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  • - A History of Ethnicity in America
    af Richard W. Rees
    564,95 kr.

    Shades of Difference introduces new perspectives on the definition of "whiteness" in America, and makes an original contribution to the larger discussion of race through a detailed account of ethnicity's original meaning and its revaluation when later appropriated by the discourse of Black Nationalism in the 1960s and 70s.

  • - Experiencing and Resisting Racism in Stores, Restaurants, and Beyond
    af Michelle Dunlap
    287,95 - 471,95 kr.

  • - Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism
    af Tsedale M. Melaku
    399,95 kr.

    You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism highlights how race and gender create barriers to recruitment, professional development, and advancement to partnership for black women in elite corporate law firms.

  • - The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States
    af Kazuko Suzuki
    678,95 - 1.471,95 kr.

    This book takes a cross-national and comparative approach, beyond American models, to examine how members of a single ethnic group adapt differently to distinct host societies. In her study of Korean immigrants to Japan and the United States, Suzuki finds that the state's mode of reception and its racialization of migrants determine adaptation patterns.

  • - The Lasting Impact of Segregation
    af Joe R. Feagin, Ruth Thompson-Miller & Leslie H. Picca
    498,95 - 1.385,95 kr.

    Jim Crow's Legacy shows the lasting impacts of segregation on the lives of African Americans who lived through it, as well as its impact on future generations. The book draws on interviews with elderly African American southerners whose stories poignantly show the devastation of racism not only in the past, but also in the present.

  • - Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Recent Hollywood Films
    af Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo
    1.086,95 kr.

    Projecting 9/11 looks at how the themes of race, gender, and citizenship are treated in more than 20 recent movies. The book highlights racial and gender stereotypes and shows how characters are portrayed as un-American or "other." The book illustrates how films both reflect social realities in America and also help create them.

  • - White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights
    af Kristen M. Lavelle
    495,95 - 1.380,95 kr.

    Whitewashing the South is a powerful exploration of how ordinary white southerners recall living through extraordinary racial times-Jim Crow, civil rights, and post-civil rights. Drawing on interviews with the oldest living generation of white southerners, the book uncovers uncomfortable racial realities of the past and present.

  • - Black Athletes at BYU and Beyond
    af Darron T. Smith
    473,95 - 1.057,95 kr.

    This book tells the story of Brandon Davies' dismissal from BYU's NCAA playoff basketball team to illustrate the thorny intersection of religion, race, and sport in college athletics. Weaving together the history of black athletes and the black Mormon experience, the book offers a powerful analysis of the challenges facing black athletes today.

  • - Migration, Return Migration, and the Struggles of Incorporation
    af Elizabeth M. Aranda
    536,95 - 1.263,95 kr.

    Talks about Puerto Ricans' struggles of incorporation into US society, and the conditions under which members of the Puerto Rican middle-class move back and forth between the mainland and island. This book illustrates how structures of inequalities based on race, class, and gender affect Puerto Ricans' subjective assessments of incorporation.

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    1.589,95 kr.

    Teun A. van Dijk brings together a multidisciplinary team of linguists and social scientists from eight Latin American countries (Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru), creating the first work in English that provides comprehensive insight into discursive racism across Latin America.

  • - Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class
    af Cherise Andrea Harris
    507,95 - 1.383,95 kr.

    The Cosby Cohort examines the now-grown children who were raised in the black middle class. This probing book studies how their parents established their middle class position, how they interact with white America, the pressures placed upon them by their parents, how they connect with African Americans of other social classes, and more.

  • - Managing Race Relations in American Cities
    af Noel A. Cazenave
    1.288,95 kr.

    The Urban Racial State introduces a new multi-disciplinary analytical approach to urban racial politics that bridges urban theory, racism theory, and state theory by explaining the workings of the political structure whose urban governments enforce the regulation of race relations. In The Urban Racial State, Cazenave incorporates extensive archival and oral history case study data to support the placement of racism analysis at the center of the formulation of urban theory and the study of urban politics.

  • - Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children
    af Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo & Professor C. Richard King
    439,95 - 1.217,95 kr.

  • af Pamela Anne Quiroz
    405,95 kr.

    Illustrates how the political economy of private domestic adoption intersects with the political economy of racism to generate quite different demands for infants and children of different races and how the private adoption arena responds to these demands.

  • - Understanding Race in a 'Post-Racial' World
    af Melanie E. L. Bush
    701,95 - 1.619,95 kr.

    The second edition of this groundbreaking book incorporates data and interviews to show how the everyday thinking of ordinary people contributes to the perpetuation of systemic racialized inequality.

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    703,95 kr.

    Teun A. van Dijk brings together a multidisciplinary team of linguists and social scientists from eight Latin American countries (Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru), creating the first work in English that provides comprehensive insight into discursive racism across Latin America.

  • - New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports
     
    1.469,95 kr.

    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 racial frames. Contributors discuss athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena Williams to Freddy Adu and Shani Davis.

  • - The Betrayal of African American Veterans
    af Benjamin Fleury-Steiner
    668,95 kr.

    Disposable Heroes illuminates challenges facing many African American veterans. Rather than finding military service to be a path to upward mobility, these veterans fight just to survive. Drawing on interviews with veterans of Vietnam and recent wars, as well as national survey data, the book shows the ways America fails black veterans today.

  • - Latino Professionals and Racism
    af Maria Chavez
    582,95 kr.

  • - Black Architects in the United States
    af Victoria Kaplan
    559,95 - 1.359,95 kr.

    Relates the stories of twenty black architects from around the United States to examine the sociological context of architectural practice. This book explores the role systemic racism plays in an occupation commonly referred to as the white gentlemen's profession.

  • - Race, Crime, and African Americans
    af University of Florida, USA) Russell-Brown, Katheryn (Professor of Law and Director & mfl.
    1.071,95 kr.

    Explores the implications of the black protectionism phenomenon - wherein African Americans feel a protective response towards African American politicians and celebrities in legal battles - as more African Americans find themselves in the spotlight. This work details the history of this phenomenon.

  • - New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports
     
    499,95 kr.

    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 racial frames. Contributors discuss athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena Williams to Freddy Adu and Shani Davis.Through dynamic case studies, Commodified and Criminalized unpacks the conversation between black athletes and colorblind discourse, while challenging the assumptions of contemporary sports culture. The contributors in this provocative collection push the conversation beyond the playing field and beyond the racial landscape of sports culture to explore the connections between sports representations and a broader history of racialized violence.

  • - Interracial Images in Popular Culture
    af Erica Chito Childs
    579,95 - 1.412,95 kr.

  • - Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy
    af Adia Harvey Wingfield
    397,95 - 1.281,95 kr.

  • - White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights
    af Jessie Daniels
    584,95 - 1.353,95 kr.

  • af Karyn D. McKinney & Amir Marvasti
    552,95 - 1.259,95 kr.

    Using data from in-depth interviews, this book brings to light the existence of Middle Easterners in America and shows the human complexity of their lives. This work gives special attention to how members of this ethnic group cope with, resist and combat discrimination.

  • - African American Pilots, Flight Attendants, and Emotional Labor
    af Louwanda Evans
    1.105,95 kr.

    Author Louwanda Evans draws on provocative interviews with African Americans in the flight industry to examine the emotional labor involved in a business that offers occupational prestige, but also a history of the systemic exclusion of people of color.

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