An outstanding resource for students of African American history, government policy, sociology, and human rights, as well as readers interested in socioeconomics in the United States today, this book examines why the divisions between the areas heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina and those left unscathed largely coincided with the color lines in New Orleans neighborhoods; and establishes how African Americans have suffered for 400 years under an oppressive system that has created a permanent underclass of second-class citizenship.
Rather than focusing on the Katrina disaster itself,...
An outstanding resource for students of African American history, government policy, sociology, and human rights, as well as readers interested in ...
Despite increasing diversity in the American population, race and racial bias continue to be significant issues in the United States. Sports--one of the most visible and important subsets of American culture--directly reflect our society's beliefs about race. This book examines racial controversy and conflict in various sports in the United States in both previous eras as well as the current "Age of Obama."
The essays in the work explain how racial ideologies are created and recreated in all areas of public life, including the world of sports. The authors address a wide range of sports,...
Despite increasing diversity in the American population, race and racial bias continue to be significant issues in the United States. Sports--one o...
How have the increasing diversity of our people and the election of the first black president influenced American politics? This book investigates every aspect of race and politics from voter ID laws to redistricting to the use of racially divisive issues in campaigns. Each of the seven chapters explores a specific political issue from its historical origin to its legacy in present-day politics, and the book features some of the most controversial topics on the subject, including disguised racism and the myth of a post-racial America.
"The Color of Politics: Racism in the American...
How have the increasing diversity of our people and the election of the first black president influenced American politics? This book investigates ...
Sports can serve as an inspirational example of what can be achieved through hard work and perseverance, regardless of one's race. However, there is plenty of evidence that race still plays a major role in sports, and that sports are key agents of racial socialization. White Sports/Black Sports: Racial Disparities in Athletic Programs challenges the idea that America has moved beyond racial discrimination and identifies the obvious and subtle ways in which racial identities and athletic determinism affect non-white individuals in the world of sports.
Author Lori Latrice...
Sports can serve as an inspirational example of what can be achieved through hard work and perseverance, regardless of one's race. However, there i...
How is racism perpetuated by the education system, particularly via the "school-to-prison pipeline?" How is the school to prison pipeline intrinsically connected to the larger context of the prison industrial complex as well as the extensive and ongoing criminalization of youth of color? This book uniquely describes the system of policies and practices that racialize criminalization by routing youth of color out of school and towards prison via the school-to-prison pipeline while simultaneously medicalizing white youth for comparable behaviors.
This work is the first to...
How is racism perpetuated by the education system, particularly via the "school-to-prison pipeline?" How is the school to prison pipeline intrinsic...
The Internet and social networks have opened up new avenues of communication for women and people of color, but the mainstream news is still not adequately including minority communities in the conversation. Part of the Racism in America series, "How Racism and Sexism Killed the Traditional Media: Why the Future of Journalism Depends on Women and People of Color" reveals the lack of diversity that persists in the communication industry. Uncovering and analyzing the racial bias in the media and in many newsrooms, this book reveals the lesser-known side of the media--newsrooms and outlets...
The Internet and social networks have opened up new avenues of communication for women and people of color, but the mainstream news is still not ad...
Everyone regardless of race, gender, or other appearance-based factors should receive equal access and equal treatment in businesses open to the public. Unfortunately, consumer equality has yet to be achieved. In fact, marketplace discrimination remains a pervasive problem in the United States, in spite of racial inroads on other fronts employment and housing, for example. Consumer Equality: Race and the American Marketplace is the first book to elucidate how consumer discrimination remains an unresolved, pressing, and complex issue.
Written by three well-established...
Everyone regardless of race, gender, or other appearance-based factors should receive equal access and equal treatment in businesses open to the pu...
