researcher), Dana Sousa Limbu (University College London, UK) 10. Abortion care in times of crisis: Feminist, compassionate and political, Mariana Prandini Assis (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil), Oriana Lopes (Balance Promoción para el Desarrollo y Juventud, Mexico), Verónica Vera (Red Compañera, Ecuador), Ruth Zurbriggen (Socorristas en Red, Argentina) 11. The community action networks in Cape Town: Lessons from a bottom-up community response to Covid-19, Manya van Ryneveld, Eleanor Whyle, Leanne Brady 12. Psychological, social, and political implications of participation in UK Covid-19 mutual aid groups, Emma O’Dwyer (Kingston University, UK), Luiz Silva Souza (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil) 13. Re-constructing the meaning of aid through the communities during Covid-19: The psychological responses in between the responsibilities of the welfare state, benevolent aid plans, and the politicisation of communities in Turkey, Bengisu Akkurt (Abdullah Gul University, Kayseri, Turkey), Ahmet Çoymak (Abdullah Gul University, Kayseri, Turkey) , Yasin Koç (The University of Groningen, Netherlands) 14. Covid-19, Carnival, and Community in New Orleans, 2020, Martha Radice (Dalhousie University, Canada) 15. Combating corruption during Covid-19 in Bangladesh: The role of community-based organizations, Nurul Huda Sakib (Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh), Faria Ahmed (Bangladesh University of Professionals) 16. Commentary, TBD - We will invite a senior scholar in the field of socio-cultural or community psychology to write this chapter

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Book SynopsisThis timely and unique book explores the concept of colorism, which is discrimination based on the color of a person's skin, in a world where arguably light skin is privileged over dark, and one's wealth, health, and opportunities are impacted by skin color, sometimes irrespective of one's racial background.In the context of our multi-cultural and increasingly global society, and the historical backdrop of slavery, the text takes a unique approach by moving from personal anecdotes to adopting a scientific perspective grounded in empirical evidence. Hall explores how skin color is a more effective framework for examining prejudice and discrimination, as racial identities become increasingly mixed due to inter-racial unions and immigration. He argues that racism as discrimination by race is contrived, polarizing, and non-quantifiable, and that it is often skin color that is used to identify race, often inaccurately. With skin color being a visual and physical characteristic, wiTrade Review"As a leading global expert on colorism, Dr. Hall eloquently, poignantly invites the reader to investigate the melanin misconceptions that shape our lived realities. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Colorism: Beyond Black and White features a seminal perspective on the historical, colonial and contemporary legacies of colorism, while turning an eye to what the future holds."- Amrit Dhillon, Podcast Host: Shadeism"Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Colorism: Beyond Black and White, is riveting and illuminating!... I highly recommend this book. It is a must read, if we truly are to understand and gain insights into Colorism one of society's most complex issues amongst people of color. It pertains to the causes or impacts per assimilation, bleaching, attractiveness, brown racism, income disparities, identity politics and the resultant physical (eg. stillbirths) and mental health challenges.Professor Hall, who is one of the leading colorism scholars, argues persuasively and convincingly for the need of a paradigm shift from old, outdated models of colorism to more evidence-based models of colorism and melanin, that enlighten, educate and potentially could impact and shape social policy that ultimately inform, improve and save lives in our Black communities."- Dr. Richard G. Majors, Consulting Counselling Psychologist, former Clinical Fellow, Harvard Medical School, and bestselling coauthor of the classic Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America."In this provocative and challenging tour de force, Professor Ronald E. Hall unveils the sordid underpinnings of the societal hierarchy that privileges lighter skin over darker skin. This book exposes the historical, cultural, and economic forces that have led to colorism supplanting racism as the main engine of stratification as well as the adoption of extreme measures like skin bleaching, which can cause dire health outcomes. Anyone interested in racial, gender, and social equity should read this book."- Joni Hersch, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Economics, Vanderbilt University"In this stirring and profound work Dr. Hall exposes readers to the taboos of colorism heretofore dismissed from public discourse. In detail are dramatic accounts of a skin color hierarchy rooted in history and culture that privileges light-skinned persons and denigrates their dark-skinned counterparts. This book is a must read for those seeking a glimpse into the future social environment of mankind."- Kevin Brown, Richard S. Melvin Professor, Maurer School of LawTable of ContentsHistorical. 1. Introduction. 2. The Colonial Origins of Colorism. 3. Field Negro and the House Negro. 4. Fancy Girls and Run 'Round Men. 5. The Mulatto Hypothesis. Contemporary. 6. Colorism by Education. 7. Colorism by Occupation. 8. Colorism by Income. 9. Health Risks in Stillbirth Colorism. 10. The Bleaching Syndrome. 11. Brown Racism as Pre-Colorism. Future. 12. Colorism as Racism in the 21st Century. 13. Conclusion. 14. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn the light of intense international focus on ongoing forms of world poverty, this book examines the potential of the concept of recognition in contemporary political philosophy to respond morally to this dire condition.

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Book SynopsisRather than making another attempt at proposing a single and unifying theory of global health justice, this timely collection brings together, instead, scholars from a range of traditions to frame the issue more broadly, highlighting not only different perspectives but also key topics and debates.The volume features chapters that offer both new theoretical approaches to global health justice, as well as fresh takes on existing frameworks. Others adopt a bottom-up approach to tackle specific problems, including the sexual rights of children and adolescents, artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, framing of neglected tropical diseases, securitization of health, and trademarks in global health. Brought together within one volume, the breadth of these chapters provides a unique and enlightening contribution to the wider Global Health field. This important volume will be a fascinating read for students and researchers across Global Health, Bioethics, Political PhilosophyTable of Contents0.Introduction. Part I. Citizenship, Power, and Relational Justice. 1.World Citizenship and Global Health. 2.AI-DSS in Healthcare and Their Power over Health Insecure Collectives. Part II. Responsibility for Justice: Law, Civil Society, and the Private Sector. 3.Everything is unconstitutional: contesting structural violence in health systems with legal mobilisation. 4.Framing Noma: Human Rights and Neglected Tropical Diseases as Paths for Advocacy. 5.Trade Marks and the Right to Health: A Growing Tension. Part III. Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice. 6.The Capability Approach and the Sexual Rights of Children and Adolescents. 7.Reproductive Justice and Ethics of Consent in Assisted Living for Disabled People: A Critical Reflections for Socio-Legal Policies in India. Part IV. Health Governance, Security, and Transitions. 8.Justice in Global Health Governance: The Role of Enforcement. 9.The Ethical Issues Raised by the Securitisation of Health. 10.Transitional Health Justice. Part V. Global Health Justice: New Frames, New Approaches. 11.Redistribution and Recognition in the Pursuit of Health Justice: An Application of Nancy Fraser’s Framework. 12.Beyond the Right to Health: A Confucian Approach to Justice in Global Health. 13.What do we want from a theory of global health justice?

