Social discrimination and social justice

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Winner: Ralph Emerson Twitchell AwardWinner: New Mexico Book AwardIn works of silver and wool, the Navajos have established a unique brand of American craft.

Counterpointing Los Angeles's central role in America's fantasy life - the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909 - with its wanton denial of its own real history, Mike Davis creates a revelatory kaleidoscope of American fact, imagery, and sensibility.

Social exclusion is a key problem for policy makers, researchers and professionals worldwide.

On December 29, 1890, the U.

On February 27, 1973, a group of roughly 300 armed Indigenous men, women, and children seized the tiny hamlet of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, at gunpoint, took hostages, barricaded themselves in the hilltop church, and raised an upside-down American flag.

This textbooks provides a comprehensive examination of poverty, wealth, and economic inequality from a psychological perspective.

Award winner book of the Lee Ann Fujii Book Award, Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award, ISA Global Development Studies Best Book, ASA Viviana Zelizer Best Book Award, co-winner of the ISA John Ruggie Annual Best Book Award, and co-winner of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Global Division Book Award.

Choosing the Jesus Way uncovers the history and religious experiences of the first American Indian converts to Pentecostalism.

A page-turner about page-turners Janice Hallett The perfect piece of armchair detection Ruth Ware Hugely entertaining and unexpectedly gripping London Review of BooksA true detective story from the age of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L.

In Our Rightful Share, Aline Helg examines the issue of race in Cuban society, politics, and ideology during the island's transition from a Spanish colony to an independent state.

This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F.

It is no secret that since the 1980s, American workers have lost power vis--vis employers through the well-chronicled steep decline in private sector unionization.

Beamte genießen zahlreiche Privilegien, von denen "normale" Arbeitnehmer nur träumen können.

The Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017 is one of the most tragic political events in British history.

With seven unpublished novels wasting away on his hard drive, Tony Vanderwarker is astonished when John Grisham offers to take him under his wing and teach him the secrets of thriller writing.

Das Buch stellt die wesentlichen Grundlagen des bayerischen Bauordnungsrechts dar.

This book argues that the dominant descriptions of the 'caste system' are rooted in the Western Christian experience of India.

Understanding the young adults who came of age during the rise of China's economic and global powerThis book by a prominent Chinese sociologist explores how China's youth will influence the country's future.

The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (1798-1839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century.

The financial, technological, and institutional challenges facing scholarly presses are more critical now than they have ever been.

The Title Encyclopaedia of Dalits in India (Emancipation and Empowerment) written/authored/edited by Sanjay Paswan, Paramanshi Jaideva, published in the year 2002.

A scholar of race and a leader in the Afro-Asian solidarity movement, Cedric Dover embodied the 20th-century cosmopolitan redefinition of racial identity.

Inspired by Quakerism, Progressivism, the Social Gospel movement, and the theories of scholars such as W.

A brief commentary on the necessity and the impossibility of black men's participation in the development of black feminist theory and politics, Black Men, Black Feminism examines the basic assumptions that have guided-and misguided-black men's efforts to take up black feminism.

By the close of the twentieth century, the United States became known for its reliance on incarceration as the chief means of social control, particularly in poor communities of color.

An in-depth look at the rising American generation entering the Black professional classDespite their diversity, Black Americans have long been studied as a uniformly disadvantaged group.

In Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future, Candace Fujikane contends that the practice of mapping abundance is a radical act in the face of settler capital's fear of an abundance that feeds.

Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero looks at how the comic book industry developed from a white perspective and how minority characters were and are viewed through a stereotypical white gaze.

Originally published in 1987 Not Only the Poor explores the self-interested involvement of the non-poor in the welfare state, particularly the middle class.

Most histories of the Cherokee nation focus on its encounters with Europeans, its conflicts with the U.

This volume is a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book of 1983.

In times of heightened national security, scholars and activists from the communities under suspicion often attempt to alert the public to the more complex stories behind the headlines.

This book provides a clear, lively, and accessible guide to the complex histories and vital present of the Australian novel.

Women in the Two Germanies: A Comparative Study of a Socialist and a Non-Socialist Society is a comparative study of the status and position of women in socialist East Germany and non-socialist West Germany.

The late-nineteenth century in Europe was a period of profound political, social, and technological change.

Genderwashing is the process whereby organizational rhetoric differs from the lived experiences of workers, creating the myth of gender equity in the workplace.

In recent years, Protestant churches and denominations have become increasingly concerned with issues of racial diversity and reconciliation.

It is vital that we decolonise community education and development - learning from the past in order to challenge current discrimination and oppression more effectively.

The collapse of state socialism in eastern and central Europe in 1989 had a dramatic impact on women.

Muslim Americans are grossly marginalized in US democracy and mainstream politics.

This book examines social inclusion in the education sector in India for scheduled tribes (ST), denotified tribes and nomadic tribes.

The story of the civil rights movement is not simply the history of its major players but is also the stories of a host of lesser-known individuals whose actions were essential to the movement's successes.

A rare, 15-year ethnography, this book follows the lives of individual, low-income African American youth from the beginning of high school into their early adult years.

Arthur Ray, Jim Miller, and Frank Tough draw on a wide range of documentary sources to provide a rich and complex interpretation of the process that led to these historic agreements.

This unique work presents an extraordinary breadth of contemporary and historical views on Asian America and Pacific Islanders, conveyed through the voices of the men and women who lived these experiences over more than 150 years.

Following 9/11, 7/7 and the War on Terror, Islamophobia has become a ubiquitous expression of political racism; its presence is felt in immigration restrictions, critiques of multiculturalism and the co-option of feminism that casts Muslim women as abject figures.

Before William Faulkner, there was Colonel William C.