Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Discrimination

The "Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective" seminar series of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) continues to generate a steady flow of high-quality presentations and papers on a wide range of topics relating to antisemitism. Between 2012 and 2014, ISGAP hosted seminars at Harvard University, McGill University, Columbia University Law School, Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus in New York, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the University of Miami, Sapienza University (Rome), and other academic institutions. The present volume - a...

2016 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. This is a vivid, detailed account of how these freedom riders, accidently or spontaneously, found the symbols that...

'This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book. Essential' Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-Winner 2015

'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant

A powerful and provocative argument on the role that race and racism play in modern Britain, by award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge

In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and...

Forthcoming from the MIT Press.

In the book, Ikard explodes the fiction of a postracial society while awakening us to the sobering reality that we must continue to fight for racial equality or risk losing the hard-fought gains of the Civil Rights...

Racism has been central to the way that the city of Los Angeles--and all US cities--have formed and grown. There is a long, ugly history of state-supported segregation, the violent local defence of white neighbourhood and racial boundaries with continuing police oppression, ever growing political and economic inequalities, the drive to neoliberalization and privatisation, and today's mass displacement of communities of colour in central areas--a process too often described as incidental. This book attempts to explain...

-Probably the most important book for all African Americans, young or old, to read and pass around... It could save your life to be more aware of the way things go down when the police get involved, so fast and so bad...-

-Life-changing in its simplicity... quick to read, hard to put down, impossible to forget...-

New Black Saints & Martyrs of the 21st Century serves to honor the memories of some of the many...

When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, many claimed that Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous dream had come true. Why, then, do a disproportionate number of black men and women still endure prison, poverty, and discrimination in 2017?

In White Power and the Fade from Black, author TRKA Q dives headfirst into the impossibly difficult topic of race relations in America. Beginning with the separation of light from darkness in the book of Genesis, TRKA Q launches into a sweeping discussion of race as it pertains to religion, evolution, war, slavery, and mass...

In her thoughtful and provocative book, Tanya S Osensky examines "heightism" the widely held and mostly unconscious notion that taller is better. She explores how and why short people are considered by many to be inferior, and describes the ways in which height bias affects them. Prejudice against short people is so common and casual that we...