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Book SynopsisFully updated and expanded, the fifth edition of Diversity in America offers a comparative, sociohistorical analysis of diversity in the United States. Drawing from the latest data and research and incorporating recent developments such as the Black Lives Matter movement, Parrillo gives a detailed and multifaceted portrait of intergroup relations. Parrillo takes a chronological approach and uses intergenerational comparisons to highlight demographic shifts and changing perceptions of diversity within different periods of American history. The tensions between the processes of assimilation and pluralism are explored throughout with reference to debates surrounding immigration, the perceived threat of multiculturalism, and the fear of society losing its âœAmericanâ identity. The original concept of the âDillingham Flawâ is deployed to explain false perceptions of immigrants. Further updates to the fifth edition include analytical commentary on the controversies surrounding Critical Race Theory and Great Replacement Theory; Affirmative Action, the rise of White supremacist groups; the political divide over asylum seekers, refugees, and undocumented immigrants; and changing racial and religious demographics in an evolving multi-racial America. The book thus sheds light on the socially constructed myths about Americaâs past, misunderstandings about its present, and anxieties about its future. This accessible and engagingly written book will be of interest to students, academics, and general readers with an interest in diversity, race, ethnicity and migration in the United States.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface: How to Read, Wait a minute…Where are all the Black people Chapter One: Enter the Global Race for Racial Equity Chapter Two: Moving Beyond the Conversations We Live in a Racialised Society Wasn’t Diversity and Inclusion Supposed to Solve This? Racism and Discrimination Is Illegal In the Eyes of the Law Your Anti-racist Leadership Starts Now Chapter Three: Define Meaning Using Language as a Tool to Dismantle Racism New Terminology Black Colourism Chapter Four: Start From Where You Stand The Easy Solution(s) Are Rarely The Right Ones The Racial Equity Maturity Model Level One: A Compliance Issue Level Two: Intent to be Inclusive Level Three: Strategic Focus + Specific Commitment Level Four: Public + Private Accountability Our Culture isn’t Racist…is it? Chapter Five: The 4-Factor RACE Model Recognise the Problem Analyse the Impact Commit to Action Empower for Change Chapter Six: A Sustainable Future Chapter Seven: Where do we go from here? Index

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Book SynopsisAwareness of peer-on-peer abuse is on the rise and is a matter of increasing international concern. Abuse Between Young People: A Contextual Account is the first book to offer a contextualised narrative of peer-on-peer abuse that moves beyond recognising an association between environments and individual choice, and illustrates the ways in which such interplay occurs.Using both sociological and feminist perspectives, Firmin reshapes the way that peer-on-peer abuse is perceived and investigates the effect of gendered social context on the nature of abuse between young people. This text also uses an in-depth case study to explore associations between abusive incidents and young people's homes, peer groups, schools and neighbourhoods, in addition to broader societal influences such as pornography and politics. National and international policies are woven into each chapter, along with insights from parenting programmes, the troubled families' agenda, and bullying aTable of ContentsSection 1:Setting the scene: peer-on-peer abuse and contextual investigation 1. Introduction 2. The challenge we face: the nature of peer-on-peer abuse 3. Definitions, theory and methodology Section 2: The contexts associated with peer-on-peer abuse 4. 'I blame the parents' 5. I get by with a little help from my friends 6. Education, education, education 7. There's no place like home Section 3: The implications of a contextual account of peer-on-peer abuse 8. Location, location, location 9. A contextual account of choice 10. Agency and dependency: a contextual account of childhood 11. Conclusion: towards contextual safeguarding References Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisAN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER and NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption.Powerfully illuminating, heart-wrenching, and enlightening. -Ibram X. Kendi, bestselling author of How to Be an AntiracistCrushingly powerful, Long Time Coming is an unfiltered Marlboro of black pain. -Isabel Wilkerson, bestselling author of CasteFormidable, compelling...has much to offer on our nation's crucial need for racial reckoning and the way forward. -Bryan Stevenson, bestselling author of Just Mercy The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night's events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nati

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Book SynopsisThe volume takes the reader on a journey through critical feminist theorising of violence, conflict, and oppression, to visions of feminist peace grounded in the organising of grassroots women's movements, and finally, to concrete methodological and pedagogical guidance for implementing critical feminist approaches in research and teaching.

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Book Synopsis''Required reading.'' - CosmopolitanRemember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives - but not everyone regularly sees themselves reflected on the pages of a book.In this timely anthology, Glory Edim, founder of the online community, Well-Read Black Girl, brings together original essays by some of America''s best black women writers to shine a light on how important it is that we all - regardless of gender, race, religion, or ability - have the opportunity to find ourselves in literature. Whether it''s learning about the complexities of femalehood from Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison, finding a new type of love in The Color Purple, or using mythology to craft an alternative black future, each essay reminds us why we turn to books in times of both struggle and relaxation. Here, Edim has created a Trade ReviewYes, Well-Read Black Girl is as good as it sounds. . . . [Glory Edim] gathers an all-star cast of contributors-among them Lynn Nottage, Jesmyn Ward, and Gabourey Sidibe. * O: The Oprah Magazine *These essays build the altars for black women to recognize and support each other's work, not as collectibles rendered visible or easily consumed by non-black audiences, but as an acknowledgment of black women as architects of their own futures and universes. . . . Each essay can be read as a dispatch from the vast and wonderfully complex location that is black girlhood and womanhood. . . . They present literary encounters that may at times seem private and ordinary-hours spent in the children's section of a public library or in a college classroom-but are no less monumental in their impact, * The Washington Post *Glory Edim has curated a brilliant collection of essential American reading for the twenty-first-century reader. This book is smart, powerful, and complete. * Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko and Free Food for Millionaires *Edim's collection of brief, pithy, and original essays by twenty-one distinguished black women addresses the question, 'When did you first see yourself in literature?' . . . Speaking directly to black women readers, this book contains a journey from which anyone can derive enjoyment and benefit. * Publishers Weekly *Required reading. * Cosmopolitan *Edim expands her breakout Brooklyn book club with this vibrant anthology celebrating black women in literature. The beyond impressive list of contributors includes Jesmyn Ward, Jacqueline Woodson, Tayari Jones, and Gabourey Sidibe. * Entertainment Weekly *This book is a star chart, a map readers can use to navigate the world via the minds of brilliant black women writers. The essays extol us all to regard-and to celebrate-the written word anew. * Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House *As far as I'm concerned, this should be read as a sacred text. Here, you will bear witness to a perpetual salvation song. * Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down and All American Boys *Edim, creator of the Brooklyn-based Well-Read Black Girl book club, invites readers to discover uplifting stories by black women writers in this thoughtfully edited anthology. . . . This work affirms the transformative power of reading. * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the writer crowned one of the smartest, funniest voices in modern America, this hotly anticipated debut collection of essays offers “a precious glimpse into how Ziwe’s uniquely fearless mind functions” (New York Magazine) Ziwe made a name for herself by asking guests like Alyssa Milano, Fran Lebowitz, and Chet Hanks direct questions. In Black Friend, she turns her incisive perspective on both herself and the culture at large. Throughout the book, Ziwe combines pop-culture commentary and personal stories, which grapple with her own (mis)understanding of identity. From a hilarious case of mistaken identity via a jumbotron to a terrifying fight-or-flight encounter in the woods, Ziwe raises difficult questions for comedic relief. From Black Friend’s Introduction: “Today, I learned that my book is ranked as the #1 new release in ‘Discrimination and Racism&Trade Review“One of the smartest, funniest voices in modern America.” * Kirkus Reviews *“The intimate selections offer a rare look beneath Ziwe’s comedic persona, and the humor amuses . . . .energetic mix of comedy and personal reflection” * Publisher's Weekly *“It’s got a light touch but sharp nails.” * Bustle *“a precious glimpse into how Ziwe’s uniquely fearless mind functions” * Vulture, New York Magazine *

