Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Discrimination

Winner, Best Book in Humanities and Cultural Studies (Literary Studies), Association for Asian American Studies

Upon signing the first U.S. arms agreement with Israel in 1962, John F. Kennedy assured Golda Meir that the United States had "a special relationship with Israel in the Middle East," comparable only to that of the United States with Britain. After more than five decades such a statement might seem incontrovertible--and yet its meaning has been fiercely contested from the start.

A Shadow over Palestine brings a new, deeply informed, and transnational perspective...

Blackness, as the entertainment and sports industries well know, is a prized commodity in American pop culture. Marketed to white consumers, black culture invites whites to view themselves in a mirror of racial difference, while at the same time offering the illusory reassurance that they remain "wholly" white. Charting a rich landscape that includes classic American literature, Hollywood films, pop music, and investigative journalism, Eric Lott reveals the hidden dynamics of this self-and-other mirroring of racial symbolic capital.

Black Mirror is a timely reflection on the...

With input from national experts, this publication was developed by the AAMC and The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University. The report details the impact of unconscious bias on seven areas of academic medicine-patient care, medical school admissions, undergraduate medical education, resident and faculty recruitment, faculty mentoring, and faculty advancement, promotion and tenure. The publication also summarizes interventions that are being used to remediate these biases. Key insights include:

• Admissions committee members may...

The 1960s was a time of the burgeoning black Civil Rights movement, when society and politics were divided over the war in Vietnam and public violence became "normal" in the form of police response to protests and assassinations of leaders. It was also a time that witnessed the beginning of a movement to secure justice and rights on behalf of Mexican-Americans and other Latinos. It was the Chicano movement. Documents of the Chicano Movement: Eyewitness to History presents some 50 primary historical documents, each prefaced by a succinct introductory essay. Because the Chicano...

The United States of America has been plagued by a critical birth defect since its founding: the idea that race matters.

Stephen A. Tillett, an Air Force veteran and pastor for the past 27 years, argues that race is a social construct and has no basis in science. But sadly, it has permeated every aspect of American life for hundreds of years. 

The Bible has been prescient in speaking to this regrettable dynamic: “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9).

Instead of focusing...