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Someone Else's House: American's Unfinished Struggle for Integration
by Tamar Jacoby  Publisher Comments In this detailed history of relations between blacks and whites in the post-civil rights era, journalist Tamar Jacoby looks at how the ideal of integration has fared since it was first advocated by Martin Luther King, Jr., arguing that though blacks have...
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The Role of Memory in Ethnic Conflict
by Philomena G. Goodman Publisher Comments What insights can we gain from the social sciences about the role memory plays in creating or recreating the many conflicts threatening global peace in the 21st century? Indeed, can knowledge about the relationship between memory and conflict help...
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Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity
by Clarence Page Publisher Comments The Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune presents a series of essays examining the central questions of race, gender, and ethnic identity that have emerged since the civil rights reforms of the mid-1960s. The essays address such...
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Strangers and Neighbors (99 Edition)
by Maurianne Adams Publisher Comments Much has been written about the historic relationship between American blacks and Jews. Some accounts stress the strong alliance for social justice between the two groups during the civil rights movement, while others portray bleaker moments and include...
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The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African Americans and Hispanics
by Earl Ofari Hutchinson Publisher Comments Political issues and social problems such as immigration, prison, bilingual education, employment, political jockeying, changing ethnic dynamics, and racial stereotypes that both divide and unite blacks and Latinos are examined...
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Not Your Fathers Antisemitism: Hatred of the Jews in the 21st Century
by Michael (edt) Berenbaum Synopsis In sixteen crisp essays written by distinguished scholars from diverse disciplines, backgrounds and countries, Not Your Fathers Antisemitism argues that contemporary hatred of the Jews is not a throwback to the 1930s but a unique manifestation of 21st ce...
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Color of Race in America 1900 1940
by Matthew P Guterl Publisher Comments With the social change brought on by the Great Migration of African Americans into the urban northeast after the Great War came the surge of a biracial sensibility that made America different from other Western nations. How white and black people thought...
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A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic
by Bruce Dain Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-310) and index....
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Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line
by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments "You couldn't ask for a fairer-minded, better-informed, or more enjoyable guide."<BR>--"Elle <BR>As a former welfare father who is also an ordained Baptist minister and a Princeton Ph.D., Michael Eric Dyson is one of those rare intellectuals...
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The Trouble with Friendship: Why Americans Can't Think Straight about Race
by Benjamin Demott Publisher Comments In this lively book, a well-known social critic draws on evidence from movies, TV, literature, and advertising to argue that many Americans have been lulled by the media into believing that racial problems can be substantially mitigated, even vanquished,...
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Even in Sweden : Racisms, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical Imagination (00 Edition)
by Allan Richard Pred Publisher Comments In the context of persistently high unemployment rates and more general economic uncertainty, racism has resurged throughout Western Europe. Even in Sweden, a country long stereotyped by Western intellectuals as the very model of rational social justice...
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Faces of Environmental Racism 2ND Edition
by Laura Westra Publisher Comments Through case studies that highlight the type of information that is seldom reported in the news, Faces of Environmental Racism exposes the type and magnitude of environmental racism, both domestic and international. The essays explore the justice of...
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Stereotypes and Stereotyping
by C. Neil Macrae Publisher Comments Where do stereotypes come from? How accurate are they, and how do they affect interpersonal and intergroup relations? Can stereotypes be changed? Stereotypes structured sets of beliefs about the characteristics of members of social categories influence...
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Flying Over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy
by Thomas L. Webber Publisher Comments Tommy Webber is nine years old when his father, a founding minister of the East Harlem Protestant Parish, moves the family of six from a spacious apartment in an ivy-covered Gothic-style seminary on New York City's Upper West Side to a small one in a...
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The Housing Divide: How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York's Housing Market
by Emily Rosenbaum Publisher Comments The Housing Divide examines the generational patterns in New York City's housing market and neighborhoods along the lines of race and ethnicity. The book provides an in-depth analysis of many immigrant groups in New York, especially providing an...
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A Will to Be Free, Vol. II (an African American Heritage Book)
by Linda Brent Publisher Comments Collected here in this omnibus edition are three influential autobiographies of prominent women whose rose up from slavery to greatness. Essential reading for anyone interested in African American Heritage. Included are Incidents in the Life of a Slave...
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Diversity: Mestizos, Latinos and the Promise of Possibilities
by Amardo Rodriguez Publisher Comments Rodriguez introduces and expounds on various theoretical notions that make for new visions of the world and ultimately new ways of being the world--specifically addressing ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, and race....
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Black Intellectuals, Black Cognition, and a Black Aesthetic
by W D Wright Publisher Comments Neither American history nor American society anticipated, sanctioned, or encouraged the development of either Black intellectuals or a Black middle class. Both emerged and developed against horrendous obstacles and both are great achievements. Both were...
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Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson
by Linda Williams Publisher Comments ""Playing the Race Card" possesses all the boldness, high intelligence, and far-reaching revisionism one has come to expect from the author of the brilliant "Hard Core" and other path-breaking work in film studies. Linda Williams here insists on the...
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Rise and Fall of Class in Britain (99 Edition)
by David Cannadine Publisher Comments Although it is widely believed that the British are obsessed with class to a degree unrivaled by any other nation, politicians in Britain are now calling for a classless society, and scholars are concluding that class does not matter any more. But has...
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