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Book SynopsisWe are living in the most remarkable and dangerous times. Globally, the richest 1% have never held a greater share of world wealth, while the share of most of the other 99% has collapsed in the last five years. In this fully rewritten and updated edition of Injustice, Dorling offers hope of a more equal society.Trade Review"The book is accessible: clearly written and eloquently argued, with up-to-date data from the UK and US used to back up claims...a call to action, with practical steps towards eradicating inequality." Research Matters"Dorling's text is an invaluable reference that anybody and everybody concerned with inequality, social (in)justice, and the underside to the world in which we live ought have on their bookshelf." The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books"This updated edition of Dorling's book will remind us - if we needed reminding - that injustice has not gone away, and that in many ways it is getting worse; that there are things that we can do about it; and that we need to do those things." Citizen's Income Trust"A rallying point for a different vision of society, one in which elitism is replaced by equality, exclusion and prejudice by acceptance, greed by selflessness, and despair by confidence. It is only in such an environment that individual fulfilment, regardless of position in the social order, and so desperately craved but so rarely realised in capitalist society, is available to all. What, then, are we waiting for?" The Oxford Left Review"Rich insights into how prejudice, presumption and a paucity of regard for our fellow human beings reinforces poverty as well as privilege." David Cay Johnston, journalist and author, Pulitzer Prize winner"Superb and invaluable ammunition in the fight against inequality and injustice" Owen Jones, author and Guardian columnist"Think twice before reading this book – you may well become an activist against social injustice, inequality and the exploitation of labour. Danny Dorling gives us words that are weapons." Ken Loach, director"Dorling’s analysis is quietly, devastatingly persuasive. Once you’ve read him you have to reassess how you live. That’s an amazing gift." Peter Florence, Director of the Hay Festival"In this new edition of his seminal Injustice, Dorling’s unique combination of moral passion and analytical rigour made my heart sing." David Marquand, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford University"Excellent compendium....[from] one of the great researchers on the condition of our time." Tribune"Powerful sentences and carefully-curated evidence frame critically-important thoughts on how we got here and how things could be different." Jamie Goodwin-White, University of California"Dorling has given us a guide through the dark, twisted and changing forest of injustice. A must-read for anyone fighting for justice." Dr Faiza Shaheen, Head of Inequality, Save the ChildrenTable of ContentsLetter from America: commentary by Sam Pizzigati; Foreword by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett; 1. Introduction; The beliefs that uphold injustice; The five faces of social inequality; A pocket full of posies; 2. Inequality: the antecedent and outcome and of injustice; Inevitability of change: what we do now we could all have enough?; Injustice rising out of the ashes of social evils; So where do we go from here; 3. 'Elitism is efficient': new educational divisions; The ‘new delinquents’: those most harmed by elitism, a seventh of all children; IQism: the underlying rationale for the growth of elitism; Apartheid schooling: from garaging to hot-housing; Putting on a pedestal: superhuman myths; The 1950s: from ignorance to arrogance; 4. 'Exclusion is necessary': excluding people from society; Indebted: those most harmed by exclusion, a sixth of all people; Geneticism: the theories that exacerbate social exclusion; Segregation: of community from community; Escapism: of the rich behind walls; The 1960s: the turning point from inclusion to exclusion; 5. 'Prejudice is natural': a wider racism; Indenture: labour for miserable reward, a fifth of all adults; Darwinism: thinking that different incentives are needed; Polarisation: of the economic performance of regions; Inheritance: the mechanism of prejudice; The 1970s: the new racism; 6. 'Greed is good': consumption and waste; Not part of the programme: just getting by, a quarter of all households; Economics: the discipline with so much to answer for; Gulfs: between our lives and our worlds; Celebrity: celebrated as a model of success; The 1980s: changing the rules of trade; 7. ‘Despair is inevitable’: health and wellbeing; Anxiety: made ill through the way we live, a third of all families; Competition: proposing insecurity as beneficial; Culture: the international gaps in societal wellbeing; Bird-brained thinking: putting profit above caring; The 1990s: birth of mass medicating; 8. Conspiracy, consensus, conclusion. No great conspiracy; Using the vote; Coming to the end; Injustice deepens; What to do;

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Book Synopsis50 years on from the Race Relations Act of 1968, this state of the nation' book provides an overview and commentary on how things currently stand in a wide range of sectors of society.Table of ContentsState of the Nation: Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK ~ Claire Alexander and Bridget Byrne The Demography of Ethnic Minorities in Britain ~ William Shankley, Tina Hannemann and Ludi Simpson Citizen Rights and Immigration ~ William Shankley and Bridget Byrne Minority Ethnic Groups, Policing and the Criminal Justice System in Britain: William Shankley and Patrick Williams Health Inequalities ~ Karen Chouhan and James Nazroo Ethnic Inequalities in the State Education System in England ~ Claire Alexander and William Shankley Ethnic Minorities in the Labour Market in Britain ~ Ken Clark and William Shankley Ethnic Minorities and Housing in Britain ~ William Shankley and Nissa Finney Arts, Media and Ethnic Inequalities ~ sarita malik and William Shankley Politics and Representation ~ maria sobolewska and William Shankley Racisms in Contemporary Britain ~ William Shankley and James Rhodes Conclusion ~ Omar Khan Recommendations ~ Omar Khan

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic fieldwork and the author's own experience, this book explores how diverse welfare users navigate the personal and practical hurdles of Australia's social security system.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. A hand up, not a handout 3. Seatbelts and safety nets 4. Problems of access in community welfare 5. Negotiating vulnerability 6. The shame of protection 7. The art of getting by 8. Conclusion: From problems to possibilities

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Book SynopsisIn this powerful book, Kinouani uniquely examines the psychological and psychic factors involved in the reproduction of 'whiteness' and reveals how these intersect with race dynamics, race inequality and racial violence.Table of ContentsIntroduction Whiteness: time and space White gazes White envy White sadism White trauma White dissociation White shame White ambivalence White complicity Whiteness and resistance: by way of conclusion

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Book SynopsisWritten by an international team of authors, this ambitious volume offers radical alternatives to staid ways of thinking on the most crucial global challenges of our times. Bridging real examples of political agency, collective action and mutual aid with big-picture concepts, the book encourages readers to 'be a Zapatista', wherever they are.Table of Contents1. Introduction: From Liberal Bystanding to Emancipatory Praxis 2. A World Where Many Worlds Fit 3. The Coloniser’s Model/Neoliberal State of the World 4. Modernity-Coloniality and Indigenous Realities 5. Dispossession, Extractivism, and Violence 6. Critical Consciousness and Praxis 7. Political Education and Radical Pedagogy 8. Gender Justice and Social Reproduction 9. Health, Food Sovereignty, Solidarity Economies 10. The Battle for the Soul of Education

