Social science / Discrimination & Race Relations

Summary of Black Rednecks and White Liberals - Thomas Sowell

by Capitol Reader

This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Thomas Sowell in his book “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in...

Racial Formation in the United States

by Michael Omi & Howard Winant

Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with each chapter radically revised...

Environmental Crisis or Crisis of Epistemology?: Working for Sustainable Knowledge and Environmental Justice

by Bunyan Bryant

The goal of "Environmental Crisis or Crisis of Epistemology?" is to challenge us to think that how we know the world and what we choose to do with what we know is fundamental to our environmental crisis.  "Environmental...

The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars

by Etsuko Taketani

A literary and cultural geography of the black Pacific

Projecting 9/11: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Recent Hollywood Films

by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo & Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo

Projecting 9/11 looks at how the themes of race, gender, and citizenship are treated in more than 20 recent movies. The book highlights racial and gender stereotypes and shows how characters are portrayed as...

White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism: How Does It Feel to Be a White Problem?

by George Yancy, Barbara Applebaum & Rebecca Aanerud

George Yancy gathers white scholarship that dwells on the experience of whiteness as a problem without sidestepping the question’s implications for Black people or people of color. This unprecedented reversion...

Globalising Hatred: The New Antisemitism

by Denis MacShane

A hard-hitting essay combined with factual reportage on the new anti-semitism throughout Europe.

This book argues that what the 21st century now faces is an ideological assault based on hatred of Jews which is...

What if I Say the Wrong Thing?: 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People

by Verna A. Myers

The book is a perfect handbook for anyone who is looking to develop the habits of culturally effective people. In this handy reference, you'll find answers to questions about all types of diversity issues and...

A Language and Power Reader

by Robert Eddy & Victor Villanueva

A Language and Power Reader organizes reading and writing activities for undergraduate students, guiding them in the exploration of racism and cross-racial rhetorics.

Introducing texts written from and about...

Who We Be

by Jeff Chang

Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today.

During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what...

Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live: Theoretical Perspectives from the Virtual Margins

by Kishonna Gray

Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live provides a much-needed theoretical framework for examining deviant behavior and deviant bodies within one of the largest virtual gaming communities-Xbox Live. Previous...

Racism: A Beginner's Guide

by Alana Lentin

Despite the fact that we’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars promoting tolerance, racism is still prevalent today. In fact, since 9-11 the subject of race, and exactly what this means, has become more...

Ed King's Mississippi: Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer

by Rev. Ed King & Trent Watts

An extraordinary photographic documentary from behind the scenes during the struggle for civil rights

Governing Savages

by Andrew Markus

Governing Savages explores the value system that provided the justification for the treatment of Aborigines during the early decades of the twentieth century, and reveals how policies of brutality and calculated...

Summary of Come on People: On the Path From Victims to Victors - Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D.

by Capitol Reader

This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint, M. D. in his book “Come on People: On the Path From Victims to Victors”. This summary offers...

Summary of Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu - Philip Alcabes

by Capitol Reader

This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Philip Alcabes in his book “Dread: How fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu”. This...

Blackness in Western Europe: Racial Patterns of Paternalism and Exclusion

by Dienke Hondius

In this study, Dienke Hondius identifies ideas attitudes toward “blackness” and explains how race relations became deeply ingrained in European thinking. She argues that racial discourses are dominated by...

The Bigot: Why Prejudice Persists

by Stephen Eric Bronner

Stephen Eric Bronner is a prolific author, activist, and one of America's leading political thinkers. His new book presents bigotry as a systematic, all-encompassing mindset that has a special affinity for right-wing...

Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States: Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities

by Thomas Chung, Pyong Gap Min & Linda Park

Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States: Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities compares the formation of ethnic and racial identities in two generational cohorts of a contemporary...

A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement

by Maegan Parker Brooks

A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle against...