Racism and Ethnic Conflict
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Coming Through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America
by C. Eric Lincoln  Publisher Comments In Coming through the Fire, prominent scholar and writer C. Eric Lincoln addresses the most important issue of our time with insights forged by a lifetime of confronting racial oppression in America. Born in a small rural town in northern Alabama, raised...
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South in Black and White: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s
by Mckay Jenkins Publisher Comments Discusses the changing nature of racial politics in the 1940s South as revealed in the works of four white writers who themselves had uneasy relationships with their own white culture: W. J. Cash, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, and Carson...
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Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948 (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Cult)
by Barbara Dianne Savage Publisher Comments The World War II era represented the golden age of radio as a broadcast medium in the United States; it also witnessed a rise in African American activism against racial segregation and discrimination, especially as they were practiced by the federal...
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Israeli and Palestinian Identities in Dialogue: The School for Peace Approach
by Rabah Halabi Publisher Comments Israeli Palestinians make up about 20 percent of Israeli citizens and, for the most part, live separate lives from their Jewish neighbors--lives fraught with political, social, and economic divisions. Attempts to initiate interactions between...
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Taking Responsibility, Taking Direction: White Anti-Racism in Canada
by Sheila Wilmot Publisher Comments Wilmot argues that the participation of white progressives in anti-racist movements and organizations in Canada badly needs an overhaul. With this thesis, she begins her assessment of anti-racist movements in Canada by guiding the reader through a...
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Embodying the Social: Constructions of Difference
by Esther Saraga Publisher Comments How do we understand social differences? Why do we equate differences with biologically or bodily visible symbols? <BR> This book opens the series with a consideration of the social construction of social difference. Taking the body as the point of...
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The New Politics of Race: From Du Bois to the 21st Century
by Marlese Durr Publisher Comments "The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." Du Bois's prophetic statement, made at the beginning of the century, is as true today at the dawn of the 21st century. Presenting fresh, contemporary perspectives on a centuries-old...
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Masculine Domination
by Pierre Bourdieu Publisher Comments Masculine domination is so deeply ingrained in our unconscious that we hardly perceive all of its dimensions. It is so much in line with our expectations that we struggle to call it fully into question. Pierre Bourdieu's ethnographic analysis of gender...
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Race and Ethnicity in East Africa
by Peter G. Forster Publisher Comments Race and ethnicity continue to be important if unwelcome factors in modern politics. This is evident in East Africa, where the ethnic factor is often dominant in multi-party elections and in Rwanda and Burundi bloodshed and genocidal attacks have been...
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Ethnic Peace in the American City: Building Community in Los Angeles and Beyond
by Edward T. Chang Publisher Comments The Los Angeles riot of 1992 marked America's first high-profile multiethnic civil unrest. Latinos, Asian Americans, whites, and African Americans were involved as both victims and assailants. Nearly half of the businesses destroyed were Korean American...
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Christian Identity: The Aryan American Bloodline Religion
by Chester L. Quarles Publisher Comments The Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations, and many ultra-right-wing racist ?religious? organizations adhere to a doctrine called Christian Identity. Christian Identity is not a denomination, but a loosely organized movementembracing a range of beliefs. Its...
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Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture, and the American Left
by Richard Iton Publisher Comments A number of arguments have been made to explain the relative weakness of the American Left. A preference for individualism, the effects of prosperity, and the miscalculations of different components of the Left, including the labor movement, have been...
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On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob Marley
by Gregory Stephens Publisher Comments Heroes of black history and consciousness reconsidered for a contemporary understanding of multiracial culture....
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Koreans in the Hood: Conflict with African Americans
by Kwang Chung Kim Publisher Comments Conflict between Korean Americans and African Americans attracted national attention in the aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King trial in Los Angeles. The news media seized upon the violent riots and depicted Korean shop owners as gun-wielding exploiters of...
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Building a Better Race
by Wendy Kline Publisher Comments An excellent historical study of eugenics and its influence on women, as opposed to eugenics and the ideology of racial difference. Kline shows how eugenics was used to control women's sexuality, by the systematic practice of sterilizing "devient" women....
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White Man Falling: Race, Gender, and White Supremacy
by Abby L. Ferber Publisher Comments White Man Falling provides a history of race as a concept, as well as a history of the white supremacist movement. Ferber's provocative critique examines these groups' firm belief that white men are becoming victims and the repercussions of their...
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Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South (Modern South)
by Glenn Feldman Publisher Comments This collection refutes the impression that the civil rights movement began with the civil rights movement began with the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision and suggests that the movement originated in the 1930s and earlier...
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When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures
by Sheila Smith Mckoy Publisher Comments In a bold work that cuts across racial, ethnic, cultural, and national boundaries, Sheila Smith McKoy reveals how race colors the idea of violence in the United States and in South Africa--two countries inevitably and inextricably linked by the central...
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Silent Racism: How Well-Meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide
by Barbara Trepagnier Publisher Comments Vivid and engaging, Silent Racism persuasively demonstrates that silent racism - racism by people who classify themselves as not racist - is instrumental in the production of institutional racism. Trepagnier argues that heightened race awareness is more...
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White Backlash and the Politics of Multiculturalism
by Roger Hewitt Publisher Comments Places the ???backlash??? to racial equalities and multiculturalism in an historical context that extends from the 1960s to the present....
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