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Dorothy Height marched at civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every major victory in the struggle for racial equality. Yet as the sole woman among powerful, charismatic men, someone whose personal ambition was secondary to her...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-04-28
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Written by a renowned scholar of critical race theory, The Threat of Race explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it continues to be articulated, if often denied, in today’s world. A major new study of race and racism by a renowned...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-11
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Multiculturalism in Global Society explores the concepts and debates surrounding the complex modern phenomenon of multiculturalism, and its varied effects on the advanced industrial nations of the world. With remarkable clarity and concision, it focuses on the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-30
Collection :
21st Century Sociology
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Written and edited by social gerontologists, and focusing on everyday experiences, these essays draw from original case studies to look at the diverse ways of growing and being older. Collects ten original essays on the aging experience, written by prominent social...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Asian American Studies After Critical Massis a dynamic collection that showcases the most exciting scholarship in the field from a critical and cultural studies perspective. Comprised of ten original essays written by a group of scholars at the vanguard of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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This unique collection of original essays brings a comparative perspective to issues of social inequality. First-rate sociologists from around the world have contributed to this exciting and rigorous volume, drawing upon their own research in the fields of race and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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A Companion to Asian American Studies is comprised of 20 previously published essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field. Essays are drawn from international publications, from the 1970s to the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
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A Companion to African-American Studies is an exciting and comprehensive re-appraisal of the history and future of African American studies. Contains original essays by expert contributors in the field of African-American Studies Creates a groundbreaking re-appraisal...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
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The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities is a first-rate collection of social science scholarship on inequalities, emphasizing race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, age, and nationality. Highlights themes that represent the scope and range of theoretical...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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Sir Seretse Khama, the first President of Botswana and heir apparent to the kingship of the Bangwato people, brought independence and great prosperity to his nation after colonial rule. But for six long years from 1950, Seretse had been forced into exile in England,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-06-07
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'Where are you from?' 'No, where are you really from?' These questions, which he has been asked since boyhood, drive Ekow Eshun to travel through Ghana in search of his roots, and lead him on an exploration of history and belonging, from slavery in Africa and the West...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-06-29
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This companion volume to "A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr". includes the text of his most well-known oration, "I Have a Dream", his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and "Beyond Vietnam", a powerful plea...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2001-01-15
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Nelson provides a study of the ways in which Anglo-American authors constructed "race" in their works from the time of the first British colonists through the period of the Civil War. She focuses on some eleven texts, ranging from widely-known to little-considered, that...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1992-01-02
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Race, Space, and the Law belongs to a growing field of exploration that spans critical geography, sociology, law, education, and critical race and feminist studies. Writers who share this terrain reject the idea that spaces, and the arrangement of bodies in them,...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2025-12-16
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Race to Equity is a dazzling, detailed view from the inside of the experiments, successes, and mistakes in the Toronto Board of Education’s quest to provide truly equitable education for a diverse student body. For almost three decades McCaskell and his colleagues...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2025-12-16
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First published in 1916, Native Life in South Africa stands as one of the most important voices of its time.
Written by an early intellectual and social observer, the book offers a powerful examination of how severe restrictions reshaped daily existence for countless...
Editeur :
Yekri Classics
Parution :
2025-11-13
Collection :
Yekri Classics
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Black Geographies is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in black geographic theory. Fourteen authors address specific geographic sites and develop their geopolitical relevance with regards to race, uneven geographies, and resistance. Multi-faceted and erudite,...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2025-05-17
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Lawrencia’s Last Parang: A Memoir of Loss and Belonging as a Black Woman in Canada is a snapshot of the author’s life after the passing of her grandmother Lawrencia, the woman who raised her. Written in the style of a patchwork quilt that takes the reader back and forth...
Editeur :
Inanna Memoir Series
Parution :
2024-06-30
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In every sphere of life, division and intolerance has polarized communities and entire nations. The learned construction of the Other—an evil “enemy” against whom both physical and discursive violence is deemed acceptable—has fractured humanity, creating divisions that...
Editeur :
AU Press
Parution :
2024-05-14
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The black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961--is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure.The entire historical timeline of African Americans is addressed, from the Colonial period through the...
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2024-03-11
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