Minority Studies category: 588 books
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA?
Breaking the White Code of Silence, A Collection of Personal Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? BREAKING THE WHITE CODE OF SILENCE, A COLLECTION OF PERSONAL NARRATIVES, is a 680-page groundbreaking collection of 82 personal narratives that reflects a vibrant range of stories from white Americans who speak frankly and openly about race. In answering the...
Dreams for Dead Bodies
Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction offers new arguments about the origins of detective fiction in the United States, tracing the lineage of the genre back to unexpected texts and uncovering how authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Pauline...
Writing Human Rights
The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The legal texts and aspirational ideals of human rights are usually understood and applied in a global context with little bearing on the legal discourse, domestic political struggles, or social justice concerns within the United States. In Writing Human Rights, Crystal Parikh uses the international...
Between Race and Reason
Violence, Intellectual Responsibility, and the University to Come
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the heart of higher education in the post-civil rights era. Although we think of "post-civil rights" as representing a colorblind or race transcendent triumphalism in national political discourse, Giroux argues...
A Hanging in Nacogdoches
Murder, Race, Politics, and Polemics in Texas's Oldest Town, 1870-1916
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
On October 17, 1902, in Nacogdoches, Texas, a black man named James Buchanan was tried without representation, condemned, and executed for the murder of a white family—all in the course of three hours. Two white men played pivotal roles in these events: Bill Haltom, a leading local Democrat and the...
Immigrant Acts
On Asian American Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 1996
In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the U.S....
Keeping It Halal
The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
A compelling portrait of a group of boys as they navigate the complexities of being both American teenagers and good Muslims
This book provides a uniquely personal look at the social worlds of a group of young male friends as they navigate the complexities of growing up Muslim in America. Drawing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
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“Grammars of Exchange”: The “Oriental Woman” in the Global Market
Belén Martín-Lucas
Belén Martín-Lucas, addressing the contemporary politics of the international book market, analyses the “Orientalist marketing tactics” that package the work of “ethnic”...
Race-ing Art History
Critical Readings in Race and Art History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Apartheid Vertigo
The Rise in Discrimination Against Africans in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Apartheid vertigo, the dizzying sensation following prolonged oppression and delusions of skin colour, is the focus of this book. For centuries, the colour-code shaped state and national ideals, created social and emotional distances between social groups, permeated public and private spheres, and...
Fabulous
The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
An exploration of what it means to be fabulous—and why eccentric style, fashion, and creativity are more political than ever
Prince once told us not to hate him ’cause he’s fabulous. But what does it mean to be fabulous? Is fabulous style only about labels, narcissism, and selfies—looking...
Race and Crime
Geographies of Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Criminal justice practices such as policing and imprisonment are integral to the creation of racialized experiences in U.S. society. Race as an important category of difference, however, did not arise here with the criminal justice system but rather with the advent of European colonial conquest and...
by Maria Pacino
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2007
Equity, diversity, and social justice are the values to which global democracies aspire. These elements have strong implications for our children and their schools. They are truly timely issues for all educators. The experiences of the author as a teacher, mother, and immigrant are woven throughout...
Social Welfare Policy
Regulation and Resistance Among People of Color
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Applying the social control paradigm to people of color, this text uses a racism-centered perspective of social welfare policy analysis to examine how such policies have regulated the lives of people of color and then employs a strengths-based approach to describe how they have refused to go along...