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""One of the most brilliant, articulate, and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation."--Michael Eric DysonTim Wise is one of America's most prolific public intellectuals. His critically acclaimed books, high-profile media interviews, and year-round speaking schedule have established him as a leading voice for racial equity. In Under the Affluence, Wise builds on his fierce critique of racial privilege to discuss a related issue: class...
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Essai coup poing de Lilian Thuram qui dévoile le mécanisme du racisme et la pensée qui le nourrit et le reproduit.
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Ce livre revisite certains pans de l'histoire : les conquêtes coloniales, l'esclavage, les empires, le Code Noir, l'instrumentalisation de la science et de la religion, la post-décolonisation et le pillage des ressources naturelles, le vol du patrimoine africain... Il examine les mécanismes intellectuels invisibles qui...
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An in-depth analysis of the historical and contemporary contours of black life in Los Angeles
Los Angeles is well-known as a temperate paradise with expansive beaches and mountain vistas, a booming luxury housing market, and the home of glamorous Hollywood. During the first half of the twentieth century, Los Angeles was also seen as a mecca for both African Americans and a steady stream of migrants from around the country and the world, transforming...
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Michigan: A State of Environmental Justice? focuses attention on the byproducts of growth and development in the state of Michigan and describes who wins and who loses. Over the years while growth and development have been good for some, it has been devastating for others; the byproducts of growth and development have threatened the lives of people who breathe polluted air, who are exposed to contaminated water, and whose children play on polluted...
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Over the years, we have witness unprecedented growth and development that threatens our planet earth as evidenced by environmental degradation, world poverty all of which will be exacerbated by climate change. "Environmental Crisis or Crisis of Epistemology?" explores the ideas that environmental destruction and injustice is integrally related to unsustainable knowledge and the role that knowledge plays in a racially discriminatory and unequal society....
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Opposition to immigration has fueled a spate of populist movements in the United States and Europe. The potency of xenophobic politics is often explained in terms of factors such as economic insecurity, material competition, group identity, cultural conflicts, and social changes. These explanations have proven to be inadequate, particularly in often affluent and pluralistic contexts with relatively low levels of unemployment and poverty. How can these...
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El espacio académico electivo "Estudios Afrocolombianos y Afrolatinoamericanos" brinda un panorama introductorio al estudio de las cuestiones afrocolombianas y afroamericanas.
Acá se analizará la cuestión afrocolombiana en la Constitución de 1991 y, a los 18 años de la Ley 70 de julio de 1993, relevar hasta dónde se ha dado la cuestión de reparación histórica y reconocimiento al derecho al territorio para las comunidades afrocolombianas,...
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El libro Profesionales afroperuanas en Lima un drama anunciado reúne dos investigaciones que dialogan entre sí, aún más, representan de algún modo dos versiones de una misma problemática. Por un lado, la de los afroperuanos y afroperuanas en su experiencia vital para convertirse en profesionales en un entorno donde todavía los jóvenes universitarios afroperuanas escuchan en las calles frases como "los negros no van a la universidad" o "los...
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A comprehensive exploration of racial inequality in New York City since 1965.
In the past, the study of racial inequality in New York City has usually had a narrow focus, examining particular social problems affecting ethnic-racial groups. In contrast, this book provides a comprehensive overview of racial inequality in the city's economy, housing, and education sectors over the last half-century. A collection of original essays by some of New York's...
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Updated second edition examining how the real estate industry and federal housing policy have facilitated the development of racial residential segregation.
Traditional explanations of metropolitan development and urban racial segregation have emphasized the role of consumer demand and market dynamics. In the first edition of Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development Kevin Fox Gotham reexamined the assumptions behind these explanations and offered...
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¿Cómo experimentamos las ciudades que vivimos? Al hacerlo nos acompaña—y, a veces, se nos adelanta—una serie de narraciones e imágenes que construyen sentidos de ciudad. Cuando recorremos y habitamos una ciudad, cuando la hacemos parte de nuestro espacio al volvernos una pequeña parte del suyo, actualizamos esos sentidos previos, al tiempo que los torcemos.
Las narrativas audiovisuales que Alejandra García Vargas analiza tienen un papel...
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"By investigating the . . . connection between the . . . shelter and the community . . . vastly expands . . . notions of intersectionality, democracy, and inclusivity." -Leslie Irvine, American Journal of Sociology
Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Monster is associated with marginalized humans and assumed to embody certain...
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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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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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In 1989, the first drug-treatment court was established in Florida, inaugurating an era of state-supervised rehabilitation. Such courts have frequently been seen as a humane alternative to incarceration and the war on drugs. Enforcing Freedom offers an ethnographic account of drug courts and mandatory treatment centers as a system of coercion, demonstrating how the state uses notions of rehabilitation as a means of social regulation.
Situating drug...
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Despite the end of white minority rule and the transition to parliamentary democracy, Johannesburg remains haunted by its tortured history of racial segregation and burdened by enduring inequalities in income, opportunities for stable work, and access to decent housing. Under these circumstances, Johannesburg has become one of the most dangerous cities in the world, where the yawning gap between the 'haves' and 'have-nots' has fueled a turn toward...
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Although the rate of gun ownership in U.S. households has declined from an estimated 50 percent in 1970 to approximately 32 percent today, Americans' propensity for carrying concealed firearms has risen sharply in recent years. Today, more than 11 million Americans hold concealed handgun licenses, an increase from 4.5 million in 2007. Yet, despite increasing numbers of firearms and expanding opportunities for gun owners to carry concealed firearms...
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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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Body Battlegrounds explores the rich and complex lives of society's body outlaws-individuals from myriad social locations who oppose hegemonic norms, customs, and conventions about the body. Original research chapters (based on textual analysis, qualitative interviews, and participant observation) along with personal narratives provide a window into the everyday lives of people rewriting the norms of embodiment in sites like schools, sporting events,...
20) Diversity Rules
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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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