Social discrimination and social justice

Sexual harassment is an issue in which feminists are usually thought to be on the plaintiff's side.

In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists from France and the United States address the untenable paradox at the heart of French society.

What does diversity do?

Perhaps the best golfer ever, Tiger Woods rocketed to the top of a once whites-only sport.

Representing some of the most exciting work in critical ethnic studies, the essays in this collection examine the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or the "e;strange affinities,"e; afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations.

Jimmy Creech, a United Methodist pastor in North Carolina, was visited one morning in 1984 by Adam, a longtime parishioner whom he liked and respected.

How can we account for the apparent increase in ethnic violence across the globe?

Honored in his own time as one of the most prominent Indian public intellectuals, Henry Roe Cloud (c.

Racially Writing the Republic investigates the central role of race in the construction and transformation of American national identity from the Revolutionary War era to the height of the civil rights movement.

The majority of the 30,000-plus undergraduates at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign-including the large population of Korean American students-come from nearby metropolitan Chicago.

In Reproducing the French Race, Elisa Camiscioli argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France, and she examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time.

The United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons.

In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel explores Germany's relation to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within its borders.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made the Chinese the first immigrant group officially excluded from the United States.

Sometime near the start of the 1990s, the future became a place of national decline.

Over the past two decades, the renowned political theorist William E.

In the early 1960s, whenever the Today Show discussed integration, wlbt-tv, the nbc affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi, cut away to local news after announcing that the Today Show content was "e;network news .

White Men Challenging Racism is a collection of first-person narratives chronicling the compelling experiences of thirty-five white men whose efforts to combat racism and fight for social justice are central to their lives.

The South has long played a central role in America's national imagination-the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation's moral other and its moral center.

Racist paganism is a thriving but understudied element of the American religious and cultural landscape.

In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twentieth century.

In Racism and Cultural Studies E.

Few issues are as mired in rhetoric and controversy as affirmative action.

There are two Indias: the caste and class elite who hold all power and make up 10 to 15 percent of the population, and everyone else.

In Men, Mobs, and Law, Rebecca N.

Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of pardos (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous descent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indians.

In Prejudicial Appearances noted legal scholar Robert C.

Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness.

In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality.

In The Genuine Article Paul Gilmore examines the interdependence of literary and mass culture at a crucial moment in U.

Governing Indigenous Territories illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives.

Recent media events like the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, the beating of Rodney King and its aftermath, and the murder trial of O.

Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades.

"e;I am Black,"e; Jane Lazarre's son tells her.

In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.

A Nation Rising chronicles the political struggles and grassroots initiatives collectively known as the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.

In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia.

In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai'i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South.

Acknowledged as one of the classics of twentieth-century Marxism, Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks contains a rich and nuanced theorization of class that provides insights that extend far beyond economic inequality.

In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia Garcia-Pena explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders.

In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "e;orthography of the wake.

Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.

In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K.

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Born in 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was a leading and transformative figure in radical African American politics.

"e;Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis.

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Tennessee has made tremendous strides in race relations since the end of de jure segregation.

Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public accommodations.

With the nation reeling from the cultural and political upheavals of the 1960s era, imaginings of the white South as a place of stability represented a bulwark against unsettling problems, from suburban blandness and empty consumerism to race riots and governmental deceit.