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Providing scientific evidence to support equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in health and biomedicine, this book offers practical strategies and interventions for academic settings.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is equality, diversity and inclusion? 1. The Status quo in research careers in health and biomedical sciences 2. Why Does EDI Matter to Research Organisations? 3. Why Does EDI Matter to Individual Researchers and Researcher Communities? 4. How Can Organisations Be Supported? 5. How Can Organisations Support Individuals? Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book gives students a critical insight into how children and families' everyday lives and experiences are shaped by policy and legislation. Providing guidance on developing academic assignments throughout, it covers concepts such as the family within multicultural societies, poverty, social mobility and life-chances.Table of Contents1. Introduction 1.1 Why Read This Book 1.2 Bronfenbrenner's Socio-Ecological Model 1.3 Piaget and Vygotsky 1.4 How Does Society Influence Children’s Development? 2. The Family 2.1 What Is a Family? 2.2 Seeing the Things We Do for Love as a Script To Be Followed 2.3. How Have Relationships Changed? 2.4. Does Reflexivity Mean That We Project Manage Our Own Lives? 2.5. How Discourse Makes Us Believe the Way Families Behave Is Natural 2.6 How Does Discourse Have Power? 2.7 How State Governance Draws Upon Discourse 2.8 How Might You Use This Chapter 3. Parenting and Failing Families 3.1 How Does the State Regulate Families 3.2 Is It the Case That What Parents Do Is More Important Than Who Parents Are? 3.3 Does Social Class Influence Parenting? 3.4 Should the State Help Parents? 3.5 What Do We Mean by Failing or Troubled Families 3.6 Can Failing Families Be Seen as Part of an Underclass? 3.7 Murray and the Start of Concerns 3.8 Being Critical and Using This Chapter 4. The State 4.1 Why Is the State Relevant to Studying Children and Families? 4.2 Can the State Do Things That Individuals Cannot? 4.3 How Values Shape What the State Does 4.4 What Do We Mean by the State 4.5 How the State Can Regulate the Context of Your Life 4.6 Should We Give Up Personal Freedoms and Let the State Have More Power? 4.7 Considering the Power of the State 4.8 Rights, and Some Arguments for Restricting or Removing Them 4.9 Removing Rights Because of Who, or What, You Are 4.10 Democracy and Populism 4.11 Making Use of This Chapter in an Assignment 5. The Relevance of Political Ideologies 5.1 What Do We Mean by Political Ideologies 5.2 Making Sense of Left and Right in Politics 5.3 Neoliberalism: Individuals, Free Markets and Inequality 5.4 Neoconservatism: Morals, Culture Wars and Nationalism 5.5 Social Democracy: Equal Opportunities, Social Inclusion and the Third Way 5.6 Communitarianism 5.7 Social and Cultural Capital 5.8 What You Can Do With This Chapter To Make Your Assignments Stronger 6. Welfare, Policy and the Family 6.1 How Is Ideology Put Into Practice 6.2 How Does Ideology Underpin Welfare? 6.3 How Have Ideas About the Family Shaped Welfare Services? 6.4 Deserving, Undeserving and the Problem of Need 6.5 How Can We Ensure That Welfare Only Goes to the Deserving? 6.6 How the State Shapes Family Life 6.7 So What? 7. Wellbeing 7.1 What Do We Mean by Wellbeing 7.2 Does Wellbeing Represent Individualisation? 7.3 Inequality and Wellbeing 7.4 The Key Ideas That Really Should Be in an Essay 8. Vulnerable Children 8.1 A Discourse of Children As Naturally Vulnerable 8.2 Policy and Need 8.3 What Is the Social Context of Vulnerability? 8.4 What Might You Use in an Essay Out of This Chapter? 9. Resilience 9.1 Why Is Resilience Important? 9.2 What Do We Mean by Resilience 9.3 Can Parents Help To Develop Resilience 9.4 Why We Need Adversity 9.5 What Can I Do With This? 10. Risk 10.1 Children, Risk and Resilience 10.2 The Move Towards Individual Responsibility, Reflexivity and Choice 10.3 Are We Protecting Children When We Remove All Risks? 10.4 Where Do I Fit This In 11. Safeguarding 11.1 How Culture and Values Define a Child in Need and a Child Being Harmed 11.2 Should We Keep All Children and Young People Safe? 11.3 Sex, Technology and Risk 11.4 The Social and Political Context 11.5 Making Use of This in Assignments 12. Life-Chances, Inequalities and Social Mobility 12.1 How Life-Chances Explain Social Inequalities 12.2 How Life-Choices Explain Social Inequalities 12.3 What Social Inequalities and What Is Wrong With Inequality? 12.4 What Can the State Do About Inequalities? 12.5 Why Is In-Work Poverty Important 12.6 Why Housing Matters to Children 12.7 Is Social Mobility Important for Children? 12.8 Using This Chapter 13. What, There’s No Conclusion? 13.1 So What?

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Book SynopsisAs another baking hot day dawns over Louisiana in 1943, a young black man wakes in a town jail to the final hours of his life: at midnight, eighteen-year-old Willie Jones will be executed by electric chair for raping a white girl - a crime some believe he did not commit. In a tale taut with mounting tension, the day unfolds hour by hour from nine points of view: Willie himself, knowing what really happened and grappling with what it means to die; his father, desperately trying to reach home with a tombstone for his son before it''s too late to see him one last time; the lawyer, haunted by being forced to seek the death penalty against his convictions, his wife, who believes Willie to be innocent, and their 12-year-old son, determined to get as close as possible to the action regardless of the dangers; the priest assigned to Willie in jail; the prisoner entrusted with driving the executioner and his travelling electric chair to the place of execution; and the mother whose onlTrade ReviewIt takes a brave writer to compose a novel about the execution of an African-American man in the Deep South when the topic has previously been brought to life by authors like Harper Lee and Ernest Gaines. There are multiple possibilities for failure: preachiness, melodrama and bias, to name a few. But Elizabeth H. Winthrop avoids these hazards by writing well, demonstrating once again that while the subject matter is the body of the narrative, the prose itself is the soul and the thing that makes a topic new . . . [The novel] gathers great power as it rolls on propelled by its many voices. -- Tim Gautreaux * New York Times *In this spare, taut novel, the separate stories of the people around an execution join together to form a portrait of a town, a mentality, a moment in time. This is a compelling, sorrowful read, deeply perceptive and wonderfully full of grace. -- Andrew SolomonThis is an atmospheric, subtle and beautifully crafted portrait of a divided community, riven by prejudice. Echoing William Faulkner and Harper Lee, this moving novel has clear contemporary resonance. -- Simon Humphreys * Mail on Sunday *A heart-rending, devastating read. -- Nina Pottell * Prima *A choral reckoning with our human cruelty and with the modesty of our very real and resisting grace - and this excellent writer's best novel yet. -- Joshua FerrisThis taut, deft novel asks us to look, and to look hard, and our willingness is profoundly honoured. -- Michelle LatiolaisPlease celebrate Winthrop's audacious determination to walk through the narrative minefield of this account of an electrocution in the Deep South during the Gothic worst of Jim Crow times. Winthrop redeems her daring by lovely discipline and dignity, by the care she lavishes on each of her rounded characters. The Mercy Seat is a truly bravura performance. -- Geoffrey WolffSome novels seem to set your soul ablaze with an author-induced explosion of empathy for our flawed, beautiful world. The Mercy Seat does just that . . .astonishingly moving . . . Narrated in turn by nine characters, Winthrop's story has the inexorable pace of a thriller; her writing of voice and character is masterful. And like the best fiction about the past, The Mercy Seat speaks to the challenges of the present. It's an astonishing feat. -- Sarah Harrison Smith * The Amazon Book Review *Winthrop creates a kaleidoscopic narrative that captures the wildly different perspectives of characters beyond accuser and accused. . . Suspenseful and highly nuanced, Winthrop's novel raises profound questions about truth and justice. * The National Book Review *An absorbing slice of historical fiction. * Good Housekeeping *Beautifully crafted. -- Jane Ciabattari * BBC Culture *Gripping . . .This is a small book, but one certain to make a big impact. Questions are raised and left unanswered in regard to the death penalty; no matter what your belief in this regard, it's impossible not to have empathy for Willie, as the author painstakingly walks us through his final hours, the clock ticking as 'The Mercy Seat' waits. * Missourian *Praise for THE WHY OF THINGS: With insight, respect and luminous clarity . . . This haunting, shimmering novel reminds us how all of us know our families: with unimaginable intimacy, and hardly at all. -- Andrew SolomonKeenly observed . . . richly drawn. * New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice *Totally engrossing from start to finish. Winthrop's scene building is captivating, her characterization intricately layered, and her ability to build tension both preternatural and Hitchcockian. * Ploughshares *Praise for DECEMBER: Winthrop is brilliant at depicting the bewildering world and its assault on the senses of a struggling adolescent . . . This extraordinary novel seduces as it also challenges: curiously provoking and offering small flashes of illumination, like matches struck in that dim and meaningful space on the far side of language. -- Natalie Sandison * The Times *Praise for FIREWORKS: Winthrop sketches her hapless hero with uncommon charm . . . both he and the reader learn to appreciate anew the 'non-stories' that make up life. * Observer *A bitingly intelligent writer who infuses otherwise unremarkable moments with bittersweet pathos. * New York Times Book Review *A multi-layered tale of life, death and the grey pain of grief. And yet, it is not depressing . . . though slow burning, [it] still manages to be explosive. * Irish Examiner *

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Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the struggles of a minority group Alevis for recognition and representation in Turkey and the diaspora. It examines how they mobilise against state practices and claim their rights, while at the same time negotiating how they define themselves.

