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In recent years, there has been increased attention garnered toward activism in sport within the United States.In 2016, Colin Kaepernick’s activist act of taking a knee during the national anthem before National Football League games sparked a nationwide debate on the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-03-29
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In this "vital book for these times" (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2021-03-16
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W.E.B. Du Bois spent many decades fighting to ensure that African Americans could claim their place as full citizens and thereby fulfill the deeply compromised ideals of American democracy. Yet he died in Africa, having apparently given up on the United States. In...
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Polity
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2020-10-22
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Free Black woman, poet, novelist, essayist, speaker, and activist, Frances Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most important advocates of Abolitionism and female suffrage, and her pioneering work still has profound lessons for us today. In this new book,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-10-22
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A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.Looting -- a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods -- is one of the more extreme actions that can take place in the midst of social unrest. Even...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
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2020-08-25
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In Choreographing in Color , J. Lorenzo Perillo investigates the development of Filipino popular dance and performance since the late 20th century. Drawing from nearly two decades of ethnography, choreographic analysis, and community engagement with artists,...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-08-24
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On the surface, Riverview High School looks like an exemplar of an integrated community. Serving an affluent and diverse district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high-achieving. Yet Riverview has not escaped the...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-08-18
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A broad examination of the rise of nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and racism throughout the world The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism provides expert insight into the complex, interconnected factors that are influencing patterns of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-08-12
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This book focuses on teaching African American literature through experiential praxis. Specifically, the book presents several canonical African American literature authors in a study abroad context. The book chapters consider the historical implications of travel...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-11
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Racialism and Media: Black Jesus, Black Twitter and the First Black American President is an exploration of how the nature of racial ideology has changed in our society. Yes, there are still ugly racists who push uglier racism, but there are also popular constructions...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-06-22
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What is racism? is a timely question that is hotly contested in the philosophy of race. Yet disagreement about racism’s nature does not begin in philosophy, but in the sociopolitical domain. Alberto G. Urquidez argues that philosophers of race have failed to pay...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-09
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It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The exploitation of slave labor led to a form of proto-globalization in which violence was indispensable to the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-01-07
Collection :
Critical South
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In the second half of the twentieth century, new sounds began to reverberate across the United States. The voices of African-Americans as well as of women, Latinx, queer, and trans people broke through in social movements, street protests, and in media stories of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-08
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Bringing together a variety of scholarly voices, this book argues for the necessity of understanding the important role literature plays in crystallizing the ideologies of the oppressed, while exploring the necessarily racialized character of utopian thought in American...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-12
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Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of colorIt has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white,...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2019-07-16
Collection :
Live Girls
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Although the United States spends almost one-fifth of all its resources funding healthcare, the American system continues to be dogged by persistent inequities in the treatment of racial and ethnic minorities and women.ÂInvisible VisitsÂanalyzes how middle-class Black...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-18
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Who are Latinos? What’s the difference between Hispanic and Latino – or indeed Latina, Latina/o, Latin@, Latinx? Beyond the political rhetoric and popular culture representations, how can we explore what it means to be part of the largest minority group in the United...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-12-05
Collection :
Short Introductions
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This book is a timely intervention in the areas of philosophy, history, and literature. As an exploration of the modern political order and its racial genealogy, it emerges at a moment when scholars and activists alike are wrestling with how to understand subject...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-15
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The bestselling author, political analyst, and civil rights expert delivers a forceful critique of the Trump administration's ignorant and unprecedented rollback of the civil rights movement. In this powerful and timely book, civil rights historian and political analyst...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2018-09-25
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The NFL is the most popular professional sports league in the United States. Its athletes receive multimillion-dollar contracts and almost endless media attention.The league's most important game, the Super Bowl, is practically a national holiday. Making it to the NFL,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-07-06
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