Social discrimination and social justice

Explores the role of linguistics in promoting justice and equality with regard to ethnic minorities, legal matters and civil rights.

This book analyzes the music that young portenas/os (the inhabitants of Buenos Aires, Argentina) actually listen to nowadays, which, contrary to well-entrenched stereotypes, is not tango but rock nacional, cumbiaand romantic music.

Communities throughout the world are increasingly diverse in their racial, ethnic and religious make up.

Man's Most Dangerous Myth was first published in 1942, when Nazism flourished, when African Americans sat at the back of the bus, and when race was considered the determinant of people's character and intelligence.

A thought-provoking look at how racial resentment, rather than racial prejudice alone, motivate a growing resistance among whites to improve the circumstances faced by racial minorities.

By 2009, reverberations of economic crisis spread from the United States around the globe.

Igbo Culture and the Christian Missions 1857-1957: Conversion in Theory and Practice uses historical perspective to explore strategies and methods of the Protestant and the Roman Catholic missionaries in Igboland and the Igbo response during the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.

Recently, the issue of inequality has regained attention in economic and political debates.

From the bestselling author of The Book Proposal Book, a practical, step-by-step approach to mastering the four pillars of scholarly writing for authors, editors, and publishing professionalsDevelopmental editing holds the power to make a manuscript connect with publishers and readers, yet few scholarly writers have the training to do it well.

In this comprehensive history of women's antislavery petitions addressed to Congress, Susan Zaeske argues that by petitioning, women not only contributed significantly to the movement to abolish slavery but also made important strides toward securing their own rights and transforming their own political identity.

The fictional worlds created by many contemporary American and Canadian Indigenous novelists for young people provide unique access to the lived experiences of Indigenous people, past, present, and future and the often inaccessible worlds they inhabit.

As economies across the world continue to struggle, there is growing evidence that the vulnerable in society, especially children, are paying the greatest cost in terms of reduced opportunities for access to equitable life chances, the most vital of these being education.

The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told recipe-filled memoir.

The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned "e;down"e; toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight.

This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as 'star men', convicts assigned to the division were identified by a red star sewn to their uniforms.

The Racial Politics of Division deconstructs antagonistic discourses that circulated in local Miami media between African Americans, "e;white"e; Cubans, and "e;black"e; Cubans during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift and the 1994 Balsero Crisis.

Explores the meaning of writing in the post postmodernist moment when master narratives have been questioned and the very act of representing others has been problematized, and discusses some of the key theoretical debates emerging in the aftermath of what came to be known as the postmodernist crisis.

This Element presents ''lost world'' adventure fiction as a response to print culture''s nineteenth- and twenty-first-century automation.

Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas.

This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity.

Originally published in 1957, The Unservile State looks at the theme of liberty in the Welfare State.

As developing states adopt neoliberal policies, more and more working-class women find themselves pulled into the public sphere.

The story of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing.

Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history.

The Political Psychology of Social Unrest in Latin America is a unique collection of research and writings by Latin American scholars.

THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the people best able to discharge them really is better than the time-honoured customs of corruption, patronage, nepotism and hereditary castes' Steven PinkerMeritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth.

This book compares anti-immigrant attitudes across 8 countries on 5 continents.

This book attempts to explore the history of practice of untouchability and commission of atrocities on the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.

Men and women used to cheer: vive la diffrence!

Stories I Lived to Tell is more than a selection of stories from revered mountain storyteller Gary Cardenit is a testimony of a distinguished culture, sense of place, and spirit of community that connects the Appalachian past to its present.

For centuries, Canadian sovereignty has existed uneasily alongside forms of Indigenous legal and political authority.

This essential teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by U.

In light of the recent global resurgence of radical and populist right-wing parties, this book examines hostile and anti-immigration rhetoric in Europe.

Exploring the structural causes and consequences of inequalities based on a person's race, class, and gender, Poverty, Racism and Sexism: The Reality of Oppression in America concentrates on this formidable set of disadvantages, demonstrating how Americans are adversely affected by just one or a combination of three social factors.

A haunting meditation on memory, ageing, and the complexities of love and loss in modern South Africa.

Ozongombe mOmbazu ya Kaoko/Cattle Culture of the Kaoko Ovaherero honours indigenous Sanga/Nguni cattle and their cultural and agricultural significance to the Ovaherero and increasingly to other cattle-breeders.

A concise edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Book, this book features the 51 articles from the Companion plus 3 brand new chapters in one affordable volume.

This book critically evaluates the growing body of theoretical literature on ethnic conflict and civil war, using empirical data from three major South Caucasian conflicts, evaluating the relative strengths and weaknesses of the available methodological approaches.

This book explores shame as a politically charged idea that is disavowed, invoked, and negotiated in moments of democratic struggle.

Writing may be a solitary profession, but it is also one that relies on a strong sense of community.

Stephen Eric Bronner is a prolific author, activist, and one of America's leading political thinkers.

If the frontier, in all its boundless possibility, was a central organizing metaphor for much of U.

Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Ral Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story.

New waves of land grabbing are working to dispossess peasants in both the Global South and the Global North.

After 1850, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers.

Paediatric Neurosurgery for Nurses: Evidence-based care for children and their families provides accessible and up-to-date information for nurses working in paediatric neurosurgery.