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Whitewashing the South
White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights
Häftad, 2014
518 kr
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Whitewashing the South is a powerful exploration of how ordinary white southerners recall living through extraordinary racial times—the Jim Crow era, civil rights movement, and the post-civil rights era—highlighting tensions between memory and reality.Author Kristen Lavelle draws on interviews with …
Racism and Discourse in Latin America
Inbunden, 2009
1711 kr
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Racism and Discourse in Latin America investigates how public discourse is involved in the daily reproduction of racism in Latin America. The essays examine political discourse, mass media discourse, textbooks and other forms of text, and talk by the white symbolic elites, looking at the ways these …
Racism and Discourse in Latin America
Häftad, 2009
717 kr
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Racism and Discourse in Latin America investigates how public discourse is involved in the daily reproduction of racism in Latin America. The essays examine political discourse, mass media discourse, textbooks and other forms of text, and talk by the white symbolic elites, looking at the ways these …
Divided Fates
The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States
Inbunden, 2016
1569 kr
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Winner, ASA Book Award on Asia/Transnational (2017)This book compares the Korean diasporic groups in Japan and the United States. It highlights the contrasting adaptation of Koreans in Japan and the United States, and illuminates how the destinies of immigrants who originally belonged to the same …
Middle Eastern Lives in America
Av Amir Marvasti, Karyn D. McKinney
Inbunden, 2004
1285 kr
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The place of Middle Easterners in the racial hierarchy of the United States remains relatively unexplored in scholarly research. In this book this authors present the everyday experiences of this population by specifically focusing on Arab and Iranian Americans. Using focus groups and interviews, …
Shades of Difference
A History of Ethnicity in America
Av Richard Rees
Häftad, 2007
575 kr
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From its prehistory in the biological theories of racial difference formulated in the 1800s to its current position in academic debate, Richard Rees investigates the diverse fields of scholarship from which the multifaceted understanding of the term ethnicity is derived. At the same time, Rees …
Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico
Migration, Return Migration, and the Struggles of Incorporation
Inbunden, 2006
1285 kr
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Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico examines the experiences of incorporation among two groups of middle-class Puerto Ricans: one that currently lives in the U.S. mainland and one that has resettled in Puerto Rico. The analysis focuses on their subjective interpretations of incorporation and the …
Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico
Migration, Return Migration, and the Struggles of Incorporation
Häftad, 2006
547 kr
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Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico examines the experiences of incorporation among two groups of middle-class Puerto Ricans: one that currently lives in the U.S. mainland and one that has resettled in Puerto Rico. The analysis focuses on their subjective interpretations of incorporation and the …
Protecting Our Own
Race, Crime, and African Americans
Inbunden, 2006
1072 kr
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Inspired by the O.J. Simpson case, Protecting Our Own explores the reasons behind the rise of the "black protectionism" phenomenon and its implications for the future. Comparing the plight of the African American community to the melancholy lyrics but vibrant beat of the blues, Russell-Brown uses …
Structural Inequality
Black Architects in the United States
Inbunden, 2006
1470 kr
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Architecture is a challenging profession. The education is rigorous and the licensing process lengthy; the industry is volatile and compensation lags behind other professions. All architects make a huge investment to be able to practice, but additional obstacles are placed in the way of women and …
Structural Inequality
Black Architects in the United States
Häftad, 2006
578 kr
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Architecture is a challenging profession. The education is rigorous and the licensing process lengthy; the industry is volatile and compensation lags behind other professions. All architects make a huge investment to be able to practice, but additional obstacles are placed in the way of women and …
Adoption in a Color-Blind Society
Häftad, 2007
461 kr
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Recent adoption policy changes are based on assumptions that race is no longer relevant and that if government officials and activists would just get out of the way, adoption would provide one means of eradicating the fixation on race and racism. Adoption in a Color-Blind Society examines the …
Fade to Black and White
Interracial Images in Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2009
1569 kr
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There is no teasing apart what interracial couples think of themselves from what society shows them about themselves. Following on her earlier ground-breaking study of the social worlds of interracial couples, Erica Chito Childs considers the larger context of social messages, conveyed by the …
Fade to Black and White
Interracial Images in Popular Culture
Häftad, 2009
603 kr
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There is no teasing apart what interracial couples think of themselves from what society shows them about themselves. Following on her earlier ground-breaking study of the social worlds of interracial couples, Erica Chito Childs considers the larger context of social messages, conveyed by the …
Animating Difference
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children
Av C. Richard King, Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1285 kr