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Book Synopsis From the very inception of the United States, few issues have been so divisive and defining as American slavery. Even as the U.S. was founded on principles of liberty, independence and freedom, slavery advocates and sympathizers positioned themselves in every aspect of American influence. Over the centuries, the characterization of early American figures, legislation and party platforms has been debated. The author seeks to clarify often unanswered--or ignored--questions about notable figures, sociopolitical movements and their positions on slavery. From early legislation like the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 to Reconstruction and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, this book explores some of America''s most controversial moments. Spanning the first American century, it offers a detailed chronology of slavery and racism in early U.S. politics and society.

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Book SynopsisThe grassroots queer activism and legal challenges that led to a landmark Supreme Court decision in favor of gay and lesbian equality.

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Book SynopsisArgues that armed resistance was critical to the Southern freedom struggle and the dismantling of segregation and Black disenfranchisement.Trade Review"In We Will Shoot Back, Umoja presents a compelling and important argument for the role of armed resistance played in the Mississippi freedom struggle. . . . He successfully challenges the often silent narrative on the importance and prevalence of armed resistance in Mississippi and, in doing so, We Will Shoot Back underscores the importance of reexamining the Mississippi movement in all of its complexities." * Register of the Kentucky Historical Society *"Umoja follows confrontation in communities across the state through the ends of the 1970s, demonstrating how black Mississippians were ultimately able to overcome intimidation by mainstream society, defeat legal segregation, and claim a measure of political control of their state." * The Clarion-Ledger *"In We Will Shoot Back, historian Akinyele Omowale Umoja adds his voice to the flurry of recent scholarship that examines the relationship between armed self-defense and nonviolent protest in the black freedom struggle. Umoja Succeeds in his quest to enshrine a tradition of militant self-defense within Mississippi's black freedom struggle." * Journal of African American History *"[B]y extending the narrative of armed resistance through the late 1970s and emphasizing grassroots activism, this well-researched and beautifully written book succeeds in pushing historiographical boundaries. It will undoubtedly be of interest to scholars and students alike." * Journal of American History *"[Nelson Mandela's] sister recalled when considering that thing in him; that courage and light in the world would eventually herald. . . . Akinyele Umoja, chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta and author of We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement concurs." -- Asha Bandele * Ebony *"Akinyele Umoja's marvelously rich and exhaustive study of Mississippi will radically transform the debate about the role of nonviolence within the civil rights movement, proving that armed self-defense actually saved lives, reduced terrorist attacks on African American communities, and laid the foundation for unparalleled community solidarity. We Will Shoot Back is decidedly not a romantic celebration of gun culture, but a sometimes sobering, sometimes beautiful story of self-reliance and self-determination and a peoples capacity to sustain a movement against all odds." * Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination *"Ranging from Reconstruction to the Black Power period, this thoroughly and creatively researched book effectively challenges long-held beliefs about the Black Freedom Struggle. It should make it abundantly clear that the violence/nonviolence dichotomy is too simple to capture the thinking of Black Southerners about the forms of effective resistance." * Charles M. Payne, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago *"The book is meticulously researched and easily accessible. Part of a wider trend toward understanding social movements through targeted community studies and oral histories, Umoja's scholarship has contributed to a deeper, richer, and ultimately more accurate understanding of the civil rights/black power movement(s). The stereotype of cowering black sharecroppers, awaiting the intervention of well-meaning white do-gooders to rescue them from virulent Klansmen, cannot withstand the withering fire of We Will Shoot Back." -- Christopher Strain * American Historical Review *"This riveting historical narrative relies upon oral history, archival material, and scholarly literature to reconstruct the use of armed resistance by Black activists and supporters in Mississippi to challenge racist terrorism, segregation, and fight for human rights and political empowerment from the early 1950s through the late 1970's." * Mark Anthony Neal *"Timely and timeless. . . . Expands our understanding of the hidden narratives of Mississippi's black armed resistance groups scattered through generations." * Kathleen Cleaver, Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow, Emory Law School *"Umoja's eye-opening work is a powerful and provocative addition to the literature of the civil rights movement." * Publishers Weekly *"[Umoja] asserts that armed resistance played a significant role in the Mississippi Black Freedom Struggle, providing a useful corrective to the assumption that southern blacks were passive in response to white terror and the Ku Klux Klan. . . . Umoja's greatest contribution is to tell the stories of the less well-known black Mississippians who had the courage to confront White racism and fight back. . . . Their stories and legacy provide an essential correction to the stereotype of indigenous southern black passivity perpetuated by such popular Hollywood fare as Mississippi Burning (1988)." * Journal of American Culture *"Umoja (Georgia State Univ.) challenges the notion that the classic civil rights movement in the southern US was always a nonviolent movement. He provides new information and interpretations, which are a welcome contribution to knowledge of this period in the 1960s and an appreciated addition to the history of the civil rights movement." * Choice *"Umoja has contributed to a more complex and less romanticized understanding of the civil rights movement by documenting civil rights tactics difficult to hail in & beloved community tones: the deployment of coercion toward the very people the movement meant to free from coercion." * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. Terror and Resistance: Foundations of the Civil 11Rights Insurgency2. "I'm Here, Not Backing Up": Emergence of Grassroots 27Militancy and Armed Self-Defense in the 1950s3. "Can't Give Up My Stuff ": Nonviolent Organizations 50and Armed Resistance4. "Local People Carry the Day": Freedom Summer 83and Challenges to Nonviolence in Mississippi5. "Ready to Die and Defend": Natchez and the Advocacy 121and Emergence of Armed Resistance in Mississippi6. "We Didn't Turn No Jaws": Black Power, Boycotts, 145and the Growing Debate on Armed Resistance7. "Black Revolution Has Come": Armed Insurgency, Black 173Power, and Revolutionary Nationalism in the Mississippi Freedom Struggle8. "No Longer Afraid": The United League, Activist 211Litigation, Armed Self-Defense, and Insurgent Resilience in Northern MississippiConclusion: Looking Back So We Can Move Forward 254Notes 261Index 305About the Author 339

