575 books (29 pages) in this category
The Moral Quandary of Race
by Lawrence Blum
<p>Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." Use of the word "racism"
ISBN: 9781501701955
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eBookJohnny David's Delgamuukw Evidence
by Antonia Mills
<p>In 1985 and 1986, ninety-year-old Witsuwit'en Chief, Maxlaxlex – or Johnny David as he is better known - was the first Witsuwit'en to give Commission Evidence in the <em>Delgamuukw</em> land claims case in which the Witsuwit'en and Gitxsan of
ISBN: 9781442655485
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eBook'Race', Housing and Social Exclusion
by Steele, Andy
The contributors analyse the implications of social exclusion, offering suggestions for good practice in the allocation of housing for black and other ethnic minority groups. This book shows how racism and the shortage of housing workers from ...
ISBN: 9781846422980
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eBookRace, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
by Chris Andersen
<p>Ask any Canadian what “Métis” means, and they will likely say “mixed race.” Canadians consider Métis mixed in ways that other indigenous people are not, and the census and courts have premised their recognition of Métis status on this ...
ISBN: 9780774827249
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eBook100 Questions and Answers About Arab Americans
Clear, essential facts about the culture, customs, language, religion, origins and politics of the millions of Arab Americans living in the United States
by Michigan State University School of Journalism & Jack G. Shaheen
<p>This simple, introductory guide answers 100 of the basic questions people ask about Arab Americans in everyday conversation. Most of the work was done in the Detroit area, home to the highest concentration of Arabs in the United States. Find ...
ISBN: 9781939880611
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eBook100 Questions and Answers About Hispanics and Latinos
A cultural competence guide to understanding the diversity of the largest minority group in the United States including Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Salvadorans, Cubans and more
by Michigan State University School of Journalism
<p>This simple, introductory guide answers 100 of the questions people ask in everyday conversation. It covers the basics of Hispanic and Latino identity, terms, geography, language, religion, social norms, politics, immigration and deportation,
ISBN: 9781939880499
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eBookby Progressive Management
<p>This significant report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. It reproduces the complete report from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division about the practices of the ...
ISBN: 9781370392278
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eBookby Cindy Styles
A little story about one girl’s attempt to claim her heritage, and the maneuvering by the Canadian government to discredit that heritage. This book contains a “gift of words” for Toronto, with views on substance abuse presented in the spirit of ...
ISBN: 9781460272626
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eBook50 Events that Shaped Latino History: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic [2 volumes]
by Lilia Fernández
<p>What are the historical events most key to shaping Latino culture? This book provides detailed and broad coverage of the 50 most pivotal developments across more than 500 years' time that have shaped the Latino experience, offering primary ...
ISBN: 9781440837630
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eBookA Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism
by Ato Quayson & Girish Daswani
<p><em>A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism</em> offers a ground-breaking combined discussion of the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism. Newly commissioned essays by leading scholars provide interdisciplinary perspectives that ...
ISBN: 9781118320648
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eBookBlacks and Whites in America
by David K. Shipler
<p><strong>A Country of Strangers</strong> is a magnificent exploration of the psychological landscape where blacks and whites meet. To tell the story in human rather than abstract terms, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David K. Shipler ...
ISBN: 9781101973592
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eBookby Jessie B. Evans-Hayes
<p> Like the majority of institutions in America, the U.S. Postal Service policy, practice, and/or procedure appear neutral. Truthfully, it has a disproportionately negative impact on members of a racial or ethnic minority group.</p> ...
ISBN: 9781682137277
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eBookA Guest in the House of Hip-Hop
How Rap Music Taught a Kid from Kentucky What a White Ally Should Be
by Mickey Hess
<p>Born in rural Kentucky, Mickey Hess grew up listening to the militant rap of Public Enemy while living in a place where the state song still included the word “darkies.” Listening to hip-hop made Hess think about what it meant to be white, ...
ISBN: 9781632460783
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eBookby Progressive Management
<p>Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this important work by the Army recognizes and highlights the contributions of African Americans to the military history of the United States. This is accomplished
ISBN: 9781311801036
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eBookA Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
by Frederick Law Olmsted
<p>Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) was a journalist and landscape designer who is regarded as the founder of American landscape architecture: his most famous achievement was Central Park in New York, of which he became the superintendent in ...
ISBN: 9788826063874
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eBookby Norman Weistuch, Ph.D.
<p>I grew up in the Bronx during turbulent times. I was in elementary school during the first desegregation of the public schools in the early 1960s. This and my idealism formation during the late 1960s had a big impact on my values and my ...
ISBN: 9781635687828
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eBookA Leftist Critique of the Principles of Identity, Diversity, and Multiculturalism
by Richard Anderson-Connolly
<p>Identity politics is a lightning rod in American society. To both its progressive supporters and conservative critics, it is seen as defining the agenda of the Left. Both sides are wrong. Identity politics is not a leftist project. Instead it
ISBN: 9781498590686
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eBookImages of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
by Jim Lucas
<p>Contributions by Howard Ball, Peter Edelman, Aram Goudsouzian, Robert E. Luckett Jr., Ellen B. Meacham, Stanley Nelson, and Charles L. Overby</p> <p><em>A Past That Won't Rest: Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi</em> collects
ISBN: 9781496816528
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eBookA State-by-State History of Race and Racism in the United States [2 volumes]
by Patricia Reid-Merritt
<p>Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settlement to the present, and biographies of major figures, this work offers readers an unseen look at the history of racism from the perspective of individual ...
ISBN: 9781440856013
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eBookAfrican American Culture and Society After Rodney King
Provocations and Protests, Progression and 'Post-Racialism'
by Josephine Metcalf & Carina Spaulding
<p>1992 was a pivotal moment in African American history, with the Rodney King riots providing palpable evidence of racialized police brutality, media stereotyping of African Americans, and institutional discrimination. Following the twentieth ...
ISBN: 9781317184386
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