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The booklet gives you the action plan to jumpstart your personal ally game plan. There are five easy steps laid out in plain English that guide you through a process of overcoming obstacles to you becoming an ally to Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOCs). The book starts at square one distinguishing between an ally and advocate. Next, it lays out a step-by-step process for jumpstarting your essential work of actually showing up for...
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In acknowledging the possibility that as the world changes so too does racism, this book argues that racism is not disappearing, despite claims of living in a post-racial and multicultural world. To the contrary, racisms persist by transforming into different forms whose intent or effects remain the same: to deny and disallow as well as to exclude and exploit. Racisms in a Multicultural Canada is organized around the assumption that race is not simply...
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This Teachers' Guide to Wilfred McClay's Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story will be an invaluable aid to classroom teachers who use Land of Hope as a textbook for courses in United States history. McClay has coauthored the Guide with John McBride, a master teacher with over thirty years of secondary and collegiate teaching experience. The result is an exceptionally rich and useful resource for the enhancement of the classroom...
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America's traditional values of liberty and equality have recently been overshadowed by a new ideal: diversity. This ideal claims that group differences matter more than commonalities, personal freedom, and individual rights.
In Diversity: The Invention of a Concept, Wood told the story of how this hitchhiker on the Constitution has gained popularity since the 1970s. Diversity Rules covers what happened after Justice Sandra Day O'Connor bestowed...
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Those people. Their issues. The day's news and the ways we treat each other, overtly or subliminally, prove we are not yet living in post-racial America. It's hard to talk about race in America without everyone very quickly becoming defensive and shutting down. What makes talking race even harder is that so few of us actually know each other in the fullness of our stories. A recent Reuters poll found 40% of White people have no friends of other
...6) The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation
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Racial Justice and Restorative Justice Working Together to Transform the Black Experience in America.
This timely work will inform scholars and practitioners on the subjects of pervasive racial inequity and the healing offered by restorative justice practices. Addressing the intersectionality of race and the US criminal justice system, social activist Fania E. Davis explores how restorative justice has the capacity to disrupt patterns of mass incarceration...
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Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture of two thousand years of Black presence in Britain.
First published in the '80s, amidst race riots and police brutality, Fryer's history performed a deeply political act; revealing how Africans,...
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A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal.
Healing from racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and experiencing feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety. This journey can be a bumpy ride, and before we begin healing, we need to gain an understanding of the role history plays in racial/ethnic myths and stereotypes. In so many ways, to heal from racism,...
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"In Breaking the Veil: Unmasking Stigma Against Islam in the West," author and activist Hichem Karoui delves into the pervasive stereotypes, discrimination, and devaluation faced by Muslims in Western societies. With an unflinching and thorough examination, Karoui confronts the deeply ingrained prejudices that have led to widespread Islamophobia. Drawing on personal experiences and extensive research, he dismantles misconceptions and exposes the damaging...
10) Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel
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"Michèle Lamont (co-author), Winner of the 2017 Erasmus Prize, Praemium Erasmianum Foundation" Michèle Lamont is the director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, and professor of sociology and African and African American studies at Harvard University. Graziella Moraes Silva is professor of sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and at the Graduate Institute...
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Shortlisted for the 2023 Sports Book Awards for Best Sports Writing of the Year The British, who are rightly proud of their sporting traditions, are now having to come to terms with the dark, unacknowledged, past of racism in sport – until now the truth that dare not speak its name. Conscious and unconscious racism have for decades blighted the lives of talented black and Asian sportsmen and women, preventing them from fulfilling their potential....
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A moving and timely collection of testimonials from people impacted by hate speech and hate crimes before and after the 2016 presidential election. In American Hate: Survivors Speak Out, Arjun Singh Sethi, a community activist and civil rights lawyer, chronicles the stories of individuals affected by hate. In a series of powerful, unfiltered testimonials, survivors tell their stories in their own words and describe how the bigoted rhetoric and policies...
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Jo Richardson explores the extent to which modes of discourse reflect antipathy towards gypsies and travellers, and control and shape the treatment of this minority group by the rest of society. The focus is housing policy, but her discussion has a wide application.
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"I'm empowered, exhausted, devastated, and exhilarated in equal measure." A young woman in Britain today describes her feelings about the protests following the murder of George Floyd. Searching her own experience, sisters and brothers across Britain and her borders, share the same emotions. How has each been jolted by racism and Empire across Britain? Many years ago, night fell on a five-year-old aspiring actress. One dream, one hope, she kept breathing....
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What happens when a people can take no more injustice rained down upon their sons and daughters? When each new travesty echoes the cries of ancestors killed for the color of their skin? How do a people rediscover hope? And how do they use that new-found hope as momentum and strength for change? In his powerful new book Stakes Is High, pastor, activist, and community leader Michael W. Waters blends hip-hop lyricism and social justice leadership, creating...
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Coloring Ivory: The Intersection of Minority Politics, Business, & the Law combines Chun's personal experiences of growing up in the United States as an Asian American with research in fields such as education, housing, and disability rights, all related to minority politics. She wrote this book because she never saw herself represented or considered in minority politics in America and felt overlooked by the research and by the media.
Readers will...
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The must-read summary of Linda Brandi Cateura's book: "Voices of American Muslims: 23 Profiles".
This complete summary of "Voices of American Muslims" by Linda Brandi Cateura presents her analysis of the situation of American Muslims following 9/11. She redeems their reputation through personal interviews that give us a clear account of their life narratives.
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• Understand the place of Muslims in American...
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De nos jours, le thème de l'immigration fait encore couler beaucoup d'encre. Bien que celle-ci fasse partie de l'identité culturelle de nombreux pays du Nord, elle est sujette à des débats parfois virulents, pour ne pas dire violents.
Pourquoi ces divergences d'opinions? En quoi cette tradition provoque-t-elle autant de tensions entre les diverses communautés qui composent ces sociétés d'accueil?
Dans cet essai ponctué de témoignages et...
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Ever since Maurice Richard dazzled hockey fans, fighting his way to hockey's summits, the issue of discrimination against Quebec hockey players has simmered on. NHL veteran Bob Sirois now demonstrates that unless Quebec hockey players are superstars they are less likely to be drafted than other players in Canada. They can also expect shorter careers and less pay, while some teams just don't want them. Using statistics covering nearly 40 years, Sirois...
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Encourages ordinary Christians to engage in real talk together about race and change.
There are a lot of conversations happening in homes and churches about difficult and timely topics-but when it comes to race, too many Christians stay silent. They may be overwhelmed or worry about saying the wrong thing.
Saundra Dalton-Smith and Lori Stanley Roeleveld-two women of different races who didn't know each other well before this project-believe there's...
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