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Book SynopsisThe unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see difference. At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies of white supremacy are just as dependent on what we hearvoices, musical taste, volumeas they are on skin color or hair texture. Reinforcing compelling new ideas about the relationship between race and sound with meticulous historical research, Jennifer Lynn Stoever helps us to better understand how sound and listening not only register the racial politics of our world, but actively produce them. Through analysis of the historical traces of sounds of African American performers, Stoever reveals a host of racialized aural representations operating at the level of the unseenthe sonic color lineand exposes the racialized listening practices she figures as the listening ear. UsiTrade ReviewThe Sonic Color Linewill open up new vistas for thinking about sound, race, and identity, and for understanding how racism is enforced through both sounding and listening. Painstakingly researched and written with verve, Stoevers book will shape the way scholars of American and African American culture and history think about sound, even when our primary texts, like photographs and literary works, are seemingly silent. -- Gayle Wald,author of It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power TelevisionA gripping read and a rousing call to political attunement by way of sound, The Sonic Color Line investigates scenes of racialized audition from Civil War times to the Civil Rights era. This theoretically rich and passionately argued book made me wiser about the social relations that define sound, the resonant events that suggest how the ear is disciplined, the racial politics of listening that extend into every corner of the republic. -- Eric Lott,City University of New York Graduate CenterThat the critical intertexts for this book are not only scholarly works but also the Black Lives Matter movement and the many other political movements dedicated to racial justice is a key element in its timeliness and appeal. Engaged scholarship dedicated to an ethics of equality, community, and demystification is a powerful necessity in these times of increasing uncertainty about what 'America' is and how it came to be. -- John Melillo * American Literary History Online *

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Book SynopsisLaboring for Justice highlights the experiences of day laborers and advocates in the struggle against wage theft in Denver, Colorado. Drawing on more than seven years of research that earned special recognition for its community engagement, this book analyzes the widespread problem of wage theft and its disproportionate impact on low-wage immigrant workers. Rebecca Galemba focuses on the plight of day laborers in Denver, Colorado—a quintessential purple state that has swung between some of the harshest and more welcoming policies around immigrant and labor rights. With collaborators and community partners, Galemba reveals how labor abuses like wage theft persist, and how advocates, attorneys, and workers struggle to redress and prevent those abuses using proactive policy, legal challenges, and direct action tactics. As more and more industries move away from secure, permanent employment and towards casualized labor practices, this book shines a light on wage theft as symptomatic of larger, systemic issues throughout the U.S. economy, and illustrates how workers can deploy effective strategies to endure and improve their position in the world amidst precarity through everyday forms of convivencia and resistance. Applying a public anthropology approach that integrates the experiences of community partners, students, policy makers, and activists in the production of research, this book uses the pressing issue of wage theft to offer a methodologically rigorous, community-engaged, and pedagogically innovative approach to the study of immigration, labor, inequality, and social justice.Trade Review"Laboring for Justice is public anthropology at its best! Galemba not only explores labor abuses through an engaged commitment to social justice and research, she also writes as a team player set on helping migrants deal with wage theft. Her community-based approach blurs the lines between activism, teaching, and anthropology and offers methodologically rich contributions to issues affecting migrant communities throughout the country."—Juan Thomas Ordóñez, author of Jornalero: Being a Day Laborer in the USA"Professor Galemba's book does a better job than any other of telling the real human story of wage theft, how it affects people and families, in particular immigrants and people of color, how it strains our bureaucracy, how it undermines our marketplace. Wage theft is more than just a statistic. This book tells the story."—David Seligman, Executive Director of Towards Justice"The product of a decade-long commitment to politically engaged research, Laboring for Justice makes visible the complex systems of power that constrain the lives and livelihoods of undocumented laborers across the United States. Galemba and colleagues' deeply reflexive consideration of their methodology of convivir is a gift to all committed to the decolonization of ethnographic research and writing."—Angela Stuesse, author of Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South"Laboring for Justice is a powerful anthropological exploration of systemic inequality and the entrenched structural forces surrounding day laborers in Colorado.... Taken together, both the substantive and the methodological contributions of this work make it a seminal piece of research in the field. Highly recommended."—M. Gatta, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: Introduction: Stolen Wages on Stolen Land 1. Stealing Immigrant Work 2. Boomtown: Construction and Immigration in the Mile High City 3. "Dreaming for Friday": How Employers Steal Wages 4. "A Day Worked is a Day Paid": Preventing and Confronting Wage Theft 5. Failure to Pursue: The Legal Maze 6. God's Justice: Resignation and Reckoning 7. Authorship: Abbey Vogel, Diego Bleifuss Prados, Amy Czulada, Tamara Kuennen, Alexsis Sanchez, and Rebecca Galemba: The DAT: Justice and Direct Action 8. Conclusion: "Sí, se puede": Learning to Convivir Amidst Broader Indignities

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Book SynopsisA rigorous study of the social meaning and consequences of racist humor, and a damning argument for when the joke is not just a joke. Having a "good" sense of humor generally means being able to take a joke without getting offended—laughing even at a taboo thought or at another's expense. The insinuation is that laughter eases social tension and creates solidarity in an overly politicized social world. But do the stakes change when the jokes are racist? In The Souls of White Jokes Raúl Pérez argues that we must genuinely confront this unsettling question in order to fully understand the persistence of anti-black racism and white supremacy in American society today. W.E.B. Du Bois's prescient essay "The Souls of White Folk" was one of the first to theorize whiteness as a social and political construct based on a feeling of superiority over racialized others—a kind of racial contempt. Pérez extends this theory to the study of humor, connecting theories of racial formation to parallel ideas about humor stemming from laughter at another's misfortune. Critically synthesizing scholarship on race, humor, and emotions, he uncovers a key function of humor as a tool for producing racial alienation, dehumanization, exclusion, and even violence. Pérez tracks this use of humor from blackface minstrelsy to contemporary contexts, including police culture, politics, and far-right extremists. Rather than being harmless fun, this humor plays a central role in reinforcing and mobilizing racist ideology and power under the guise of amusement. The Souls of White Jokes exposes this malicious side of humor, while also revealing a new facet of racism today. Though it can be comforting to imagine racism as coming from racial hatred and anger, the terrifying reality is that it is tied up in seemingly benign, even joyful, everyday interactions as well— and for racism to be eradicated we must face this truth.Trade Review"This book is an example of the best the sociological imagination has to offer. Pérez advances a powerful theory, elegantly substantiated with historical and contemporary examples. I learned a lot and so will everyone who reads this book."—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of Racism without Racists"In providing the first sustained discussion of racist humor in the United States, Pérez contributes a significant critical intervention to intellectual discussions of racism."—Simon Weaver, author of The Rhetoric of Racist Humour"Theoretically astute and historically rich, this unique study depicts the racial joke—far from being harmless and disarming—as being inseparable from the cementing of white solidarity, from the spreading of racist commonsense, and from easy disavowal of the damage being done."—David Roediger, author of The Wages of Whiteness"It is a commonplace assumption that humor is always harmless fun and vital for our everyday well-being. In this important new book, Raúl Pérez cogently argues that this is not invariably the case, and that jokes and joking relations can be hostile, divisive, alienating and dehumanizing – or in other words, very harmful. Within a strong and well-woven theoretical framework, The Souls of White Jokes offers a major contribution to the critical sociology of ethnicity and racism as well as to the study of humor in key institutions and organizations."—Michael Pickering, author of Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain"Pérez has written the most consequential sociological analysis of humor in the past 20 years... With the current debates over who or what is racist, Pérez has provided a guide that will provoke debates that are essential in a world of comic possibilities and comic cringes."—Gary Alan Fine, Symbolic Interaction"Raúl Pérez has published a much needed addition to the critical study of how racist jokes do the dirty work of constructing racism and racially hierarchical environments."—Michael J. Lorr, Ethnic and Racial Studies"Pérez has written an essential book for both the non-academic and academic audience—one that will undoubtedly serve as an important teaching tool about racial humor and the importance of understanding how racism is reproduced, even in the absence of hatred or negative feelings."—Muna Adem, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"I find The Souls of White Jokes an important, theoretically rich and thoroughly convincing study of the entanglements of racist humour with white supremacy. I look forward to seeing how this book will influence scholarship in the field of humour studies in years to come."—Lucy Spoliar, The European Journal of Humour Research"In The Souls of White Jokes, Raúl Pérez provides a compelling explanation of how White racist jokes represent a real-time measurement where Americans can see or hear the continued subjugation and disenfranchisement of Non-Whites in the United States."—Cameron D. Lippard, Social Forces"The Souls of White Jokes seeks to counter the concerns of those on the left who believe that targeting racist humor diverts attention from more important issues, such as poverty and diminishing democratic institutions, in the US. More important, Pérez provides a forceful argument to counter those who believe disparaging racial and ethnic humor merits protection as free speech. Recommended."—J. S. Franks, CHOICETable of Contents1. The Racial Power of Humor 2. Amused Racial Contempt, or a Theory of White Racist Humor 3. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Violent Racist Humor of the Far Right 4. Blue Humor: The Racist Insults and Injuries of the Police 5. President Chimp: The Politics of Amused Racial Contempt Epilogue: Racist Humor and the Cult(ure) of Whiteness

