Social discrimination and social justice

Hidden Truth takes the reader inside a Rhode Island juvenile prison to explore broader questions of how poor, disenfranchised young men come to terms with masculinity and identity.

Even as they see their wages go down and their buying power decrease, many parents are still putting their kids' material desires first.

This is the untold story of a generation that experienced one of the most extraordinary chapters in our nation's history-school desegregation.

Woven throughout with rich details of everyday life, this original, on-the-ground study of poor neighborhoods challenges much prevailing wisdom about urban poverty, shedding new light on the people, institutions, and culture in these communities.

What happens in a society so diverse that no ethnic group can call itself the majority?

Challenged by Ku Klux Klan action in the '20s, labor protests culminating in a general strike in the '40s, and the rise of the civil rights and black power struggles of the '60s, Oakland, California, seems to encapsulate in one city the broad and varied sweep of urban social movements in twentieth-century America.

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In 1995, in a marked reversal of progress in the march toward racial equity, the Board of Regents voted to end affirmative action at the University of California.

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness.

Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II.

In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention.

"e;I got my first job working in a toy store when I was 41 years old.

This pioneering collection of ten ethnographically rich essays signals the emergence of a new paradigm of social analysis committed to understanding and analyzing social oppression in the context of sexuality and gender.

Laura Pulido traces the roots of third world radicalism in Southern California during the 1960s and 1970s in this accessible, wonderfully illustrated comparative study.

White Americans, abetted by neo-conservative writers of all hues, generally believe that racial discrimination is a thing of the past and that any racial inequalities that undeniably persist-in wages, family income, access to housing or health care-can be attributed to African Americans' cultural and individual failures.

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The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious-or more fraught with paradox-than in the burgeoning realm of genetics.

In a work that will significantly influence the political discussion with respect to race and class politics, one of the country's most influential sociologists focuses on the rising inequality in American society and the need for a progressive, multiracial political coalition to combat it.

David Houze was twenty-six and living in a single room occupancy hotel in Atlanta when he discovered that three little girls in an old photo he'd seen years earlier were actually his sisters.

Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality.

This intensely personal and engaging memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side.

Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer.

A commonplace assumption about American workers is that they lack class consciousness.

Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail.

Public schools across the nation have turned to the criminal justice system as a gold standard of discipline.

An ethnographic study set in Uzbekistan which shows how Muslims practise and celebrate their religion despite a repressive government.

Racism is a public health crisis and we can do something about it.

A unique interdisciplinary analysis of the age discrimination debate in Britain and the USA.

Santa Fe Trail Association Award of MeritIn the culture of the American West, images abound of Indians drunk on the white mans firewater, a historical stereotype William Unrau has explored in two previous books.

An ethnographic study set in Uzbekistan which shows how Muslims practise and celebrate their religion despite a repressive government.

On Forbes list of 10 Books To Help You Foster A More Diverse And Inclusive WorkplaceHow law, policy, and official state rhetoric have fueled the resurgence of Islamophobiawith a call to action on how to combat it.

This book provides the first detailed historical exploration of race policy development in Britain and France.

Explains the variation in Americans'' racial attitudes over the last half-century, fueled by the media.

This book demonstrates that low and uneven voter turnout leads to disadvantages for racial and ethnic minorities and proposes a practical and cost-effective solution.

This is the first book to examine how corporations contributed to integrating racial minorities into the American workplace in the latter half of the twentieth century.

This book traces the transformation of indigenous politics in Mexico, linking indigenous identity directly to state formation.

This book explores the impact and political consequences of immigration on American electoral politics.

New ways of thinking about diversity and discrimination in the workplace.

Philosophically addresses the problems of racism and the legacy of past racial discrimination in the United States.

This book gives a comprehensive picture of cities in Africa from early origins to the present.

This book considers the 1996-2006 welfare laws in the United States from a feminist perspective.

This book explains the history and expansion of voting rights for American Indians.

Kristen Deede Johnson explores how we can live together in the midst of our differences.

This book explores the extent to which indigenous claims can be accommodated by international law.

** Eastern Eye's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023 **** Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2024**The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism.

"e;We came to Britain in search of better opportunities or to get some of the wealth which had been misappropriated from the Caribbean, but what in reality did we find?

This book uses comparisons of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil to reveal patterns about race, nation, state and class dynamics.

A fascinating story of the modern South Asian diaspora.

This 2004 book analyzes state accommodation of Muslims'' religious practices in Britain, France, and Germany.