Social discrimination and social justice

From 1998 through 2013, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs sought to develop a casino in Cascade Locks, Oregon.

From Lake Coeur dAlene to its confluence with the Columbia, the Spokane River travels 111 miles of varied and often spectacular terrainrural, urban, in places wild.

The Chinook Indian Nationwhose ancestors lived along both shores of the lower Columbia River, as well as north and south along the Pacific coast at the rivers mouthcontinue to reside near traditional lands.

Since 1872, visitors have flocked to Yellowstone National Park to gaze in awe at its dramatic geysers, stunning mountains, and impressive wildlife.

Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding.

American Indian business is booming.

In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments.

The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nchinchimam is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture.

While the number of federally recognized Native nations in the United States are increasing, the population figures for existing tribal nations are declining.

Often when Native nations assert their treaty rights and sovereignty, they are confronted with a backlash from their neighbors, who are fearful of losing control of the natural resources.

Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award in History/BiographyThis updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's Native past into a broader context.

This sports book, memoir, and manifesto from a Super Bowl Champion elucidates racism in the United States.

In 1926, Walter White, assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke the story of a horrific lynching in Aiken, South Carolina, in which three African Americans were murdered while more than one thousand spectators watched.

In 1926, Walter White, assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke the story of a horrific lynching in Aiken, South Carolina, in which three African Americans were murdered while more than one thousand spectators watched.

An examination of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners that offers a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming.

How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.

Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability.

Why so few African American and Latino/a students study computer science: updated edition of a book that reveals the dynamics of inequality in American schools.

Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor and how racism helped bring this about.

A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers"e;Walker has opened up a fresh way of thinking about the intellectual history of the South during the civil-rights movement.

How race as a category—reinforced by new discoveries in genetics—is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.

Take the next step to confronting racism in relationships and in everyday life.

Since 1993, crime in the United States has fallen to historic lows, seeming to legitimize the country's mix of welfare reform and mass incarceration.

How can activists strike a balance between fighting for a cause and sustaining relationships with family, friends, and neighbors?

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Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are two of the most prominent twenty-first-century social movements in the United States.

Legal Passing offers a nuanced look at how the lives of undocumented Mexicans in the US are constantly shaped by federal, state, and local immigration laws.

You Can't Stop the Revolution is a vivid participant ethnography conducted from inside of Ferguson protests as the Black Lives Matter movement catapulted onto the global stage.

As urban populations grow unprecedentedly, cities worldwide face pressures from rapid expansion, climate change, and social inequalities.

Die forschungsbasierte Perspektive auf das Thema FluchtFlucht ist eine globale Herausforderung, über die oft nur verkürzt berichtet wird.

Racial capitalism is and was not inevitable.

Are social classes meaningful to Americans?

This book explores the governance of smart cities from a holistic approach, arguing that the creation of smart cities must consider the specific circumstances of each country to improve the preservation, revitalisation, liveability, and sustainability of urban areas.

In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today.

In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today.

That the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia's effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans.

Tracing the expansion of South African business into other areas of Africa in the years after apartheid, Richard A.

Passed in 1965 during the height of the Civil Rights movement, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) changed the face of the American electorate, dramatically increasing minority voting, especially in the South.

In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J.

Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world.

The Metis of Senegal is a history of politics and society among an influential group of mixed-race people who settled in coastal Africa under French colonialism.

Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere.

In this deeply researched prequel to his 2006 study Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947, Michael J.

Raymond Cattell, the father of personality trait measurement, was one of the most influential psychologists in the twentieth century, the author of fifty-six books, more than five hundred journal articles and book chapters, and some thirty standardized instruments for assessing personality and intelligence in a professional career that spanned almost seventy years.

In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction.

Amid immigrant narratives of assimilation, Indian Accents focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television.

This innovative study examines the development of institutional childcare from 1878 to 1929, based on a comparison of two "e;sister"e; orphanages in Pittsburgh: the all-white United Presbyterian Orphan's Home and the all-black Home for Colored Children.

Barack Obama's campaign and electoral victory demonstrated the dynamic nature of American democracy.

The unfinished manuscript of literary and cultural theorist Lindon Barrett, this study offers a genealogy of how the development of racial blackness within the mercantile capitalist system of Euro-American colonial imperialism was constitutive of Western modernity.