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Book SynopsisAlthough economic inequality provokes widespread disquiet, its supposed necessity is rarely questioned. At best, a basic level of inequality is seen as a necessary evil. At worst, it is seen as insufficient to encourage aspiration, hard work and investment – a refrain sometimes used to advocate ever greater inequality. In this original new book, Danny Dorling critically analyses historical trends and contemporary assumptions in order to question the idea that inequality is an inevitability. What if, he asks, widespread economic inequality is actually just a passing phase, a feature of the capitalist transition from a settled rural way of life to our next highly urban steady-state? Is it really likely that we face a Blade Runner-style dystopian future divided between a tiny elite and an impoverished mass? Dorling shows how, amongst much else, a stabilizing population, changing gender relations and rising access to education make a more egalitarian alternative to this nightmare vision not only preferable, but realistic. This bold contribution to one of the most significant debates of our time will be essential reading for anyone interested in our economic, social and political destiny.Trade Review"Provocative as always, Danny Dorling challenges us with encyclopaedic knowledge, damning statistics and original insights. Thoughtfully, he helps us to envision a better society and to believe that we might achieve it."Kate Pickett, University of YorkTable of Contents Contents 1. Bell Curves 2. A history of inequality 3. Why argue for inequality? 4. Who benefits from inequality? 5. Where do the costs of inequality fall? 6. What are the alternatives to inequality? 7. When will the fall in inequality become clear? 8. Reasons for Optimism

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on EU non-discrimination law and governance. The CRPD places the protection of persons with disabilities at the heart of international human rights law. The Convention is the first human rights treaty open for signatures by regional organisations, and the European Union favourably acceded to it in December 2010. Ten years after this historic event, this book explores whether the theory has been put into practice, and examines the effects of the CRPD on EU non-discrimination law and governance. This book brings together the practices of the European Court of Justice (CJEU) with regard to disability discrimination to show whether the CRPD is living up to its full potential to substantially improve the protection of the rights of persons with disabilities in the EU. It examines whether the judicial interpretation of the Directive 2000/78/EC, establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation, does or does not comply with the new legal background delineated by the CRPD. In addition, it investigates whether the governance mechanisms underlying the EU Framework for promoting, protecting and monitoring the CRPD are effectively fostering the implementation of the CRPD and the role of civil society. The prohibition of discrimination on grounds of disability has undergone substantial changes and developments since it was first introduced under international and EU law. This book highlights the main changes to disability discrimination which have occurred in the EU legal order in the last ten years. The book will be of interest to academics, law students and legal practitioners working in the field of EU non-discrimination and equality law.Trade ReviewWith this work, Conte gives a very interesting and thoroughly detailed insight into the CRPD and their impact on Union law. The author's discussion of the issue of equal treatment makes an important contribution to the understanding of the interaction of these systems and encourages the reader to continue working on this exciting topic. -- Helena Auer * Newsletter Menschenrechte (Bloomsbury translation) *[The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the European Union] is clearly written, informative, and meticulously researched. It is undoubtedly a valuable resource for students of EU disability rights law. -- Jeffrey Miller * Common Market Law Review *Table of Contents1. Introducing the CRPD: A New Approach to Equality and Non-Discrimination? I. Introductory Remarks II. Equality and Non-Discrimination: A New Approach for Disability Rights III. The Complex and Intriguing Evolution of the Right to Equality in International Law A. The Controversial ‘Sameness’ Model B. Embracing the Symmetrical Approach at International Level C. Is the Formal Approach Adequate to Combat Discrimination? D. Beyond Differences: Time to Recognise Social Barriers and Positive Duties E. The Prohibition of Discrimination under the CRPD: A New Inclusive Model F. Defining the Concept of Multiple and Intersectional Discrimination IV. The CRPD’s Model of Disability: From a Social Construct Towards a Human Rights Approach V. Reconceptualising the Human Rights Dichotomy A. Disability Rights are Universal and Indivisible: Do Civil and Political Rights also Demand Economic Resources? B. Disability Rights as (Quasi)-Justiciable Rights 2. The New Role for Civil Society under the CRPD I. The Rise of Civil Society in Global Governance A. Participatory Democracy and Global Governance B. Opening Up the Decision-Making Process C. Ensuring Transparent Procedures II. Mainstreaming Disability in the International Agenda A. ‘Nothing about us without us’: A Commitment to Participatory Democracy III. Civil Society’s Role in Implementing the CRPD at National Level A. Institutionalising Civil Society B. Awareness-Raising: A Synergetic Action between States Parties and NGOs IV. Participatory Democracy in the EU: From the White Paper to the Lisbon Treaty A. The Inclusive Process of the EUCFR’s Adoption: The ‘Convention’ Method B. How to Improve EU Participatory Democracy? The Good Practice of the CRPD 3. Ten Years aft er EU Accession to the CRPD: From Theory to Reality I. An Overview of the Prohibition of Discrimination under EU Law A. The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights B. The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms II. Disability Rights in the EU III. The EU Anti-Discrimination Framework: Directive 2000/78/EC A. Exploring the Meaning of Direct Discrimination B. Introducing the Concept of Indirect Discrimination C. Reasonable Accommodation: The Paramount Obligation IV. Filling in the Gap: The Evolving Concept of Disability A. The EU Approach to Disability B. An Intriguing Evolution: The Case of Ring and Skouboe Werge C. Obesity and Disability: The Case of Kaltoft v Municipality of Billund D. The Case of Daouidi: Clarifying the Long-Term Nature of the Impairment E. Absence from Work on Grounds of Sickness: The Case of Ruiz Conejero F. Defining Disability beyond the Labour Market: The Case of Glatzel G. Is the CJEU Still a Real Promoter of Disability Rights? 4. The EU Legal Framework: Associative and Intersectional Discrimination I. Discrimination by Association on Grounds of Disability A. The Coleman Case: Factual Background B. The Advocate General’s Opinion C. Analysis of the Judgment: Who Falls under the Protection of Discrimination by Association? D. The Controversial Nature of Reasonable Accommodation E. Concluding Remarks: A Shift Towards Substantive Equality II. Why Does Multiple and Intersectional Discrimination Matter? III. The Odar Case: Disability and Age Discrimination IV. Surjit Singh Bedi v Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Collective Agreement and Intersectional Discrimination V. The Case of Z v A Government Department: Gender and Disability A. The Court’s Findings B. How to Deal with Multiple and Intersectional Discrimination under EU Law C. The Failure to Apply the Human Rights Model of Disability D. The Complex Interplay between International Law and EU Law E. The Incongruous CJEU Reasoning: Time for a Change 5. EU Governance and the Framework for Monitoring the CRPD I. Ratifying and Implementing the UN Convention: Winners and Losers in the EU Institutional Game II. The Negotiations of the CRPD and the EU A. The Commission’s Contribution to the Drafting of the CRPD B. Ensuring Coordination between Various EU Actors C. The Commission and the Union’s External Policy Representation III. Monitoring the CRPD’s Implementation: New Governance Mechanisms A. The Experimentalist Paradigm B. The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) C. The Focal Point D. Coordination Mechanism between the EU and the Member States IV. The EU Framework for Promoting, Protecting and Monitoring the CRPD A. The Commission’s Experimentalist Approach B. The European Parliament and the Protection of Disability Rights C. The European Ombudsman D. The Monitoring Role of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights E. The EDF’s Challenge to Open Up the EU Decision-Making Process F. Focal Point and Coordination Mechanism: Innovative or Inefficient Practices? V. Light and Shadow in the EU Independent Framework A. The Commission’s Withdrawal from the Framework: What Next? B. Is the European Parliament Marginalised? C. Is the OMC Appropriate? 6. Conclusion: Time to Unleash the CRPD’s Full Potential I. The EU Legal Framework: Main Findings A. The Definition of Disability: A Missed Opportunity B. The Legal Gaps in Addressing Multiple and Intersectional Discrimination C. Indirect Discrimination and Reasonable Accommodation: Towards a Better Judicial Interpretation? D. The Inclusive Equality Paradigm under the CRPD E. The Complicated Relationship between the CRPD and the EU Legal System F. Key Recommendations for Improving the Interpretation of EU Equality Norms II. EU Governance: Main Findings A. The Importance of Reforming the EU Independent Framework B. Key Recommendations for Improving EU Governance Mechanisms C. Good Governance and Participatory Democracy: The CPRD’s Positive Practice III. Time to Unleash the CRPD’s Full Potential