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Animating Difference studies the way race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender are portrayed in recent animated films from 1990 through the present. Ranging from Aladdin to Toy Story to Up, these popular films are key media through which children (and adults) learn about the world and how to behave. …
Animating Difference
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children
Av C. Richard King, Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
461 kr
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Animating Difference studies the way race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender are portrayed in recent animated films from 1990 through the present. Ranging from Aladdin to Toy Story to Up, these popular films are key media through which children (and adults) learn about the world and how to behave. …
Doing Business With Beauty
Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy
Inbunden, 2008
1356 kr
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Black women comprise one of the fastest-growing groups of business owners in the United States. In Doing Business with Beauty, sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield examines this often-overlooked group and one of the most popular businesses run by these entrepreneurs: hair salons. Using in-depth …
Doing Business With Beauty
Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy
Häftad, 2009
461 kr
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Black women comprise one of the fastest-growing groups of business owners in the United States. In Doing Business with Beauty, sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield examines this often-overlooked group and one of the most popular businesses run by these entrepreneurs: hair salons. Using in-depth …
Cyber Racism
White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights
Inbunden, 2009
1427 kr
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In this exploration of the way racism is translated from the print-only era to the cyber era the author takes the reader through a devastatingly informative tour of white supremacy online. The book examines how white supremacist organizations have translated their printed publications onto the …
Cyber Racism
White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights
Häftad, 2009
603 kr
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In this exploration of the way racism is translated from the print-only era to the cyber era the author takes the reader through a devastatingly informative tour of white supremacy online. The book examines how white supremacist organizations have translated their printed publications onto the …
Cyber Racism
White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights
E-bok, 2009
662 kr
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In this exploration of the way racism is translated from the print-only era to the cyber era the author takes the reader through a devastatingly informative tour of white supremacy online. The book examines how white supremacist organizations have translated their printed publications onto the …
Fade to Black and White
Interracial Images in Popular Culture
E-bok, 2009
642 kr
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There is no teasing apart what interracial couples think of themselves from what society shows them about themselves. Following on her earlier ground-breaking study of the social worlds of interracial couples, Erica Chito Childs considers the larger context of social messages, conveyed by the …
Shades of Difference
A History of Ethnicity in America
Av Richard Rees
E-bok, 2007
642 kr
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From its prehistory in the biological theories of racial difference formulated in the 1800s to its current position in academic debate, Richard Rees investigates the diverse fields of scholarship from which the multifaceted understanding of the term ethnicity is derived. At the same time, Rees …
Everyday Forms of Whiteness
Understanding Race in a 'Post-Racial' World
Inbunden, 2011
1711 kr
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The second edition of Melanie Bush's acclaimed Everyday Forms of Whiteness looks at the often-unseen ways racism impacts our lives. The author has interviewed and surveyed hundreds of college students and reveals that even though we talk as though we live in a "post-racial" world after the election …
Everyday Forms of Whiteness
Understanding Race in a 'Post-Racial' World
Häftad, 2011
717 kr
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The second edition of Melanie Bush's acclaimed Everyday Forms of Whiteness looks at the often-unseen ways racism impacts our lives. The author has interviewed and surveyed hundreds of college students and reveals that even though we talk as though we live in a "post-racial" world after the election …
Everyday Injustice
Latino Professionals and Racism
Av Maria Chávez
Häftad, 2017
425 kr
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As members of the fastest-growing demographic group in America, Latinos are increasingly represented in the professional class, but they continue to face significant racism. Everyday Injustice introduces readers to the challenges facing Latino professionals today. Examining the experiences of many …
Commodified and Criminalized
New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports
Av David J. Leonard, C. Richard King
Inbunden, 2010
1569 kr
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Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white …
Commodified and Criminalized
New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports
Av David J. Leonard, C. Richard King
Häftad, 2012
518 kr
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Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white …
Urban Racial State
Managing Race Relations in American Cities
Inbunden, 2011
1356 kr
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The Urban Racial State introduces a new multi-disciplinary analytical approach to urban racial politics that provides a bridging concept for urban theory, racism theory, and state theory. This perspective, dubbed by Noel A. Cazenave as the Urban Racial State, both names and explains the workings of …
Cosby Cohort
Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class
Inbunden, 2013
1427 kr
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The Cosby Cohort examines the childhood experiences of second generation middle class Blacks who grew up in mostly White spaces during the 1980s and 1990s. This probing book explores their journey to upward mobility, including the discrimination they faced in White neighborhoods and schools, the …