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Book SynopsisAn intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconsciousAn Essay for Ezra is a critique of terror that begins but by no means ends with the presidency of Donald J. Trump. A father addresses his son and a boy shares his observations in a dynamic dialogistic exchange that is a commentary of and for its time, taking the measure of racial terror and of white supremacy both in our moment and as a historical phenomenon.Framed through the experiences of the author’s biracial son, An Essay for Ezra is intensely personal while also powerfully universal. Drawing on the social and political thought of James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Grant Farred examines the temptation and the perils of essentialism and the need to discriminate—to engage the black mind as much as the black body. With that dialectic as his starting point, Farred engages the ideas of Jameson, Barthes, Derrida, Adorno, Kant, and other thinkers to derive an ethics of being in our time of social peril. His antiessentialist racial analysis is salient, especially when he deploys Dave Chappelle as a counterpoint to Baldwin—and Chappelle’s brilliant comic philosophic voice jabs at both racial and gender identity.Standing apart for its willingness to explore terror in all its ambivalence, this theoretical reflection on racism, knowledge, ethics, and being in our neofascist present brings to bear the full weight of philosophical inquiry and popular cultural critique on black life in the United States.Trade Review"You can’t reassure the frightened child. Your letter must add to the child’s terror. Welcome to the world of racism in America. Brilliantly original, mixing Heidegger and Chappelle, Grant Farred proves that Baldwin’s genre has not exhausted its magical potential to provoke and instruct. By a mysterious dialectical legerdemain, he bestows on his son an unlikely endowment: a sort of Afro-optimism, both outraged and salvific."—Bruce Robbins, author of The Beneficiary"Phrased as an epistle to his young son, Grant Farred's An Essay for Ezra grapples with difficult loci of racial violence in U.S. culture and in various philosophical traditions, from the Black exile of Baldwin to Heideggerian questionability of self. He proposes new genealogies and new problems for struggles of becoming and judgment amid the perpetual crisis that is the American racial order."—Rei Terada, University of California, IrvineTable of ContentsContents1. November, 20162. Martin Luther King and White People3. The Farceur4. De-racializing MLK5. Haunting: It Takes You Where You Don’t Want to Go6. And So I Turn to James Baldwin7. Do Not a Tarantula Be: A Nietzschean Interlude8. “Bagger Vance”Postscript: November 7, 2020AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the last two decades, the UK has deported thousands of people to Jamaica. Many of these ‘deportees’ left the Caribbean as infants and grew up in the UK. Deporting Black Britons traces the life stories of four such men who have been exiled from their parents, partners, children and friends by deportation. It explores how ‘Black Britons’ survive once they are returned to Jamaica, and questions what their memories of poverty, racist policing and illegality reveal about contemporary Britain.Based on years of research with deported people and their families, Deporting Black Britons presents stories of survival and hardship in both the UK and Jamaica. These intimate portraits testify to the damage wrought by violent borders, opening up wider questions about racism, belonging and deservingness in anti-immigrant times.Trade Review'In these extraordinary portraits of exile Luke de Noronha illustrates through human experience how racism operates in Britain and beyond. This is what we mean when we say Black Lives Matter.'Gary Younge, author of Dispatches from the Diaspora'De Noronha’s unique and intimate study of young people caught up in Britain's deportation machine reveals the damage done by Britain's immigration system. You can't understand modern Britain without understanding the lives of the people he writes about.'Daniel Trilling, author of Lights in the distance'In this moving and memorable book, de Noronha provides an incisive and intimate portrait of postcolonial, neoliberal, austerity Britain from the ethnographic standpoint of Black Britons expelled from their home, labelled 'foreign criminals’ and cast into destitution as 'deportees' in Jamaica. Racialised, criminalised and finally 'migrantised', the young British men at the center of this book embody the postcolonial agonies of the UK from which they have been exiled by deportation.'Nicholas De Genova, co-editor of The Deportation Regime and editor of The Borders of "Europe"'Stories that stick in your throat and in your heart. Academic writing should be like this, less ego more poetry, because deep down we all understand that there is so much more at stake. I hope one day we look back at this beautiful terrible book and wonder how such cruelties were ever tolerated.'Gargi Bhattacharyya, author of Rethinking racial capitalism'A sensitive, engaging, and accessible account of how four black men's lives have been shaped by deportation.'Evie Lewis, Wasafari (Issue 114)'This book shows the devastating impacts of deportation on "Black Britons" and their loved ones, mapping the human consequences of racialised state violence and cruelty. Read it. get angry, and organise.'Bridget Anderson, Director of Migration Mobilities Bristol'This book will be of interest to scholars far beyond critical race studies alone, as the insights are relevant to scholars critically examining immigration policies, their consequences and especially its connections with racism, classicism and gender performances. But, perhaps more importantly, this book shows anti-racist academics and activists the need to challenge all forms of immigration control, as borders inevitably reconfigure race and racism.'Ethnic and Racial Studies‘Deporting Black Britons should be read by anyone committed to the struggle against racism, police brutality, borders, and the actors and technologies that criminalise and “illegalise” the right to mobility.’Border Criminologies'Deporting Black Britons: portraits of deportations to Jamaica is a rarity among academic texts – a pioneering and practical intervention that reframes theoretical discussions of state racism even as it encourages activism on the ground.'Race and Class -- .Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Jason3 Ricardo4 Chris5 Denico6 Family and friends: Witnessing deportation and hierarchies of (non) citizenship7 Post-deportation: Citizenship and the racist world order8 Deportation as foreign policy: Meanings of development and the ordering of (im)mobilityConclusionAfterword, by ChrisEndnotes

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